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The 2008 numbers voters saw were higher than $30 billion. The business plan behind Proposition 1A put the San Francisco to Anaheim phase at $33.6 billion in 2008 dollars, and the full system including the Sacramento and San Diego legs at about $45 billion.
If anything he is underselling it. The Secretary of State's registration reports put Los Angeles County at roughly a quarter to nearly 30% of all registered voters in California, well above 23%. The county's share of ballots actually counted moves around with turnout, which is where a lower number can come from.
The audit is real but it did not say the money went missing. The State Auditor found California spent about $24 billion over five years and then failed to collect the data needed to show whether any of it worked. That is a tracking failure, not a report of funds disappearing.
The LA City Council approved the Convention Center expansion at $2.6 billion in September 2025, and crews broke ground that October. The number has climbed hard over the years, from $470 million in 2015 to $1.4 billion in 2023, but $5 billion is roughly double the approved figure.
Close, but not an audit. The State Auditor's review went ahead. What Newsom vetoed was follow-up legislation requiring agencies to report each year on how state homelessness programs performed, which passed the legislature without a single no vote. He said similar reporting was already in the works.
The Harris for President committee's own FEC summary shows about $1.175 billion in total disbursements for 2023 to 2024, so the campaign committee itself spent less than the $1.4 billion figure in the claim. The $1.4 billion number reported in November 2024 measured aired political ads by the Harris-Walz campaign together with its Democratic allies, not the campaign's total spending, which is why this differs from the earlier TRUE verdict on the same figure. Falsifier: an FEC filing or audited total showing the Harris campaign committee alone disbursed at least $1.4 billion in the 2024 cycle would make the claim true.
The damage was severe and nowhere near that. Close to a third of California's restaurants shut permanently as the pandemic hit, which matched what the state restaurant association had warned. Losing 70% of Los Angeles restaurants would have been more than double the statewide rate and nothing supports it.
NATO's Secretary General said in June 2022 that China is not an adversary, while calling it a serious challenge, so the claim that NATO classifies China as a high-risk adversary is contradicted. I did not find any NORAD or Five Eyes document that labels China an adversary or high-risk adversary; the Five Eyes material I found warns about Chinese espionage, which is a different thing. Falsifier: an official NATO, NORAD, or Five Eyes document that labels China an adversary or high-risk adversary would overturn this verdict.
The timing lines up, the cause does not follow from it. Sightings took off in June 1947 after pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine objects near Mount Rainier and a reporter turned his description into the phrase flying saucer. Hundreds of reports followed within weeks. That is two years after Trinity, so the nuclear era is the backdrop, but the trigger historians point to is Arnold's story and the coverage of it.
The case is real, the word spy is not the charge. Eileen Wang, mayor of Arcadia, was federally charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China and agreed to plead guilty in May 2026. Prosecutors say she and a co-defendant ran a site posing as local Chinese-American news while taking direction from PRC officials on what to post. That is unregistered foreign agent work and propaganda, not espionage.
Both halves overshoot. State government grew, but unevenly: managers up 32% between 2019 and 2024 against just 4% for rank and file staff, which is not doubling. On population, California did lose close to 600,000 people from its 2020 peak, then started growing again and added more than 100,000 in 2024.
There was nothing for her to veto. The review of LA's homelessness spending was ordered by a federal judge in the LA Alliance case, not requested and blocked at City Hall, and Bass was called into court over its findings rather than being in a position to stop it.
Two things are off, the year and the size of the gap. The Games are 2028, not 2026. LAPD has around 8,600 sworn officers and projects roughly 8,400 by then, against a figure closer to 10,000 the department says it needs. Where half is closer to right is Olympic coverage specifically: the chief's memo says LAPD can supply only about a third of peak staffing for the Games and the rest has to come from outside agencies.
Publicly funded, privately delivered. Canada's Medicare pays the bills through provincial insurance plans, but the doctors and most hospitals are not government owned and physicians largely run their own practices. Socialised medicine usually means the state employs the providers, which is closer to Britain's NHS than to Canada's system.
The story is real, the decade is not. Betty and Barney Hill said they were taken on the night of 19 September 1961, driving home through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. That is the 1960s, and it became the case that set the template for every abduction account that followed.
Thousands is the total, not the habitable slice. Astronomers have confirmed roughly 6,000 exoplanets, and only about 97 of those sit inside the conservative habitable zone of their star. Being in that zone also does not make a planet habitable, it just means liquid water is possible there.
The finger bone came out of Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008, and the DNA work that identified Denisovans as a separate group was published in 2010. Either way that is well over ten years ago.
That is the sequel. In the 1984 film Sarah Connor spends the runtime being hunted and ends it by crushing the Terminator in a hydraulic press. Going after Cyberdyne Systems is the plot of Terminator 2, where she sets out to destroy the company before it can build Skynet.
John Patterson was a real prospector who disappeared in the Nahanni Valley, but the documented year is 1946, not 1939 or 1940. His partner, geologist Frank Henderson, reported him missing after the two failed to meet up near Virginia Falls.
The shape is right, the split is not. An average BUD/S class starts with about 148 candidates, roughly 15% of them officers, so more like 22 officers and 126 enlisted. Across a year the Navy takes about 70 to 80 officers against 700 to 800 enlisted.
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