There is a recent article in The Economist which highlighted a problem of high demand for housing in London, England. Not unlike Barbados the demand is significantly located at the cheaper end of the price scale.
Britain badly needs more homes. In the past two decades its population has grown by nearly 8m; another 2m people will be added by 2030. Many will be drawn to cities, the engine-rooms of the economy. Yet the supply of new housing is not keeping up. London alone needs an estimated 83,000 new homes each year, according to Savills, an estate agent, but is building only half that. The biggest shortfall is at the cheaper end of the housing market—anything costing less than £450 ($560) per square foot, or £4,840 per square metre, to buy. This segment accounts for nearly three-fifths of demand but less than a third of forecast supply in London (see chart).
Can high-rise buildings solve London’s housing problems
One of the lofty and laudable goals of the Mottley government is to build 10, 000 houses over five years. A recent update from Minister of Housing Dwight Sutherland suggests about 900 houses have been constructed towards meeting the goal and 2000 is the target for 2023 to 2024. We have to take the word of the minister because no specifics were mentioned to allow for cross check.
The size of Barbados is reported to be 166 mi² or 20 miles long to 15 miles wide. A relevant and sensible housing policy must factor the size of the island. How sustainable can it be to litter the once pristine landscape of Barbados with houses at the whim and fancy of politicians? We can see the result of an irrelevant vehicle policy by successive governments with the logjams experienced daily on our roads. By the way, has any study been done of the impact on national productivity because of overcrowded roads?
Is this another example of the King has no clothes approach to policy making?
Minister Dwight Sutherland should address existing tenancy laws to encourage reluctant landlords to free up room stock as a partial solution to the housing problem. It is no secret landlords are seeing hell to manage delinquent tenants. Bear in mind many many individuals in the lower strata of society do not have the means to purchase a home through traditional means.
There is a reality Barbados must accept, the island is too small to execute a policy of constructing thousands of standalone houses. If such a policy were implemented it will not take long for the Barbados landscape to resemble what we see daily on our highways and byways.
There has almost always been a mismatch between the accommodation stocks and the needs for mass housing.
Nothing the UK government has done, will do, can solve that problem. Especially when a hedge fund hyena and people like him, on either side, control political power.
Whether in Barbados or the UK.
For its the domination of political power which has in recent times, and starting with stinking Margaret Thatcher in the first place, which has hollowed out social housing within the UK.
In Barbados, in spite of a population deficit, the local monkeys have NEVER been able to match housing needs to demand. NEVER.
We highly doubt that any government of Barbados will ever be able to dispense with an innate hodge podge approach to housing and tell us how many units will be required 10 years from now, even considering attrition.
And they never will!
Housing deficits, largely amongst the poor, as one of multiples of deleterious cultural dynamics occurring all over the world, should tell us something else. Should lead us to a more fundamental way or ways of consideration, interrogation, of this global phenomenon.
But no! It’s never time to put the deckie in the poooooookerts.
Yes, and we must add housing deficits to health care deficits, to deficits in jobs, deficits in right education, deficits in wider infrastructure, deficits in leadership, deficits in imagination, deficits!
Pacha
You may be just as guilty ….in even SUGGESTING that brass bowls, who (as the bushman has been at pains to point out) are under the influence of the maxim “Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat”, should be able to add two and two, and arrive at four.
Even the most OBVIOUS facts clearly elude the poor BBs…
Facts like…
If you have NEVER been able to house 350,000 people, WHERE the burro will you be housing the extra 180,000 that you crave…?
If you sell your best assets to foreigners, why would you be surprised that they then use these assets to the benefit of THEIR OWN kith and kin ….AT YOUR EXPENSE?
If you put mendicant, UNPRODUCTIVE lawyers and other predators in control of the treasury, HOW THEN are you surprised that they fleece our donkeys..?
It is hopeless to appeal to non-existent common sense Pacha…. THAT has long departed us….
It is why THE original bushman prayed – “forgive them, for they know not what they are doing…”
Bushman…it’s sounding more and more disturbing…and people are naturally horrified they were pushed into this predicament not of their own making …….time for the FIX…problem is…WHO ???? has the brainpower and intelligence level to implement.
I just had a moment of brilliance ….
Suppose you wanted to help 300 supporters with houses, how would you do it without arousing the ire of the rest of the population?
Solution:
Announce a plan to build 300,000 houses and have the masses salivating at the though of a new home. Build 302 houses; 300 for the supporters and 2 for opposition supporters and then claim that “money done”.
Those two opposition supporters will appear in all publications to show that your administration is ‘fair’
The scams continue.
Where exactly are we going to fit 10,000 extra houses?
https://barbados.loopnews.com/content/top-4-klm-pilot-stuns-ig-audience-lit-aerial-shot-barbados
this is quite interesting
try it on for size
Just as we thought about traditional media and their lack of independence and sovereignty….no surprise at all.
“Being a parrot for *********** was a much more secure and lucrative business proposition than trying to challenge the government line or report the truth; it also promised juicy scoops from inside the ******** services.”
And actually called ” blunting the impact of any press unfriendly to the state, etc.”
I stopped reading a lot of them from last year..
We have a zoning problem because government needs a land use policy followed by strictly zoning of every sq ft into residential, commercial, agricultural or reserved zones.
A real land bank can then be created where available, derelict or abandoned properties within residential zones can be subdivided into smaller lots or listed as is.
served zones.
A real land bank can then be created where available, derelict or abandoned properties within residential zones can be subdivided into smaller lots or listed as is.
@David, in a totally unrelated matter to housing but surely related to size I wonder what Fox is willing to accept as suitable award size to settle the Dominion case.
I cannot see any outcome other than success for the voting machine company so this is now all about size … of damages!
To go to trial will be good generally for Fox as they will be truly on all the news feeds and thus the Murdocks et all will become even more notorious; but equally very, very bad as we will all be reminded daily that Fox prime time is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican far-right narrative.
So maybe a $750M – $1 Bil settlement with the usual legal boilerplate no fault admission seems about the right sizing!
Oh BTW the next time some poster gets on their high horse talking about lack of journalism nous or ethics or no investigative independence in Bim vis the politicians do tell them what size got forced down Fox’s journalistic throat for not having ANY of the above, fah real!
“.. no investigative independence in Bim”
in the information technology explosion there is sensory overload and people filter the bulk out
“News” has dumbed down to the ego and prejudice of the writer and the various media organisation’s instructions and agendas
and internet is click bait
“Size matters”
Apartment blocks or exercises to boost testosterone and vitality for stronger erections and to increase length and girth are the solution
Pacha….some comic relief in an article yesterday when someone noted that there were calls for France to dust off the ole le guillotin and suggested le monsieur the girls love so much, watch his head…
People are getting real creative. The world has taken a turn.
Waru!!!!
A few years back one was “erected” in front of the owner of Amazon’s house to some consternation in centres within Washington.
There’s a saying that “when the people lose everything”, like we are the world over, “we lose it” and the oligarchs which a degenerative capitalism have made into fascists, lose their heads, literally.
We’ve been here before.
This is the sole corrective in the West and its being made flesh should be hastened!
Of course, this writer would now prefer the orders of magnitude which is the mechanism that resembles a mushroom and comes out of a deeply historical culture connected to the obelisk as instigator of cultural renewal😜
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@David, in a totally unrelated matter to housing but surely related to size I wonder what Fox is willing to accept as suitable award size to settle the Dominion case.
I cannot see any outcome other than success for the voting machine company so this is now all about size … of damages!
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I would be interested to hear your expert legal opinion on Alvin Bragg’s case in New York.
BTW, Alan Dershowitz holds another view on Dominion.
Sorry bro… I don’t do ‘expert legal opinions’ … no sireee. I leave those for the vaunted law professor.
I will note that I didn’t listen to his view from your link (I am paranoid I’ll be tagged by your right wing crew😎… so I’ll search for the script later) … anyhow, I can surmise his thinking based on prior remarks on the case I read from him.
Thus, all I will say is: there are OTHER vaunted legal professors (some from his own Harvard too) who see this as a slam dunk for Dominion.
And I’ll add that Fox Corp has ALREADY settled ANOTHER such defamation case on this matter … wonder why!
But to Mr Bragg’s case … 1) of course it’s political — all of those types of high profile matters are based on some political or business tinged issues; 2) he is a brave – and clearly confident- man to take on this former president on a definitive but highly contentious legal basis ; 3) he may likely lose the matter but he will also just as likely badly DING #45. Recall of course that Sen Edwards WON his very similiar campaign finance shenanigans … So yes we can say that #45 had too many of those moments for this one to matter but let the case play out and ALL the evidence is again laid bare of exactly how that $130 grand was paid …
Oh, I know what your ‘expert legal opinion’ will be so no need to advise.🤷 Peace out!
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“I would be interested to hear your expert legal opinion on Alvin Bragg’s case in New York.”
Trump Story
Trump’s legal yarn is as follows
He did not sex up Stormy as alleged
His son signed the dodgy cheque from the Trump Business A/C
The Verdict
Good Lie
Nice Try
Trump is Guilty as Charged
“Barbadians living overseas want the right to vote in this island’s elections.
This is one of the major recommendations presented to the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) during a recent trip abroad to engage the Barbadian diaspora.
Addressing the media at the Parliament Buildings on Friday, Chair of the commission’s Stakeholder Committee Adriel Brathwaite reported that citizens in three cities in the United Kingdom said they wanted the right to exercise their franchise in the land of their birth.” Bdos Today
Wuhloss…no voting rights, no money…ha!!!
Ya int want ne to vote, but want muh money…what nerve…and only giving long talk…murdahhh!!
William…sumbody finally hit that brick wall…..gotta eat crow, heard it’s delicious.
@ WARU
I read the article. Found it rather interesting.
William…dont know who they thought was willing to send billions over time to keep the island afloat, knowing that fraud tourism is only a four month season, while they get remittances to circulate on the island EVERY DAMN DAY all through the year, every year….and dont want senders to have any say or voting rights ….UNGRATEFUL MUCH….but that is how the backward negro like to mistreat each other. Like if those citizens domiciled in other jurisdictions must pay for what local parliament frauds do to them…when they sit on their asses attacking each other and refuse to put an end to any of it…..glad to see this manifestation.
as posted before, apparently people on the island were never told their voting rights.,in 56 years, and LIED to last election when told they could not vote using covid as an excuse…., the evil demons never told them they can vote by PROXY ..they violated their voting rights…like they violate everything else..
They could never pull that scam on people living overseas..
This is UK…
“you can apply to vote by proxy for a particular election or referendum.”
Ya see, the same way deceivers came out and told them ” there is nothing to stop you from voting”…with their LYING sleight of hand….the words should have been….you CAN VOTE VIA PROXY instead ….through a chosen representative..friend, family, neighbor etc…
2/2Commander Hants
Can it get any sweeter?
Dateline Sudan.
Two weeks ago the government of Sudan, Sudan to the north, the government agreed after years of negotiations to the setting up of a Russian naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast.
As astute readers know well anytime such machinations, intrigues, colonial wars, factional fighting, are going on in Afrika the devil himself is causal operating in league with little local demons.
Here again it is the case.
For the Americans and their erstwhile criminal partners arr seeking to compensate fot their serial diplomatic failures with the hammer which sees every problem as a nail.
But of course, a certain quantum of “paper” delivered in suitcases has been many times found as the motivator we’ve been taught in graduate school as wholly ineffective.
However, the devil knows better.
“Dateline Sudan.”
The violence is terrible and ongoing for days, i posted a shorts video to my Afrikan Newsreel.
Waru
Size matters ……. not!
Two local factions fighting for influence, money.
Three global players seeking naval power projection.
The Americans and their British devilish mentors already having nearly 800 military bases around the globe.
Up against a ‘better than alliance’ of Russia and China in the ascendancy but between them having less than 20.
The grand chessboard. The game goes on!
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“Two local factions fighting for influence, money”
Shameful isnt it, they never seem to learn, so now nearly 100 dead due to plain idiocy when the country is choc-o-bloc with nothing but natural resouces and the longest river on earth…..they continue to present as waste of oxygen….not worth anyone losing their lives over.
was reflecting and said only today, so sorry Garvey, Malcolm, King and so many thousands of others lost their lives and freedom needlessly for people who have for hundreds of years and even more so today still show that they are not worth it at any time…
It looks like today will be a good day. I already had my moment of brilliance.
I was thinking of how our totals in cricket and hockey were similar and it dawned on me that instead of pushing road tennis we need to push crockey..
Crockey: a combination of cricket and hockey with one simple rule..
Any team scoring more that 50 roals (runs or goals) loses the match.
I knew that I would figure it out.
Let’s get real
There is a curse “may you get what you want”
The British are bad.
The Americans are bad
My fear… the Chinese and Indians may be even worse.
(cue 555 here)
Black in leadership role seem to have the same mindset as early tribal leaders. They will sell us all.
With modern technology, with China and Russia having more that 50 years of practicing control of their population and the fact that we (blacks with our color) cannot easily blend in, a second period of enslavement may be longer and harsher.
Wishing for the destruction of all instead of the dominance of any.
“a second period of enslavement may be longer and harsher.”
Arab enslavement of Africans lasted upward of 2,000 YEARS
More recent enslavement is 530 years to date….
This newer threat is reliant on self-seeking actions, based on what weee know, with their disloyalty to each other, untrustworthiness, hypocrisy, pretensiveness, penchant for TREACHERY……it’s a lock. With misleaders camped out and nesting everywhere.
The new narrative is already framed..with traitors at the helm..
Black in leadership role seem to have the same mindset as early tribal leaders. They will sell us all.
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Prophetic
“The British are bad.
The Americans are bad
My fear… the Chinese and Indians may be even worse.
(cue 555 here)
>>>>> see song below
Black in leadership role seem to have the same mindset as early tribal leaders. They will sell us all.”
>>>>> my response to the poor reasoning
Whites want to rule the world by hook and crook
Rest of the World aka People of Colour catching up are deemed threats to their rigged corrupt “supremacy” ambition
Last knock on Hockey (I laugh or I cry and I refuse to crey
Chile – 20-0
Uruguay – 20-0
Canada – 11-0
Guyana – 3-0
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Total – 54-0
(Trinidad had the sense not enter the competition, but Bajan coaches after the sever whipping still talking foolishness).
Putting out a plea for transexuals who want to play hockey.
—x–
Do you remember when the British use to kick our butts and encourage us with cute phrase like ““It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.”
Here’s a new phrase for you “What do you call a person who gets second place ? A loser
Theo was not good at any sports, but his observational and couch skills are stellar.
There is definitely a REAL problem in the fake world of wannabes, they are still pushing the sinopharm and J&J vaccines on those who know no better…everyone else will pointedly ignore these frauds and their evil agendas..
Thanks for that link..
Sometimes, you surprise me.
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Have a great day Barbados
Have a great day all
Have a good game of Crockey
They were working overtime to create a ginormous SCANDAL and ended up with an even BIGGER one..all PERSONALIZED…and fitting them so snugly.
In this there is no de dems did it, no de bees did it, in their fingerpointing SCAMS. no both yall are GUILTIER than SIN…..
“TheOGazerats on April 18, 2023 at 7:21 AM”
The typo of all typos?
So sit back on your couch or chair with remote in hand.
Did you read past the scores?
Fair enough, it is questionable whether at a national U19 level, one fields a squad with 12, 13 and 14 year olds.
But what if one or two of those 15-16yo caught the eye of others, and they get scholarships?
Opportunity is the golden gift, don’t pass it up.
People exude great pride when others do well, often forgetting all the hard work it took to get there. In team sports, one often toils on average or losing teams. For every W there is an L?
You get better by playing.
“Principle has become subordinate to partisanship in all walks of life”
@NO
Great post.
And indeed I would be glad if one of more reach a level where they can get a scholarship.
However, I don’t believe that we should field a team just for the sake of doing so. We probably do more harm than good to those youngsters.
Bajan coaches need to figure out how to end the game when the score is lopsided.
By the way, there is no 20-0 in crockey. At 10-0 a winner is declared.
The evidence is piling up.
“14-year old Japanese girl died unexpectedly 2 days after receiving the third dose of the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine; does anyone care? Was this in the media? Autopsy findings showed congestive
edema of the lungs, T-cell lymphocytic and macrophage infiltration in the lungs, pericardium, and myocardium of the left atria and left ventricle, liver, kidneys, stomach, duodenum, bladder, diaphragm.”
Pacha…..death toll from Sudan is up 185 with over 1800 injured. People are trapped.
All of this happens when you are not serious, only interested in self, prestige, pretend status as a parasite in taxpayer’s lives. One fool from another country was talking about he has to work on his world stage profile, after 40 years sucking on the people’s lives like vampires, extremely resource wealthy but 90% of the people in poverty. The leaders are 90% of the problem.
None of this can be refuted.
““Brought you books and sent you to school,
but you still ain’t nothing but—an educated fool!”j
-African American rhyme
Explanation: Said of someone who has received formal schooling, but lacks common sense or critical thinking skills.”
Bajan have something similar …
Book sense is not common sense..
Short, sweet and to the point.
Pssst… @John Fellow, are you still enamoured of the Harvard legal expert re your comment that: “BTW, Alan Dershowitz holds another view on Dominion.”
You did see the news I am sure … which was as proverbially obvious to any blind-man riding backwards on the near-sighted, non-binary lightly-drunk Clydesdale 🤣😎… that this was imminent!
And OF COURSE a key part of the statement issued by Fox after their ’embarrassing’ settlement (now 2 such): “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.”
WTF … How about FOX acknowledging the Court’s rulings that many claims by Dominion we TRUE: You deliberately LIED and DEFAMED!
Anyhow, on to the Smartmatic case.
And undoubtedly life goes back to normal as surely FOX has a “continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards” and are just as surely “hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.”
Steeeupse … what ‘lovely’ games we play!!!
And your hero only earlier today is still saying that Fox should readily ADMIT the elections were rigged… what an amazing fellow!
Both parties had too much to lose!!
Wonder if any money passed?
No doubt a non disclosure agreement will have been signed!!
Like Stormy!!
A storm in a D-Cup!!
You are also truly amazing, SMH! … What in a word did Dominion have to lose! 🤣
And of course it would be a petty storm in your MAGA world … when your first-rate cable news provider bigly acknowledges that it lies, fabricates and dissembles simply to improve the bottom line and has absolutely little interest in journalistic integrity !
This a storm alright; a freaking tsunami in the media world … FOX is nothing more that a charlatan propogandist!
I expect you and your right wing armies to swing into serious action to ensure that MSNBC, CNN, Times and the other liberal media house are linked to some massive news scandal soon enough!
Until then this black-eye hurts and is oh so very visible… Whaloss!!!!
I gone.
So what you think will happen with Trump’s $475 million lawsuit against CNN for defamation?
Settlement or fight?
Trump has nothing to lose plus all the evidence he could ever want like the Mueller report!!
You are being very silly …. 🤣🤣VERY! … But I will humour you …
1)Trump will win that suit as he (and allies) did with each and every one of the 60 or so election-fraud cases! He will win BIGLY! – SMH
2)He is suing CNN for calling him a liar and saying he perpetuated the ‘Big Lie’ … ahem… multiple court cases INCLUDING this latest Fox one has CONFIRMED that as true. The simplest defense against defamation is the TRUTH! … So yeah, massive victory for #45 🤣
3)Not the Mueller report again … he did not do ‘golden showers’ ok we get that; he didn’t DIRECTLY collude with Russia, yep we got that too…BUT his campaign manager was convicted based on Mueller’s investigation; his Security Adviser was fired …his … oh gee, the list is long.
So please let’s not rehash that.
I gone, gone … like Fox you are a propagandist.
“Wonder if any money passed?”
$788m is nuffink for the Murdoch Klan
it is just double what the KKK Kingsland Knox Klan think they will get but won’t hahaha
Did the big payout helped or harm FOX.
It probably helped. The bubblers will not get to see FOX fully exposed.
https://youtu.be/GW3ST98cBK8
@ dpD…… isn’t Fox News a purveyor of “FAKE NEWS” as well?
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Did the big payout helped or harm FOX.
It probably helped. The bubblers will not get to see FOX fully exposed.
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… and Dominion won’t have to expose its “trade secrets”.
CNN revenue is $2.0B annually. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia’s data science team found the following key financial metrics. CNN has 5,392 employees, and the revenue per employee ratio is $370,919. CNN peak revenue was $2.0B in 2022.
White People Blues
Why So Pale and Wan?
Cost of Living Rises
War, Gas Price Increases, Food Costs Soaring, Covid, Brexit, Global Financial Recession, Quantitive Easing, Praise without Raise, Low Stagnant Wage Rates for 2+ decades
Solution is NOT higher interest fucking rates
Another hotel to be built on the old Nico restaurant site?
Paradise found ?
https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/04/19/hope-alive-3/
@David
I recall your telling me, that ‘my man Avi’ had ceased using or being referred to as Professor. This is one of several ’23 stories which refer to him as Professor.
And after the CBL bailout why wouldn’t ‘investors’ be lined up around the block. You gine get your money back, plus some, once you pay the requisite consulting fees and commissions.
@NO
We have short memory.
Another wtf moment.
“the Government and the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) had invested close to US$70 million (BDS$140 million).”
“That legal work has to be done first. It is in the court system. I believe it has progressed but not completed,” Persaud said.
Monies spent under the guise of restarting the project last time, have now become ‘invested’, even though the title to the lands remains in limbo.
Director of Finance and Economic Affairs The Most Honourable….
Are the maids in the civil service now merely “Honourable”.
Or was the body the recipient of some honour which now makes them, irrespective of job title, Most Honourable.
We too love a title, and still claim to hate the colonizers, from whence they came.
Let them put whatever letters they are granted behind their name, but stop all the prefixes.
“We too love a title, and still claim to hate the colonizers, from whence they came.”
Ignorant and sickening arent they, same colonizers they would not only sell ya too repeatedly but kill ya if there is something in it for them, something they crave and covet…the ethics, morals and integrity lacking negros are like that …who is loyal to no one but their own selfishness and all consuming greed…even if it’s only for empty colonial titles, and driven by inferiority complex dem tink dem is nuhbody witout dem..not realizing that they are nobodies anyway…with or without useless titles.
Am seeing info circulating where it’s said FDA discontinued use of pfizer and moderna vaccines in the US…..fda.gov says the monovalent are no longer authorized..
.then they should not be used anywhere else.
Question is: why is sleight of hand being used on the island to roll out sinopharm and J & J vaccines..only slaves and fowls are that dumb to continue buying into the fraud..
..did a WEF doctor not say merely couple months ago that the situation could have been handled better….meaning it was not handled as it should…what exactly are Barbados’ wannabes trying to prove…is it death for dollars? no scruples…..did they decide to make their own wayward and reckless decisions while everyone else is BACKING DOWN..
.but dont stop…every dog got their day, some get two.
The newest lottery is from the BWA. For just $2/entry you must predict where tomorrow’s water outage requiring repairs will be. Winners will be posted in Barbados Today at the end of the story on the BWA outage.
John…just saw where Fox got a 2.7 billion dollar lawsuit coming up…accusing a company of vote rigging.which was “debunked”..
another gigantic settlement?
The article started…” Rupert Murdoch Fox will find that a damaged beast attracts more foes.”
Straight to the point.
Big league players.
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John…just saw where Fox got a 2.7 billion dollar lawsuit coming up…accusing a company of vote rigging.which was “debunked”..
another gigantic settlement?
The article started…” Rupert Murdoch Fox will find that a damaged beast attracts more foes.”
Straight to the point.
Big league players.
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Fox is sitting on 4.7 billion in cash!!! Its annual revenue is 14.9 billion and growing.
CNN gets 2 billion in revenue and it is falling. It has discredited itself with constant proven fallacious attacks on Trump from 2016. Russia hoax, two impeachments, Jan6 etc.
Fox had two lawsuits against it now it has one.
Smart money is that it will fight Smartmattic all the way to the Supreme Court. It has the resources.
I was surprised when both Smartmattic and Dominion did not go after Fox together.
Tells me neither one liked their chances.
Fox now has atleast 2 years, perhaps six or more of Trump and the boost he gives to ratings and earnings.
Good chance it will draw Smartmattic over the coals … or it may settle, who knows.
Its competitors have cut their own throats.
Fox will laugh all the way to the bank for the forseeible future
Size matters and Fox has it in abundance!!
What is the long term future for Dominion and Smartmattic if Trump wins?
He says America will go back to paper ballots as have other countries like France which tried machine voting.
BS … pure unadulterated BS… if #45 EVER returns to the Presidency of any meaningful org – far less the US – life as we know it here in April 2023 will have CEASED !
It’s as simple as that.
When this man crashes – as he will – we can all repeat the over-used clichéd verbiage: ‘It will heard all over the world’!
He expects that many militia and others not unlike you will again amass in their numbers to ‘fight’ his treacherous cause … I am fearful he may surely get his wish!
So as always ‘we prepare for the worst and hope for the best’ or simply as we learned as Boy Scouts: Be Prepared.
“Fox had two lawsuits against it now it has one.
Smart money is that it will fight Smartmattic all the way to the Supreme Court. It has the resources.
I was surprised when both Smartmattic and Dominion did not go after Fox together.
Tells me neither one liked their chances.
Fox now has at least 2 years, perhaps six or more of Trump and the boost he gives to ratings and earnings.
Good chance it will draw Smartmattic over the coals … or it may settle, who knows.”
You need to turn the dial and listen to other station than Faux News. In case you have not heard, Fox made a big payout to Dominion.
I listen to all and understand why Fox is 7 times more successful than CNN or for that matter any other station.
The others are just downright boring and repetitive.
Fox has not had to retract a single thing it said!!
It has a pile of cash it can use to fight or settle with Smartmattic as it chooses and that pile of cash is growing simply because it is never boring or repetitive and has a huge growing audience.
Wolf Blitzem is mother misery herself!! Who listens to him.
Rachel Madcow is downright laughable.
I used to listen to her all the time in 2016.
Amanpour has become so predictable that she isn’t worth the time.
Cuomo, Lauer, Stelter, Rose, Lemon, Matthews etc have all bitten the dust.
A huge difference between Fox and the others is that they rotate presenters in and out!! If you go to CNN or the others you always get the same old crap.
So naturally, Fox has a growing pile of cash with growing audiences, revenues and ratings!!
It’s alive.
You have made your point , we get it. Now give it a rest.
@David, you said: “You have made your point , we get it. Now give it a rest.” … That is THE major problem we have today, brother… he repeats absolute inaccuracies laced with numerical or causative truths and REPETITION creates a perception of truth!
He and all like him will NEVER give it a rest. It is up to folks like YOU (particularly) – as editors of space like this -and all other reasonable people to lambaste his falsehoods strongly and continually.
As he RIGHTLY states above FOX Opinion “has not had to retract a single thing it said!!” despite the ABSOLUTE REALITY that they just ADMITTED that their presenters lied repeatedly on air.
He also boasts gleefully that Fox churns billions in annual revenue from those lies and laughs at competitors who do not lie so pervasively and thus don’t produce similiar revenues … in short Mr Blogmaster … we the people love BS and the more we hear what we want to hear the more we ACCEPT it.
You know the story of the Borg I am sure… how soon until we are all like the John Fellows of this world and be fully assimilated by lies and propaganda !
Roddenberry’s “Next Generation” series started over 35 years ago … THAT point of assimilation to a pervasively innocuously bad culture has been made repeatedly too, not so … yet HERE we are!
I gone.
We live in a increasingly polarized world. There is a reason why FOX and Murdoch settled, the leading personalities at FOX admitted , and there is evidence, to being purveyors of falsehoods, FOX as a member of the fourth estate had no choice to settle in order to avoid the contradiction by contesting the case.
@David, you gave a very precise post when above and it’s truly the opening for an exhaustive blog on the role of media, free speech, influencer subterfuge (lying) and a whole lot more!
I – along with millions of others surely – were disappointed by the lack of a trial to get fully on the record what you noted as “is evidence, to [Fox] being purveyors of falsehoods”… and more IMPORTANTLY to avoid the re-do and mismanagement of history that WILL take place.
For example, already the most senior FOX media critic reporter has already made bold to say: “Dominion might have lost and gotten zero, in part because it had to prove Fox acted with actual malice, a very high bar for plaintiffs.” … SMH. Freaking remarkable.
The man also said – in fairness to him – “It’s been embarrassing,” and “Fox wanted to avoid a parade of high-profile witnesses, and the judge had gutted most of its planned defenses.”
But
… But (to close the premature end above) … that reporter also repeated a deliberately false argument that “… Fox was also fighting for the First Amendment, which actually applies to liberal news outlets as well as right-leaning ones. In the end, both sides had incentives to settle…”.
That’s absolutely NOT supported by the available evidence. TRUTH is a valid and solid defense to any slander or defamation case. Fox was shown to have knowingly and intentionally lied!
Only Fox NEEDED to settle.
But, it means … we will have their stupid revisionist stories forevermore … unless they jury test their ‘we would have won’ view!
Source: Barbados Today
Rice and peas or peas and rice.
The Racist Australian runs Fox News*
and Racist Americans
and Racist Brits
aka Racist Conservatives Love Fox News
aka Racist News
(Fox Corporation / 21st Century Fox)
in the UK (The Sun and The Times)
in the US (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post)
Sisters, n*ggers, whities
Jews and the crackers
Don’t worry, if there’s hell below, we’re all gotta go
Ah
Sisters, brothers and the whities
Blacks and the crackers
Police and their backers
They’re all political actors
I see Bragg got butchered in New York.
If he can’t win in New York no point appealing, more bloodshed!
David
on April 21, 2023 at 10:18 AM said:
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We live in a increasingly polarized world. There is a reason why FOX and Murdoch settled, the leading personalities at FOX admitted , and there is evidence, to being purveyors of falsehoods, FOX as a member of the fourth estate had no choice to settle in order to avoid the contradiction by contesting the case.
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So why did Dominion settle?
Fox was required to retract nothing!!
What is there to retract? It is a case where FOX agreed to an out of court settlement to stop the bleed on its reputation as a member of the fourth estate because its anchors were caught out telling lies.
John GP and Critical Analyzer believed the Big Lie
so don’t bother with them
I grew up in the church and I thought that I had moved away from all of that fuzzy stuff. In the good old SDA church, one pastor took a delight in turning to the book of Revelations and telling us of the “mark of the beast” and of serpents and dragons let loose on this earth in the final days.
I considered it all as an hallucination or a figment of someone’s imagination, but during the past decade something was let loose on this earth.
I cannot for the life of me understand why we are where we are today. Good sense has abandoned us; conspiracy theories, alternative truths and fake stories are now the coin of all media.
The recent spate of shooting of children rivals or exceed drive by shootings in their senselessness. Politicians/judges would rip this country (USA) apart to satisfy their own ends. Once the Supreme Court was thought of as the domain of wise and sensible men, but lately their action reinforces the saying “the law is an ass>
I used to think things were complicated, but I have now moved to the point where “nothing makes sense, anymore”
@444
I see you are struggling with your music.
I will gfive you a few of my favorites to help you along the path.
The scratch free collection
Bu probation
BU has some heavy disciple about music
Yo momma is so fat that when she went to the beach a whale swam up and sang, “We are family, even though you’re fatter than me.”
don’t bother with them on April 21, 2023 at 2:55 PM said:
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John GP and Critical Analyzer believed the Big Lie
so don’t bother with them
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There is of course prima facia evidence that supports the truth.
It is called Joe Biden!!
Only a complete idiot would believe Joe Biden could get 81 million votes.
This time around he may require 100 million or more.
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@Theo, I will use the end of your piece to make a different point, namely: nothing made sense then either, it was just less questioned!
This SAME Supreme Court that “was thought of as the domain of wise and sensible men” is the same institution that deemed a Black human 3/5th inequal to his white counter-part.
That dreaded decision and more like it where for example the worthy right to protection with a personal firearm has been equated to a right to own a modern day gatling gun for use at home.
The law has looong been law an ass.
I agree with you tho that whereas previously things appeared complicated, now they are quite simple: many high ranking Americans quite ‘religiously’ work to overthrow their govt and undermine their systems now as they did in Cuba or across South America and across the world in years past.
No need to remind anyone that they actually enjoyed many successes!
What will be, will be but what was, is again!
This is a favorite.
I like it because it is part of my life story. If my wife and I had thought i through we would have never married each other.. she had ‘nothing’ and I had less. Out wedding rings together cost less that $100.00 I swear that if we had roaches, they had to bring their own food if they wanted something to eat … but we made it through.
If you tell me that you heard something sweeter, I know you are lying….
Why do my music vary… These songs are snippets of my life. Take this one for example.. it reminds me of the Bajan girls that ignored me..
Have you ever looked at a woman (not yours) and as you are looking you realized a next man is looking at your woman?
Thank God for typos… I reached my quota and had to stop 🙂
“This SAME Supreme Court that “was thought of as the domain of wise and sensible men” is the same institution that deemed a Black human 3/5th inequal to his white counter-part.”
You made an excellent point.
Some judges call themselves “orginalist”, believing that the constitution should be interpreted as it was originally written. But the original document has several amendments, so how could they wish to interpret an obviously flawed document as it was originally written.
The only explanation that I can arrive at, is that here we have a group of American speaking in racist code and appeasing some group that is out there.
I may have oversimplified ‘originalism’. I am no lawyer, though I play one on BU.
The newest lottery is from the BWA. For just $2/entry you must predict where tomorrow’s water outage requiring repairs will be. Winners will be posted in Barbados Today at the end of the story on the BWA…
The Friday April 21 winner was Shop Hill.
There were no winning entries and $448 will be carried forward
I here laughing at these two geniuses.
Murdah!!
Grasshopper, you let muh down but yuh mek muh laugh real hard.
The 3/5 compromise happened in 1787. It was first proposed in 1783.
The Supreme Court came into existence in 1789 and held its first assembly in 1790!!
The south wanted a 1 to 1 ratio when it came to representation in the new Congress but a 0 to 1 ratio when it came to taxation because slaves were property,
So a compromise was reached.
@Mr John Fellow, I will readily admit that I once read your posts with interest but after you so ridiculously offered the patently racist BS that my enslaved forefathers were contented with their lot (no real estate pun intended) under their massa owners I had to read your posts with more care to better recognize your artful distillation of history (often called LYING by others)!
I am now seeing this post and once again true to form … you are artfully distilling history (and too lying about what was alluded to in prior posts)!
The Supreme Court in whatever year it was DID adjudicate in the Dred Scott case… that’s a FACT.
Many (rational persons) and their dogs have called it one of the WORST (if not THE worst) judgements ever… that case was later OVERTURNED. Another FACT.
In short hand recounting the case is often called the 3/5 ruling apart from it’s other better known simple alias as ‘Dred Scott’. Another basic FACT! If you were reading the posts with UNDERSTANDING you would have caught the remark: ‘That dreaded decision’!
Thus it is distressingly stupid for someone like you (who boasts of your great scholarship) to make the absurd remarks above.
So for your benefit it was NEVER about the circumstances of how a Black man was deemed 3/5 of a man … it simply was that nine supposedly just and reasonable white men in the mid 1800s acted with the same disdain and disregard for human rights as these nine men and women of this 2000s circa court when they ruled on the constitutional matter as they did.
Can you at least PRETEND to be honest and transparent when you offer your historical MIS-management … maybe you can use a smiley face or asterix so we know when you are being artfully stupid!
Steeeupse!!!!
Let me CAREFULLY note … “OVERTURNED” refers to the legislative change made with a constitutional amendment!
For transparency sake!😎
What you should have said Grasshopper was that GP was spot on in his predictions of what would happen after elections, so the Bible has to be the authority we follow.
Not to worry though, GP also gave the title “Balaam’s Ass” to certain people so you can agree GP was once again spot on.
Minister of Hosing Sutherland from the pulpit at St.Luke’s
Sutherland said that the time had come for the NHC, like other state-owned enterprises, to restructure due to hard financial times. (I omitted that standard lead in about the economy in ’18 and the ‘success’ of BERT)
“NHC will not be undertaking
the multiple mass construction projects that previously have contributed to an unmanageable accumulation of Government debt and transfers. For the time being, this role has fallen to HOPE Inc., which is a 100 per cent Government owned company that is EXPECTED (caps added) to be completely self financing with only initial bridging financing provided by Government. Both HOPE Inc and NHC will assist and complement each other as this Government continues to roll out its 10 000 housing programme.”
Sutherland said (NHC) will also be responsible for planning a GAINS INITIATIVE (caps added) to allow Government to access significant parcels of land. This has already borne fruit with the state gaining access to 40 acres at Lower Burney, St George; 12 acres at Branchbury, St Joseph; 30 acres at Bright Hall, St Lucy; and 30 acres at Searles Christ Church. [BT Apr 24 ’23]
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So…hard financial times…the solution?….ADD a GoB OWNED corporation (recall Clearwater Bay) which taxpayers will GIVE $$$ to, BUT, it is expected to be self financing.
History tells us, that very little any Gov’t ever does is SELF-FINANCING, unless taxpayer $$ financing, is considered SELF.
See. http://www.Hopebarbados.com
Note. The website gives NO information on structure, management or directors, nor financials. Apparently it is a “not for profit”.
And what is a “gains INITIATIVE”? Gaining access? What exactly does it mean?
@NO
Good luck trying to find out. You will recall the blogmaster had concerns about then MoF Sinckler using Housing Credit Fund scheme funds to pay MAM2 for work done on the GROTTO. The GROTTO is low cost housing but final cost didn’t qualify it. The games politicians play.
Barbados Blue Bonds
https://millerpublishing.net/publications/Bizbar/2023/45/
Sorry I didn’t see your earlier ‘add on’ (reply) post on the same topic via an alternate media source.
hopefully