DON vs KIM

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USA ignorance about the rest of the world has long been a fact of life. However, with the election of Trump, Americans’ lack of knowledge has suddenly been raised as a geopolitical threat.

POTUS may think he’s going to be meeting with Kim Jong Un to win “complete, verifiable and irreversible” denuclearization of North Korea, but he may find out the hard way that communists are playing him like a kayatam string instrument.

Lucky Thirteen

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Justify steal the show in the 150th Belmont Stakes and becomes the 13th horse to win the Tripple Crown in the history of horse racing.

What A Good Horse: Justify wins the Triple Crown at the Belmont Stakes, becoming only the 13th horse in history to seize racing's ultimate honor. https://thebea.st/2sKD1Ox

Tocayo Comes Home

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Since he was born in The Bronx and his name is Rob, and my name is Roberto, and I'm living on City Island we're neighbors and Tocayos. Rob is best known as Meathead, no fakakta, that I can tell you. But more about that below. I went to watch Rob @robreiner Reiner's latest motion picture with good friends. Three gave the filmmaker a thumbs up and one gave it a sideways thumb.

Suicide Epidemic

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Suicide is the act of intentionally causing your own death. Reasons include mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse, along with alcoholism and the use of benzodiazepines.

POTUS TGIF

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Trump Gets Intensely Flanked on Friday when he goes to G7 alone near the end zone. FLOTUS says she's is not going. Would some of America's established trading partners prefer it if POTUS stayed away and turned it into a G6? We'll have to wait and see, believe me.

A frosty and chilly reception is expected at the G7 Summit in Canada The US has not been isolated from allies in more than 100 years. America, the leader of the western alliance, is not acting like it and it has not been this way for a very long time.

City Island Film Festival

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Do you love motion pictures as much as we do? Then join filmmakers and videographers from the region to support this art form.

We nurture artists producing the masterworks of tomorrow in movies, television, documentaries or however great stories are told.

Enter the City Island Film Festival by submitting your entry of 15 minutes or less in length. Winners will be chosen by the public.

Do you love movies? Then join film and video from the region to support the art form we love.

Egg Drop on Face?

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During my travels through Shanghai, Ningbo, Hangzhou, which the Chinese call Next Best Place to Heaven and other cities, I can’t tell you how many times I faced online problems when I bumped into The Great Firewall of China. The many online platforms on the Internet which we take for granted are not available to The People's Republic of China.