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10-07-2022, 10:59 AM
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Five Current or Former IRS Employees Charged with Defrauding Federal COVID-19 Relief Programs
- Brian Saulsberry, 46, of Memphis, Tennessee, is charged with two counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering. Saulsberry was employed by the IRS as a Program Evaluation and Risk Analyst in the Human Capital Office. According to the indictment, Saulsberry submitted four fraudulent EIDL Program applications, seeking at least $501,400 in EIDL Program loans and obtaining $171,400 in loan funds. Saulsberry allegedly spent a portion of the funds on a Mercedes-Benz and deposited additional funds into a personal investment account.
- Courtney Quinshe Westmoreland, 38, of Cordova, Tennessee, is charged with three counts of wire fraud. Westmoreland was employed by the IRS as a Contact Representative in the Wage and Investment Service Centers Department. According to the indictment, Westmoreland submitted multiple fraudulent PPP and EIDL Program applications on behalf of a purported apparel business, for which she sought at least $32,500 in loans and obtained $11,500 in loan funds. Westmoreland allegedly used these funds for personal services, including manicures and massages, and to purchase luxury clothing. In addition, while employed full-time by the IRS, Westmoreland allegedly submitted fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance benefits to the Tennessee Department of Labor, in which she falsely claimed that she was not employed by the federal government. According to court documents, Westmoreland fraudulently obtained $16,050 in unemployment insurance benefits.
- Fatina Hewitt, 35, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, is charged with one count of wire fraud. Hewitt was employed by the IRS as a Management and Program Assistant in Information Technology. According to the information, Hewitt submitted multiple fraudulent EIDL Program applications on behalf of a purported fashion business, seeking $338,900 in EIDL Program loans and obtaining $28,900 in loan funds. Court documents allege that Hewitt spent the loan funds on Gucci clothing and a trip to Las Vegas. On October 4, 2022, Hewitt pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
- Roderick DeMarco White II, 27, of Memphis, is charged with one count of wire fraud. White was employed by the IRS as a Contact Representative in the Wage and Investment Service Centers Department. According to the information, White submitted four fraudulent PPP and EIDL Program applications on behalf of a purported apparel business, seeking $113,311 in PPP and EIDL Program loans and obtaining $66,666 in loan funds. White allegedly spent the loan funds on personal items, including a Gucci satchel. On August 25, 2022, White pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
- Tina Humes, 56, of Memphis, is charged with one count of wire fraud. Humes was employed by the IRS as a Lead Management and Program Assistant in the Human Capital Office. According to the information, Humes submitted four fraudulent PPP and EIDL Program applications, seeking $133,812 in loans and obtaining $123,612 in loan funds. Humes allegedly spent the funds on jewelry and trips to Las Vegas. On July 27, 2022, Humes pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
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10-07-2022, 12:15 PM
Some interesting facts about Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
1) They consistently gave the consumer the best product at the lowest price.
2) When the US government broke up Standard Oil, Rockefeller ended up with a share of each of the new companies, and his net worth actually increased.
Source: The History Channel's "The Men Who Built America"
1) They consistently gave the consumer the best product at the lowest price.
2) When the US government broke up Standard Oil, Rockefeller ended up with a share of each of the new companies, and his net worth actually increased.
Source: The History Channel's "The Men Who Built America"
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10-07-2022, 01:28 PM
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It's OK Cord, Joe wants to pretend that people calling for antitrust laws to be enacted are the same as those calling for mandatory diversity in corporate leadership much the way he views "businesses which do a certain thing really well tend to grow and prosper" even though they did those things by forcing/suing/buying all of their competition out of business as "products of natural selection".
Merely observing that, for any given set of ideals, there exists a threshold beyond which most people are willing to create justification for the abandonment of these values, and say "I perceive this thing to be unjust or inequitable, and I believe that government should intervene to disrupt it."
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10-07-2022, 01:36 PM
No, I'm not saying the people are the same. In many regards, they tend to be very different.
Merely observing that, for any given set of ideals, there exists a threshold beyond which most people are willing to create justification for the abandonment of these values, and say "I perceive this thing to be unjust or inequitable, and I believe that government should intervene to disrupt it."
Merely observing that, for any given set of ideals, there exists a threshold beyond which most people are willing to create justification for the abandonment of these values, and say "I perceive this thing to be unjust or inequitable, and I believe that government should intervene to disrupt it."
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10-09-2022, 12:45 AM
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The difference is whether those beliefs align with the core beliefs/ideals that the country was founded on.
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10-09-2022, 01:54 AM
You mean, like large plantations dominating the market for cotton and hemp, by leveraging economies of scale to maximize the productivity of slave and subsistence-wage labor, thus undercutting the ability of small family farms to compete in the textile market?
Yeah, I can see that. One was a revolt against a large government, the other calls upon the powers of a large government to eradicate a business.
Yeah, I can see that. One was a revolt against a large government, the other calls upon the powers of a large government to eradicate a business.
Big Tech Censorship & Government Collusion: Judicial Watch Reveals Secret History of 2020 Election
Judicial Watch has uncovered critical new details in the secret history of the 2020 election: how state government officials—at times interfacing with the Biden presidential campaign—colluded with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to censor freedom of speech.
The new information raises enormous constitutional and legal questions. It challenges the conventional wisdom that the companies are operating solely as private actors and can remove or ban users of their services as they see fit, with no violation of First Amendment rights.
The new documents “suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is ‘private’—as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.”
In California, we obtained more than 500 pages of documents showing how a state agency, the Office of Election Cybersecurity, tracked social media commentary and pushed Big Tech to take down posts. Included in the documents were so-called “Misinformation Daily Briefings” from the communications firm SKDK. The firm also was deeply involved in the Biden presidential campaign, developing its mail-in voting program for four key electoral states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona.
For Big Tech and state officials, questioning the wisdom of mail-in voting was not allowed. On September 11, 2020, when JW’s Tom Fitton made the common-sense observation on Twitter that “mailing 51 million ballots to those who haven’t asked for increases risk of voter fraud and intimidation,” SKDK put him in its “misinformation brief” to California election security officials.
(In January, Twitter suspended Tom for tweeting another common-sense observation—“hydroxychloroquine is a safe drug”—a comment he had several times earlier made on Twitter and which the tech giant earlier had found not to be in violation of its rules. Read more on the incident here.)
California officials went after Tom again on September 24, falsely stating that he claimed in a YouTube video that Democrats would benefit from incorrect voter rolls and ballot collection. In the video, in fact, Tom was updating viewers about Judicial Watch’s highly successful, non-partisan lawsuit settlement with Los Angeles County to clean up voter rolls. Judicial Watch is a national leader in a non-partisan effort to clean up voter rolls.
California officials directly contacted YouTube complaining about the Judicial Watch video. Three days later, the video was deleted from YouTube.
In Iowa, Judicial Watch obtained 624 pages of records revealing how state officials pressured Twitter and Facebook to censor posts about the 2020 election. Included in the records were emails pressing the companies to remove Judicial Watch posts.
The emails show how the state agency successfully worked with Facebook to censor a Judicial Watch post about Iowa’s management of its voter rolls:
An Iowa state official emailed Facebook official Rachel Holland complaining that a Judicial Watch story on Iowa’s management of voter rolls was “false.” (It wasn’t.) The time stamp on the email is 5:19 p.m.
By 6:11 p.m., Facebook hit back. Facebook factcheckers “have rated this content false,” Holland wrote the Iowa official, “and we have applied a filter over this content warning users.”
Read more on Judicial Watch’s Iowa case here.
Read more on the California case here.
Of course it’s not just Judicial Watch in the crosshairs of companies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. On Wednesday, Facebook moved to continue its ban on Donald Trump, now a private citizen. Judicial Watch has argued that the ban is an affront to First Amendment protections of free speech, peaceable assembly, and the right to petition the government.
It’s also an ominous sign that Big Tech censorship is growing—and growing bolder. “If they can ban President Trump,” warned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, “all conservative voices could be next.”
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10-09-2022, 09:49 AM
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weird how the least fascist president in the history of the world keeps getting his decrees struck down..
https://conservativebrief.com/biden-42-67184/
https://conservativebrief.com/biden-42-67184/
Biden Loses: Federal Judge Declares LGBTQ Bathroom Mandate Unlawful
Jon DoughertyOctober 9, 2022
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10-10-2022, 07:19 AM
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Seems the AGW crowd always forgets the first rule of modeling: garbage in, garbage out.
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10-10-2022, 08:25 AM
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https://www.npr.org/2022/10/10/11278...e-in-economics
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Ben Bernanke among 3 American winners of Nobel Prize in economics
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10-10-2022, 08:55 AM
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10-10-2022, 10:24 AM
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science is such a bitch...
https://www.wnd.com/2022/10/insuranc...ovid-unvaxxed/
Published October 9, 2022 at 3:54pm
...Kaiser discovered that people who are triple-vaccinated not only are more likely to be infected with COVID-19, they are more likely to suffer severe illness and die from the disease, reported investigative journalist Daniel Horowitz.
A chart on page 30 of the preprint study shows vaccine efficacy against the omicron subvariants dropping significantly 14 to 30 days after a shot. The efficacy continues to fall in the following months then reaches negative territory after five months, meaning the recipient is more likely to get COVID than if he or she had not been vaccinated.
Further, the study indicates that those with three shots are at more at risk of COVID after five months than those who got two shots.
Chart from preprint study commissioned by Kaiser Permanente
https://www.wnd.com/2022/10/insuranc...ovid-unvaxxed/
Insurance company finds triple-vaxxed more likely to get COVID than unvaxxed
Dr. Fauci meanwhile teaming with Stephen Colbert to promote booster shots
By Art MoorePublished October 9, 2022 at 3:54pm
...Kaiser discovered that people who are triple-vaccinated not only are more likely to be infected with COVID-19, they are more likely to suffer severe illness and die from the disease, reported investigative journalist Daniel Horowitz.
A chart on page 30 of the preprint study shows vaccine efficacy against the omicron subvariants dropping significantly 14 to 30 days after a shot. The efficacy continues to fall in the following months then reaches negative territory after five months, meaning the recipient is more likely to get COVID than if he or she had not been vaccinated.
Further, the study indicates that those with three shots are at more at risk of COVID after five months than those who got two shots.
Chart from preprint study commissioned by Kaiser Permanente
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10-10-2022, 01:32 PM
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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/10...tizens-n640600
at least it's not a widespread accident.
Colorado 'Accidentally' Sends Out 30,000 Voter Registration Cards to Non-Citizens
By Bonchie | 11:30 AM on October 10, 2022
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