How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn Out the Democrat Base in Elections. ( Tides Foundation and .. )
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Real Clear Investigations ^
| December 12, 2023 | Steve Miller
Even as Democrats such as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse warn of “right-wing dark-money network seeking to undermine the future of democratic elections in the United States,” progressives have far outstripped Republicans in harnessing the power of putatively non-partisan, nonprofit organizations that push the boundaries to win elections. More
than 150 progressive nonprofits spent $1.35 billion on political activities in 2021 and 2022, according to data compiled by Restoration of America, a conservative political action committee. Although there are no readily available estimates of comparable conservative efforts, observers say they are overmatched. “The liberal nonprofit sector is much bigger than the conservative...
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Hawaii school students sue transport department over pollution crisis and claim 'rising tides are washing up ancestors' BONES' - months after Montana youths won landmark climate change trial (only 7.14 years left)
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Daily Mail ^
| 12/03/23 | Laura Parnaby
Fourteen Hawaiian school students are suing the transport department for infringing on their right to grow up in a healthy environment by polluting it with greenhouse gases. Ranging
in age from 10 to 19, the plaintiffs claim they have been 'seriously injured' due to the government violating constitutional pledges to decarbonize the transport sector by 2045. Their complaint says global warming is threatening age-old agricultural industries in Hawaii, while rising sea levels are projected to wipe out entire communities within the plaintiffs' lifetimes. It also laments the emotional distress suffered by the young Pacific islanders - sparked by 'climate anxiety'...
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Venice canals drying up amid prolonged spell of low tides
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MSN.com ^
| February 21, 2023 | Associated Press
Some of Venice’s smaller canals have almost dried up due a prolonged spell of low tides, frustrating boat crews and bewildering tourists. The
prolonged stretch of ebb tides is linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system over much of Italy, experts say. Since the canals essentially serve as streets in car-less Venice, the phenomenon of the last days has added to the challenges of everyday life in the lagoon city. Ambulance boats have had to tie up further from some destination, forcing medical crews to carry stretchers over long distances as their vessels cannot progress up canals reduced to a...
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Havoc in Havertown: Police increasing patrols after groups of kids cause "ruckus" in Delaware County
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MSN ^
HAVERTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- It's not just happening in the city. Groups
of kids are causing havoc in Havertown. They're attacking other young people for no apparent reason, and they're creating a panic in the Delaware County town. Police are fed up, saying this will not be tolerated. They're increasing their patrols to track them down. CBS Philadelphia spoke with one parent whose son was attacked. In that incident, it was 10 teens on one, them delivering blows, punches and kicks. Police are working to identify the people responsible and promise arrests will be made. Groups of teens have created...
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School board members resign following 'toxic' debates over CRT and mask mandates. (Tides turning ?)
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Washington examiner ^
| Aug 31, 2021 | Barnini Chacraborty
Angry parents and activists growing tired of mask mandates , the teaching of critical race theory , and other progressive ideas have flooded school board meetings across the country. They've
raised their voices, aired their grievances, and taken educators to task. The intense scrutiny has led to a wave of resignations of school board members who say they are done being the proverbial punching bag for people upset with the system.
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Disney Star’s Anti-Mask Speech Raises Ruckus at School Board Meeting
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New York Post ^
| August 13 | Samantha Ibrahim
SNIP A video surfaced on Thursday reportedly showing the “Good Luck Charlie” actress attending the Williamson County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday — and where she went on an anti-mask rant. “My
name is Leigh-Allyn Baker, and I’m a California refugee,” the 49-year-old began her speech. “I gave up everything there: a really successful Hollywood career, television shows. I gave it all up for freedom and to come to this friendly place in Tennessee and be greeted with open arms, and I love it here.” She went on to tell the audience that she herself has “two vax-injured children,...
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England football fans create ruckus after losing the Euro 2020 final to Italy
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Opindia ^
| 12 July 2021 | Opindia
On July 11 (Local Time), the Riot Police of England had to react swiftly on the West End of the capital after thousands of angry fans started to create ruckus on the streets as England lost Euro 2020 Finale. The fans from England were agitated right before the match itself as many
of them tried to enter the fan zone in Trafalgar Square without tickets. Riot Police descended on Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square after the match as hundreds of football fans were reportedly seen climbing onto street lamps and setting off flares. In the finale, England lost the final...
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The Tides Foundation and BLM
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American Thinker ^
| 13 Aug, 2020 | Civis Americanus
The 501(c)(3) tax exempt Thousand Currents and ActBlue Charities are supporting Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network, which is campaigning openly against President Trump on its website and also in other venues. BLM
leader Patrisse Cullors said openly in a CNN interview, "Trump not only needs to not be in office in November but he should resign now. Trump needs to be out of office. He is not fit for office." "…we are going to push for is a move to get Trump out… Our goal is to get Trump out." 501(c)(3) resources cannot be used legally to influence an...
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King Tides: Using an app to measure rising sea levels (only 11.11 years left)
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See BS 'News' ^
| 1/04/20
In Norfolk, Virginia, which is surrounded by water, the land barely rises above sea level, and the sea level is rising. So,
flooded streets and front yards have become a way of life. But now after years of fretting about the flooding, a group of ordinary people has come up with a novel response, reports correspondent Brook Silva-Braga. As the tide rose, the water kept creeping toward John Bluming's house, which now sits on stilts. "The water comes up from Callie Bay, into the street," he said … and right into his yard. "After I bought the house, I realized...
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Baltimore Police Release Video of Inner Harbor Ruckus (Youths)
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Officer.com ^
| May 30, 2019 | Kevin Rector
BALTIMORE -- Footage from Baltimore Police body cameras and the downtown CitiWatch surveillance network shows groups of youths gathered Saturday night at the Inner Harbor randomly breaking into fights with each other — and at times committing more serious assaults. It
shows clusters of kids casually chatting on the promenade around the water, but also sprinting along sidewalks and into traffic. It shows a large group fighting in the middle of Pratt Street, a half-dozen youths attacking a bicyclist on the ground, one teen jumping on the roofs of two cars, and another randomly kicking a passerby in the face...
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Fine print on gun-control petitions causes ruckus (WA)
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wnd.com ^
| 6/26/2018 | unknown
A gun-rights organization has written to promoters of the new Initiative 1639 in Washington state warning the paper petitions they are asking voters to sign don’t comply with state law because of the “maze of fine print.” I-1639
is being proposed to raise the state’s legal age to purchase a rifle, mandate an “enhanced background check,” demand gun owners take a firearms safety course and order people to keep their weapons only in “secure storage.” The signature-gathering drive is under way, and Second Amendment Foundation lawyer Shawn Timothy Newman has written to the initiative-supporting Alliance for Gun Responsibility to point...
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Rivers of Blood and the Tides of History
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Steyn On-line ^
| April 20, 2018 | Mark Steyn
Half-a-century ago today, Enoch Powell gave the speech that ended his political ambitions within the British Conservative Party, but ensured that he would be a more consequential figure than any of the hack timeservers who prospered in the Tory cabinets of Edward Heath. It's known to history as "the 'Rivers of Blood'
speech", which is a slight misrendering of a characteristically Powellite classical allusion - even then, in the pre-soundbite era, a risky business for a politician seeking to curry favor with the media. To mark the anniversary, BBC Radio, controversially, aired a re-enactment of the speech, read by Ian...
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UConn changes speaker rules after conservative speech ruckus
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FOX 61 ^
The University of Connecticut has issued new guidelines for speakers and campus events after an altercation at a speech by a conservative commentator titled “It’s OK To Be White.” UConn President Susan Herbst said Monday in a campus-wide email that events or other programming will not be allowed if the school determines
the individual involved represents a “danger to our community.” Herbst says speaker Lucian Wintrich had no criminal history, but UConn was “disturbed” to learn that an individual who traveled with him has at least one arrest for a “violent offense.” A young woman appeared to take paperwork off...
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US, South Korea quick to hug, make up after THAAD ruckus
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Asia Times ^
| APRIL 27, 2017 | PETER LANGAN
When the US went ahead and started setting up an anti-missile defense system in South Korea on Wednesday, it brought out bottle-throwing protesters, riot police... //snip// Today, South Korean and US national security advisers agreed that the deployment was moving ahead smoothly, South Korea’s presidential office said.
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Kellogg Foundation Gave Big to Soros Organization, Tides Foundation
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Breitbart ^
| 12/02/16 | Lee Stranahan
The institutional left’s funding behemoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with and given major donations to George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Tides Center as part of its massive push to promote a far-left agenda. The
W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the nonprofit arm of cereal and sweets giant Kellogg’s, based in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Company is chiefly known for its breakfast brands, including Special K™ cereal, Eggo® waffles, and Pop-Tarts®; but its namesake nonprofit W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of the largest institutional funders in the world and is the seventh largest philanthropic foundation in the United...
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Big tides could trigger large earthquakes, study says
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Los Angeles Times ^
| 09/12/2016 | Rong-Gong Lin II
All earthquakes start very small. But
the idea that’s presented in this study is that the added stress from a strong tidal force can help push a fault — already loaded up and strained to nearly its breaking point — over the edge, pushing a small earthquake to evolve into a monster. “When tides are very large, small earthquakes tend to grow a little larger,” Ide said. The magnitude 9.1 Indonesia earthquake in 2004 and magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile in 2010, which both produced damaging tsunami, occurred around the time of a full moon, close to the peak time...
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Clinton rejects Mexico invitation after Trump's diplomatic ruckus
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Reuters ^
| Sep 6, 2016
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Monday she will not accept an invitation from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto for a visit after rival Donald Trump created what she called a "diplomatic incident" in his foray there. In
a written excerpt from an interview with ABC News that will air Tuesday morning, Clinton simply said "no" when asked if she would travel to Mexico before the election on Nov. 8, without elaborating further.
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6 Soccer Players Arrested in Southwest Flight Ruckus
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NBC San Diego ^
| Sep 1, 2015 | Rory Devine, R. Stickney
Amarillo Police boarded the plane and removed six passengers described as “unruly”Members of a San Diego-based recreational soccer league were removed from a cross-country flight Monday and arrested on suspicion of federal charges. A
dozen members of the San Diego Chaldean Soccer League were flying Southwest Airlines to Chicago’s Midway Airport for a tournament, friends tell NBC 7. A "level one threat" was declared onboard Flight 1522 and prompted pilots to divert the flight and its 117 passengers to Amarillo, Texas, just after 10 p.m., according to court documents. Southwest Airlines said in a statement that “several passengers traveling together...
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Rising tides in San Francisco Bay demand unified solutions
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Mercury News ^
| Lisa M. Krieger
Every community that rings San Francisco Bay is vulnerable to rising seas. But
while some places are preparing, others are not -- and no single agency is coordinating the effort, according to two new civil grand jury reports. "It is a slow-moving emergency," said state Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-Menlo Park, lead author of the state's first report on climate-related flooding and organizer of a conference Friday at NASA Ames Research Center called "Meeting the Challenges of Sea Level Rise." In Santa Clara County, the water district should coordinate the county's effort, the grand jury recommended -- a project the district...
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Oh Look, Senate Democrats Now Causing Abortion Ruckus Over House Medicare Deal
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Townhall.com ^
| March 21, 2015 | Matt Vespa
What is it with this party? Senate
Democrats have really personified the “you shall not pass” war cry for anything abortion-related as of late. First, they’re filibustering what was an extremely bipartisan bill to combat human trafficking until their staffs missed the non-controversial Hyde Amendment language, which was added as a rider (standard operating procedure for most spending bills) to the law. Democrats knew this language was going to be in the law because Republicans told them months in advance. Heck, Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) aide found the language, but failed to inform the senator before the bill went to the judiciary committee...
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