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(CNS): Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart is calling on the UPM government to make Caymans high street banks implement a mandatory, modern code of practice, amend the Registered Land Act to enforce mortgage-type security over real estate, and ask CIMA to review the fairness of fees charged and interest rates paid on deposits. After years of low interest rates, banks had increased fees to improve profitability. But with eleven hikes over the last two years, bank profits are soaring while borrowers are struggling.

A private members motion filed by the PPM leader and seconded by his deputy, Joey Hew, notes that the agreement by local banks to give a 30-day notice before increasing mortgage interest rates has expired, though it did nothing to help those with increased payments, putting homes at risk of foreclosure and forcing them to come to government when they cannot afford mortgage payments.

McTaggart said the Law Reform Commission has already initiated a public consultation to consider a new Registered Land (Amendment) Bill, which the government could adopt. The goal is to reform the foreclosure process and to streamline the provision impacting the charge of land to provide for a lending and pre-action protocol to better protect borrowers.

The opposition said they want the government to encourage the Cayman Islands Bankers Association to introduce a voluntary banking code that recognises the need for them to consider cases of financial difficulty sympathetically and positively, exploring options for alternative repayment arrangements for those in financial trouble. If not, the motion calls for government to consider legislation to provide for a mandatory code that will hold the banks accountable and protect their customers, especially those with mortgages.

The PPM members are suggesting that the code should be based on the one rolled out in the UK last year, which imposes a duty on banks to their customers, requiring them to deliver good outcomes and higher standards of consumer protection, including for loan foreclosures.

They have also called on the government to ask CIMA to review and report back to parliament by the end of this calendar year on the fairness of fees charged by retail banks and the fairness of interest rates paid on savings and other deposit accounts, ensuring that these rates and fees are fair and equitable for all customers.

While interest rates have reached the highest levels in decades for borrowers, the interest rate paid to customers with savings accounts or cash on deposit has barely moved from as little as 0.1% in some cases.

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) uttered the obvious logic that he wanted progressives to hear in case they want to vote against President Joe Biden or not vote at all. (Watch the video below.)

The lawmaker cited apathy and perhaps voters voting against their own self-interest as possible contributors to a Trump victory.

In an interview on Sunday with public affairs expert Mathew Littman for MeidasTouch, Lieu pleaded with unconvinced liberals to look deeply at their self-interests and embrace them. Casting a vote for Trump or any other candidate besides Biden out of disgust, or sitting out the election altogether, is inviting disaster on a volatile scale, Lieu said. That includes a possibly continued right-wing shaping of the Supreme Court.

Littman, a former speechwriter for Biden, noted the prospect of the Justice Department being gutted, opponents of the administration going to jail, and Trumps extreme immigration crackdown if apathy prevails.

Lieu took it from there.

Donald Trump incited an insurrection, an attack on our nations Capitol, he said. A hundred and forty law enforcement officers were assaulted and injured, some critically. And if he becomes president and he feels like he was rewarded for that behavior, what else do you think hes gonna do? He can do quite a bit, because in his mind, he incited insurrection and the American people made him president again. You think theres going to be anything to hold him back? I dont think so.

Low turnout could put Trump over the top, meaning bad news for progressives who voted and for those who stayed home.

Trump has hinted again at the possibility of violence if he loses the vote count.

If everythings honest, Ill gladly accept the results. I dont change on that. If its not, you have to fight for the right of the country, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week.

In another suggestion of upheaval if he were to lose, he told Time magazine that there would be no political violence if he wins the November election but if we dont win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.

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An obvious truth hidden in plain sight is suddenly common knowledge: At 81, Joe Biden is old and losing it.

Apparently we needed an epically disastrous debate performance, an op-ed from George Clooney and Biden mixing up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Putin, along with referring to Donald Trump as his Vice President at the NATO summit yesterday, for permission to believe our own eyes.

Ive long had concerns about the presidents fitness to run the country, but the debate at the end of June was even worse than I expected. Of course, his 78-year-old opponent is no spring chicken either, but its no exaggeration to say the contrast between the candidates sharpness was as stark as night and day.

But what was most shocking to me is how many other people were shocked by the performance as if theyre only just now realizing that the president isnt as sharp as he used to be.

I have many friends on the left, and I was floored to see how many of my smart, inquisitive, well-informed peers didnt see Bidens blunders coming. Where have they been burying their heads in the sand?

Since the debate, the Overton window shifted. All of a sudden its okay to point out a very elderly doddering man is in charge of our country.

Multiple New York Times editorials have called on Joe Biden to step down. Democratic members of Congress have demanded the same. Even George Clooney, a long time donor and supporter of Biden, pleaded with the President to step aside in a Wednesday op-ed.

Ill give them credit for finally calling a spade a spade. But the spontaneous narrative shift is eyeroll-inspiring.

So many of us have been calling it like it is for ages including reporters at this very paper who have been pointing out Bidens trail of gaffes for years.But, rather than engage with meaningful concerns about Bidens fitness, many on the left roundly dismissed us.

The deniers claimed we were participating in a right wing smear campaign. Unflattering clips of Biden were shrugged off as politically motivated, plucked out of context, surreptitiously edited, or merely in poor taste.

Its not in bad faith to demand that your president have the mental capacity to lead the free world. Just because a media source you dont like points something out doesnt mean its not true.

Conservatives have voiced concerns about the Presidents advancing age since his last campaign in 2020.

Thats when he asserted that poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. He then inexplicably called a young female voter a lying dog faced pony soldier and also called a retired Iowa farmer who challenged his fitness to run fat and a damn liar.

His presidency, too, has been filled with blunders.

In March 2022, in the early days of the war in Ukraine, he flippantly said Putin cannot remain in power an apparently unauthorized call for a regime change that his panicked staff quickly walked back.

In September of 2022, he looked for a Representative Jackie in a crowd during a speech apparently forgetting her last name, and the fact that she had died a month earlier.

Then, in June 2023, he bafflingly touted plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

Biden has even read instructions from teleprompters out loud, throwing end of quote, repeat the line, and pause into his speeches throughout his term.

When he was asked about his mental focus on 60 Minutes in 2022, his response inspired minimal confidence: Oh, its focused. Id say its I think its I I havent look, I have trouble even mentioning, even saying to myself, my own head, the number of years. I no more think of myself as being as old as I am than fly.

The list goes on and on and on.Even after the debate disaster, his attempts at redemption have ended with him putting his foot right back in his mouth.

On July 4th, he told WURD radio station that he is proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman to serve with a black president.

And during a campaign speech he confidently asserted, Im staying in the race. Ill beat Donald Trump. Ill beat him again in 2020.

This is sad. This is uninspiring. I dont want to live in a country ruled by a president in mental decline or his unelected handlers.

Bidens health can longer be ignored, but, thanks to some combination of willful ignorance and gaslighting by the mainstream media, many American have managed to miss whats been right in front of them months and years.

This isnt just vindication for those of us who have been sounding the alarm bells. Its also a reminder to those whove found themselves blindsided to evaluate the evidence, think for themselves, and believe their own eyes.

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Dems in denial: Progressives gaslit us about Bidens age for years now theyre admitting the terrifying truth - New York Post

MADISON (WKOW) -- The East Side Progressives are hosting a meet-and-greet social event with the candidates for the Dane County executive position on July 13.

"Pie and Politics" will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. at Elvehjem Park, 1202 Painted Post Road. Participants will be served pie and ice cream and have a chance to meet the candidates for the position with Dane County.

"We wanted to host this event because voter education and engagement is a core mission of our neighborhood action team. The presidential race has overshadowed this important race for leadership of Wisconsin's fastest growing county,"Chair of the East Side Progressive Arden Rice said.

The four candidates are State Sen. Melissa Agard, County Board Supervisor Dana Pellebon, Dane County Director of The Tamara Grigsby Office for Equity and Inclusion, Wesley Sparks, and Alder Regina Vidaver.

Each candidate will have 5-10 minutes to speak, followed by questions from the crowd.

"Many of the day-to-day issues that concern residents of Dane County, such as safety, transportation, and conservation of lakes, waterways, andgreen spaces, are local issues that are governed wholly or in part by county government. Through this event we hope to raise the visibility of this important race and remind voters to turn out for the August 13th primary," Rice added.

East Side Progressives strives to be a radically, ethnically, and economically diverse community of people committed to social justice. The three pillars to their work in the community are engagement, outreach and sustainability.

Do you have a breaking news tip to share with 27 News? Email us at news@wkow.com.

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New York Times columnist turns on progressives

Progressives have destroyed Americas west coast, according to a new article by NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof, who himself was a progressive until very recently.

Within a few years of moving from New York to his native Oregon, Kristof announced he was no longer a progressive. Seeing the challenges in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, have made me more wary of progressivism, he told Time in May. He also recently called for more restrictive immigration policies.

The crime and homelessness problems of west coast cities made him reassess his politics and hes far from the first. Progressive shibboleths, particularly lax drug enforcement and generous benefits for the homeless, has a way of turning even the most devout Leftists toward the political centre and Right. You can only free-ride on your regions good weather for so long.

As Nigel Farage launched Reform UKs contract not a manifesto, he maintains today in South Wales, the would-be Reform-voting Right-wing youth were scouring the document for policies aimed at them.

It seems they liked the gist of it, but they want more. So, what are they demanding? Beyond a Reform Youth wing, the Reform Zoomers have asked that the party restore the Ukip promise to abolish tuition fees for STEM subjects, remove interest rates on tuition fees, and remove the Graduate route on student visas.

In addition, the youth want to smoke. Reform UK must repeal the smoking and vaping bans, and commit to no funding of any organisation which aims to curtail our speech and our ability to express our views. Let the kids have fun again!

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