TYB
Robert Beadles
@robertbeadles
Is there no law the Nevada Secretary of State and legislatures won’t break? Article 4, Section 2 states the legislature can only convene every other odd year for 120 days. Yet here we are, far from 2025 and there are at least 12 state senators, and the Secretary of State proposing new laws, creating new regulations outside of this 2-year window. They claim the power to do this through NRS 218E.150. That's complete crap that just says a commission can be created during regular every other year session! At 9 am today, they will be proposing new and adding more voter regulations and a ton of other issues. Where are the attorneys? Where is the opposition to these lawbreakers in charge of our laws?
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/InterimCommittee/REL/Interim2023/Meeting/34507
#reno #washoe #lasvegas #nevada @RealSKeshel @JovanHuttonPulitzer @MrSausageGettingIt
Feb 26, 2024, 9:12 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@robertbeadles/posts/111998896418858455
At least 12,000 families have been displaced from their homes after torrential rains caused rivers and streams to overflow, the Brazilian state of Acre said.
Feb 27, 2024
The government said on Tuesday that 17 of the state’s 22 municipalities remained under a state of emergency caused by the devastating rainfall.
Jordão has been the most affected by floods as 80 percent of its population was forced to shelter - while heavy rain continued to flood the surroundings.
At least 23 indigenous communities that lie across the interior of Acre have also been affected by flooding, which has submerged homes and businesses.
Dozens of people have already been confirmed dead across parts of Brazil following the cataclysmic downpours in February - and the toll is tragically expected to rise.
A 20-year-old man, identified a Elias Lima, was reported missing after he was swept away while swimming with friends in a stream as rain drenched the city of Rio Branco on Sunday.
Authorities initiated a search Monday and Lima was still unaccounted for as of Tuesday evening.
Flooding in the city of Brasiléia, more than 124 miles west of Rio Branco, the state capital, cause the Acre River’s water level to rise to 49.5 feet by midday Tuesday.
The water overflowed the José Augusto Metal Bridge, dumping waste across it. The bridge, which links Brasiléia with the city of Epitaciolândia, has been closed to traffic since Sunday.
The José Augusto Metal Bridge also connects Brasiléia with Assis Brasil, a border town across from Peru.
Road closures meant for authorities to transport 30 patients on canoes from Epitaciolândia and Xapuri to Brasiléia on Monday to ensure that they received their scheduled dialysis treatments on Monday.
The flooding in Acre came after the southern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro suffered floods across several cities after the area was slammed by heavy rain between Wednesday and Thursday.
A 29-year-old man with dreams of one day becoming a fireman prevented three more when he rescued a woman and her one-year-old twin daughters trapped in their family car moments before the vehicle was swept away.
Residents in the municipality of Paracambi held a demonstration at city hall on Sunday, protesting over the local government slow respond to remove debris from the streets.
This follows news that at least 40 people have been confirmed dead after the northern coast of São Paulo was hit by flooding and landslides last weekend.
The São Paulo state government reported that 39 residents, including a nine-month-old baby, were killed in the municipality of Sao Sebastião.
A seven-year-old girl was found dead under a rock at her home in the nearby city of Ubatuba.
The storm struck between Saturday and Sunday and displaced 1,730 residents and left 766 homeless, according to the São Paulo state government.
Rescue teams were working around clock Monday in search of at least 36 residents, who were reported missing in the cities of Barra do Sahy and Juquehy.
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/brazil-s-acre-river-bursts-its-banks-leaving-12-000-families-displaced-from-their-homes-following-torrential-rain-and-devastating-landslides/ar-BB1j00Jt?
Family Dollar Stores pleaded guilty on Monday to storing food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics in a rat-infested warehouse in West Memphis, Arkansas.
2024/02/27 AT 5:22 PM
In a press release, the Department of Justice announced that the company agreed to pay a $41.67 million fine over the “insanitary conditions.”
“A criminal information unsealed today in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, charged Family Dollar with one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated products to become adulterated while being held under insanitary conditions,” the press release explained.
The fine is the largest ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case.
The DOJ continued, “The company, a subsidiary of Dollar Tree Inc., entered into a plea agreement that includes a sentence of a fine and forfeiture amount totaling $41.675 million, the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case. The plea agreement also requires Family Dollar and Dollar Tree to meet robust corporate compliance and reporting requirements for the next three years.”
“When consumers go to the store, they have the right to expect that the food and drugs on the shelves have been kept in clean, uncontaminated conditions,” said Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer. “When companies violate that trust and the laws designed to keep consumers safe, the public should rest assured: The Justice Department will hold those companies accountable.”
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division added, “Companies distributing and selling food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics must ensure that these products are being held in safe and sanitary conditions.”
“The Justice Department will continue to work closely with the FDA to investigate and prosecute those who put public health at risk by failing to meet this important obligation,” Boynton continued.
By pleading guilty, Family Dollar admitted that its Arkansas distribution center shipped to stores in Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
“According to the plea agreement, the company began receiving reports in August 2020 of mouse and pest issues with deliveries to stores,” the DOJ said. “By the end of 2020, certain stores reported receiving rodents and rodent-damaged products from the warehouse. The company admitted that by no later than January 2021, some of its employees were aware that the insanitary conditions caused FDA-regulated products held at the warehouse to become adulterated in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).”
In January 2022, an FDA inspection found live rodents, dead and decaying rodents, rodent feces, urine, and odors, and evidence of gnawing and nesting throughout the warehouse.
https://leoterrell.com/2024/02/27/family-dollar-fined-more-than-40m-over-rat-infested-arkansas-warehouse/
Waste of the Day: $38.5 Billion In Medicaid Funds Improperly Managed
2024/02/27 AT 5:21 PM
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
Topline: State governments spent $38.5 billion to increase Medicaid payouts in 2022, but there is little oversight of how the money is being used, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report.
Key facts: Typically, state governments send money to Medicaid Managed Care, which pays healthcare centers on behalf of patients as needed.
But since 2017, states have been allowed to send extra money directly to clinics to try and improve the quality of healthcare. The practice was originally meant to be used sparingly, but it’s becoming more common.
State governments spent over $38.5 billion on these “directed payments” in 2022, which are managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
But according to the GAO, there are “weaknesses” in “CMS procedures for approving such payments.”
The report says that CMS has “weak fiscal guardrails,” meaning states often do not keep track of whether a healthcare provider is using its funds effectively before sending it more money.
The GAO evaluated five states and found that none of them were “consistently” evaluating whether the extra billions of dollars spent on Medicaid were actually having an impact on patient outcomes. In Texas, some hospitals received more than double the standard amount of funds, with little to no oversight.
The causes of this issue varied. Some states had flawed data software; some were simply not “implementing best practices.”
CMS also has not set any clear limits on the amount of money a single healthcare provider can receive.
Background: Eighteen states each spent over $500 million on directed payments in 2022, with California and Texas each giving out almost $7 billion.
Most of the money came from taxes on private healthcare providers, while some came from state general funds and other sources.
The United States spent $804 billion on Medicaid overall in 2022.
Summary: States are gaining more influence every year over how Medicaid funds are dispersed, yet they don’t have enough systems in place to prevent potential wasteful spending.
https://leoterrell.com/2024/02/27/waste-of-the-day-38-5-billion-in-medicaid-funds-improperly-managed/
RFK Jr. Secures Amount Of Signatures Required To Appear On Georgia And Arizona Ballots
2:22 PM – Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gathered enough signatures to qualify to appear on Arizona’s and Georgia’s ballot.
On Tuesday, the group supporting the Independent presidential candidate, American Values 2024, announced that they had gathered the necessary signatures to secure ballot access for the states that helped President Joe Biden defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
“The grassroots energy and momentum give us more confidence than ever in our ability to knock out the remaining states on our list of states quickly,” PAC co-founder Tony Lyons said in a statement on Tuesday.
The PAC said it will keep up its own signature collection campaign in ten additional states including in Michigan, a battleground state, and others with high signature requirements like Texas, California, and New York.
The organization announced in December that it would invest between $10 million and $15 million to assist Kennedy in getting signatures.
Kennedy Jr. first met the requirements to appear on the ballot in Utah in 2024.
In order to pursue an Independent candidacy, he withdrew from last year’s Democratic presidential primary.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/rfk-jr-secures-amount-of-signatures-required-to-appear-on-georgia-and-arizona-ballots/