Silverstein Properties, which developed the new World Trade Center, has made a deal to sell a 20-story office property on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for $105 million. In 2020, the company had refinanced the building for $171 million.
Category: 6 June 2023
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IT’S ALL ABOUT DESANTIS, FU RFK JR.
The mainstream media continues to diligently cover Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s bid for president while mostly ignoring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Joe Biden’s democratic challenger.
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CHINA SLAMS U.S. OVER NEAR-COLLISION BETWEEN CHINESE WARSHIP AND U.S. DESTROYER
China’s top defense official criticized the U.S. Sunday following what Beijing described as a reckless near-miss between an American destroyer and Chinese warship in international waters in the Taiwan Strait.
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LOCKHEED MARTIN’S CEO PRAISES DEBT DEAL AS BEST OUTCOME DEFENSE CONTRACTOR COULD ASK FOR
James Taiclet, the CEO of Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest defense contractor, praised Congress’s decision to raise the debt ceiling without touching the defense budget.
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TAIWAN ENVOY WANTS TO RAMP UP WAR
A successful, united war effort in Ukraine—led by the United States and NATO—would make Beijing think twice about invading Taiwan, the island’s de-facto ambassador to the U.S., said.
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U.S. ANNOUNCES $300 MILLION IN MORE WEAPONS TO KEEP BLOODYING THE UKRAINE KILLING FIELDS
The Biden administration announced last week that it will provide Ukraine with $300 million in weapons from another drawdown from Defense Department stocks—which will include additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems.
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MEDVEDEV SAYS RUSSIA IS IN ‘DE-FACTO WAR’ WITH ‘ETERNAL ENEMY’ UK
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, said last week that Moscow is in a “de-facto war” with the United Kingdom after Britain’s military chief publicly approved Ukrainian strikes inside Russia.
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PUTIN ACCUSES UKRAINE OF ‘TERRORIST ACTIVITY’ AFTER DRONE STRIKE ON MOSCOW, VOWS RETALIATION
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is already being pressured by top military officials to declare full military mobilization in the Ukraine War, vowed to retaliate after a drone strike hit Moscow last week in the war question’s latest escalation.
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ZELENSKY: WE’RE READY FOR LONG-WAITED COUNTEROFFENSIVE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that his forces are now prepared to wage an effective counteroffensive against Russia, stating that Kyiv “strongly believes that we will succeed.”
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WARMONGER BLINKEN, NO TIME FOR PEACE
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that any peace deal brokered in Ukraine would need to “affirm the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence.