The country is going to have some serious flooding with some people displaced.

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It is a heat transfer system crossing the Rocky Mountains.

Iowa is a part of that system, too. That big green splotch is the problem. It is a chronic collection of heat and there are some wicked storms there right now. It doesn't pass over the area, it continues to regenerate. That heat is traveling from the West Coast of the USA and Baja Peninsula to the Midwest. In the Midwest, the two systems come together and have an accumulation that has resulted in a sustaining heat storm. It is starting to collect over the southwest, too. A couple of storm systems west coast of Mexico. These storms are dumping an excess of 1 to 2 inches of rain every hour and the storms are not moving. It is not stagnant. The air is moving, but, the heat accumulation is consistent to create a sustained rainstorm.

California is getting some relief from the temperatures because of the wind moving the head east.

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Why are Millennials upset ?

Why do I think Whitmer won't see a second term?

She is making a lot of enemies among the electorate. No one wants their water poisoned, but, they don't want to fall into bankruptcy either.

The State of Michigan cannot change the rules of the game at halftime. This is a self-inflicted wound for Whitmer.

There is such a thing as State's Rights and if a state believes it's unemployed need their benefits beyond that of the federal regulations it can take place. All of this money is not federal money either. The State of Michigan sets down rules for unemployment that is in addition to the federal rules and regs. The federal government is not in the Governor's office.

Basically, Whitmer is reverting to the Trump standard for unemployment.

President Joe Biden has expanded the federal standards for unemployment in the country during the pandemic. But, some states like Michigan is using this opportunity to shrink requirements that were originally allowed under States Rights. There should be no recertification necessary. The reasons for rejection of any claim can be reviewed by those in the unemployment agency for certification based on the new standard.

President Biden intended for an expansion of certifications and not an opportunity to redefine claims dating back to January 2020 for rejection. Whitmer’s administration are bullies in redefining state requirements for unemployment and basing decisions only in federal standards. She can’t change the rules at her convenience now that people are back to work.

February 12, 2021

By Rachel Louise Just

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (click here) released a record-setting $67.1 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 on Thursday, but some are wondering if it would pull from Michigan's shrinking rainy day fund.

State Budget Director David Massaron said it wouldn't, because the proposed budget would add $175 million into the state's rainy day fund. Michigan's rainy day fund, or budget stabilization fund as the state refers to it, is its lifeline. It was emptied out to keep Michigan afloat during the 2008 recession, and the last time it was used was to pull Detroit out of bankruptcy in the mid-2010s.

“The idea of a rainy day fund or a stabilization fund is they give government the ability to continue to deliver those services as it gradually changes its operating costs to meet what the new revenue reality is,” Massaron said.

The fund was down $350 million from early 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the state dipped into the rainy day fund, as Massaron explains, "to keep government operating."...

The Michigan Unemployment Agency has been playing political games with the federal monies that were supposed to go to the people. They wanted to first rack up the political idea that all is well and the Michigan Rainy Day Fund is back. Well, there is a lot wrong and a recent letter to unemployment recipients is the last straw.\

First, the state claims there is a mass number of people registering that is actually identity theft.

WRONG!

Those were Michigan residents attempting to pass along their ID after three months of unemployment, but, the computer system in Michigan was so foreign to most people they registered as thieves. Even after soliciting the state's unemployment agency via phone or internet the benefits were not returned to those previously qualifying for them.

If that wasn't enough, along comes letters making it known there are no more benefits for those attempting to rightfully receive them. Now, a new letter that wants to change ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS for Michigan Unemployment, but, this one goes a little further, in placing a new reality in front of the Michigan workers, PAY IT BACK!!!!!!

The State of Michigan unemployment agency has been seeking to keep every penny of federal monies for the state treasury by demonizing PUA. People have been forced into poverty by the state seeking help with private housing agencies to pay rent, mortgages, and utilities to keep people housed during a pandemic. As one agency supervisor said, "She is doing no one any favors, that's for sure." 

This administration is victimizing every person that ever applied for unemployment during the pandemic because it is profitable for the state to do so. After the most recent letter takes hold and demands repayment the rest of the unemployment recipients will receive their letters, too.

July 13, 2021
By Paula Gardner

Nearly one-fifth of the Michigan residents (click here) who received unemployment payments during the pandemic are now learning their eligibility for jobless benefits didn’t meet federal standards.

Michigan officials will reevaluate claims filed by 690,092 people. The vast majority — 648,000 — will have to confirm their jobless status from a different set of criteria and may learn they weren’t eligible for funds they already received....

The man that would be king in Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, resigns his power.

From left, (click here) Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleh Makhnitskyi and Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko hold a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday. 

Arsen Avakov is not a Putin Pundit. As a matter of fact, he appears to be a Putin watcher to the extent he is able to understand the Russian dictator's next move. Former Internal Prime Minister Arsen Avakov (click here) openly accused exiled former president Yanukovych for the deaths of peaceful protesters.

Ukraine's special police (click here) were behind the killings of dozens of anti-government protesters in Kiev in February, a government inquiry says.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov told reporters that 12 members of the Berkut police had been identified as snipers and arrested.

He presented what he said was new evidence from the shootings on 18-20 February, when 76 people were killed.

Months of mass protests led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.

More than 100 people - including police officers - are now known to have died in Ukraine since the unrest began in November over Mr Yanukovych's last-minute rejection of a landmark deal with the European Union in favour with closer Russian ties....

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov (click here) says the whole world has been convinced that the Putin regime is a dangerous anomaly on the other side of civilizational values, therefore the Russian leader will hit on brakes brake or raise the stakes once more pressure is imposed on Russia....

Speaking (click here) exclusively to the Daily Beast, Ukraine’s interior minister says revolutionaries must accept the internal battle is over and help to face down Russia.

The change of government in Ukraine in 2019 (click here) has boosted the political position of Arsen Avakov, the longest-serving interior minister in the history of independent Ukraine (he has been in five consecutive governments since February 2014). He was the only member of Volodymyr Hroysman’s cabinet to remain in office following Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s presidential victory. Zelenskiy came to power demanding that the political class should be renewed and the ‘old politicians’ removed, among other things. According to some Ukrainian politicians and media outlets, Avakov is an essential and highly influential politician, a guarantor of internal stability and a possible candidate for prime minister. Over the last six years, the interior minister has built up a strong position for himself in the internal security sector (for example, he supervises the National Police and the National Guard) and has successfully neutralised attempts by other politicians to limit his power. Moreover, any talk of his dismissal is frequently viewed as a threat to the country’s stability. Avakov has a big media presence and positions himself as an experienced official, a statesman and a guardian of justice and order above the divisions that run along party lines. While maintaining control of the Interior Ministry agencies, he has become politically independent and has built up an exceptionally strong position for himself. However, it seems that his media image as an omnipotent and increasingly influential politician does not correspond completely to his actual status. His attempts so far to extend his influence beyond the Interior Ministry (in politics in general, as well as in numerous institutions of the judiciary) have had less impressive results than he had expected. Alongside this, Avakov is among Ukraine’s least popular politicians; he has no political party base, no sufficient funds and no media assets that could enable him to have any effective influence on the work of the government and parliament.

A businessman turned minister: what is Avakov’s background?

Avakov is a typical representative of his generation, an individual who started his business career in the perestroika period and then made a smooth transition to politics in a newly created state....