It is with a sad hand and heart that I write this posting. I am used to the filth and curses that come my way from David Israel's acolytes and perhaps even himself, and mostly they cause me to laugh. The stupidity of Gracie's postings are annoying, but not much can be done with a limited intellectual ability. For example, the "warning" she made such a fuss about is a standard thing that pops up on many sites, including, for example, my brokerage account's site and I know that it is safe. It is just one of the kinks of the Internet and technology and shame on David Israel, the supposed techie guru of the Village for either not knowing this or worse, knowing it and then exacerbating the situation, but then again, that is what he does, isn't it?
I have written often about the prejudice that arises here in the Village, the open hatred and play on nasty feelings. As far as I am personally concerned, they started with the nastiness to George Lowenstein during his campaign, continued into mine when David Israel disgustingly tried to raise the fears of a "takeover" by Jews in the Village - real nasty, that was - and then into the present. Over and over we have heard and seen comments from the David Israel camp condemning people who live differently, who believe differently or observe differently. If it does not meet his standard of what is the "right" way, then it is wrong and therefore eligible to be hated. Time and time again he has been asked to condemn statements made by his supporters but it is like speaking to a wall. His hatred, perhaps self hatred of his own lineage, is too strong.
I have written much lately of the growing anti Semitism in the world and the fear that it is showing up here, in our country. Read my article Ketchupgate from a couple of days ago. But even more sad, is what came my way yesterday from one of the most prolific writers of David Israel's camp. Over the life of the blog I have been threatened with being blown up by fireworks, accused of crimes, but yesterday was beyond the Pale and perhaps shows the true inner black heart of that camp of people - and I question that term, people. Here is a piece of the comment directed my way - and another name was included, but why include it and hurt that person, especially when that person has been informed.
Here it is: "Hey Aunt Esther. People don't like CV because of low class Jews like you and -------who scream and yell, steal salt and sugar shakers from restaurants, and always complain about money....."
This is hate speech; make no bones about it and perhaps it is time to call in ADL and/or Captain Bruckner or even the Sheriff. Shall we count the ways this a-hole has invoked hatred of Jews, raised old and vicious canards, stereotypes about Jewish people. I think not, as it is quite clear. And by the way, want me to publicize your IP address again, you moron?
What I would like to see, what would be right, what would be courageous, would be for David Israel to publically condemn this language and these sentiments that come from his camp of suckups. But he will never do it for I believe he foments this type of language and behavior by his own behavior and statements on and off his blog over the years.
THIS is what we want as the leader of UCO? THIS is what we want for our future? THIS is what we wish to grow in the dank and dirty corners of the Village and the minds of dank and dirty people? The choice is yours, folks. You need to speak up and out. Remember the statement made by a Pastor in Nazi Germany basically outlining how he stayed quiet because it was not his group that was being taken, but his time came and then there was no one left to speak for him. NOONE is immune to hate. No one is immune to nastiness. ALL need to speak up for it will grow and touch you as well.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
THE CENTURY TOWN LIAR
Subject: The Century Town Liar
This is a guest posting by Eduardo.
YOU TALK ABOUT ISRAEL'S LIES........OKAY, LET'S TALK
It is a well known fact that when a person lies and believes that he can get away with it, that person will do it again and again. Nobody believes a liar. For instance, if you lie to the police, even once, they will
forever never believe a single thing that you say. Everybody hates a liar.
Look what Israel did to the reputation of 1st Priority and all of their people because he lied. Look what he did to the reputation of Dan Gladstone due to Israel's lies. David Israel lies and he lies about every-
thing......a pathological liar. Or, in Century Town language.....".a muffled fart."
Take a look at the roadway and sidewalk paving. He lied through his teeth over and over again to the people. Yet, HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. Why? Because if you didn't agree with his lies, he and his back room control monger would threaten you with numerous scary tactics that were, in fact, well-
versed fantasies.
Don't all of his handful of followers know that he lies? Of course they do or they would be pretty stupid,or on heavy mind-altering drugs. So, why do they do nothing? The answer to that question is quite
simple. Israel gave them all positions that these followers love and enjoy. But, they walk a very thin line in that if they do or say anything that rubs Israel the wrong way, or Israel gets paranoid and suspicious about what is being said that he deems harmful to his egotistical character, --- then that
person is gone, --- like replaced with someone who pledges allegiance to Israel and his philosophy of how to lie and cheat.
It is the same way in all dictatorship countries. You cross his Lordship and you die. And every day that goes by, Israel brings in more clouds, more lies. Try this on......"Hey, Barbara, the sky is falling."
She might reply "David, I don't think that that is possible, except in fairy tales." And then he might say
"You agree with me and I'll make you the Chairperson of the Bid Committee." "Okay, the sky is falling,
David --- I want to be the Boss Lady." "Alright and I won't call you a toxic tart anymore, but if you criticize a single thing that I say or do, you'll be gone and I'll create more nasty names to address you in public."
"Lie all you want, your Lordship, -- just don't take my swell job away."
Things won't change in the Village so long as there is a liar at the helm and followers who live for the positions granted to them by Israel, and their agreeing not to question the lies. So, those followers become liars also, by omission. The thinking in this Village appears to be, "Okay, so he lies. Big deal,so long as they're not big lies." That is just the point, -- they ARE big lies, and since he gets away with it, these lies get BIGGER and B I G G E R. The biggest continuous set of lies was by Israel and Black involving the five million dollar paving scam. They got away with it......BUT, MAYBE NOT......
MAYBE WE'RE GOING TO NAIL THESE LIARS.
The question is --- when will the people wake up?
When will they stop and assess what is happening around them?
When will they realize that lies are tearing apart all that is supposed to be sacred in Century Town.
Yes, we are an unincorporated, one square mile Town. Enough is enough, --- band together and get Israel the hell out of office so that we can bring back the word "HONESTY" to our Town of about 14,000 residents.
Oh, by the way, --- go outside of Century Town and you'll find out that most everybody hates us because of the way this place is governed. It reeks; it stinks. The only people that like us are the politicians running for office because we can provide an awful lot of votes. With no votes, they'd put amatch to the place. So, we've got to get the LIAR of LIARS out of office so that we can get back to a respectable image. I remember when the Village people used to talk to one another with a gentle smile. Now, you need to look over each shoulder before you say anything and then growl as you whisper. YOU and YOU and YOU and ALL OF US can get it all back with a new government.
LETS GET ON WITH IT.
EDUARDO
WELCOME TO THE NSA - CV STYLE. SHHHH- THEY WILL HEAR YOU!
Do you hear the whisperings in the air? Do you hear the sneaky plans they are making? Do you hear your rights as a resident of CV going down the toilet - whoosh! There it goes. That and more will happen if we let the latest plan of David Israel, Marilyn Gorodetzer and Ed Black flourish and come to a successful conclusion.
For years we have been saying that we need to update our by laws. $30,000 was allotted to pay a lawyer for this, Mark Friedman being the lawyer. And then a big nothing, just double talk, evil grins from the dictator on lunacy row, but no practical suggestions, no statement of progress, just a big black hole of nothingness.
Little did we know, that Marilyn Gorodetzer, whom David Israel had appointed to run a "committee" on by laws had, in her usual evil manner, to write up a whole new bunch conferring with no one but herself and her two "boyfriends" or perhaps the better name would be "partners in the crime of ruining CV". It obviously went so well that they continued and suddenly, at a meeting, they sprang the new Articles of Incorporation on the members and there was not such a pleasant reception. Even many of David Israel's usual lackeys questioned why they had not been given the proper time and space for discussion. So, they agreed to do this in secret, but not so happy when even they were somewhat pushed aside.
These articles are the very heart and structure of the Village. David Israel wishes to change them and do so in secret so that he and his cohorts will be in perpetual power. He will change and align the by laws to mesh with this. Folks, it is truly as if we are living in a banana republic and David Israel has become our own Papa Doc!
There is a Sunshine Law here in Florida that states that unless there is something private that should not be exposed, something personal or between a lawyer and client, that ALL must be done in the open. Well, this did not happen and almost never truly happens here. Anyone at that meeting was practically chewed to pieces if they tried to take a copy, unlike other meetings when the handouts are passed around to all. Even a late arriving member of committee was jumped upon when they thought she was a guest and GASP! actually had a copy.
When there was some supposed discussion, it was run as a secret. Not a title, not a reading of the proposed change, not a comparison to the old articles, but a clueless - "look at page ----, line ----" and no one without a script could know what the hell was truly going on.
People, this proposed new Article will remove us from the protection of 718 and allow UCO to proceed as a dictating organ of government with power to make ALL contracts. Yes, ALL and that is clearly stated along with other dangerous changes. And how about where David Israel is named as representing agent WITH HIS ADDRESS AT GREENBRIAR C AS THE OFFICIAL HOME OR BASE OF OPERATIONS. What happened to the UCO building. Is that not the proper address? Well, not really, if all goes as planed, for then truly and openly, David Israel will become the crowned ruler and we all would have allowed this to happen by not doing anything, by not saying anything, by voting like dummies to approve it when he presents it at an assembly, by going along because we are too busy playing pickleball and swimming and we will have let the very Village be stolen from us right beneath our very own noses.
Quite frankly, this whole thing is illegal. Actually, changes are first supposed to be proposed and voted on by the DA before any work gets done on making changes. There is supposed to be a committee - and not of one or three. There is supposed to be a representation of the entire Village, not just David Israel's toilet cabinet.
It is up to all of us if we allow this travesty to continue. Stand up at the assembly next Friday and challenge. Speak to your delegates and tell them to vote NO NO NO on David Israel's wrongful, harmful, out of order requests. Better yet, call for his resignation and do not let them tell lies about the meeting for if one listens to it as taped honestly, one will even hear Pat Sealander complain that she thought there was going to be discussion. Even Pat Sealander amongst others, one of David Israel's oldest and most loyal suckups. This certainly should say something to all of us.
As the Bible says - time to gird your loins for the battle. David Israel can do nothing to you and his threats are empty. His statements are lunatic and paranoid, but he can ruin us all if allowed to proceed unchecked - and that result would be on all who stand there and do nothing.
For years we have been saying that we need to update our by laws. $30,000 was allotted to pay a lawyer for this, Mark Friedman being the lawyer. And then a big nothing, just double talk, evil grins from the dictator on lunacy row, but no practical suggestions, no statement of progress, just a big black hole of nothingness.
Little did we know, that Marilyn Gorodetzer, whom David Israel had appointed to run a "committee" on by laws had, in her usual evil manner, to write up a whole new bunch conferring with no one but herself and her two "boyfriends" or perhaps the better name would be "partners in the crime of ruining CV". It obviously went so well that they continued and suddenly, at a meeting, they sprang the new Articles of Incorporation on the members and there was not such a pleasant reception. Even many of David Israel's usual lackeys questioned why they had not been given the proper time and space for discussion. So, they agreed to do this in secret, but not so happy when even they were somewhat pushed aside.
These articles are the very heart and structure of the Village. David Israel wishes to change them and do so in secret so that he and his cohorts will be in perpetual power. He will change and align the by laws to mesh with this. Folks, it is truly as if we are living in a banana republic and David Israel has become our own Papa Doc!
There is a Sunshine Law here in Florida that states that unless there is something private that should not be exposed, something personal or between a lawyer and client, that ALL must be done in the open. Well, this did not happen and almost never truly happens here. Anyone at that meeting was practically chewed to pieces if they tried to take a copy, unlike other meetings when the handouts are passed around to all. Even a late arriving member of committee was jumped upon when they thought she was a guest and GASP! actually had a copy.
When there was some supposed discussion, it was run as a secret. Not a title, not a reading of the proposed change, not a comparison to the old articles, but a clueless - "look at page ----, line ----" and no one without a script could know what the hell was truly going on.
People, this proposed new Article will remove us from the protection of 718 and allow UCO to proceed as a dictating organ of government with power to make ALL contracts. Yes, ALL and that is clearly stated along with other dangerous changes. And how about where David Israel is named as representing agent WITH HIS ADDRESS AT GREENBRIAR C AS THE OFFICIAL HOME OR BASE OF OPERATIONS. What happened to the UCO building. Is that not the proper address? Well, not really, if all goes as planed, for then truly and openly, David Israel will become the crowned ruler and we all would have allowed this to happen by not doing anything, by not saying anything, by voting like dummies to approve it when he presents it at an assembly, by going along because we are too busy playing pickleball and swimming and we will have let the very Village be stolen from us right beneath our very own noses.
Quite frankly, this whole thing is illegal. Actually, changes are first supposed to be proposed and voted on by the DA before any work gets done on making changes. There is supposed to be a committee - and not of one or three. There is supposed to be a representation of the entire Village, not just David Israel's toilet cabinet.
It is up to all of us if we allow this travesty to continue. Stand up at the assembly next Friday and challenge. Speak to your delegates and tell them to vote NO NO NO on David Israel's wrongful, harmful, out of order requests. Better yet, call for his resignation and do not let them tell lies about the meeting for if one listens to it as taped honestly, one will even hear Pat Sealander complain that she thought there was going to be discussion. Even Pat Sealander amongst others, one of David Israel's oldest and most loyal suckups. This certainly should say something to all of us.
As the Bible says - time to gird your loins for the battle. David Israel can do nothing to you and his threats are empty. His statements are lunatic and paranoid, but he can ruin us all if allowed to proceed unchecked - and that result would be on all who stand there and do nothing.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
ANALYSIS OF OUR HOME - CV
After reading several articles in various places and the stress put on "summer people" as opposed or contrasted to "snowbirds", it hit me. That is what is wrong with the Village in a major way.
We have been encouraged to think of ourselves here as two distinct groups of people: those who live here all year round and those who live here on a lesser basis and even those are divided into snowbirds and snowflakes. But this is wrong. Many part timers turn into full timers as the years go on and we all must learn to think of CV as what it is - a year round permanent small town or large village where infrastructure of the most basic kind must be ensured before any enhancements are added and it all must be done with proper care and thought. There must be long term and short term plans for the Village and funding be set aside or planned for accordingly.
This can only be done if we realize that we are one , ONE unit, one place. The all year residents must realize that the part timers add something to the Village, have much to contribute and at times must be catered to in the sense of courts or clubs, but they must also remember that the year rounders also have needs and sometimes the mundane needs of better fencing for example has priority over another court and also a careful evaluation of projects.
What is even more wrong and off about the Village is the fact that we do a big project and then in 6 months or a year we suddenly have to fix or totally redo, be it the resident pool at the Clubhouse or another pool that springs a leak, or the parking lot at Hastings or even the whole paving job in the Village. Why is it that we are always caught on the short end of the stick having to pay for all this doing and redoing and there is no recourse to force the contractors to fix at their expense?
The answer is simple. Because the people in charge either do not care, or do not know how, or even worse - are getting something out of it - when they allow one page multi million dollar contracts to go thru without benefit of lawyer approval, with the signature on a BLANK page - yes, you read that right - and lack of details for the contracted job. There is no good process or procedure in place to insure proper contracts and completion of near perfect jobs.
What is needed is much more careful and knowledgeable oversight, even of WPRF. For example, why have I received dozens of calls complaining about the unhealthy situation of the porta potty at Hastings. It is vile, I was told. Anyone in that situation must call Eva Rachesky as she is in charge of that but actually why should it even happen? Why? Because the oversight is lax and a could care less about it attitude. It is not glamorous so why bother about it?
In school, when we wished to apply for a Blue Ribbon School or Middle States Accreditation, we had a massive evaluation of the school from soup to nuts - all members of the school community, the physical plant, the educational goals, achievements, supplies, long and short range plans, finances and on and on. That is what must be done here. The first project a new administration must take on is a massive self evaluation of the Village, the state of the Village, its future and short term needs and goals, its finances, short and long range, its physical needs, the priorities, etc., etc., etc. Perhaps we would even need an outside expert or guide in all this. But without doing this evaluation, without seeing how we meet, how we compromise, how we finance, how we set process and procedure at the head of the line - without all this we are going to be in a bad way. What is needed is more common sense and less grandiose pie in the sky personal projects.
What is needed is the reinstatement of term limits. Just today there was a report of riots in Burkina Faso in demand of term limits. Other municipalities are implementing them, including right here in Florida and all over the country and the world and what are we doing here? We are going backwards, cancelling our term limits and letting incompetency, selfishness, wastage of funding, stale old ideas and thought remain in place. We need to put term limits back in again and make sure they stay there. We need to cut this government by secrecy and let the light and air in. We need to step up, work hard and get rid of trash. and who will do this - ALL OF US OR IT WILL NEVER GET DONE! Once again, read and think and ponder where you fit in and where you can step in and help the Village, help us become ONE family.
We have been encouraged to think of ourselves here as two distinct groups of people: those who live here all year round and those who live here on a lesser basis and even those are divided into snowbirds and snowflakes. But this is wrong. Many part timers turn into full timers as the years go on and we all must learn to think of CV as what it is - a year round permanent small town or large village where infrastructure of the most basic kind must be ensured before any enhancements are added and it all must be done with proper care and thought. There must be long term and short term plans for the Village and funding be set aside or planned for accordingly.
This can only be done if we realize that we are one , ONE unit, one place. The all year residents must realize that the part timers add something to the Village, have much to contribute and at times must be catered to in the sense of courts or clubs, but they must also remember that the year rounders also have needs and sometimes the mundane needs of better fencing for example has priority over another court and also a careful evaluation of projects.
What is even more wrong and off about the Village is the fact that we do a big project and then in 6 months or a year we suddenly have to fix or totally redo, be it the resident pool at the Clubhouse or another pool that springs a leak, or the parking lot at Hastings or even the whole paving job in the Village. Why is it that we are always caught on the short end of the stick having to pay for all this doing and redoing and there is no recourse to force the contractors to fix at their expense?
The answer is simple. Because the people in charge either do not care, or do not know how, or even worse - are getting something out of it - when they allow one page multi million dollar contracts to go thru without benefit of lawyer approval, with the signature on a BLANK page - yes, you read that right - and lack of details for the contracted job. There is no good process or procedure in place to insure proper contracts and completion of near perfect jobs.
What is needed is much more careful and knowledgeable oversight, even of WPRF. For example, why have I received dozens of calls complaining about the unhealthy situation of the porta potty at Hastings. It is vile, I was told. Anyone in that situation must call Eva Rachesky as she is in charge of that but actually why should it even happen? Why? Because the oversight is lax and a could care less about it attitude. It is not glamorous so why bother about it?
In school, when we wished to apply for a Blue Ribbon School or Middle States Accreditation, we had a massive evaluation of the school from soup to nuts - all members of the school community, the physical plant, the educational goals, achievements, supplies, long and short range plans, finances and on and on. That is what must be done here. The first project a new administration must take on is a massive self evaluation of the Village, the state of the Village, its future and short term needs and goals, its finances, short and long range, its physical needs, the priorities, etc., etc., etc. Perhaps we would even need an outside expert or guide in all this. But without doing this evaluation, without seeing how we meet, how we compromise, how we finance, how we set process and procedure at the head of the line - without all this we are going to be in a bad way. What is needed is more common sense and less grandiose pie in the sky personal projects.
What is needed is the reinstatement of term limits. Just today there was a report of riots in Burkina Faso in demand of term limits. Other municipalities are implementing them, including right here in Florida and all over the country and the world and what are we doing here? We are going backwards, cancelling our term limits and letting incompetency, selfishness, wastage of funding, stale old ideas and thought remain in place. We need to put term limits back in again and make sure they stay there. We need to cut this government by secrecy and let the light and air in. We need to step up, work hard and get rid of trash. and who will do this - ALL OF US OR IT WILL NEVER GET DONE! Once again, read and think and ponder where you fit in and where you can step in and help the Village, help us become ONE family.
THE FUTURE- WILL KETCHUP LEAD THE WAY?
Bet you thought this would be about the Village, but you would be incorrect on that. This is a far more important issue. The question here is - Will the USA go down the same miserable and hateful path of ugly anti Semitism? Will it be allowed to crawl out from the dark and dank corners and flex its claws and teeth, or will we stand up and defy the new outgrowth?
Once I would have thought yes, here in America there is too much of a difference from the Old World, the world of pogroms, of Holocausts, of Inquisitions, too much of a difference to allow people to shout for Jews to be gassed once more, to be killed, for the only country in the world that is a Jewish state to be called to be destroyed. And yet, this past week is very troubling.
Anti Semitism and the USA are not unknown to each other, but there has always been an acceptance that allowed us to flourish, to give to our country, to hope and pray for a future for our young and we thank the USA for that and have a prayer for that recited every Shabbat in synagogue. Roger Williams, Lord Baltimore, Anne Hutchinson, George Washington and others of our Founders all advocated for acceptance - for Protestants of all stripes, for Catholics, for Quakers and for Jews.
Yes, there were Jewish quotas at the Ivy League colleges and medical schools, prejudice in the advertising game and yet we made our way, enough so that Mark Twain wrote his beautiful piece about the outsize contributions of the Jews to the world.
So why am I so worried now? We are not immune here from the ugliness in Europe, the hate that comes in black, nasty waves from the Islamic countries and especially from the new so called "Caliphate" and the terrorist organizations of that same world. But never did I think that it would be allowed to flourish so openly here and at such high levels. I only wish I had known some of these particulars yesterday for I would have raised them at the Democratic Club.
I have already posted about the mainstream Macy's succumbing to BDS pressure and cancelling the Israeli company Sodastream from their stores and now it and its sister store, Bloomingdales, are making a huge deal about opening huge stores in Abu Dhabi. One does not have to be a genius to recognize the connecting thread here. We need to apply a BDS of our own to these stores and so I asked people to disconnect themselves and their wallets from Macy's. Many people around the country have done so already.
Now we have another issue. In the world of politics there are harsh moments, yet always there is the element of diplomacy. Here in the USA we have welcomed acknowledged and formally unacknowledged enemies of our states with a certain decorum, certainly from the government and its spokespeople. We have chatted politely with terrorists who are now in governments. We have fought for people, shedding blood, for people who still stone women, who still back "honor" killings, who kill homosexuals, for governments who funded terrorism and who are now reaping the backlash of that when those same terrorist organizations attack their very foundation. And yet, we speak politely with them, do not chastise them publically, for we practice diplomacy, and yes, some cowardice.
And yet - AND YET - "Jeffrey Goldberg, diplomatic correspondent for The Atlantic, reported Tuesday that he recently spoke to a senior Obama administration official about, "the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most." The unnamed official reportedly told Goldberg: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit.”
This, from a major ally about the leader of our own only true ally in the Middle East, the only one that has stood by us, transferred intelligence it gathered in various wars or thru humint, this for a country that is fighting for its very survival and has done so since inception? THIS? This stems from the top. Obama has been questionable from the beginning, coming from the church of a vehemently and vicious anti - semitic preacher, who has never truly stood up for Israel and in fact, has made very dangerous and intrusive statements about it, setting off tidal waves which are still delivering harmful effects to the country and the peace process and now it allows this language, this attitude, to join the other nasty stuff it has already made in public statements. And why? Is it because it is okay to criticize a Jewish leader in such undiplomatic manner but not others?
And now for the Ketchup Issue, Ketchupgate, if you will.
The eatery, called Conflict Kitchen, received a $50,000 grant from the Heinz Endowment in April to help pay for its moving costs. It is now situated near the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh campuses.
The restaurant, which serves popular Middle Eastern food such as hummus and baba ghannoush, states that it only uses products from countries at war with the U.S., such as Afghanistan, North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. “Our current focus is on Palestinian food, culture and politics,” the Conflict Kitchen website states
In fact, the website, decorated with a logo in Arabic letters, is filled with sophisticated anti-Israel propaganda."A spokesman for Heinz Endowment confirmed to the Free Beacon that the foundation has been funding Conflict Kitchen, adding:, “The opinions of Conflict Kitchen do not represent those of the Heinz Endowment.” He declined to say whether they would continue to support the group in the future...
John Kerry has always been tentative in our minds as a true impartial negotiator for the peace process and has made several awful statements over the years and now we see this. He has made statements that Israel is responsible for the rise of ISIS and other statements along that outrageous line. He needs to resign and his wife needs to disavow funding publically self stated enemy of our country and friend of our enemies
Anti Semitism in the USA? Unfortunately, yes and we must all be alert.
Read and think, very carefully.
Once I would have thought yes, here in America there is too much of a difference from the Old World, the world of pogroms, of Holocausts, of Inquisitions, too much of a difference to allow people to shout for Jews to be gassed once more, to be killed, for the only country in the world that is a Jewish state to be called to be destroyed. And yet, this past week is very troubling.
Anti Semitism and the USA are not unknown to each other, but there has always been an acceptance that allowed us to flourish, to give to our country, to hope and pray for a future for our young and we thank the USA for that and have a prayer for that recited every Shabbat in synagogue. Roger Williams, Lord Baltimore, Anne Hutchinson, George Washington and others of our Founders all advocated for acceptance - for Protestants of all stripes, for Catholics, for Quakers and for Jews.
Yes, there were Jewish quotas at the Ivy League colleges and medical schools, prejudice in the advertising game and yet we made our way, enough so that Mark Twain wrote his beautiful piece about the outsize contributions of the Jews to the world.
So why am I so worried now? We are not immune here from the ugliness in Europe, the hate that comes in black, nasty waves from the Islamic countries and especially from the new so called "Caliphate" and the terrorist organizations of that same world. But never did I think that it would be allowed to flourish so openly here and at such high levels. I only wish I had known some of these particulars yesterday for I would have raised them at the Democratic Club.
I have already posted about the mainstream Macy's succumbing to BDS pressure and cancelling the Israeli company Sodastream from their stores and now it and its sister store, Bloomingdales, are making a huge deal about opening huge stores in Abu Dhabi. One does not have to be a genius to recognize the connecting thread here. We need to apply a BDS of our own to these stores and so I asked people to disconnect themselves and their wallets from Macy's. Many people around the country have done so already.
Now we have another issue. In the world of politics there are harsh moments, yet always there is the element of diplomacy. Here in the USA we have welcomed acknowledged and formally unacknowledged enemies of our states with a certain decorum, certainly from the government and its spokespeople. We have chatted politely with terrorists who are now in governments. We have fought for people, shedding blood, for people who still stone women, who still back "honor" killings, who kill homosexuals, for governments who funded terrorism and who are now reaping the backlash of that when those same terrorist organizations attack their very foundation. And yet, we speak politely with them, do not chastise them publically, for we practice diplomacy, and yes, some cowardice.
And yet - AND YET - "Jeffrey Goldberg, diplomatic correspondent for The Atlantic, reported Tuesday that he recently spoke to a senior Obama administration official about, "the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most." The unnamed official reportedly told Goldberg: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit.”
This, from a major ally about the leader of our own only true ally in the Middle East, the only one that has stood by us, transferred intelligence it gathered in various wars or thru humint, this for a country that is fighting for its very survival and has done so since inception? THIS? This stems from the top. Obama has been questionable from the beginning, coming from the church of a vehemently and vicious anti - semitic preacher, who has never truly stood up for Israel and in fact, has made very dangerous and intrusive statements about it, setting off tidal waves which are still delivering harmful effects to the country and the peace process and now it allows this language, this attitude, to join the other nasty stuff it has already made in public statements. And why? Is it because it is okay to criticize a Jewish leader in such undiplomatic manner but not others?
And now for the Ketchup Issue, Ketchupgate, if you will.
"A foundation chaired by John Kerry’s wife funds a restaurant promoting anti-Israel incitement and offering products only from countries in conflict with America.
A foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, funds a restaurant that promotes an anti-Israel agenda, the Free Beacon reports.The eatery, called Conflict Kitchen, received a $50,000 grant from the Heinz Endowment in April to help pay for its moving costs. It is now situated near the Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh campuses.
The restaurant, which serves popular Middle Eastern food such as hummus and baba ghannoush, states that it only uses products from countries at war with the U.S., such as Afghanistan, North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. “Our current focus is on Palestinian food, culture and politics,” the Conflict Kitchen website states
In fact, the website, decorated with a logo in Arabic letters, is filled with sophisticated anti-Israel propaganda."A spokesman for Heinz Endowment confirmed to the Free Beacon that the foundation has been funding Conflict Kitchen, adding:, “The opinions of Conflict Kitchen do not represent those of the Heinz Endowment.” He declined to say whether they would continue to support the group in the future...
John Kerry has always been tentative in our minds as a true impartial negotiator for the peace process and has made several awful statements over the years and now we see this. He has made statements that Israel is responsible for the rise of ISIS and other statements along that outrageous line. He needs to resign and his wife needs to disavow funding publically self stated enemy of our country and friend of our enemies
Anti Semitism in the USA? Unfortunately, yes and we must all be alert.
Read and think, very carefully.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
MESSAGE TO JANGOR
For the original posting by Jangor, please check on David Israel's blog, for his comments.
Message to Jangor:
You made mention of releasing the “contract” for the paving work. Do you feel that a one or two page document –– represents a contract for millions of dollars or work? That is all that we have. The missing requirements are too numerous to list here.
I would refer you to Eduardo’s “Scandals” series for some in depth analysis. Perhaps that will give you an idea of why a lawsuit was filed.
Posted by Whistler's Mother
Message to Jangor:
You made mention of releasing the “contract” for the paving work. Do you feel that a one or two page document –– represents a contract for millions of dollars or work? That is all that we have. The missing requirements are too numerous to list here.
I would refer you to Eduardo’s “Scandals” series for some in depth analysis. Perhaps that will give you an idea of why a lawsuit was filed.
Posted by Whistler's Mother
PERSPECTIVE
Yesterday was a day of contrasts. It was a beautiful day, sun shining, the air soft and welcoming, a day for enjoyment. A bunch of us met by happenstance on the catwalk and stood there laughing and talking. In another moment during the day I heard bad news about a lovely person. We went to the library and the movies, took a walk and just enjoyed a good day here in the Village.
This is what life here is all about, or at least what it should be about. There should be no ugly worries that we will run out of money, that there are greedy souls
here who have nefarious ideas. It should be a place where competent, honest, and caring people should be in the administration, either volunteer or professional. It should be a place where our funds are not looked upon as a place of mad money for crazy projects and backward ideas.
Yesterday's cartoon posted on Gary's blog says it all. This must be the same gifted cartoonist who posted the earlier cartoons much earlier in time on this blog and he/she has a discerning eye and mind. David Israel and Co., believe they have a right to complete and wasteful usage of our funds, so confident that they can carry around a crowbar and a set of keys that will open all funds in the reserves to them and their ridiculously dangerous plans.
I read yesterday that the perimeter cameras are going up. There is vehement opposition to this for reasons of privacy, concern over exactly who will be monitoring these cameras and what use will they have for them, and just exactly how does a camera on West Drive stop someone from breaking into a unit or molesting someone in the back of one of the associations. Answer is - it does not. There is no good reason for these cameras and for us to incur another expense. For whose benefit. I believe that answer is self explanatory. Why did the delegates not get to vote on this, to debate it? Why? Because we have a tinpot despot here in the Village and we allow him and cohorts to rule.
Yesterday a friend sent me wonderful articles re "energy trees", for power, for solar energy and think how much better we would be if we had something like this here in the Village. For sure we get enough sun! Would it be costly. Sure, but how much? Who knows and we will never know if this is a good ongoing project for us to engage in, to even look into because we have a benighted group of people here who have their heads up another portion of their anatomy and their brains can only think Wi Fi, Wi Fi, Wi Fi..... We need to have a new, forward looking group of people brought into UCO, we need to open the windows, open the books, open our minds, to new times and new ideas. We need to look to the future, not to ideas that are already passé and not worthy of support and expense.
If this is an impossible way to go with this administration then we need to move on, to throw out, to get rid of. Perhaps we even need to look more seriously into professional management and all it would entail. Perhaps the money it would cost us could be saved through other cost cutting gestures and moves, getting rid of waste in our spending now and believe me there is plenty of that. The point is, at present we have an incompetent, greedy, selfish, backward looking UCO administration, a non transparent group that holds onto its power with greedy hearts and arms. They have no management skills and no process nor procedure other than one in which they get to stay in power and waste and ruin us.
People, once again, we all need to stand up and do something, act, run for office, speak up and out, protest, defy, OPT OUT, whatever it takes. Recall, force a resignation, whatever it takes - before it is too late.
This is what life here is all about, or at least what it should be about. There should be no ugly worries that we will run out of money, that there are greedy souls
here who have nefarious ideas. It should be a place where competent, honest, and caring people should be in the administration, either volunteer or professional. It should be a place where our funds are not looked upon as a place of mad money for crazy projects and backward ideas.
Yesterday's cartoon posted on Gary's blog says it all. This must be the same gifted cartoonist who posted the earlier cartoons much earlier in time on this blog and he/she has a discerning eye and mind. David Israel and Co., believe they have a right to complete and wasteful usage of our funds, so confident that they can carry around a crowbar and a set of keys that will open all funds in the reserves to them and their ridiculously dangerous plans.
I read yesterday that the perimeter cameras are going up. There is vehement opposition to this for reasons of privacy, concern over exactly who will be monitoring these cameras and what use will they have for them, and just exactly how does a camera on West Drive stop someone from breaking into a unit or molesting someone in the back of one of the associations. Answer is - it does not. There is no good reason for these cameras and for us to incur another expense. For whose benefit. I believe that answer is self explanatory. Why did the delegates not get to vote on this, to debate it? Why? Because we have a tinpot despot here in the Village and we allow him and cohorts to rule.
Yesterday a friend sent me wonderful articles re "energy trees", for power, for solar energy and think how much better we would be if we had something like this here in the Village. For sure we get enough sun! Would it be costly. Sure, but how much? Who knows and we will never know if this is a good ongoing project for us to engage in, to even look into because we have a benighted group of people here who have their heads up another portion of their anatomy and their brains can only think Wi Fi, Wi Fi, Wi Fi..... We need to have a new, forward looking group of people brought into UCO, we need to open the windows, open the books, open our minds, to new times and new ideas. We need to look to the future, not to ideas that are already passé and not worthy of support and expense.
If this is an impossible way to go with this administration then we need to move on, to throw out, to get rid of. Perhaps we even need to look more seriously into professional management and all it would entail. Perhaps the money it would cost us could be saved through other cost cutting gestures and moves, getting rid of waste in our spending now and believe me there is plenty of that. The point is, at present we have an incompetent, greedy, selfish, backward looking UCO administration, a non transparent group that holds onto its power with greedy hearts and arms. They have no management skills and no process nor procedure other than one in which they get to stay in power and waste and ruin us.
People, once again, we all need to stand up and do something, act, run for office, speak up and out, protest, defy, OPT OUT, whatever it takes. Recall, force a resignation, whatever it takes - before it is too late.
Monday, October 27, 2014
HERE IS A BRAVE MAN WHO LOVED HIS DAUGHTER AND SOUGHT JUSTICE
Stephen Flatow: The Amazing Story of What One Person Can Accomplish Rabbi Brenner Glickman Rosh Hashanah 5775/2014
THIS WAS SENT TO ME BY A FTRIEND.Tonight, I will tell you a story. It is the true story of a seemingly inconsequential man who, driven by passion and determination, has accomplished the extraordinary. It is a David and Goliath story of our times, and it continues to unfold. When you hear this story, I think you will agree that someone needs to write a book about this man. I can’t believe that no one has yet.
Our hero’s name is Stephen Flatow. He is a real-estate attorney in northern New Jersey. He does title work, mostly, out of a small, cluttered office. He is well-regarded in his field, but not especially well known. He makes a living.
He is famous, however, in other circles, as an activist. His courage and determination are unmatched. This lone man has stood up to the greatest powers and has not blinked. He has challenged the State Department, the Justice Department, the courts, and the largest banks in the world. He has failed and prevailed, stumbled and triumphed, over and over again. He does not quit.
He is driven by the love of his daughter, a daughter who was killed by a suicide bomber twenty years ago. This is his story.
Alisa Flatow was a student at Brandeis University. She chose to spend a semester studying abroad in Jerusalem. After a few months in Israel, she and her roommates decided to spend a weekend at a beach resort in Gaza. This was 1995, soon after the Oslo accords, and Gaza was still under Israeli control. It seems unfathomable now, but people used to vacation in Gaza at the beach resorts.
On the way to the beach, their bus was struck by a van filled with explosives. The terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the killing. Seven Israeli soldiers riding on the bus were killed. Alisa was severely wounded, but she did not die right away. The terrorist van was filled with shrapnel that exploded through the windows of the bus and struck her head. She was unconscious, but her body was unharmed.
The doctors called her father in America, and told him to come right away. When he landed in Ben Gurion airport, government agents met him on the runway,and escorted him straight from the plane to the hospital. By the time he arrived, Alisa was brain-dead. The doctors offered their condolences, and asked the father if he would be willing to donate her organs.
Our hero’s name is Stephen Flatow. He is a real-estate attorney in northern New Jersey. He does title work, mostly, out of a small, cluttered office. He is well-regarded in his field, but not especially well known. He makes a living.
He is famous, however, in other circles, as an activist. His courage and determination are unmatched. This lone man has stood up to the greatest powers and has not blinked. He has challenged the State Department, the Justice Department, the courts, and the largest banks in the world. He has failed and prevailed, stumbled and triumphed, over and over again. He does not quit.
He is driven by the love of his daughter, a daughter who was killed by a suicide bomber twenty years ago. This is his story.
Alisa Flatow was a student at Brandeis University. She chose to spend a semester studying abroad in Jerusalem. After a few months in Israel, she and her roommates decided to spend a weekend at a beach resort in Gaza. This was 1995, soon after the Oslo accords, and Gaza was still under Israeli control. It seems unfathomable now, but people used to vacation in Gaza at the beach resorts.
On the way to the beach, their bus was struck by a van filled with explosives. The terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the killing. Seven Israeli soldiers riding on the bus were killed. Alisa was severely wounded, but she did not die right away. The terrorist van was filled with shrapnel that exploded through the windows of the bus and struck her head. She was unconscious, but her body was unharmed.
The doctors called her father in America, and told him to come right away. When he landed in Ben Gurion airport, government agents met him on the runway,and escorted him straight from the plane to the hospital. By the time he arrived, Alisa was brain-dead. The doctors offered their condolences, and asked the father if he would be willing to donate her organs.
This was not a simple question. The Flatow family was Orthodox and observant. It was not customary for Orthodox Jews to donate organs, and they were not sure it was allowed by Jewish law. So the parents called their rabbi and asked what to do. He told them to donate the organs, and so they did.
That single act became a sensation in Israel. To understand its significance, I need to give a little background information. There is much in Jewish law and custom that would discourage organ donation. It has been our longstanding tradition to treat a dead body as sacred. Our custom is to watch over it, cleanse it, and prepare it carefully for burial. The body is buried whole and unaltered. That is why rabbinic authorities have generally discouraged autopsies.
But organ donation is special. It presents the opportunity to save a life. In Jewish law, the saving of a human life takes special precedence. You can violate just about all the other commandments if you can save a life. Therefore, Jewish law does not just allow organ donation, it requires it. Reform and Conservative rabbis immediately encouraged organ donation, and by the 1970s, Orthodox rabbis did as well.
The problem was that most Jews in Israel were not aware of this. The rates of organ donation were extraordinarily low. Israel was part of a European consortium of organ sharing nations, but was suspended because too few Israelis were registered donors. It was a stunning irony for a nation famous as an innovator of advanced medical technologies. The problem was that Israelis knew about the tradition of burying a body whole; they were not so aware that their rabbis allowed organ donation.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, various medical groups and the government in Israel tried to educate the public, but nothing worked. Organ donation rates were terribly low. People were desperate for organs, but few were donating. It just wasn’t what people did.
That single act became a sensation in Israel. To understand its significance, I need to give a little background information. There is much in Jewish law and custom that would discourage organ donation. It has been our longstanding tradition to treat a dead body as sacred. Our custom is to watch over it, cleanse it, and prepare it carefully for burial. The body is buried whole and unaltered. That is why rabbinic authorities have generally discouraged autopsies.
But organ donation is special. It presents the opportunity to save a life. In Jewish law, the saving of a human life takes special precedence. You can violate just about all the other commandments if you can save a life. Therefore, Jewish law does not just allow organ donation, it requires it. Reform and Conservative rabbis immediately encouraged organ donation, and by the 1970s, Orthodox rabbis did as well.
The problem was that most Jews in Israel were not aware of this. The rates of organ donation were extraordinarily low. Israel was part of a European consortium of organ sharing nations, but was suspended because too few Israelis were registered donors. It was a stunning irony for a nation famous as an innovator of advanced medical technologies. The problem was that Israelis knew about the tradition of burying a body whole; they were not so aware that their rabbis allowed organ donation.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, various medical groups and the government in Israel tried to educate the public, but nothing worked. Organ donation rates were terribly low. People were desperate for organs, but few were donating. It just wasn’t what people did.
And then the Flatows offered their daughter’s organs to the people of Israel. The news made headlines in every newspaper throughout the nation. Her heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and corneas were able to save six lives in Israel. Notably, at least one of the recipients was Arab Palestinian. The people of Israel were amazed, and grateful. They had felt so alone in suffering against terrorism, and here this family from America made such a gesture. They felt that the world Jewish community was with them. We were one.
Days later, Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin came to Washington DC and spoke before a gathering of 12,000 American Jews. What he told them would be printed in newspapers throughout America. He spoke about what Alisa’s gift meant to the Israeli people. “Today,” he said, “her heart beats in Jerusalem.”
There is more. After Alisa’s death, the Flatows lives were shattered. Alisa’s mother withdrew into herself and her home. But the father, Stephen, decided to take action. He wanted justice. It was widely reported that the State of Iran was the sponsor and financial backer of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It angered him that there were no consequences for Iran. They had funded his daughter’s murderers, and no one was doing anything about it. The bomber himself was killed. The terrorist ring was being pursued by Israel. Stephen Flatow decided to take it upon himself to go after Iran.
A lawyer by training, he sought justice through the courts. He had a brilliant idea. If he and other victims of terror could file suit against Iran, they could exact punishment on the regime. They would make it costly for states to sponsor terror, and then maybe Iran would think twice about doing it again.
But there was a problem. United States law did not allow private citizens to sue foreign governments. It was expressly forbidden. So Stephen Flatow went to Washington to change the law. His senator, the Jewish Frank Lautenberg, happened to be in Israel at the time of Alyssa’s death. He took a special interest in her family and drafted legislation. Flatow testified before congress, and even gained the backing of President Clinton. Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996 to make an exception to the longstanding rule. In cases of state-sponsored
Days later, Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin came to Washington DC and spoke before a gathering of 12,000 American Jews. What he told them would be printed in newspapers throughout America. He spoke about what Alisa’s gift meant to the Israeli people. “Today,” he said, “her heart beats in Jerusalem.”
There is more. After Alisa’s death, the Flatows lives were shattered. Alisa’s mother withdrew into herself and her home. But the father, Stephen, decided to take action. He wanted justice. It was widely reported that the State of Iran was the sponsor and financial backer of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It angered him that there were no consequences for Iran. They had funded his daughter’s murderers, and no one was doing anything about it. The bomber himself was killed. The terrorist ring was being pursued by Israel. Stephen Flatow decided to take it upon himself to go after Iran.
A lawyer by training, he sought justice through the courts. He had a brilliant idea. If he and other victims of terror could file suit against Iran, they could exact punishment on the regime. They would make it costly for states to sponsor terror, and then maybe Iran would think twice about doing it again.
But there was a problem. United States law did not allow private citizens to sue foreign governments. It was expressly forbidden. So Stephen Flatow went to Washington to change the law. His senator, the Jewish Frank Lautenberg, happened to be in Israel at the time of Alyssa’s death. He took a special interest in her family and drafted legislation. Flatow testified before congress, and even gained the backing of President Clinton. Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996 to make an exception to the longstanding rule. In cases of state-sponsored
terror, individual US citizens could sue foreign nations for damages in US courts. It was the first victory.
It did not last. The courts threw it out. So back to Washington he went for a new law, one written specifically to override the objections of the court. Once again he sued the state of Iran in a US court. But his time, one of his allies became an adversary. The Clinton administration began to see Flatow as interfering in national diplomacy. The White House was against Iran, but they did not want Flatow dictating the terms. So the U.S. Department of Justice intervened in the case, and actually filed a brief in support of Iran and against the victims of terror. Once more, Flatow returned to Congress and this time he got a third law that gave citizens even more strength to sue foreign governments, this time with teeth.
Finally, in 1997, he received his judgment. A court ruled in favor of the Flatows and against Iran. The family was awarded $26 million in compensatory damages, and over $200 million in punitive damages.
But the issue was hardly over. How do you collect money from a rogue state? They weren’t paying. Stephen Flatow devised a plan. Since the United States had ended diplomatic ties with Iran following the rise of the Ayatollah, the Iranian embassy in Washington and the residence of the Iranian ambassador have been in control of the United States Government. The State Department holds them in trust with the goal of returning them to Iran someday when relations resume. Stephen Flatow now had a ruling that said the Iranian government owed him $247 million. He sought possession of the embassy and the residence, property owned by Iran. The State Department refused. They feared that if the United States confiscated sovereign property here, our embassies and properties abroad would become threatened. So instead, they paid Flatow $20 million from US funds with the understanding that the United States would collect that money from Iran someday.
Stephen Flatow was furious. His goal was not to get money. His goal was to make Iran pay so they would stop sponsoring terror. He had won in court and he had received money, but Iran had still not paid one cent.
It did not last. The courts threw it out. So back to Washington he went for a new law, one written specifically to override the objections of the court. Once again he sued the state of Iran in a US court. But his time, one of his allies became an adversary. The Clinton administration began to see Flatow as interfering in national diplomacy. The White House was against Iran, but they did not want Flatow dictating the terms. So the U.S. Department of Justice intervened in the case, and actually filed a brief in support of Iran and against the victims of terror. Once more, Flatow returned to Congress and this time he got a third law that gave citizens even more strength to sue foreign governments, this time with teeth.
Finally, in 1997, he received his judgment. A court ruled in favor of the Flatows and against Iran. The family was awarded $26 million in compensatory damages, and over $200 million in punitive damages.
But the issue was hardly over. How do you collect money from a rogue state? They weren’t paying. Stephen Flatow devised a plan. Since the United States had ended diplomatic ties with Iran following the rise of the Ayatollah, the Iranian embassy in Washington and the residence of the Iranian ambassador have been in control of the United States Government. The State Department holds them in trust with the goal of returning them to Iran someday when relations resume. Stephen Flatow now had a ruling that said the Iranian government owed him $247 million. He sought possession of the embassy and the residence, property owned by Iran. The State Department refused. They feared that if the United States confiscated sovereign property here, our embassies and properties abroad would become threatened. So instead, they paid Flatow $20 million from US funds with the understanding that the United States would collect that money from Iran someday.
Stephen Flatow was furious. His goal was not to get money. His goal was to make Iran pay so they would stop sponsoring terror. He had won in court and he had received money, but Iran had still not paid one cent.
And this leads to the third chapter of this amazing saga. Stephen Flatow did not give up. He began to look for other assets in the United States that were owned by the government of Iran. Officially, there were none. United States sanctions prohibited Iran from doing any business in the United States, or for anyone to do business with Iran in the United States. But Flatow had suspicions that a charitable foundation in New York was actually a front, laundering money for the Iranian regime.
Why would the Iranians funnel their money through New York? Because the financial exchanges are there, and you can’t get anything done internationally without going through New York’s markets. Iran’s economy, its nuclear weapons development, its sponsorship of Hezbollah and other jihadists groups – all required moving money across currencies. They needed a secret foothold in New York.
The Alavi Foundation was established decades ago by the Shah to promote Iranian culture abroad. It owned a gleaming skyscraper on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, between Rockefeller Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Ivan Boesky used to office there. Stephen Flatow did a lot of digging, and then filed papers in court demonstrating that the foundation and the building were secretly operated by the Iranian government. And if they belonged to the state of Iran, they were subject to his financial ruling.
Stephen Flatow’s case was a civil matter, but it came to the attention of a young analyst sitting in a cubicle at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. If what Flatow was saying was true, there was some serious criminal wrongdoing going on. That young analyst’s name was Eitan Arusy. Before he starting working for the District Attorney, he served in the Israel Defense Force as a spokesman. He was one of the first responders to the scene of the carnage on the day that Alisa Flatow’s bus was bombed. He had a special interest in the case.
The district attorney’s office did their own digging, and came to the same conclusion as Flatow – the Alavi Foundation was actually a front for Bank Melli, the State of Iran’s government-owned national bank. But how did the Iranians do it? How did they get their money in and out of the United States? The district attorney’s office soon discovered that two European Banks, Credit Suisse and Lloyds of London, were moving money and falsifying documents for the Iranians.
Why would the Iranians funnel their money through New York? Because the financial exchanges are there, and you can’t get anything done internationally without going through New York’s markets. Iran’s economy, its nuclear weapons development, its sponsorship of Hezbollah and other jihadists groups – all required moving money across currencies. They needed a secret foothold in New York.
The Alavi Foundation was established decades ago by the Shah to promote Iranian culture abroad. It owned a gleaming skyscraper on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, between Rockefeller Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Ivan Boesky used to office there. Stephen Flatow did a lot of digging, and then filed papers in court demonstrating that the foundation and the building were secretly operated by the Iranian government. And if they belonged to the state of Iran, they were subject to his financial ruling.
Stephen Flatow’s case was a civil matter, but it came to the attention of a young analyst sitting in a cubicle at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. If what Flatow was saying was true, there was some serious criminal wrongdoing going on. That young analyst’s name was Eitan Arusy. Before he starting working for the District Attorney, he served in the Israel Defense Force as a spokesman. He was one of the first responders to the scene of the carnage on the day that Alisa Flatow’s bus was bombed. He had a special interest in the case.
The district attorney’s office did their own digging, and came to the same conclusion as Flatow – the Alavi Foundation was actually a front for Bank Melli, the State of Iran’s government-owned national bank. But how did the Iranians do it? How did they get their money in and out of the United States? The district attorney’s office soon discovered that two European Banks, Credit Suisse and Lloyds of London, were moving money and falsifying documents for the Iranians.
When the FBI raided the records of the charity, they found vast deposits from Credit Suisse and Lloyds. The banks cooperated with investigators. They provided emails and memos detailing how they took Iranian money and sent it to the United States in their own names. Without admitting guilt, Lloyds agreed to pay a fine of $350 million, and Credit Suisse $536 million.
They were not alone. It was soon discovered that most of the major European banks were laundering money for the Iranians into the United States, in direct violation of US law. Barclays Bank settled in 2010, paying the United States $298 million. In 2012, ING, Standard Chartered, and HSBC also settled. HSBC agreed to pay $1.9 billion.
Then came the big one. While all these banks were making deals with the US government, two employees of BNP Paribas became whistleblowers. They shared with investigators that their bank had laundered tens of billions of dollars of Iranian money. They had also laundered money for Sudan while its regime was committing genocide.
BNP is the largest bank in France. This summer you may have seen the news. BNP became the first bank to admit guilt in laundering money for the Iranian government. They agreed to pay $8.9 billion in fines to the United States. It was far and away the largest penalty ever paid by a bank in history.
The New York Times headline said it best: “A Grieving Father Pulls a Thread that Unravels BNP’s Illegal Deals.” A dad lost his girl. The hole in his life will never be filled. He thinks about her every day. He never gives up. He is a small-time attorney doing title work in New Jersey. But his tenacity and his grit and his smarts were beyond anyone’s estimation. This one man in New Jersey uncovered an international conspiracy of bank fraud.
The story is not over. Stephen Flatow is not done. The man who instantly changed the culture of organ donation is Israel is trying to do the same here in America. He takes every opportunity to speak to Orthodox congregations to encourage organ donation. Though the rate of donation consent in America is strong at 60%, the rate among Flatow’s fellow Orthodox Jews is only 5%. He is on a mission to change that.
They were not alone. It was soon discovered that most of the major European banks were laundering money for the Iranians into the United States, in direct violation of US law. Barclays Bank settled in 2010, paying the United States $298 million. In 2012, ING, Standard Chartered, and HSBC also settled. HSBC agreed to pay $1.9 billion.
Then came the big one. While all these banks were making deals with the US government, two employees of BNP Paribas became whistleblowers. They shared with investigators that their bank had laundered tens of billions of dollars of Iranian money. They had also laundered money for Sudan while its regime was committing genocide.
BNP is the largest bank in France. This summer you may have seen the news. BNP became the first bank to admit guilt in laundering money for the Iranian government. They agreed to pay $8.9 billion in fines to the United States. It was far and away the largest penalty ever paid by a bank in history.
The New York Times headline said it best: “A Grieving Father Pulls a Thread that Unravels BNP’s Illegal Deals.” A dad lost his girl. The hole in his life will never be filled. He thinks about her every day. He never gives up. He is a small-time attorney doing title work in New Jersey. But his tenacity and his grit and his smarts were beyond anyone’s estimation. This one man in New Jersey uncovered an international conspiracy of bank fraud.
The story is not over. Stephen Flatow is not done. The man who instantly changed the culture of organ donation is Israel is trying to do the same here in America. He takes every opportunity to speak to Orthodox congregations to encourage organ donation. Though the rate of donation consent in America is strong at 60%, the rate among Flatow’s fellow Orthodox Jews is only 5%. He is on a mission to change that.
He and his wife have also established a foundation in Alisa’s name. They sponsor young Jewish women from around the world to take a semester of study in Jerusalem. The money they have received in their fight against Iran is now sponsoring women’s Torah study and the vitality of the State of Israel.
And, in the months ahead, he may finally achieve his goal of making Iran actually pay. A federal judge has the ruled that the assets of the Alavi Foundation be liquidated. The gleaming office tower in New York and other properties around America will be sold and the proceeds will go to the victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism. That will be Iranian money. Finally, Iran will pay a price.
All of this because of one man in Northern New Jersey. One man who never quit.
Earlier this summer, I did my own digging and I found Stephen Flatow’s contact information. I sent him an email.
Dear Mr. Flatow,
My name is Brenner Glickman and I am a rabbi with a congregation in Sarasota, Florida.
I admire you and am writing a sermon about you and your family for this High Holidays.
Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for Israel and America.
You are an inspiration.
He replied the same day:
Dear Rabbi Glickman,
Thanks very much for your note. But it’s really Alisa who has been the source of strength and encouragement these past 19 years. As I like to remind people , I’m still her father and we do anything for our children.
And, in the months ahead, he may finally achieve his goal of making Iran actually pay. A federal judge has the ruled that the assets of the Alavi Foundation be liquidated. The gleaming office tower in New York and other properties around America will be sold and the proceeds will go to the victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism. That will be Iranian money. Finally, Iran will pay a price.
All of this because of one man in Northern New Jersey. One man who never quit.
Earlier this summer, I did my own digging and I found Stephen Flatow’s contact information. I sent him an email.
Dear Mr. Flatow,
My name is Brenner Glickman and I am a rabbi with a congregation in Sarasota, Florida.
I admire you and am writing a sermon about you and your family for this High Holidays.
Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for Israel and America.
You are an inspiration.
He replied the same day:
Dear Rabbi Glickman,
Thanks very much for your note. But it’s really Alisa who has been the source of strength and encouragement these past 19 years. As I like to remind people , I’m still her father and we do anything for our children.
BOLD AND OBVIOUS. THEIR AIMS ARE CLEAR
Just finished skimming over the new Reporter and will read more in depth, but two items caught my eye and they are not good things either. Here is a quote from the Treasurer's report.
" The Budget was prepared with an expectation of transferring approximately $377,000 of collected WI Fi funds to the Infrastructure Reserve. This will not be accomplished. The shortfall of the reserve will only increase by this amount. The current measured shortfall in the reserve is $612,000. The reserve will be reassessed during 2015 and it will likely increase.The Budget was prepared without consideration of collecting any Wi Fi ($2 per unit per month) during the 2015-2016 Budget Year beginning in April 2015."
This is only a small excerpt from this article, but quite unnerving. Here we are told that the transfer of the money from the Wi Fi account will NOT take place. David Israel has reneged once again on his own public statement that the money should be transferred. It was stated by him at a large and combined meeting of the Finance and Officers meeting. At that time the deficit was expressed as $1.3 million plus and not quite sure how it was lowered to the figure given in this quote, unless the Wi Fi money was included. In any case, we have the shortfall, it is over one million dollars and will get worse as the days and months progress, we still have a liar for UCO president and we still have no cure for the projects, the harmful and dangerous projects that this man wants to foist upon us.
We still have no answer to his lunatic statements, his paranoid fantasies of men with guns, of his paranoia and hatred of trailer park residents, and the list goes on and on. Over the past few days he has openly lied and defamed many people, including myself, stating, basically, that my blog has been censored and noted as dangerous by official sources. It kind of makes me laugh, as if my tiny little blog had drawn the notice of a governmental office. Perhaps that would be a good thing anyway, as then we could use a governmental office to aid us in fighting to regain our denied amendment and constitutional rights, denied to us right here in the middle of the good old USA. But alas, it was only one of David Israel's paranoid fantasies.
It also shows the depths of his fear, of the urgency he feels to counteract all the truth that is coming out, all the attention that is being paid to his past and present lies, and all the opposition, in word and deed, to his proposed projects such as the Wi Fi and to the inaction of his administration and inattention to other pressing needs of our Village.
The other item that caught my eye is also a telling indicator of the state of mind and actuality of our present administration. Here it is. This is from a short piece about volunteers. It specifically names one person, Ed Black, as one who offers "valuable guidance and advice on homeowner and Association concerns." This man, Ed Black, is not even an elected official to UCO and in the meanwhile is the shadow King of UCO. He runs it all the while "guiding" his puppet, David Israel, on HIS pathways.
Ed Black has been at the heart of every nefarious financial shenanigan in the Village, particularly what went on with the road contract financing, and that is why he is so upset and such an enemy of our past Treasurer who discovered and made known the facts, the true facts, as part of her fiduciary responsibility. Ed Black, non elected, has access to all sorts of private information of our residents and who the hell knows what he does with it. He is the one who answers questions that should go to the area VPs, who runs the IT, the security, etc. How can this be? How can a non elected person gain such power and then use it, shall we say, in a not particularly spotless manner.
But then again, this is how things are run in this UCO and now they are bold enough, obvious enough, brash enough to point it out in public, thus illuminating their contempt for us, the residents of the Village, for our needs, for our finances, for our intelligence. To them we are sheep and we are being led right down the paths they have chosen and they ain't good, folks, they ain't good.
Once again, the facts are there, the choices are there and the choices are clear. Right or wrong? Light or dark? Honesty and transparency versus backroom politics? Make your choice folks, and make it soon. Times a'fleetin'.
" The Budget was prepared with an expectation of transferring approximately $377,000 of collected WI Fi funds to the Infrastructure Reserve. This will not be accomplished. The shortfall of the reserve will only increase by this amount. The current measured shortfall in the reserve is $612,000. The reserve will be reassessed during 2015 and it will likely increase.The Budget was prepared without consideration of collecting any Wi Fi ($2 per unit per month) during the 2015-2016 Budget Year beginning in April 2015."
This is only a small excerpt from this article, but quite unnerving. Here we are told that the transfer of the money from the Wi Fi account will NOT take place. David Israel has reneged once again on his own public statement that the money should be transferred. It was stated by him at a large and combined meeting of the Finance and Officers meeting. At that time the deficit was expressed as $1.3 million plus and not quite sure how it was lowered to the figure given in this quote, unless the Wi Fi money was included. In any case, we have the shortfall, it is over one million dollars and will get worse as the days and months progress, we still have a liar for UCO president and we still have no cure for the projects, the harmful and dangerous projects that this man wants to foist upon us.
We still have no answer to his lunatic statements, his paranoid fantasies of men with guns, of his paranoia and hatred of trailer park residents, and the list goes on and on. Over the past few days he has openly lied and defamed many people, including myself, stating, basically, that my blog has been censored and noted as dangerous by official sources. It kind of makes me laugh, as if my tiny little blog had drawn the notice of a governmental office. Perhaps that would be a good thing anyway, as then we could use a governmental office to aid us in fighting to regain our denied amendment and constitutional rights, denied to us right here in the middle of the good old USA. But alas, it was only one of David Israel's paranoid fantasies.
It also shows the depths of his fear, of the urgency he feels to counteract all the truth that is coming out, all the attention that is being paid to his past and present lies, and all the opposition, in word and deed, to his proposed projects such as the Wi Fi and to the inaction of his administration and inattention to other pressing needs of our Village.
The other item that caught my eye is also a telling indicator of the state of mind and actuality of our present administration. Here it is. This is from a short piece about volunteers. It specifically names one person, Ed Black, as one who offers "valuable guidance and advice on homeowner and Association concerns." This man, Ed Black, is not even an elected official to UCO and in the meanwhile is the shadow King of UCO. He runs it all the while "guiding" his puppet, David Israel, on HIS pathways.
Ed Black has been at the heart of every nefarious financial shenanigan in the Village, particularly what went on with the road contract financing, and that is why he is so upset and such an enemy of our past Treasurer who discovered and made known the facts, the true facts, as part of her fiduciary responsibility. Ed Black, non elected, has access to all sorts of private information of our residents and who the hell knows what he does with it. He is the one who answers questions that should go to the area VPs, who runs the IT, the security, etc. How can this be? How can a non elected person gain such power and then use it, shall we say, in a not particularly spotless manner.
But then again, this is how things are run in this UCO and now they are bold enough, obvious enough, brash enough to point it out in public, thus illuminating their contempt for us, the residents of the Village, for our needs, for our finances, for our intelligence. To them we are sheep and we are being led right down the paths they have chosen and they ain't good, folks, they ain't good.
Once again, the facts are there, the choices are there and the choices are clear. Right or wrong? Light or dark? Honesty and transparency versus backroom politics? Make your choice folks, and make it soon. Times a'fleetin'.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
THE CRUX OF THE MATTER
There comes a point in everyone's life when he/she must make a choice. Are they going to stay with the right, or go off with the dark forces? Will they serve only themselves or will they serve others, help others, make the lives of others better? Will they go with the truth and honesty or will they take the crooked path of lies, misstatements and falsehoods whose only purpose is to hoodwink and malign, to self serve?
Here is an example of a clear choice. Her Ninnieness claimed that Gary's blog and my blog were labeled as dangerous and people were being warned about this. His Lunacy jumped on the bandwagon and said oh, yes, he knows and that means that they are dangerous and best stay off. I guess he thought that those big guys with guns , you know, the same ones that were going to break into our homes in the middle of the night after we were all hacked by the trailer park people, were going to do the same thing here. I swear, I could not make this idiocy up. It is all on David Israel's paranoid center blog. Then, Mr. Pompous, gets on and comments that oh, yes, it is terrible and those people from those blogs are also terrible, etc. Bandwagon time!
But wait. There has been a new person on David Israel's list of ok'ed commentators. This is what he said and I am just wondering when he will be locked out too. I quote -
jangor802 said...
.
......., I must say that I have never ever gotten a flag or warning about My Village Blogger, nor did my own search of Blogger Forum indicate any red flags. Without direct proof (i.e. a link anyone can follow) it is a disservice to all to suggest otherwise. The best thing UCO can do for itself, as in the USA, is allow free and open discussion of CV concerns.
Delicious! I could not have stated it better than that. The underlining is my emphasis. Here is the crux of the matter. David Israel has been caught with his pants down around his ankle, caught red handed in a lie, and this guy calls him on it and then gets the point and tells him that open discussion - yes, that same freedom of speech and assembly that we have been denied - is the right way to go. It is the USA after all!!!!!
Crux of the matter, folks. The man has been called on his lies right here by a new person. This is not the first nor the lAst time he and his followers have tripped over themselves and lied and lied and lied. We have pointed out many times ad infinitum the times he has lied. He has even retracted some of these lies when threatened with legal recourse by the victims of these lies as took place when he tried to smear Dan Gladstone and had to write a letter of retraction. Gary published a link to that on his blog.
Now the man is telling more lies about the roads, the new bylaws we need, the suddenly going to be changed in secret Articles of Incorporation and what a job he is trying to pull off there, and the list goes on and his little toadies just lie along with him. Non- stop.
So, crux of the matter, folks. Are you with the white hats or the black hats? Are you with The Force or are you going and staying over on the Dark Side? It is just that simple. Do you believe in liars who have been caught numerous times with their pants down or do you go with those who point out these lies and who want nothing other than to see the Village back on the right path. Her Ninniness keeps asking me what I am doing for the Village. Well, Ninny, just this, exactly this, for David Israel cannot shut me down and the truth will always out. As far as committees, etc. - uh huh, go to your lord and master, Darth Vader's star apprentice and ask him why I cannot do for the Village on committees and yet, and yet, I have managed to do things of the q.t. and it does not matter what, but why - and that is to better the Village.
Once again, I challenge David Israel, to pick up his pants and come and debate, not an election debate, but a midterm debate and heard by all, especially by those who want answers, true answers. No more stupidities like Her Ninnieness puts forth such as , "Oh, we all met the contractors etc., etc., etc., and the result crap job is all the fault of the delegates. Exactly who is all the "we all heard"?
Be a man, you and all your followers. Some of them are still searching for portions of their anatomy - perhaps under the tar of the perimeter walkways? - but there is a limit to how much you can hide and for how long you think you can threaten and intimIdate all. Come out and play, David Israel. Come out into the open, actually meet the residents and not just the presidents that you call in and try to sweettalk and/or threaten when one of your desires looks like it is going down the tubes. People are seeing thru you. The David Israel Wall is COMING DOWN - JUST AS THE BERLIN WALL DID.
Here is an example of a clear choice. Her Ninnieness claimed that Gary's blog and my blog were labeled as dangerous and people were being warned about this. His Lunacy jumped on the bandwagon and said oh, yes, he knows and that means that they are dangerous and best stay off. I guess he thought that those big guys with guns , you know, the same ones that were going to break into our homes in the middle of the night after we were all hacked by the trailer park people, were going to do the same thing here. I swear, I could not make this idiocy up. It is all on David Israel's paranoid center blog. Then, Mr. Pompous, gets on and comments that oh, yes, it is terrible and those people from those blogs are also terrible, etc. Bandwagon time!
But wait. There has been a new person on David Israel's list of ok'ed commentators. This is what he said and I am just wondering when he will be locked out too. I quote -
jangor802 said...
......., I must say that I have never ever gotten a flag or warning about My Village Blogger, nor did my own search of Blogger Forum indicate any red flags. Without direct proof (i.e. a link anyone can follow) it is a disservice to all to suggest otherwise. The best thing UCO can do for itself, as in the USA, is allow free and open discussion of CV concerns.
Delicious! I could not have stated it better than that. The underlining is my emphasis. Here is the crux of the matter. David Israel has been caught with his pants down around his ankle, caught red handed in a lie, and this guy calls him on it and then gets the point and tells him that open discussion - yes, that same freedom of speech and assembly that we have been denied - is the right way to go. It is the USA after all!!!!!
Crux of the matter, folks. The man has been called on his lies right here by a new person. This is not the first nor the lAst time he and his followers have tripped over themselves and lied and lied and lied. We have pointed out many times ad infinitum the times he has lied. He has even retracted some of these lies when threatened with legal recourse by the victims of these lies as took place when he tried to smear Dan Gladstone and had to write a letter of retraction. Gary published a link to that on his blog.
Now the man is telling more lies about the roads, the new bylaws we need, the suddenly going to be changed in secret Articles of Incorporation and what a job he is trying to pull off there, and the list goes on and his little toadies just lie along with him. Non- stop.
So, crux of the matter, folks. Are you with the white hats or the black hats? Are you with The Force or are you going and staying over on the Dark Side? It is just that simple. Do you believe in liars who have been caught numerous times with their pants down or do you go with those who point out these lies and who want nothing other than to see the Village back on the right path. Her Ninniness keeps asking me what I am doing for the Village. Well, Ninny, just this, exactly this, for David Israel cannot shut me down and the truth will always out. As far as committees, etc. - uh huh, go to your lord and master, Darth Vader's star apprentice and ask him why I cannot do for the Village on committees and yet, and yet, I have managed to do things of the q.t. and it does not matter what, but why - and that is to better the Village.
Once again, I challenge David Israel, to pick up his pants and come and debate, not an election debate, but a midterm debate and heard by all, especially by those who want answers, true answers. No more stupidities like Her Ninnieness puts forth such as , "Oh, we all met the contractors etc., etc., etc., and the result crap job is all the fault of the delegates. Exactly who is all the "we all heard"?
Be a man, you and all your followers. Some of them are still searching for portions of their anatomy - perhaps under the tar of the perimeter walkways? - but there is a limit to how much you can hide and for how long you think you can threaten and intimIdate all. Come out and play, David Israel. Come out into the open, actually meet the residents and not just the presidents that you call in and try to sweettalk and/or threaten when one of your desires looks like it is going down the tubes. People are seeing thru you. The David Israel Wall is COMING DOWN - JUST AS THE BERLIN WALL DID.
Friday, October 24, 2014
MACY'S AND BDS MOVEMENT
Macy's, a huge retailing giant, founded by Jews, has now decided that it will give in to Palestinians and the BDS movement and no longer sell Sodastream in its stores. That is an Israeli company that happens to employ several thousand Palestinian workers so there is no sense in this, but since they agreed or gave in to the pressure - all people who support Israel and its right to exist as an independent Jewish nation, with its right to employ all who live there in a free and open economy - all need to email Macy's and tell them that you disagree, will not shop there any more and are sending in your Macy's cards.
This has nothing to do with the Village, only to do with what is right and the proper way to respond to blackmail by terrorists of the world.
This has nothing to do with the Village, only to do with what is right and the proper way to respond to blackmail by terrorists of the world.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
THE TRULY SCARY THINGS IN CV
I just came back from an emotionally and physically exhausting day and was ready to just veggie out for the rest of the day, talk with my grandchildren, but first we opened the computer and there was the antidote to the day's excursions and emotions. I had spent the afternoon at the 911 Memorial Museum and it was overwhelming. Every one of the hours of emotions came back, every one of the lives lost, of the depths to which man can fall - it all came back. The tears came and went and the pictures of people we knew who were killed that day cut more wounds into tour hearts.
So there I was, sad, depressed, and looking at the books we had bought, which actually were inspiring with their stories of sacrifice and bravery, as well as informational re items in the museum. Then Gerry opened the computer, went on site and started to laugh. Of course I had to see it.
So - Her Ninninesss once more wrote ad infinitum ad nauseum her inane comment about why the road job was garbage, and of course, it was all the fault of the delegates. Then she wrote me another love note - hey, wanna go for coffee yet? - which told me I am scary. Really! Haven't been told that since I caught a kid red handed trying to take something that did not belong in his hands. Thank you for bringing back the glory days!!
Seriously, Your Ninnieness, why do you think the repetition will cause someone to believe the lies about the roads and the blame and why would you ever think I will post your stuff? Now I am giving you a chance to go for it again. Now, Your Ninnieness, tell me what excuse you can possibly give for this secret Articles of Incorporation? Why are they secret and what is David Israel proposing? Actually we know - it is basically the same changes he wants in the by laws and why is he signing as the registered agent? He is not my agent. He is not even my favorite liar and Gorodetzer and her sweet dulcet tones and cheating ways are certainly not my favorite forms of behavior. Hey, Ninnie, remember the Sunshine laws where all has to be open and aboveboard? Yeah, those. Oh, you forgot? Well, your lord and master did not and there he is trying to pull another fast one over on the Village.
His stooge, Joy Vestal, will publish it is the paper? Big deal! Half the people will not read it and the half who do read it will either not understand it or just blindly follow their lord and master down the road to rack and ruin. These proposed changes need full explanation, full exposure and at least two town halls because much time will be needed. What is the rush, you might ask? Simple, David Israel and squalid little crew want to insure his life long reign and leave us the only option of hoping his release comes soon, before we are all dead and ruined well before that.
Enough with this backroom politics.
Enough with this corruption.
Enough with this garbage.
Enough of David Israel and his little gnomes.
DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYTHING THAT HE PROPOSED BECAUSE IT WILL ONLY BITE YOU IN YOUR POSTERIOR.
RECALL THE MAN OR FORCE HIS RESIGNATION.
So there I was, sad, depressed, and looking at the books we had bought, which actually were inspiring with their stories of sacrifice and bravery, as well as informational re items in the museum. Then Gerry opened the computer, went on site and started to laugh. Of course I had to see it.
So - Her Ninninesss once more wrote ad infinitum ad nauseum her inane comment about why the road job was garbage, and of course, it was all the fault of the delegates. Then she wrote me another love note - hey, wanna go for coffee yet? - which told me I am scary. Really! Haven't been told that since I caught a kid red handed trying to take something that did not belong in his hands. Thank you for bringing back the glory days!!
Seriously, Your Ninnieness, why do you think the repetition will cause someone to believe the lies about the roads and the blame and why would you ever think I will post your stuff? Now I am giving you a chance to go for it again. Now, Your Ninnieness, tell me what excuse you can possibly give for this secret Articles of Incorporation? Why are they secret and what is David Israel proposing? Actually we know - it is basically the same changes he wants in the by laws and why is he signing as the registered agent? He is not my agent. He is not even my favorite liar and Gorodetzer and her sweet dulcet tones and cheating ways are certainly not my favorite forms of behavior. Hey, Ninnie, remember the Sunshine laws where all has to be open and aboveboard? Yeah, those. Oh, you forgot? Well, your lord and master did not and there he is trying to pull another fast one over on the Village.
His stooge, Joy Vestal, will publish it is the paper? Big deal! Half the people will not read it and the half who do read it will either not understand it or just blindly follow their lord and master down the road to rack and ruin. These proposed changes need full explanation, full exposure and at least two town halls because much time will be needed. What is the rush, you might ask? Simple, David Israel and squalid little crew want to insure his life long reign and leave us the only option of hoping his release comes soon, before we are all dead and ruined well before that.
Enough with this backroom politics.
Enough with this corruption.
Enough with this garbage.
Enough of David Israel and his little gnomes.
DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYTHING THAT HE PROPOSED BECAUSE IT WILL ONLY BITE YOU IN YOUR POSTERIOR.
RECALL THE MAN OR FORCE HIS RESIGNATION.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
CV'S VERSION OF LOYALTY OATHS A LA DAVID ISRAEL
Last year David Israel and crew ,especially Gorodetzer, decided to make it mandatory that all those running for UCO office sign a paper stating that they live in CV for at least nine months of the year. Roberta Fromkin had it on her list of requisites and finally, when people were not signing, they insisted that all stand up and say it aloud at a delegate assembly. I DID NOT. I refused to sign it and I did not swear or say it as I was in the hospital or rehab at the time recovering from surgery. And guess what? Nothing happened. I did not melt and neither did anyone else and no one doubted that I was a resident as I have often stated that this is my ONLY residence and I own only the one unit, unlike some other people in UCO.
This year they have gone even one "better". Now, in addition to signing a form which states that you live here for at least nine months, you also have to sign that you are not in arrears to one's association. Really? Do you think we are all dumb as to your motives and the consequences of signing such a statement? I have been told by many attorneys to NEVER sign ANYTHING that could open doors into other related areas where people have no business going. My finances are open books to the IRS and my attorney who drew up our will. My payments to the association in which I reside is THEIR business and that of our management company. It is not the business of ANYONE else. If these people say they have an issue with me or any other candidate from their association or management company, then it is their right to speak up or not - not for UCO to dare to presume to ask.
If UCO is suddenly so concerned about the background of people, there are many others and more important issues. How about checking up on criminal background of potential owners and renters and stop weaseling out on responsibility for letting crooks and criminals in. How about helping associations that are struggling with all elderly elderly residents and who are taken advantage of by embezzlers? How about making sure that no sexual perverts or offenders move into the Village?
But no, what you are interested in is setting up people from opt out associations who will no longer pay any Wi Fi money to UCO and then you will use that to say - you lied when you signed.
So, while I have not made up my mind about running for any office - I enjoy what I am doing right now, should I run - I will not sign any such letter and if I were told I could not run, I will get an injunction to stop elections if I have to.
It is time we all read carefully what comes out of UCO and watch very carefully for the traps they set, all in order to maintain their positions and grubby little hands on our funds.
There is no Joe McCarthy here in the Village and David Israel, Marilyn Gorodetzer, et al are no substitutes nor are they welcome to try. Stop treating the residents here as dupes, always ready to fall into your sandtraps. Stop trying to scare people so that they do not run as they do not want any problems from you. If I say I have no impediments to stop me from fulfilling my responsibilities then that is enough. In fact, it is more than many UCO personnel can say right now. Sad fact, that.
This year they have gone even one "better". Now, in addition to signing a form which states that you live here for at least nine months, you also have to sign that you are not in arrears to one's association. Really? Do you think we are all dumb as to your motives and the consequences of signing such a statement? I have been told by many attorneys to NEVER sign ANYTHING that could open doors into other related areas where people have no business going. My finances are open books to the IRS and my attorney who drew up our will. My payments to the association in which I reside is THEIR business and that of our management company. It is not the business of ANYONE else. If these people say they have an issue with me or any other candidate from their association or management company, then it is their right to speak up or not - not for UCO to dare to presume to ask.
If UCO is suddenly so concerned about the background of people, there are many others and more important issues. How about checking up on criminal background of potential owners and renters and stop weaseling out on responsibility for letting crooks and criminals in. How about helping associations that are struggling with all elderly elderly residents and who are taken advantage of by embezzlers? How about making sure that no sexual perverts or offenders move into the Village?
But no, what you are interested in is setting up people from opt out associations who will no longer pay any Wi Fi money to UCO and then you will use that to say - you lied when you signed.
So, while I have not made up my mind about running for any office - I enjoy what I am doing right now, should I run - I will not sign any such letter and if I were told I could not run, I will get an injunction to stop elections if I have to.
It is time we all read carefully what comes out of UCO and watch very carefully for the traps they set, all in order to maintain their positions and grubby little hands on our funds.
There is no Joe McCarthy here in the Village and David Israel, Marilyn Gorodetzer, et al are no substitutes nor are they welcome to try. Stop treating the residents here as dupes, always ready to fall into your sandtraps. Stop trying to scare people so that they do not run as they do not want any problems from you. If I say I have no impediments to stop me from fulfilling my responsibilities then that is enough. In fact, it is more than many UCO personnel can say right now. Sad fact, that.
THICK IS AS THICK DOES
Scary, very scary. Like Halloween all year round only all we get are the tricks and not treats. The deeds of the administration of UCO, their lack of competence, their lack of management skills, their lack of process and procedure and their knowledge of gray and black areas in which to mess around with our funds all add up to grave problems. Then of course we have the fact that these people are as thick as thick can be along with a great dose of nastiness. Their comments that they send along here, or that they post on Gary's blog and of course, on their master's blog, are amazing in their inanity and intent to harm and insult.
Take a look at the comment that I allowed thru as an example. It is on the previous blog. I commented on it. It is amazing as they do not recognize any subtlety and take things as fact. When I spoke about being a queen already, it was to answer Her Ninniness who said I wished to be one.Been there and done that. Next, this idiot says wait on it. Where are their brains? I swear, they get concussions when they sit!
They speak of the desperate things that will happen should we sue for a return of funds. First of all, no one is suing the insurance company. The suit is against UCO as the responsible supervising party in the contract and David Israel as the one in overall charge. The insurance company comes in when they will have to pay when the suit is won. They speak as if no one ever sued, as if no one ever pursued a case, as if the world fell down when an insurance had to fork over money. Look at the people who continued to insist that the auto industry fess up about their faulty parts - derided, maligned, jeered at - and look at the papers now. It will not bring back their loved ones, but perhaps it will force an accounting and a more truthful manner and procedure of business. No more business as usual and guess what - the insurance companies will continue to insure them. That is their business and losses are built in to their rates.
This is the administration we have now, one based on lies, evasions of truth at best, of lack of competency in management, no idea about how to run an $8 million dollar business and no people skills at all. They run a closed door company and use innuendo to frighten people, trashing those who might be different or who think differently, or raise scares so that their incompetence is glossed over in the new crisis, they get what they want and then move on. I said before that I was suspicious of the sudden spate of robberies at Southampton, suspicious of the way they stopped, suspicious over how NOTHING got down with the fence except excuse after excuse and a year later NOTHING was accomplished and now we have this sudden rape scare with no one even sure it ever happened and you can bet your bippy that David Israel and crew will take up this flag to push through their big brother camera system.
People of CV, PLEASE look at what we have allowed to take place. We have brought this upon ourselves by not kicking them out of office and voting in a better, more knowledgeable team, an honest team. Start with the executive board this election and choose carefully for VP and then next year, vote in a new president - whoever that might be - and more clean sweeps of the old and tired crew. That is our only option. That is our only hope for a better future, for the return to Camelot.
Take a look at the comment that I allowed thru as an example. It is on the previous blog. I commented on it. It is amazing as they do not recognize any subtlety and take things as fact. When I spoke about being a queen already, it was to answer Her Ninniness who said I wished to be one.Been there and done that. Next, this idiot says wait on it. Where are their brains? I swear, they get concussions when they sit!
They speak of the desperate things that will happen should we sue for a return of funds. First of all, no one is suing the insurance company. The suit is against UCO as the responsible supervising party in the contract and David Israel as the one in overall charge. The insurance company comes in when they will have to pay when the suit is won. They speak as if no one ever sued, as if no one ever pursued a case, as if the world fell down when an insurance had to fork over money. Look at the people who continued to insist that the auto industry fess up about their faulty parts - derided, maligned, jeered at - and look at the papers now. It will not bring back their loved ones, but perhaps it will force an accounting and a more truthful manner and procedure of business. No more business as usual and guess what - the insurance companies will continue to insure them. That is their business and losses are built in to their rates.
This is the administration we have now, one based on lies, evasions of truth at best, of lack of competency in management, no idea about how to run an $8 million dollar business and no people skills at all. They run a closed door company and use innuendo to frighten people, trashing those who might be different or who think differently, or raise scares so that their incompetence is glossed over in the new crisis, they get what they want and then move on. I said before that I was suspicious of the sudden spate of robberies at Southampton, suspicious of the way they stopped, suspicious over how NOTHING got down with the fence except excuse after excuse and a year later NOTHING was accomplished and now we have this sudden rape scare with no one even sure it ever happened and you can bet your bippy that David Israel and crew will take up this flag to push through their big brother camera system.
People of CV, PLEASE look at what we have allowed to take place. We have brought this upon ourselves by not kicking them out of office and voting in a better, more knowledgeable team, an honest team. Start with the executive board this election and choose carefully for VP and then next year, vote in a new president - whoever that might be - and more clean sweeps of the old and tired crew. That is our only option. That is our only hope for a better future, for the return to Camelot.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
OH THE LIES, THE LIES. IT IS A WONDER THE MAN'S NOSE IS NOT 18 FEET LONG!
So it seems that our "esteemed" leader (NOT) is enamored of fairy tale figures and this time has chosen the Pinocchio route. You remember, that wooden puppet who wanted to be human and then found out that when he lied his nose grew. Yep, sounds just like our own Pinocchio right here in the Village.
Here is a quote from his blog -
David Israel said...
Hi Grace,
I have checked the BLOGGER Forum, and both Malcontent BLOGS have indeed been flagged for violation(s) of the "Terms of Use" agreement.
They should be avoided as a logical precaution.
Dave Israel
Here is a quote from his blog -
David Israel said...
I have checked the BLOGGER Forum, and both Malcontent BLOGS have indeed been flagged for violation(s) of the "Terms of Use" agreement.
They should be avoided as a logical precaution.
Dave Israel
Monday, October 20, 2014
THE MAN REALLY WANTS TO BE KING - AND IS CLOSE TO GETTING IT!
If this man gets his way, the way he is trying to insure now, then this place is doomed. Just doomed. There will be no room for any opposition, any opinions other than his own and the only way out of him will be when he dies!
David Israel, Ed Black, Marilyn Gorodetzer, et al, have worked in secret on the new by laws they propose to enact. For several weeks I have been hearing rumors of what these new proposals contain and if they contain half of what I have been hearing, well, folks, pick up and get outta here while the gettings good!
While the world at large is highly into setting term limits, Palm Beach County has term limits and Palm Beach Gardens is voting in the next election on its installation, the robotic delegates voted again and again last year until David Israel finally got it his way and now he is King for life according to his wishes. How to insure that fact? Simple. There is no mention of term limits at all in the new by laws proposed by him and cohorts.
Aaahhh, but you know - there's more. Now he wants to enact a by law that says that if UCO - meaning him and cohorts - buy something, contract for something - in bulk, for the Village - NOONE can opt out, NOONE can say anything against it, NOONE can go against it, NOONE has any rights. So how far would that go? Should he come across a contraband lot of medicine and get it cheap would we all have to buy our Lipitor from him? If he decided that he wants to buy ALL landscaping in a bulk contract, including for association land, does that now mean we all have to use that company? Where does it end? Nowhere and never, for we are not allowed any say. The delegate assembly becomes an American version of the Russian legislative branch - a useless appendage to government, a rubber stamp to all that the dictator wishes and wants.
The new bylaws, I have heard, state that if David Israel approves a contract, NOONE IS ALLOWED TO QUESTION IT. You read that right. We would be living in the Fascistic newly commissioned Century Village of West Palm Beach. Wonder what Mark Levy thinks of this? Wonder if he even knows about it? He did not know about the pool shutdown for campaigning until he was apprised of it and in no uncertain terms he instructed Eva to open them up for it in the AM hours. Fair enough. Even though I still think there should be no limitations excerpt for common sense, but evidently we are too old and feeble to decide for ourselves.
There are new rules for everything. Recall petitions would now need 100 signatures, almost an impossibility since remember, we barely get over 100 at an assembly for much of the year. These new travesties of by laws would totally remove any chance of reform. I bet there would even be a new bylaw that would eventually lay down a set of inheritance laws!
The present administration at UCO is corrupt, corroded, contains no morals and forgets that public servants are just that - servants to the needs of the public. David Israel does not believe in that and uses his self granted powers to intimidate and ruin. Now I hear he is calling in presidents of associations in order to cajole AND LIE and threaten about the Wi Fi proposal. What a piece of work is man. Shakespeare said that in so many words and so I say it, but in no positive tone here.
Let us look at another aspect of this man's RULE, yes, RULE, here in the Village. Numbers were given to the associations to work with, to plan for their new budgetary needs. At the assembly we were told how wonderful it was, that security and transportation costs were going down, hence our feEs to UCO would go down. Correct? WRONG!!! First the figures were given out that stated that the general UCO funds would need an infusion of $246.54 per month, a payment of $5.25 PER SMALLER UNIT. Great! We could reduce payments demanded from the unit owners. Well NOPE, did not stay that way. Suddenly new figures were given out - the new figure being $617.82, meaning a payment of $13.16 per month for the smaller apartments and $15.33 for the 2/2's.
WOW!!!!!! where did that come from and more important - where were those funds going? Were they going to be used for Wi Fi against all rules - except for his new planned by laws? Were they going to be transferred somewhere else that David Israel fixed his beady little eyes? Why an increase of over $300? And where do we place the need for the Wi Fi money to be turned over to the general reserve to try to make up the shortfall, you know, that same money that David Israel in public stated needed to be transferred!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, this place is corrupt, rife with people looking out for their own selves, though exactly what they get from ruining it for anyone else is beyond me. Is it money? Is it power? Is it plain old nastiness? Is it a lack of innate morality? Take your pick, but if we do not stand together and fight this, then the Village is doomed and I, for one, will not go down with the ship. So when the Village empties out of all thinking people, who will be there for David Israel to rule and lord it over ? Hey, I know, he can then go to those all mysterious hacker plotting trailer park people that he so greatly fears and maligns. Maybe then he will be able to work with them!
Remember the posting I did about the modern day fairy tale? Well, please do not let this be the fairy tale without a happily ever after ending.
REFORM. RECALL. RESIGN.
STAND UP FOR OURSELVES.
MAKE THIS PLACE A BETTER PLACE.
RUN FOR OFFICE.
HELP THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
DO SOMETHING!!!!!!
David Israel, Ed Black, Marilyn Gorodetzer, et al, have worked in secret on the new by laws they propose to enact. For several weeks I have been hearing rumors of what these new proposals contain and if they contain half of what I have been hearing, well, folks, pick up and get outta here while the gettings good!
While the world at large is highly into setting term limits, Palm Beach County has term limits and Palm Beach Gardens is voting in the next election on its installation, the robotic delegates voted again and again last year until David Israel finally got it his way and now he is King for life according to his wishes. How to insure that fact? Simple. There is no mention of term limits at all in the new by laws proposed by him and cohorts.
Aaahhh, but you know - there's more. Now he wants to enact a by law that says that if UCO - meaning him and cohorts - buy something, contract for something - in bulk, for the Village - NOONE can opt out, NOONE can say anything against it, NOONE can go against it, NOONE has any rights. So how far would that go? Should he come across a contraband lot of medicine and get it cheap would we all have to buy our Lipitor from him? If he decided that he wants to buy ALL landscaping in a bulk contract, including for association land, does that now mean we all have to use that company? Where does it end? Nowhere and never, for we are not allowed any say. The delegate assembly becomes an American version of the Russian legislative branch - a useless appendage to government, a rubber stamp to all that the dictator wishes and wants.
The new bylaws, I have heard, state that if David Israel approves a contract, NOONE IS ALLOWED TO QUESTION IT. You read that right. We would be living in the Fascistic newly commissioned Century Village of West Palm Beach. Wonder what Mark Levy thinks of this? Wonder if he even knows about it? He did not know about the pool shutdown for campaigning until he was apprised of it and in no uncertain terms he instructed Eva to open them up for it in the AM hours. Fair enough. Even though I still think there should be no limitations excerpt for common sense, but evidently we are too old and feeble to decide for ourselves.
There are new rules for everything. Recall petitions would now need 100 signatures, almost an impossibility since remember, we barely get over 100 at an assembly for much of the year. These new travesties of by laws would totally remove any chance of reform. I bet there would even be a new bylaw that would eventually lay down a set of inheritance laws!
The present administration at UCO is corrupt, corroded, contains no morals and forgets that public servants are just that - servants to the needs of the public. David Israel does not believe in that and uses his self granted powers to intimidate and ruin. Now I hear he is calling in presidents of associations in order to cajole AND LIE and threaten about the Wi Fi proposal. What a piece of work is man. Shakespeare said that in so many words and so I say it, but in no positive tone here.
Let us look at another aspect of this man's RULE, yes, RULE, here in the Village. Numbers were given to the associations to work with, to plan for their new budgetary needs. At the assembly we were told how wonderful it was, that security and transportation costs were going down, hence our feEs to UCO would go down. Correct? WRONG!!! First the figures were given out that stated that the general UCO funds would need an infusion of $246.54 per month, a payment of $5.25 PER SMALLER UNIT. Great! We could reduce payments demanded from the unit owners. Well NOPE, did not stay that way. Suddenly new figures were given out - the new figure being $617.82, meaning a payment of $13.16 per month for the smaller apartments and $15.33 for the 2/2's.
WOW!!!!!! where did that come from and more important - where were those funds going? Were they going to be used for Wi Fi against all rules - except for his new planned by laws? Were they going to be transferred somewhere else that David Israel fixed his beady little eyes? Why an increase of over $300? And where do we place the need for the Wi Fi money to be turned over to the general reserve to try to make up the shortfall, you know, that same money that David Israel in public stated needed to be transferred!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, this place is corrupt, rife with people looking out for their own selves, though exactly what they get from ruining it for anyone else is beyond me. Is it money? Is it power? Is it plain old nastiness? Is it a lack of innate morality? Take your pick, but if we do not stand together and fight this, then the Village is doomed and I, for one, will not go down with the ship. So when the Village empties out of all thinking people, who will be there for David Israel to rule and lord it over ? Hey, I know, he can then go to those all mysterious hacker plotting trailer park people that he so greatly fears and maligns. Maybe then he will be able to work with them!
Remember the posting I did about the modern day fairy tale? Well, please do not let this be the fairy tale without a happily ever after ending.
REFORM. RECALL. RESIGN.
STAND UP FOR OURSELVES.
MAKE THIS PLACE A BETTER PLACE.
RUN FOR OFFICE.
HELP THOSE RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
DO SOMETHING!!!!!!
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