Diane Sare Says, What Democracy in New York?

 summit for democracy?

About the U.S. State Department’s “Summit for Democracy”

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Matthew 7:5

(Nov. 30, 2021)—On December 9-10, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden will host a virtual “Summit for Democracy” with the noble-sounding goal of “providing a platform for leaders to announce both individual and collective commitments, reforms, and initiatives to defend democracy and human rights at home and abroad.” As an American candidate for the United States Senate from the State of New York, and as a long-time associate of the politically-persecuted American statesman and economist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., I am writing to urge the participants, and the uninvited nations, to look behind the flowery phrases on the State Department’s webpage at the actual state of affairs within the United States, and to consider that this “platform” may be more like the platform beneath the feet of unfortunate souls waiting to be hanged.

The 100,000 drug-overdose deaths in the United States last year, or the 14 deaths in the New York City Rikers Island jail complex, or the fact that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.A., or that in 2017, 1 out of 10 New York City public school students was homeless, should be a clue that all is not well within the nation which is hosting this summit.

The State of New York has just passed legislation making it nearly impossible for any non-establishment candidate to appear on the ballot in statewide elections by requiring tens of thousands of signatures to be gathered within a six-week window of time. Such restrictive measures mean that there will be no opportunity for the voters to oppose the policies which have created such hardship for them.

Since the number one issue that this “Summit of Democracy” purports to address is “Defending against authoritarianism,” perhaps someone should ask their American hosts about the status of “free and fair” elections in the United States. One would think that upholding the right of citizens to seek public office, as well as having their votes counted in a fair and transparent fashion, would be an important safeguard against “authoritarian” regimes. At least citizens should be able to challenge their elected officials on policy matters and allow the voters to make their choice—but, not so in the State of New York.

I declared my candidacy for the 2022 U.S. Senate race in July of 2020, knowing that the State of New York already had one of the most difficult ballot access procedures in the nation; namely requiring 15,000 valid signatures of registered New York voters to be gathered in a short six week period, and including an outrageously detailed cover sheet and other filing requirements. Even establishment candidate Senator John McCain failed to meet these requirements for the 2000 Republican presidential primary, while, thanks to a genuine political machine of dedicated volunteers, Lyndon LaRouche’s name appeared on the New York ballot twice out of three presidential primary elections.

I had been prepared to face the already onerous 15,000 signature requirement to challenge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is pushing national drug legalization, in order to legitimize massive income streams for the Wall Street crowd he represents. Unbeknownst to me (and most New York voters), major changes in ballot access were disingenuously introduced into the 2020 New York State budget (see S.7508B, p.259). The signature requirement was tripled for non-major party affiliated candidates in statewide races, to a virtually impossible 45,000 valid signatures, all to be collected over the same short six week period. And yet, for Democratic and Republican Party candidates who have the substantial resources of their party organizations to draw upon, the requirement remains at 15,000 signatures!

Also in this budget item, the Libertarian and Green Parties were stripped of their party lines on the ballot, as the previous requirement of 50,000 votes in a statewide election was more than tripled to 2% of the statewide vote. So, in the State of New York, while great care is allegedly being taken to make sure that 'anyone and everyone' can vote virtually at any time and at any location, the only candidates allowed on the ballot will be those from the two major parties, as well as the Conservative and Working Families parties, which both got around the requirement by endorsing Trump and Biden respectively thus depriving their members of a non-establishment presidential choice.

The ostensible rationale for this outrageous elimination of independent campaigns from the New York State ballot, was that the state intends to disperse $100 million in matching funds, and they don’t want to spend money on “frivolous” candidates, obviously meaning that they intend to keep the money within the hands of those who already have it. Since the matching funds are given in an 8:1 ratio, this widens the gulf between establishment and non-establishment campaigns even more. It also makes the tripled signature requirement for my U.S. Senate campaign the more absurd, as federal candidates are not eligible for matching funds in the first place. That is, no matter how many signatures I get, or how much money I raise, I will not receive matching funds, thus proving that the argument for the requirement is based upon fraudulent premises.

My independent campaign for U.S. Senate currently represents the only serious challenge to incumbent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Of the several candidates supposedly challenging Schumer, I am the only candidate who has filed any report with the Federal Elections Commission. Thus, as of this time, if I am excluded from the ballot, there will be no opposition in this very important U.S. Senate election.

Further, over the past 18 months, I have hosted over 50 weekly symposia on various urgent topics, including: homelessness, food shortages and famine, Afghanistan, education, election reform, nuclear power, water management, and more, with panel participants from among leading national and state experts including medical doctors, scientists, prisoner rights advocates, farmers, housing association leaders, teachers and others (see New York Symposium with Diane Sare). If I am denied ballot access, the voting public will have no opportunity to express their opinion on these important policies.

Perhaps some courageous individual will ask their American hosts at the upcoming “Summit for Democracy” about the question of ballot access in American elections, as well as the case of Julian Assange, and the case of former presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. If the summit hosts were sincere, these clearly un-democratic matters would be at the top of the agenda as issues to be happily rectified.

Tali Roth... glory of classical guitar, Sunday , St Johns in the Vill NYC

Tali Roth guitarist ....classical guitarist-- these concerts have been great... only 100 seats.  at St johns in the village, 218 West 11th st.....  NY NY 10014.  at 3 pm to 4 pm, plus wine and cheese reception.... all included only $10 students, $20 general admission.

Church is in lovely Greenwich Village NYC, 3 blocks south of the 14th Street subway at 7th ave, #1, 2, 3 lines.

“BACH TO THE FUTURE” CONCERT SERIES

ARTIST: Tali Roth

PROGRAM: Classical guitar solo

J.S. Bach: Lute suite

Johannes Brahms: Brahms intermezzo op. 117 no. 2 B flat minor

Isaac Albeniz: Asturias (Leyenda) Suite Española no. 5, opus 47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HukAs2p2hQ)

Astor Piazzolla: selections (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXEUiNqC6jQ)

Enrique Granados: Spanish Dances

Boccherini: selections

A SUNDAY SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IN THE VILLAGE!

Attend individual concerts for inspiration every Sunday afternoon -- or, subscribe to our series, to support the work of the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture; Its “Bach To The Future” Music/Science Program for Students; and the new Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture Youth Chorus. Accepting new student applications for the chorus -- ages 12 to 18! http://www.ffrcc.org! To Subscribe: https://www.ffrcc.org/bach-to-the-future-page

ABOUT THE ARTIST

One of the world’s leading and most charismatic guitarists, Tali Roth has been hailed by Classical Guitar magazine as "an extraordinary solo and chamber musician” and by The New York Times as a “marvelous classical guitarist”. Her past engagements include performing on the soundtrack for Woody Allen’s 2010 film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Since her Carnegie Hall debut, Ms. Roth has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Japan and her native country of Israel, appearing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall with violinist Midori, Alvin Ailey theatre with Douglas Dunn and Dancers in the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance festival, Rose Hall home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Caramoor Center with conductor Giovanni Reggioli, Tel Aviv Henry Crown Hall, Sanremo town Hall at the Internattional Sanremo Guitar Festival, Teatro Presidente in San Salvador with the El Salvador Philharmonic with conductor Sarmientos, Teatro Solis in Uruguay with Polly Ferman and Glamour Tango, Haiyuza Theatre Rappongi , Tokyo with Flamenco Komatsubara and Silvia Duran dance companies, the Susan Dellal center with members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and at Lincoln Center with members of the New York Philharmonic.

Ms. Roth has performed on stage in the New York Off-Broadway musical production of Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott's The Odyssey and by invitation for the U.N. in Washington for dignitaries such as former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and General Colin Powell. She has won Top Prize in all categories at the Twenty-Third Masterplayers Music and Conductors Competition in Switzerland and the New York Artist International Competition Award.

An avid new music promoter Ms. Roth has recorded Premiere works by composers such as Ami Maayani to the IMP label, Richardo Lorca, conductor and composer German Caceres, composer Mladen Milicevic and more. She has recorded extensively to TV and Radio worldwide and has featured on WQXR, Argentinian 96.7 national radio, Chicago public Dame Myra Myra Hess Series, Canada Public TV and Los Angeles Hollywood TV to name a few.

Ms. Roth is a graduate of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy (B.M) and The Juilliard School (M.M.) She has led the NYU Guitar Department from 2008-2011, has presented master classes throughout the world and has been a fellowship-teaching assistant at the Aspen Music Festival.

Her upcoming DVD with Grammy Flutist Carol Wincenc will be released by Cinevu.

Tali Roth has been the head of the guitar program at Juilliard Pre-College since 2005 and the Narnia Festival in Italy since 2012.

Ms. Roth plays a Max Cuker guitar and is a Luthier Artist.

For more info please visit www.TaliRoth.com

Music at St Veronica's in Greenwich Village NYC NY

The Music at St Veronica's season is back in full swing! Join us for an incredible night of music performed by a full orchestra conducted by Benjamin Grow.

As music director of Tom Cipullo's acclaimed opera Glory Denied in Philadelphia, Grow was said to have "expertly coached the singers and led the orchestra" (Broad Street Review), and his "fine detailing delivered the ferocious power of this score" (Huffington Post), in what The Philadelphia Inquirer said was the "most unforgettable opera" of the year.

The Program:

Sense of Place

Felix Mendelssohn- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture

— Intermission—

Antonin Dvorak- Czech Suite

Felix Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

History of the Concert Series:

The Church of St. Veronica, a 130 year-old Catholic church on Christopher Street, closed in July of 2017 due to low-attendance at Sunday masses. When WestView News publisher George Capsis received a letter from one of his readers informing him of the fact, he knew something had to be done.

Rather than see the church closing as another casualty of the rapidly "disappearing Village", Capsis believed that this was an opportunity to bring the community together. The West Village is a highly desirable area in New York city because of its small-town neighborhood feel (hence "The Village") in one of the biggest metropoles in the world. That neighborhood feel, however, is at risk as property values skyrocket and condominiums come to replace the iconic brownstones. Most troubling to Capsis, a nonagenarian himself, was seeing his fellow senior citizens (who have remained in the West Village thanks to rent-stabilized apartments) excluded from enjoying the community they built. For that reason, WestView News has been hosting classical music concerts at the Church of St. Veronica since November of 2017. This next concert will the first concert of the new season and we look forward to seeing our neighbors there, young, old and everyone in-between.

---------------------also see www.ffrcc.org/bach-to-the-future-page for more concerts in the village, starting with Oct 14  .... Schiller institute NYC chorus... 10 Afro amer spirituals, at ST Johns in the Village, 218 West 11th Street NY NY 10014.

Tear Drop Memorial event for the Alexandrov Ensemble Red Army Chorus

ALEXANDROV ENSEMBLE ONE YEAR MEMORIAL TO TAKE PLACE AT THE TEAR DROP MEMORIAL

IN BAYONNE, NJ THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 6^TH, 10 AM

 

“They say when words fail, music speaks. Arts and culture are meant to bring peace to people.”

 

One year ago, on December 25^th, 2016, a Russian plane on its way to Syria to perform for troops crashed into the Black Sea.  The entire Alexandrov Ensemble (Red Army Chorus) musicians and dancers, as well as several promising young journalists and a beloved charity worker perished along with the crew.

Two weeks following this tragedy, on the day Christmas is observed in Russia,  a memorial service was held for the Ensemble  at the Bayonne Tear Drop Memorial, organized by the Schiller Institute NYC  Chorus, the NYPD Ceremonial Unit, and representatives of the Bayonne Fire Department.  Color guards from Bayonne and New York City participated.   Speakers also included Terry Strada of the 9/11 Families United for Justice Against Terrorism, who lost her husband on 9/11, and Peter Iliichev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations,  The Tear Drop Sculpture, also called the memorial “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism”, was built by the Russians as a gift to the American people following the tragedy of 9/11.  In her remarks, Terry Strada concluded:  “Tragedies like this can bring a nation together. Today, it is bringing two nations together. I hope you find comfort in knowing that we feel your pain and mourn your loss, too,” she said. “Russia wanted us, the American people, to have a memorial for the fallen heroes and the citizens lost and killed on 9/11 with a teardrop representing that the world cried with us. Thank you for your kindness and support. Today, we offer you the same.”

The Jan. 2018 event was covered in the Hudson Reporter :http://hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/27345177/article-Chorus-honors-Alexandrov-Ensemble-at-the-Teardrop-Memorial--Members-of-BFD--NYPD--and-Russian-consulate-join-?instance=bayonne_top_story, and received other international coverage.    Other articles and videos were posted by:  Ruptly [https://ruptly.tv/vod/20170107-028]  and Russia Today:  https://www.rt.com/news/372986-schiller-chorus-us-anthem-alexandrov/  and others.  The videos were viewed by an international audience of over 1 million people.

THIS YEAR’S ALEXANDROV ENSEMBLE ONE YEAR MEMORIAL

The Alexandrov Ensemble One Year Memorial will take place in Bayonne, NJ  this Saturday, January 6^th, also on the weekend of the celebration of Christmas in Russia. The gathering and wreath laying will take place from 10 am to 10:45 am at the Tear Drop at 51 Port Terminal Blvd., Bayonne, NJ  07002.

Later in the day, there will be a Musical Commemoration for the Alexandrov Ensemble from 2 pm to 4:30 pm,  presented by the Schiller Institute Chorus and the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture at Good Shepherd Faith Presbyterian Church at 152 W. 66^th St., New York, NY 10023.  Musical offerings will include the famous Bach Chaconne.

With the Syrian war potentially ending, this year’s tribute for the Ensemble takes on a particularly strong significance.  The Ensemble was travelling to the war front in Syria when they perished.   The invitation from the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus for this year’s ceremony reads:   “Let us resolve that these lives have not been in vain by dedicating ourselves to the creation of a new paradigm, where violence is no longer accepted as human activity.  As Friedrich Schiller admonished us all in his poem, The Artist, ‘The dignity of Man into your hands is given, protector be!  It sinks with you!  With you it is arisen!”

Saturday, January 6^th, 2018

Wreath Laying Ceremony 10 am to 10:45 -- 51 Port Terminal Blvd, Bayonne, NJ  07002

Musical Commemoration for the Alexandrov Ensemble

2 pm to 4:30 pm at Good Shepherd Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 W. 66^th St., NY

 

For more information, call:  201-220-7739.

Columbus statue, and the discovery of America

No, we are not surrendering the Columbus statue in NYC or anywhere.  Harlem dudes knowl the story of the Renaissance and the discovery of America.

Columbus and Toscanelli by Ricardo Olvera

 One of the most controversial matters relating to the discovery of the Americas relates to the Italian Renaissance. In the scientific seminars held during the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli presented his idea of the project. Based upon the scientific information brought by cosmographers, geographers, and experts in the science of navigation gathered there together, the general lines were traced of what would, fifty-three years later, become the "greatest event after Creation," according to one Spanish author-- the discovery of the New World.

The direct connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish exploit is established by the correspondence between Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and Christopher Columbus. In Toscanelli's letter to Columbus in 1480, and in the ones written by him six years before to Fernao Martins, agent of the Portuguese King Alfonso V, the Florentine scholar urged the Iberian powers-Portugal and Spain-to realize the transatlantic project discussed in Florence, and he laid out for them the map and the scientific information required for its success (SEE Map I). As Fernando Columbus, Christopher's son, reports in his Life of the Admiral, the basis upon which his father founded his project was as follows: A Master Paolo, physician of Master Domenico, a Florentine contemporary to the same Admiral, was the cause in great measure of his undertaking this This article, translated by Rick Sanders, has been excerpted and adapted from "The Discovery of the Americas and the Great Scientific Project of the Renaissance, " which appeared in the Spanish -language magazine Benengeli, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987). voyage with greater spirit. The fact that the cited Paolo was a friend of Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, and that the two were writing letters to each other about the sea voyages made to the country of Guinea during the time of King Alfonso of Portugal, and about what could be done in the westward direction, came to the ears of the Admiral who was most curious about these things. And he hastened to write, by way of one Lorenzo Girardi, a Florentine who was in Lisbon, to the said Master Paolo, about this, and sent to him an armillary sphere, revealing to him his intent. Master Paolo sent him a reply in Latin ....

Later Fernando Columbus transcribes the first letter from Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus: To Christopher Columbus, Paolo, physician, greetIllgs. I see this magnificent and grand desire of yours to see how to get to [the regions] where spices are born, and in reply to your letter I send you a copy of another letter which I wrote some time ago to a friend and familiar of the most serene King of Portugal, before the Castillian war, in reply to another letter which by commision of his Highness was written to me about the said matter; and I send you another such map of sailing, as the one I wrote to him, through which your questions will be satisfied. Toscanelli affixed to the bottom of his letter to Columbus, a copy of the letter which he had sent earlier to Fernao Martins, the canon who operated as an intermediary between the republican networks of Florence, and those republicans who were trying to convince the King of Portugal to put the navigational capacity of that country in the service of this great project. This letter had been directed at awakening the commercial interest of  the powerful, painting with vivid colors the fantastic riches of the Far East; and attached to it was the carta de marear or "navigational map," which Columbus never let out of his sight for even a moment, during his first voyage. Did Toscanelli believe that following his navigational plan, the coasts that one would see rise on the horizon would be those of the Orient? Or did he perhaps expect those of a new continent?


One fact makes us suspect the latter: the distance at which Columbus encountered America, and likewise the principal geographic and nautical characteristics of the route, were precisely those of Toscanelli's navigational map. Instead of fantastic palaces covered in gold and the refined civilization of the Orient, Columbus encountered an almost savage continent, in which everything still needed to be done. The prevailing mentality of the courts of Europe at the time, would have made it very difficult to find support for a project involving so much nature and so little art. Either way, Toscanelli and the strategists of the Renaissance succeeded in their plan to mobilize the maritime-commercial powers to an enterprise which the "experts" of the age considered "not income-producing" (just as today, the cost-accountants consider the project of colonizing the Moon and Mars as not "income producing"), and such experts notwithstanding, there was opened up for humanity the most formidable period of development of which we have memory. Are Toscanelli's Letters Genuine? At the Congress of Americanists held in Paris in 1 900, Henry Vignaud, then First Secretary of the American Embassy in France, denied for the first time the authenticity of the famous correspondence between Toscanelli, Martins, and Columbus, in a document which was immediately widely diffused through the press of the day. Over the years since 1 900, the vital and previously wellknown link of Columbus to Toscanelli-and thus, to the Council of Florence-was hidden, and ultimately, forgotten. In essence, Vignaud said that the discovery of the Americas was not the result of any scientific project, but rather of chance. According to Vignaud, Columbus never had any intention of reaching Asia, let alone the New World, but only of reaching one of the islands located west of the Canaries. If by chance Columbus did have any scientific theory, he would not have gotten this from Toscanelli, nor from any of the cosmographers of the Renaissance, but from Ptolemy, Aristotle, and other "authorities" of medieval geography and cosmography. Vignaud based this on his "demonstration" that the 38 letters ofToscanelli to Christopher Columbus, and above all from Toscanelli to Fernao Martins, were apocryphal. In refuting this assertion, the historian Clement Markham argued that [fJew documents of this period are so well certified [as this letter]. Las Casas, an absolutely trustworthy and honest historian, not only furnishes us with a Spanish translation, but informs us that one part of the original, it seems, the navigational map adjoined, was in fact in his possession at the moment of writing. In the Life of the Admiral, by Fernando Columbus, MAP 1. Reconstruction of Toscanelli's map sent to Columbus in 1480. there is included an Italian translation. And one copy of the original version in Latin was found in the Columbus Library in Seville in 1 860, in the frontispiece of a book by Pius II which had belonged to Christopher Columbus, written in the Admiral's own hand. I In a reply to Markham, Vignaud attempted to bolster his claim by arguing that Fernao Martins never existed, and that he was a mere invention, created to explain the inexplicable: the tie between Columbus and Toscanelli-which was impossible according to Vignaud, because Columbus was never in Florence, and Toscanelli never left Italy. , Did Fernao Martins Exist? Ironically, by questioning the existence of Fernao Martins, Vignaud actually helps us to highlight the point of conception of the Renaissance exploration project. For in the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa entitled Tetralogus de Non Aliud (Tetralogue on the Not-Other), there unfolds a Socratic dialogue between "Nicolaus" and three interlocutors, of whom the main one is Ferdinando Martin Portugaliensi natione, canon of Lisbon, whose full name is Fernao Martins de Roritz (from the town of Roritz in Portugal). The other two are Oanes Andrea Vigerius, or Gian Andrea, from Vigevano in northern Italy; and Petrus Balbus Pisanus, or Pietro Balbi, born in Pisa, a former study companion of Cusa and Toscanelli in Padua. This same Fernao (Martins) of Roritz, relative and private councillor to Alfonso V, would, together with Toscanelli, later sign on Aug. 6, 1464, the last will and testament of Nicolaus of Cusa, as a witness and as his personal doctor; a few days later, he would attend Cusa's funeral. A relative of Fernao Martins also enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal Cusa: Antonio Martins, the bishop of Oporto, born in Chavez, a town near Roritz. It is this Antonio Martins who had accompanied the cardinal's delegation to Constantinople in 1 437, sent by Pope Eugene IV to convince the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople of the need to be present at the Council. Toscanelli also played the role of interlocutor in one of Nicolaus of Cusa's dialogues, on the squaring of the circle, entitled De Arithmeticis Complementis (On Arith ­ metical Complements). Born in 1397, one of the most outstanding participants in the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli died at age 88, in 1 482, a decade before the realization of his great project. He had been Cusa's fellow student in Padua, and Cusa dedicated to him, besides the cited book, another one entitled De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometrical Transformations).

 Thus we see, contrary to Vignaud, that Nicolaus of Cusa, Toscanelli, and Martins formed a close intellectual circle, whose scientific work was unified in and grew out of the great Florentine Council. One indication of the educational efforts which the leaders of the Renaissance undertook to win over the "best mariners of the world" to their cause, is the fact that Columbus' most treasured book, which he carried with him in his voyages of discovery, was the Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Universal History of Facts and Deeds) of Pope Pius I I-the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini-in whose frontispiece Columbus himself had copied in his own hand Toscanelli's map. It had been Piccolomini who penned the great lament at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453: "This is a second death for Homer, a second death for Plato: now where will we be able to find the works of genius of the Greek poets and philosophers?" Pope Pius II died on Aug. 14, 1464, three days after Cardinal Cusa, and the chances of an immediate Christian crusade to liberate Constantinople and free the Mediterranean from Turkish control, were sharply reduced; this thread would be picked up later, through the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, brought to a close in 1492 by the same Ferdinand and Isabella who would dispatch Columbus that same year on the greatest military flanking move in history-to bypass the VenetianTurkish stranglehold, and reach the east by the rear, going west across the feared ocean-sea. And thus it was that, after the deaths of Cusa and Pius II, the scientist Toscanelli returned to Florence "to continue his studies, turning his face not to the east, but to the west, thinking about a new route for commerce and for civilization.,,2

NOTES I. Clement R. Markham, Toscanelli and Columbus: A Letter from Clement R. Markham to Henry Vignaud (London: Sands and Company, 1 903). 2. Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale, Cristobal Colon y Pablo del Pozzo Toscanelli (Madrid: I mprenta de Administracion Militar, 1 903). 39

Ebola New York at Jacob Javits Center

Mass meeting today, or was it a mass beating??? at the Jacob Javits Center on mobilizing hospital workers to deal with the Ebola virus, and Ebola infected patients in NYC -- if it comes to that.  There were at least 5000 workers there and they had lots of questions.

Fortunately there were some www.larouchepac.com people there to tell them about the budget-cutting lies of Obama and company.  This sht could get us all killed.  Already 22 million in West Africa in the 3 nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are on the line.  Will you act????

Foreclosures and your Attorney

If you are facing a foreclosure, call your Attorney.  It may help to at least stall for time.  Otherwise, the crash is on, particularly for you... from geezer land:

Statistics elsewhere in the country are equally dramatic. The Philadelphia Business Journal reported Sept. 11 that foreclosure starts in New Jersey had skyrocketed in August, increasing by 115% year-on-year; scheduled foreclosure auctions increased by 71% compared to a year ago, to the highest level since July 2010. In Maryland, August foreclosures increased by 20% year-on-year. According to RealtyTrac, the state’s August foreclosures were up 71% from July, and at that point, Maryland had experienced two straight years of rising foreclosures.
In Colorado, foreclosure auctions were up by a whopping 160%, and in Oregon, they increased by 117%.
Against this backdrop, a Sept. 9 article in The New York Times is revealing. Under the headline, “Are Subprime Mortgages Coming Back?” author Binyamin Appelbaum suggests that “it might be time for the revival of the subprime-lending industry” by loosening standards on mortgage lending, which he claims are now excessively strict, and hurting the overall economy. After all, he says, long before these risky loans were blamed for helping to usher in the 2008 financial crisis, they were “embraced as a promising antidote to the excessive caution of mainstream lenders.”

Harlem Dudes, see a Show

Here is the show for you in New York, bleepin City.  Harlem and Bronx dudes say yeah. New York is a party town, even if Obama and the sequester are getting you down.

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South Ferry not back at least a year

The word is that the South Ferry Station New York, NY of the #1 train, and the adjoining Whitehall Station of the RR line, and the link to the RR tunnel to Brooklyn, will not be back for at least a year. That is a pretty long time after Sandy, Hurricane Sandy. This thing was so badly flooded that the repairs will cost on the order of $600 billion. Will we ever do it?

99ers Rally in New York for Survival

We could be in desperate straits soon, Harlem and Bronx dudes. That is why we need to get the Glass- Steagall bill to stop the bailout, and separate deposit banking from investment speculation. We can outlaw derivatives or simply stop insuring them. Then, after Obama is out, we can build the Nawapa project, the famous water from Alaska project, and put millions back to work, start and save private contracting companies, and start being the United States again... before it's too late.
Get down with Larouchepac and into the groove, baby.

No wonder Obama wants to let Pelosi and the unconstitutional OCE lynch Cong. Charlie Rangel. Hey Harlem dudes, you are not the only one who has it rough. Now have you figured out why Obama must go? Don't wait to become a 99er. The 99ers are people who have exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment and now are living with relatives or near desperation. The 99ers are a new organization sponsored by certain trade union network, and their plight is real. They demonstrated on Wall St. today in New York City, NY. Some say that "even McDonald's won't hire me." Time to get down with the movement now.

Walking Tours in New York City

Check out these walking tours with Alissa Walker, who is publicizing her book, "New York, Twenty Five Walking Tours." Today, Oct. 25th, you can meet Alissa Walker aka
Gelato Baby at 6pm at the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park (corner of 6th Ave & 42nd St), for free. Alissa has a very pretty blogs with photographs and is a writer based in LA California. Obviously she is doing her best to make the New York City scene. Maybe she will make it up to Harlem and Bronx too, she has already been out in Queens NY at the World's Fair grounds. Note that all tours include a complimentary serving of gelato or ice cream, plus all attendees will receive a coupon good for a discount on the book.

Monday, October 19- Sustainable Skyscrapers: Times Square Goes Green-- From Worldstudio & SVA MFA in Interaction Designs. You can join Alissa and a group of special guests, including Glenn Weiss, manager of public art and design for Times Square Alliance, as we learn about the reactive interiors and intelligent materials that make up the Bank of America Tower and six more of the city’s greenest buildings. We’ll find out how this unlikely corner of the city is going green, from low-energy LEDs to pocket parks in closed streets. Then we’ll head to SVA’s Interaction Design HQ for eco-friendly refreshments.
6pm Meet outside the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park (corner of Sixth Avenue & 42nd Street)
8pm Reception at SVA MFA in Interaction Design, 132 W 21 Street, 6th floor

Tuesday, October 20
Official Release Party at Jen Bekman Gallery & Rising Lower East Side Walk
Sponsored by ForYourArt
Join us at Jen Bekman Gallery for drinks, carb-loading and and Hosang Park’s photography, then stroll through the ever-changing Lower East Side with special stops at the New Museum, Red Square, BLUE, the Hotel on Rivington, Storefront for Art & Architecture and more. Then we’ll head back to Jen Bekman Gallery for four special New York-inspired flavors of gelato from il laboratorio del gelato. Purchase a copy on-site and Alissa will sign your favorite neighborhood!
6pm Meet at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street
7-8:30pm Walk through the LES
8:30pm Gelato reception at Jen Bekman Gallery

Wednesday, October 21
The Brooklyn Bridge Before Breakfast
Sponsored by Chronicle Books
Don’t miss this brisk early morning walk over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan to see New York rising in all its glory. And gosh darn it if we don’t find some breakfast ice cream on the other side. We’ll be finished by 8am, just in time for you to head to work.
7am Meet outside the High Street Station [A/C], Brooklyn

Thursday, October 22
Broadway Skyscrapers: How New York Got High
Sponsored by The Architect’s Newspaper
Pack a picnic for this one-hour lunchtime walk that starts at Bowling Green Park and marches up Lower Broadway, revealing the Gossip Girl-worthy back-stabbing backstory behind the battling buildings (and architects) who attempted to keep topping each other during the skyscraper race of the early 1900’s.
12pm Meet outside the Bowling Green Station [4/5]

Friday, October 23
Midtown Modernism: Then & Now
Sponsored by SVA MFA in Design Criticism
Wear your Mad Men finest for this evening walk to see some of the city’s modern masterpieces, as Alissa narrates with excerpts from reviews of each building that were published at the time of completion. Includes the “Slaughter on Sixth,” MoMA, Lever Building, Seagram Building and a few lesser-known/secret spots, followed by Gordon Bunshaft-approved martinis and Mies van der Gelato.
6pm Meet in front of the Time & Life statue at the Time-Life Building, 1271 Avenue of the Americas

Saturday, October 24
The High Line: A Rail Good Idea
Sponsored by GOOD
A leisurely stroll up New York’s public space pride-and-joy, the converted railway corridor now known as The High Line, recently named to the GOOD 100 as one of the people, projects or places changing our world. We’ll also be gawking at the spanking-new architecture sprouting up around New York’s “Starchitect Row,” followed by gelato in the shape of Frank Gehry’s InterActiveCorp Building. Kids absolutely welcome!
11am Meet at the southern terminus of the High Line, at the corner of Gansevoort & Washington

Poland Meets Latin America on the Westside, NYC

Symphony Space is holding its own G20 tonight … or at least a G3. The Del Sol Quartet will play music by Polish composers Pawel Mykietyn (who will also be in attendance) and Pawel Szymanski, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, and Cuban American composer Tania León. Don’t worry, we aren’t shutting down any streets and security will be a breeze. It's in New York NY, just a bit south of Harlem.

Note for more information:

symphonyspace.org | 212.864.5400 | 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
Just two stops from Times Square on the 2 & 3 trains!
All programs and artists subject to change.

Also this week: groove with your kids to the sweet sounds of Elizabeth Mitchell; ask legendary author Judy Blume your pressing questions; catch that Best Foreign Film Oscar winner that ruined your office pool, Departures; decide if that giant orb of naked people is artistic or just creepy at Die Walküre; and let Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Tony Award nominee Victor Garber read you some of the Best American Short Stories of 2009.

Harlem is Getting Freaky with Construction

Despite rumors of the imminent demise of the real estate bubble, Harlem is still a choice goodie in the eyes of the real estate developers. 125th St. has Marlboro Equities building a hotel near 5th Ave, and then there is Vornado, with its Tornado ready to get off the ground at a massive office building site, next to the Metro North Station on Park Ave. and 125th. Columbia University is gearing up to do its thing on the west side from 125th st to 134th St. All there seems to be lacking is a bit of rezoning to turn the whole street (125th St.) into a Wall St. style canyon of high buildings. That would be a bit excessive.

Ms. Ruby Dee was nominated as best supporting actress, in the film "American Gangster." Harlem's IMPACT Repertory Theater was nominated for best song "Raise It Up", featured in the film "August Rush." I guess the "IMPACT" gets around. Say do you like that greenish t-shirt from I Love Harlem Apparel? You can where it for Earth Day in April. And love, from the T-Shirt Queen.