ICYMI > Viewing the 2017 Orionid Meteor Shower - Halleys Comet

Published on Oct 19, 2017

October 19, 2017: The Orionids is an annual meteor shower that is caused by debris left behind by Halley’s Comet burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
“The shower will produce somewhere between 10 and 20 meteors per hour,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist and Astronomy Blogger Dave Samuhel said.
“The best viewing in the Northern Hemisphere will be after midnight,“ Samuhel added.
This year will be a particularly good year for viewing the Orionids as the peak of the shower falls just days after the new moon, meaning there will be little natural light pollution for the shower to compete with.
However, light pollution from cities and towns can wash out some of the dimmer meteors, reducing the number of meteors people can see from these areas.https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/10/vi...
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Spooky Late Night Dead Mall Live Stream From Fiesta Mall | Retail Archae...

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"news article" to re-vitalize and bring this zombie mall back to life as an employment hub, to get financed by controversial GPLETs - here's a snippet

Mesa looks at area around Fiesta Mall as employment hub 

By Wayne Schutsky, Tribune Staff Writer Sep 22, 2017

East Valley Tribune-Sep 22, 2017

"The city of Mesa will make a concerted effort to transform the area surrounding Fiesta Mall from an aging retail district to an employment hub. . .

". . . The plan, which is the result of work by the city’s Economic Development Department in concert with contractor Logan Simpson Design Inc., includes ways the city can leverage the district’s proximity to major employers like Banner Health and Maricopa County Community College to turn the region into a major employment hub.

Because of demographic shifts and the boom in online retail, the Fiesta District is not the retail destination it once was. However, a market study found that the area is a prime location for an employment hub because of its proximity to U.S. 60, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and a sizable workforce, said Bill Jabjiniak, Mesa’s director of economic development. . ."

Sexual Assault Scandals > It Takes A Media Fire-Storm

Before media firestorms, decades of assaults  One trait shared by recent sexual-assault scandals is that it took a major media event for many of the women to come forward with their stories — many decades after the fact, Axios graphic geniuses Rebecca Zisser and Lazaro Gamio write in their narrative with this stunning visual.

Rebecca Zisser and Lazaro Gamio / Axios

One trait shared by recent sexual-assault scandals is that it took a major media event for many of the women to come forward with their stories — many decades after the fact, Axios graphic geniuses Rebecca Zisser and Lazaro Gamio write in their narrative with this stunning visual. How they collected the data: Take a look at the underlying data and find the links to the news sources here. Go deeper, and share the graphic.

Tax Reform > Time Now?

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According to axios.com   "The Senate adopted a fiscal 2018 budget resolution ... that House GOP leaders agreed to accept, a show of unity aimed at speeding consideration of President Donald Trump's plan to enact tax cuts," Bloomberg reports: "The budget cleared the Senate 51-49, with all Democrats and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky voting against it." Trump tweets this a.m.: "This now allows for the passage of large scale Tax Cuts (and Reform), which will be the biggest in the history of our country!"

Something In The Water

October 17, 2017

The water Ponzi scheme

Arizona has a sordid history of fraud, predating the predations of Ned Warren, whose land frauds in the 1960s and 1970s bilked hundreds of millions of dollars from gullible Americans. It continued through with the East Valley mafia's "alt fuels" scandal of the early 2000s and the big blowup with the Ponzi scheme of the housing bubble.

The relatively new racket, on a trajectory for crisis, concerns water. . . this entire area is seeing the ground water in its meager aquifers diminish as more people move in. 
http://www.roguecolumnist.com/rogue_columnist/2017/10
Earlier this month, the Republic's Dustin Gardiner reported a fascinating story about Pinal County's complex but unsettling water situation:

So far, according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources, 15 proposed projects in the Pinal County area have received letters from the state notifying them that groundwater necessary for their projects could be in short supply.

It's likely the first time the state has sent such letters, but state officials say there is no reason to panic.

 This momentous news likely passes by most Phoenix residents who, thanks to the mighty acts of earlier generations and copious amounts of federal funding, can turn on their tap, flush their toilet, and take a dip in the swimming pool without ever giving a thought to where the water comes from. America is incapable of such feats today. All we can do is move money around and pick the carcass of national wealth that it took more than a century to create. And Arizona lacks even this get-up-and-go.
BLOGGER NOTE: Rogue Columnist Jon Talton has this to say About Pinal County where the City of Mesa and the expansion of The Mormon Corridor have plans to annex more land:
Pinal County has been an unsustainable water mess for decades. This has been because of ground-water pumping, first for agriculture and then for sprawl. So bad is the problem that subsidence, land sinking into drying aquifers, is common. The subdivisions never should have been allowed — certainly not in the incoherent mess they assumed, and with no infrastructure or impact fees. But the marginal taxes developers paid to local government greased the way. Never was the question adequately answered: If groundwater irrigation is unsustainable there, how can tract houses, swimming pools, and championship golf be sustainable? . . .

This is a red alert not only for the metropolitan and exurban expansions made possible by the CAP, but even for the Salt River Valley proper, that most rare place on the planet. a "wet desert" where four rivers converge. It was this unique circumstance that made possible the Hohokam civilization and the American Eden that was old Phoenix.The consistent message: Shut up about water.
Arizona's water situation is indeed complex, not so simple as "we're running out of water." But the Real Estate Industrial Complex and its elected and "think tank" stooges use that complexity to hide the truth

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