Besides the obvious mass arrests & prosecutions (which we’ve all been patiently waiting for) for Jan. 6 evildoers who were out to overthrow US Democracy,
What’s on your Pro-Democracy wishlist for 2022?
What would really pushback against Putin and Global TOC’s war on Democracy?
Serious reforms in US are happening slowly thanks to the narrow 48+2 Senate, the filibuster,
and 50 MAGA R Senators plus Governors & assorted miscreants, and a stacked Dark Money 6-3 majority SCOTUS doing their damnedest to f*ck all kinds of important $hit up everywhere
Not to mention DOJ trying to prosecute Watergate on Steroids Jan. 6 conspiracy
along w/unprosecuted & pardoned remnants of Rosenstein/Barr f*cked up Mueller Report (which wasn’t even well targeted to begin with) domestic-foreign hybrid war attack on Democracy which is ongoing!
Pro-Democracy heads of state currently lead the US, France, Canada (some other important countries)
Israel’s coming back to reality with their 2 new leaders and Bibi in jeopardy
Germany is sorting themselves out, but the new guy is kinda Merkel 2.0
Australia is still strong Murdoch propaganda territory much like 50% of America and a large portion of the UK
PM Boris is under fire for Lockdown parties but the opposition may not be strong enough to topple him
My near term is a new reform leader PM in UK, but I don’t even know the chances of that happening anytime soon. Boris seems like the Teflon Mob PM (like Bibi) impervious to criticism as long as he’s in power
A strong executive in the UK cracking down on Russian oligarch money pouring in by enforcing the current laws would give Putin something to think about as he threatens Europe geopolitically
Seize London kleptocrat mansions & premier league teams until Putin backs off!
But what are the chances of that (something so obviously good) happening?
The powers that be and their agents do everything they can to thwart reforms and maintain the status quo
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if you've been wondering why you haven't heard much about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill funding translated into shovel-ready projects in your state, here's the answer:
“A significant portion of our highway, transit & safety programs are limited” by caps in existing federal budget, said Carlos Monje Jr, DOT’s 3rd-highest official. “Without Congress actions, we aren’t going to be able to move on many of the new programs funded in the bill”
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"Among them is $1.2B to help reduce carbon emissions & $1.4B to protect roads & bridges against effects of climate change. Although the Federal Railroad Administration is in line to receive $66 billion in the next 5 years, Monje said the agency can’t hire the staff it needs "
USPS contract is for 165,000 vehicles, which is 1/3 of the US Gov't fleet
just imagine the market making power if all of those new trucks were EVs!
DeJoy and his USPS minions really screwed the pooch on this Oshkosh Defense deal...
"As noted, USPS has already awarded a vehicle acquisition contract and funded as much as $482 million to the vendor prior to initiating the NEPA process―exactly what CEQ regulations prohibit."
Lots of things going on in North Carolina right now
typical for a swing state in this anti-democratic, pro-violence Republican Party era...
Dems are appealing the ruling allowing GOP gerrymandered maps to stand. NC Supreme Court to hear the case tomorrow wfae.org/politics/2022-…
this is a weirdly-worded indictment: Christopher Arthur (of Tackleberry Solutions) taught ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL (who??) how to use explosives to plan an attack on federal law enforcement justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/n…
Biden's nominee, Michael F. Easley, Jr. is the new US Attorney for Eastern District of North Carolina and he made the announcement in the above explosives training indictment
Too many secrets, overclassification, and an outdated declassification system means we may finally see a lot of secrets revealed so the USG doesn’t run out of storage?
in 2019, a top US official warned USG was creating petabytes every month & the system was “unsustainable, & desperately requires modernization”
In 2020, federal board warned of an “explosion” of digital data now underway — & a “tsunami” in years to come archive.ph/iLuAL
The USG is drowning in its own secrets.
DNI Avril Haines wrote to Sens. Wyden & Moran “deficiencies in the current classification system undermine our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share info in a timely manner”
"Georgia Power reps argued that state regulators could narrowly interpret the definition of a single word — “infiltration” — in the federal coal ash rule. The company believed this interpretation would allow millions of tons of waste to be left submerged in groundwater."
"Georgia Power hoped to store coal ash in a way that only prevented water — such as rain falling from the sky — from seeping through a cover over the dry ash. They hoped regulators would disregard the presence of any groundwater that would soak the dry ash..."
hard to know what's going on in Flint Water prosecution, but allegations by muckraking journalists supported by Soros' Open Society Foundations
are explosive 🔥
was fmr. GOP AG Schuette's team preparing a RICO prosecution and Dem AG Nessel stopped it??? theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…
"Shortly after Nessel won the attorney general race and took office, her administration fired the top prosecutors and investigators working on the Schuette-launched investigation and restarted the prosecution with a new team."
"At that point, the prosecution team assembled by Schuette had been working for nearly 3 years – and filed criminal charges against 15 Michigan state and Flint city officials, including four officials charged with financial fraud that prosecutors said triggered the water crisis."