Get the story right ,, would ya
John 5:18
“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.”
Report: 63 out of America’s largest 75 cities can’t pay their bills, acquired $330 billion in unfunded debt
According to a recent analysis of the 75 most populous cities in the U.S., 63 of them can’t pay their bills and the total amount of unfunded debt among them is nearly $330 billion. Most of the debt is due to unfunded retiree benefits such as pension and health care costs.
“This year, pension debt accounts for $189.1 billion, and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) – mainly retiree health care liabilities – totaled $139.2 billion,” the third annual "Financial State of the Cities" report produced by the Chicago-based research organization, Truth in Accounting (TIA), states.
“Many state and local governments are not in good shape, despite the economic and financial market recovery since 2009,” Bill Bergman, director of research at TIA, told Watchdog.org.
The top five cities in the worst financial shape are New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Honolulu, and San Francisco. These cities, in addition to Dallas, Oakland, and Portland, all received “F” grades.
https://www.watchdog.org/national/report-out-of-america-s-largest-cities-can-t-pay/article_21452cfa-2490-11e9-ba9a-4fc2db896aa1.html
they weren't the only ones he called that
1 John 2:22
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.”
Interesting how congress always keeps their perks
U.S. representative wants to close Congressional sauna, other perks during shutdown
An Illinois Congressman wants to shut down the gym and sauna used by lawmakers in Washington while many other workers are furloughed during the partial government shutdown.
Naperville Democrat Rep. Bill Foster said lawmakers have been using the perks of their job like the congressional gym and sauna while tens of thousands of workers remain furloughed. In light of this, he filed the Shutdown Prioritization Act to make sure lawmakers can’t deem things like the Congressional workout facility as “essential.”
https://www.watchdog.org/national/u-s-representative-wants-to-close-congressional-sauna-other-perks/article_ce71fe8f-023b-52a7-9559-7b4035d05bb9.html
Awwww poor babies .. Trump didn't ask them now their crying
CENTCOM chief says Trump did not consult him on Syria withdrawal declaration
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump is expected to call for an end America’s ongoing wars overseas, his top general in the Mideast said he was not consulted or warned Trump would declare a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria.
"I was not aware of the specific announcement. Certainly we were aware that he had expressed a desire and intent,” to leave, Gen. Joseph Votel, who leads U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, adding: "I was not consulted."
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/02/05/centcom-chief-says-trump-did-not-consult-him-on-syria-withdrawal-declaration/
Secrecy News
Intelligence Transparency– But For What?
The new National Intelligence Strategy released last week by DNI Dan Coats affirms transparency as a value and as a strategic priority for U.S. intelligence.
The declared purpose of intelligence transparency is to raise public esteem for intelligence and to engender public trust. But because the policy is framed primarily as a public relations effort, the resulting transparency is limited unnecessarily.
“Through transparency we will strengthen America’s faith that the Intelligence Community seeks the truth, and speaks the truth,” DNI Coats said.
“This will be our hallmark, and I cannot stress this enough — this is not a limitation on us. This will make us stronger. It earns trust. It builds faith, and boosts our credibility around the world for our mission. It is the right thing to do,” he said on January 22.
The latest iteration of intelligence transparency was strongly shaped by the immediate post-Snowden environment, and it began, under then-DNI James Clapper, as an effort to restore public confidence which had been shaken by his disclosures. The legitimacy and legality of U.S. intelligence surveillance activities had been called into question, and the scope of domestic intelligence collection was revealed to a surprising new extent. In response, the intelligence transparency initiative therefore emphasized disclosure of IC legal authorities, oversight mechanisms, and the nature of IC electronic surveillance programs.
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2019/01/transparency-for-what/
Secrecy News
CIA Historical Review Panel Put on Hiatus
The Historical Review Panel that advises the Central Intelligence Agency on declassification of historical intelligence records said this week that its planned December 2018 meeting was canceled by CIA, and that no future meetings were scheduled.
But CIA said yesterday that the Panel would be reconvened following some administrative changes.
“We have recently been informed that the Panel is being restructured and will not meet again until this has been done,” said the Panel of independent historians, chaired by Prof. Robert Jervis of Columbia University, in a January 14 statement published on H-DIPLO. “The reasons for this remain unclear to us, and no schedule for resumed meetings has been announced.”
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2019/01/cia-hrp-hiatus/