Without the “right” leaders in Lauderhill, the City could become like Opa-Locka, Detroit, Mich, orBaltimore.
Like a swarm of poisonous bees drawn to a honeycomb, so is the pile of candidates vying for a seat on the City of Lauderhill Commission. The word is out that Developers are eyeing vast open lands or Golf Courses to build high rise apartment complexes. To carry out their scheme of ghettoizing another section of the city into a more concrete jungle, Developers need to have the “right” people in place. They need the most gullible, unsuspecting, cash-strapped, and unscrupulous asses in the seats of the Commission.
Thebest candidates for Lauderhill Commission now but will need monitoring while in office (seats #1 #2 and#3)
The monthly car allowance for Lauderhill Commissioners is over a thousand dollars, in addition to their annual salary. This monthly Mercedes Benz stipend is more than enough to draw a hungry batch to seek election — some with not the best of intentions. It was just six years ago that sister city Tamarac Commissioners got caught up in a developers’ land deal scandal. Developers Bruce and Shawn Chait bribed several City of Tamarac Commissioners to vote in favor of zoning golf courses to turn them into concrete structures or covering the land with cement. The earth is saying, “I can’t breathe.”
It’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff: You decide
The November 03, 2020 election has brought out a host of political piranhas trying to get a slice of the pie without any regard for the residents and the city’s well-being. And most of them aren’t qualified to run anything other than their mouths, let alone the business of a community that could slip into a ghetto-hood if voters aren’t vigilant and careful of who they select to represent their best interest in local government.
The Chaits in Court: Five Years Probation for bribing Tamarac Commissioners
Seat #1 up for grabs, which will be vacated (November 3rd, 2021) by Howard Berger due to term limits. Berger has been in and out of office since he was First Elected: March 1984. He’s been a Lauderhill Resident: Since 1978. The candidates running to replace Berger are:
Candidate Kelvin G. Haynes – QUALIFIED. The two-year incumbent Richard Campbell is the most qualified, at this time, to sit in the seat. Dunn’s platform is mostly rooted in a feminist agenda and does not seek to serve all the city residents — male and female. That strategy is an old Donald Trump strategy that appeals to a narrow segment of the constituents. Lauderhill’s current demographics stand at about forty thousand females and about thirty thousand thousand males. Come November 3; it is time for the residents of Lauderhill to separate the wheat from the chaff.
With the 2020 Presidential election and the most crucial down-ballot elections in 200 years just four days away, the American people are choosing between two ideologies at the voting booths — one of hate and the other of inclusion. The Republican party has now wrapped itself in a cloak of hate and bigotry that hasn’t manifested itself so openly since the Civil War. The Grand Ol’ Party (GOP) led by a Gov. George Wallace-styled New Yorker (Donald J. Trump and his family) and an old relic of Robert E. Lee — Mitchell McConnell.
A Korean-american cult led by a foul beast, Hyung Jin Moon — members wear crowns made of bullets
Subtleties aside, the year 2020 will give us a clear vision of the path the United States of America wants to travel.
As tension, hate, and violence grow throughout cities and provinces in Donald J. Trump America, the President continues his reckless bus tour going from state to state — inciting violence. The Americans who are preparing to wreak havoc on their fellow Americans aren’t just the Proud Boys that Trump told to stand by — just if they’re needed to start the engine that would bring this American-style Democracy to an end and introduce a prolonged Mad Max way of living.
Also waiting in the wings on standby are myriads of hyper-rightwingers that are plotting to carry out predatory violence upon a sheep-minded flook of liberals. Then there is the Unification Church founded by Sun Myung Moon. Moon is now deceased, but his vile and despicable son, Hyung Jin Moon, runs a splintered version of the cult, and he’s more rabid than Kim Jung Un of North Korea. This Pennsylvania-based World War and “Unification” Sanctuary of hate have thousands of members of this vile cult openly plotting to murder Americans should Trump lose his bid for a second term as President.
Trump standing with one of the reasons why Mitch McConnell kneels before — his wife is in his pay
On Thursday, in Tampa, Florida, while delivering a speech to hundreds of Right-wingers, the President made veiled threats against a battalion of First Responders who were there to help keep his followers safe. “Who are they, are they friend or foe?” the paranoid president asked, the riled up agitated sect. Trump also made veiled threats against Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania as he has done against Gov. Whitmer of Michigan.
The one gets when they are in over their head but is too scared to admit
America is more armed than any other time in history, and it’s at a stage where the left is right, and the right is dead wrong. Donald Trump has managed to single handily — while aided and abetted by greedy, unscrupulous politicians and bigots — turn America and its ideals upside down.
People on both sides of the political spectrum are shouting at each other, trying to drown others’ voices. And no one is willing to listen to what his/her neighbor has to say. Under Donald J. Trump, the United States of America is likened to men made drunk on the whiskey of de-civilization. There isn’t any good that can come from these drunken public brawls taking place in America’s cities and sideshows perpetrated by ringmaster politicians such Mitchell McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and the rest of the crew of unscrupulous sideliner pitchmen.
The Politics of COVID-19: The President’s invisible wall used to lock Americans out.
The land border closure between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico was set to expire this month, but officials have announced an extension of this policy until at least November. It could last even longer as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the U.S., and both border countries have criticized the pandemic response in the U.S.
“To continue to limit the spread of COVID, the U.S., Mexico, & Canada will extend the restrictions on non-essential travel through Nov 21,” Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a Tweet on Monday. “We are working closely with Mexico & Canada to identify safe criteria to ease the restrictions in the future & support our border communities.”
It cuts both ways. The wall keeps them out and keeps us into our own country
Bill Blair, Canada’s public safety minister, said on Twitter all decisions “will continue to be based on the best public health advice available to keep Canadians safe.”
The borders between the U.S. and its neighbors to the north and south have been closed since March 18, with authorities extending the expiration date each month. According to the Canada Border Services Agency, Americans can pass through Canada on their way to and from Alaska, but some have used this “loophole” to stay in Canada. Those caught have been issued expensive fines. Exceptions to the rule include people traveling for trade purposes and Americans returning to the U.S., and Canadians returning to Canada.
It is not fair that the President should be behind bars
Although the border closure is now set to expire on Nov. 21, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an interview last week that it could last longer.
“The recommendation is to avoid non-essential travel, and that’s for people’s own safety. I know there’s a lot of people anxious about what’s happening south of the border in Florida, in Arizona, in California, and other places where the virus is not under control—far less under control than we are here,” he said.
“We keep extending the border closures because the United States is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders,” he added. “We will continue to make sure that Canadian safety is top of mind when we move forward. We see the cases in the United States and elsewhere around the world, and we need to continue to keep these border controls in place.”
Will, the upcoming Presidential election save the US?
Buffeted by rioters, looters and peaceful protesters on one side, and brutal goon-like police officers on the other side and, a wild-eyed militant President above hovering over them all with threats of martial law — who is aided and abetted by a warped minded Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who longs for the good old days of Bull Connor and Robert E. Lee — Americans teeter on the edge of an apocalypse. It’s an undercurrent.
With just fourteen days away from the most critical presidential election since the inception of the Republic of the United States of America, there is a venomous undertow that threatens to suck the American Democracy out to sea. In the absence of leadership, morass has formed, and a host of diverse hooligans and demagogues have stepped into the gully of slime to fill the void.
These Boys Are Proud to be Proud
The current President of the United States is hell-bent on demonizing Black and Latino Americans and stoking most white Americans’ fears. He has employed the old divide and conquers strategy with hopes of siphoning off enough Black votes while harnessing enough angry white Americans to push him back into the White House for four more years of wilding out.
At a time in history when the person in the largest Bully Pulpit with the loudest megaphone in America is running from town to town, state to state yelling fire in every crowded theater that will allow a Reality Show B-list actor into the building — with the sole purpose of riling up unintelligent mercenaries with stockpiles of military-grade weaponry as well as a wide swath of cheap college “educated” women who have become mesmerized with their brand of a White Knight in shining armor or the last great white hope to save them from a gang of M-13 raping Mexicans and Black drug dealers.
President unjustly links Ted’s father to President Kennedy but he’s not related to Fidel or Raul Castro
The President has managed to draw once “neutral” minded people (with less publicly manifested hate for people of color) into his web of hate and deception. People such as; the Lil’ forked tongue Marco Rubios, Lindsey Graham, Rick Sanitarium, Christopher Christie, Rafael “Ted” Cruz, the junior Senator from Texas whose father Trump claims had a hand in the assassination of President Kennedy. These are an example of a school of politicians who have all cozied up to the President for a piece of steak, a hamburger, a glass of wine, or just for the fun of kissing the President’s golden ring that he wears on his naked backside. And the list goes on with those who many believe has sold their souls and America down the drain for 30-pieces of silver — such as the likes of Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee.
President’s Proud Boys Momentof Denial
Will the 2020 elections bring some relief from the onslaught of masks wearing Jessie James who have plundered the Treasury and have ruined the lives of so many Americans who once placed their trust in them? It’s time to vote the cowards out of office.
Although Europe still has a ban on tourists from the U.S. and other countries with high counts of coronavirus, leaders are moving forward with a plan to implement extra requirements for travelers headed to the region.
The new travel authorization system is set to be introduced by 2022, requiring visitors from outside the European Schengen Zone to register online before visiting. Initially, the system was set to roll out in 2021, but now it appears the new requirement won’t be fully operational until the end of 2022, Lonely Planet reports.
When the new authorization scheme was first announced in 2019, it set off alarms in the travel community as reports referred to the system as a “visa.” The European Commission quickly clarified that more than 60 countries currently having visa-free access to the European Union would continue to enjoy this privilege.
However, what will change is that non-EU visitors will need to complete an additional step before preparing to travel. According to Lonely Planet, visitors from these countries—including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and the UK—will need to apply online through the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS). The system will work similarly to the US ESTA, which conducts a quick, automated security check on visitors before allowing them entry.
An estimated 95% of people will be approved within minutes, while 3-4% may need a little longer to process. The remaining 1-2% of applicants will be forwarded for a longer, manual review, at which point they may be rejected. For those who are approved, their ETIAS will be valid for three years.
Airlines will check passports for ETIAS authorization before boarding. If you somehow reach a border check without authorization, you will be denied entry. What may confuse travelers is that the ETIAS will not be required for every EU country, but only for those within the Schengen Area. European Union countries that do not fall within Schengen include Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, and Romania.
A European Commission spokesperson told SchengenVisaInfo that the new system will be fully functional by the end of 2022 but won’t be mandatory until six months after that. The Commission also says that the system was designed to improve security.
Beam me up Scotty: Star Trek’s Tech becomes a new norm.
The list of countries reopening to tourists continues to grow, but many would-be travelers are still hesitant to hop on a plane. For those craving some globetrotting without the risk, Amazon has launched a new platform with virtual travel experiences they can enjoy from the comfort of their home.
In its beta testing phase, Amazon Explore allows users to virtually tour a 500-year-old mansion in Peru or a Buddhist temple in Japan. They can learn to make authentic Montreal-style bagels, take a walking tour through Prague’s cobblestone streets, or attend an Argentine wine tasting. Italian food is also on the menu with a virtual carbonara cooking class.
San José, Escazú, CR
If you prefer to learn about coffee production in Costa Rica, gaze at architecture in Slovenia, or pick up a few Cantonese words from the street signs of Hong Kong, there are experiences for that, too.
According to TechCrunch, the new Amazon Explore platform already includes 86 experiences in 16 countries, and the company promises to continue expanding.
Most experiences are currently managed by tour operators who made the pivot to offering virtual experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. Individuals, however, are also invited to apply to the platform and share their expertise with users.
Amazon Explore experiences are typically between 30 and 90 minutes long and are available by invitation only. Amazon members can request invitations through the site. Prices can also range from as low as $10 to more complex experiences that cost upwards of $180.
Throughout each virtual experience, participants can interact with their guides and ask questions as if they were there in real-time. Those who are a little camera shy have nothing to worry about, though, as only the audio will be enabled. Those using Amazon Explore will also have the opportunity to shop for souvenirs. According to Travel+Leisure, these experiences allow users to browse local stores and markets, ask sellers questions, and shop as they do on Amazon or real life.
The experiences are designed to create a “sense of ‘being there’ as opposed to simply watching passively on a screen,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Washington Post.
Hey Lookout, Kamala Harris Just Knocked VP Pence’s Lights Out.
The former near competent Governor of Indiana, Michael Richard Pence, who along with myriads of Republican Representatives and the United States Senators have become a sounding board for President Donald Trump’s more than 20,000 lies that he has broadcasted to the American people, the world, the gods and the heaven above, and the Universe — tonight faced off against Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris. Like most Trump supporters, the Vice President proclaims himself to be a devoted Christian.
As vice president to President Trump, Pence serves as the second in command or the top disciple to cult leader Trump and deliverer of a message co-opted from Nazis, and other white supremacists hate groups. Pence is seen as a stiffed shirt hypocrite who will do anything to be seated next to Donald John Trump.
Hey dude there’s a fly on top of your head. Thank you Mr’ Vice President, your time is up!
The 2020 Vice Presidential Debate. Pence vs Harris, at the University of Utah / Kingsbury Hall / candidates seated 12 feet apart.
On the Coronavirus:
VP Mike Pence heads the President’s Coronavirus task force, a task force that boasts the deaths of more than 212,000 Americans and is responsible for another seven million Americans who have contracted the deadly coronavirus. When asked by Susan Page about COVID-19, Pence made a bald-faced lie and claims, “The coronavirus was under control,” to which Harris quipped, The coronavirus is not under control.”
Question: What will a Biden administration do on January 20, 2021, that Trump hasn’t done, with more than 210,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 over the past several months? Harris: On January 28, 2020, Trump and Pence knew that the virus was airborne and deadly but failed to act. They told the American people that it was a hoax. And today, they still don’t have a plan. Biden has a plan for the free vaccine — Trump and Pence forfeited their right to lead.
Harris at the start of 2020 VP Presidential debate
Half of Americans say they won’t take the vaccine when it comes available — will you? Harris: I’ll take it if Dr. Fauci says to take it, I’ll be the first in line, but I won’t take it if Trump says so.
The question of Trump and Biden advance age was asked about (74 and 78 respectfully) both candidates failed to answer the question except superficially — more so Pence.
On the economy
We are in a job crisis; unemployment declined to 7.9 percent,11 million jobs gained in the last two years, and lost this year haven’t returned? Twenty-six Americans remain unemployed today. Harris: Joe believes America’s health is measured by the American people’s job rate’s health and strength. Biden intends to cut student loan debt by 10,000 dollars. Should America brace for economic growth that will not take place in the next two years? Pence: The average American income went up by 4 thousand dollars during the Trump presidency. November 3rd, Democracy is on the ballot.
What is your definition of American leadership and foreign policy? Harris: “Foreign policy might sound complicated, but it’s not; it is about relationships.” You gotta keep your word to your friends, know your adversaries and keep them in check — and you must keep your word.
Supreme Court
When asked about the Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barret and if Roe v Wade would be overturned? Pence ignored the question and went on to talk about the assignation of Iranian General Solemani. Harris said: It should be about the issue of choice and woman’s right to control; her body and the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obama Care. Harris also reminded the audience that in 1864 President “Honest” Abe Lincoln says twenty-seven days before the election the President should not nominate someone to America’s High court.
On Social Unrest (The fly on the wall perched on VP Pence’s head). This fly always shows up at political debates.
At 76 minutes into the debate, “Moderator” Susan Page touched on the issue of race and social injustice by raising the killing of Breona Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT that was killed in her home by home-invading police. Pence did say that justice would be done in George Floyd’s case, an African American who was choked to death by Minneapolis police. But that he disagreed with rioters and looters destroying businesses and cities. As Pence railed on a fly pitched on top of his head. The fly stayed on the vice president’s head for 2 minutes — not eight minutes.
Harris on George Floyd’s death: I do believe his life was taken unjustifiably. Floyd was choked for eight minutes by an armed policeman. So protesters took to the streets. I was a part of that protest. We need reform for police action. We need a national registry for “bad apple” police officers and we will get rid of private jails. Pence well our hearts break for the loss of any American life and heart goes out to the family of Breonna Taylor, but I trust our grand jury system and there is no excuse for what happened to George Floyd but there is no excuse for rioting and looting. President Trump and I stand with you law enforcement officers. We will always stand with law enforcement. @ 1017 fly perched on Pence’s head as he used the word “INSULT,” in reference to his support of police brutality of Black people. Pence: It was a great insult to the men and women who serve in law enforcement. Pence also brought to light that under Harris as California DA Blacks were 19 times more likely to be prosecuted for minor drug offenses.
On the peacful transfer of power: What steps to take if Trump refuses to give up power if he loses to Biden? Harris: “Biden will not allow anyone to subvert our democracy.” Pence: Trump launched a movement to save America. The same Americans who put Trump in office in 2016, will again in 2020. Senator your party spent the last three years trying to overturn the last elections. We will win this election. I believe Trump will win.
Susan Page of USA Today lost control of the debate @19 minutes into the debate. The moderator curled up before Vice President Pence throughout the debate like an overused book page. At the same time, Page constantly rushed Harris to shorten her rebuttals to her interrupted time. Page’s performance was weak and biased.
Virtuosity Will Excite Revelers: Let The Good Times Roll, 2021.
For the first time in more than 100 years, New York City’s Times Square won’t be full of New Year’s Eve revelers ready to watch the ball drop and ring in the new year. Instead, the city will host a virtual celebration that aims to bring the same energy and excitement of Times Square straight into everyone’s homes.
According to Travel + Leisure, a scaled-back event will still be held in Times Square on Dec. 31, just without the crowds of millions of onlookers. A group of special honorees—most likely to include first responders and medical professionals—will attend the event in person and enjoy the live performances. A dedicated app has been created for everyone else, allowing viewers to join the celebrations from afar. New York City police officers also plan to block public access to Times Square on New Year’s Eve, CBS New York.
This year‘s’ Times Square ball drop will be virtual for most
“The world desperately needs to come together symbolically and virtually to celebrate the people and things we love and to look forward with a sense of renewal and new beginnings,” Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, said in a statement announcing the changes to New York City’s New Year’s Eve celebration.
New York has hosted a New Year’s Eve ball drop each year since 1907. In previous years, crowds lined up hours ahead of time, bracing themselves to face the cold in order to participate in the world-famous festivities.
Meanwhile, hotels and restaurants with a view of the ball drop have thrown pricey watch parties. It is unclear if hotels and restaurants will still host these events to allow guests a view of this year’s smaller event.
As the airline industry adjusts to the new normal of travel during a pandemic, a new rating system has emerged, awarding airports one to five stars for their COVID-19 safety protocol. Last week, Rome’s Fiumicino Airport became the world’s first five-star anti-COVID airport.
According to Lonely Planet, Skytrax, the airport industry’s rating body, gave Fiumicino the “COVID-19 5-Star Airport Rating” following a 3-day audit conducted earlier this month. The Skytrax rating system was based on “a combination of procedural efficiency checks, visual observation analysis, and ATP sampling tests.”
Roam through the cobblestone corridors of romanceand fine dining
On Sept. 1, Fiumicino Airport opened an on-site coronavirus testing center with the Italian Red Cross and introduced an in-house Bio-Safety team to enforce mask-wearing mandates and ensure that both travelers and airport staff maintain social distancing.
Lonely Planet also reports that Skytrax auditors were impressed with the increased presence of cleaning staff, as well as the various easy-to-read signs in multiple languages posted throughout the airport. The Skytrax report also states that Fiumicino Airport often assesses its hygiene protocol and is currently testing several UV sanitization methods at high-contact points such as elevators and escalators.
Skytrax has also audited three other locations: London’s Heathrow Airport, Spain’s Costa del Sol Airport, and France’s Côte d’Azur Airport. Heathrow received a three-star rating with points awarded for its ample signage, availability of hand sanitizer, and mask usage. The auditors noted, however, “a lack of consistency across different areas, both for cleanliness and expected control of social distancing.” The Costa del Sol and Côte d’Azur Airports also received three-star ratings.
U.S. tourists are still currently banned from traveling to both Spain and Italy.
The Ballots or Bullets? In a democracy or a dictatorship, there are only two ways known to man for the changing of or the transfer of leadership or power — and they are through the ballots or bullets. Whenever the transfer of power comes about by way of the latter, it most often occurs via a revolutionary war or a coup. While some coups are “bloodless,” most coup de’tats create a sudden disturbance of normal life expectancy. Revolutionary wars aren’t bloodless coups; they are accompanied by horror, a broad stroke of extreme violence, and unnecessary deaths.
Trump’s Miley — The signs are clear, but no one wants to see them: This is how it all starts
For decades, the United States military has defended democracies worldwide, and it has removed dictators from power and helped to established governments in its likeness, and fashioned a semblance sense of stability. The army of the United States falls under the command of the sitting president of America. He’s hailed as the Commander in Chief and the leader of the “free world,” by politicians and journalists.
President Donald Trump’s festered appendages
What happens when that president — the leader of the free world — runs afoul of the tenets that hold our democracy together and threatens to blow up the foundation upon which the nation stands? Will the military that he commands aid and abet him in tearing down the pillars of American democracy and contribute to the most significant internal conflict and bloodbath the world will have ever seen in the annals of the worlds’ history in the last 6000 years? There appears to be at least one United States General standing in Donald Trump’s corner who is willing to support a “strongman” form of government.
A lust for power and craven to ramrod wickedness on the powerless:Mark Miley,Trump’s side kick
History shows that many madmen have risen to power by hook or crook. Usually, these demagogues speak the language of the “common” people and by appealing to their sense of loss and disenfranchisement. And frequently, those unread people are looking for a savior to protect them from (the others) those who are taking what rightfully belongs to them alone. Those despots are fond of fostering a bond between military leaders and “law” enforcement cliques. When it comes to the behavior and the words of Donald Trump, all the signs are there of a despot in the making.
While other authoritariannations yearn for Democracy, Americans are yearning for Autocracy.DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING
As the United States of America goes, so goes the rest of the world. Simultaneously, the erosion of civil rights increase, and several dry runs of martial law is enacted in some states to test the will and the fortitude of the people. The times we are living in are peculiar. As Americans watch its President huddles in private with Russia’s top spy — Vladimir Putin, with no public record of their conversations. What secrets is Putin keeping for Trump? Is Trump being tutored by Putin and Kim Un Jong on how to seize power? Simultaneously many white nationalists who once called for less government intrusion in their lives have now cozied up to Trump and, by extension Vladimir Putin and his totalitarian regime.
President Alibaba and his Lilly White team of 40 merry men
With about 57 percent of 167 countries of the world’s population enjoying some form of a democratic government, attempts of a sudden overthrow of the governments by an internal military (in less powerful countries) than the United States of America has decreased. But with a few corrupt power-thirsty Generals that are willing to play lapdog to a power-hungry President Trump, America could fast be sliding down the road of authoritarianism. There have been many threats made by Trump about switching the current form of government.
Ring the alarm:a peaceful transfer of power?
M1 Abrams Tanks Coming to a City Near You Soon?
When Playboy Reporter Brian Karem posed a question to Trump: “Will you commit to..a peaceful transferral of power after the election?”Trump: “…Wewant to get rid of the ballots, and you’ll have a very transfer—we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer. Frankly, there’ll be a continuation.” So come November 3rd or November 8th; if Biden is declared the winner, will Trump proceed with his plan to overthrow the American government — lead a Coup and over-rule the will of the American people?
Will Trump use the military to keep him in the White House to protect his financial records?
The only time the Constitution of the United States recommends a coup is: “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” There isn’t anything in the constitution that suggests a coup to support the wild lust for power of a mad man to cover his financial crimes nor to prop up a few lost power-hungry Generals.
