A long time ago the words “Sunday morning” meant a Maroon 5 song. It was a more innocent time and shedding clothes and sharing skin had nothing to do with cannibalism. Now I see double meanings everywhere or more precisely I have started to take English more literally. A long time ago, as a child, learning English I must have been taught not to take the English language literally. I don’t recall specifically learning that but from inference it must have happened. The reason is, if you take some of the aphorisms literally, it might kill the reader. This one goes out to all our fans and readers everywhere. We hope you have long and successful lives. And also careers. Hey Susie. Sort of like singing Hey Jude….We know you read us in the gold palace.
Sunday mornings for me never meant a sermon. Sometimes, rarely, it meant a time of reflection and contemplation. They’re both quite different…to me reflection is not as much introspection as it is a a review of the years past. Since I don’t recall things I haven’t done much of that lately. However, for when I did have memories, I’d open the diary and see where things were at. I had a vision and several goals for both personal and professional life mixed into a single sheet of paper. Goals were always with a timeframe, the vision was always without. Lately a lot of famous people have been dying at young ages. It’s remarkable that no one has even broached the subject. Maybe CFIUS is simply a “See fidelity is us” and not a reference to Confucius. You ever wonder what the CDFI fund does? It’s an actual department at the US Treasury where CFIUS is housed.
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund): Promotes economic growth and community development in low-income areas.
Bruce Wayne should visit a low income community sometime and not just at night. He should visit the liquor stores, the vape shops, the Little Caesar’s pizza shops, the automobile body shops, the pawn shops, the marijuana dispensaries, the low income health clinics and leave the check cashing places for the last. He should then meet the CDFI Fund manager and ask them exactly what they do.
Chris Miller serves as the Director of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. Appointed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, he assumed the role following his work as an executive at Three Roots Capital, a certified CDFI based in Tennessee. He brings two decades of experience in small business financing, commercial portfolio management, and community development equity investing to the agency. The Director oversees the CDFI Fund's critical initiatives, including the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program, the Capital Magnet Fund, and the Bank Enterprise Award Program, which inject federal dollars alongside private capital into distressed communities.
Look pal, I haven’t done any research into any of the agencies and bureaus at the UST. All I can tell you is what I see in low income areas and map the delta between what I see and what I ought to have seen if the CDFI was actually doing anything beneficial.
You’re right, no future President will make the gold palace back into the People’s White House. Hey wanna have some fun with the media? I found out just this morning that Zelenskyy about a year ago found Chinese units and MSS operating in Ukraine. I am sure you’ve been briefed. Cause you usually talk stuff openly and you haven’t on this issue. Anyway, the media who covered this story was also rather tiny. And I am sure you can guess who did NOT cover it. Actually you can’t. Even vaunted Fox News did NOT cover it.
Independent & Specialized Reporting
The Kyiv Independent: Provided highly localized, in-depth follow-up reporting, notably attending and broadcasting a direct press conference held with the captured prisoners of war to detail their frontline service and motives.
Radio Free Asia (RFA): Conducted direct tracking of the captured individuals, detailing specific interviews and testimonies from Wang Guangjun and Zhang Renbo regarding how financial hardship led them to take up Russian military contracts.
Interfax-Ukraine: Served as a primary wire source providing direct transcripts of Zelenskyy's statements regarding the verified surnames and passport data held by Ukrainian intelligence. [1, 2]
Most media did however cover North Korean soldiers fighting for the Russians. The Chinese units and MSS are sort of like our CIA “liaisons”, JSOC and SAS in Ukraine.
I am not quite sure why media does and does not cover certain things about China. I mean some media covers it and you’d think that’s it’s a story that’ll get a few readers interested. So if the media’s purpose was to inform the public, why not cover the story? Then again, my morning reading of The Electronic Intifada wasn’t pleasant. Schools again. On the more pleasant side, Cappy tells me Lebanese soldiers are finally moving against the Hezbollah and blocking their arms supplies from Iran. Will Congress let you cut off the mouth from the kitty? It’ll be a peaceful world then… Israel won’t kill children in schools and Hezbollah won't fire rockets in return. Fair trade. Ask China what fair trade means. Sorry this was meant to be jokes about media, not a roasting of you. I saw Barack’s name in that CDFI list and couldn’t resist Bruce. “Early baseline concepts and advocacy frameworks organized by community development leaders…” Hey, hey, Bruce, check this out… any country that needs check cashing services has succeeded in __________________________ (you fill in the blank). My vote if for “advocacy”.
When Stanley Tucci’s character described 15 lives or 1500 years buried under a bridge in Ohio.
I no longer watch live TV and I’ve complained about this before. I might be watching a football game and suddenly commercials kick in. Usually they’re for food and medications and insurance one after another. A pizza ad, followed by a viagra ad, followed by a Progressive ad. It’s as if the ads themselves have collapsed into Pizzagate. There is something unhealthy about the subliminal programming of the unconscious through the advertisements while watching healthy young men go at each other in a gladiatorial sport. And that’s before a discussion on how “voices” mirror generations. Millennials were John Krasinski in The Office while the newer generations are more “detached”. I won’t say that’s a media conspiracy or protocol either.
For some reasons I setup notifications from The Chicago Tribune. I find notifications to be an easy way to see what’s happening in Chitown. The most recent batches had this two news stories back to back within the space of day. I am sure it’s nothing.
