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N-400 October 2024 filers
Ban Hammer replied to Nobby7's topic in US Citizenship Case Filing and Progress Reports
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Bungling World Bank bureaucrats lost track of at least $24 billion bankrolling the battle against climate change, according to a bombshell report by a left-leaning charity group. An investigation by Oxfam revealed “poor record-keeping practices” by the DC-based international lender that resulted in anywhere between $24 billion and $41 billion in misplaced funds. The agency’s audit showed “a lack of traceable spending” over the past seven years — partly because of an oddball accounting practice in which the bank accounts for its climate financing at the time of a project’s approval rather than at the time of project completion, according to the report released last week. more at https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/business/world-bank-bureaucrats-lost-track-of-at-least-24b-in-funds-fighting-climate-change-report/ Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C. An Oxfam audit of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio found that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance went unaccounted for between the time projects were approved and when they closed. There is no clear public record showing where this money went or how it was used, which makes any assessment of its impacts impossible. It also remains unclear whether these funds were even spent on climate-related initiatives intended to help low- and middle-income countries protect people from the impacts of the climate crisis and invest in clean energy. more at https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-finds apparently "going green" means green for someone's pocket!
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children. It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the U.S. Navy —has apologized. more at https://apnews.com/article/navy-1882-tlingit-village-alaska-bombing-apology-b7da179eb05bd30afa373f9fc093305e
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Daily Update on Kamala Tanking America
Ban Hammer replied to Boiler's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
well they've decided to buy votes one way Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide Milwaukee, Wisconsin – President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. still have lead pipes. The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove. The political focus on Wisconsin by Mr. Biden reflects the hopes that Democrats can hold on to the state that they flipped in 2020 by a slim margin after losing it in 2016. more at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-lead-pipes-infrastructure/ amusing that cbs news refers to him at "Mr Biden" -
Daily Update on Kamala Tanking America
Ban Hammer replied to Boiler's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
U.S. retailers are closing stores at a record pace in 2024 Family Dollar has announced 677 store closings this year. Walgreens is closing 259. Big Lots is closing 360. LL Flooring is shutting down entirely. Major retailers have announced 6,189 store closures so far this year, already outpacing last year's total of 5,553, according to Coresight Research. Chains are on track to close the highest number of stores in 2024 than any year since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the industry. more at https://www.abc12.com/news/business/u-s-retailers-are-closing-stores-at-a-record-pace-in-2024/article_f4d150be-6dca-5a44-9678-3147852b0442.html -
Huma Abedin, Alex Soros engaged
Ban Hammer replied to Ban Hammer's topic in Current Events and Hot Social Topics
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Huma Abedin, a longtime aide of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Alex Soros, the son of progressive billionaire George Soros, are engaged, the couple announced Wednesday in a joint Instagram post. Alex Soros is the chair of Open Society Foundations, which his father founded and once controlled. Abedin was formerly married to ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) more at https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4765056-huma-abedin-alex-soros-engaged/ former clinton aide now engaged to the son of george soros, who's net worth is 7.2 billion USD...........
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A federal judge said this week that a defamation case against MSNBC can proceed and has a high likelihood of success after ruling that network hosts, including Rachel Maddow, made “verifiably false” statements about a doctor suing for defamation. In 2020, Dr. Mahendra Amin, an obstetrician-gynecologist working at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, faced serious allegations when a nurse at the facility made a whistleblower complaint. The complaint accused Amin of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on migrant women detained at the center, Fox News reported. NBC reporters Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley investigated to verify the whistleblower’s allegations against Amin, the report said. Despite facing initial skepticism from NBCUniversal’s standards department, they published an article on the matter. But court documents said that Amin “performed only two hysterectomies on women detained at the facility.” more at https://conservativebrief.com/judge-rules-maddow-84301/
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Nearly 1,000 Kansans were disenfranchised in the August primary due to errors by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in delivering mail-in ballots to county clerk offices for tabulation. In his letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, who voiced concern prior to the August Primary about mailing ballots, said the Postal Service’s mistakes were a violation of Kansas law that requires all mail-in ballots to be postmarked by 7:00 PM on Election Day and received within three days of the election to be counted: “Multiple county election officials have notified my office that ballots were received from the local post office days, if not weeks, after they were placed in the custody of the USPS under the assumption that they would be received and counted by county election officials. more at https://sentinelksmo.org/1000-kansans-votes-uncounted-usps/ another example of how mail in ballots are not the way to go.