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  1. Metropolitan real estate/buildings are drags on the ledger these days. Everywhere, particularly in NYC. The developers/real estate moguls are desperate. Which says something about the failures of their minion, the mayor of NYC, Eric Adams. Who, btw, got hit again, with a sexual assault charge. This one from way back when he was a honcho in the NYC police dept.
  2. Only because Orban, Putin and the Saudis bail him out. We all know the collateral they will receive in return from Our Country.
  3. Someone, not me, Elsewhere says, "... where I'm familiar with legal practice (a west coast state that doesn't border on another country), it's advisable to recite, in detail, the "diligent efforts" that were used to try to secure a bond. That is, naming the bonding agencies that you contacted, what they said, and why you couldn't meet their requirements for a bond. It can be rather humiliating for a wealthy judgment debtor to explain, chapter and verse, why he ain't got the dough he publicly brags about having."
  4. Sez sumpin' sumpin' about sumpin' that his SIL isn't just loaning him the half bill out of his own 2 bill fortune, thanx to Saudi.
  5. Except this particular sum is a court judgment, not owed to a creditor, a bank, not even a law firm. So much of what you say isn't necessarily applicable.
  6. Street protests in Cuba because of lack of power and food. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68595885 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/cuba-hundreds-protest-long-blackouts-tight-economy Developments Under the Headlines in the Israel-Hamas War https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/developments-under-the-headlines-in-the-israel-hamas-war
  7. Gambia May Overturn Landmark Ban on Female Genital Cutting If lawmakers in the West African country vote to repeal a 2015 ban, Gambia would become the first nation to roll back protections against the practice. Shared/Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/world/africa/gambia-female-genital-cutting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.0Lfq.tbCyG8aBUOsa&smid=url-share
  8. How many dogs have government jobs? What about sea lions? Share/Gift link: https://wapo.st/3VlwpnU
  9. And also talkin' bout these ain't the 60's anymore so don't bother recalling what happened then, well, golly gee, there are those who do recall and do see repetition -- the January issue of The Nation was a lot more interesting and worth perusing than most issues of The Nation are these days. Among the most valuable pieces was Palestine Is In Asia by Viet Thanh Nguyen: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-asia-orientalism-expansive-solidarity/
  10. So much foreign money going into the xtian fascist dominionists with the objective of taking over the USA. Not only Putin. Lookin' at Orban. March 17, 2024 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON MAR 18, 2024 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-17-2024? "Michel noted that it was “nothing short of shocking” that Orbán declined to meet with administration officials and instead went to Washington, D.C., to meet with a right-wing think tank. With Roberts’s appointment as head of Heritage in 2021, the conservative organization swung to the position that its role is “institutionalizing Trumpism.” " "In the January interview, Roberts told Garcia-Navarro that Project 2025 was designed to jump-start a right-wing takeover of the government. “[T]he Trump administration, with the best of intentions, simply got a slow start,” Roberts said. “And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.”"
  11. Not to mention those, who like the Gracchi, were done away with, who saw what was happening, particularly the foundational sector of Roman society that made it so successful in war and peace. The independent small farmer - land holder, who had received the land for being the army, and his sons after him, were, like the entire rural regions of small freeholder farmers, were gone, replaced by slaves who literally were worked to death, as there were so many slaves from the wars, it was cheap to do so. That entire rural population was hollowed out by a few very wealthy people who had gotten around the strictures of only so much land could be the property of a single man. As well they were able now to get hold of the public lands that were to go for farms to retired soldiers and those who returned from campaigns. And now those people were in the cities, impoverished and desperate. Rome was a pretty ugly place. Alas, it looks so familiar to our contemporary eyes now ....
  12. 3 Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68484524
  13. Being a part of the EU helps all the countries in it, from what I've seen, and that includes France as well as Portugal, Slovakia, Ireland etc. As far as Spain goes, we were in 6 cities, one of them twice. We had to spend some time in the parts of cities like Granada and Sevilla which are the contemporary, non-tourist, medieval cities, and those were equally spotless. The highways were in perfect maintenance, well as the bridges. The truck stops terrific. The trains great, as well as the connections and transport to and through the airports to get to where one needed to be. What then did get kind of messy though, is boarding, at least for Iberia, which airline seems not to be working so well. It can't be that it doesn't have money because the flights are always fully booked.
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