Staten Island News - Weekly Updates

Important Information and Reports, You'll Scarcely Find on Billionaire TV News

October 26, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Staten Island Politics / Staten Island News NYC / Staten Island News Updates / News Analysis & Opinion / Staten Buzz NYC.

'TV News' is a misnomer, as these days they do little reporting about the important news stories of the day. Instead they allow themselves to be led around by top government officials, who use them to distract their audiences from what's really going on in government, by spinning tales of nonsense - like the United Nations escalator conspiracy, the Haitian immigrants eating dogs and cats in Ohio, and the like.

TV News no longer appears to be generally staffed by competent, dedicated, truth-seeking newspeople, but instead by teleprompter reading actors and models. TV News whittles away their audiences' precious time by showing them what seem the same repetitive police crime videos and social media accident videos. And they air long winded weather reports [do they really think we need to spend ten minutes to find out what the temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation will be tomorrow?], sprinkled with advertorials for their celebrities, their shows, and their music and movies, telling us this is the news.

So, in the interest of community service, we've decided to provide our audience with short reports, with links to sources we find reliable, of the important stories we think are not well covered by billionaire TV News, if covered at all. We hope you'll appreciate our efforts to inform you. And if you do, please spread the word so that your friends and family will start waking up to the fact that TV News is controlled by billionaires, and they're using it to manipulate voters perceptions, whereas in the past - probably ending sometime around Cronkite's retirement in the 1980's - TV News informed Americans about the real news stories of the day that were important for participants in our democracy to pay attention to, stay abreast of, and ultimately collectively and communally address.

We've started this news section in late September / early October and have been updating weekly, posting on Mondays. But the posting date is subject to change. Hilight each link you want to use, then copy it and paste it into the browser bar.

This ends the local news feed _ 11.4.25

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Staten Island News - Weekly Updates

November 4, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Staten Island Politics / Staten Island News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Staten Buzz NYC.

*** What Follows was posted Mid Week Ending 11.4.25

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Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Race

With 90% of Vote Counted, Mamdani Holds Commanding Lead

November 4, 2025 at 10.21 pm / NYC Politics / Gotham Buzz.

It's been an interesting NYC Mayoral election, as it frequently is. But this year it was even more interesting, because of all of the machinations of the billionaires, in a desperate effort to hang onto the gravy train started by Bloomberg, and continued by Adams.

With 90% of the vote counted, Mamdani had won 50% of the vote, versus Cuomo's 42% and Sliwa's 7%, according to NPR. For details see - Mamdani Wins NYC Mayoral Election.

https://www.npr.org

It Looks Like Five of the Six Ballot Measures Will Pass

As for the Charter Revisions on the back of the ballot, those revisions dishonestly sold as solutions to the affordable housing crisis passed [Measures 2 - 5], with 90% of the vote counted. They passed, in part, because too many voters rely on superficial-headlined, billionaire-controlled, Network TV News. Too many voters in NYC still don't realize that the 'affordable housing' talked about by the real estate industry and Eric Adams, is not really affordable to half or more of those who live in NYC [which means it's UN affordable housing].

Ballot Measures 1 & 6 have not yet been decisively decided with 90% of the vote counted, but Ballot #1, which is the erection of a sports complex and trails on government parkland, looks like it will narrowly pass [currently Yes 52% - No 48%]. And Ballot Measure #6, which was an effort to synch up the municipal elections with the national and state elections, looks like it will fail [currently No 53% - Yes 47%]. That #6 may fail is a good thing in my estimation, as the National and State races would overshadow and drown out the local races, where we have some small opportunity to hear what's going on.

We'll have more about the elections in our Weekend News Update.

GB 603 - FINAL - BIASED MEDIA REPORTING - 11.4.25

Is the Sky Really Falling?

Or is the Billionaire-Controlled TV News & Press is Trying to Manipulate You?

The Self-Serving Fat Cats, Billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, John Catsimitides & Donald Trump, to Name Just a Few - Want to Scare You into Voting for their Preferred Candidate for Mayor - Andrew Cuomo

These Men are Using their Mass Media Outlets Like They Use Everything Else - to Enrich Themselves

November 4, 2025 / NYC Politics / New York City News / Billionaire TV News & Press / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Halloween is Over, but Billioniare TV News wants to Keep You Scared

Halloween may be over, but the billionaire press wants to keep you scared. You've had a great opportunity to witness their misuse of their mass media, doling out their scary narratives to manipulate voters, so they will vote for the overwhelming choice of the billionaires - former disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Let's take a look at a few examples while they are still fresh in our minds. The world has changed and so has the mass media. And like so much these days - it hasn't been changing for the good of the community. And in fact, it is just the opposite.

The people's press, where you will find numerous and divergent opinions and reports, is on the web. The billionaire press is on TV. All six TV networks are controlled by billionaires, the families of billionaires, and the newest network is on his way to becoming a billionaire. That's why all TV News networks put out the same stories, hire the same attractive but empty-headed teleprompter readers, who have good diction, but not a lot of knowledge or insight or good questions about pretty much anything they are telling you.

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This ends the local news feed _ 11.4.25

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November 2, 2025 / Billionaire Press NYC Billionaire TV News / Staten Island Politics / Staten Island News NYC / News Analysis & Opinion / Staten Buzz NYC.

*** What Follows was posted Week Ending 11.2.25

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NYC Mayoral Marathon Election Special

Candidate Positions, Funding, Endorsements, Polls & Media Malfeasance

November 2, 2025 / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

This week we dedicated most of our news reporting resources to the NYC Mayoral Race, as there are only a couple days left before the majority of the electorate cast their votes. The second headline above, describes what will be covered in this report, which will be followed by a brief report about what's going on with SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, which will include information and links to resources to help those who need it.

The photo above or at right was taken at the first NYC Mayoral Debate in the NBC TV Studio at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. Photo credit to Adam Gray at Politico.

Billionaires Appear to be Going All Out to Defeat Mamdani - including Cheating

There's an old expression that goes something like this, "If you aint' cheating, you ain't trying hard enough." I personally find that axiom distasteful, as I was taught to play fair. But I have found it beneficial to keep it in mind when competing, as there are plenty of people among us, who embrace that philosophy. And as we all know, the rich are not immune from breaking the rules, and in fact oftentimes seem to relish the thought.

• CLICK here to read the rest of our report about the NYC Mayoral Race & Debates 2025 featuring Mamdani, Cuomo & Sliwa.

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Eric Adams' Charter Revision Ballot Measures 2 - 6: Don't Give Up Your Legal Rights to the Billionaires - VOTE NO

Click Links that Follow to See for Yourself

November 2, 2025 / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

Charter Revision Ballot Measures / One Last Betrayal of Voters by Eric Adams. Eric Adams has floated five of the six measures [#'s 2 - 6] on the November 4th Ballot, in one last service to the billionaires and real estate developers who funded his campaigns and corruption legal bills. The donors have already received numerous Adams' favors including zoning changes, tax breaks, financing and / or even public land at what appears super discount prices.

Here's what the NYC Council thought of Adams ballot proposals.

https://council.nyc.gov/press/2025/09/02/2955/

TV News is Failing you. Reasons to Vote NO on Ballot Measures 2 - 6. These ballot measures will strip you, the NYC voters, of most of your rights to legally object to any billionaire funded real estate developments in your communities. I urge you to VOTE NO on the ballot measures in order for you to maintain some sort of community control / legal rights, at a time when international money and billionaire real estate investors are hiking up the rents and cost of living here.

The graphic above or at right, was taken from the Village Preservation website, as they would like us and anyone else who's interested to help spread the word about how Eric Adams Ballot measures. Adams' Charter Ballot Revisions represent one of Eric Adams' last major efforts to aid and abet NYC and international billionaire investors and developers in being able to bulldoze through any community in NYC without obtaining much - if any - input from the community before they begin demolition and construction. Use the links below to view half hour videos, by various non profit community groups, opposing the measure.

Use One of Links Below to Learn Why You Should VOTE NO. But you don't need to trust me on this, as you can watch one of these half hour videos by different community groups explaining why you should vote against the pro billionaire developer measures, which 'working class' Mayor Eric Adams served up as an 'affordable housing fix'. To Adams 'affordable housing' usually means affordable to folks making between $100,000 and $250,000 per year.

And then Tell / Email / Text Your Family & Friends the Links. And after you inform yourself, make sure you inform your family and friends [aka We, The People] because the billionaire developers and international investors are already advertising deceitful narratives about how voting yes will be good for you - when in fact it is not. And they will use the uninformative, disinformative and distracting TV News to pummel the NYC electorate with the very dishonest, decades-old 'this is good for 'affordable housing' pitch' to convince NYC voters into giving up their rights. Why NYC should vote NO to the Charter Revision Ballot Questions November 2025.

https://www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/the-2025-charter-revision-proposal/

Click to access a City Club video presentation regarding their take on Eric Adams Ballot proposals which rescind communities' rights vis-a-vis real estate development by billionaires and international investors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w5oEIPR__Y

An OpEd by a former NYC Councilmember and retired Supreme Court Justice urging Voters to protect their rights and VOTE NO to Eric Adams' pro billionaire real estate and international investor / anti community rights charter changes.

https://eastriverparkaction.org/2025/10/22/adams-vs-adams-family-values-nyc-style/

NYC Council Leadership Calls on Board of Elections to Reject Three of Mayor Adams’ Ballot Proposals for Using Language That Seeks to Deceive Voters by Concealing Their Effect, Violating State Law

https://council.nyc.gov/press/2025/09/02/2955/

Scroll down to the ads with red white and blue coloring, that include the statement '2025 General Election / Early Voting' for details about where to find your poll site, their early voting hours, as well as other election related information.

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Federal Leadership in Washington Continues to Fail the American Public

November 2, 2025 / NYC Politics / New York City News / News Analysis & Opinion / Gotham Buzz NYC.

House Republican Speaker Johnson closes Congress' doors so he doesn't have to swear in the new Congresswoman from Arizona, and deal with a majority bipartisan vote to open the Epstein files to the public.

Senate Republican Majority Leader Thune keeps submitting the same bill for a vote over and over and over again [13x] getting the same result. That is the definition of insanity.

Trump flies overseas where both America's friends and foes appear to humor / deal with him like a child.

About the only thing the Republican leadership doesn't seem to be doing, is trying to find a working compromise, with the Democrats, to end the government shutdown.

TV News won't tell you this, because they don't know how to contextualize the news. But Republicans control all three branches of government and the courts. So, how some 40% of Americans can blame the Democrats for the shutdown is beyond me - except to say that they must be pretty damned ignorant not to know that. And that they must be relying on news sources operated by Murdoch or other dishonest billionaires [Elon Musk?] who are hoodwinking them.

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