The Real USA Allies

Submitted by ub on

We The People of The United States of America have long relied on a group of close allies, along with formal diplomatic relations with most UN member states except for Bhutan, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. That was then, but @realDonaldTrump has now changed all of this. Where is our system of checks and balances?

Why is it that longtime allies and trading partners like Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Mexico and South Korea have been pushed aside for North Korea, Russia, and China?

CITY IMAGES Survey

Please, take a moment to respond to our Summertime survey for your opportunity to win gifts. To be entered into a drawing, all you have to do is provide feedback on any and all your experiences using our content and assorted resources.

Please, e-mail, or snail mail your thoughts and ideas to the addresses listed below.

Your thoughts and feedback will help us to develop and refine our news and information services as we approach our seven years. Survey responses are due by the end of June and we will randomly select participants soon thereafter.

Image
your-ballot-your-ballot-was-counted

Community Service

Submitted by ub on

My nephew Daniel lives and studies at Baruch High School in Manhattan. He is the only son of Senior Nikkei correspondent Momoe Ban Braveman, my kissing cousin. This weekend Daniel and I were volunteering in and around City Island, The Bronx.

Trump says he’s meeting Kim Jong Un this week to win “complete, verifiable and irreversible” denuclearization of North Korea.

Our community public service took us double-digit hours and included clean up activities, gardening, inside, around and outside these assorted places.

Purging US Voters

Submitted by ub on

By a 5-4 decision, US Supreme Court Justice Alito reverses the 6th circuit and upholds Ohio's purging of infrequent voters. The state of Ohio has purged 2 million voters since 2011, more than any other state. Black voters 2x as likely as whites to be purged in state's largest counties.

This means it is OK to purge voters from the rolls if they skipped voting a couple of times. Apparently, casting your ballot is no longer a right, but a privilege. This is why GOP lawmakers collaborate with POTUS. They know voter suppression helps them to make elections neither free nor fair.

Net Neutrality Neutered

Submitted by ub on
Images

Net neutrality is a principle when Internet service providers treat all data on the world wide web the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by a user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.

PR Day Parade

Submitted by ub on
Images

While NYC Puerto Ricans were celebrating their annual parade, the mood on the island was much more somber.

Hurricane Maria has given this year's Puerto Rican Day Parade a new significance https://usat.ly/2sSPCi5

WATCH IT ON DEMAND: 2018 National Puerto Rican Day Parade http://abc7ny.com/3534780/

Cheers, pride, and anger at Manhattan’s Puerto Rican Day Parade https://in.amny.com/2JtisRa

DON vs KIM

Submitted by ub on
Images

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

Submitted by ub on
Images

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

Submitted by ub on
Images

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.

Subscribe to