The Estimated USD Federal Tax Revenue for FY 2021 is more than the $3.5 Trillion budget currently in reconciliation.

The U.S. government's total revenue is estimated to be $3.863 trillion for FY 2021. (click here)

THERE IS NO THERE THERE!

What is occurring in the US Senate is nothing but politics to portray the USA Democrats as "Tax and Spend Democrats." The current revenues for the USA exhibit a severe burden on the individual. The Corporate Income Taxes is an embarrassment to the cronyism of the Republican Party that slashed corporate taxes during the Trump stampede to end all taxes on the wealthy. 

There is no debate about the current budget in reconciliation. The US Senate needs to pass it. There is nothing in it that is wrong, there is a lot in it that is right.
 

This Flint water problem is due to the climate crisis.

Flint has to address the insufficiency in it's drainage capacity and/or the sewage treatment plan capacity. This is not the first time the overspill of sewage into the river has occurred.

September 23, 2021
By Ron Fonger

Flint - The city (click here) has reported three separate discharges of a sewage-rainwater mix into the Flint River following a three-day downpour that dumped 3.2 inches of rain on the area.

The first of the three incidents started at 6:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, when the city’s Water Pollution Control Facility discharged a mix of stormwater and sewage from its retention and treatment basin to the river.

Rainwater overwhelmed the plant’s capacity to treat it, a notice of the discharge says....

September 10, 2021

Flint - Two former top state officials charged (click here) after the second Flint water crisis criminal investigation are raising concerns with the evidence used against them.

Former Gov. Rick Snyder and former Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon filed separate documents in Genesee County courts this week asking for hearings on whether evidence prosecutors used against them should be thrown out.

Snyder is facing two counts of misdemeanor misconduct in office for allegedly not supervising his staff adequately and allegedly failing to declare a State of Emergency as required of the governor.

Lyon is charged with nine counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the deaths of John Snyder, Debra Kidd, Brian McHugh, DuWayne Nelson, Nelda Hunt, Peter Derscha, Thomas Mulcahy, Arthur Percy and Patricia Schaffer in July and August 2015 from Legionnaires’ disease....

I asked myself, "Self, why would any defendant question the quality of the evidence?" Self replied, "Because they know they corrupted it while still in office? Yes? Yes,

What is this anyway, a case review to ask "Pretty please drop the charges." THERE ARE PEOPLE DEAD AND MAIMED. Maybe it is just BILLABLE HOURS for the lawyers supported by the people of the State of Michigan.

September 13, 2021

Lansing - Former Governor Rick Snyder’s legal team (click here) was back in court Monday for a case review.

Snyder is charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty for his role in the Flint water crisis. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in January.

If convicted, Snyder faces up to a year in jail, or a $1,000 dollar fine. Last week, Snyder’s lawyers argued his due process rights had been disregarded, and asked a judge to stop prosecutors from accessing more documents related to their probe that should have been protected.

Stay with ABC12 News for updates on the case....

I guess it is called liberty to deal in invisible coins.

September 23, 2021
By Isabelle Lee

Twitter on Thursday (click here) rolled out its bitcoin tipping feature that will allow anyone using the platform to send and receive tips in the cryptocurrency.

It is also looking to authenticate non-fungible tokens displayed on people's profiles to determine if the user actually owns them.

The bitcoin tipping feature, which was made available to select users earlier this year, will first be available to iOS users before launching in Android.

The company is also adding more payment services apart from the seven it currently has, which include PayPal and Venmo. As for bitcoin, Twitter will be using payment application Strike that is built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. This allows users to send and receive bitcoin free and instantly, the company said....

However.

September 24, ,2021

By Shalini Nagarajan

China's central bank (click here) declared all cryptocurrency-related transactions illegal on Friday, and said foreign exchanges are banned from providing services to Chinese residents, in its strongest crackdown move yet on the digital asset industry.

Coins such as bitcoin and ether "are not legal and should not and cannot be used as currency in the market," the People's Bank of China said in a statement.

Virtual currencies do not have the same legal standing as fiat currency as they are issued by non-monetary authorities and use encryption technology, it said.

Bitcoin dropped 5.7% to about $41,110 in the wake of the announcement, according to data from CoinDesk. Ether lost 9% to hit $2,788, ada declined 3% to $2.16 and Ripple's XRP moved 7% lower to 92 cents. Dogecoin fell 8% to 20 cents....

In Russia, it's own cryptocurrency is sanctioned due to ransomware. It is the perfect crime. Completely outside the parameters of standard financial markets and banks. Is Russia's cryptocurrency for ransomware terrorism? It operates outside the definition of the civil world and uses infrastructure against itself. That is terrorism.

September 21, 2021

The United States (click here) has imposed sanctions on a Russian-based cryptocurrency exchange over its alleged role in facilitating illegal payments from ransomware attacks.

The Treasury Department action on September 21 targeted SUEX, in what officials said was the first sanctions leveled against a cryptocurrency exchange laundering money for cybercriminals.

This year, ransomware attacks have targeted companies and critical infrastructure, including a major U.S. pipeline and a meatpacker. There was also an attack on the software firm Kaseya that impacted some 1,500 businesses.

Ransomware payments surged last year to over $400 million, more than four times their level in 2019, according to the U.S. government.

But those payments represent only a fraction of economic harm caused by cyberattacks, which have disrupted critical sectors, including financial services, health care, and energy.

“Ransomware and cyberattacks are victimizing businesses large and small across America and are a direct threat to our economy,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen....

Russia earned the first in history sanctions against a cryptocurrency. Will the perpetrators ever be brought to trial? No. Russia does not cooperate with extradition. 

September 21, 2021
By Issabelle Lee

The US Department of the Treasury (click here) on Tuesday revealed it will sanction Russian-owned Suex for its role in laundering financial transactions for ransomware actors, marking the first time the agency has ever blacklisted a cryptocurrency exchange.

An analysis of transactions of Suex showed that over 40% were associated with illicit actors, according to a department announcement, adding that the crypto exchange also facilitated illicit funds from at least eight ransomware variants.

Tuesday's designation would generally ban all US citizens from engaging in transactions with Suex, a private company based in the Czech Republic.

The agency's Office of Foreign Assets Control warned players in the space that it "has imposed, and will continue to impose, sanctions on these actors and others who materially assist, sponsor, or provide financial, material, or technological support for these activities."...

The Russian crypto is actually breaking Russian law with what would seem impunity.

August 10, 2020

By Roger Huang

Russia recently signed a new cryptocurrency law (click here) that while stopping short of the previous ban on cryptocurrencies, still imposed stringent restrictions on its use in as form of monetary currency. This followed an earlier regulatory filing that essentially associated any activities involving cryptocurrencies as criminal, and placed them under the lens of anti-money laundering regulations.

Starting January 1st, 2021, cryptocurrencies will be allowed in Russia, though they will not be allowed to be used in exchange for any goods or services. There may be more regulation coming in upcoming sessions, but as of now, it seems that Russians can mine, trade cryptocurrencies for other cryptocurrencies on exchanges, and own cryptocurrencies without any legal issues — so long as they don’t spend it on other goods and services within the domestic economy....

Governor Whitmer please don't let these important vaccines be wasted.

To find the expiration date for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (click here) released to the United States Government, locate the lot number, printed on the carton and vial. Enter the lot number in the field below and press "Submit."

Most health care workers check expirations dates chronically as they administer medications to patients including IVs.

These vaccines could be used for the booster doses, a need of the elderly after the FDA approved its use. However, it would be remiss to allow these doses to be set aside for booster administration when there is such a new directive at nearly the same time as the expiration date.

September 23, 2021
By Hayley Harding

More than 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines (click here) are on the verge of expiring in Michigan as demand for shots wane right as the state stares down what appears to be a fourth surge of cases.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services estimates that about 161,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and between 143,000 and 146,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine expire near the end of this month, said Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman for the health department.

Eighteen months into the pandemic, 1 in 10 Michiganians have tested positive for COVID-19. One in 485 have died. And for months now, the number of people getting first doses of a vaccine has been dropping to a trickle.

The number of shots getting into people’s arms has been below 100,000 since the weekend of June 26, down from an April peak of 679,409 doses administered. Excluding this week, for which numbers are not yet completed, providers have been administering an average of 70,000 doses a week for three months, according to state data....

Hiding in plain sight.

Ethics is what occurs as a profession carries out it's legal rights. I don't know how long the Republican party spurned ethics, but, they don't carry legal weight so much as moral weight, so why bother. As long as the Republican Party is overwhelmingly viewed as righteous in a religious dogma then there would be no question about their high ethical standards.

8 hours ago, September 24, 2021

After months of toiling away in secret, (click here) Arizona's election audit has come to a close. Cyber Ninjas, the group leading the audit, is set to announce its findings on Friday and Insider obtained a draft copy of the audit results. They show no significant discrepancies between the official Maricopa County tally and Cyber Ninjas' recount....

Below is rather intensely clarifying journalism by Chris Hayes. It strikes at the heart of many of the confusingly dangerous agendas of the right-wing. All Republicans that cooperate with Trump and carry his agenda are equally as guilty of having designs to end the USA democracy and quite possibly democracy in any country.

When states are demanded to recount they need to fight back and sue the very entity that requested it for attempting to defraud the election process with false claims to an audit. I might also state while demanding these audits entities like Cyber Ninja are making money. This is their sick and demented way of making a living, by attacking democracy.

Besides the Secretaries of State fighting back against the FRAUD of organizations such as Cyber Ninjas, there is the issue of defamation of character of political figures such as President Biden. For as long as I can remember political assaults on a candidate's character such as a ballooning head of Speaker Pelosi that demonizes her and assaults her character when she is recognized as a highly respected Catholic as well as a political leader was viewed as "All in the name of politics." That is an interesting way of coping with defamation of character far beyond what is ethically acceptable. It needs to stop and unfortunately, elected officials need to have their own attorney on retainer to be able to refer such issues appropriately. It would be a campaign expense assigned to campaign funds.

The defamation of character that Sky News pulled off in manipulating the news reporting of the Boris-Joe meeting in the Oval Office is NOT "All in the name of politics." It was well-thought-out defamation of character for the purpose of not only unseating a duly elected president but, also bringing to question the idea that democracy itself is toxic to the people. If a freely elected President is incompetent and there is no sincere method of removing him, then democracy has failed the people.

While this all seems laughable to the people involved and they get on with their day, it is highly toxic to the ELECTION PROCESS and to democracy itself. Political leaders and freely elected officials need to fight back and demand the courts' rule in favor of such defamation and bring an end to this hideous allowance in our political environment.

Speaker Pelosi can speak to the incredible expense that goes along with these free for all defamation of character issues. Her campaign budget ballooned along with the opponent's cartoonish defamation of character ads. This level of HATE cannot and should not be tolerated. These highly defaming issues STICK to cause problems later on as in an insurrection whereby Speaker Pelosi was a target of the hate carried that day. 

The USA democracy is precious to many citizens and needs to be treated as such.