* No Foolin' - Elizabeth Street Garden Event - Tuesday, April 1, 2025

3.31.28 Manhattan _ Just in today, an event tomorrow at 4 pm, to commemorate the garden and its artistic inspirations. This is how they described the event, " ... We are calling on everyone to gather in the Garden tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4 PM to celebrate this special space. We’ll be there for a while, but please try to arrive at 4 PM if you can. We are still in federal court and doing everything we can. At this point, we're taking it day by day. If you're a painter, photographer, poet, or artist who has created something inspired by the Garden, please bring your work. We only ask that it be related to the Garden. We want to show everyone how much Elizabeth Street Garden means to our community and to New York City ...". See related story in the weekend post of 3.28.25 below, next to the E St Garden / Ramones photos. The short story also includes their website url.

Eric Adams & Donald Trump - Who They Say They Are vs Who They Really Are

February 7, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC. This report was first published embedded in the WTD.

In the image at right, the NY Post reports that Adams had the unconscionable audacity to liken himself to Martin Luther King over the MLK holiday weekend. This statement is reminiscent of Donald Trump's sardonic claim that Trump is the greatest president in American history.

On the one hand, both of these comments are so outrageous as to be laughable. But on the other hand, they are also very disrespectful to the monumental historical figures who made a real contribution to future generations of Americans.

The closest that either Adams or Trump will ever get toward achieving anything near what MLK and America's great presidents did - is at the very least, a couple of solar systems away. As the moral compasses of both of these men, appear to be malfunctioning so badly, that they've strayed into their own Bizarro universes [use the Superman comic book definition of Bizarro].

Trump Supports Netanyahu / Israeli Imperialism, Embracing Full Displacement of Palestinians from their Gaza Homeland

Trump's inverted moral compass was put on full display Tuesday, February 4, 2025 when he took ownership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to complete the mix of the genocide and the displacement of the Palestinian people from their Gaza homeland. The mainstream American media errantly attributed the plan to Trump - not Netanyahu. Sadly, our American TV Network News outlets, are at least as much contributors to the Bizarro information world in which we live, as any of the social media outlets that they continually disparage.

Adams Abruptly Cancels Pre-Scheduled MLK Events to Kiss the Donald's 'Ring'

The headline in the image at right, provides a sharp contrast between Adams, who was reported by the NY Post as likening himself to Dr. Martin Luther King [see image above], and the King Legacy.

King did time in jail for defending all Americans' civil liberties, while Adams is trying to get out of doing prison time for multiple alleged self-serving criminal acts. Adams is alleged to have taken $100,000 in illegal foreign campaign donations - which, if true, were fraudulently matched by yours and my tax dollars eightfold [$800,000] - in exchange for special favors performed by Adams and his Administration.

So King fought for the rights of all Americans, while Adams appears to be fighting for the self-serving wrongs that he has allegedly done to his fellow New Yorkers. Adams has not only disgraced himself, but he has also disappointed a great many of the New Yorkers who trusted him.

Is the Trump Doctrine America First or Israel First?

Alleged ICC War Criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Visit Donald Trump on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

January 31, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC. This report was first published embedded in the WTD.

The Israeli Prime Minister is responsible for authorizing military actions in Gaza. According to a January 25, 2025 Associated Press report, " ... The war in Gaza has been devastating for children: More than 13,000 have been killed, an estimated 25,000 injured, and at least 25,000 hospitalized for malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies ...".

Throughout the 20th century American taxpayers funded and supplied weapons for Israeli defense. But in the 21st century, since Netanyahu became Israeli Prime Minister, the American taxpayer - not the Israeli billioniares - have been funding Israeli Imperialism and expansionism.

Since Netanyahu first became Prime Minister over 20 years ago, Netanyahu's Israel has illegally annexed the Syrian Golan Heights which contain oil fields, Israel has annexed Palestinian lands in the West Bank and adjacent to Gaza through Netanyahu's authorization of Israeli settlements, and most recently Netanyahu's Israel has begun occupying land in the Jordan River Valley using American taxpayer funds and weapons to do so. And yet the American TV Networks omit these important facts from their news broadcasts. Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox News, the Wall St. Journal and the NY Post, is an investor in at least one company, Genie Energy, operating in the Israeli illegally occupied Syrian Golan Heights. This may explain why his news outlets don't publish or broadcast this information and appear to bias reports in Israel's favor. But he's not the only one leaving out key facts from TV network news reports.

The U.S. doesn't place any conditions on the money the U.S. government gives to Israel, which to date, totals more than a quarter TRILLION dollars in today's currency. Likely because of that, Netanyahu now flies around in the 'Wing of Zion' which is the Israeli equivalent of 'Air Force One', both of which were likely funded in part or in total by American taxpayers. See Netanyahu and his wife disembarking from the 'Wing of Zion' in photo at right.

Why are so many criminals in control of democracies and other governments these days? In part because the media is increasingly being used to disinform and manipulate the electorate into making bad choices. A government by, for and of the people doesn't function on auto pilot. A free people needs to make sure it's getting accurate news reports that don't leave out key facts. For a prior report we did on what's happening in Israel, click this link to Netanyahu Bilks the American Taxpayer into Funding Israeli Imperialism & the Palestinian Kristallnacht.

There is such a thing as right and wrong. People need to speak up when they see other people wronging one another - no matter whether it's a German persecuting someone who is Jewish, or an Israeli persecuting a Palestinian, or a Russian persecuting a Ukrainian. The attackers only do these things when they think they can get away with them. So until people start speaking up, this sort of behavior will continue on without end.

Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

January 10, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC. This report was first published embedded in the WTD.

The photo at right shows Lady Liberty standing in the New York Harbor, reminding us that a free people must always be vigilant and unafraid to stand up for truth and justice. We, the American People, have been tested over the past decade and have earned only a marginally passing grade. I know we are capable of far better.

A nation of, for and by the People requires the people to pay attention, get involved, and participate in the discussion of how we are going to allocate resources, so that we will continue to function properly as a society, and move in a productive and rewarding direction, while staying true to our respect for universal human values. A true democracy requires human intelligence, and cannot function on auto pilot / artifical intelligence.

Things to do This Weekend in NYC & Boros

MLK Holiday Weekend in NYC

January 17, 2025 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC. This report was first published embedded in the WTD.

The graphic at right depicts a man whose actions reflected his words. A rarity in any age, but even more so these days.

In the graphic above or at right, a British newspaper informs us how Eric Adams is spending one of his MLK Holiday Weekend 'Days of Service'. Unlike the man in the first graphic of this report, Adams too often appears to be a man who presents himself as someone he is not.