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Rod Land Official Re-Release
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Rod Land Official Re-Release

Retro-Bit have just opened pre-orders on official re-releases of the NES and Game Boy versions of the game Rod Land.  The price is $55 / $45 (respectively) and pre-orders will remain open until July 7th.  Both versions are due to ship this year.  Check out the sale pages for exactly what’s included with each release: Rod […]
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Elephant Rescued After 50 Years In Chains | The Dodo
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A Dolly Parton Musical is Coming - Who's Playing Dolly
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A Dolly Parton Musical is Coming - Who's Playing Dolly

The seeds of this project were planted over a decade ago! Continue reading…
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Biden’s Executive Order Won’t STOP the Invasion
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Reveals 2 Arizona Cities Spent Millions on Homelessness With Little Result
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Reveals 2 Arizona Cities Spent Millions on Homelessness With Little Result

Arizona’s two largest cities allocated tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness in the past several years, but little has changed, according to a Goldwater Institute investigative report released Thursday.  “We’ve seen Phoenix and Tucson spend, combined, almost half a billion dollars on this issue with very minimal improvements in the area of homelessness,” Austin VanDerHeyden, municipal affairs liaison for the Goldwater Institute, told The Daily Signal.  The Goldwater Institute, a public policy research and litigation organization based in Arizona, launched an investigation into what Phoenix and Tucson officials are spending to address homelessness, who is receiving the funding, and the results of the investment. Follow the Money Phoenix reports allocating $140 million to address homelessness between July 2021 and March 2023. But since 2021, Goldwater Institute determined, Phoenix far exceeded this amount. According to its investigation, the policy group determined that Phoenix “has allocated over $180 million to homelessness services since 2021 through a combination of federal, state, and local funding.” Further investigation of some federal, state, and private funding budget line items for homeless solutions revealed that “over $250 million has been allocated to address homelessness in Phoenix since 2021, an astounding sum that has not moved the needle on the problem,” according to Goldwater’s report.  The result? Following this investment in fighting homelessness, Phoenix reported in May that the “total population of people experiencing homelessness in Phoenix decreased by just over 1%, from 6,902 in 2023 to 6,816 in 2024.” Goldwater calls the change “miniscule,” considering the “vast investment of taxpayer dollars.” In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, the housed and unhoused homeless population was 6,298 in 2018 and has risen to 9,435 in 2024. In Pima County, which includes Tucson, the Goldwater Institute found that a lack of organized public information made it challenging to determine how much the city is spending on homelessness, but the county reports spending between $50 million and $70 million a year on homelessness. This money comes through federal, state, local, and philanthropic sources, according to a 2023 report from a coalition called the Tucson Pima Collaboration to End Homelessness.  But Pima County estimates that to reach a “functional zero” homeless population, it would cost between $135.8 million and $158.5 million a year.  Pima County hasn’t released its 2024 report on homelessness, but in 2023, the county reported its homeless population at 2,209, a 1% decrease from 2022 but a 60% increase since 2018.  Goldwater’s investigation concluded that “spending for the sake of spending is not going to solve this issue,” VanDerHeyden said, adding: “Enforcing the laws that are on books, that’s what needs to be done now.”  The Homelessness Crisis Like many other cities, Phoenix experienced an increase in homelessness during COVID-19. About 15 blocks in downtown Phoenix became known as “The Zone,” home to about 1,000 homeless people living in tents and makeshift shelters.  The Zone turned into an open-air drug market riddled with crime and the city, according to The Goldwater Institute, turned a blind eye to the homeless encampment. Phoenix was forced to act when a group of local property and business owners negatively affected by the encampment sued the city for maintaining a “public nuisance.” Ultimately, the court sided with those property and business owners and the Goldwater Institute, which had filed briefs supporting their case. The court ordered the city to clear the encampment, which it did in the fall of 2023. The “number of unsheltered individuals in Phoenix decreased by 19%, from 3,333 people in 2023 to 2,701 in 2024,” according to the city. That result, Goldwater Institute notes, came after the court ordered the city to clean up its largest homeless encampment in 2023. In Tucson, the 100-Acre Wood Bike Park became the city’s biggest homeless encampment. Tents, tarps, and piles of garbage made the park look more like a Third World country than a recreational area in a U.S. city. The local Southern Arizona news station KGUN9 reported in May that about 100 people called the encampment home, with many homeless individuals living in the park for over a year. The city cleaned a section of the encampment in May, but another local news station, KOLD, reports that the homeless are still living in the park.  What's life like inside of Tucson's biggest homeless encampment? More tonight on @kgun9 and https://t.co/e9vheVoBeH pic.twitter.com/VxQPBWjhgI— Adam Klepp (@AdamKleppAZ) May 6, 2024 Who Has the Money? Phoenix entered into contracts with vendors that provide services related to the fight against homelessness. Combined, the contracts total about $180 million, according to Goldwater’s research.  A task force worked to determine which organizations should receive contracts and “four of the 19 members of the task force were associated with organizations that had contracts with Phoenix (Southwest Behavioral Health, Chicanos Por La Causa, Central Arizona Shelter Services, and Mercy Care),” according to the report.  “It is unclear how, if at all, the city addressed the potential conflicts of interest that could arise from vendors who provide homelessness services to Phoenix making recommendations on homelessness,” Goldwater notes. Money allocated for homelessness in Pina County was more challenging to track, according to the report.  “Goldwater reviewed contracts and administrative expenses available on Pima County’s website in a further attempt to calculate spending on homelessness since 2021, including prevention,” the report explains. “According to this methodology, Pima County’s contracts with vendors totaled almost $27 million, including some administrative expenses between 2021 and 2024.” 2024-6-6-No-End-In-Sight-Goldwater-FINALDownload “Phoenix has prioritized creating more indoor shelter than ever before in the last several years, adding 592 new permanent beds in 2022 and 480 temporary beds in 2023,” Kristin Couturier, Phoenix’s senior public information officer, told The Daily Signal. The city plans to add an additional 790 permanent beds in 2024 and 2025, Couturier said. “While we know shelter alone does not end homelessness, it is a crucial first step for many people to connect with the right resources and support to end their homelessness,” she said, noting that over the past year the city has increased its housed homeless population and decreased its unhoused homeless population. The Daily Signal asked the Pima County Office of Housing Opportunities & Homeless Solutions about the results of the $50 million to $70 million the county estimates it spends annually on homelessness. Jenifer Darland of that office told The Daily Signal: “Pima County government as a funding recipient receives only a share of federal and state funding to address homelessness—approximately $3 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants, and this year, approximately $4 million in state awards.” A Path Forward “Despite the enormous funds that Phoenix and Tucson have devoted to addressing homelessness, a permanent, sustainable solution appears elusive,” according to Goldwater’s report.  Both Tucson and Phoenix allocated COVID-19 relief funding to fight homelessness, a funding source that eventually will run dry.  “We don’t have all the money in the world. So we will have to make tough decisions,” Phoenix City Manager Jeff Barton told the City Council earlier this year. In its report, the Goldwater Institute cautions against simply asking “where to find more money,” and instead suggests that leaders in Phoenix and Tucson should ask “whether funding alone, no matter how extensive, is the answer to homelessness in these cities.” Voters to Have a Voice Amid their state’s struggle with homelessness, Arizonans will have the opportunity to vote for a ballot initiative in November that would allow property owners to apply for a property tax rebate if the city or locality where the property is located doesn’t enforce the law and private property is affected as a result. If the ballot initiative prevails, Arizona property owners could apply for a tax rebate if their property was affected by activity pertaining to “illegal camping, loitering, obstructing public thoroughfares, panhandling, public urination or defecation, public consumption of alcoholic beverages, and possession or use of illegal substances,” Ballotpedia reports.  This report was modified within minutes of publication to clarify that the Goldwater Institute filed court briefs in support of property and business owners’ lawsuit against the city of Phoenix. The post EXCLUSIVE: Investigation Reveals 2 Arizona Cities Spent Millions on Homelessness With Little Result appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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End of Wall Street? Texas Stock Exchange to File SEC Paperwork - Report
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End of Wall Street? Texas Stock Exchange to File SEC Paperwork - Report

Texas continues its rise to prominence when other states are falling short. Plans are in motion for a new Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange to officially launch in 2026, CNN reported. The TXSE group will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission later this year with over 24 investors and...
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Months After Admitting 'Maybe Trump Is the Answer,' Top Rapper Says Black Community Now Identifying with 45
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Months After Admitting 'Maybe Trump Is the Answer,' Top Rapper Says Black Community Now Identifying with 45

After years of peddling the narrative that Donald Trump and his supporters are all a bunch of ignorant racists, Democrats must be perplexed at the support Trump has been gaining among black voters this election cycle. The well-worn dual strategy of pandering and fear-mongering has, for once, fallen short for...
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UK Cancer Group Panders to Transgenders by Asking Insulting Question
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UK Cancer Group Panders to Transgenders by Asking Insulting Question

A U.K. ovarian cancer organization decided to pander to transgender activists in a social media post as part of LGBT "Pride Month" on Tuesday. "Did you know that anyone with ovaries, regardless of gender identity, can be at risk for ovarian cancer?" Ovarian Cancer Action said on X. "Let's raise...
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Did America Just Die?
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[WATCH] Deborah Birx Wants To PCR Test “Every Cow, Weekly” For Bird Flu
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[WATCH] Deborah Birx Wants To PCR Test “Every Cow, Weekly” For Bird Flu

The ‘experts’ are attempting the same scam they utilized for COVID-19 with bird flu. With the useless PCR tests that will test positive for anything, corrupt public health bureaucrats and Pharma cronies want to fearmonger Americans into another scamdemic. However, there’s an added bonus with bird flu. They also want to test cows. “We’re not testing to really see how many people have been exposed and got asymptomatically infected,” Deborah Birx said. “We should be testing every cow, weekly,” she added. “We could be pool testing every dairy worker,” she continued. “I do believe that there’s undetected cases in humans because we’re once again only tracking people with symptoms. When we did that with COVID, the virus spread throughout the northeast undetected,” Birx said. The same scam used to shut down the world. WATCH: Deborah Birx says we must test every cow in America (on a weekly basis) for bird flu. "We should be testing every cow, weekly," Birx says adding, "we could be pool testing every dairy worker." There are around 40 million cows in the United States. Trust the science! pic.twitter.com/0xnCAE0T9e — Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) June 5, 2024 “Birx is on the advisory board of BGR, a D.C. lobbying org with a client roster that includes Pfizer, Abbott Labs, GSK, and J&J. She’s also the CEO of a publicly traded company called Armata Pharmaceuticals, which is controlled by a Pharma asset management corp,” Jordan Schachtel wrote. Much more detail on why Deborah Birx may stand to gain from a manufactured bird flu pandemic https://t.co/A7qAFSTiWX — Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) June 5, 2024 Schachtel wrote at The Dossier: Since leaving government work, Birx has already earned millions of dollars in the private sector, and has found herself quite a few lucrative opportunities in the Pharma space. Birx now sits on the advisory board of BGR, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington D.C. Their Pharma client roster includes the likes of Pfizer, Abbott Labs, GSK, and Johnson & Johnson, to name a few. Birx is also the CEO of a publicly traded company called Armata Pharmaceuticals, through which she was granted about 275,000 shares. As of Wednesday, her holdings in Armata are valued at about $728,750. Birx also earns a base salary of $525,000 per year, and she can earn a massive performance bonus based on the value of the company. Armata is 70% owned by another publicly traded company called Innoviva, which describes itself as a “Healthcare Royalty and Asset Management” company. Innoviva’s top shareholders include BlackRock and Vanguard, which, through their clients’ positions, control about 25% of Innoviva. Birx also holds several additional board seats in startup and seasoned Pharma endeavors, some of which may stand to acquire significant government funding in the event of a manufacted pandemic scenario. Though it would be impossible in a rational, science-based society, the people who deliberately misled the public about Covid risk, its origins and its management, enriching themselves in the process, are still out there orchestrating a repeat.https://t.co/TNYvYFF6oD — David Bell (@bell00david) June 5, 2024 Birx’s comments coincide with the World Health Organization claiming an individual’s death in Mexico was due to the “first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with an influenza A(H5N2) virus.” JUST IN: World Health Organization Claims Death In Mexico Linked To Bird Flu Strain The patient, a 59-year-old resident of the State of Mexico, had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals. “The case had multiple underlying medical conditions. The case’s relatives reported that the case had already been bedridden for three weeks, for other reasons, prior to the onset of acute symptoms,” the WHO stated. "WHO is hoaxing the world again. First off, he died on April 24(?). He was morbidly obese, acquired type 2 diabetes, was confined to a bed, and had complete kidney failure. None of it was related to bird flu: Why were they even running bird flu tests on this guy?" Schachtel said. "The[y] use a PCR test with the setting set so sensitive that it gives a false positive most of the time. This was the same scam they used during Covid-19 to make the number of 'positive test results' go so artificially high. Huge numbers of people died with a positive test, but actually died from something else entirely," Wall Street Silver commented. The use a PCR test with the setting set so sensitive that it gives a false positive most of the time. This was the same scam they used during Covid-19 to make the number of "positive test results" go so artificially high. Huge numbers of people died with a positive test, but… https://t.co/KKLaBAfq8p — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 6, 2024 Hopefully, nobody falls for this absolute nonsense. Watch the full interview with Birx on CNN.
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