Bill Rose

The ever-loving search for wisdom, earth-bound.

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Public Banking and Taxing the Wild Frontier: Part Four https://t.co/dSQfs2A9xQ

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@SenecaSpeaks21 Can you tell me why everyday on Bart I get two separate people with clipboards asking for my signature for a $30 an hour minimum wage?

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@catturd2 Maybe he is just going through it, the hard way. Like many of us are.

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@MarioNawfal “Source: Daily Mail” UK

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@mtaibbi Is this what you were/are working on re Minnesota?

[Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary @Minnesota_DHS]

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.

In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.

Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”

As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

@nytimes

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@darlingkillers @MrMatthewTodd It almost makes you want to question for beliefs doesn’t it?

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On Cowboy Bebop: The Movie https://t.co/REiCH3QhpF

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Starship Troopers and Intelligence https://t.co/V4eI7KUzn0

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@ThouArtThat Listen to all ideas and give back reasoned criticism. Everything is permissible, everything deserves to be teased out to its logical conclusion.

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@MarkAmesExiled
Was the book on Gorbachev you recommended on True Anon the Zubok?

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Origins of the Term ‘Nihilism’ https://t.co/fkLYI9wNtw

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Blowback: The 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis https://t.co/pHhu7ncCeq

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Some Thoughts on Gorgias https://t.co/i9xwWN3kyK

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I should go play Majora’s Mask again. What a game.

[Spinoza Quotes @BenedictSpinoza]

The basic purpose of democracy is to keep people rational, as far as possible, in order to live in peace & harmony. (TTP)

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@AE_Robbert Yep that’s a good one.

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@blowbackpod How do I give you money for your work this podcast?

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I pop on twitter to check out what’s happening in Oakland protests, fall down a few rabbit holes, lose two hours of reading time, and remember that twitter is till making people hate each other.

But The Grayzone is still doing great work.

Bye bye!

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@perceptionjam I’d say the Pragmatism consensus that formed in 20th century America played up anti-intellectualism. Plus it was confined to the university and became an easy target.

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Act, Speculate https://t.co/I7JYVBmiq5

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@1Marchella Because your personal experience says it is. You are alive and without it all of the pleasure and pain, tragedy and comedy is gone.