Wednesday, June 07, 2017

BOEING, RAYTHEON, AND LOCKHEED SET TO DEVELOP BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ...

Kill Vehicles get multi-million dollar contracts
Published on Jun 6, 2017
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U.S. missile defense experts are moving forward with three U.S. prime defense contractors to develop a future ballistic missile defense multi-warhead killer intended to detect, track, and kill several different incoming enemy missile warheads and decoys with only one counter-missile launch.
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Red Dwarf Flares, Earthquake Warning | S0 News Jun.7.2017

QUAKE WATCH Next 3 days
Published on Jun 7, 2017
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KEVIN THOMPSON AGAIN > In The Six | Able Aerospace Services


Published on Jun 5, 2017
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Councilmember Thompson pays a visit to Able Aerospace Services, one of the fastest growing companies in all of Mesa.
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Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature

Country Western-Rock + Roll + Rhythm & Blues
Published on Jun 5, 2017
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Bob Dylan received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
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NEWS ALERT - U.S. Deploys Electronic Attack Fighter-jet EA-18G Growler T...


Published on Jun 7, 2017
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NEWS ALERT - U.S. Deploys Electronic Attack Fighter-jet EA-18G Growler To Japan

The theatre of war is constantly adapting. To be able to blind your opponents in a fight is an invaluable service that the EA-18G Growler brings to the fight. LCpl. Calvin Hilt learned what systems they employ to keep up our warfighting posture in the Pacific.
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Not So-Sweet A Deal ?

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June 7th, 2017 | Written by
US Sugar Industry Opposes New US-Mexico Deal
Claims Loophole Will Allow Continued Export-Import Dumping
Source:  GLOBAL TRADE MAGAZINE
US sugar producers are complaining that an agreement announced yesterday between the United States and Mexico will allow Mexican exporters to continue to dump sugar in the US.
US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross denied that contention saying,
“We have gotten the Mexican side to agree to nearly every request made by US industry to address flaws in the current system and ensure fair treatment of American sugar growers and refiners.”

At issue is an agreement to end a dispute dating back to 2014 between the US and Mexico with regard to Mexican sugar imports.
Ross and Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo announced the new agreement in principal yesterday to suspend antidumping and countervailing duties against Mexican sugar imports into the United States.
Ross contended the agreement—between the governments of the United States and Mexico and the Mexican sugar industry—prevent dumping of Mexican sugar and corrects for subsidies the Mexican sugar industry receives.
Among the elements of the agreement, the price at which raw sugar must be sold at the mill in Mexico is increased from 22.25 cents to 23 cents per pound, and for refined sugar, from 26 cents to 28 cents per pound. The new agreement also reduces the percentage of refined sugar that may be imported from 53 percent to 30 percent, increasing the amount of raw sugar available to US sugar refiners. Mexico agreed to increased enforcement measures and to accept penalties for violations, including a reduction in the amount of sugar allowed to be imported equal to twice the amount—or three times the amount, under some circumstances—of any sugar found to be in violation of the agreements.
Under a section entitled Additional US Needs, Mexico accepted these conditions in exchange for a right of first refusal to supply 100 percent of any “additional need” for sugar identified by the US Department of Agriculture after April 1 of each year.
 
It is the Additional US Needs clause that bothers Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance, a group representing US producers, who said the section contains a major loophole. “Mexico could exploit this loophole to continue to dump subsidized sugar into the US market and short US refineries of raw sugar inputs,” he said. “This loophole takes away the existing power of the US government to determine the type and polarity”—the degree of purity that separates raw from refined sugar—“of any additional sugar that needs to be imported and cedes that power to the Mexican government.”
Ross lamented the lack of support for the agreement among US industry, but added that “we remain hopeful that further progress can be made during the drafting process. We look forward to continuing discussions with them as we finalize the agreement.”
 
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Absolutely Awesome! Totally Organic! Whoa! Here in DTMesa

Last Thursday with little fanfare except for friendly buzzes, the Organic Bean Café had a 'soft opening' at 40 N MacDonald Street here in the New Urban Downtown Mesa.
After the monthly meeting of the City of Mesa Economic Development Board, your MesaZona blogger needed a dose of fresh air and time-away from discussion of big deals in commercial/industrial real estate taking place on tech corridors and employment opportunity zones. . .
It was time to take a walk-around downtown zig-zagging west onto Pepper Place from Center/First Street to a pleasant NWC at the intersection across the street from the AZ Museum of Natural History.
If you don't know some of the 'small wonders' off-Main Street, here's a map to find OBC and - surprisingly quite a number of other small businesses, all small-scale all in one building: Jerry's Barber Salon is in the front of the very-retro front to the left of an open entryway to an open atrium.
Also located here are Zuzu's Petals, 87 Bikes, Taffy Salon & Brow Bar, and Serendipity Cinematography - all have been on-premises for quite some time growing beyond the stage of incubation or start-ups.
It was a pleasure to say hello to OBC new business owner Rachael Boontjer, who already knows the coffee business very well after working for five years with major franchise Starbuck's and opening two stores - now she's taking on the risk and the entrepreneurial leap into her own small enterprise going totally organic here in downtown Mesa, with help from her mother who together have invested about $7,000 opening the new small business. Four months after signing the lease it's ready and open-for-business
It's all 'the right stuff' in one place if you like your hot and cold brew organic. She even gets the Organic Fair Trade Coffee beans from a local roaster in Gilbert, grinding them to-order for every single 16 or 24-ounce cup [make that re-cyclable cup, please].
Here's an image taken yesterday of the natural sunlight open-air atrium to help you find the entrance


Tomorrow there's a GRAND OPENING - Check it out
 
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Zelensky Calls for a European Army as He Slams EU Leaders’ Response

      Jan 23, 2026 During the EU Summit yesterday, the EU leaders ...