Mapping Minneapolis Minnesota Riot Damage, Opportunity Zones, and Fed Banks (A Work in Progress)

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  1. Anybody who thinks that damage patterns are coincidental has another “think” coming.

    1. Interesting. From the moment we have published we have had a world of hacking and trouble on the site. We don’t support Google Chrome, for reasons which I am sure I don’t need to explain. Try Firefox!

  3. Erik Otteson, who has operated a used-car lot on Lake Street for 30 years, said he believes city officials allowed the rioting to spin out of control because they want to redevelop the neighborhood. Gov. Tim Walz decried the city’s response to the riots as an “abject failure.”

    “They have been trying to get rid of us for years,” said Otteson, whose dealership was vandalized but remains open. “The city does not want small businesses here. They want five-story apartment buildings. Small businesses are in the way.”

    https://m.startribune.com/twin-cities-rebuilding-begins-with-donations-pressure-on-government/571075592/

  4. I live in a suburb of Omaha, NE. I learned about the opportunity zones while listening to your lastest wrap-up show. I had no idea what it was and I am blown away by what I found. We had BLM riots and protests in the Old Market Area in Downtown Omaha, Opportunity Zone Track 43 https://opportunity.nebraska.gov/program/opportunity-zones/. There is a Federal Reserve branch, the address is 2201 Farnam St, Omaha, NE 68102. The Leavenworth Cafe closed down because BLM protestors were harassing customers and staff. The BLM’ers were claiming some menu items were racists. I would like to add Warren Buffet lives on Farnam St. This is astonishing what you have pointed out.

    1. If you track the financial ecosystems by place, the world makes much more sense. The DOJ seized our community wizard software – it took me six years to get it out from under court control. By the time I got it, the most valuable parts were permanently stolen. I tried to donate what was left to multiple groups. They would not touch it…and on and on. BUT we can all go out, collect up the data on our place, keep it in paperful form on a kitchen table – and make sense of our world.

      1. My bet is the looting is a tax payer funded program by the US intelligence agencies to ensure low cost reinvestment in building out smart cities in 50-100 cities. Bet they will use some of the $4 billion Amazon stock that Bezos sold at the high.

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