Citizen: The Most Important Title in American Democracy | Chris Hand | T...

You rule: We The People

Published on Nov 20, 2017

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Each of us holds the most important title in American democracy: citizen. Yet most Americans believe we are powerless to make government respond or hold public officials accountable. A 2015 Pew Charitable Trusts survey found that 74% of Americans believe that most elected officials don’t care what people like us think. But we can make them listen—if we fully embrace our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democracy, and use the skills of effective citizenship to make government work for us. This is not just a theory. Americans frequently prove that we can make government respond. We, the people, are the beginning and the end of our democracy—and today, more than ever, we must build and flex our citizenship muscles to fulfill that exalted status.

Massive"Booms" Around the Planet/As Earth Slows Rotation.

Published on Nov 20, 2017

Views: 6,968

Published on Nov 20, 2017

Major Quakes to Increase in 2018!!
All Links @ http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com Recorded in 720 HD

 

Huh? THE SOVIET MILITARY SECRETLY MAPPED THE ENTIRE WORLD || WARTHOG 2017

Finding out about this how many years after the fact? ....Way too quick pointing about some flaws and mistakes in information - now it's all done by satellites

Published on Nov 20, 2017

Views: 4,006

These intricate, curious maps were supposed to be destroyed. The ones that remain reveal a fascinating portrait of how the U.S.S.R. monitored the world.

English retiree John Davies has been smitten with maps his whole life. “I was drawing maps of my house as a toddler,” he said. Though his career in software didn’t allow regular forays into cartography, he would visit map shops on his travels.

On a business trip to Riga, Latvia’s capital, in the early 2000s, he hit the mother lode. Davies happened upon a shop that held bundles of Cold War-era maps of British cities, created by the Soviet military. The maps were so detailed that they included such elements as the products factories made and bridges’ load-bearing capacity. “I was just amazed,” Davies said.

Plans Afoot @ Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

Will they get off the ground? There's been months of real estate speculation all around this buzzing hive of activity
This story from AZ Big Media has been circulating for days . . . it's no wonder it finally got picked up, including quite a few remarks from Mesa Mayor John Giles
Mesa sets its eyes on e-commerce trade with Mexico
Business News | 9 hours ago | Cronkite News
As trade between the U.S, Mexico and Canada is debated by top negotiators in Mexico City as part of NAFTA, one Arizona city is working on a long-term million-dollar project that would potentially increase direct trade with Mexico.
The Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority Board will vote in the next few days to approve a master development agreement with the company Mesa Skybridge for an infrastructure project at the airport.
The project, if approved, would include a program to facilitate cargo processing that goes to Mexico by bringing Mexican customs officials to the Valley airport, otherwise known as the Unified Cargo Processing Program, recently created by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“It has the potential to be the most significant source of commerce between Mesa and Mexico,” Mesa Mayor John Giles said.
Giles added the “premise” of the project is to build an e-commerce distribution center at the airport and seize the opportunities of this growing industry in Mexico. 
Last year, e-commerce produced around $17.63 billion in Mexico, according to a report by the Mexican Internet Association. According to the same report, two out of three Mexican online buyers shopped from international retailers in 2016, and the number one market was the U.S.
“The consumers in Mexico would receive the same delivery schedules that consumers in the U.S. have,” Giles said.
After the approval of the project, Mesa Skybridge would move forward with the application to bring the Unified Cargo Processing Program to the airport, according to Ryan Smith, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport director of communications and government relations.
“The program will abide by whatever regulations and rules are set. It’ll find it’s way around that and be flexible to any changes that may come up or occur,” Smith said
Specifically in terms of NAFTA, Mexican officials have recognized the 23-year-old agreement needs to be updated to consider new business transactions such as e-commerce, but the three involved countries could not come to an agreement during the previous rounds when the U.S. suggested it wanted to raise the current dollar limit of products that can be exported with no tariffs.
“All of the mayors of cities in Arizona and the governor, we’re all very concerned about the NAFTA negotiations because trade with Mexico is very important to every city in Arizona,” Giles said.
“This opportunity for e-commerce is just the latest example of why our relationship with Mexico is important for Arizona,” he added.
According to Giles, the company is committing to build 20 or 30 million dollars of infrastructure during a 50 or 60 year-period, which will include “buildings, streets and other infrastructure,” some of those “tied to e-commerce.”
Giles reiterated both the City of Mesa and the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport would benefit from continuing the trade agreement with Mexico.
“If we have good trade relations between the U.S. and Mexico, that’s good for the Arizona economy and for the Mesa economy. We’ll have more jobs and a busier airport if we have a strong NAFTA agreement,” Giles said.




Link > https://azbigmedia.com/mesa-sets-eyes

Holier-Than-Thou > LDS Utah Child Molestation Cover-Up

Published on Feb 13, 2016

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Release 02: February 20, 2016 The General Authority’s Accusation: Part 1 http://www.lifeaftermormonism.net/pro...

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How The Fight For Marriage Equality Was Won > Australia: Fair!

It was all out there: fear and bigotry

Published on Nov 19, 2017

Only through real debate can we make real progress.

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Tyler Durden On ZeroHedge: Understanding Capital

Your MesaZona is on a roll with reporter Tyler Durden who's been publishing some very good informative articles frequently using original sources via an intermediary link. This one yesterday is by Ronald-Peter Stöferle via The Mises Institute that uses the principles of The Austrian Institute of Economics. What's interesting to note is that the original created only 16 comments while Tyler's report has been viewed almost 48,000 times receiving 80 comments We're Living in the Age of Capital Consumption

By Ronald-Peter Stöferle 18 Nov 2017

"When capital is mentioned in the present-day political debate, the term is usually subject to a rather one-dimensional interpretation: Whether capital saved by citizens, the question of capital reserves held by pension funds, the start-up capital of young entrepreneurs or capital gains taxes on investments are discussed – in all these cases capital is equivalent to “money.” Yet capital is distinct from money, it is a largely irreversible, definite structure, composed of heterogeneous elements which can be (loosely) described as goods, knowledge, context, human beings, talents and experience. Money is “only” the simplifying aid that enables us to record the incredibly complex heterogeneous capital structure in a uniform manner. It serves as a basis for assessing the value of these diverse forms of capital.
Modern economics textbooks usually refer to capital with the letter “C”. This conceptual approach blurs the important fact that capital is not merely a single magnitude, an economic variable representing a magically self-replicating homogenous blob but a heterogeneous structure. Among the various economic schools of thought it is first and foremost the Austrian School of Economics, which stresses the heterogeneity of capital. Furthermore, Austrians have correctly recognized, that capital does not automatically grow or perpetuate itself. Capital must be actively created and maintained, through production, saving, and sensible investment.
Moreover, Austrians emphasize that one has to differentiate between two types of goods in the production process: consumer goods and capital goods . . .
Through capital formation, one creates the potential means to boost productivity. The logical precondition for this is that the production of consumer goods must be temporarily decreased or even stopped, as scarce resources are redeployed toward the production of capital goods. If current production processes generate only fewer or no consumer goods, it follows that consumption will have to be reduced by the quantity of consumer goods no longer produced. Every deepening of the production structure therefore involves taking detours.
Capital formation is therefore always an attempt to generate larger returns in the long term by adopting more roundabout methods of production. Such higher returns are by no means guaranteed though, as the roundabout methods chosen may turn out to be misguided. In the best case only those roundabout methods will ultimately be continued, which do result in greater productivity. It is therefore fair to assume that a more capital-intensive production structure will generate more output than a less capital-intensive one. The more prosperous an economic region, the more capital-intensive its production structure is. The fact that the generations currently living in our society are able to enjoy such a high standard of living is the result of decades or even centuries of both cultural and economic capital accumulation by our forebears.
Once a stock of capital has been accumulated, it is not destined to be eternal. Capital is thoroughly transitory, it wears out, it is used up in the production process, or becomes entirely obsolete. Existing capital requires regularly recurring reinvestment, which can usually be funded directly out of the return capital generates. If reinvestment is neglected because the entire output or more is consumed, the result is capital consumption.
It is not only the dwindling understanding of the nature of capital that leads us to consume it without being aware of it. It is also the framework of the real economy which unwittingly drives us to do so . . .
At the same time, the all-encompassing redistributive welfare state, which either directly through taxes or indirectly through the monetary system continually shifts and reallocates large amounts of capital, manages to paper over the effects of capital consumption to some extent. It remains to be seen how much longer this can continue. Once the stock of capital is depleted, the awakening will be rude. We are certain, that gold is an essential part of any portfolio in this stage of the economic cycle.

Ronald-Peter Stöferle is managing partner and fund manager at Incrementum AG, Liechtenstein. He invests using the principles of the Austrian school of economics.

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