Bi-Weekly Clips - Beginning of the End (Legislature)

Readers:

Welcome to this edition of the unedited uncensured clips in block prepared by younger Oregonians for your consideration with other sources of information. 

It is an interesting week as the Anglo Saxton neo-colonial failing powers attempt to expand the white oligarch war and return to occupy their former colonies.  At the same time, all are moving toward corporate union feudalism using fascist state police powers with the aid of political courts as academics and social scientists predicted.  Almost a complete repeat of the history leading to World War I and World War II?

The clips for consideration with other sources of information:

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OREGON

The Oregon Employment Department is finally upgrading its computer systems, but will be offline for several days, starting Tuesday. In 2009, the state received $85.6 million from the federal government to update the OED computer systems. After decades of no movement until now, Oregonians have paid the price of sluggish bureaucracy.

Oregon spends some of the most money of any state in the country on education (aka bureaucracy and PERS), but it ranked LAST on student math and reading progress in a study of 30 states.

Sen. Boquist pointed out the quintessential issue of government – do “small,” “technical,” “fixes” really do anything, or do they make the problem worse during the floor session on Feb 19. From Capital Chatter: “The Senate met for 33 minutes on Monday, passing two minor bills with little debate and little opposition. Sen. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, said Senate Bill 1568, dealing with prevailing wages for electrical workers, would fix a mistake the Legislature made in 2021. Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, wondered whether yet another “technical fix” would be needed to fix this fix.”

The New OHA director is already serving as a leader of a highly politicized agency and also as a political scapegoat. The Oregon Capital Chronicle reports: “New OHA director Sejal Hathi on hot seat over withheld report, wrong statements. Task force on alcohol prices and addiction grills the new Oregon Health Authority director about the first major controversy of her tenure.”

From Oregon Capital Chronicle: “The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would give consumers more options to repair their home appliances and electronic devices. The Senate voted 25-5 to pass Senate Bill 1596, a “right to repair” proposal aimed at widening consumer choice and lowering the costs of repairing electronic gear from laptops to smartphones and other devices that have a computer chip. The bill still needs to be passed by the House to go to Gov. Tina Kotek’s desk.”

Former state Senator Denyc Boles ended her campaign for Oregon’s 6^th Congressional District to clear a path for Republican candidate Mike Erickson.

The Oregon permanent standard time bill survives after Senate splits. From the article: “Sen. Brian Boquist, R-Dallas, reminded colleagues that they heard a lot about Arizona while discussing economic development and the semiconductor industry last year. “If I recall correctly, I think that economic horsepower state beating us out for economic development is the state of Arizona, and they’re on standard time,” Boquist said. “Let’s be like Arizona. Let’s get more economic development, let’s get more people moving here. I don’t know if this helps, but it sure didn’t hurt in Arizona.”

KOIN News reports: ‘Get out of our state’: Kotek’s message to fentanyl dealers in confronting Oregon’s drug crisis (which is this bad because the state legalized possession of hard drugs, emboldening users to be out in daylight).

Gov. Kotek’s housing plan that cleared the Senate reduced the urban growth boundary, the invisible line that doesn’t allow cities to expand (looking at Corvallis and Portland), thus increasing the cost of housing, so this means even less will be added to the current urban growth boundary. Will developers continue to have to build UP instead of OUT?

From one Senator: Government is costly

NATIONAL

From NBC News: Trump defeats Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary.

From LifeSiteNews: Google takes down woke AI image generator

From Daily Wire: ‘Enraging’: Lawmakers call for border to be closed after illegal immigrant reportedly arrested for murder of nursing student

From POLITICO: Democrats might need a Plan B. Here’s what it looks like.

From Time: Biden impeachment probe collapses.

From People: More than half the world faces high risk of measles outbreaks following ‘big gaps’ in immunizations WHO says.

CONSPIRACY CORNER The purpose of this section is to go over conspiracy theories that are long forgotten or more modern and everything in between.

This one is WILD. From Popular Mechanics: “People have long discussed the conspiracy that Walt Disney used cryogenics technology to freeze himself when he died—even though the Disney family refutes the claims. However, a new theory is that The Walt Disney Company created Frozen as a way to hack Google’s search algorithm and distract consumers from information about the late Walt Disney’s possible frozen procedure.”

What do you think?

GLOBAL

Ukraine/Russia

It’s been 2 years since the Ukraine/Russia war started.

The BBC reports that Ukraine downed its second Russian A-50 spy plane in weeks. It’s interesting to see this perceived success being downplayed as Ukraine is needing money and bullets and probably can’t look like it’s doing okay.

There’s been a significant amount of drama in D.C. over Congress delaying the (inevitable) passage of the latest Ukraine aid bill. Reuters reported on how the White House is blaming House Speaker Republican Mike Johnson for “benefitting Iran and Russia by not putting a national security bill that gives aid to Ukraine up for a vote.”

The Congressional delays have the WSJ asking if the U.S. will “abandon” Ukraine saying, “Two years after Russia’s invasion, America’s waning commitment is raising fears that Putin could win the war – and that Europe may be on its own in future conflicts.”

Also from Reuters is the news that the U.S. imposed more sanctions against Russia that target more than 500 people and “entities” (strange word to use) and for the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

POLITICO: The West tried to crush Russia’s economy. Why hasn’t it worked?

Israel

NBC reports: Netanyahu reveals his plan’s for post-war Gaza.

From Reuters: “The Biden administration on Friday said Israel's expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank is inconsistent with international law, signaling a return to long-standing U.S. policy on the issue that had been reversed by the previous administration of Donald Trump.”

BBC reports: Israel’s Eurovision entry under scrutiny over alleged reference to Hamas.

Reported by CBS News: “Three Palestinian gunmen opened fire early Thursday morning near a busy checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing one Israeli and wounding at least eight others, according to Israeli police. The police said two attackers were killed at the scene and the third was later found and arrested.”

Afghanistan

ABC News: The Taliban carry out a double public execution at a stadium in Afghanistan in front of thousands of people.

History lesson from War on the Rocks: The United States and Afghanistan before the Soviet Invasion.

First Post reports: Taliban crash wedding to punish those playing music. “Taliban forces arrested 12 youths and publicly shaved their heads, ‘inflicting humiliation and pain in front of their community.’ They were released on bail after four days of detention.”

The Spectator reports: “he SAS blocked UK visas for Afghan special forces soldiers, perhaps fearing that they would be able to produce evidence incriminating the SAS in the shooting of unarmed civilians. That was the striking implication of a BBC Panorama investigation this week – with the Ministry of Defence confirming that it is undertaking a review of 2,000 cases where Afghan applications were blocked by the SAS.”

Recommended Listening: Car Radio by Twenty-One Pilots

Information in the bi-weekly clips can be used for preparing legislative actions, functions, purposes, and responses for potential future enactments in Oregon.

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Had thought to make comments or observations in italics for thought on the legislature, political prisoners, NATO and the white oligarch war expansion, and space weather which impacting all of us. 

However, given the uncertainties in the Oregon Legislative Assembly that has less than two weeks to go we shall wait and see.  And maybe some of the readers can do their own research.

As example research how getting tossed out of office has its advantages: voters tossed the Dutch prime minister out of office so US, UK, France and Germany oligarchs are making him the Secretary of General of NATO's war profiteering.  Money for war but not for bridges or houses or roads in Oregon.    

Government serves Government not the People.  Only you can change it!

Be informed.  Be prepared.  Be ready.

De oppresso liber.

Sincerely,

Brian Boquist

Oregon State Senator

Solar flares knock out communications regularly. NASA. 

 

Information in the bi-weekly clips can be used for preparing legislative actions, functions, purposes, and responses for potential future enactments in Oregon.  This set of clips has had technical issues..