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Trump Continues Climate Change Denial, Issuing Wacky Threats Against Science

A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five report outright.

The Enron echo

The money is tied up in off-balance-sheet vehicles, the same kind of structure Enron used to hide debt before it collapsed 25 years ago. Back then it was fraud. Now, tightened rules and fuller disclosures make it legal.

The tools are still there, though. “Enron’s crime wasn’t having special purpose vehicles,” analyst Gil Luria told Bloomberg Law. “Enron’s crime was hiding them.”

There’s no equally good VPN company, by a wide margin.

This guy’s a rich “libertarian anarchist” who donated to the new party of a marxist he followed because he wants lower taxes and less immigration.

I don’t really even know what to make of that. Unlike the Proton guy who slobbered on the demented rapist’s bunghole, which I knew exactly what to make of it.

Per his blog he’s a “libertarian anarchist”.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Financial Times reports that the billionaires who left the state last year, seemingly for the express purpose of not having their assets taxed, will more than likely be subject to “an intrusive residency audit to test whether they still have to pay the 5 percent levy” should the ballot measure pass. As the paper notes, “California has a history of aggressively pursuing individuals it claims are still resident for tax purposes” and is absolutely not going to just accept a house deed as proof. Instead, an investigation “can involve checking ownership of property and where a taxpayer’s children are enrolled in school, but also where their cars are registered, where they have a doctor, vet and bank accounts, and whether they left items of sentimental value in California,” and the California’s Franchise Tax Board examines if a taxpayer “substantially severed his California connections upon his departure or whether he maintained his California connections in readiness for his return,” per its handbook.

Lifelog!

Privacy advocates and lawmakers worried the program would be used for reasons other than tracking troop locations. How long until all American lives were logged and analyzed?

Roughly ten years.

IT never unionized.

Whoops.

Why not fine them a sandwich