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The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona selected two of my photos for display at the CF Campus this year. Thank you for the opportunity and artist reception this evening, @cfsouthernaz! #southernarizonaartists #southernarizonaart #cfcampus #cfsa #fineartphotographer #fineartphotography #wallart #desertart #SaguaroNationalPark#saguaroart #Tucson #visittucson #Arizona #VisitArizona (at Community Foundation for Southern Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqW-zs9uu1a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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On the ice below, Lan Sizhui pushed up into a sharp toe loop jump, landing light and prescribing a sharp arc on the ice. Even in practice, his expression was set in intense concentration. “He’s good,” Wei Ying mused, arms propped on the railing. “Very good.” “As good as you back in the day?” Wen Ning cocked his head. His cheeks were red from the cold. “Better. He has the focus and the control that I didn’t. I was reckless and I paid the price.” Wei Ying’s mouth twisted in a self-deprecating smirk. For years he’d been haunted by rumors of mental illness, a court case involving his sister’s murder, his swift expulsion from the CFSA… Oh, yes. He’d definitely paid the price, and then some.

A Zhuixian figure skating au that popped into my head :)

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List of cat breeds and which organisations reconize them (Part 1)

Part 1 (A - L) is under the cut!

Notes:

If a breed is listed under a different name I noted it, unless it's a very similar name (Scottish Straight = Scottish Shorthair etc.).

I am not super good at distinguishing variants like European and American burmeses, so I put those that were just labeled "burmese" under unspecified. The same for Bombays and Maine Cats).

Breeds' long- and shorthair versions are listed seperately. However I didn't look up every single standard, just each index, and with some breeds it was not specified if they're recognized as longhaired, shorthaired or both. I've listed those as the most common variant. The same goes for ear types, fur types etc. (I might go through all of the standards some other time)

There are some breeds on here that are considered extinct or dormant but since some organisations still have their standard I've listed them. They're marked with an asterisk.

Words in quotation marks are the words I use if there's no official term for something.

apparently REFR accepts all recognized breeds from all registries plus their own. However they didn't write down all of them nor which breeds were extinct, so if anyone knows the latter feel free to tell me.

Let me know if you spot a mistake somewhere.

Organisations:

FIFe - Fédération Internationale Féline

TICA - The International Cat Association

CFA - Cat Fanciers' Association

WCF - World Cat Federation

GCCF - Governing Council of the Cat Fancy

LOOF - LOOF

NZCF - New Zealand Cat Fancy

CCCA - Co-Ordinating Cat Council of Australia

ACF - Australian Cat Federation

SACC - Southern African Cat Council

FFE - Fédération Féline Française

GCCFV - Governing Council of the Cat Fancy Victoria

FIAF - Federazione Italiana Associazioni Feline

FCCV - Feline Control Council of Victoria Inc

FCCQ - Feline Control Council of Queensland Inc

CFSA - Cat Federation of Southern Africa

ACFA - American Cat Fanciers association

CFF - Cat Fanciers Federation

CCCT Cat Control Council of Tasmania Inc

CATZ Inc - CATZ Inc

CANT - Cat Association of the Northern Territory

CCA/AFC - Canadian Cat Association / Association Féline Canadienne

REFR - Rare and Exotic Feline Registry

Breeds:

Abyssinian

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Aegean

Agia Heleni/Cyprus Short

FIAF (under St. Helen)

Agia Heleni/Cyprus Long

FIAF (under St. Helen)

Alpine Lynx Short

REFR

Alpine Lynx Long

REFR

Altai

American Bobtail Long

LOOF

WCF

CFA

TICA

ACFA

CCA

REFR

American Bobtail Short

LOOF

WCF

CFA

TICA

ACFA

American Curl Short

LOOF

SACC

ACF

CCCA

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

American Curl Long

LOOF

SACC

ACF

CCCA

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

American Curl "Straight" Short

SACC

American Curl "Straight" Long

SACC

American Fold Short

REFR

American Fold Long

REFR

American Straight Short

REFR

American Straight Long

REFR

American Keuda

REFR

American Lynx

REFR

American Polydactyl

REFR

American Ringtail

American Satin

American Shorthair

SACC

LOOF (under american shorthair and wirehair)

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CANT

CCA

REFR

American Polydactyl

REFR

American Wirehair

WCF

LOOF (under american shorthair and wirehair)

CFA

TICA

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CCA

REFR

Anatoli

WCF

FIAF

Aphrodite's Giant Short

ACF

WCF

TICA

FIAF

ACFA

Aphrodite's Giant Long

AFC

WCF

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

ACFA

CANT

Arabian Mau

WCF

FIAF

Arctic Curl

Asian Short

SACC

LOOF

GCCF

FIAF

CFSA

CATZ

REFR

Australian Mist

ACF

CCCA

GCCF

WCF

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

REFR

Aztec

GCCF

CATZ (under Jungala)

REFR (under Jungala)

Azul Cubano

Bahraini/Dilmun

Balinese

SACC

LOOF (under Balinese & Mandarin)

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF (under Siamese LH)

CFA

TICA

FIFe

GCCFV

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Bambino

FIAF

CFSA

CATZ

REFR

Bambino Curl

REFR

Bambob

REFR

Bengal

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

FCCQ

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Bengal Fold

Birman Long

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

FIAF

FCCQ

CFSA

ACFA

FCCV

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Bohemia Rex

FIAF

Bombay (unspecified)

SACC

LOOF (under Bombay & US Burmese)

ACF

CCCA

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe (provisional)

GCCFV

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

CATZ

CCA

REFR

Bombay American

FCCV

CCCT

CANT

Bombay Australian

FCCV

CCCT

Bombay UK

Bombay Long

FIAF

Bramble

REFR

Brasilian Shorthair

WCF

FIAF

REFR

Bristol

REFR

British Short

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

FCCQ

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

British Long

SACC

LOOF

GCCF

WCF

TICA

FIFe

CFSA

ACFA

REFR

British Ice Longhair

REFR

British Ice Shorthair

REFR

Burmese (unspecified)

SACC

NZCF

FIFe

TICA

GCCF

FFF

FCCQ

CFSA

CFF

CATZ

CCA

REFR

Burmese American

LOOF (under Bombay & US Burmese)

ACF

CCCA

WCF

CFA

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CCCT

CANT

Burmese European

LOOF

WCF

CCCA

ACF

CFA

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CFF (under Foreign Burmese)

CCCT

CANT

CCA (under Foreign Burmese)

Burmilla Short

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

CFA

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Burmilla Long

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

CFA

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

ACFA

CANT

Californian Rex

LOOF (under Cornish Rex)

California Spangled*

FIAF

REFR

California Toyger

REFR

Caracat

Caravannah

Cashmere

NZCF

WCF

TICA

FIAF

Celeste Short

LOOF (provisional)

Celeste Long

LOOF (provisional)

Celtic Fold

CATZ

Ceylon

LOOF

WCF

FIAF

Chantilly-Tiffany

CCA (experimental)

Chartreux

LOOF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

CCA

REFR

Chausie

LOOF (provisional)

WCF

TICA

FIAF

REFR

Cheetoh

FIAF

CATZ

Chinchilla Longhair

SACC

CFSA

Chinchilla Shorthair

Chinese Harlequin*

REFR

Chinese Tank Cat

REFR

Clippercat Short

FIAF

Clippercat Long

FIAF

CATZ

Colorpoint Shorthair

CFA

CATZ

CCA

REFR

Copper

REFR

Cornish Rex

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

FIAF

FCCV

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Curly Tail Cat

REFR

Cymric

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA (under Manx LH)

NZCF

WCF

CFA (under Manx)

TICA

FIFe

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV (under Manx SH & LH)

ACFA

CFF

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Devon Rex Short

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCA

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Devon Rex Long

NZCF

Desert Lynx

REFR

Donskoy/Don Sphynx

SACC

LOOF

WCF

TICA

FIFe

CFSA

CFF

CCA

REFR

Dossow

REFR

Dwelf

CFSA

REFR

Egyptian Mau

SACC (provisional)

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Elf Cat

FIAF

REFR

European Shorthair

LOOF

WCF (under Celtic/ESH)

FIFe

FIAF

ACFA

Exotic Short

LOOF

SACC

CCCA

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFFGCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

FCCQ

CFSA

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Exotic Long

CFA

ACFA

CFF

Fleecy Cloud

Foldex

CCA

REFR

Foreign White Short

ACF

CCCA

WCF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

CATZ

CANT

Foreign White Long

ACF

CCCA

WCF

GCCFV

FIAF

FIAF

CANT

Gaelic Fold

CATZ

Gao Taem

REFR

Genetta

REFR

German Longhair

WCF

FIAF

REFR

German Rex

LOOF

WCF

FIFe

FIAF

Habari

Havana Brown/Suffolk Chocolate

GCCF (under Suffolk)

LOOF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

CCA

REFR

Hemingway Curl

REFR

Hibernian Lynx

REFR

Highlander Long

TICA (provisional)

ACFA

REFR

Highlander Short

TICA (provisional)

ACFA

Highland Lynx

REFR

Himalayan

WCF (under Persian/Himalayan)

TICA

CFSA (under Colorpoint)

ACFA

CFF

CATZ

CCA

REFR

Himalayan (Non-Pointed)

CCA

Isle of Man Shorthair

NZCF

Isle of Man Longhair

NZCF

Jaguarette

REFR

Jaguarundi Curl

REFR

Jambi

Japanese Bobtail Short

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CANT

CCA

REFR

Japanese Bobtail Long

LOOF

SACC

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

GCCFV

FIAF

ACFA

CANT

Javanese

ACF (under OLH)

NZCF

GCCFV (under OLH)

CFSA

CANT (under OLH)

REFR

Poljun

Junglebob

REFR

Jungle Curl

REFR

Jungle Lynx

REFR

Kanaani

WCF

FIAF

Karelian Bobtail Long

WCF

FIAF

Karelian Bobtail Short

WCF

FIAF

Keetso

Khao Manee

WCF

CFA

TICA

ACFA

CCA

REFR

Kinkalow

REFR

Korat

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

FFF

GCCFV

FIAF

FCCV

ACFA

CFF

CCCT

CATZ

CANT

CCA

REFR

Korn Ja

Kucing Malaysia

Kurilian Bobtail Long

LOOF

WCF

TICA

FIFe

FFF

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

CCA

Kurilian Bobtail Short

LOOF

WCF

TICA

FIFe

FIAF

ACFA

CFF

Lambkin Long

FIAF

CATZ

REFR

Lambkin Short

FIAF

CATZ

LaPerm Long

SACC

LOOF

ACF

CCCA

NZCF

GCCF

WCF

CFA

TICA

FIFe

GCCFV

FIAF

CFSA

CATZ

CANT

[kp777]

By Julia Conley

Common Dreams

Aug. 9, 2023

"These lawmakers," said one advocate, "should answer to their constituents why they'd rather represent their industry donors at the expense of everyday families."

Residents of U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry's home state of North Carolina won back more than $24 million from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Civil Penalty Fund between 2012 and 2022—but that hasn't stopped the Republican lawmaker from spearheading an effort to significantly weaken the agency.

Government watchdog Accountable.US on Wednesday released a report detailing the money that the CFPB's Civil Penalty Fund, which compensates victims of misconduct by financial companies, has returned to the constituents of Republican lawmakers who are intent on attacking the agency—as well as the donations those same politicians have taken from the industry the CFPB regulates.

"Republicans in Congress should be celebrating the fact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recouped billions of dollars for families who've been ripped off by bad actors in the financial industry," said Liz Zelnick, director of Accountable.US' Economic Security & Corporate Power program. "Instead, many Republicans are rooting for efforts to defund and defang the nation's top consumer advocate."

The group's report shows that in 10 states including North Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina, and Michigan, constituents have been awarded compensation totaling more than $240 million from the CFPB's fund.

In North Carolina, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis has joined McHenry in attacking the CFPB, accusing the bureau of "undertaking a name-and-shame campaign to coerce banks who were following the established prudential standards for the crime of listening to their previous federal regulators."

Judging from his attacks on the CFPB, said Accountable.US, Tillis "would prefer if tens of thousands of North Carolinians were vulnerable to scams from the likes of predatory lenders and greedy big banks."

Both lawmakers were among those who signed an amicus brief in support of a federal lawsuit brought by the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), a group that represents the predatory payday lending industry, which aims to strike down the bureau's funding structure through the Federal Reserve. The group and a number of Republicans have claimed the CFPB should be funded through appropriations passed by Congress.

The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case when it reconvenes in October.

Accountable.US found that in the 10 states in its report, the Republicans who signed the amicus brief have received more than $51 million from people and political action committees affiliated with financial companies regulated by the CFPB.

McHenry has taken more than $5.4 million from the industry, while Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has received more than $4.8 million. Scott has denounced the bureau as "an agency that lacks transparency and seeks to operate beyond its jurisdiction."

Other lawmakers featured in the group's report include Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who has taken more than $315,000 from the industry and has called the CFPB a "rogue organization" that "ought to be zeroed out"; Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), who has repeatedly proposed legislation to gut the agency and has taken $3.9 million from the industry; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who told a group of lobbyists in 2017 that he would overturn a CFPB rule preventing bans on class-action lawsuits against Wall Street companies. McConnell has taken more than $9.2 million from the industry during his career.

"The CFPB helped put money back into the pockets of over 27,000 Kentuckians," said Accountable.US, "but McConnell would rather represent his industry donors in Senate at their expense."

The agency has returned nearly $20 million to Michigan residents, $45.7 million to New Yorkers, and $28.2 million to Pennsylvanians—but Republican lawmakers who represent those states have also signed the amicus brief in the CFSA case and have collectively taken millions of dollars from the industry the CFPB is tasked with regulating.

Read more.

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Kapolda Bali Hadiri Prosesi Penganugrahan Gelar Kehormatan Kepada KSAU

Bali, (HD) Kapolda Bali Irjen. Pol. Drs. I.B Kade Putra Narendra,S.I.K.,M.Si., menghadiri penganugerahan gelar kehormatan Ksatria Padma Dirgantara kepada Kepala Staf Angkatan Udara, Marsekal TNI Fadjar Prasetyo,S.E.,M.P.P.,CFSA dari Puri Blahbatuh,  Jumat (25/8/2023).  Prosesi sakralnya dilaksanakan di Puri Ageng Blahbatuh, Kecamatan Blahbatuh, Gianyar diawali penyematan Pin Ksatria Padma…

[actu24hp]

La Cour fédérale statue que les frais de scolarité ne doivent pas être payés pour les demandes de permis d’études

Publié le 18 février 2023 à 07h00 HNE L’aide financière occupe une place importante dans le paysage de l’éducation postsecondaire au Canada. En fait, l’aide financière joue un rôle si important dans l’éducation postsecondaire que Emploi et Développement social Canada (EDSC) publie un rapport détaillant les efforts et les résultats du Aide financière canadienne aux étudiants (CFSA) chaque…

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3 Common Reasons Why Your Cash till payday loans Isn't Working (And How To Fix It)

If you have an account at your regional cooperative credit union, individual loans through these loan providers are frequently the most cost effective options. Their rate of interest are low for their union members, and their goal is to help their members with the finest funds offered. If you are trying to find something like a personal loan with a longer repayment term than a payday loan, there are online lending institutions readily available simply link online payday loan providers.

If your credit is fair or less, then you might consider getting someone with great credit to assist you at your regional bank as a co-signer. This individual will bring obligation for your financial obligation need to you decide not to make payments. Their signature, however, offers you access to much lower rates than a payday loan option.

You need to completely evaluate your monetary scenario before accepting a loan that might possibly concern your debt even more. If you discover that you require some monetary support, however you are not comfortable with a payday loan, choose another choice that will help you with your situation and not bury you under your financial resources.

Taub develops the deals and IP, while supervising all aspects of the company. He also has actually orchestrated the business's earned media across the brand names Loanry, Cashry, Debtry, Budgetry, Billry, Taxry and more. This includes over 500 publications that have actually been included across the web.

According to a survey by Bankrate, roughly 25% of Americans live income to paycheck. The cash they make simply barely covers their everyday costs, with little or nothing left over for emergency situations. If you're in this scenario, any unexpected expenditure such as a $300 automobile repair work can trigger a financial crisis.

You can walk into one of the countless payday lending workplaces throughout the country and leave half an hour later on with $300 in your hand to pay that repair costs. Then, on your next payday, you can come back in to pay back that $300 plus another $45 or so in interest.

And so before the month is out, you might discover yourself returning for another loan to cover the costs you can no longer pay for to pay. Before long, you end up allured in an ongoing cycle of debt, going from loan to loan, while the interest payments stack up higher and higher.

Many customers can't break free of this cycle without taking severe steps. They slash their budget plans, borrow from family and friends, pawn their belongings, or secure a different kind of loan. These are all steps they might have taken to prevent getting the payday loan in the very first place, conserving themselves all that interest.

Even when you absolutely require some additional cash to make it through the month, there's usually a better method of getting it than turning to a payday loan shark. Payday financing is an industry. The Neighborhood Financial Providers Payday Loans Cash Association of America (CFSA) boasts more than 20,000 member places more than either Starbucks or McDonald's.

Payday loans get their name due to the fact that they normally come due on the customer's next payday. They're different from routine bank loans in several ways:. In most states where payday loans are legal, there's a limitation on just how much you can borrow by doing this. This cap ranges from $300 to $1,000, with $500 being the most common amount.

A payday loan is supposed to be paid back when you get your next paycheck. In many cases, this means the loan term is two weeks, though it can often be as long as a month. With a typical bank loan, you repay the cash bit by bit, in installations.

However with a payday loan, you need to pay back the entire amount interest and principal at one time. For a customer on a tight budget plan, this is frequently impossible. When you borrow cash from a bank, the interest you pay depends on your credit score and the kind of loan you're getting.

By contrast, someone with bad credit securing an unsecured personal loan would pay 25% or more. However payday loans charge all borrowers the very same rate normally around $15 per $100 borrowed. So, for example, if you obtain $500, you pay $75 in interest. That does not sound so bad up until you keep in mind that the loan term is just two weeks.

Banks check your credit before giving you a loan to determine just how much to charge you. If your credit is truly poor, you most likely can't get a loan at all. However you don't require good credit or any credit to get a payday loan. All you need is a savings account, evidence of income (such as a pay stub), and an ID that reveals you're at least 18 years of ages.

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Denied Medical Services at Howard Hospital in NW DC. The security claim I was a problem to them all night... This is how we get In and this is what we do to target our own people.

Denial of Services and resources while federal government target Jakia Carroll as a child molester after Ms. Carroll has spent the last few years fighting for the sexual abuse and soliciting of Shanya M. Hill in Woobridge VA. Valerie Wenhold assisted and documented the family involvement in PWC VA Courts to target the same family assisting them. If this was not a threat to children I would laugh.

PWC VA Federal Informants started a Hate Crime to Target Jakia Carroll as a Predator and Snitch. Demetrius Perkins, Andre Hines, Christopher Stanley, Andrew Armstrong, Tania Carroll-Majors and other family members involved in informing based on their crimes and not to serve time. While Jakia Carroll is reporting hate crimes the government Agencies is the key in the crimes to target Jakia Carroll Children.

Valerie Wenhold ensured the family was involved with Shanya while in Custody and stated in the court report of knowledge of the family soliciting the child.

Shanya was living with Rhonda Brundage when she was assisted with a sexual abuse story which Shanya did not tell none of the prior police when she called them not to get her butt whooped. Shanya spoke with police alone and the concluded she was a spoiled child and ungrateful. Tyeesha was there pretending to support Jakia Carroll May 5, 2014. Over a year later after Shanya is living in Rhonda Brundage home then there is an sexual abuse to child involving entire family. Shanya accuses Timothy Armstead of sexual abuse prior to custody and was living at Betty Betts home due to Timothy Armstead her Grandfather offering her marijuana for sex. Kirre Carroll and Angela Nelson did there best to protect child and move her away from Timothy Armstead home. Andre Hines is an Federal Informant involved in trafficking children including Shanya. Jakia Carroll was denied assistance on Federal and State Probation. Completed state probation and released from federal probation three years early.

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List of organisations:

ACA - American Cat Association

ACAG - Asociación Cubana de Aficionados a los Gatos

ACF - Australian Cat Federation

ACFA - American Cat Fanciers association

ARBC - Associaton of Rare Breeds of Cats

ASFE - Asociación Felina Española

CANT - Cat Association of the Northern Territory

CATZ Inc - CATZ Inc

CCA/AFC - Canadian Cat Association / Association Féline Canadienne

CCCA - Co-Ordinating Cat Council of Australia

CCCT Cat Control Council of Tasmania Inc

CFA - Cat Fanciers' Association

CFF - Cat Fanciers Federation

CFSA - Cat Federation of Southern Africa

CSBPA - Cat Society of Bahrain and Pet Animals

FCCQ - Feline Control Council of Queensland Inc

FCCV - Feline Control Council of Victoria Inc

FIAF - Federazione Italiana Associazioni Feline

FFE - Fédération Féline Française

FIFe - Fédération Internationale Féline

GCCF - Governing Council of the Cat Fancy

GCCFV - Governing Council of the Cat Fancy Victoria

LCWW - Loving Cats WorldWide

LOOF - ?

NZCF - New Zealand Cat Fancy

REFR - Rare and Exotic Feline Registry

SACC - Southern African Cat Council

TCA - Traditional Cat Association

TICA - The International Cat Association

WCF - World Cat Federation

[kp777]

By Thom Hartmann

Common Dreams

October 5, 2023

It's time to raise some serious hell if we want to protect Social Security, Medicare, and the planet itself from these corrupt right-wing jurists.

Republicans are “this close” — just a matter of months away — from ending Social Security, a goal they’ve worked toward ever since 1935. They’re hoping to use six Republicans on a corrupted Supreme Court to get there.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse points out, in his book The Schemeand his YouTube series about same, that American oligarchs launched a campaign to seize control of the Supreme Court — and, thus, the American government — over 40 years ago and they’re now close to their goal of turning America back to the 1920s.

Recently we learned from ProPublica reporting that Clarence Thomas has been the featured attraction at several multi-million-dollar fundraising events put on by the Koch brothers to marshal resources that could apparently be used, in part, to bring cases before the Supreme Court. In previous years, the late Antonin Scalia often joined him at these events.

Now that the billionaires have succeeded in packing the Court with six hard-right justices who are perfectly willing to ignore federal law about ethics on federal courts and enthusiastic to dance to their benefactors’ tunes, we’re getting close to the point that David Koch envisioned in 1980 when he ran for Vice President on the Libertarian ticket.

His platform was clear, calling for the end of the EPA and other regulatory agencies, and the privatization of the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, libraries, and all the nation’s roads and rivers, among other things.

Now, with two cases that the six corrupt Republicans on the Court will be hearing this fall, David could be getting his wish.

The first is Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association (CFPB v CFSA), which could lead to a shutdown of not just the CFPB but Social Security and Medicare as well. All three of those programs are funded on an “open ended” basis without specific annual appropriations that mention how long they may exist or exactly how much money they can or must spend.

This is called “nondiscretionary spending” because these programs were designed by Congress as a permanent part of the American governmental landscape. Their funding legislation sets up perpetual and specific funds with specific funding mechanisms — the Social Security and Medicare funds are paid for by the FICA tax, and the Federal Reserve funds the CFPB — so they won’t be political footballs when it comes time for annual appropriations.

There’s also the problem that Medicare and Social Security have no way of knowing the exact dollar amounts they’ll spend each year; they can’t predict who’s going to get sick when, or who’s going to die or become disabled. (This is true for most federal agencies, which is why this lawsuit could also shut down everything from the USDA to the FDA to the EPA.)

The plaintiffs in CFPB v CFSA argue that the provision of the Constitution that lets Congress set up agencies and fund them requires that Congress also set specific lifetimes and exact specific annual funding levels for all agencies. This is based on Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution, which says:

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”

Nowhere, of course, does the Constitution say that agencies that don’t have specific lifetimes or specific annual budgets are outlawed. The idea is, on its face, bizarre. But the Fifth Circuit of Appeals has already ruled — in the CFPB v CFSA case which the Supreme Court will hear this fall — that that’s exactly what the Constitution says.

As legal scholar and author Ian Millhiser notes over at Vox:

“If taken seriously, moreover, this argument would invalidate most federal spending, and it would make it impossible for benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare to even exist.”

If the six Republican justices rule the way the oligarchs who support their extravagant lifestyles want, America could be a very, very different place in just a few years.

Similarly, the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, could end most of the regulatory agencies that big polluters like the fossil fuel industry and the billionaires it’s made hate.

As Senators Whitehouse, Hirono, Feinstein, and Warren noted:

“This case is the product of a decades-long effort by pro-corporate interests to eviscerate the federal government's regulatory apparatus, to the detriment of the American people.”

So, how could the Supreme Court put the EPA and other regulatory agencies out of business?

It has to do with something called the Chevron deference, a policy established by the Court decades ago to protect just such agencies.

Here’s how regulatory law — using the example of the EPA and CO2 — is supposed to work (in super-simplified form):

1. Congress passes a law that says, for example, that the Environmental Protection Agency should limit the damage that pollutants in the environment cause to the planet. Congress (the Constitution’s Article I branch of government) defines the broad goal of the legislation, but the Executive Branch (Article II, which encompasses the EPA and other regulatory agencies) has the responsibility to carry it out.

2. The EPA, part of that Executive Branch and answering both to the law and the President, then convenes panels of experts. They spend a year or more doing an exhaustive, deep dive into the science, coming up with dozens or even hundreds of suggestions to limit atmospheric CO2, ranging from rules on how much emission cars can expel to drilling and refining processes that may leak CO2 or methane (which degrades into CO2), etc.

3. The experts’ suggestions are then run past a panel of rule-making bureaucrats and hired-gun rule-making experts for the EPA to decide what the standards should be. They take into consideration the current abilities of industry and the costs versus the benefits of various rules, among other things.

4. After they’ve come up with those tentative regulations, they submit them for public review and hearings. When that process is done and a consensus is achieved, they make them into official EPA rules, publish them, enforce them, and the CO2 emissions begin to drop.

This is how it worked with regard to CO2 until June of last year, a process that simply comports with common sense, as the Supreme Court ruled in 1984 when they established the Chevron deference to legitimize and defend our regulatory agencies.

That doctrine — articulated by the Supreme Court and reflecting a century of the will of Congress and presidents of both parties who signed regulatory agencies into existence — says that once a regulatory agency does its due diligence and determines reasonable rules for a substance or behavior, they then have the legal authority to regulate and the courts should defer to the agency.

Congress passes laws that empower regulatory agencies to solve problems, the agencies figure out how to do that and put the rules into place, and the solutions get enforced by the agencies. And when somebody sues to overturn the rules, if the courts determine they were arrived at through a reasonable process without corruption, those rules stand.

Then came a group of rightwing Supreme Court justices — including Neil Gorsuch — who overturned rules made by the EPA about CO2 emissions from power plants in their June, 2022 West Virginia v EPA decision, taking the first big bite out of the Chevron deference.

Their rationale was that because the legislation that created the EPA doesn’t specifically mention “regulating CO2,” the agency lacks that power. And now it has lost that power, the result of that West Virginia v EPA decision last year.

The coal-, oil-, and natural-gas industries have been popping champagne corks for over a year now, as CO2 levels continue to increase along with the temperature of our planet and the violence of our weather.

In addition to Gorsuch, the Court’s decision-makers in West Virginia v EPA included Amy Coney Barrett whose father was a lawyer for Shell Oil for decades, and John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh who are all on the Court in part because of support from a network funded by fossil fuel billionaires and their industry (among others) that brought that case and are now bringing Loper v Raimondo.

And, of course, there’s Clarence “on the take” Thomas, who supported the Chevron deference 15 years ago but, since being wined and dined by rightwing billionaires, in 2020 wrote:

“Chevron compels judges to abdicate the judicial power without constitutional sanction. … Chevron also gives federal agencies unconstitutional power.”

Giving us a clue to how this will probably go down, all six Republicans on the Court voted to gut the EPA’s ability to regulate CO2; all 3 Democratic appointees opposed the decision.

Elena Kagan wrote that the Court:

“[D]oes not have a clue about how to address climate change...yet it appoints itself, instead of congress or the expert agency...the decision-maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”

Their ruling was, essentially, that all of that research into the specifics of anticipated regulations — all those hundreds of scientists, millions of public comments, and hundreds of thousands of science-hours invested in understanding problems and coming up with workable solutions — must be done by Congress rather than administrative regulatory agencies.

As if Congress had the time and staff. As if Congress was stocked with scientific experts, a much larger budget, and had millions of hours a year for hearings. As if Republicans in the pockets of fossil fuel billionaires wouldn’t block any congressional action even if it did.

Republicans on the Supreme Court succeeded in dancing to the tune of the billionaire’s fossil fuel network in the West Virginia v EPA case, but it was narrowly focused on CO2.

In the upcoming Loper v Raimondo case they’ll hear this fall, however, the Court is explicitly preparing to expand that victory by blowing the entire Chevron deference out of the water, thus ending or severely limiting most protective government regulations in America and opening the door to court challenges to every regulatory agency established since the first decades of the 20th century.

They’re saying, essentially, that the EPA (and any other regulatory agency) can’t do all the steps listed above: instead, that detailed and time-consuming analysis of a problem, developing specific solutions, and writing specific rules has to be done, they say, by Congress itself.

A Congress where arcane rules and gerrymandering have given Republicans the ability to block pretty much any legislation their billionaire patrons pay them to block.

All of this adds to the urgency of removing Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito — corrupt members who have benefited to the tune of millions from their billionaire patrons — from the Court as soon as possible. Or at least diluting their influence.

Democrats were happy to speak out when Al Franken was accused of a tasteless joke, being photographed with his hands a half-foot above the breasts of a faux-sleeping colleague, but seem paralyzed by the naked corruption going on with this Court.

It’s time to raise some serious hell, and Dick Durbin’s Senate Judiciary Committee is the logical place to start with subpoenas of the three mentioned above to bare their corruption to the American people. If you agree, you can find Durbin’s phone numbers and addresses here and a list of the Committee’s members here.

Every day that goes by without these corrupt judges resigning or at least recusing themselves from these vital cases — because of public outrage and congressional pressure — is another day closer to the end of the functional America we’ve all grown to know and love.

And that includes Social Security, Medicare, and the other programs Republicans are gleefully expecting the Supreme Court to rule unconstitutional with these cases in the upcoming months…

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The club for super awesome sims probably wanted to meet one more time before Stella’s birthday.. They’ll probably try to come up with a better name once most of them are teens.