Global Daley - Quo Vadis, Richie?

                           

                                         BRIDGING THE CULTURAL GAP

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

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Anyone in the third generation waiting in the wings to carry on the family franchise? Some thought that Rich Daley’s son, Patrick, with his military and business background, was the guy. In the meantime, that franchise has morphed from politics to business—business that benefits from Rich’s mayoral connections. With his father and his father’s former mayoral chief of staff, Patrick helps to run TUR Partners, which bills itself as a “global investment and advisory firm” with “dedicated practices” in the US, China and Russia. Doing business in the latter two countries may not be the best preparation for running a successful campaign for political office. Chicago Magazine

The Clinton Foundation is one of many hedge fund vaults, where mega-charities, corporations and plutocrats can suck up the wealth of the world and keep world watch cable news.

It is one vault.

The Clinton's owe quite a bit to Chicago and the Daley Family.

Post - mayoral Richie Daley is as visible as the Lucas Museum these days,

He is busy.

Not only is Richard M. Daley a 'perfesser' at University of Chicago's Harris Schoolof Business, but also a Master of the Universe 'stacker of wheat and player with railroads' and Chinese and Russian opportunities.

Such opportunities are denied to most Meteors from the great school over by IIT and big cop house, but they are wide open to Global Visionaries.

You see, Chicago and the United States of America have become Banana Republics - oligarchies. Under the globalist method wealth makes a few people very wealthy, erases the middle class and increases the number of poor people.

I think ordinary.  I wondered about this headline teaser in the Wall Street Journal, " Why did Hillary’s State Department urge U.S. investors to fund Russian research for military uses?"

Why, I wonder if Bridgeport-born globalist Richard M. Daley urgently invested the investments of TUR and Daley Tang partners in the land of Borscht and money.

When I read the Wall Street Journal article this morning, I did not immediately think of Hillary Rodham Clinton.   I thought of Richard M. Daley.  He is a globalist visionary.  In fact, this past June, one Daley's global businesses Tang Partners bought IM Global. IM Global is huge and Daley's partner Donald Tang is huge.

Donald Tang was previously chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asia. Following that he was founder of Daley & Tang Partners, a venture formed with former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley to facilitate cross-border transactions. TMP recently appointed veteran Chinese-American director and producer Janet Yang (executive producer on “The Joy Luck Club,” producer of “The People Vs Larry Flynt”) to a senior executive role.
The relationship with TMP is expected to provide IM Global the capacity to raise substantial further capital that will lift it beyond the ranks of leading film industry independents and site it among the league of corporate independents that includes Lionsgate, Entertainment One and Studiocanal. ( emphasis my own)

That's Hollywood Folks!  You won't see Matt Damon nailing a plateful of hash browns at Schallers Pump, but you can bet he's welcome!

Brideport was home to Lithuanian, German, Polish, Mexican, Croatian and Irish and now more Chinese.  Daley has set up opportunities for globalists, who might not live in Chinatown, or Bridgport to invest in Red China and Russia.  Russia is huge to the Daley interests.  In fact as there is Daley Tang, so too Daley TUR.

I wonder.  Will Wikileaks reveal sharp as tacks Bridgeport global ventures?

That would be extraordinary.  But,  what does that mean to an ordinary guy?

19th Ward Local Notes: Speed Cameras at Ag School and the Myth ofl Sole Survival

The Children attending Chicago's Ag School at 3800 W. 111th will no longer be in danger of death while crossing from their lessons to get a slice at Wise Guys Pizza.

" "I think that you've got to understand that if you save even one life, you are saving the whole world," lllinois Governor Pat Quinn February 6, 2012

One life is the whole world?  Now that is a headscratcher . . .and very bad math. 

An Italian bugler (Giovanni Martini 7th Cavalry 1951-1922)  was the sole survivor of US 7th Cavalry's encounter with Native America in the summer of 1876; I venture to say that the historical analysis of the event was less than positive.  Slow down, Gen Custer!  Ease up, there Crazy Horse! Custer -"Here, Trunk-stuffer, take this message to the whole world!"

Bugler Martino - "Grazie Colonnello! Spero che quelli indiani sterminati voi palle così come quei riccioli. Subito il colonnello!"

There have been other historical events, air traffic misfortunes these days, featuring the One Life Saved meme that falls flat even to this day - Governor Quinn notwithstanding.  Hey, a sole survivor!

There are all kinds of statistics for the body counts due to anthropogenic or cosmic events in history. From the Last of the 300 Spartans, Aristodemus in Herodatus, to the Beloved Apostle John of the Gospels,  right on down to the last surviving member of the original 2008 Brand Obama White House --Valerie Jarrett. Axelrod and Bagdhad Bob, Desiree Rogers and  and Rahm - Ubi Sunt?

Non fraudantes, quantum adhuc iaculis - they are still at it . . .you know, . . .The Public Grift.

Rahm Emanuel was saddled with the debts amassed following the terms of Richard M. Daley.  That he knew.  He also knew that he needed revenue from revenue paying squares.  Thus!  Speed Cameras! Speed Cameras are intended to boost City coffers via $50/$100 over the speed limit times the many motorists who can not apply the cruise control mechanism in bumper-to-bumper urban traffic.  Bikes will shoot by stop signs and cameras, but cars will be arrested by the unblinking eye of the Department for Revenue on the other side of the lens.  Cameras are being dispatched ( 12 locations before Labor Day 2013) in tax revenue rich zip codes throughout the city.

Red-light cameras generated $69 million for the city in 2010, and speed cameras likely would grow that number considerably. Speeders going 6 mph 10 mph over the limit would face $50 fines. Those going 11 mph and over would face the full $100 ticket.
Under the new law, the "safety zones" where cameras could operate would cover nearly half the city, the Tribune found.
In addition, a Tribune analysis of federal data on crashes showed that Emanuel's proposal would have a limited impact on reducing fatalities. Of the 251 pedestrian deaths in the city between 2005 and 2009, fewer than half occurred in the "safety zones" and less than one-quarter of those involved speeding.
The cameras would run in school zones from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday. The cameras would only operate on school days in school zones. The cameras near city parks would still run one hour before opening until one hour after closing. Emanuel had to agree to those compromises to win approval last fall.
Money would go toward increasing school safety and school transportation, with some earmarked for after-school programs.
The administration envisions a retrofit of speed detection equipment onto many of the city’s 190 existing red light cameras, which are located almost exclusively on busy arterial streets.

In my community the first of such cameras is being positioned at the Chicago Agricultural High School located at the intersections of Alsip/Oak Lawn & the City of Chicago.  We are expected to nod with conviction when told by fatuous but practiced grifters like Pat Quinn and Mayor Rahm that we are saving but one child with each ticket.

Shortly after Labor Day, we can expect columns of cameras lining Western Avenue from 119th Street South to Howard on the North, saving one child a citation,  like the crucifixes set on the Appian Way by Mayor Marcus Licinius Crassus in 71 B.C., in order to save the life of just one child. To paraphrase Pat Quinn, 'Crucify One! Make Believers of the Rest!'

I always try to drive the posted speed limits.   If I do not, I expect that I will be crucified in $ 50 range and will pay like a good citizen; but will be damned if I am going to believe that if I save one life, I am saving the whole world.

Save it, Grifters.