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MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARK LEVINE LIES ABOUT WHAT LIFTING THE CAP WILL MEAN
Another captured politician doing the bidding of the developers and Wall Street, lying about who benefits from lifting the cap on residential construction. It sure isn’t NYC residents who need affordable housing. Affordable housing will actually take a hit, because … Continue reading
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NYC DOESN’T HAVE 12 MILLION RESIDENTS & NEVER WILL
One of the transparently fraudulent arguments used by the developers and their stooges in public office is that NYC must plan to house 12,000,000 residents, even though our population is 6 million and falling–and it will continue to fall, as … Continue reading
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WILL HOCHUL & ADAMS SUCEED IN DESTROYING NYC?
Lifting all caps on residential development in NYC will render our city unviable and increasingly unlivable. Our elected officials and their paymasters in the development community are again plying their insidious “affordable housing” hustle to justify a winner-take-all pillage of … Continue reading
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RELUCTANTLY RENEWED MY NYT SUBSCRIPTION
Despite their news division’s abhorrent attempt to ensure Trump returns to the White House.
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TRUMP MAKES IT OFFICIAL
He’s declared war on the United States, and he wants us all to make him Commander-in-Chief.
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MARIA BARTIROMO DOESN’T LIKE THAT AMERICANS HAVE JOBS
In her latest Orwellian blast at America, she questions whether the robust employment numbers are actually a good thing. Why didn’t Fox fire Bartiromo, even after she cost them millions in defamation damages? The very wealthy, self-styled fishwife did as much … Continue reading
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PROOF THAT TRUMP & JUDGE CANNON ARE WORKING IN TANDEM
Trump belches more attacks at Jack Smith, this time for exposing the delay & dismiss game that Judge Cannon is playing, devised undoubtedly by her and Trump’s attorneys. This is the caliber of judge that Trump, McConnell, and the GOP-at- … Continue reading
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GW BUSH’S MORONIC, INSOLENT FACE
confronts us again in all his perverse duplicity via newsreel footage in Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets. His lies and posturing were almost as grotesque as Trump’s. The corporate media fell right into line, functioning for a time practically as a propaganda … Continue reading
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YES, I THINK I’LL KEEP THAT
A handwritten note to me, postmarked August 10, 1978, from Sir Cecil Beaton: “Tallulah was such a difficult woman to know & liked to put on a different act each time.”
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LOU GOSSETT HAD SUCH CHARM AND WARMTH
I didn’t know him, don’t know what he was “really” like, but when I called him cold and said I wanted to interview him about Diana Sands, and he said, “It would be my pleasure. . .,” well, you knew why … Continue reading
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