Cincinnati Shuts Off Water from Ohio River due to East Palestine Contamination
[Breitbart] Hamilton County, which hosts a good portion of metropolitan Cincinnati, gets its water from both the Ohio River and the Greater Miami Aquifer. Butler County, just to the north but considered part of the exurbs of Cincinnati, gets its water primarily from the aquifer, with Hamilton County as the backup supplier.
"Replenished by water that seeps down from the overlying rivers, this aquifer serves as the sole source of drinking water for the entire Dayton region."
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Buttigieg wrote that the railroad "must live up to its commitment to make residents whole"
So FEMA won't have to assist. Private sector problem, not a Federal issue, see?
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If we brought back 'ritual seppuku' for CEOs, I would expect many more would be interested in actually managing a company rather than playing monopoly for stock returns.
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#6 is interesting. It reminded me of the Kingman Propane Explosion, where leaking propane ignited, heating the tank car until the pressure relief valve opened. That propane also ignited, further heating the tank until it exploded, sending a large chunk of the tank car 2,000 feet down the tracks. Eleven firefighters killed. Go to the link and read about the blast damage.
I don't know if there was propane involved in East Palestine, or if vinyl chloride is explosive, or if the NS said, "We don't worry about small towns, give us profits". I guess the NTSB will tell us. Eventually. Until then, it's another Hunter distraction.
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The drainage for the town will be into the Ohio river which will not impact the Western portion of the state or Northern - probably Cincinnati mostly.
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Replenished by water that seeps down from the overlying rivers,
Primarily the Great Miami River and its feeding streams, I expect, which is tributary to the Ohio River. It’s much too far north — and uphill — to be watered by the Ohio.
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"Hold Tthem accountable" has joined "I take full responsibility" as just another meaningless phrase used by people who think it makes them sound important and authoritative. In fact it just shows that they don't have a brain in their head and just repeat meaningless phrases they've heard other impressive-sounding people say.
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Austin was all in on defunding the police while at the same time the Communist District Attorney went to war with the APD. As a result officers left at a record pace for other agencies.
Crime is out of control and Austin has an ever increasing murder rate.
[Epoch Times] The Biden administration is preparing to sign up the United States to a "legally binding" accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would give this Geneva-based UN subsidiary the authority to dictate America’s policies during a pandemic. As opposed to a treaty, which would require approval of the Senate. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra joined with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in September 2022 to announce "the U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue." Together, they developed a "platform to maximize the longstanding U.S. government-WHO partnership, and to protect and promote the health of all people around the globe, including the American people." Oh, yeah - the American People, who don't get to have a say anymore.
These discussions and others spawned the "zero draft" (pdf) of a pandemic treaty, published on Feb. 1, which now seeks ratification by all 194 WHO member states. A meeting of the WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) is scheduled for Feb. 27 to work out the final terms, which all members will then sign.
Written under the banner of "the world together equitably," the zero draft grants the WHO the power to declare and manage a global pandemic emergency. Once a health emergency is declared, all signatories, including the United States, would submit to the authority of the WHO regarding treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations. Perhaps I'll wake up tomorrow and this will all be a dream.
Physician Meryl Nass told The Epoch Times: "If these rules go through as currently drafted, I, as a doctor, will be told what I am allowed to give a patient and what I am prohibited from giving a patient whenever the WHO declares a public health emergency. So they can tell you you’re getting remdesivir, but you can’t have hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. What they’re also saying is they believe in equity, which means everybody in the world gets vaccinated, whether or not you need it, whether or not you’re already immune." Pretty much what we had in the last pandemic, eh wot?
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With amazing consistency, Biden never misses an opportunity to relinquish our sovereignty and betray the American people.
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And do not be surprised when the next President tries to back out of this the SCOTUS will rule that the President does not have the authority to do so.
[Trending Politics] According to a not-so-shocking report in the Washington Free Beacon, twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams could be in major trouble for unreported income. The basis for that claim is that tax documents filed by the New Georgia Project, a charity linked to her, show half a million dollars is missing. That massive financial discrepancy could, the Washington Free Beacon reports, lead to both state and federal elections into the Abrams-linked group.
The report notes that the charity claims to have paid more than half a million dollars in consulting fees to another woke non-profit, the Black Male Initiative. The Black Male Initiative, however, claims to have never received that payment. So $533,846 is missing. In its words: "Bitch lying. I ain't got her money"
The New Georgia Project filed its 2021 Form 990 financial disclosure in January, two months after the form was due to the IRS, and three months after the charity’s board chairman fired CEO Nse Ufot, Abrams’s hand-picked leader for the group. In the disclosure, the New Georgia Project reports a $533,846 consulting payment and a $67,500 grant to the Black Male Initiative, an obscure charity run in part by Ufot’s brother, Edima, a former New Georgia Project employee.
But the Black Male Initiative says it never received any such consulting payment. The group provided the Washington Free Beacon with its IRS financial disclosures, which show it collected $0 in consulting income and just $255,000 in contributions from all sources in 2021.
Non-profit attorney Alan Dye, commenting on the matter to the Washington Free Beacon, said "This is something that the Internal Revenue Service should be interested in particularly with the added element of the former officer possibly pocketing the money." He then added "Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark."
Further, the missing half million is just the beginning of the financial discrepancies allegedly revealed by the recently filed tax forms, as the Washington Free Beacon also reported, saying:
The missing $533,000 is not the only discrepancy on the New Georgia Project’s tax forms, which contains information that accountants say is "just not possible." The group’s 2020 financial disclosure, for example, states that the New Georgia Project paid zero dollars in payroll taxes that year.
"I have no idea how a charity can have 173 paid employees and pay no payroll taxes. It’s just not possible," said Dye. "I can’t answer that question. There should be no excuse for that."
There is also massive fluctuation in the annual compensation figures. The charity claimed on its 2021 Form 990 that it paid out $5,671,892 in total compensation that year for 105 employees, and that it paid $19,142,227 on salaries the previous year. But forms filed in 2020 say the group paid just $1,914,227 on salaries for 173 employees, a discrepancy of more than $17 million. It is unclear which form, if any, gives the accurate compensation figure for 2020. If the $1.9 million figure is accurate for 2020, that would mean pay skyrocketed even as the number of staffers fell in 2021.
And those aren’t the only problems. That missing half million and those payroll issues are just the latest in a string of scandals and problems for the New Georgia Project.
Earlier in November, for example, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the non-profit was wracked by turmoil. According to that November report, senior staff of the non-profit accused the leadership of it of serious financial misconduct.
Further, the Georgia state ethics commission is going after the New Georgia Project because it allegedly worked with Stacey Abrams in her 2018 gubernatorial campaign. If true, that would mean that it was unlawfully working to get her elected, which a non-profit can’t do (501(c)(3) organizations can only support generic political causes, not specific laws or candidates).
So, both Abrams and her charity are in for a potential world of hurt as investigators pry into what was going on in 2018 and potentially look into whether the allegations of financial misconduct are true and where the missing $533,846 went.
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Increasingly, the level of demokrat corruption and our two-tier justice system is on display as it becomes clear law enforcement at the federal level is highly selective. Planet Stacy is one of the Immune's.
That’s the equivalent of 33,333 McDonalds dinner boxes. You could fill a hot tub with that amount of McNugget sauce - not that anyone would actually do that.
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02/20/2023 12:13 Comments ||
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...You have to wonder how tiresome it must be for the IRS to keep getting proof of the last thing they want to see...
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These could be simple math errors somewhere in the process of getting the data for the forms. Since math is racist, this is just proof of white supremacy at the IRS.
/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
02/20/2023 12:38 Comments ||
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Oh, but don't worry. I'm sure those 86,000 IRS "agents" they want to hire will be diverse enough.
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02/20/2023 13:43 Comments ||
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@#9, Super Hose drew the picture but you had to give it color and put Stacy the Hut into it. Gag me with a spoon.
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...twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams could be in major trouble for unreported income.
...and:
The report notes that the charity claims to have paid more than half a million dollars in consulting fees to another woke non-profit, the Black Male Initiative.
It'd be nice if reporters could get basic facts right - unreported income has nothing to do with an expense that may or may not have been paid to someone.
[Blaze] Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed GOP former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's proposal to require mental competency testing for politicians over age 75. Sanders made the remarks during an interview with Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"I think that's absurd," Sanders told Brennan, when asked whether he agreed with or was offended by Haley's proposal.
Sanders, as a joke, initially pretended not to understand Brennan's question. "What did she mean? I don't understand what. . ."
"Yeah, you know, we are fighting racism; we're fighting sexism; we're fighting homophobia. I think we should also be fighting ageism," Sanders told Brennan, expounding on his objection to Haley's proposal, and suggesting it stemmed from age-related bias.
"Trust people, look at people and say, you know, this person is competent, this person is not competent," Sanders also said.
"There are a lot of 40 year olds out there who ain't particularly competent. Older people, you know, you look at the individual, I don't think you make a blanket statement," the senator concluded.
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So screw the aboriginals? Can't sell guilt for 'appropriation' of native lands and then turn around and promote immigration [unless you are the Left because power is self justifying even if hypercritical]
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I was an immigrant and I helped your country for over 30 years , and I left because the like of this mayorka puto continuously farting and making life and future stability intolerable.
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/\ A man of conviction. Thanks for your contributions Joe.
[American Thinker] After former president Donald Trump announced his potential visit to the town of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment led to the release of deadly chemicals, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reversed its course.
Moments after he announced his trip to the town, FEMA offered its support to East Palestine. Devoid of official portfolio, a man still able to force onerous bureaucrats into action.
[Fox News] "I'm very popular with my Base, whoever they are"
Vice President Kamala Harris dismissed her unpopularity among Democrats as well as President Biden's as "political chatter" during an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Friday.
"Dozens of Democratic leaders are saying that they not only don’t think that he’s the strongest candidate, you know, considering the larger field that could be possible given his age and other defects, but they don’t think that you’re the right person to be on the ticket. Why do you think that?" Mitchell asked.
Harris said it was important to focus on the needs of the American people and not on "political chatter" coming from Washington, D.C.
Mitchell also asked Harris if she still wanted to be president one day.
Vice President Kamala Harris dismissed "political chatter" about her and President Biden's unpopularity during an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.
"Joe Biden intends — has said he intends to run for re-election as president. And I intend to run with him as vice president of the United States," Harris said.
Politico reported on Thursday that Democrats are afraid to express concern over Biden's age ahead of the 2024 presidential election publicly because they fear the alternative, Vice President Harris.
One House member told Politico's Jonathan Martin that Democrats should renominate Biden, then instructed the reporter to turn off his phone and demanded to know who else was in the running. The member also said that Harris was not a viable option.
Speaking on Harris, another House Democrat told Politico, "the Democrats who will need to speak out on her are from the Congressional Black Caucus, no White member is going to do it."
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In this one case, I agree with Kamala. The DNC doesn’t care what people want. They cheated the system twice to defeat Bernie. In the 2nd instance, they put a candidate that nobody wanted, one that didn’t even campaign into the a White House. They followed the same no campaign strategy to install senators and governors, as well. The question is not whether she is incompetent or unlikable, it is whether she will read the teleprompter and dance as they move the strings.
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...More than just Bernie - the current Democratic primary system has its roots in the effort to keep George McGovern and Jimmy Carter away from the conventions because they knew that McGovern would be steamrollered and Carter was a risk.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra joined with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in September 2022 to announce "the U.S.-WHO Strategic Dialogue." Together, they developed a "platform to maximize the longstanding U.S. government-WHO partnership, and to protect and promote the health of all people around the globe, including the American people."
[Blaze] Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed GOP former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's proposal to require mental competency testing for politicians over age 75. Sanders made the remarks during an interview with Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
