The Wall Street Journal has been sounding the clarion call of alarm on behalf of big business and the super wealthy.  Why such blaring of the trumpets of doom?

What most upends Wall Street is that an aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a  thorn in the side of business, is seeing one of her former aides headed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  The CFPB was created after the meltdown of 2008 to monitor big business and Wall Street has reviled this agency since its inception.

The Biden Administration is actually putting regulators in place who will actually do the job of Regulators.  

What’s that?  Regulate.

Wall Street Journal 3.11.2021

WASHINGTON—President Biden’s nominee to oversee Wall Street firms and public companies, Gary Gensler, (pictured above) cleared a key hurdle to Senate confirmation, garnering support from two Republicans in a vote Wednesday.

The Senate Banking Committee voted 14-10 in favor of sending Mr. Gensler’s nomination for chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Senate floor for confirmation. Republican Senators Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming joined all 12 Democrats in supporting the nomination.

Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was never intended to be used as a plaything for wealthy corporations.  The eyesore 150 foot high ferris wheel which now stands as an eyesore  needs to go.

Fortunately the 11 members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is going to undertake a serious review of this bauble.

Who pushed to have this Ferris Wheel brought to San Francisco? Whose pockets are being lined while the Ferris Wheel spins? Why was in placed in the midst of historic Golden Gate Park? These are just three of many questions which need exploration./ 

When all is said and done the Supervisors need to order this Toy dismantled and sent back to its East Coast owners.

Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 3.9.2021

The contentious debate over the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park was sent by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to its Rules Committee at Tuesday’s regular meeting, leaving the recently granted four-year extension for the attraction in doubt.

The supervisors voted 11-0 on a motion by Supervisor Aaron Peskin to punt the issue to committee. The resolution was seconded by Supervisor Catherine Stefani and passed without comment by supervisors, though there was plenty of comment during public testimony before the vote.

The issue reached the board after both the Recreation and Park Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to grant the attraction operated by SkyView Partners of St. Louis a four-year extension on the original contract, which ran from April 2020 to March 21.

Within hours of that approval, Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond District, and Peskin offered a resolution on the grounds that a business contract with an outside vendor requires the approval of two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors.

The resolution calls for the SkyStar to be allowed to continue operating in the Music Concourse until Feb. 7, 2022, with the site to be completely restored by March 15, 2022. It should get a sympathetic reading there because Peskin and Chan form two-thirds of the Rules Committee, which meets Mondays at 10 a.m.

What is it about the Brits that there is an insatiable appetite for All Things Buckingham Palace? It began in the 1930’s when King Edward abdicated the Throne for his American love Wallis Simpson.  

Of course Lady Di, her marriage to Prince Charles and her death in a car crash is the Tabloid sensation which will continue through Eternity.

Now we have Prince Harry and his American wife, Meghan.  Their $7,000,000 interview with Ophrah Winfrey is all the Buzz. Amazing.  Deutsche Welle takes a look at the media attention give to this Glam couple.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.9.2021

The interview given to US talk show host Oprah Winfrey by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about their time in the British royal family has made waves at home and abroad and aroused a wide range of media responses after it aired in the US on Sunday.

3.7.2021 Doonesbury nails it. 

New York Times – Berlin – December 20, 1924

Adolf Hiter, once the demi-god of the reactionary extremists, was released on parole from imprisonment at Fortress Landesberg, Bavaria today and immediately left in an auto for Munich.

He looked a much sadder and wiser man today than last Spring when he, with Ludendorff and other radical extremists, appeared before a Munich court charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Government.

His behavior during imprisonment convinced authorities that, like his political organization, known as the Volkischer, was no longer to be feared.

It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.

The level of systemic racism is beyond disgusting. It is endemic and a 300 hundred year part of American culture.

 Vile and corrosive blatantly racist behavior is a pestilience which will never be eradicated in this country

A victim of this vile scourge is the young black woman, 22 year old Amanda Gorman who was accosted by a clueless half wit security guard. This rent a cop clown  isn’t intelligence enough to read Ms. Gorman’s poetry.

These uneducated morons  are patroling the streets of America. It’s insane.

Ms. Gordon was too polite and declined to identify the racial identity of the brainless fool who accosted her on Friday night.

The Guardian of London 3.6.2021

Poet, acclaimed for her performance at Joe Biden’s inauguration, tweeted ‘this is the reality of black girls’.

Amanda Gorman, the poet who won acclaim for her performance at Joe Biden’s inauguration, has told of being followed home and accosted by a security guard who allegedly claimed she looked suspicious.

She said the incident, on Friday night, was emblematic of “the reality of black girls” in the US, in which “one day you’re called an icon” but the next day considered a threat.

She said in a following tweet: “In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be.”

Gorman, 22, from Los Angeles, shared a post she made in February which said: “We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old” – in reference to a recent incident in Rochester, New York, that led to protests and three police officers being suspended pending the completion of an investigation.

A favourite with Democratic establishment figures, the youngest inaugural poet in US history was named the country’s’ first youth poet laureate in 2017, when she was a student at Harvard. The Guardian has contacted her for further comment. She did not indicate the ethnic origin of the security guard.

A Virginia state legislator, Mark Keam, tweeted: “Let this story sink in. And realise how – while I’m glad it ended safe for Amanda Gorman – this type of confrontation is an every day occurrence for millions of our fellow Americans.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/06/amanda-gorman-says-she-was-followed-by-security-guard-who-said-she-looked-suspicious

The Chief of the New York City cops union needs an attitude adjustment. The same holds true for the head of the Police Officers Association in my home town San Francisco.

Three black men spent 24 years in prison or a crime they didn’t commit.

America is full of miscarriages of justice whether it be at the misdemeanor level or in the highest level of felony acts.

The cops have too much power. Too often prosecutors are their willing hanmaidens. It is fortunate there are now progressive District Attorneys who have moved beyond the grab ’em and lock ’em up attitude.

Chesa Boudin right here in San Francisco, George Gascon in Los Angeles and Larry Krassner in Philadelphis are three shining lights of progressive law enforcement.

Excerpted from The Washington Post 3.5.2021

“There is absolutely no reason that these convicted cop-killers should be put back on the street,” Lynch said in the statement, arguing that if Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz “does not believe there is sufficient evidence of their innocence,” the suspects should stay in prison while the matter is evaluated.

Three men convicted of murdering an off-duty police officer and a business owner nearly 25 years ago were released from prison Friday after a judge declared they were wrongfully convicted because evidence that may have exonerated them was “deliberately withheld” from their lawyers.

The arrests in 1996 of George Bell, Rohan Bolt and Gary Johnson were heralded by then-New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had vowed days before their apprehension that justice would be served swiftly, lawyers for the men say. But on Friday, Queens County Supreme Court Judge Joseph Zayas said the prosecutors who secured their convictions had suppressed information “that others may have committed these crimes.”

Speaking via video from Green Haven Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison north of New York City, the three men thanked those who worked to earn their freedom.

After I was convicted for capital murder, I couldn’t fathom or wrap my mind around how God would allow the justice system I believed in to fail me in such a tragic fashion,” said Bell, who confessed to authorities in connection with the shooting deaths of New York police officer Charles Davis and another man, Ira Epstein, whose check-cashing store in Queens was robbed the morning of Dec. 21, 1996.

Although Bell and Johnson, then 19 and 22 years old, respectively, both confessed, they had been “subject to coercive interrogations” and their statements “bear all the hallmarks of the false confessions that resulted in wrongful convictions in the past,” according to a motion filed earlier Friday by private attorneys and public defenders involved in the effort to overturn their convictions.

At the time of the crimes, Bell had a job stocking shelves at an Old Navy and Johnson was a store clerk. They did not have criminal records, nor did they know Bolt, who authorities alleged was their accomplice in the botched robbery.

Bell gave a confession “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, a product of the fact that its details were fed to him by detectives who were working with incomplete and faulty information,” the attorneys wrote.

Bolt, 35 at the time and a father of four who owned a Caribbean restaurant, never confessed. He was arrested based on an identification from a purported witness with a history of drug use and “no known connection to the crime,” according to the court filing detailing the case’s history.

After testifying in his defense and maintaining his innocence, Bolt turned to the victims’ widows at his sentencing and offered condolences but said he “did not have anything to do with the murders . . . I know one day God will show them the truth, that Rohan Bolt did not have nothing to do with it,” according to a 2007 Village Voice account.

Reached Friday, Davis’s widow declined to comment. Attempts to reach Epstein’s family were unsuccessful.

The cases were handled under the supervision of District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who was in office for nearly 30 years. He has since died.

Zayas, the judge, granted prosecutors 90 days to reexamine the case.

The fatal shooting was closely covered by New York media and prompted an aggressive response by the NYPD and Giuliani, who met the family of the slain officer at the hospital. At the time, New York City was plagued by gun violence and numerous police officers were among the victims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ny-murder-convictions-vacated-24-years/2021/03/05/d4b2ef16-7db7-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html