Showing posts with label Boston Phoenix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston Phoenix. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2011

Hipper-than-thou: Fickle South Florida news media ignores pretentious, creepy and condescending “hipsters by the Bay” i.e. #OccupyMiami; LOL!

Hipper-than-thou: Fickle South Florida news media ignores pretentious, creepy and condescending "hipsters by the Bay" i.e. #OccupyMiami; LOL!
The 'revolution' will NOT be televised.
No, and neither will these clowns' exercise in political masturbation.

Too many laughable and self-serving videos posted on YouTube to choose just one to make a real example out of up at the top today, so take a look here and try your luck; most recent first.

No matter how many times you watch these videos, it's really hard to believe how truly smug, condescending and disconnected these people behind Occupy Miami are, or their level of
misanthropism.

Well, you don't have to be a PR expert to know that these characters first major cataclysmic mistake was thinking that local Miami TV news stations that are now based in the suburbs -
Channel 4 in Doral, Channel 6 in Miramar and Channel 10 in Pembroke Park, less then four miles from me- are going to cover a story in downtown Miami on a Saturday.

Especially one involving so few people about an issue 99.9% of their viewers will yawn at!
That is NOT must-see TV!

If these hipper-than-thou members of the coming socialist vanguard were actually either smart or savvy, they'd have been clever enough to set-up a contrasting photo op that the TV stations couldn't possibly ignore - socialist hipsters march on South Beach and do their thing in front of the The Clevelander!
Or over on that spot on South Beeach where the really successful models hang-out when they can because they are largely left alone to relax. (Sorry, I can't publicly reveal here where that is.)

You know, so these social misfits can confront the very people they say are the enemy?
You may know them better as your friends and family and neighbors.

Instead, these socialist lemmings stood and sat on their ass on hot asphalt, brick or tile.
Real geniuses.
Congrats!

But then even while they spout their anti-corporate nonsense, they use technology that does NOT grow on trees.
You know, like an APPLE... or AT&T, Sprint, Best Buy, Microsoft...
They don't exactly communicate with each other thru smoke signals now do they?

Nope, some multi-national corporations they like!
To use their work-product that is, but their employees, no doubt they are considered "corporate stooges" by this crew.

The point that can't be refuted though is this one and it's one that the anti-corporate crowd doesn't want to acknowledge: Occupy Miami actually attracted many LESS people than dozens and dozens of Boys Optimist/PAL football games in South Florida Saturday played by Elementary School and Junior High kids, including one that I saw for myself for a few minutes on Saturday afternoon on a drive to North Miami Beach for an errand.
That lack of a stampede of people or an avalanche of support is NOT exactly a ringing endorsement for the Occupy Miami positions.

But then if their message really resonated with a majority of Americans, the folks behind Occupy Miami would likely change their mind and be against it in principle -that's the hipster's creed- since everyone knows you can't be part of the political vanguard when everyone agrees.
You have to be part of the true believers.
LOL!

Below, an inside view of the supremely smug too-much-time-on-their-hands Americans who are at war with the rest of America.
It's not just bad analysis, it's ass-backwards liberal agit-prop analysis about the state of the South Florida's professional agitator crowd, many of whom in the 1980's, wanted Europe to disarm.
If that had happened, do you really think the Berlin Wall would've fallen?
In a word, NO.

But then I actually know people who lived in Eastern Europe when they couldn't speak freely
or live free and make their own choices.
They appreciate the difference and loathe these types even more then me.

The venom-filled characters behind this effort are NOT lovable losers like the Cubs and their fans, they're know-it-all losers who never learn from history, in particular, that people don't want to constantly be lectured to about how to live their lives.
But these folks can't help themselves.

Criticizing others and telling them how immoral or unethical or XYZ their "empty lives' are is all they know how to do.
It's what animates them, sad as that is to realize.

It's like they saw Dr. Zhivago and missed one of the main points of the film completely.
The socialist bureaucrats aren't the heroes!
Dr. Zhivago - The Private Life is Dead http://youtu.be/E6raF7kcJJs

So, after reading these two stories, I guess this means that they WON'T be going to any public housing sites in Miami or Ft. Lauderdale and asking -via a megaphone- when some of these long-established "families" are going to get it together and finally move out after 30-40 years of living on the public's dole?
The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on that, for what was intended to be temporary help,
with what to show as a positive, exactly?

They won't be marching around the American Airlines Arena and demanding to know when billionaire Miami Heat owner Mickey Arison , one of the richest men in America, when is he FINALLY going to honor his word with Miami-Dade County taxpayers for the construction of the arena?
No, I guess they're not.

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Boston Phoenix
The Phlog
What #OccupyMiami learned from #OccupyBoston learned from #OccupyWallStreet
By Chris Faraone
Published Oct 02 2011, 11:46 AM

Up until a decade ago, I'm guessing that reporters got to see one major movement in their lifetime. Maybe two or three if they were R.W. Apple, or some other red-nosed journo stalwart with longevity. But in my mere half score of covering pols and pimps, contractors and detractors, whores and wars, I've already witnessed a number of full-blown culture spats, each with a cast of characters worthy of their own trading cards. From the Tea Party to Al Qaeda to the hackers who gangbanged Scientology, I've had front row seats to see the status quo get pounded more times than I remember.

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Miami NewTimes
"Occupy Miami" Camp-Out Will Begin Oct. 15, 700 Arrested In New York
By Michael Miller
October 3 2011 at 9:00 AM

A protester in New York. But will they turn out in force in Miami?
They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.

Ar-Miami-geddon didn't happen, but more than a hundred "Occupy Miami" protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Mayor Menino's mosque: Bizarre story behind Boston's most controversial building; UDB

Just wanted to share this terrific and and thoughtfully-written story by David S. Bernstein in the new Boston Phoenix, easily one of the best pieces I've read all year, about the intersection of politics, self-interest and lack of accountability in government.
And some Boston-style stonewalling for a chaser!

Though it's set in Boston, it sounds exactly like an ethnic identity politics/multi-culturalism story straight out of South Florida, where crony capitalism still flourishes in many places under the guise of land development and its so-called regulation.

More proof of that has come within the past 24 hours, per an advisory board's decision in Miami-Dade County to expand the Urban Development Boundary in western Miami-Dade, so that it's now possible there might be development less than three miles from Everglades National Park.
Even though there's years worth of housing inventory on the local market.
More urban sprawl -just what this area doesn't need more of.

(The Miami-Dade County Commission votes on formally adopting this on Dec. 18th.
See Matthew Haggman's excellent story in the Herald at: http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/752455.html
Battle looms on development push to the edge of the Everglades
Fireworks are expected at the first hearing on a controversial proposal to move the Urban Development Boundary to build a town on West Miami-Dade farmland.)


As to Bernstein's article, I especially like the fact that a group continuing to be paid by the City of Boston while continuing to NOT perform the duties they're contracted for, isn't even the most controversial aspect of the story.
As you'll see, that's the least of the problems!

When transferring the land for the mosque, the BRA credited the ISB with close to $200,000 toward the purchase price, in exchange for an agreement to maintain the adjacent Clarence "Jeep" Jones Park — named after the BRA's chairman — and the White Play Space.

The 10-year agreement took effect in February 2003. In effect, the city has been paying the ISB $1600 a month for the job — which, even Kaleem concedes,
it has not been doing.

A lesser reporter would've missed the forest for the trees, but Bernstein captures the whole sad mess and adroitly connects the dots in a compelling way.

Boston Phoenix
Menino's mosque
The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building
By David S. Bernstein
November 19, 2008

Most locals concede that getting anything of substance accomplished in Boston is a Herculean task. Residents have all but embraced the principle of civic inaction with a perverse kind of local pride. In the end, who you know is probably more important than what you are trying to do. And there is no doubt that little is accomplished without the approval and support of the mayor, Thomas M. Menino.

So it is with the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) near the intersection of Tremont Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Better known as the Roxbury mosque, the ISBCC has been in the works for more than 20 years. A few weeks ago it finally opened its doors for prayer — five years late, millions over budget, and still far from complete.

See the rest of the story at: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/72356-Meninos-mosque/