JOURNALISM OVERBOARD?

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I was born an island boy, I’m now a veteran journalist living in a nautical museum where I look at potential dangers through periscopes.

My professional news career started working for The Washington Post owned, Post-Newsweek Stations, when a tiny stock investment financially flourished. Many decades later I was appointed AP Bureau Chief in NYC and then I took early retirement from The Associated Press, the world’s oldest news cooperative.

CON DON GONE

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Once upon a time in a nearby land named America was born a toddler. He is the grandson of a man expelled from his native land.

HOTTER TIMES COMING

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Although the official start of summer was still two weeks away, roughly half of Arizona, California and Nevada were under an excessive heat alert, which the National Weather Service said it was extending until Friday evening.

Records tumbled across the U.S. Southwest on Thursday as temperatures soared past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) in some areas, and the region’s first heat wave of the year was expected to maintain its grip for at least another day.

MIS DIS ETC

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During next few months and before the general election, there will be plenty of intentionally false information and propaganda.

Liars continually rely on their lies by repeating and yelling those lies until they are accepted by the feeble minded masses.

POTUS EXECUTIVE ORDER

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The US-Mexico border will be locked down despite the Republican Congress refusing to act on a previously approved bipartisan plan.

President Joe Biden waited for Mexico’s presidential elections to move on the U.S. president’s border actions. Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum, the nation’s first female leader, Biden said in a statement Monday that he was committed to “advancing the values and interests of both our nations to the benefit of our peoples.” 

GREEDFLATION

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Greedflation: How Corporations are Making Record Profits on the Backs of American Families · Stuffing Their Deep Pockets.

Big Food Big Pharma and Agriculture Businesses are guilty and should be called out. The less affluent households have largely depleted their pandemic stimulus checks and other savings. Meanwhile corporate earnings spike.

THE END OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? CAUSE OF DEATH : SELF-INFLICTED CORPORATE GREEDFLATION.

A SLICE OF NYC PARADISE

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Forget about the West Village, Soho, Chelsea Rockefeller, or Lincoln Centers, the place for 'peace and quiet' is further uptown.

City Island - A Slice of New York City Paradise is snuggled up in the Northeasternmost point of NYC. Take the #6 Subway to the last stop

This is The Big Apple's most romantic place. I fell and got married here. Away from the urban grid of concrete numbered avenues and streets slowly dissipates into a tiny island off Manhattan Island.

BESWITCHED

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According to published reports, forecasters are concerned over the current switch from El Niño to La Niña in weather patterns.

When ocean temperatures were recorded warm during last year's hurricane season, vertical wind shear over the Atlantic, created by shifting winds from El Niño in the Pacific Ocean, likely put a damper on at least some of the potential hurricane activity.