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PART 2: How a city council can disregard citizen input to push through real estate development and more congestion Ron Desantis’ vision of Florida is that the state would have no or few regulations. This has attracted predatory businesses, such as real estate developers, hedge funds, and private equity firms, even as Florida remains…
Part I: How professional real estate developers push large projects through a captive city council Boca Raton, Florida, is being transformed. It is the new home of the nouveau riche, transplants from the north, and an increasing number of predatory capitalist professions. And it is not for the better. Luxury real estate…
Social investing has always been about race. In its original application, which has somehow gotten lost in all the new variations of social investing, now known as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, racial equality was always the underlying engine for change. In its earliest form, which started in the mid-1970s, social investing was an…
The scandals of Kelly Loeffler, the former Georgia U.S. Senator, keep coming. And her continued scandals also (directly and indirectly) involve her husband, Jeff Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Let’s look at the activities of Loeffler first. This time, Loeffler is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Trump scheme…
This was originally posted on Sept. 7, 2023. The dismal result of the 2024 election showed that the Dems are wimps and have flawed messages (defunding the police, emphasizing transsexual bias, immigration policies) that did not energize the Democrats to turn out. Plus, they fielded a weak candidate, Kamala Harris, who spent almost four…
Right-wing Republican Jews have their own agenda in the U.S., but are they exporting money and ultra-conservative support to Israel, too? The political turmoil in Israel is getting a big financial push from wealthy, very conservative, American Jews and political support from most Republican presidential candidates. The level of outright support of right-wing factions in…
July 29, 2024 Israel is in turmoil and the reason is evident. In a single phone call this week, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, lied twice to President Joe Biden. These were big lies Biden was concerned about the reform of the Israeli Supreme Court by Bibi’s right-wing partners and the…
Ban FOX News propaganda. If the US military wants to keep morale high, why is it allowing the openly MAGA FOX propaganda network to be shown to active duty soldiers? FOX is not based on facts, and taxpayer dollars should not be funding a network that wants to overthrow the US government.
DeSantis and his fascist cronies in the Florida state legislature have already implemented actions that would outrage any voter if they were not so preoccupied with job security, paying the bills, and managing the household. If Florida in 2023 indicates a future version of the U.S. under a (god forbid) president…
When Jews create an apparent disgrace to other Jews due to criminal, unethical, or immoral behavior, it has traditionally been termed a “Shanda.”
To live up to the idea that politics today is a “blood sport,” DeSantis has used formal state policies and made decisions that have cost the lives of thousands who succumbed to COVID and COVID-related illnesses.
DeSantis’s Defense of Trump’s Espionage Indictment Endangers Thousands of Florida-based Military For a man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of the U.S. and the man in charge of its military, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is off to a lousy start. Ron DeSantis’ defense of Trump against…
Florida Governor Ron Desants boasts that the state is all about “freedom,” but his version of freedom” is myopic, dangerous, and not in the best interests of average residents. While a recent data analysis by Smart Asset that found residents of Manhattan and San Francisco earning over $650,000 can move to Miami and…
Florida is known for many things ranging from sun and surf to flooded roads during high tides, COVID denial, voter suppression and its biggest flaw: fraud.
It looks like the SEC is finally cracking down on the crypto industry. “The Securities and Exchange Commission widened its sweeping crackdown on crypto by accusing Coinbase Global Inc. of running an illegal exchange, a move that could make it harder for the industry to operate and for US citizens to trade,” according to…
If you are a propagandist and want to instill fear and uncertainty into the masses, you must first create an “enemy” and then make them larger and more dangerous than they are. That’s the case today with most groups and minorities on the Republican’s enemy list. To gin up the hysteria, Republicans and…
After at least four years of funding the Trump administration and Republicans to the tune of over $100 million, the Republican Jewish Coalition is now admitting it made some mistakes. The RJC has found the comments of Congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.), a QAnon supporter and rabid Trump supporter, “indefensible and unacceptable”
Mix some anti-Communist rhetoric, sexual innuendo, and anti-Chinese racism and you have all the ingredients for the Republican attack on TikTok.
One of the essential decisions that the average American should make in 2024 is to protect their financial assets and join a credit union. Credit unions are member-owned non-profits that are locally focused and offer many of the same services that large national banks provide. Because they are non-profits, they share any profits among…
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