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This is a story of the prizes and the prices of fame. At 8:00 Wednesday morning, September 20th, Donald Trump Jr’s X account proclaimed, “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024.” Then the account burped out a Tweet about Joe Biden complete with a
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In a story that appeared Wednesday morning, September 14th, The Wall Street Journal exposed a hidden crisis called the silver tsunami. What’s the silver tsunami?  It’s a tidal wave of homelessness among the elderly.  Senior citizen homelessness today is five times what it was in 1990. Who are today’s homeless elderly? Baby boomers. A privileged
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One of the world’s most fabled neighborhoods for the rich and famous is Beverly Hills, the home of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Adele, Jack Nicholson, and Eddy Murphy. And in Beverly Hills is one of the most luxurious and expensive shopping areas you have ever seen, Rodeo Drive. But is the allure of Rodeo Drive
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World-Renowned Drummer/DJ DRMAGDN has just released the official music video of his remix of the Beatles classic “Something.” In ten weeks the single has broken 6 million plays/views and is going viral around the world, as well as it has been added to the biggest two Spotify playlists “Today’s Top Hits” and “MINT.” After signing
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Wednesday morning at 8:30 am Eastern Time, India landed its first rover on the surface of the moon.  It’s called Chandrayaan-3.  Which means “moon craft” in Sanskrit. Fourteen hours later, the Chandrayaan-3’s rover rolled out and, said India’s space agency, “took a walk around.”  But, unlike America’s rovers on Mars, which keep on trucking for up to
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Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They are absent more than one
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In 1968 Pope Paul VI established a Global Peace Day. A New Year’s Day on which the Pope gives a speech “reflecting the signs of our times.” Wednesday August 9th, the Vatican put out an announcement about the speech the pope will give at next year’s Peace Day, coming up on January 1st, just four months
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The Washington Post ran a headline Wednesday, August 2, saying Donald “Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.” Why is this time different? From the Democrat point of view, we are at a turning point in American history. The next 458 days, many Democrats feel, will determine whether we have a
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Digital IDs are sweeping the world, but are barely seeping into America.  This American techno-sluggishness has disturbing implications. We Americans have traditionally led the world with our technologies and our infrastructure.  That is no longer the case.  Our roadways and airports make us look like a third world country.  Even our water and sewage systems are
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In my opinion, the sooner Vladimir Putin leaves the planet the better.  He’s a mass murderer.  But the fact is that Putin has pulled off a miracle. The news media says that the mutiny against Russia’s military leaders on Saturday June 24 shows Putin’s weakness. But that’s dead wrong.  The mutiny shows Vladimir Putin’s strength.  Why? On
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Rupert Murdoch’s US Sun just headlined “The Complete Destruction of the UK in six minutes.”   Why? At 3:00 pm Moscow time on Wednesday, June 22nd, Vladimir Putin gave a speech to the top graduates of Russia’s military universities and military academies.  In that speech, Putin made it clear that he has added nuclear weapons to
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Something startling is happening to aging.   90,000 Americans have reached the age of 100.  Which means that you, too, may live that long.  But how? Publicity for a new book on longevity has brought a 2012 study back into the news.  In that study, researchers from Yeshiva University looked at 250 people 98 to
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There’s a reason junk food is called junk.  It isn’t good for you. A new small scale study in Sweden, a study with only fifteen experimental subjects, shows something intriguing.  When you eat a high fat/high sugar diet, a junk food diet, a strange thing happens to your sleep.   You sleep just as long
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing
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Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.”  The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.” Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy
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Someone is trying to end the liberty and freedom of your kids.   On Wednesday April 26th, a bipartisan team that included Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Alabama Republican Katie Britt introduced The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. An act that strangles the freedom of
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If the launch of SpaceX’s 100-passenger Starship on Thursday succeeds, it will radically change the relationship between life and space. Why?   for the price of one NASA Artemis Moon Rocket launch, you could launch 2,000 Starships for the price of one Artemis Moon Rocket launch carrying three passengers to the moon, you could launch
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On Wednesday April 12th, NPR announced that it will quit Twitter. It will take down all 52 of its Twitter accounts. Why? Because Twitter has taken the label it uses for state-manipulated propaganda channels like Russia’s Russia Today and China’s CCTV—“state affiliated media”– and has applied it to NPR. Implying that NPR is a puppet
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February 24th marks a year since the troops of Vladimir Putin first invaded the Ukraine.  And new developments are emerging rapidly.  The war in Ukraine is becoming a piece in a new great game.  A chess piece in a new faceoff between the great powers. On Wednesday February 22nd, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi[i] visited Vladimir Putin in
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On February 6th, a constitutional amendment was introduced in the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isaac Bryan.  Bryan’s amendment would give voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions. Two days later, David Cruz, an ex-felon who spent thirteen years in state prison and then helped organize a non-profit called Initiate Justice, held a
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COP-27 is underway in Egypt’s Sharm El Sheikh with a basic goal laid out in its statement of purpose: “Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of reducing global emissions by half by 2030.” But that is just one small step toward a greater goal—net zero. Says the United Nations, “net zero means cutting
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing
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Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72 years old and a joint Saudi and American citizen, was arrested at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia when he arrived for a two week visit to family. Almadi is a project manager who retired[i] to Florida. Reports England’s the Guardian, the Saudi authorities “held him in a hotel while they
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Entrepreneur, philanthropist, actor and entertainer John Pasquale (aka SohoJohnny) is offering a free or low cost rental pop-up location in the most popular area in New York City for A-List Celebrities. The SoHo location is world famous with its designer boutiques, extravagant chain stores, and high-end art galleries. Known for its elegant cast iron facades
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Billboard charting Recording Artist April Rose Gabrelli and Kulick will join One Times Square and Wonderama as New Year’s Eve Correspondents at Times Square the center of the world live on New Year’s Eve. Wonderama will be streaming talent on New Year’s Eve for 18 hours all over the world starting in New Zealand and
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