DIY: Snowmen Crafts

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It’s going to be a long winter, but we can still have fun creating crafty things!  I found some adorable and easy to make Snowman crafts!

Fabric Snowman

This fabric Snowman is made by making 3 fabric balls—similar to the fabric pumpkins detailed in October.  Make three sizes and stack and glue together.  The hat is made with cardboard and felt.  The eyes and smile can either be buttons or felt.  Add an orange carrot nose, branches for the arms and whatever you like for the scarf and hatband.

Light Bulb Snowman

This guy is super simple.  Paint the light bulb white, with black details and an orange nose.  Paint the top (hat) blue.  The scarf and mittens are blue felt.  Add a string to hang it, some glitter to add pizzazz and a cotton ball pompom for the hat and you’re done! (You will have to purchase the snowflake though.)

Mason Jar Snowman

You can use Mason jar for a lot of craft ideas!  This is another super simple idea.  Simply paint, add a small orange wood chip (felt would also work) nose and a scrap of fabric for the scarf.  Some buttons finish this little guy!

This mason jar version has even less details and is all paint!

Log Snowman

The log snowman takes a little painting, but only AFTER you get someone to cut you the exact sized pieces you need. Glue the pieces together, paint, and add ribbon… super easy!

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      1. i remember in school we had to pass…what was it called? the presidential something or other. you had to do so many push ups, sit ups, and run a mile…long time ago…but still you HAD to do it or flunk

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            1. Not like we had it – in the gym with gym suits and actual exercises – IIRC, it was twice a week but that was such a long time ago. But they have volleyball, basketball, softball, the usual playground equipment – stuff like that instead.

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  19. didn’t see THIS coming…
    entire article
    HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania—Come January in Harrisburg, there are two constants: The annual Farm Show will be better than it was the year before—it always is—and swearing-in for the new two-year legislative session is guaranteed to be packed with drama. 

    Last Tuesday was no exception when the state House, which was supposed to vote for the new speaker at noon, was halted by the chief clerk. Members, their families and the press were left wondering how this divided body was going to be able to fulfill its obligation to elect a speaker to serve as their chamber’s presiding officer.

    Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Millersville University, said the drama centers on two things: “The November elections were really close with the Democrats flipping 12 seats to take over the majority; however, that became complicated because one of the Democrats who won, Representative Tony DeLuca, died a few weeks before the election, and two of the other Democrats who won, Summer Lee and Austin Davis, resigned, with Lee heading off to Congress and Davis winning as lieutenant governor,” he explained.

    Both Lee and Davis sought their state House seats, and won them, as well as the congressional and lieutenant governor’s offices they ran and won, which makes the margin now 101-99 for the Republicans; once the special elections are held for the DeLuca, Lee and Davis seats, all overwhelmingly Democratic, the Democrats will have the majority, a situation that likely won’t happen until May.

    For now, it is the Republicans who have the majority of the Pennsylvania state House. Six months from now, it will likely swing back to Democratic control, hence the drama. 

    At the beginning of the last session, there was also drama, only this time in the Senate chamber when that chaotic first day of the session saw GOP lawmakers pass a resolution to remove then-Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) as president of the chamber. 

    Madonna said he is not surprised that there was drama Tuesday. “No one really expected the Democrats to win the majority in the state House including Democrats, but the redistricting that occurred after the 2020 census gave them more opportunity to win more seats. We have an almost unprecedented number of newly elected members, 50, who won their seats because of Republican members who decided not to run after their seats became much more Democratic,” he said. 

    The day ended up surprising everyone when state Rep. Jim Gregory (R) of Blair County nominated state Rep. Mark Rozzi (D) of Berks County to be the speaker. The move was seconded by another Republican, Tim O’Neal of Washington County, who said, “We need an independent voice and an independent mind.” 

    State House Majority Leader Joanna McClinton (D) agreed to support him, and within short order, Rozzi was elected speaker of the Pennsylvania state House. 

    Rozzi then proceeded to flip from Democrat to independent in his acceptance speech. “I am sure a lot of you didn’t see this coming today,” he said, then began discussing the importance of the independent voter in American politics owing to their putting “their fellow man first,” he said. 

    Rozzi then dropped the bomb no one saw coming that he was no longer going to be a Democrat, adding that he would not caucus with either party and would have staff from both parties. 

    State House Rep. Rob Mercuri, an Allegheny County Republican who was in the room when it happened, said it was a move no one saw coming. “It was a surprise result to be sure, but if Mr. Rozzi holds to his newly claimed independent status, this could be both an historic and welcome development for both my constituents in District 28 as well as citizens across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania who are looking for a bipartisan approach to our most pressing issues,” he said. 

    “Now it’s time to get to work on solving these issues together,” he said. 

    State Senator Devlin Robinson (R) said when the special elections are finished, the partisan count will be 101-101-1, reflective of how divided the state is. As for the drama, he laughs, “Just when you thought you’ve seen it all.”

    https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/10/pennsylvania-democrats-upended-as-house-speaker-flips-to-independent/

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  20. american thinker article discusses obummer’s choice in the latest ultra maggot screw up. he can say he gave UM permission to take the classified documents–which exonerates REALPOTUS–a PRESIDENT has ultimate declass authority–or let UM FRY for this–as dems were calling for REALPOTUS’S execution, remember???
    FTA
    This is because the president—and only the president—has what’s called “plenary” power over national security matters, including document classification and de-classification. The Supreme Court articulated what’s currently the last and best word on the subject in Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), a case examining whether a civil service board could review someone’s being denied a national security clearance, a power it came to via a congressional act.

    The Supreme Court gave an unequivocal “no,” based in part on the fact that the executive office is the final word on classification:

    The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U. S. 886, 367 U. S. 890 (1961).

    Now you can see the Hobson’s choice Obama is being forced to make. As I noted, the uncontested facts show that Joe Biden violated national security laws and, worse, put those same documents in an unsecured environment to which the Chinese had access. When they learned that Trump had documents in the Secret Service-secured environment of Mar-a-Lago, Dems thought execution was too good for him. I guess that’s the appropriate punishment for Biden, too, given that he committed the crime years before he gained the White House.

    There is only one way to say that Biden is innocent, and that is for Obama to announce, “I told Joe he could take the documents.” However, if Obama makes that announcement, he has conceded, and all the Dems will be forced to concede, that a president can declassify documents simply by walking them out of the White House or authorizing someone else to do so.

    In other words, to exonerate Biden, Obama must also exonerate Trump from the disgraceful, deeply (criminally?) dishonest charge leveled against Trump. I get a real kick imagining Obama sitting in the lavishly decorated office of one of his three luxury homes, cursing to himself that you can always trust Joe Biden to “F” things up.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/biden_just_put_obama_in_a_delightfully_serious_bind.html

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  23. Joe Fine
    Joe Fine
    January 11, 2023 8:49 am

    Where’s the outrage over Biden’s Holocaust gaffe?

    The president compared illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims, but the millions of economic migrants crossing the US southern border are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.

    And the fact that the Jewish left, which is quick to cry foul whenever anyone on the right makes an inappropriate Holocaust comparison, perpetuates these outrageous assertions is more than hypocritical. It serves to skew the discussion about an important subject and diminish the uniqueness and importance of the Shoah.

    The facts about what is happening at the border need to be both understood and placed in the context of contemporary issues, not those of the last century.

    Opposition to illegal immigration and a belief that stopping it is a political priority is not tantamount to racism or a repudiation of a desire to welcome legal immigrants. But a situation in which economic migrants aren’t required to follow the rules that legal immigrants observe means the end of the rule of law. That so many are now making unjustified asylum claims when few of them are in genuine fear for their lives at home further illustrates just how easy the broken system is to game.

    https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/wheres-the-outrage-over-bidens-holocaust-gaffe/

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  31. I just noticed that all the food is gone from LM’s dish – I just don’t know who ate it….hmmm….he did show some of the neighbor cats how to get on the patio last summer – the doggie door is still open – and I suppose it could be mice. But it was almost full so….we’ll see! I’m not putting more out – he’ll have to come to the door and ask for it.

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  33. “We Now Have Key Evidence Pfizer Committed Fraud — What Pfizer claimed is in the vaccines is not what’s there.”

    A Midwestern Doctor
    18 hr ago

    EXCERPT: “In the previous article I asked if anyone had experience evaluating western blots. This was because, last week, while investigating one of the central questions we’ve had about the vaccines, we inadvertently discovered something highly suggestive of fraud.

    Fraud is a huge allegation to put forward, so since that time we did our best to vet the discovery and sent it out to independent parties who could validate it prior to publishing. Based on the feedback we have received since publishing this, there is a chance one of my key allegations is false (that the image being a digital straight line means it was not representative of the actual proteins present) as there was an additional approach to evaluating this we were not aware of at the time of publication. I still believe the central allegation (that the vaccines do not contain what was advertised) holds true and is critically important to understand. At this point in time we do not presently have the information to determine if the numerous suspicious characteristics we specifically identified in Pfizer’s western blots could be explained by anything besides fraud and eagerly invite any clarifications on this issue.

    Legal Priorities

    One of the things that is less appreciated about governance is that governments will never have the resources to address every single problem that arises in their territory. Because of this, governments inevitably prioritize addressing problems which would otherwise cause them to lose money, and will prioritize protecting the (typically financial) interests of the upper class who support government officials (e.g., by paying for their election).

    This has lead to the curious phenomena whereby there are much harsher penalties for institutional level fraud than there are for an institution harming members of the general public. For example, as I have tried to show throughout this Substack, pharmaceutical companies frequently commit egregious harm against consumers and clinical trial participants, but in spite of this, most of our institutions will refuse to prosecute them for this conduct. Conversely, one of my friends who is a paralegal in the industry has told me that pharmaceutical companies have to be honest with their investors, or they can and will be sued for financial fraud. For this reason, you can get typically get the most accurate information on their products by reviewing what pharmaceutical companies share with their investors.”

    https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/we-now-have-definitive-proof-pfizer

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  34. j x
    January 11, 2023 9:56 am
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    REWIND:AG Garland cited Trump’s entry into race & his boss Biden’s plan to run again as reasons for naming special counsel to investigate Trump. He’s now got a more direct conflict probing Biden for same thing, yet he’s not naming special counsel for him?https://t.co/CZy5yKglDc

    — Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 11, 2023

    Garland cited Trump’s entry into race & his boss Biden’s plan to run again as reasons for naming special counsel to investigate Trump.

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  36. Chris Martin
    January 11, 2023 9:59 am

    A bold-faced liar; caught on tape.

    Joe Biden stored top-secret files with the “sensitive compartment information” (SCIF) designation at Penn Biden Center in DC. This is not fake news; it is accurate, and it is a federal crime.

    Joe Biden, in 2018, told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he no longer has access to classified information like he once did as Vice President.

    “I don’t have access to classified information anymore,” Joe Biden, sitting in his private office at the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were just found and reported on, said to Andrea Mitchell in February 2018.

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  38. 01/10/23 • BIG TECH • BIG PHARMA

    “Breaking: Landmark Lawsuit Slaps Legacy Media With Antitrust, First Amendment Claims for Censoring COVID-Related Content”

    “A lawsuit filed today by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and multiple other plaintiffs, alleges the Trusted News Initiative, a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, partnered with Big Tech firms to collectively censor online news.”

    EXCERPT: “In a live interview this evening on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief litigation counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), announced that he and several other plaintiffs filed a groundbreaking novel lawsuit making antitrust and constitutional claims against legacy media outlets.

    The lawsuit targets the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, including the BBC, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and The Washington Post — all of which are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

    Filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas-Amarillo Division, the lawsuit alleges these outlets partnered with several Big Tech firms to “collectively censor online news,” including stories about COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. presidential election that were not aligned with official narratives regarding those issues.

    Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include CHD, Kennedy, Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines), independent journalist Ben Swann, Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ben Tapper, a chiropractor.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lawsuit-trusted-news-initiative-antitrust-first-amendment-censoring-covid-content/

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  41. “The House Rules: Which Matter, Which Don’t — A Free Beacon guide to the new House rules package getting lots of attention”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “The House of Representatives on Monday evening passed a much-discussed rules package, which was the subject of extensive negotiation between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) and the GOP holdouts who eventually helped to elevate him. But which of these rules will matter in practice? Which are merely symbolic? Below, a guide to the new House rules package and what you really need to know.

    Adding to the confusion, though, is that there’s still a lot we don’t know about the scope of the concessions McCarthy made during the negotiations that eventually led to his election as speaker, including deals on key committee chairmanships. Already, we learned on Monday that House Freedom Caucus member Mark Green (R., Tenn.) nudged out McCarthy ally Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) for chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee.

    • What was promised to the right flank of the GOP conference by way of policy concessions in exchange for their vote to increase the debt ceiling

    • Whether McCarthy made promises to dole out subcommittee gavels to his opponents

    • Whether McCarthy agreed to widen the aperture of the party’s oversight agenda

    Background: Any rule can be waived by the majority. So the rules are less of a binding requirement and more a reflection of the House majority at any given time, which can override them at will.

    1. The motion to vacate: In theory, this rule change makes it easier for McCarthy’s detractors to challenge him by allowing a single member to call for a vote of no confidence in the speaker. McCarthy’s GOP challengers succeeded in extracting from him a concession to lower the threshold for calling such a vote from five members to just one. But any detractor would still need at least five members who want to get rid of McCarthy for a no-confidence vote to succeed.

    In reality, this rule allows a small group of lawmakers to gum up the works and apply public pressure on McCarthy, but the threat is likely worse than the reality. Why? McCarthy’s right-wing challengers, who are the most likely to use it, would still need a majority of House lawmakers to succeed. That would almost certainly require them to team up with Democrats to remove McCarthy.

    2. The Rules Committee seats: McCarthy ceded three out of nine seats on this key committee to the Freedom Caucus and its allies, handing the conservative faction of the GOP conference more power to decide which bills make it to the House floor for a vote. But the Freedom Caucus has shown it isn’t monolithic in opposing House leadership, and it includes strong McCarthy backers such as Reps. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.). While the three conservative members of the Rules Committee could band together with Democrats to block legislation from reaching the floor, the concession could also backfire on the HFC by forcing other Republican members to negotiate with Democrats to move legislation forward.

    That said, as Yuval Levin has noted, the Rules Committee is typically “tightly controlled by the majority party, and in recent decades it has been very tightly controlled by the speaker.” That won’t be the case now. Handing three of the nine GOP committee seats to House Freedom Caucus members is “an enormous and highly significant concession and one with real consequences for the operation of the House,” Levin writes.

    The committee is chaired by Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.), a McCarthy loyalist.

    3. Allowing members 72 hours to review bills before moving them to the floor: This will slow down the legislative process. Republicans have long complained about the way in which former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) pushed through votes without giving members sufficient time to read legislation—”we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it”—so this rule change is aimed at addressing that gripe. Like other rules, it can be waived by a majority, so if the conference wants a faster vote, it can get a faster vote.

    4. Spending: McCarthy agreed to rules that affect both mandatory and discretionary spending.

    a. Mandatory spending increases must be balanced by spending cuts, not tax hikes. Again, the right flank in the House would likely object to mandatory spending increases anyway, even if this rule wasn’t in place. This rule just codifies it. And if need be, the rule can be waived by majority.
    b. Discretionary spending is capped at FY2022 levels, in an attempt to undo the spending increases included in the 2023 omnibus bill that passed in December. But defense spending makes up half of discretionary spending, and GOP hawks are voicing concern that this will require deep cuts in defense spending.

    5. Open amendment process on appropriations bills: This will allow bills to come to the floor under so-called open rules: Every member can offer amendments. That’s a change from recent practice, when allowable amendments were narrow in scope, particularly on must-pass bills. This will slow down the legislative process, and with such a slim GOP majority, McCarthy will face challenges and demands from all sides to get bills passed. That said, he would face those challenges regardless of the amendment process.

    6. Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government operates under House Judiciary Committee: The concern among some Republicans was that a new, high-profile select committee would overshadow other serious oversight efforts by the House. Instead, the right flank of the GOP got a subcommittee chaired by Jordan. This subcommittee will have subpoena power, but it will operate under the jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee, also chaired by Jordan, giving it a narrower mandate.”

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  42. “New York’s Dem Governor Fails To Avert Nurses’ Strike as Thousands Walk Out on Job”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “More than 7,000 nurses are striking in New York City after Democratic governor Kathy Hochul failed to facilitate a deal between the nursing union and city hospitals. After negotiations stalled over pay and understaffing concerns, nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan began to strike Monday morning. Hochul, whose office has worked to broker a deal, on Sunday night called for “binding arbitration” to avert the walk-off—an effort that ultimately failed.

    “We have been working tirelessly with our partners in New York City to broker negotiations between the nurses and affected hospitals,” Hochul said.

    To handle the staff shortages, the two facilities have been forced to transfer patients, reschedule operations, and divert ambulances to other hospitals. Montefiore Medical Center said that the strikes mark “a sad day for New York City.” “We remain committed to seamless and compassionate care, recognizing that the union leadership’s decision will spark fear and uncertainty across our community,” the hospital said in a statement.

    New York State Nurses Association, which is organizing the strike, said Hochul “should listen to frontline COVID nurse heroes.” “Bosses have pushed us to strike by refusing to seriously consider our proposals to address the desperate crisis of unsafe staffing that harms our patients,” the union said in a statement.”

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  43. “This Prestigious Harvard Fellowship Bans White Applicants — As the university defends its affirmative action program before the Supreme Court, it is not shying away from discriminatory programs”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FreeBeacon: “Ever since it was dragged before the Supreme Court over its affirmative action policies, Harvard University has insisted that it does not discriminate based on race. But the school appears to be running an internship that prohibits whites from applying.

    McLean Hospital, which describes itself as the “largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School,” has since 2021 hosted a paid research program for “Black, Indigenous, and underrepresented people of color,” according to the hospital’s website. The 10-week internship offers participants a $7,000 stipend and places them in prestigious labs.

    The internship may ramp up legal scrutiny on America’s oldest Ivy, which, alongside the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, is battling a high-profile lawsuit from Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit opposed to affirmative action. That scrutiny hasn’t stopped either school from promoting discriminatory programs: UNC Chapel Hill has at least five scholarships, fellowships, and other initiatives that are available only to minorities; a sixth initiative, exclusively for “BIPOC” students, was made available to all races following a discrimination complaint.

    Lawyers say that these programs violate civil rights law and demonstrate just how committed universities are to racial preferences. “UNC and Harvard have been doubling down on Ibram Kendi-style ‘you have to be racist to be anti-racist’ programming,” said Ilya Shapiro, the director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. “Not only are these clear-cut legal violations, but it’s not a good look as the Supreme Court scrutinizes the use of racial preferences in admissions.”

    The McLean internship likely violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866—now codified as section 1981 in the United States legal code—which bans race discrimination in contracting, according to Jonathan Berry, a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates, and Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil Rights Project. It may also violate Title VI, which bans race discrimination by federally funded entities, Morenoff said.

    Though Harvard states on its website that it “does not own or operate” its teaching hospitals, it does appear to be operating this program. The internship’s director, Oluwarotimi Folorunso, and its principal investigator, Elena Chartoff, both hold posts at Harvard Medical School, and McLean’s website directs questions about the program to a Harvard.edu email address. “At a minimum, it looks like Harvard is facilitating McLean’s race-based system,” Berry said. The fact that Harvard employees run the program, he added, “increases the likelihood Harvard would be liable alongside McLean” in the event of a lawsuit.

    Harvard and McLean did not respond to requests for comment.

    Though universities are currently allowed to use race as a “plus factor” in admissions, that could soon change. Students for Fair Admissions is asking the Supreme Court to outlaw affirmative action entirely, arguing that it violates Title VI and—when done by public universities—the 14th Amendment as well. The Court’s conservative justices have repeatedly expressed sympathy for that argument. A ruling in the case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, is expected later this year.”

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  47. ron to the rescue moves to ban chinese purchase of land and infrastructure
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    It isn’t often I’d applaud an American leader following the lead of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but in this case, I’ll make an exception.

    On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave the first news conference of his second gubernatorial term. Speaking from Coconut Jack’s Waterfront Grille in Bonita Springs, Florida, DeSantis addressed the importance of “protecting Florida,” outlining the state’s plans for environmental conservation.

    Gov. DeSantis Unveils the Future of Conservation in Florida https://t.co/NojvKw7MZH

    — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 10, 2023

    Expressing a desire “to leave Florida to God better than we found it,” DeSantis signed an executive order aimed at the following:

    Pledging $3.5 billion over four years for conservation
    Directs DEP to identify and prioritize strategies to expedite water quality restoration in Indian River Lagoon
    Directs DEP to work with legislature on expanding wastewater grant program, to include non-point sources and agriculture runoff
    Directs South Florida Water Management District to expedite Everglades restoration projects, including those that reduce risk of harmful discharges

    In addition to the conservation efforts, DeSantis addressed the recent trend of Chinese investors “gobbling up land” in the Sunshine State. He noted the Marxist, Leninist turn of Xi Jinping during his tenure as CCP President, and expressed a desire to prevent China’s purchase of both farmland and residential property. Per WFLA:

    “Obviously if someone comes in and buys, it’s not the CCP that’s signing this, these are holding companies and all that,” DeSantis said. “But yes, we do not need to have CCP influence in Florida’s economy,” noting that Florida had banned the Confucius Institute from Florida colleges and universities to avoid its influence, and that there needed to be a structure to block it.

    “They’ve used those Confucius Institutes across the country to bring propaganda, as if universities don’t have enough problems already,” DeSantis said. “We’ve also done things to limit their ability to fund research in our universities, I think we’re going to go further than that, the legislature only went so far a couple of years ago. I think there’s an appetite to do even more,” saying that their influence was “insidious” and mentioning how Disney and other entertainment companies and even Wall Street would change things and policies to placate the CCP.

    We’ve addressed the Chinese purchase of farmland in the U.S. previously. As Mike Miller noted in July:

    Deborah J. Comstock, who describes herself as “a girl farmer” — she actually is a farmer — wrote in a 2020 op-ed for the Ionia Sentinel-Standard:

    The goal of China’s Communist Party authorities suggest specific strategies to invest in agriculture overseas and to gain greater control over oilseed and grain products, to create policies to support facilities, equipment and inputs for agricultural production, and to create large multinational grain-trading conglomerates.

    The revenues from these productions do not pass through the American commodities markets but, rather, flow through the foreign entities’ own distribution channels, directly to the home country.

    This. Is. Insane. While Communist China’s ownership of farmland in America is a small part of total U.S. farmland of roughly 900 million acres, it is an increasing trend by the ChiComs. Shocked? Me, neither. So the question begs to be screamed:

    Why are we selling ANY American land OR industry to CHINA?

    Incredulously, as the “girl farmer” explained, many states have no regulations to stop such sales.

    DeSantis appears to see the big picture, observing: “It’s a larger issue. It’s just one, I think we’re a big fish now, I think we have the 13th biggest economy in the world, if we were our own country in Florida, you know, we’re a force to be reckoned with.” Acknowledging the dangers of remaining overly intertwined with China economically, DeSantis said, “It hurts our economy and it hurts our security.”

    DeSantis added: “When COVID hit, people needed all these supplies; I think like 100 percent of it was made in China. Why would you want to rely on a hostile nation for things that are integral for our quality of life and security?”

    How does Justin Trudeau figure into this conversation? As noted by the Daily Mail, Canada has moved to ban foreign investors in real estate:

    Earlier this year, Trudeau banned foreign investors from buying homes in the country as means to cool down their overheated housing market. Most of Canada’s foreign investors are from China and India. The ban came into effect on January 1.

    Trudeau implemented the ban after immigrants pushed up property prices up 38 percent. Census data released in October revealed immigrants now make up 23 percent of the population, with most coming from Asia – causing many industry experts to posit that there is a connection.

    It isn’t just Canada that’s taken note of the land gobbling, either.

    The Florida governor shares similar views to countries, such as New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, which have imposed taxes on foreigner buyers purchasing property.

    New Zealand, where Chinese investment has been blamed for a huge spike in home property prices, now charges a 15 percent tax to non-resident buyers.

    Australia imposes a 12.6 percent tax on any foreign buyer purchasing a home valued higher than $750,000 and have been since 2017. And in Canada, the government takes 50 percent of any sale as a withholding tax.

    The US, however, does not impose tax restraints on foreign buyers, according to the Wharton Business Journal of UPenn.

    Perhaps this latest move by Ron DeSantis will start a trend in that direction. At a minimum, it draws some well-warranted attention to the issue.

    https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/01/11/ron-desantis-puts-the-kibosh-on-chinese-investors-purchasing-property-in-florida-n686803

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