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EYE ON MIAMI

• Shame on State Attorney's Office and Kudos to Herald On Absentee Ballot Fraud Follow Up: State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle Asleep At The Wheel ... by gimleteye

  We are critics of the Miami Herald, sometimes, but when the Herald does excellent work we are among the first to give credit where it is due. Consider the weekend report, "The case of the phantom ballots: an electoral whodunit" by Patricia Mazzei.
  
  Eye On Miami broke the absentee [...]
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• "Running Out The Clock": Climate Change And Severe Costs To Humanity ... by gimleteye

  Along with colleagues who have taken global warming seriously for many years, there is a wincing trepidation about shouting too loudly on the matters at hand. At first, climate change scientists worried about a public discussion that was too loud, too aimed at being sucked down the black hole of [...]
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• Waking up in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, and the Tea Party Binge ...

  "WHEN HE RAN FOR governor as a political neophyte in 2010, Rick Scott's main credential was his vast wealth, much of which he accumulated running Hospital Corporation of America. During Scott's tenure, HCA was caught systematically defrauding federal health programs of millions of dollars through elaborate schemes to overbill the [...]

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• You can't have one without the other. By Geniusofdespair

  Patriot: one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests.- Merriam-Webster Button available on line.Does "Tea Party" and "Patriot" seem like an oxymoron to you?  The Tea Party appears to hate the authority of government. Well, it doesn't really matter because the link is here to' [...]
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• Jim Kunstler and the Initiative to Improve Prospects for a Bright Future ... by gimleteye

  We like to take note of Jim Kunstler's blog, "Clusterfuck Nation". Writing from a redoubt in rural New York State, Jim has plenty of friends in South Florida.
  
  One of our enduring subjects -- the use by the Great Destroyers of the Urban Development Boundary in Miami-Dade County [...]
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• Observations About Miami-Dade Thievery and Obama on PBS "Frontline" ... by gimleteye

  In four years, Barack Obama rose from state legislature to the most powerful politician on earth. Not only the most powerful politician, but a president arriving in the midst of the biggest economic shit storm in contemporary US history. Was Barack Obama prepared to handle the crises unfolding?
  
  The [...]
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• I want some free Miami Dade County land too!! By Geniusofdespair

  
  I would like to build a museum too. Can I get almost $1 Million dollars worth of free land from Miami Dade County like the Nigerian-American Foundation? I would think not, because it depends on how good you are to your commissioner and I am afraid I am [...]
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• Rubio's PAC: Reclaim America. By Geniusofdespair

   Are Powerful Americans sending, private and personal databases overseas for processing?
  Media whores are throwing Marco Rubio's name in the ring for President since his water boring incident. There was even a misguided OpEd in the Miami Herald this morning by a Cuban born Journalist called "Marco Rubio's march to the [...]
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• Yoani Sanchez: "Information War" ... not so different, in Miami

  Two Miami Herald OPED's struck my interest this morning. The first, about the Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez celebrating her arrival in Brazil and the 'shower of democracy', being able to access the internet free of censors. The second, an OPED by Fred Grimm, "FIU deal benefits connected exec".
  
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• Larry Hawkins, really? ... by gimleteye

  Once upon a time on the upper west side of Manhattan (this is real and true!) I regularly had breakfasts at Tom's Restaurant; that is to say, the same place at the same time that the future president, Barack Obama, also frequented Tom's. Hear me out. This isn't another six degrees [...]
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