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HUD Secretary Ben Carson supports $6.2 billion in budget cuts to HUD HUD Secretary Ben Carson, who recently bought a fancy $1.3 million home near D.C., in Vienna, Virginia, where he resides with his wife Candy, was A.W.O.L., and nowhere to be found by the media yesterday when it came time for him to step up to the plate on behalf of the poor, elderly and disabled, to oppose the proposed $6.2 billion in budget cuts that will harm hundreds of thousands of HUD’s subsidized households!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 3:52am PDT
Hawaii Judge Tosses 2d Muslim Travel Ban At 12:32 p.m Hawaii time. on March 15, 2017, a bell of freedom rang across the land as a US District Court in Hawaii filed an Order Granting Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), stopping Nazi Trump's second Muslim Travel Ban, and the Order specifies that if it is appealed, the TRO remains in effect. See the 43 page Decision in Hawaii v. Trump, USDC Hawaii CV No. 17-00050 DKW-KSC at http://www.hid.uscourts.gov/files/announcement142/CV17-50%20219%20doc.pdf
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Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2017 7:24pm PDT
Puerto Rico Religious Leaders Ask Congress to Pass Debt Crisis Actions "As religious leaders in Puerto Rico, we urge you to act on behalf of the 3.4 million American citizens living on the island," wrote two prominent ministers to Congress about policies to help the debt-troubled island....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2017 12:35pm PDT
Trump’s proposed budget cuts to HUD by the numbers in California Based on the documents from the Senate Appropriations Committee, this is an updated impact of some of the proposed cuts to HUD. Below are some of the numbers in regards to how California will be affected if Trump’s proposed $6 billion in budget cuts to HUD are enacted. This information may change if the budget cutting numbers are not final, regardless these numbers should assist tenant and housing activists in opposing the proposed budget cuts to HUD, by the Trump regime....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2017 1:00am PST
Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission Unanimously Endorses Civil Rights Ordinance Thursday, March 9th, the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission unanimously endorsed the Civil Rights Ordinance, a simple yet powerful law that, if enacted, would clarify that Oakland Police Department (“OPD”) officers assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (“JTTF”) must follow the same state and local laws that all other OPD officers are bound by, rather than looser and highly problematic FBI guidelines....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 8:53am PST
Vault 7: Wikileaks, Paradigm Shifts & Rule of Law This is how Vault 7 is shifting the world....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2017 10:44am PST
UC Berkeley Sponsors Muslim Basher: Drive Out the Trump Regime! Start with John Yoo Torture advocate John Yoo and his handlers at Boalt Hall think Donald Trump's "new" Muslim ban is A-OK. Despite a decade of community protest against the corruption of young legal minds by a resident war criminal with a dangerous philosophy of exceptionalism - that American lives are worth more than other people's - law school administrators deny consequences of Yoo's professional misconduct. Professor Yoo shames the university every time he opens his mouth. His legal "opinions" further the i...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2017 3:28pm PST
In condemned remarks, HUD Secretary Ben Carson calls slaves “immigrants” People have allegedly been around for the last 195,000 years or more, and slavery has existed since before written history. The slavery era insurance registry reveals a lot of information about slavery!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2017 9:07pm PST
Puerto Rico Requests Continued Debt Lawsuit Protection Puerto Rico's Governor is asking Congress to extend protections against debt lawsuits as the island charts a path for economic recovery....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 8:22am PST
Housing Secty Carson and Energy Secty Perry confirmed with Democratic votes Millionaire former Democrats, anti-public housing Ben Carson, was confirmed as Housing Secretary with 6 Democratic votes and anti-Energy Department Rick Perry was confirmed as Energy Secretary with 9 Democratic votes on March 2, 2017....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 6:08am PST
HUD Secretary Ben Carson leads subsidized renters & union employees into uncertain future As the federal employees, including HUD employees, and HUD’s subsidized renters experience a state of panic regarding the future of HUD and it’s subsidized housing programs, the future seems very grim and uncertain under the fascist right-wing Trump regime, and the new Hud Secretary, Ben Carson!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 1:57am PST
Ryan Zinke approved by 16 Democrats as Interior Secty Zinke’s views climate science, voting record, campaign donations, and statements on future fossil fuel extraction on federal lands had riled climate and environment groups who say he’s not fit to oversee the nation’s lands and natural resources and enforce the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 8:55pm PST
Puerto Rico Governor Releases New Fiscal Plan Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló released a new fiscal plan that seeks to balance the island's budget by 2019....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 10:07am PST
America under Donald Trump The "elite-mass split," the tear between the establishment and the masses, damages American democracy. As a damaged democracy, there is very low trust in the competence of the government. They no longer hear what parts of society need. Social dislocations lie behind the beautiful appearances. The official unemployment rate of 4.9% is regarded as a distortion of reality. Two-thirds of the voters consider the current economic situation miserable....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 6:40am PST
20 Democratic Senators Support Wilbur Ross for Commerce Secty Billionaire former Democrat, now Republican, 79-year-old Wilbur Ross has been confirmed today as Commerce Secretary by 72 Senators, including 20 Democrats, including California's Senator Feinstein and Virginia's Senator Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton's vice presidential candidate....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 9:00pm PST
Bertolini is not only an idiot Aetna (under the sage leadership of CEO Mark Bertolini) just took a billion dollar loss. So clearly Berolini is an idiot – although Aetna won’t have to pay federal taxes for taking this loss, just like his buddy Donald Trump (my Fed. Tax bill for Jan. was $586 dollars – what was yours?)....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 12:12pm PST
Support AB 1506 to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. California Assembly Members Bloom, Chiu, and Bonta introduced AB 1506 on February 17, 2017, and need your support for the proposed bill to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.. The bill would once again allow the regulation of residential rental housing pricing by local governments in California....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2017 6:06am PST
Treasury Extends Anti-Money Laundering Luxury Real Estate Regulations Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) renewed requirements for title insurance companies to identify the real owners behind shell companies in six major metropolitan areas....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 10:40am PST
Trump Trump Hate The hate divide in America is great and growing. Can we work toward a non-violent approach and deal with the Trump administration by building on areas we can find agreement on? Here are some ideas for modeling a more positive political process in the face of world insanity....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2017 9:51pm PST
Congress Moves Slowly on Bipartisan Puerto Rico Recommendations Congress has not acted on recommendations made by its Puerto Rico task force it implemented last year....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2017 9:18am PST
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