From MLK to Obama, Bronx

Hey Bronx, what you say with the descent in leadership from Martin Luther King, down to the low-lying

Pres. Obama?  It's a mess, plus that Hurricane Irene too.  When does the electricity get back on

Connecticut?  Here's another reason to Occupy Wall St. NYC, NY Sat. Sept. 17th, and to admit that

Larouche was right all along.

REP. JOHN LEWIS: "WHAT WOULD KING SAY TO OBAMA?"


In an op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post, Rep.

John Lewis, the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on

Washington (where Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream"

speech), asks "What would King Say to Obama?" Unfortunately,

Lewis does not tell the truth: that Dr. King would tell the

traitor to pack his bags and get out of the White House. But at

least he makes clear that King would have to tell the President

of all the things he should be doing, which he clearly is not.

Lewis says King's message was about much more than race, but

about "building a society based on simple justice that values the

dignity and the worth of every human being." In that regard,

"his message would still be essentially the same. It is

troubling that unemployment is so high -- indeed, far higher than

it was in 1963 -- and that we are so caught up in details of

deficits and debt ceilings that we question whether government

has any moral duty to serve the poor, help feed the hungry and

assist the sick."

As to Obama, Lewis notes that "Dr. King recognized the power

of one man to transform a nation." So what has Obama done? "Dr.

King would tell this young leader that it is his moral obligation

to use his power and influence to help those who have been left

out and left behind. He would encourage him to get out of

Washington, to break away from handlers and advisers and go visit

the people where they live," the working people and the poor -- a

clear reference to Obama's "jobs tour" which avoided all the

inner cities.

Lewis added: "Dr. King would say that a Nobel Peace Prize

winner can and must find a way to demonstrate that he is a man of

peace, a man of love and non-violence. He would say it is time

to bring an end to war and get our young men and women out of

harm's way. Dr. King would assert without hesitation that war is

obsolete, that it destroys the very soul of a nation, that it

wastes human lives and natural resources."

Hurricanes, Flooding and the Bronx NY

Hurricane Irene seemed pretty good until I got the reports that there is flooding in Elmsford NY.  That is near the hotel that we are staying at, so it may block are route back to the Bronx NY.  Also I was listening to the news and there is also flooding on the Major Deegan Expressway by exit 10 for West 230th St. in the boogie down Bronx.

Bronx Dudes, There's a Big Crisis

Hey Bronx dudes, let's look at the world beyond the shores of Orchard Beach.

We're in an existential crisis, in which the happy sounds of


what happened to all these species that were killed, 98% of the

known, living species, once-living species in this Solar System,

and beyond, were wiped out because they became obsolete. And

only mankind, to the best of our knowledge, has ever beaten that

rap! And we are determined to beat that rap. I'm confident we

can do it.


And others here can speak to that effect. We had a joke,

which is not a joke, the joke of the concept of creativity, and

that really is our subject. But we had a case of we're sitting

down with someone, who's an influential figure in his own right,

and associated with other influential figures in our society, and

we spoke in terms, which signify, like Riemann's conception of

creativity: When you leave the domain of ordinary thought, you

enter a domain of creativity, creativity per se. And you're

gripped by it. We were gripped by it! Sky and I were

particularly gripped by it. We had a similar reaction.

We are a key part, with other people, in this country and in

other countries, of significant people who are committed to real

creative productivity. And it was a highly spiritual quality of

experience, to share that discussion. We went from a "nice"

discussion, a nice, practical discussion, a nice scientific

discussion, to a more quietly impassioned view of the mission

before us, more than just simply, a typical Riemann account. No,

we have a leadership. Alicia knows a good deal of this, we have

other people who are not here in the room presently, who also

know a good deal about this, which we discussed this afternoon.

And you'll get more of it, in the course of the evening, as

we discuss things, it'll come out.

Wall St. NY Could Blow, Bronx

Hey Bronx, wake up to the fact that Wall St. could blow, banks and all.  The Guardian and Wall Street

Journal both warned, today, that the European interbank market has frozen up,

with banks panic-hoarding their cash in fear that one or more

major European banks are about to go under. The Journal reported

that banks are turning to the U.S. for overnight lending from the

Fed's discount windows, further confirming reports that President

Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month that

the U.S. would continue to be the ``lender of last resort'' for

the European Monetary Union.

The reality is that the entire trans-Atlantic banking system

is in a meltdown right at this moment. One senior U.S.

intelligence source reported this morning that the ``Big Six''

too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks have between $1-1.5 trillion in

exposure in Spain and Italy alone, and that it is no longer

possible to separate out the banking collapse in the United

States from that in Europe. The same source confirmed the

freeze-up of interbank lending, blaming the freeze, in large

measure, on the belief that the Spanish banks, led by Santander,

are in the greatest danger of immediate default.

Bernanke and Geithner know, the source concluded, that they

have to go for QE3 right away, but they don't even dare raise it

at next week's FOMC meeting, because the opposition is so fierce.

There are one million new foreclosures already in the pipeline,

delayed by the scandals. All told, there are 4.5 million more

foreclosures coming; the banks cannot make up for these losses

by charging exorbitant fees to their depositors. We have reached

a break point, he concluded.

Strike Over Housing in Israel

Whle housing is tight in the Bronx NY, squatters are grabbing building.  We heard there was a theft of an air conditioner and some metal parts from the old Per Scholas factory site at 1575 River Street, Bronx NY.  Now there is some action in Israel on the other side of the world.

The mass strike that began with a housing


protest, is spreading and expanding throughout Israel to include

all sorts of economic sectors, all protesting the collapse of

their living standards in radical free-market paradise of Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



On Thursday thousands of Israelis took part in "stroller

marches" by parents with their children in 16 locations across

the country, including Tel Aviv, to protest the high cost of

raising a family. A similar march will be held in Jerusalem on

Sunday.


"The country has breached its contract with the citizens,

and has betrayed us," The Israeli daily {Ha'aretz} quotes a

mother who took part in one of the protests. "People thought that

if they work hard, pay taxes, and have children everything will

be alright." "Parents have in fact a second mortgage," said Anat

Rozilio, one of the organizers. "Besides the burden of the rent,

once you have a child up to three years old, there is no place

besides daycare centers, which cost 3,000 shekels a month." She

added, "I have spoken with many mothers who told me 'one child is

enough, I can't live in poverty.'"


The Israeli Council for the Welfare of the Child said it

supports the struggle, as "raising children has become an

intolerable financial burden."


On Friday, hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv protesting

escalating fuel prices.  Meanwhile, the doctors' strike led by Israel Medical

Association chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman intends to present Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a petition with tens of

thousands of signatures calling on him to "save public medicine."

The doctors set up a protest tent camp outside Netanyahu's

office, where Eidelman, who has been on a hunger strike since

Monday, and a number of other doctors, plan to remain until the

strike is settled.


President Shimon Peres has intervened in the situation,

holding a telephone discussion with Eidelman, where he asked him

to end his hunger strike. "An entire country is watching you, you

have proved your leadership and courage. You are bearing an

important message of advancing and improving public medicine in

Israel on your shoulders, and as President I am asking you to

look after your health and strength. You are dear to us," Peres

told Eidelman, who said thanks, but that he was continuing his

hunger strike.


Trainee clinical psychologists joined the tent camp in Tel

Aviv on Thursday to protest against the desperate situation

facing the country's clinical psychologists, who say the state is

trying to destroy the public mental health service as part of its

privatization drive.


Since the mass base of the Likud is the lower 80% of the

population, calls from Likud activists demanding he do something

have increased. One activist, Yanai Braz, is demanding that

Netanyahu dump his Finance Minister and political ally Yuval

Steinitz. "Bibi and Steinitz are detached from the people. They

don't understand what the middle class is going through. Rich

people have the stock exchange and capital market. The middle

class have nothing.... I want the Finance Minister replaced."

Starving Children in the USA

U.S. hospital emergency rooms are reporting increasing numbers of underweight and malnourished children

showing up in their departments, directly because more and more families are unable to afford to eat.

Hospitals in Baltimore; Little Rock, Arkansas; Minneapolis; Philadelphia; and Boston all

reported this in a new survey, which medics say is the worst incidence of malnutrition they have seen since

they began to monitor hungry children 10 years ago.  LaRouche Pac told you so.


The situation is typical of what once was called an

undeveloped country, is the description of the coordinator of the

survey, Dr. Megan Sandel, a child and public health professor at

the Boston Medical Center (BMC). The details were released this

week by Children's HealthWatch.



Boston Medical Center has had the most dramatic increase in

undernourished children out of all the other cities and

hospitals. Doctors attribute this to New England families being

hit with impossible trade-offs in heating and housing costs.


Before 2007, when the crash set in, 12 percent of youngsters

age three and under, were significantly underweight, in a random

survey of BMC emergency department records; this jumped up to 18

percent in 2010, and is getting worse. The survey also reports

that the percentage of families with children, who say that they

did not have enough food each month, soared from 18 percent in

2007, up to 28 percent in 2010.


BMC saw a 58 percent increase in the number of severely

underweight babies under the age of 1, who were referred by

physicians to BMC's GrowClinic, for intensive intervention

(nutritional, medical and other measures) to boost the babies'

growth. The Clinic had 24 cases in 2005, then 38 in 2010, and now

it's worse.


A typical case is that of a baby treated last year at the

BMC GrowClinic, who at age 1 weighed under 19 pounds, when the

average child is more than 24 pounds. Chronic hunger can lead to

lasting cognitive and other developmental problems.

A dramatic mockery of this reality comes from Mrs. Obama,

who is doing her part, while her husband is allowed to remain in

office, to conduct herself as a British royal tabloid celeb. She

is on the August cover of {Better Homes and Gardens} for a story

titled, "Fresh and Healthy" eating. Shown at her White House

picnic table, serving Washington, D.C. fifth-graders fresh food,

Michelle tells you to take charge of your family's eating.

"Children's habits can be changed so much easier than adults," so

they don't need to be fat. "They don't have control over their

diets -- we do."

Fight in the UK over Breaking Up the Banks

Vincent Cable, Britain's Business Secretary, today called for full banking separation. Cable did

not use the name Glass-Steagall, but his opponents did in

attacking him. Speaking to a consumer group, Cable called on the

Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to review its

"ring-fencing" recommendation in favor of a full separation. "My

own instincts lie with full separation of retail and proprietary

banking," Cable said.

Cable's initiative confirms the existence of a faction in

the British establishment which is not willing to go under with

the expiring monetarist system under the current policies of the

City of London. On the other side, some of the City's most

influential figures gathered at the offices of Freshfields law

firm yesterday, to stage a debate on banking separation, which

was won by those "who oppose Glass-Steagall-style break-ups,"

{City A.M.} reported.

Next Biggest Loser

Author: Isiah Williams

Have you ever wanted to get rid of a few pounds? How about a hundred pounds? Maybe even three hundred pounds? The truth is that most of us would love to shed some extra weight and would do so willingly if given a bit of extra time, money, or other resources. Or, maybe some of us would still be lazy and need some extra motivation to shed the extra pounds. A show which motivates just about anyone to get off the couch and shed some weight is "Next Biggest Loser." This fabulous show is a competition in which over 10 obese people compete against one another to lose the most weight.

I think it is interesting to watch this show on my satellite tv from http://www.directstartv.com/ to see how people lose weight. I love seeing what the people must do to lose weight on this show. I always try to apply their own techniques for losing weight to my own life. One major tip I learned from this show for losing weight was to run every single day. On this show, I would always see contestants running long distances and then magically shedding pounds over the course of only a few weeks. Let me just say, that I have tried this approach in my own life, and it has worked fabulously. I have already lost 10 pounds!

Hey, I'm the Blog of the Day

Greetings to http://jesseacohen.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-think-im-gonna-be-sick-in-like.html
and hey hey hey, I'm the blog of the day. I have to admit, I feel real satifaction that Copyboy decided to make howiecopywriter.blogspot.com his blog of the day. I try to make this an interesting blog, as the nation is imperiled by economic and moral collapse. We don't have to pay the debt of the fraudulent investment banks. Time to pass the Glass-Steagall Law of 1933 again, now in the form of HR 1489 sponsored by Congresswoman Marcie Kaptur, and co-sponsored by nearly 30 other Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Africans Breaking with Libya War

We have Congressman Gerald Nadler of Manhattan, NY breaking with Obama's Libya war, and people in Africa also are pissed off. See --Africans Resist Obama's Illegal War Against Libya

July 9 --The destabilizing effects of the U.S./NATO war
against Libya are causing African nations to speak out against
it, and resist U.S. efforts to get dragged into it. The
government of Kenya is being particularly defiant despite U.S.
pressure to break its links with the Libyan regime. Acting
Foreign Minister George Saitoti, yesterday, accused the Western
powers of using "violence against civilians" in Libya and
announced that the government would not freeze Libyan assets in
Kenya. "Kenya has not acceded to pressure by third parties to
sever diplomatic ties with Libya," he said and added that such
calls were "contrary to Kenya's position of the best way" out of
the Libyan crisis, and contrary to recent African Union
resolutions calling for a negotiated settlement. According to
Kenyan media, Libya has vast economic assets in Kenya, including
a luxury hotel and an oil marketing firm with more than 100
gasoline stations, making Kenya a target of western efforts to
isolate Libya.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, concerns are
being raised about arms trafficking out of Libya that is
benefiting the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM), which is said to be responsible for a string of
kidnappings and ambushes across the Sahel region. Last month,
reported, VOA, yesterday, security forces in Niger recovered
detonators, more than 600 kilograms of semtex explosives and
$90,000 in cash after a shoot out with suspected terrorists. The
Niger government said that the arms came from Libya and were
destined for AQIM. In addition to Niger, Mali and Mauretania have
also expressed concern that insurgents in Libya are selling they
capture from the Libyan government to AQIM.
Similarly, Algerian forces are increasing their presence
along Algeria's 900 km border with Libya. According to Reuters,
officials in Algiers are voicing concerns about the arms and
explosives coming into the country from Libya, which are being
looted from Libyan army depots.
Refugee flows are another destabilizing effect of Obama's
war on Libya. Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have fled
back to their own countries which are hardly able to absorb them
into impoverished economies. President Issoufou of Niger said
that Niger has lost billions of francs in taxes and trade as well
as remittances from 200,000 Nigeriens who were working in Libya.
In the Mediterrean, it was reported that more than 1,000 Africans
landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, overnight Friday,
bringing the total to more than 11,000 who have landed there
trying to escape various wars in North Africa since the beginning
of the year. According to the Italian Catholic organization
Sant'Egidio, at least 1,820 migrants from North Africa have
drowned in efforts to reach Europe.

Water Projects and the Missouri River

Hey Bronx NY dudes, aren't you glad you don't live in the Missouri River basin. But, still we have to help those people out, they are Americans.

The enormity of the Missouri Basin flooding is evident in
hundreds of devastating ways, if apparently less dramatic than
the new oil spill. Run-off from the huge snowpack, combined with
rainfall, means that vast areas face flooding until October.
However, the impact of the extreme weather is amplified and
exceeded by the extreme Washington policy disaster, as is shown
in the new LPAC TV feature, "For Lack of NAWAPA," released July
2.
In Nebraska on July 2, leaders from the hard-hit Missouri
counties in the southeast, met with officials from FEMA, the Army
Corps of Engineers, and Sen. Mike Johanns about their dire
situation. For example, the water treatment plant is knocked out
in Nebraska City, where the local government is incurring
$102,000 a month for a portable treatment system. Other
communities fear to be in the same situation very soon. But there
are no means to pay for it, without the national Glass-Steagall
resuscitation of the economy.
In Iowa on July 1, the six Missouri River flood counties
received approval as Federal disaster areas, so now they are
eligible for services including swift-water rescue, shelter
supplies, etc.
In Missouri, Gov. Jay Nixon has announced receiving Federal
emergency disaster disignation for all counties on the Missouri
River, which crosses through the state, then entering the
Mississippi River. In northwest Missouri, the extensive road
closures include Interstate-29, (state) Highways 136 and 159, and
30 other roads.
Most of the earlier flooded areas of the Mississippi/Ohio
River systems are seeing receding waters, but are still
experiencing disaster, because of the national and world economic
breakdown. In Indiana today, Federal approval was announced for
32 counties hit by the last two months of storms and flooding
damage.

Online Furniture Deals

Getting online furniture deals may be just what you need. It's nice to buy something really big, because you are going to have to get it shipped if you go to a brick store as well. A leather tufted sofa can be just the thing to make your livingroom shine. Colors range from black to grey to white, and prices can go from under $1,000 to around $5,000. It's all about what style you want, and how much you can afford on your budget. Us Bronx dudes especially liked the leather tufted Chesterfield sofa-sleeper, which is a steal at $2,699.00. Tufts are very cute, with those little buttons all over the place creating a physical and geometric pattern for you visual enjoyment and comfort. Plus, you can't beat a leather sofa, it's the nicest and the best.

A funny thing you find in home decor is that the little accessories are what make everything perfect. You can buy a beautiful white-trimmed bar, but it won't look right, you have to add antique white bar stools. The good news is that these white bar stools are available online in a variety of woods, for from $90 to $300 a piece. It makes a big difference to have antique white bar stools, and you should get them. If you want to spend a bit of money, I just love the white rattan South Sea antique bar stools.

An End to Ebosswatch Wordpress Slanders

Hey Bronx NY dudes, is there a way to end Ebosswatch Wordpress slanders? A prominent figure in Kansas was slandered by the Ebosswatch blog, and though the Ebosswatch Wordpress blog is largely defunct and not updated, the crap seems to be there forever. How can I get them to take it down already. The internet and blogging can be lots of fun, but many people abuse the internet to get slanders out. Short of hiring a lawyer and suing someone, what do you do?

Union Rally in Downtown NYC Today

Was at the rally today at NYC City Hall, mostly carpenters, plumbers and laborers. Many more want the Glass-Stegall Act, which has been introduced into the U.S. Congress. Separate out the commercial banks from the investment/speculation, end the bank bailout.

Hard to Get a Job in New York City

Hey Bronx dudes, it's me again, Howie Copywriter. It can be a horror show to find a job these days. The days of easy money, proofreading and editing are gone. Instead I have been using Event Brite to go to events and network. I have an event about using Social Networking utilities like Facebook today, and I will go to an American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) event soon. I already made a pretty big place with my mosquito picture from the Cement Bloc event, which went semi-viral.

Unemployment Is Still Here, Wall St.

U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS HAVE AVERAGED 439,000/WEEK FOR
THE PAST MONTH, a continuing very high figure indicating a
continuing dismal state of mass unemployment. Stanford economics
prof Ed Lezear, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that there is
no recovery in employment, but a "statistical illusion." "The
rate of new hires is virtually flat, at about the same level as
when the economy touched bottom in early 2009.... When an economy
has reached bottom and has already shed much of its labor,
layoffs slow. But that doesn't mean that the labor force is
recovering."

U.S. HOUSING MARKET HAS AGAIN SHRUNK STEADILY FOR 9 MONTHS
since the final end of Obama's "home buyers tax credit" for
speculators last Summer. April existing home sales were
"unexpectedly" down 0.8% from March, which was revised down. And
prices, even in the National Association of Realtor's highly
suspect "median figure," were down another 5% from April 2010;
and one-third below new home prices, making new home sales almost
impossible. Some 17 million households are underwater on their
mortgages.

MORE BANKER SEX: A Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Oakeshott,
revealed in remarks on the floor of the British House of Lords,
that Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the
Inter-Alpha Group's Royal Bank of Scotland, obtained a
super-injunction to hide details of an alleged affair with a
senior colleague. Lord Oakeshott took the occasion of the
ongoing House of Lords debate on "super-injunctions" taken out by
celebrities against reporting of scandals, to spill the beans, on
the logic that "... every taxpayer has a direct public interest
in the events leading up to the collapse of the Royal Bank of
Scotland." (Telegraph) They sure do!

The Simpsons Homer the Great

Thanks for the post from Darrick Moreno

Homer the Great is an episode of the Simpsons television show better known as the Stonercutter's episode. This episode can be seen on the premium networks of satellite tv from DIRECTSTARTV.COM and is one of the best out there. The episode seed Homer realize Lenny and Carl have better chairs, parking space, and belong to a secret society.

The stonecutters are supposed to be a reference to the Freemasons, but even one with limited knowledgeable about them can find utmost hilarity in this episode. Before Homer finds out about the secret society the episode features a hilarious back and forth from Lenny and Carl. Homer asks a question to which Lenny replie! s "It's a secret", to which Carl interjects "Shut up." At one point Homer asks Lenny something when only he is around and Homer tells him to shut up.

This secret society has Mr.Burns as a subservient member to Lenny, which amazes Homer. Homer is going to be banished from the group for being slovenly, but when he is stripped nude they find a birthmark indicating that he is their chosen one. Homer changes the group so far that all of the members from a "No Homer's" club.

The stonecutters devolves into Homer and several chimps until Marge convinces him to leave saying he's a member of the Simpsons and it's good enough. The family then proceeds to paddle and initiate him like the stonecutters had previously done.

Happy Death Day, Osama

Listening to the radio, I was surprised that people or announcers did not just break out into a chorus of "Happy Death-Day to Osama." This whole Osama-Death mania seems a bit gory. After all, at best, Osama was an aging bad guy, being safehoused by the Pakistani intelligence survey, until he was found by the US-CIA, or given up by the Pakistani ISI. Some big deal? Maybe for the desperate US Pres. Obama, who needs the rhyming Osama's body to boost his ego. Otherwise, Obama is not in good shape politically at all.

Wall St and the British

And, they caved in. That was Trumanism.
That’s how the American soul was destroyed, under Truman.
And the right-wing Republicans that took over, in the period following June of 1944. Once the Wehrmacht had been defeated in France, it’s over. The British took over. And the Southern bastards took over, the Southern racist bastards took over. I know, I was there. I know what the composition of the U.S. military forces were, psychologically. In that period, anyone who was in there, knew it.
So you had a generation, which became a {de}generation. And this {de}generation gave buhth t’ some progeny, an’ Ah’m talkin’ South’n nah, ‘cuz that’s quite relevant. And that’s how it happened: A {de}generation of the intellect and morals of the American people. The character of the U.S. population was transformed, from what Roosevelt had led, in saving civilization, in a key role in saving civilization, with the support and assistance of people who {did} represent that as well! A minority, who took the leadership of the nation, out of the hands of the fools, and under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, revived the nation {to what it had been}, and to the principles on which it had been founded, despite the goddamned Southerners and Wall Street crowd.
What took over, was the British, the Wall Street gang. They took over, and the British ran a psychological warfare operation against the American population, to {de}moralize it. And the Baby-Boomer generation was a product of the demoralization of people of my generation. I was there for the fight, I know exactly who did what to whom, I know what the conversations were, I know how the psychology of it worked!

The Bronx, Earthquakes and the Dinosaurs

Will we in the Bronx NY break from the culture of extinction? The mass strike is against the corrupt system. Now with the Japan earthquake, we see the real crisis is solar flares and sunspot activity causing increasing tectonic earthquake, tsunamis and volcanic activity. Larouche PAC is right, we the humans can go down like the dinosaurs did 62 or so million years ago. There is a 62 million year cycle which may be hitting again of galactic activity. So we need more nuclear power, fusion power and manned space program to investigate and deal with this situation. It's called earthquakes from Japan to, soon... California.

Demonstrations in Wisconsin and NAWAPA

The demonstrations in Wisconsin are nice, but when do you get to stopping the bank bailout, and to get Glass-Steagall and to build NAWAPA, the water from Alaska project? Yeah, then you get to Glass-Steagall, then you get to the
NAWAPA process. But if you don't go through, what is the
meaning, of {pushing through Glass-Steagall, right now} -- {the
future does not exist.} Therefore, how can you present an idea
of a better future as a goal, if you don't present the means, by
which that goal is reached? The goal that has to be reached, is
the Glass-Steagall Act. And the Angelides Report was important in
the sense that it {reinforced} the authority, of Glass-Steagall.
But without the Glass-Steagall mentality, you can't win, and we
get the Glass-Steagall mentality, where? Only on the state
level! On the congressional level? No! Only on the state level.

And what you're seeing essentially in Wisconsin, in the
teachers and other actions, is, you're seeing exactly that: What
they're really looking for is Glass-Steagall. That's obvious.
That's the solution. So Glass-Steagall {is} the starting point.
But the question is, "Well, if we win, what're we going to
do with it?" Ah! Now, you got NAWAPA!

Real Estate Bubble Illegal?

A Boston Court found, in a decision by Justice Ralph D.
Gants that the real estate bubble may have been entirely illegal.

"We agree with the [lower court] judge that the
plaintiffs, who were not the original mortgagees, failed to make
the required showing that they were the holders of the mortgages
at the time of foreclosure.... There must be proof that the
assignment was made by a party that itself held the mortgage."
The decision ruled illegal, the foreclosure documentation
practices which "securitization" has made into {standard mass
practice} in Massachusetts and other states -- transferring title
to the foreclosing bank {after} it forecloses; transferring
mortgage titles into a trust pool {en blanc}, or without any new
owner being named; and skipping the county recordation of the
transfer. "These blank mortgage assignments were never recorded
and they were not legally recordable," the Court found.

Of course there is a danger that Obama and his fellow Repubolican may
change the law and make the mortgages good again, though they are frauds.

For a Real Economic Recovery in the USA

Here in the Bronx NY, we want a real economic recovery. That means we gotta get the Glass Steagall now to defend deposit banking and stop the bailout of the mega-banks and their speculation. Secondly, now to get an actual recovery
going, bailout the states, won't do it. So therefore, you have a
third measure to take in this process, and that is, NAWAPA.
Because, by {again} using Federal credit, the Federal credit of
NAWAPA means, that we will begin immediately, to put the shovels
into the dirt. We will assemble the organization, and {make the
commitments}, to build the organization necessary.
We will build two elements of this organization: One
element is NAWAPA itself. The other element is the production
materials, semi-finished, finished materials and so forth, which
are needed, to {build} NAWAPA. That means that, though we're
going into the Western states, largely west of the 20-inch
rainfall line for NAWAPA itself, all the way up through Canada
and to Alaska, but at the same time, we have to get the materials
which are going to be used, and the components to be used for the
installation. Including an emergency committee on nuclear power,
to get that thing back functioning.
So therefore, we're going to put together, what will amount
to {4 million jobs in fast order.} Those are the three steps,
needed, to the United States back into the game of solvency. Our
doing that will have a catalytic effect on the world. First of
all, there will be joy, in China. There will be a sigh, of
quiet, dignified relief, in India, with some secret jubilation.
The Korea situation will be straightened out. Japan will be
begging to joint everything. Korea will be happy.

High Technology and Progress

We have a situation, in which, the minority, which includes me and my friends, politically, both here and implicitly in Europe, and also in Asia, those who are implicitly, in a sense my friends and Lyndon Larouche's friends, in the sense that they have policies which concur with my intention; that is, the effect concurs with my intention. And goes in the same direction: High technology, improvement of food supplies, raising the standard of living, going to technologies, which raise man's power to exist, that sort of thing. down with
'em.

Bronx, Knives out over Real Estate

Hey Bronx NY, get ready for a big
gang fight over real estate. At the center of the foreclosure mess lies
a giant fraud, the fraud of securitization. Through
securitization, an enormous bubble of fictitious financial values
was created, one many times the values of the assets upon which
these securities were supposedly based. This was not a problem on
the way up, as all the speculators were happy to grab a piece of
the loot, but now that the bubble has popped and the speculators
themselves are taking losses, they're changing their tune. The
dynamic reminds one of a pack of hyenas that grew large in number
when the food was plentiful, suddenly faced with adjusting to a
shortage. Without enough food to support them all, the hyenas
turn on each other, each in its own struggle to survive. Some
make it, some don't. Yesterday you were a valued member of the
pack; today, you're lunch.

Obama Gonna Go Before the November 2010 Elections?

Obama is crazy and could be forced out. With that departure of Rahm Emanuel, and the likely departure soon of his two top deputies, Phil Schiliro and Jim Messina, the White House has been turned into a real kindergarten. Obama is now surrounded with less-than-competent people. On Friday afternoon, General Jim Jones, the National Security Advisor, also announced his departure. He was immediately replaced by Tom Donilon, his deputy. Donilon is a former Democratic Party political campaign operative, whose biggest claim to fame was that he stuck that helmet on Michael Dukakis' head and threw him into a tank, during the 1988 Presidential campaign, thus assuring the Massachusetts Governor's landslide defeat by George H.W. Bush. Obama could be forced out, as insane under the provisions of the 25th amendment to the Constitution.

From the Bronx NY to Alaska and Siberia

Build up the Biosphere for the long term, from Alaska to the Bronx NY. And I think some of the things we have coming out, just came out, the rail project, the Arctic developments, the tunnel from Alaska to Siberia, and more.

Added to the fact, that now, we've got good momentum, on the organizing of the outreach of various layers of specialists and experts and so forth, it seems like we're really well positioned to sort of blow this thing open, as far as an open discussion on,maybe not geo-engineering, but biospheric engineering, from our
standpoint. And that's definitely one of the -- a definite goal of what we're doing in the next few weeks, with our output.

Natural Gas Explosion in California

Here are some thoughts on the recent natural gas explosion in San Bruno California, near San Francisco that destroyed a neighborhood. "Though the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has just begun its investigation, the few reports emerging, about the extent to which our nation's natural gas line piping infrastructure has decayed, are shocking and unacceptable. This makes the San Bruno incident one of the worst of several different incidents in the last two decades. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency that answers to NTSB's findings, since 1990 there were 2,840 significant gas pipeline incidents nationwide, including 992 where someone was killed or injured. On top of this, more than 60 percent of the nation's 296,000 miles of pipeline are 40 years old or older, with these older pipelines lacking anti-corrosion coating." Note, the statement is from Summer Shields, a Larouche Youth Movement member, and write-in candidate for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.

Do You Want Some Jobs?

Jobs in the automobile manufacturing sector would be fine. How about jobs building roads, bridges, water systems and other infrastructure. All of these jobs would be great, but Obama is totally uninterested in them. That's why he needs to be out, legally, safely and fast. As the Labor Department released the news of half a million new job losses last week — the worst week since last November — President Obama flew off to his sixth vacation of the year, to Martha's Vineyard. Jobs were lost in the automobile manufacturing sector, and in infrastructure building jobs. The stimulus is over before it really even started. In a statement issued on the way to the airport, the lunatic talked about absolutely nothing except his bill to cut taxes and provide loans for small business, a complete diversion from the massive collapse now visible even to the blind. The automobile manufacturing sector jobs are not fine, GM is just playing a revolving money game. Even this foolishness will not come before the Congress until September, with no action even contemplated before then. Bring back FDR's program for infrastructure building jobs with the NAWAPA program, and see the great interactive NAWAPA show and maps.

Infrastructure Beyond the Bronx

Infrastructure beyond the Bronx and to the whole solar system. When man “builds infrastructure“ he is not simply placing some object called infrastructure into an empty box. He is actually reorganizing the physical space-time of the biosphere, as a system, by transforming and redirecting the biogenic flows through the biosphere, allowing it to attain to higher and higher levels of energy flux density. The simplest example of this is the introduction of farming and animal husbandry: the apples, corn, and livestock of today are far different, and far more efficient in terms of energy density, than their wild counterparts which reflect the state in which man first encountered them.

This current crisis is not a financial one, or even a physical one in the simplest sense. We are not facing a lack of finances, or a lack of resources. We are facing a crisis of human culture, of which the current president and his predecessor are merely exemplary. It is time that we analyzed more deeply the roots of the erroneous thinking which has led us so deeply into this current disaster, in order that we might avert it in the only way possible: by turning our sights once again towards humanity’s future, and returning to the cultural-philosophical roots of a true science of physical economy. This is the time to dump Mr. Obama.

Dont Believe the Frameup of Charlie Rangel

Don't believe the frameup of Harlem NY longtime Congressman, Charlie Rangel. Lanny Davis, former aide to President Bill Clinton and a
former attorney for Rep. Rangel, makes a similar point in a
column in {The Hill}, which asks, "Have we learned nothing from
the recent rush-to-judgment travesty of Shirley Sherrod?"
Davis points out that all that has happened so far is that
the staff of the House Ethics Committee -- not even the full
Committee -- has voted out charges against Rangel. "Yet for the
last week and really ever since, Rangel was tried and convicted
in many of the nation's leading newspapers, based on reporting
and editorials that drew conclusions from allegations without
waiting for Rangel's full response with rules of evidence and due
process of law, Republicans and commentators have been demanding
that he resign from office, based on those newspaper stories and
editorials alone."
Davis notes that reporters and commentators are loosely
throwing around the word "corruption" -- which usually implies
intentional misconduct, for personal financial gain -- even
before the charges were issued. But if Rangel's actions were
honest mistakes of judgment, or carelessness, then they do not
constitute "corruption."


Time to stop the corruption of Obama and British Financial Empire.

Bronx NY, Bankers and Blowout

The Yahoo Tech Ticker and Yahoo Finance story on the collapse of the middle class is interesting, but we have to win, not just moan. The blowout is here, but the LaRouche Youth Movement knows what to do. Time to go back to FDR policies and put millions of people back to work fast, like Harry Hopkins was able to do under FDR in 1933. We don't have too much time before the crash. Need Glass-Steagall legislation now, separation the global derivatives from the real deposit banking. And yes, safely but surely dump Obama by September 2010.

From Bronx to the Bankers

This time the whole thing is ready to come down. By then we better force Obama out and get the Glass-Steagall separation of socalled investment banking versus real hard core banking assets like deposits. That is, if you want the USA and civilization to survive. Hyperinflation is not much fun, as they found out in Germany in 1923.

With the collapse of the Banco Santander and the real estate market in Spain, it won't be long, like till the September-October 2010 crash. In Europe with the exception of some in Germany, they seem ready to jump. That starts with the modern British Empire, Lord Jacob Rothschild's Inter-Alpha Group of European banks and their US allies. That is about 70-percent of what passes for banking these days.

Burning with Fire to Keep the System Afloat

Do you burn to keep the bankrupt financial system afloat? You just may literal burn in a fire, if this bankrupt system is not put out of its misery soon. The cost of cutting back fire protection in order to "balance the budget" may soon be that a city will lose an entire neighborhood in a conflagration because it no longer has the fire protection assets needed to bring a fire under control in its early stages. A key example is the medium sized city of Lawrence Massachusetts. The cuts are part of the insane bailout of the bankrupt financial system. It stays alive for a few moments while you get fried in a fire. Other cities with fire control problems and power problems include Rockford Illinois and Detroit Michigan.

Colonial Pix from Guatemala

From http://www.pbase.com/m_escalante_herrera/proyecto_333 that is the source of the picture. This is a picture of an historic house in Guatemala.

Obama and BP say No National Emergency

Obama, the puppet of British Petroleum (BP) refuses to declare a national emergency in the runaway oil spout in the Gulf of Mexico. BP officials and Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen reported this morning that the containment cap that was lowered onto the runway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to work. Allen reported, this morning, that engineers had so far been able to bring up about 6,000 barrels of oil (hardly a drop in the bucket), but that the vents on the cap were still open. The admiral said the engineers are hesitant to close the vents because they're afraid that the cap will then clog with hydrates, solids that form from the oil under pressure and in the cold temperature at the 5,000 foot depth. The formation of hydrates fouled an earlier attempt to cap the well about a month ago. In other words, they have no idea whether the latest effort to cap the well will actually succeed—and won't know for several more days. Oil Spills uber alles again.

Estimates for how much oil the cap is collecting range from 5 to 10% of the oil leaking out of the well, although BP officials say their "goal" is to get that to 90%. So far, the latest effort by BP has managed to capture about 1,000 barrels of oil a day—out of an estimated 12-19,000 barrels a day gushing from the well.

Meanwhile, Obama still plays out his role as the British-agent Dr. Spock. He tries to pretend emotions that he does not feel.

Harlem, Bronx NY Look Out for Falling Bankers

Bronx and Harlem, NY it is coming to a falling banker zone again on Wall St. The bailout is not working, and we know that Obama's Treasury Dept and the Federal Reserve are in on the bailout of the Euro, through currency swap. That is a $1 trillion bailout on the first shot. This could explode, as the derivative dealers all bet in the same direction at the same time. That is how you had the 1,000 drop in the Dow Jones on May 6. The Real Crash is on. Meanwhile, the Bronx is losing bus routes in the MTA budget cuts.

LaRouche, Baby, Stop the Derivatives Now

Chancellor Merkel Just Did it in Germany, But We're Not Allowed to Do it Here!
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May 21, 2010 (LPAC)—Acting after the close of the markets on Tuesday, May 18, in a sudden surprise move made on orders from the German government, Germany's financial regulatory agency Bafin banned certain derivatives trades for one year or longer. It banned naked short sales of Eurozone countries' bonds, naked credit default swaps (CDS) against those bonds, and naked short sales of the stocks of ten major German banks and insurance companies.

Speaking the next day in the German parliament, the Bundestag, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she had been forced to act in this way against what she called "an existential threat to financial stability in Europe and even the world."

Merkel is right. As leading US economist Lyndon LaRouche said on Thursday, May 20, "While the U.S. Congress, especially the Senate, is being tied up with all kinds of silliness, the fact of the matter is that a warning shot for the dissolution of the entire world financial system has already taken place. The world as a whole stands on the edge of a sudden, overnight collapse, which will make the 1,000 point drop in the Dow Jones on May 6 look like a small perturbation. We could wake up one morning, and find that we have no financial system at all—an instant plunge into a New Dark Age.

"The immediate key to this situation is the derivatives. The derivatives markets must be shut down now!"

"German Chancellor Merkel, with her sovereign ban on parts of the derivatives market as of May 19, has done the right thing, acting to protect her nation from the devastation of the speculators. The U.S. government must be forced to take the same action, immediately."

But Barack Obama, acting through Senator Harry Reid, has refused even to allow a vote to restore enforceability to Title VII, governing derivatives, of the so-called Wall Street Reform Act. The discredited Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut surreptitiously removed the enforceability of the regulations of Title VII, making them mere "suggestions" instead of "regulations," in the words of derivatives expert Michael Greenberger quoted in firedoglake. When Arkansas Sen. Blanch Lincoln, the author of Title VII, and Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced an amendment to restore enforceability, Harry Reid refused to allow it to come to a vote.

Real Estate and Collapse of the Economy

The game is over, with the computer trading gone wild. The 1,000 up and down moves in the Dow of Thursday are the last draw. We need the Glass- Steagall bill, the separation of the bank deposits from the investment derivative casino. Time to listen to LaRouche, the webcast is today.

The real estate blowout is continuing, this time in the commercial real estate. In fact, we could soon have a dead economy. The economy needs help, with the need for Federal credit and lots of infrastructure, construction and other jobs. But, before that we have to end the gambling casino game. The game must die, of derivatives, side bets and options and poptions.

The U.S. Economy, the SDI and Ronald Reagan

So, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. was running for election for Democratic nomination in
'79, and proposed beam defense weapons again, in the form of a proposal, which
was a campaign statement. Then, during the process of meeting
with Bush, who was a real asshole, in New Hampshire, we got into
discussions with the Reagan campaign. And because of these
discussions, once Reagan had been nominated, and elected, we went
into full steam: LHL went to Washington, and started the
discussion. We got a process receptivity on this thing, so that
before Reagan was actually inaugurated, we had this in place.

Then, after he had been inaugurated, we continued it. LHL
used to make trips to Washington, on this situation, and others.
So, what happened at the same time, is, some friends of ours who
came from my generation, the World War II generation, who were in
high-ranking positions in the intelligence community -- one of
them was Bill Casey, who became the national security chief, or,
the CIA director. And other people. And we also found people in
Europe, similarly, in France: Two national heroes of France,
veterans. A whole group in Germany, among German military
officers and related people. General officers in Italy. Leading
political figures in other countries, agreed.

Stupid NY City Jobs

Let's sing a song first:

Are you white enough, white enough, white enough;
Can you look pretty, look pretty, look pretty;

(Bonnie Rait song, Good Enough, Spoof)

Lots of these jobs you better act as white as a British Lord. That is not good, that is fouled up. Anyway, the crash is going to hit these medical advertising shops too. Plus, nothing worse than a picky job agency. Been having some problems with Creative Circle. They are so picky. They gave me a job as a medical editor for 2 days, and despite rave reviews, have not gotten any more jobs from them. Hey, Harlem dudes, I hope I acted "white" enough. Obama acts white, but now he is all used up. Hope that dude watches his back, especially after the crash of the Polish presidential plane.

Went to Ringling Bros. Circus in NYC

I went to the Ringling Bros. circus in Madison Square Garden with my kid. It was pretty good. I can't cover much in the Bronx, because my articles are not being taken except once in a while. Haven't heard anything from my artist friend, about a new assignment. Will have to see what happens.

Anyway, we had a bit of a fantasy, of elephants, tigers and horses, and trapeze artists. It's OK to escape once in a while.

Picture is from Wikipedia, Ringling Brothers poster from 1898.

Rocket Man

Rocket man, stream on to space station, overhead. And I think it's gonna be a long long time--- sang Elton John, in Rocket man

The Soyuz craft carrying California native Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko soared from the Baikonur cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan in a carefully regimented operation that has been perfected over the decades.

Mars ain't the place to raise your kids- Elton John sang. But, why not? With a real space program and impeaching Obama, Mars could become some highly valuable real estate soon.

Destroying NASA kills the Space Program

Some people want to save the space program, still. As a Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who was one of the few Representatives who signed the letter of 27 Congressmen to NASA Administrator Bolden a week ago, who does not have a NASA center in his district, has emphasized the impact of the proposed cancellation of NASA's manned space program to the nation's
defense.

In a Feb. 16 discussion with the editorial board of the {Clipper} paper, in Bountiful, Utah, Representative Bishop stated: "Left in the wreckage of this decision will be the destruction of at least 20,000 private sector jobs." That
includes 2,000 in Utah. "The kinds of skills needed to build NASA rockets are the same skills needed to build missiles used in the defense of our nation, and they rely on the same rocket motor technology." (Solid rocket motors for military and civilian rockets are built by ATK in Promonotry, Freeport Center, and Salt Lake County).

But, Bishop emphasized, this is not only about jobs. "Most importantly, it is absolutely about our Constitutional responsibility to provide for the common defense," he said. "In each area, the Obama plan fails America.... Already a bi-partisan Congressional effort is challenging the Administration's proposal
that harms America's role in space, hurts our economy, and damages our missile defense and national security. We must and can do better." That is why Obama has to go.

Fight to Save the Manned US Space Program

The fight begins to save the US Manned Space Program. Indicative of the uproar the Obama Administration will face on Capitol Hill when hearings start on the NASA budget: On Feb. 13, the day when an angry letter signed by 27 Reps was sent to NASA head Charlie Bolden, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), whose district includes NASA's Kennedy Space Center, released his own statement to emphasize the impact on his constituents.

Posey references NASA's illegal cancellation on Feb. 13 of a ground launch control contract, which is needed to test Constellation's Ares-1 rocket. Kennedy is already facing up to 7,000 layoffs when the Shuttle stops flying later this year, because nothing is ready to take its place. This Constellation contract cancellation, Posey says, "could be as many as 1,500 additional jobs that will be lost at KSC." "It is truly disappointing that our space program lacks leadership and vision. If current trends are allowed to continue, we risk reverting to pre-1961 status, having no human space flight program." Back to the Moon and on to Mars.

The Crash is on

The crash is on. The problem has not gone away, and it will not go until we get the four powers agreement between Russia, China, and the USA and India. The U.S. Labor Department shows in its January employment report out today, that it has continued up through December to understate the loss of jobs in the U.S. economy by an average of 55,000 every month, and still continues to do so. With the revised employment-loss totals published today, the Labor Department is now reporting the economy lost 5.780 million jobs just during calendar 2009, Barack Obama's first year as President, and the job elimination continued at a rate of 150-200,000/month right up through December 2009. We need change, like to impeach Obama now. Build the tunnel under the bering strait, and that will be lots of jobs, even for harlem dudes.

Falling Apart on the Obama Healthcare Trip

According to media accounts, the impact of the "reform" on state budgets became a major issue in Friday's talks. There has been broad circulation of the report that Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife had been driven out of a pizza parlor near their home last week, by patrons furious at his vote for Obama's healthcare, and on Friday, Nelson wrote Reid that there should be no special deal for Nebraska; all states should be treated equally. At the same time, the three key House committee chairmen, Rangel (NY), Waxman (CA), and Miller (CA), are reported to be trying to reverse features of the Senate bill which would stick their states with billions in added costs, mainly for Medicaid. This bill sucks and should be sabotaged and killed.

Four Powers Agreement- China, Russia, India and USA

The British empire is desperate. Their Copenhagen Global Warming Dictatorship plan has killed. Even Obama was forced to sign on to suspend Copenhagen till next year. By then, the global warming brainwashing will lose momentum.

Now we have a serious of terrorist and near-successful terrorist incident. London claims that the underwear bomber was someone that they warned the United States. That bomb, about to land, could not have blown up the plane landing in Detroit, because the plane was no longer pressurized. The only real result is your ass being pictured when you go to the airport.

Population and Economy

Over the last 40 years, the world has lost the ability to support the 6.7 billion people that now exist. The problem is the bankrupt, and imperialist economic system. The monetary power, the control by private financial interests, then you have the financial system, and finally the productive power that a nation needs to support its citizens.

Now the triple curve has hit of Lyndon LaRouche. The production is going down, as the financial agregates go up. Even more money has to be printed to keep the game going. Plus there is fascist austerity, like the Obama Health care reform, to be more efficient, mostly in killing people and saving money.

Transforming the Environment of Siberia and Russia

The new agreements between Russia and China involve transforming Siberia. They involve monetizing the US Dollars that China holds to build projects including mining, and high speed rail to transport raw materials.

This is important to the United States, since $800 billion in dollars that China hold are now being used as a credit dollar. The US Dollar does not have to collapse. The gold bugs and speculators can go to hell. These projects in Russia, China and India too can be connected physically to the United States, with the Bering Straits tunnel to Alaska and the rest of the Americas.

Bronx Economic Summit on Nov. 18th, 2009

The Bronx Economic summit will be held this year at the Bronx NY, Botanical Gardens. The New Borough President, Ruben Diaz stated at the beginning of his administration, that business organizations and merchants associations have worked separately to improve their own neighborhoods for too long, an issue which must be addressed to make a better Bronx. He wants to work together to develop a strategic plan that will ensure the strength of all our business districts, and to position them for positive growth in the years to come. With that in mind, I want to invite you to take part in The Bronx Economic Summit: a Blueprint for Success, a full-day event designed to create an economic plan for the future of our great borough.
Featuring Keynote Speaker: Edward Mazria, Founder and Executive Director
Architecture 2030

Meet Moderators: Brian Warner, Director Policy Analyst, New York Power Authority

Daniel Massey, New York Business Reporter, Crain's NY (publication)

Jonathan Bowles, Director, Center for an Urban Future

Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City
Paul Lipson, Chief of Staff, Congressman Jose E. Serrano Office

Steven J. Jerome, President, Monroe College

Registration, 8:30 am; Breakfast, 9:00 am, Welcoming Remarks by the Bronx Borough President, 9:30 am

Morning panel: Poised Growth: Opportunities on the Horizon
~ This panel will examine potential areas of growth and large scale developments, including the development of a Bronx marketing plan.

* Moderator:
Steven J. Jerome, President, Monroe College

* Panelists:
Greg David, Editorial Director, Crain's New York Business
Paul Chapman, President, ABC Carpet Co. Inc.
Donald L. Ashkenase, Executive Vice President, Montefiore Medical Center
Daniel Garcia, President & Owner, Salsa Caterers and Special Events

Retention & Expansion: Capitalizing on Our Assets
~ This panel will explore how to attract and retain businesses on our commercial corridors, including the critical role of cultural organizations in the borough economy.

Panelists:
Adam Friedman, Director, Pratt Center for Community
Hon. Robert Walsh, Commissioner, NYC Small Business Services
John Shapiro, AICP, PP, Principal, Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates
Deidre Scott, Managing Director, Bronx Council on the Arts

Cashing in on the Green Economy
~ This panel will explore the opportunities offered by the green economy, including planet friendly transportation and development of vacant land/Brownfield.

* Moderator:
Brian Warner, Director Policy Analyst, New York Power Authority

* Panelists:
Christina Ficicchia, Executive Director, NYC and Lower Hudson Valley Clean Communities
Jared Haines, President & Co-Founder, Mercury Solar Systems
Josslyn B. Shapiro, Deputy Director, Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation
Majora Carter, President, Majora Carter Group, LLC.
Neil Pariser, Senior Vice President, SoBRO

Afternoon Panels 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM

Building Tomorrow's Workforce
~ This panel will examine unemployment factors in the borough, job training needs for future jobs, and that role of start-ups in employment.

* Moderator:
Daniel Massey, New York Business Reporter, Crain's

* Panelists:
Clarence Stanley, Director, NYS Small Business Development Center
Cristina Shapiro, Assistant Commissioner for NYC Business Solutions
Joseph McDermott, Executive Director, Consortium for Worker Education
Miquela Craytor, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx

Retail Corridors: Meeting Merchants' Needs
~ This panel will explore the benefits of Business Improvement Districts and Merchants Associations, the presence of the informal sector, encouraging local purchasing between merchants, and technical assistance needs of merchants.

* Moderator:
Jonathan Bowles, Director, Center for an Urban Future

* Panelists:
Bernadette Nation, Director, Business Outreach Team/Energy Response Unit NYC Department of Small Business Services
John Bonizio, President, Assoc. of the Merchants & Business Professionals of Westchester Square, Inc.
Jeremy Waldrup, Assistant Commissioner for District Development, NYC Department of Small Business Services
Wilma Alonso, Executive Director, Fordham Business Improvement District

Stimulus Money & Other Public Funds: Immediate Opportunity
~ This panel will provide information on upcoming streams of stimulus money for businesses and access to other sources of capital.

* Moderator:
Paul Lipson, Chief of Staff, Congressman Jose E. Serrano Office

* Panelists:
Kate Shackford, Executive Vice President, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation
Raul Hiraldo, Vice President, Commercial Loan Division, Citibank
Seth W. Pinksy, President, NYC Economic Development Corporation
Pravina Raghavan, New York District Director, U.S. Small Business Administration

Foreclosures and Gold are Up

Gold and real estate foreclosures are up. Where can you sell gold in NY? Well, Manhattan Gold Buyers Albert and Sons Jewelry INC is located in New York City’s Diamond District Specializes in buying gold in New York. Albert and Sons is family owned and operated and has been in business in NYC for over 20 years. Take a look at realtytrac.com and see if there are some foreclosures for you to buy. Just be aware that the future is not bright until we get the national bankruptcy reorganization.

From the Bronx to Afghanistan

Arianna Huffington seems to want to fight and die there, I wonder why. She says: As Newsweek's cover story on Biden makes clear, the vice president has long opposed escalating in Afghanistan. So if the president decides to escalate, Biden, for the good of the country, should escalate his willingness to act on his "deep reservations" and resign. Generations to come will be grateful if he does, instead of following the pattern of "opposition" we've become all-too-accustomed to. You know the drill: after the dust settles, the mea-culpa-laden books start to come out, and suddenly we hear how forceful this or that official was behind closed doors, arguing against the war, then going home each night distraught at the unnecessary loss of life. Well, how about making the mea culpa unnecessary? Instead of saving it for the book, Biden can unfetter his conscience when it can actually do some good for the country.

It seems pretty strange. Maybe Arianna wants to invade the Bronx, NY too.

The Pig, the Farmer and the Artist Show in NYC

This is from villagevoice.com


Written and Composed by the three time Grammy nominee David Chesky
featuring a cast and orchestra of 20


DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT MISSING THIS!!!

To avoid being slaughtered by a lunatic farmer, Shirley the cow (a former hooker from Amsterdam), and her transvestite husband, Harvey, escape to New York's East Village, where they soon become all the rage of the highbrow art scene. Back on the farm, the Pig gets wind of their fame and follows to seek his artistic fortunes as well. Will the elitist critics accept the Pig's trendy conceptual art? Will the psychotic homesteader arrive in time to reclaim his prized hog?
Will swine become the new black?
This outrageous Fellini-esque satire superimposes the world of contemporary music onto the modern art scene, scorchingly skewering them both.


October 2nd - 17th, 8PM

Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street - NYC


GET YOUR TICKETS @ www.theatermania.com


SHOW DETAILS
Title: The Pig, The Farmer, and The Artist
Music, Book and Lyrics: David Chesky
Director: A. Scott Parry
Conductor: Anthony Aibel
Lighting Designer: Rob Scallan
Art Designer: Anna Dineli

Theater: Gene Frankel Theater, 24 Bond Street, NYC - between Bowery & Lafayette


Performances: Wednesday through Saturday, 8:00PM
Admission Price: $25 per person
Subway Directions: R to Prince Street; B, D, F, V to Bdway Lafayette, 4, 6 to Bleeker
Tickets: www.theatermania.com

Anticipating Obama's Speech

Anticipating Obama's Wednesday speech is hardly thrilling. He is pushing his death panels and health care rationing. 18 countries in whole or in part are followinging the "Liverpool Care Path," originating in the United Kingdom's NHS. This means sedating the so-called incurably ill, with no food and water, until they rapidly die. That is how the Obama plan wants to save money on health care. That is the health care for all that they want to give you- Nazi-style. Don't let him do it.

Cap and Trade on Carbon Dioxide

Cap and Trade on carbon dioxide is suicide. Obama wants to use the cap and trade as a revenue raiser. Plus it will make coal and oil and gas ultra expensive. Why do we know that this will happen? The goal is to lower the use by 80-percent of hydrocarbons. That means no gas in your car unless you are a rich oligarch or thief. NYU is very nervous about Congress playing with cap and trade. Here is a cap and trade video with a professor masturbating about carbon allowance, and they will be worth lots of money. 6 billion allowances, $20-30 each, that means over $100 billion. What is the money gonna be used for? The British Queen?

Barney Frank's Freakout and LaRouche

A lot of noise has been made about the town meeting of Barney Frank in Dartmouth Mass on I guess, Auguust 18th. Barney Frank's confrontation with the LaRouche Youth Movement's Rachel Brown provided a clown show for the right and the left, all blaming LaRouche for all that ails them, while attempting to hide the reality of the mass strike which they cannot understand.

Every network and most cable stations played the confrontation between Rachel Brown and Barney Frank in their prime time programs, mostly featuring Buffoon Barney's question about "what planet are you from?" as if it showed he was tough, standing up to the "crazies," even though most left out Rachel's LaRouche connection. Most revealing is that both Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart, both the right and the left, showed the video of the confrontation, made clear that this was LaRouche vs. Barney, and then suggested that the proper response to Barney would be to note that he was from Uranus - adding another of Lyn's jokes to popular culture, along with the now famous moustache. It is unlikely that Barney will bring up other planets again.

Maybe we can interest Obama in some quick space travel?

Riots in the UK- over Vestas

There are riots going on in the UK over Vestas, the well-known manufacturer of windmills and wind turbines. I don't really know what this is about, but I thought it might be of interest to my readers. NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT - 29.07.09. Vestas workers, family members and supporters march from the Vestas wind turbine factory to the local County Court on Wednesday 29 July 2009 in Newport, Isle of Wight. Vestas workers represented by RMT lawyers argued successfully that a possession order had been incorrectly served and that Vestas could not be granted an eviction order - the judge adjourned the case to Tuesday 4th August 2009. Vestas workers have been occupying the factory after management revealed plans to cut 600 jobs and close the factory. (Photos by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

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Chaos in Obama Land

There's chaos in Obama land. Emperor Nero Obama threatens to fire and torture his own staff as the country goes further down in economic collapse. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused protesters of trying to sabotage the democratic process, since he knows that he is backing a loser. What a sore loser and cry baby.

The Republican Party says it's not behind the protests. Of course Reid scoffed at this notion and does not have enough balls to complain about the role of Larouche Pac in the protests. Outside in NY City's Union Square neighborhood, Obama activists freaked when they saw pamphlets with Obama and his health care plan being compared with Hitler and the Nazis.

Telecommuting and the New Slavery

Is telecommuting the new slavery? You sit in your room and pound on the computer keyboard hoping that your $10-an-hour will be enough for you to survive. Then you know that it isn't. The economic and financial crash and telecommuting are an interesting pair. With the big crash in foreclosures hitting this year, it could be a drag. Four million households may not have a home to telecommute from. Of course, if you have a laptop, you can work from a homeless shelter if you have a quiet and comfortable room. I guess that is the new slave labor. Telecommuting often pays a lot less, and you get jobs right off the internet. That is not true also in other cases. Outsourcing is in as the worldwide economic crisis is forcing employers to find new ways to reduce costs. Is this a good situation? Actually, it sucks but we try to adapt and take advantage of it anyway. The geezer told you so, see the Aug. 1st webcast in the archives. LaRouche told you so.

So, its a big crash, and it's a gas, gas gas.
Get ready for reality at the end of the fiscal quarter.
Will civilization still exist on October 15th?

Government Sponsored Euthanasia;
Is easy to do;
The people you want dead;
They'll kill them for you;
A Financial Bubble, now sucking more;
If you let Bama health care;
Go for a dictatorship some more;
60 more days, system going down fast;
By October, the states cannot last.

Government euthanasia is the Obama health plan, with the dictates of an independent MedPac board and is dirty politics. We have two months to break this Administration or put it under control. The only solution to the present crisis is a bankruptcy reorganization now. This could be done under patriotic economists who know what LaRouche is saying. It's time to kill the derivatives, and put the British Empire out of business. Take that Obama, get with the program. Take that bailout money back.

NY Feeling the Strain, Ain't it a Shame

The media has admitted that the bubble is dead in Harlem NY. The bubble was lots of fun in Harlem NY while it lasted but now it is feeling the blues bad. In the words of the old song, "Now it's feeling the strain, ain't it a shame--- Give me the beat boys..." It had to go down, but going down to one-third of what it used to be is killing lots of rehab projects. You want me to go to Harlem rehab, I say no, no, no. Can't afford it.

Harlem was the place of the biggest real estate bubble of all in the NY metropolitan area, and some of the burial is going on only during dark, moonless nights. The 125th Street corridor project is severely affected, with the major tower at 125th St and Park Ave shaved down to a less than 10 story building, not 15 or 20 stories. Whether the whole 125th st corridor project will die is a matter of speculation. Even on the west side, Columbia University probably also lost lots of money off of their endowment. Of course, Goldman Sachs is now making money again, stealing that is. Maybe they will just buy up everything when it hits ten-cents on the dollar.

The System is Bankrupt

The geezer is right, the system is bankrupt. We need, largely, for nations to undertake long-term credit operations, in terms of infrastructure development, both rural and industrial, and use this kind of development as a stimulus for developing a full-spectrum economy, with 30- to 50-year long-term agreements on treaty agreements for development, each conducted by sovereign nations, but a sharing of credit from a common credit system, meaning going back to a fixed-exchange-rate credit system among governments. For example, let's take the case of China, which was lured into the idea that it was going to have a world market, guaranteed by the United States and the British, but they did that by pricing their goods so cheaply that China could not sustain its entire population on that export economy.

So now the game is over. If we continue this insane system, from the real estate bubble to the foreclosed houses to the bankrupt slave labor industries of China, etc, then civilization is over.

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George Soros Making Health Care Move-On

George Soros is famous for providing the seed money for his front group Moveon.org but he has other operations, like Healthcare for America Now, the latest George Soros-created front group. George Soros is the arch real estate and stock speculator that is famous for being allowed by a group in London to in 1992 "break the British Pound." This was part of the London operations to put Europe under the heel of the Euro and Euro Central bank dictatorship.

They plan TV advertisements in Louisiana attacking Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) for withdrawing her support for Obama's heathcare plan. The group, Healthcare for America Now, says Landrieu endorsed the principles of Obama's plan when she signed a letter it sent out to all Congressional Democrats last November. Landrieu's spokesman said that the Soros group is taking her initial statement out of context; that the letter is not a roadmap of Landrieu's views on healthcare, and that she does not support a public option. This is not legitimate, it is actually a pure blackmail tactic.

The pressure tactic of sending a letter to every Democrat for endorsement of a healthcare plan days after Obama was elected, by a group funded by Soros—the biggest moneybag in the Democratic Party—is typical of the pressure which is being brought on Congress to get in line and pass Obama's Nazi-modelled bill. It is no coincidence that George Soros, a Jew, worked for the Nazis in Hungary under an assumed identity when he was 14, and later called that period "the happiest time" of his life. Where Landrieu stands could be significant, as the Democrats search for a filibuster-proof majority.

In California, Soros-funded moveon.org is running TV ads attacking Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who said on John King's "State of the Union" program on June 21, that there is no way she could vote for a bill which will cost California $5 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments. This is at a time when the state of California is about to go totally broke. Obama is not a good guy, he is now acting as a British agent, just like his buddy Soros.

British Twittish on Iran Developments

The British Empire, and their financial allies are playing their usual games of divide and conquer on Iran. The world has to be warned that the British Empire is using the international media they control (the BBC, Financial Times, Murdoch Press, and so on), in their operation to create civil war in Iran. This was reflected in the way the media have spun the Friday speech by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on June 19th. While the press has treated the speech as uncompromisingly hard-line support for Ahmadinejad against the opposition, a reading of an unofficial translation of the speech shows it is more conciliatory than is being portrayed in the press.

In fact, the media are consciously distorting what Khamenei said. One of the more extreme cases is Britain's Financial Times, which, under the headline "Decoding the Supreme Leader's Message," lists several isolated quotes under which they give their own interpretation. For instance, at a point in the speech that Khamenei is highly critical of those, without naming names, who leveled insults against President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, during the campaign, his remark is "decoded" to mean unequivocal support for Ahmedinejad. But in reality, the Financial Times and other media failed to report the rest of that passage, which expresses criticism of the slandering of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and then goes to great lengths to defend Rafsanjani's reputation, saying Rafsanjani is one of the foremost leaders of the Revolution, going so far as to say he "walked with the Imam [Khomeini] and he still does."

So, from the available transcript, the thrust of Khamanei's speech is, on the one hand, celebrating the fact of the election, with its high turnout, and especially the broad participation of the youth. On the other hand, he makes clear the current tensions are within the system. He said that the Western media, especially the British and Zionist media, are trying to create an image that there a struggle between those for and those against the system. He goes to some length to defend all candidates as loyalists to the Islamic Republic, pointing out that Mir Hossein Mousavi was Prime Minister in his own government, when he had been President himself.

Now somehow, I doubt that British PM Gordon Brown is really a friend of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the leading opposition candidate in Iran. It's just the usual chaos and confusion operation.

European Fantasies about Balanced Budgets

Europe is if anything more screwed up on the economy than the United States. At the Ecofin on Tuesday, the comedy of the absurd went on stage. Since all EU governments are over the 3% deficit (except Malta, Andorra, and Finland), the EU Commission is starting a procedure against 24 countries! Everyone is broke, everyone is bailing out the bankrupt banking system. (See link, LaRouchepac)

Christine Lagarde on one side, and Steinbrück on the other side, staged a fight on whether to lift the 3% cap, both of them on false grounds. Lagarde proposed that all interventions related to the crisis not be counted in the deficit; Steinbrück opposed it, as this would put no limit on money-printing. Neither of them pushed the right thing, i.e. lifting the cap on capital investments, and eliminating all imperial institutions. Time to invest in infrastructure again, give credit for the projects from national governments, for the next 50-100 years.

Did Obama Receive Sex Change in London

Did President Obama Receive A Sex Change In London, And Did His Wife Notice?

The American people have one month to defeat the Nazi health care plan that the Obama Administration has been given to pass through the Congress by the British financial oligarchy, on the behalf of the which, Obama not only supported the bailout in September 2008, but complicated it through both his stimulus package, and the continued bailout of the banks in the form of the GM bankruptcy, as well as the impending bailout of the health insurance "industry".
Stop and think: isn't it the case that the Federal Reserve extended $180 billion to AIG, which is not only not a bank, and therefore not insured through FDIC, but is an international corporation whose London arm was responsible for bankrupting the whole company through its credit-default swaps division headquartered in the City of London? Yet, isn't the Obama Administration now saying they are prepared to implement $300 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, the which programs are guaranteed by the government?
Stop and think: what does it mean to say, that you are going to cut health care costs by one third, and by as much as $2 trillion, and at the same time say that you are going to cover another 50 million people? Doesn't that mean, that everyone will have health insurance, but not health care? Doesn't that mean, that by increasing the power of the private health care "providers" (that is, predators), you are simply attaching a debt of the state to the insurance companies, to everyone in the entire United States? Aren't you just increasing the debt-burden of the population, and preparing to pay for the debt by forcing people to die, instead of giving them health care?
Stop and think: do you know of any example, of any society, in the which a crime like that of the Nazi doctors' imposition of euthanasia, was ever stopped, without, a vigorous campaign of exposure that was always protested by those that carried it out? We need everyone to wake up and smell the --carbon monoxide??
That's right--you can't wake up, and smell the carbon monoxide.. In fact, you can't smell carbon monoxide at all. So you have to act even though you don't smell the carbon monoxide, and you have to get people to act even though they may, of course, say that they don't smell the carbon monoxide, which will be true.
Whether Obama knows it or not, is irrelevant to whether his health care reform is fascist. Actually, if he doesn't know it, it's even worse than if he does. It would demonstrate that he, indeed, needs "adult supervision", before his willful blindness condemns the American population, and because of America's influence, the world, to an eruption of mass-murder that, whenever it takes place, is never fathered by any of the people that perpetrate it, according, that is, to them. Hitler blamed the destruction of Germany on the inferiority of the German people, and their cowardly inadequacy in the face of accomplishing his "world-mission". At the Nuremberg trials, virtually the entire Nazi high-command denied that they were committed to any form of mass murder as such. That, however, did not change the truth--just as, whatever one would prefer to think about Obama, that does not change the truth about what the impact of his health care plan, as described by Orzag and Summers, actually will be.
In this context, the 117-plus people that attended the last two Saturdays' events of LaRouche Pac, should take it upon themselves to give it a few days between now and the end of the month to go out on the street and sound the alarm, to work in the office (call 201-441-4888), to raise money and make interventions at the meetings that will be held over the next days.
(See http://www.my.barackobama.com). This is actually happening to you, your family, your neighbors, your nation. If we don't act now, this month, it will be too late.
Whatever trepidation we may have, should be "kicked to the curb". Remember the words of Adolph Hitler, at Nuremburg, September 3, 1933: "Only one thing could have broken our movement:if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed with extreme brutality the nucleus of our new movement". We have to move now: we won't have a second chance, especially after the interventions in D.C.. June 2nd. "Once to every man and nation, comes a moment to decide". Is this our moment? Let's find out.

Slugging it out with the Lawyers

Lawyers are funny companies, but I am slugging it out with some of these firms in NY, about Contract attorneys. I don't know if it is worth the effort, but here goes. Next place to check out is Jones & Day, which is really mostly a Wash DC operation. The lady there is so stressed, but I don't think she is serious. Anyway, probably worth a try. But, it was exciting to talk to a real person, not a machine. She was giving me sympathy about how tough it is out there, but whatever. Some lady at Latham told me to contact someone else, who probably doesn't deal with contract attorneys anyway. Oh Well! I think I'll send the boss the name of a partner as well, WTF.

I talked to someone at a law firm. They are all so distracted. I wonder what this woman is like in real life. New York law firms are weird, but somehow the ones that are really headquartered in London, UK, center of the financial empire are more horrid. About to call Simpson Thacher. It was funny, there I was actually able to get to some real people. I guess that everyone important is in London. What I guy will do for a couple of dollars, sheesh!

GM Bankruptcy the Wrong Way

It's a GM bankruptcy the wrong way. This bankruptcy has only served the function of another bailout of the bankrupt financial system, starting with GMAC. Oddly, there are even links to the most degraded financiers to the General Motors bankruptcy. This includes the shadowy operator Mr. Ezra Merkin, who through his Gabriel Capital Corp. was channeling money to Cerebrus, one of the speculators involved in tearing GMAC apart. Mr. Merkin's other client was the infamous ponzi club schemer, Bernard Madoff. On the other side of the deal are so-called legit operators whose actions have had evil effects on the US economy, such as Felix Rohatyn, formally of Lehman Brothers. This is some of the same players in the real estate bubble.

The only solution to form a national infrastructure corporation, and used the idle plant and machine tools to make necessary infrastructure, from high speed rail to locks and dams.

Get Your Real Property Management On

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Going to the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Site

This Saturday May 23rd, Memorial Day, long-time Lyndon LaRouche collaborator and FDR expert Lonnie Wolfe will join Dennis Speed, in Hyde Park, NY, for a presentation on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Then, following the lecture and questions, we shall tour the FDR Presidential Library and Museum exhibit of "THE FIRST 100 DAYS: ACTION, AND ACTION NOW."
Any citizen who goes to this exhibit will discover and understand the crucial difference between President Franklin Roosevelt's defense of the general welfare principle of the U.S. Constitution, and the dangerous policies being pursued by President Obama, in his administration's copying of the health policies of Hitler's Third Reich. The presentation will be given at 11:00 AM SHARP to 12:00 NOON. For more information call Jerry at 201-441-

India Doesn't Buy Economic Reforms

The mumble in Mumbai India, is that the economic reforms of the IMF and the US Capitalist class is now the road to suicide, not to reform. The Congress Party is bragging that under Indira Gandhi they were the ones to nationalize the banks. The BJP wants to protect the diamond industry. The smaller regional parties and the Communist party want even more protection. This may sound like socialism in the current jargon of newspeak, but it's only the latest form of the American System of Alexander Hamilton, and Friedrich List. The bottom line coming out even in the Indian press, is that India cannot boost its growth by increasing speculation.

Perfumes to Make Life Smell Good

What kind of evening perfume do you like? I used to like women who used Chanel #5, but that is a little old fashion. In Harlem NY and Bronx NY I'm happy if the lady that I am with using any perfume, something fruity is fine, especially lemony. So many women are so tough today that they don't like to wear perfume at all. That's how my girl is, she just won't wear anything. Ha ha.

Men wearing scents is pretty unnecessary except using a good basic deodorant soap is fine. That might sound a little macho, I guess I'm pretty old school. Still I would like women to try to use some of the new scents on the market, they don't have to be expensive at all. I just saw a new scent, at least to me, that is supposed to smell like a Tootsie Roll. That could be funny if you could actually place the scent. I also saw the Play-Doh cologne. I think if I smelled that on someone, I could recognize it.

Bronx Earth Day

On Sat. April 25th, there was a group manning a table was Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice as part of the South Bronx Earth day celebrations. This particular group was celebrating the opening of a new city Park in June, located at Whitlock, Westchester Ave. and Bronx River Ave, by the #6 subway. Group spokesperson Ms. Dawn Henning said that the park is at the site of a former cement plant. Youth Ministries is currently engaged in projects to reduce the pollution of the Bronx River during rainstorms and sewage overflow, and is located at 1384 Stratford Ave. by East 174th St, or call 718-328-5622.

A couple of bus loads of people went on the white-hulled boats of the Rocking the Boat Organization. These boats set-off propelled by oars from docks on the Bronx River near Lafayette and Edgewater Rd. From there they can go upriver to the Bruckner Blvd. landing station or to Soundview Park. This organization engages students in boat building and on-water education, and can be reached at 60 East 174th St, or call 718-466-2892. The Sustainable South Bronx Organization has watching and commenting on various environmental issues in the South Bronx, such as monitoring the NY Organic Fertilizer Company plant. They are also running a training program in green jobs called B.E.S.T. Trainees get free education on topics such as: basic building construction, energy retrofits, and helping homes to conserve energy. For more information, see www.ssbx.org. The Organization has started its first for-profit venture, SmartRoofs LLC, which installs green roofs that combine roof insulation, and the construction of urban agriculture or foliage on roofs. Their Fab-Labs or Fabrication Laboratories help create products from waste materials that come through the South Bronx. Nearby, the Green Workers Coops were promoting their large Green Home-Depot type store, Rebuilders Source at 461 Timpson Place, near East 147th St and Bruckner Boulevard, which recycles construction materials. For more information call 718-742-1111.

The Havana Film Festival NY at Bronx Museum

A special preview of the Havana Film Festival New York was an eye-opener at the Bronx Museum, on April 17th. First movie shown was: “Tengo Lo Que Tenía/ I Have What I Had to Have” is a documentary of the life of the Cuban Diva, Xiomara Laugart. Xiomara is from Cuba and now based in New York City. She is very modest, saying that she has never been privileged; she is just “one more black woman who sings.” Xiomara is best known for her portrayal of the late Celia Cruz, the great Cuban salsa singer, in the Broadway play “Celia: A Musical Journey.” Xiomara is happy about her success and now is known as a singer of alternative Latin Music. Yet, for a long time she had “no house, and no car.” Directed in 2009 by Ms. Tané Martinez. This and the second film just about 15 minutes each.

The second film is “Pinchos y Rolos/ Hairpins and Rollers,” a hilarious comedy set in Washington Heights, New York City. Maria inherits a hair salon from her sister, but now must keep it going since her husband has left her. The short film goes through a week in Maria’s life with Maria opening with a song “How Unfair… you have been to me.” She comments, those we love the most are the ones that really make us suffer. Maria puts in an ad for a new hairdresser. After several incompetents, she gets a reliable looking young woman, and also a gay man who fits right in with the women. The hairdressers go wild when a “pretty boy” type comes in to seductively sell them hair care products. The salon temporarily turns into a small discothèque. The new female hairdresser, Dolores turns out to be a disaster, and finds out that she is pregnant. Maria ends on Saturday going out on a Romantic date with the hair products salesman. Directed by Freddy Vargas.