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[GURPS]

YOUR MOVE, JOE. Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams raised the stakes yesterday, informing Big Apple residents that because of the illegal migrant crisis, and because of competing laws requiring both expensive housing for migrants and also requiring the city to balance its budget, the city will soon be deleting many “services” that aren’t legally mandated.



CLIP: Mayor Eric Adams on pending budget cuts (2:53).

Specifically, Mayor Adams announced a ten-percent across-the-board cut to all discretionary services, which he warned citizens would be “extremely painful.” Adams explained, “Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing, and COVID stimulus funding is drying up … If circumstances don’t change dramatically, city agencies will be forced to reduce city-funded spending by 5% two more times in the next six months.”

And all of this belt-tightening is occurring whilst the DOJ tails Mayor Adams everywhere in panel vans and eavesdrops on all his communications, because he got a free plane ticket or something. This week the FBI seized Adam’s phones and iPad in a dramatic showdown. But the Mayor does not seem cowed; instead he remains feisty. Firing right back, in an online press release attached to his video statement, the Mayor’s office blamed the looming services cuts on Joe Biden:

“We must balance our budget in wake of the $12 billion that we project to spend as a result of the migrant crisis. Our budget has been balanced with heavy hearts. Our administration is outraged to have to implement these cuts, which are a direct result of the lack of financial support from Washington, D.C., which is derelict in its responsibility to institute a national plan to mitigate a national crisis and has instead elected to dump its job to handle this migrant crisis upon the lap of a municipality and its mayor. A national crisis demands a national solution,” said Chief Advisor Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin.​

A New York Times article about the looming cuts was even more blunt about their effect. The headline read, “Eric Adams Slashes Budgets for Police, Libraries and Schools.” Hinting at the developing blue-on-blue controversy, the sub-headline explained, “Mr. Adams said the migrant crisis made the deep budget cuts necessary. Progressive Democrats called the reductions dangerous and unnecessary.” The Times darkly warned readers the cuts will shred $1 billion from the education budget, close City libraries on Sundays, and require a hiring freeze that would reduce the number of police officers to 1980 staffing levels.

Meanwhile, the numbers of “citizens” who require services keeps increasing. Chronically-dropping school registrations increased for the first time since well before the pandemic, based almost entirely on illegal migrant children now required to be schooled by the sanctuary city.

None of the dire predictions matter. At some point, perhaps in a special referendum, New York voters must undo their sanctuary city laws. Realistically, Biden can’t bail out New York. The instant the feds send money to the City that Never Sleeps, hundreds of Texas towns would immediately sue the federal government for Equal Protection — in Texas. And Texas towns might not use the money in the same generous ways Mayor Adams would.

New Yorkers, who voted for the sanctuary laws requiring the city to buy foreign citizens swanky hotel stays, are just like the Portlanders wrestling with their goofy drug laws. New Yorkers — even the ones who don’t pay the taxes — are finally starting to feel the pain of their virtue-signaling choices. It will be a hard, expensive lesson. But the good news is, it’s only going to hurt for a long, long time.

☕️ THE HEISENBERG EFFECT ☙ Friday, November 17, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Successful C&C calling op; Oregonians re-thinking legalization; Iceland volcano might be exploding maybe; NYC faces huge budget cuts; WSJ hops on Ukraine pig-pile; DOJ reacts to vaccine claims; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[herb749]

YOUR MOVE, JOE. Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams raised the stakes yesterday, informing Big Apple residents that because of the illegal migrant crisis, and because of competing laws requiring both expensive housing for migrants and also requiring the city to balance its budget, the city will soon be deleting many “services” that aren’t legally mandated.


CLIP: Mayor Eric Adams on pending budget cuts (2:53).

Specifically, Mayor Adams announced a ten-percent across-the-board cut to all discretionary services, which he warned citizens would be “extremely painful.” Adams explained, “Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing, and COVID stimulus funding is drying up … If circumstances don’t change dramatically, city agencies will be forced to reduce city-funded spending by 5% two more times in the next six months.”

And all of this belt-tightening is occurring whilst the DOJ tails Mayor Adams everywhere in panel vans and eavesdrops on all his communications, because he got a free plane ticket or something. This week the FBI seized Adam’s phones and iPad in a dramatic showdown. But the Mayor does not seem cowed; instead he remains feisty. Firing right back, in an online press release attached to his video statement, the Mayor’s office blamed the looming services cuts on Joe Biden:



A New York Times article about the looming cuts was even more blunt about their effect. The headline read, “Eric Adams Slashes Budgets for Police, Libraries and Schools.” Hinting at the developing blue-on-blue controversy, the sub-headline explained, “Mr. Adams said the migrant crisis made the deep budget cuts necessary. Progressive Democrats called the reductions dangerous and unnecessary.” The Times darkly warned readers the cuts will shred $1 billion from the education budget, close City libraries on Sundays, and require a hiring freeze that would reduce the number of police officers to 1980 staffing levels.

Meanwhile, the numbers of “citizens” who require services keeps increasing. Chronically-dropping school registrations increased for the first time since well before the pandemic, based almost entirely on illegal migrant children now required to be schooled by the sanctuary city.

None of the dire predictions matter. At some point, perhaps in a special referendum, New York voters must undo their sanctuary city laws. Realistically, Biden can’t bail out New York. The instant the feds send money to the City that Never Sleeps, hundreds of Texas towns would immediately sue the federal government for Equal Protection — in Texas. And Texas towns might not use the money in the same generous ways Mayor Adams would.

New Yorkers, who voted for the sanctuary laws requiring the city to buy foreign citizens swanky hotel stays, are just like the Portlanders wrestling with their goofy drug laws. New Yorkers — even the ones who don’t pay the taxes — are finally starting to feel the pain of their virtue-signaling choices. It will be a hard, expensive lesson. But the good news is, it’s only going to hurt for a long, long time.

☕️ THE HEISENBERG EFFECT ☙ Friday, November 17, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Successful C&C calling op; Oregonians re-thinking legalization; Iceland volcano might be exploding maybe; NYC faces huge budget cuts; WSJ hops on Ukraine pig-pile; DOJ reacts to vaccine claims; more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

I'm sure the DeSantis busses will be the direct cause of the extra spending and the left will nod in agreement.

 

[GURPS]

New York Appeals Court Reinstates Draconian Public Health Quarantine Rule​

A New York State appeals court panel has reinstated a potentially Draconian public health regulation promulgated by Governor Kathy Holchul's administration. The regulation, known as 10 NYCRR 2.13 — or Rule 2.13, established isolation and quarantine procedures for those who are suspected of having a communicable disease. It was adopted as an emergency measure on February 22, 2022, and remained in force until a state Supreme Court judge struck it down in July 2022.

The change in the regulation allowed public health Karens to order anyone into quarantine, either at home or at some government-specified location, upon suspicion of infection. Your doctor has the duty to order you into quarantine:

Every attending physician shall immediately, upon discovering a case or suspected case of a highly contagious reportable communicable disease, cause the patient to be appropriately isolated and contact the State Department of Health and the local health authority where the patient is isolated and, if different, the local health authority where the patient resides.

While the rule repeatedly says that everything will be conducted "consistent with due process of law," the fact is that you are imprisoned first. Your freedom is restored whenever the state gets around to scheduling a hearing for your case.

One of the most ominous changes was in how quarantine was to be administered. Police could be used to enforce quarantine but the health department is required to "monitor such person to ensure compliance with the order and determine whether such person requires a higher level of medical care." This implies electronic monitoring of individuals in the home and access to your home by health department employees without any sort of Fourth Amendment protection...because it is a rule, not a law...and their motives are totally selfless.

The kicker in the quarantine section specifies, "isolation locations may include home isolation or such other residential or temporary housing location that the public health authority issuing the order determines appropriate." This calls to mind Australian quarantine camps.






Ass. Press did a "fact check" that found nothing at all was going on: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is not trying to create ‘quarantine camps.’ As you can probably guess, they conclusively proved that no one in Hochul's administration ever mentioned "quarantine camps" without bothering to address the underlying issue. Under this rule, a state health official could show up at your door, say they think you are infected, and ship you off to a tenement in The Bronx or a shack in the Adirondacks. Your ability to contest this order would take place after you were in the "camp." I'm using quotation marks to show the fact-check children that I'm not saying there would be "camps."

 

[GURPS]

None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked At Schools, Despite Further Evidence Confirming Masks For Children Are Useless​

Mandates affecting the general public are, of course, the most intolerable and unacceptable decisions made by administrators and public health officials. But almost equally as bad are efforts to encourage masking once again as we head into winter. And boy oh boy are those efforts ramping right back up.

As just one example New York City has been promoting an ad with a masked child at school, with a classroom full of masked children behind her, with the well-worn message of mask make-believe claiming that these efforts will “keep our children safe and our schools COVID-free.”



It’s exceptional timing then to cover a little known study that examined the very subject of school masking. Unfortunately, given the efforts of delusional cities like New York, it’s still remarkably necessary to have more evidence to use to disprove these nonsensical narratives.

Simplicity Is Profundity
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This study, conducted in the Spanish region of Catalonia, was designed to examine the impact of masks on young children, with an exceptionally simple methodology.

Compare one age group of kids required to wear masks, and one that wasn’t, and notice the different outcomes between them. 6-year-old children who were in year 1 of “primary education” in Catalonia were required to wear masks (not the torturous 2-year-old requirement seen in the United States), and 5-year-olds in the last grade of preschool, were not.

This sets up a perfect comparison, with the masked 6-year-olds classified as the intervention group and the unmasked 5-year-olds as the control one.

A quasi-experimental comparison between children in the last grade of preschool (5 years old), as a control group, and children in year 1 of primary education (6 years old), as an interventional group.
Main outcome measures Incidence of SARS-CoV-2, secondary attack rates (SARs) and effective reproductive number (R*).

The study population was massive, giving the results even more consequence. Nearly 600,000 children were included, with those aged 3-5 as the control and the masked 5-11-year-olds as the intervention group.

So what was the result?

In a stunning turn of events, the researchers found that with this massive sample size and the obviously demographically similar populations, masks made absolutely no difference whatsoever.

In fact, the unmasked younger children had lower rates of infection. Lower.

Results SARS-CoV-2 incidence was significantly lower in preschool than in primary education, and an increasing trend with age was observed. Six-year-old children showed higher incidence than 5 year olds (3.54% vs 3.1%; OR 1.15 (95% CI 1.08 to 1.22)) and slightly lower but not statistically significant SAR (4.36% vs 4.59%; incidence risk ratio 0.96 (95% CI 0.82 to 1.11)) and R* (0.9 vs 0.93; OR 0.96 (95% CI 0.87 to 1.09)). Results remained consistent using a regression discontinuity design and linear regression extrapolation approaches.

Importantly, the SAR (secondary attack rate) was nearly identical, as was the reproduction number.

The authors of the study come to a clear, succinct conclusion as well. There was no evidence that masking was remotely relevant to reducing the spread of COVID among school aged children.

Conclusions: We found no significant differences in SARS-CoV-2 transmission due to FCM mandates in Catalonian schools. Instead, age was the most important factor in explaining the transmission risk for children attending school.

 

[GURPS]

New York is now the ‘least free’ state, thanks to Democratic policies​

Cato’s libertarians rank the Empire State dead-last, 50th, for policies impacting economic, social and personal freedoms — and even where it scores slight gains (for legalizing pot and reforming criminal justice), Albany plainly screwed up.

“Combined, state and local taxes are crushing. Debt is down from years past but is still the highest in the country at 26.1 percent of income,” notes the report.

No wonder the state’s seeing a huge exodus to Florida (No. 2 in freedom, behind New Hampshire, and first in economic freedom), with Miami now looking like a credible threat to displace Gotham as the nation’s financial capital.

New York’s endless and onerous state regulations also drive away businesses (and jobs and people) — and its growing green “climate” rules will send power costs soaring and further degrade the state’s livability.

Heck, even in areas where Cato’s libertarians credited the Empire State with making progress, Albany screwed things up:

 

[GURPS]

It seems New York Mayor Eric Adams is about to get the full Andrew Cuomo treatment, and in a tender spot. Politico reported the story yesterday headlined, “Eric Adams accused of sexual assault in 1993 in new legal filing.” In case anybody missed the connection, Politico also ran a clumsy companion story headlined, “Joe Biden once embraced Eric Adams. Don’t expect that anytime soon.” So.

1993! The alleged sexual assault — kept under wraps for all this time — allegedly happened literally thirty years ago. You’ll recall, I’m sure, that President Trump was also recently sued in New York in a similar dusty, antique ‘sexual assault’ case. New York’s “Adult Survivors” Act allows for these types of super-stale, decades-old claims. The claims might be ancient, but they are still exquisitely useful against any inconvenient politicians who the Biden Administration dislikes.

Mayor Adams’ problems are mounting. Although he hasn’t been indicted for anything — not yet — a phalanx of FBI agents is undisguisedly and quite publicly investigating him over murky allegations of doing some kind of favors for unnamed Turkish officials after allegedly receiving some kind of vaguely-described benefits from that country. And all of this legal activity swirling around the Mayor gives corporate media tons of chances to write hit-piece articles about him using words like “embattled,” “accused,” and “kickbacks,” and constantly reminding democrat readers that Adams and Joe Biden haven’t spoken in over a year.

The story has also created room for eye-popping headlines like this one from Politico three days ago. You probably didn’t see this coming, although it seems obvious in hindsight:


He’s back! Well, almost. Politico completely missed the irony in trading one disgraced public official accused of sexual assault with another disgraced public official accused of sexual assault. Not to mention murdering elderly citizens in an obscene nursing-home kickback scheme.

☕️ SPOOKED ☙ Friday, November 24, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Democrats hate twitter but can't stop; more 'far right' winning; three arrests; 4-day ceasefire begins; Dublin protests; more trouble for Eric Adams; great coffee news; police diversity; and more.

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[GURPS]

Eric Adams SLAPPED With MeToo After Begging Biden For Illegal Immigrant Money & NYC Budget Cuts!​

 

[stgislander]

The Dems created the idea that politics is a blood sport.

 

[GURPS]

Low-Income Black NYC Residents FUME Over Losing Thanksgiving Turkey Donations To Illegal Immigrants!​

 

[GURPS]

New York Housing Residents Miss Out on Thanksgiving Dinners After Illegal Aliens Get Them All​

Queensbridge Housing resident Georgia Butler, for one, was disgusted after losing out to illegals at this year’s food bank give away and noted that illegals were first in line

“They was first on line for the turkeys this morning,” Butler told the station. “They tell you to be there at 11 o’clock. You get there at like 10:30, 10:45, but they are already out there. The line is from over there to over here.”

“Why do we have to take the brunt of everything?” Butler asked Fox 5. “This community is already suffering.”

Many low-income residents rely on the weekly mobile food banks, but they are increasingly finding slim pickings after the illegals run through the offerings.

 

[GURPS]

Upwards of 2,500 NYPD officers turned in their badges in 2023 amid concerning trend​

As resources were reallocated to accommodate the out-of-control influx of illegal aliens, disenchanted and disgruntled members of the NYPD continued resigning in droves, even as they were short of the requirements to receive full pensions, according to the NYPD pension data.

Reporting on the numbers through Oct. 31, 2023, the New York Post detailed that 2,516 officers had quit, “the fourth highest number in the past decade and 43% more than the 1,750 who hightailed it in 2018, before the pandemic and crime spikes hit the city.”

Of those, 1,040 were short of their 20 years of service for full pensions, a 104% increase from 2020, but down from the 1,524 the year prior.

Many departures were attributed to “inhumane amounts of forced overtime,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry who contended to the newspaper, “The workload is a leading factor driving people away from the job. If the NYPD is going to survive these staffing reductions, it cannot just keep squeezing cops for more hours.”

 

[GURPS]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s regulators are on the verge of settling a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the state favored convicted pot felons over disabled veterans in the awarding of licenses to sell legal marijuana.

The move would accelerate the opening of hundreds of cannabis stores left in limbo by the Empire State’s legal weed war.

The details of the proposed agreement weren’t made public, but the state Cannabis Control Board has called for an emergency meeting on Monday to approve the settlement in the case brought by disabled vets Carmine Fiore, William Norgard, Steve Mejia and Dominic Spaccio.

“The parties wish to enter into a settlement agreement and stipulation of dismissal to resolve the Fiori Action and the Coalition Action without further litigation,” the proposed resolution to be voted on by the board states.

NY on verge of settling in suit alleging state favored drug dealers over disabled vets for pot licenses

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s regulators are on the verge of settling a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the state favored convicted pot felons over disabled vets.

nypost.com

 

[GURPS]

The surge of migrants accounts for less than half (42%) of the city’s looming fiscal crisis.

New York was heading off a fiscal cliff before the surge.

Adams’ predecessor, spendaholic Bill de Blasio, is partly to blame.

But Adams worsened the crisis by negotiating insane labor contracts — especially with the teachers union — that the city cannot afford.

It’s a transparent attempt by Adams to lock in big labor’s support for his own mayoral reelection — never mind that he’s selling out city residents.

New Yorkers are getting ripped off.

Wallet Hub’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America ranks New York a dismal 148 out of 149 cities in spending per capita to provide basic services.

Only San Francisco scores worse.

Gotham isn’t the cleanest city or the safest, and it doesn’t offer the best public schools.

Yet New York City taxpayers pay top dollar, thanks to a succession of pandering pols.

Gotham, for example, provides any municipal employee who puts in 10 years a health-insurance premium, 100% paid for with no cost-sharing, for life.

Even after the person leaves city employment. Unheard of anywhere else.

As far back as September 2022, the Big Apple’s fiscal situation was smelling rotten.

Adams promised the state’s Financial Control Board that he would “not make any deals that the city cannot afford.”

It’s not migrants — saving New York City requires union concessions

It’s a transparent attempt by Adams to lock in big labor’s support for his own mayoral reelection — never mind that he’s selling out city residents.

nypost.com

 

[Kyle]

Gotham isn’t the cleanest city or the safest, and it doesn’t offer the best public schools.

Yet New York City taxpayers pay top dollar, thanks to a succession of pandering pols.

Stupid hurts.... And is expensive.

 

[Hijinx]

When we had meetings on the Cannabis growing site we now have at Abell we were told there would be no smell. They have scrubbers.
Well the scrubbers aint working.
That sht stinks. I walk out of my home some evenings and it smells like skunks are breeding in my back yard. The ass holes who started this stench plant have mostly been bought out when the big money moved in. The State of Maryland is pushing Marijuana hard but they let this place be called an agriculture project which lets them off without paying industrial taxes. They stuck this stinking noisy project in a community without much political clout and destroyed the value of our homes.
Who is going to buy if we want to sell when they get a sniff of the stench. They didn't cut my taxes though.

 

[Clem72]

Who is going to buy if we want to sell when they get a sniff of the stench. They didn't cut my taxes though.

Maybe a pot head?

 

[Hijinx]

Maybe a pot head?

The State of Democrat Maryland is more worried about Pot heads than it's sober citizens.

 

[GURPS]

The New York Post writes:

Retailers across New York state say there’s no end in sight to the rising epidemic of organized shoplifting rings — and warn it could lead to more store closures, increased costs for consumers and threats of violence against store employees.
Store owners said they lost $4.4 billion last year as a result of retail theft — which they say adds to the urgency for Gov. Kathy Hochul to crack down.
However, Hochul vetoed a bipartisan bill last week — to the chagrin of store owners — that would have created a task force to combat organized theft.
Hochul rejected a proposal that would have created a 15-member panel made up of experts appointed by the governor, Legislature and the state attorney general that would have put together a list of recommendations to respond to retail theft.
The Retail Council of New York State, the Albany-based lobbying group which represents retailers statewide, said it was “extremely disappointed” by Hochul’s veto.

We don't need a panel to recommend how to address retail theft.

New York Retailers Lost $4.4 BILLION in 2022 Thanks to Organized Shoplifting Rings

twitchy.com

 

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[RoseRed]