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The
"news" is an entertainment industry, with an added
function of forming public opinion.
It
is not a public information service. Truth is hate for those who
hate the truth.
In
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asked about the freedom of
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press. He responded "It wasn't in the past, it isn't now,
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January
11, 2024 The New York City Department of Buildings have issued a
vacate order to the synagogue with the illegal tunnel. The buildings
department has ordered that an engineer be hired to determine how to
upgrade a structure and if necessary, fill in the illegal tunnel.
January
9, 2024 Illegally dug 60 foot long tunnel between the headquarters
of the Jewish Chabad Lubavitch global headquarters in Crown Heights
Brooklyn and a smaller adjacent building. The tunnel was apparently
dug by radical, young Orthodox Jews from Israel to expand the size of
the synagogue, without permission of the Rabbi or the higher ups.
When the tunnel was discovered, the Rabbi ordered that the tunnel be
filled and the young radicals objected. Police were called and a riot
ensued with a number of young Orthodox men being arrested. This is an
evolving story.
January
7, 2024 Today is Christmas day for many Orthodox Christian groups,
using the Julian Calender. It is also the Epiphany or Three Kings day
for most of the other Christian/Catholic groups.
January
7, 2024 Ukrainian President Zelensky has banned the Ukrainian
Orthodox Christian Church and has ordered that their Christmas be
celebrated on December 25, as listed in the Gregorian Calender,
rather than January 7, as listed in the Julian Calender. President
Zelensky is of Jewish background.
January
4, 2024 Automobile sales data shows that the sale of Electric
Vehicles is slowing down. It is believed that the long charging times
or 1 hour for a 40% charge or 8 hours for a full charge, plus limited
range and high initial cost plus a lower resale price is contributing
to the decline in electric vehicle sales.
January
4, 2024 Reports/rumors have been floating around the Ukraine stating
that the Ukrainian government is considering exempting high earners
from military draft. During the U.S. Civil War, it was possible for a
drafted person to be exempt from military service in the North, if
they could find someone to take their place or if they paid a fee of
$200. In the 1860's, $200 was the average yearly income for the owner
of a farm.
January
1. 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing all of our readers peace, health and
happiness throughout the new year.
Happy
2024!
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It is time
for the New York City to take action to control bicycles Lets
face it, the quality of life in New York City is suffering
from bicycles, electric powered bikes and scooters. The riders feel
that they are above the law or don't even know the law. These vehicle
almost without exception, never obey traffic laws, go through red
lights and even go through crosswalks while people are crossing. It
is time to start requiring all bicycles to have registration, and
clearly visible license plates, and insurance. If cars and trucks
have to "share the road" with bicycles, bicycles must also
pay their fair share and obey the law. read
more
Is it wrong for
a company to make
a payment in order to protect the reputation of the company? Large
international companies often make payments for certain
"business expenses" such as ransoms paid to pirates to
release ships, kidnaping ransoms, or suppressing unfavorable news, or
paying off people who make false allegations and then deduct such
expenses as business expenses. The companies make a business decision
to determine if it is better to fight an allegation in court, that
may generate bad publicity and damage the company's reputation, even
if the allegation is completely false.
It is
essential to maintain law and order in New
York City There
has been a type of collapse of law and order in NYC. Shoplifting is
rampant, with little chance of punishment, even if caught.
Shoplifting is so prevalent that some stores have simply closed their
businesses. Unfortunately, the recent state law that removes the bail
requirement for many smaller crimes has given the green light to
criminals to continue their criminality.
Besides the
shoplifting and new bail rules, New York City has become like the
wild west when it comes to motorcycles. Today, very few motorcycles
seem to even have license plates, which means that they are probably
uninsured, unlicensed, and unqualified to even be riding. Further the
motorcycles rarely obey traffic laws and almost always go through red
lights, ride on the sidewalk or ride the wrong way down one way
streets. In the past, Police commissioner Bratton and others
maintained that by enforcing smaller regulations, the larger laws
also benefit.
We must have
reasonable police enforcement in New York City and certainly let us
not even consider reducing funding to the NYPD.
Vision
Zero is without vision. Is the well
intended Vision Zero New York City program started under former Mayor
DeBlasio to reduce pedestrian deaths from vehicles working? Some of
the actions taken was to reduce the speed limit in NYC from 30 miles
per hour to only 25 miles per hour. In addition, when the cross walk
light says walk, the traffic light for cars changes a few seconds
later, allowing pedestrians to start to cross before cars start. In
some areas, there has also been guides put on streets so that cars
must make a larger diameter turn. Has these measures work? Actually
these measures have not helped at all. Our speculation as to why
these measures have not worked are as follows. The crossing
pedestrians have come to take it for granted that the cars will
always allow them to cross and unfortunately, the pedestrians do not
look both ways. Further, many pedestrians are oblivious to their
surroundings because they are staring at their smart phones and do
not take a moment to carefully look to see if all is clear to cross
and also many pedestrians wear ear buds playing music or talking on
the phone that further reduces their attention to traffic. It should
be noted that many years ago, the brother of this writer was hit and
killed by a car.
Are
people really living longer today, than in the past? Time
and time again, we are told that people today liver longer than in
the past, but is this true? The answer is that people have about the
same life expectancy as people had 200 years ago. As proof, one only
has to go to a 200 year old cemetery, and look and see how old the
average person was when they passed on. You will find that the
average was between 75 and 85 years old. Also of interest, This
writer purchased an English cookbook from 1795 and discovered that
most recipe required heavy cream, butter or lard. Seed oil, such as
olive oil was very expensive and not widely used back then. Most
dishes were meat or dairy based with very little vegetables, since
vegetables were only available for a few weeks per year. They did
have dried vegetables and also jams. Many nutritionist today would
object to the diet of 200 years ago, but the fact is that as per the
tomb stones, people seemed to have lived as long then as they do
today. Life was arguably less stressful back then and also their work
day was not organized and the people probably worked considerably
less than today's 9 to 5 job. If we go back a thousand years, the
number of days people worked in the fields or work shops was much
less than today, being on average, 150 days per year because of the
numerous "Holy Days" or holidays! It is true that during
the industrial revolution, the factory workers were extremely over
worked, often working 12 to 14 hour days and lived under very dire
conditions. Essentially those workers were worked to death and thus
the average life expectancy did decline during that period.
Share
the road: This NYC sign says "Share the road".
Good idea! Perhaps it is time for bicycle riders to obey traffic laws
and also pay a road tax, just as the car drivers have to do. Indeed,
share the road!
App based taxi ride services often block traffic
traffic while picking up customers. read
more
Time
to start enforcing the laws covering motorcycles,
powered bicycles and powered scooters:
  
Time
to start enforcing the laws covering motorcycles,
powered bicycles and powered scooters: The laws covering
motor vehicles (gas, steam, electric), must be enforced including
having proper registration, insurance and make sure that the driver
has a proper drivers license and skill to drive the motorcycle. NYC
has become like the wild west. Here we see unregistered, uninsured,
motorcycles and their unlicensed riders, using the bicycle lane over
the Manhattan Bridge. Electric scooters are extremely dangerous but
are very popular. They really are unlicensed, unregistered
motorcycles. Originally the State of New York, Vehicle Traffic and
Safety Laws permitted human/motorized hybrid vehicles, primarily
wheelchairs, for disabled people, including veterans after the
Vietnam war. But now the rule is completely abused.
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April
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2021 Life
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February
2021 Snow,
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Relative calm in NYC
January
2021
Protests around the United States including in Washington DC, NYC
Snow storms, eating outside in the cold in NYC
Christmas
Time 2020 Christmas
time 2020, election results between Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
Protests and more
Summer
and Fall 2020
Happenings around New York City in relative calm
May
and June 2020 Massive
protests, looting and rioting by the groups Antifa and Black Lives
Matter. Also shows the after effects of a boarded up city.
March
and April 2020
An empty, silent New York City from March and April, 2020
Earlier
months and years
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Congestion
Pricing favors the upper income people and will
significantly reduce local business, while pushing middle class
drivers to shop elsewhere that does not have this burdensome tax.
Ultimately this will work against the city.
Subway
barriers: New
York, NY January 21, 2022 With falling and being pushed onto the
subway tracks becoming a daily occurrence, it is time to promptly
install subway barriers / gates on all 480 subway and elevated
stations. Frank Didik, who has been desperately pushing subway gates
to the MTA and other agencies since over a decade points out that
hundreds of people could have been saved over this period of time.
Further, thousands of people could have been spared hideous, life
transforming injuries, including by MTA workers. Further, the MTA
could have avoided paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in
liability, that could have already paid for the entire subway gate system.
Subway
Safety-Subway Gate Every year hundreds of people are
killed or severely injured when they fall onto the tracks of trains
and subways. The prevention is cost efficient and greatly reduces liability ...
read
more ...
Greatly
reduce train noise A significant
amount of train noise is caused by the train wheels rolling over the
expansion joint of the tracks. This vibration creates noise,
vibrations, an less pleasant ride and also reduces the life cycle of
the train. The solution is relatively simple and cost effective..read
more
Cell
Phone Etiquette
Advice for the modern person -
December 9,
2016 read
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Time
to Rethink Bike Lanes
Advice for bicyle based cities
- August
3,
2016 read
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From the right,
Frank Didik, Dr. Eric Bitterman, Chairman of Deutche Welle, Dr.
Jachem Reppmann, and publisher Walter at the Von Steuben formal event
in New York City. Though Frank Didik does not have any German
background, he enjoys the inginuety and drive of the German people.
 Frank
X. Didik with former NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio and first lady Chirlane
McCray, at Gracy Mansion. Former
Mayor DeBlasio served two terms in office and then as per term
limits, had to leave office at the end of his second term. Mr
DeBlasio original birth name (May 8, 1961) was Warren Wilhelm Jr. and
later used the name Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm and then finally adapted
his mother's maiden name DeBlasio and today is commonly known as Bill
DeBlasio. Mr.DeBlasio was succeeded as mayor on Jnuary 1st, 2022 by
new mayor Eric Adams, who became New York City's 110 mayor.
Social
Media or Vanity Media With the development of the so
called smart phone, a new phenomenon of "social media" has
developed that caters to the vanity and inner ego of millions read
more
Bicycle
Lanes favors the young and healthy, while inconveniencing
older citizens, drivers and delivery trucks. Further, for the most
part, they are rarely utilized during the winter months... read
more
Fact
Checkers "Fact Checkers" present an opinion
rather than absolute fact. Further,
who will fact check the fact checkers"? Recently read
more
A
reminder to fellow
citizens When
you walk down the street, just remember that every person who you
pass by, regardless of their race or physical appearance, or if they
are rich or poor, has their own goals and aspirations, trials and
tribulations and each person must be treated with basic respect and
dignity. It is essential to individualize and not generalize. Each
group has their good and bad and one must not fall into the trap of
assuming that everyone in a particular group is the same or thinks
the same. Sometimes in our rush or arrogance, we forget these basic truths.
DO
NOT DEFUND THE POLICE With
skyrocketing crime, it is clear that NYC must have an effective and
well funded NYPD otherwise we will be like the wild west.
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