Money is really none of the three things we are taught. It’s not a commodity, it’s not a medium of exchange, and it’s not a store of value. It’s an IOU. We issue IOUs to each other for the services we will provide in the future or goods we will produce. The scam is that …
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Hunter Biden was already under FBI investigation during the 2020 Election, when the NY Post revealed his laptop full of incriminating information he’d failed to pick up from a repair shop. In fact, The FBI were the first ones to receive the laptop from the shop owner. But, All they did with it was warn …
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Everyone knows Matt Gaetz is accused of having sex with a minor and possibly “trafficking” her (flying her to another state with the understanding she would do sex work once there). What not everyone knows is once Gaetz and his father were approached by several men in 2021 with a bizarre offer: if they could …
By the time you read this the Austin City Council will have voted on, and most likely passed, the HOME Phase 2 Ordinance, greatly reducing minimum lot sizes across the city. While most of the commentary in the past week has centered on what the effects of this new Ordinance might be on the community, …
§.175.10 appears to be about business records that are false in a monetary sense, rather than in a mislabeled sense, and which further a financial fraud, not an election fraud. This becomes more obvious when you go back and read §.175.05, falsifying business records in the second degree, the prerequisite for §.175.10, falsifying business records …
I’m personally indifferent to the policy impact of the HOME Ordinance and HOME Phase 2 Ordinance. However, it strikes me that there currently exists a failure to communicate between Texas Courts’ recent rulings in the Acuna v City of Austin lawsuit, and the City’s interpretations of those rulings. There seems to be a state of …
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IS THERE REALLY A “BUT FOR” TEST IN THE TIRZ LAW? The forthcoming ruling in Bill Bunch’s South Central Waterfront TIRZ lawsuit, which could come down any day now, promises to be a watershed moment for the political struggle over the last few years between the emerging New Austin and the Old. Bill Bunch has …
The City once asked Texas Courts if a HOME Phase 2 Ordinance was legal; they never received a response.https://ombudsman4truth.home.blog/2024/05/16/the-city-once-asked-texas-courts-if-a-home-phase-2-ordinance-was-legal-they-never-received-a-response/ Does Texas Law Ever Allow a Code Rewrite?https://ombudsman4truth.home.blog/2024/04/10/is-the-city-of-austin-following-the-law/ Did Doug Becker outsmart himself in zoning fight?https://ombudsman4truth.home.blog/2023/12/21/did-doug-becker-outsmart-himself-in-zoning-fight/ Did the City just admit the HOME Ordinance is illegal?https://ombudsman4truth.home.blog/2024/01/30/did-the-city-just-admit-the-home-ordinance-is-illegal/
In December of 2022 the Austin City Council established the SCWF-TIRZ, a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone covering the abandoned Austin American-Statesman lot and other contiguous properties. This would save the developer Endeavor an estimated $500M in infrastructure costs. In exchange, Endeavor is planning to build a sparkling new south bank downtown, which the City highly …
Several quotes from a presentation by a city attorney to the City Council, as transcribed in this article from the Austin Monitor, appear to indirectly suggest that the correct procedure was not followed in passing the HOME Ordinance. In her presentation about re-adopting three ordinances that were recently struck down by a state judge, the …
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