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Another AFD Special: Calling All Gamers! Help Wanted for Hyper-Local Version of Mormonopoly

New wealth is getting created now all the time, so it's way past time to update the old board game Monopoly for the 21st Century here in The East Valley of Arizona. There was an earlier version done in Utah just a few years ago (see opening image), subtitled Buying 'Zion' One Property At A Time that included utilities, communication companies, various investments with initial investments and projected valuations, shopping centers and malls, apartments and hotels, and houses on certain properties along the boardwalk.
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Readers of this blog can take a look at the original source for the Game of Mormonopoly, by using any browser or search engine. One of the many companies that are the some of the same players here is Zion Public Finance.
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Players in the game also had the opportunity to draw cards of Chance, with rolls of the dice that might land you in fail or get a free out of jail. It was fun back then, and could be so much more fun now

Some suggestions for new board options might include Tech Corridors in  the East Valley, like the one on Elliot Road that includes higher education facilities, commercial/industrial and residential developments: ASU PolyTech Campus, new terminals and e-commerce parks close to PMGA airport, Eastmark and Cadence, data center REITS and others.

Here in downtown Mesa on Main Street in what used-to-be the Central Business District on Main Street there are eight properties owned by holding companies and limited partnerships or LLCs that are already in play where potential investors can buy in for as little as a minimum of $100,000 or more depending on the risk involved.
Perhaps the time is ripe to get in the game.

Money is dropping like Manna from the heavens into the desert. If you millennial gamers in the new generation of start-up entrepreneurs want to help re-imagine and re-invent an old board game your collaboration might be thrilling and exciting to volunteer your services creating a new interactive up-dated in real time open-sourced app where digital currency is traded and exchanged and invested in deferred tax-free capital gains and tax exchanges instead of monopoly money.  
Add some new spaces for: PPPs, so-called Public Private Partnerships of one kind or another as well as Banks, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (F.I.R.E), asset management firms, and privately-owned undisclosed dark money,

Who's awesome? Gamers - UR (at least for today, April Fools' Day). Like they say, a fool is born every moment. Take advantage of that and take a few chances . . . U never know: This might be 'your 15-year moment' to buy-in and cash-out later to make-over the game of Monopoly here in Mesa that's now the fastest-growing area in the entire continental United States.

Be warned: there are risks involved like any venture for investors.









 

Special April Fools' Day Report: FBI SWAT Team Raids Mesa City Hall

In the light of the Full Moon today on Easter Sunday, one of the holiest days of the year, a special SWAT team staged a surprise early pre-dawn raid inside City Hall, a former bank building that's now, according to suspicions, the seat of power for a generations-old corrupt group of 'friends-and-families' that have operated much like an East Valley version of the Sicily-based Mafia originating on The East Coast.

Though rumors and innuendoes have been rampant for more years than most people care to remember or conveniently choose to ignore, multiple reports and a recent series of UFOs hovering in the skies over the deserted central business district, raised alarms with certain citizens who have stayed woke and vigilant wondering what's going on in their community after years of feeling 'not engaged'.
However, some newer arrivals, labeled as 'Trouble-Makers' and "Rabble-Rousers' by insiders in the entrenched political machine operating here for more than 140 years, did take notice and stayed on the alert for things appearing on their radar screens after a few clues to take a closer look.

Some of the evidence reportedly seized in today's under-cover raid up the steps inside City Hall were shown in this image seen to the left. What they are exactly is a mystery only known to a few who are maintaining their silence, although they appear to be special pure white garments worn by just a few of the minority population for closed-to-the-public religious ceremonies conducted at a local temple, the first built outside of Salt Lake City in the latter 1920's.

Other  uncorroborated evidence confiscated in the raid on City Hall included these infrared images taken by a UAV drone of the meeting houses built in stakes and wards of master-planned communities that serve as the bases of political operations for collecting a form of taxation from The Middle Ages called tithing, where 10-15% of the gross incomes for individual and families supports the faith and political activities of many of the followers. 

Readers of this blog may be shocked by these revelations on April Fools' Day. 
Something more fundamental that could open the curtains of what's been hidden in plain sight for far too long here in the East Valley, was written about very recently in early March when AP reporter Brady McCombs* had this to say about consequences in the aftermath and upheaval of a joint Department of Justice and FBI investigation on the Arizona-Utah border that busted up local government run by an LDS sect that had controlled the town for more than a century.
If that sounds way too familiar, it might a clue to too many coincidences of one kind or another here . . .
The group has run the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, for more than a century and had total control of town governments until November's elections.

This is not a convenient fiction on this site for April Fools' Day with real day realities reminding us that the current mayor of Mesa shown in the image to the right (Photo credit to local photographer Ivan Martinez) is the 40th in the LDS line of political succession, with few exceptions, than has run this city for more than 140 years.
Like Hildale, what was to become the City of Mesa was settled by 'Pioneers' sent from Salt Lake City, into the Salt River Valley to expand what they called The Kingdom of Deseret or "The Bee Hive" in The New Zion.
Most municipal workers quit in Utah polygamous sect town

Brady Mccombs, Associated Press

Updated 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 8, 2018 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The new mayor of a mostly polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border is finishing off a complete overhaul of municipal staff and boards after mass resignations when she took office in January to become the first woman and first non-member of the polygamous sect to hold the seat. . . Six of the seven Hildale, Utah, town workers quit after Mayor Donia Jessop was elected . . . They were joined by nine members of various town boards, including utility board chairman Jacob N. Jessop. All were members of the sect, the mayor said.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS STATEMENT: Jacob Jessop said his religious beliefs prevented him from working for a woman and with people who are not sect members, according to resignation letters obtained Thursday by The Associated Press through a public records request. The mayor's husband is distantly related to Jessop in the town of about 3,000 people where many have that last name.

"It has come to a point where I have to choose between my religion and participation in city government, and I choose my religion," he wrote in his letter dated Jan. 25. "My religion teaches me that I should not follow a woman for a leader in a public or family capacity."
. . . The new town leadership is the latest sign that the community's demographics are shifting as it begins to resemble a typical town in the U.S. West, not a cloistered religious community. . . The town government and police are being watched closely by court-appointed monitors after a jury found them guilty of civil rights violations. . . More changes could be coming . . . Later this year, elections in the sister city of Colorado City, Arizona, could bring in outsiders, including to the mayor's seat. . .
Donia Jessop said she has filled the positions that include town recorder, clerk and treasurer . . New hires should help the community, said Jared Nicol, a new town council member, . .
"It's going to ensure that everybody in the city is being considered and represented,"
he said.
LINK > https://www.chron.com/news
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* Your MesaZoner blogger met Brady McCombs one day in Kino Springs, Nogales, Arizona a few years ago while he was reporting on the construction of surveillance towers and border issues for the Arizona Daily Star
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How close will the mysterious undercover "Sting" get to smoking-out and busting up the industrious hive of bees here?

Who Knows? .... Time will tell, if the  story from Hilldale, Utah might be testimony and a lesson-to-be-learned.



 

ICYMI: There's a CLOUD ACT in the Omnibus Spending Bill

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Lars Trautman 

Source: http://www.rstreet.org/2018/02/08        

CLOUD Act highlights need to modernize cross-border data framework

*This post was co-authored by Charles Duan, Associate Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at R Street.
Blogger Note: Except for the image above, the other three images have been inserted from different sources
On Wednesday, Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Christopher Coons, D-Del.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., introduced the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which deals with law enforcement’s access to communications information stored in the cloud.
"We think the CLOUD Act is an important first step to dealing with the difficult problem of cloud data stored overseas and encourage policymakers to use the bill as a key component in reforming the legal procedures for law-enforcement access to online communications..."
This bill arises in the context of United States v. Microsoft, currently pending at the Supreme Court. That case will consider whether U.S. law enforcement can legally obtain emails stored on Microsoft’s cloud email service when those emails are physically stored on servers in a foreign country. The underlying issues are complex yet important to every American who uses cloud services. R Street filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court to emphasize these complexities.

The depth and difficulty of the issue also highlights the need for a legislative solution. Indeed, as global demands for cross-border data increase, frustrations with the status quo will continue to worsen.
Blogger Note: Please watch and hear the comments by Amitai Etzioni in another post featured on this blog about other extra-territorial remedies in the form of bilateral or multilateral treaties that other countries may wish to enter into . . . .    
If left unaddressed, these frustrations will push nations toward undesirable policy alternatives, including data-localization and stricter controls on the internet. Allowing the Supreme Court to be the final arbiter on cloud data-access would force a choice between two extremes, neither of which is desirable.

It is incumbent on Congress to think prospectively and craft a path forward that accounts for the myriad technological and international legal ramifications of cloud data storage.
If enacted, the CLOUD Act would establish a framework for U.S. law enforcement to obtain emails stored on foreign cloud servers, as in the Microsoft case. The government is expected to withdraw the case if the bill is enacted. The framework largely mirrors the International Communications Privacy Act (ICPA), which R Street previously supported.
At the same time, the larger framework for law enforcement’s access to electronic communications is decades old and widely considered outdated. The CLOUD Act currently is limited to the extraterritoriality issues discussed above, and it neglects to address whether warrants or other showings of cause ought to be required as part of the procedure for accessing cloud-stored data.
R Street has been supportive of reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) – the law governing this larger communications framework – to extend the warrant requirement to all content data, not just those less than 180 days old.
There is widespread support for such reform, with the Email Privacy Act having passed the House last year by voice vote. The right way forward, in our view, is to use the CLOUD Act not as a complete solution, but rather as a component of these broader efforts to bring electronic communications law into the 21st century.
 

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Public Participation? What's It Take Here In Mesa???

Yes, the Federal Aviation Authority FAA, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, and as far as we know so did the City of Mesa and so did the Phoenix Mesa  Gateway Airport  Authority PMGAA follow the rules for the proposed Northeast Area Development Plan and Associated Improvements Project at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona.
First of all, it's interesting to note that the January 2017 assessment had a very extended public outreach and required notice to the public to submit comments. Among other ways to publish the notice for public participation it was circulated in two area publications, one of which was The Arizona Business Gazette.
How many comments were received? 2
Those 2 [two] were not from members of public but from industries.
If you look at Section 1.3 Existing Deficiencies it says this:
The existing terminal complex - in its current configuration - is a disparate, inefficient collection of terminal buildings. The 25-acre footprint has extremely limited space for any revenue-producing development (See Section 1.4 also)
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Public review & comments sought on Draft Environmental Assessment for proposed Falcon Tech Center project

October 12, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Notice is hereby given that the City of Mesa, Arizona is seeking Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval of an Airport Layout Plan change for Mesa-Falcon Field Airport for the proposed Falcon Tech Center project. The planned development would...

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There's this announcement from Gateway Airport
http://www.gatewayairport.com/EnvironmentalAssessment.aspx that provides a link to the 1,078-page FONSI
Environmental Assessment for Northeast Area Development Plan                                                               The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that a “Finding of No Significant Impact” (FONSI) and Record of Decision (ROD) has been approved based upon results of a Final Environmental Assessment for the proposed Northeast Area Development Plan and Associated Improvements Project at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona.        

The FONSI/ROD indicates that the proposed action is consistent with existing environmental policies and objectives as set forth in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in that it will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment. 

        

Click here for a copy of the Final Environmental Assessment. (It's 1,078 pages)

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. . . and there's also this media release from The City of Mesa Newsroom 
(with a conceptual rendering of Falcon Tech Center)
http://mesanow.org/news/public/article/2066
MEDIA RELEASE

Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact and availability of Final Environmental Assessment for the proposed Falcon Tech Center at Mesa-Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ

March 23, 2018 at 10:30 pm

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been approved based on the results of a February 2018 Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for an Airport Layout Plan change for the Mesa-Falcon Field Airport for the proposed Falcon Tech Center project.
The planned development will cater to the medical and technology industries, offering long-term leases (up to 40 years), and be located on approximately 70 acres west of North Greenfield Road. Anticipated primary uses include light manufacturing and research and development and associated laboratories, as well as office and administrative facilities.
The FONSI indicates that the Proposed Action is consistent with existing environmental policies and objectives as set forth in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in that it will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment. The Final EA and FONSI are available for review at: http://www.falconfieldairport.com/about-us/documents-forms, www.MesaFalconDistrict.com, www.mesamedicaldevice.com, and at the following physical locations during normal business hours:

o Falcon Field Airport Administration Office, 4800 E. Falcon Drive, Mesa, AZ 85215
o City of Mesa Engineering Department, 20 E. Main Street, #500, Mesa, AZ 85201
o Mesa Main Library, 64 E. 1st Street, Mesa, AZ 85201
o FAA Phoenix Airports District Office, 3800 N. Central Avenue, #1025, Phoenix, AZ 8501

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Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport to Facilitate Crossborder Commerce

First International Air Cargo Hub to House Both Mexican and US Customs

March 25th, 2018 | Written by GT Staff

 

 

 

"Arizona will be home to SkyBridge Arizona, the nation’s first international air cargo hub to house both Mexican and US customs. The first-of-its-kind service, which will be operated out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, will enable ecommerce companies, manufacturers, and other commercial interests conducting business in Mexico and throughout Latin America to more efficiently and cost-effectively transport goods between countries, while ensuring proper inspections and safety controls.
The project is expected to create 17,000 direct and indirect jobs and increase cargo flights out of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport by 2,000 a year, eventually reaching 10,000 by 2036. . . "
READ MORE > http://www.globaltrademag.com/global-logistics/air-cargo/phoenix-mesa-gateway-airport-to-facilitate-crossborder-commerce

 

 

 

 

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Terminal Expansion Phase 2:

Project Value:$10,562,163

http://www.sundt.com/projects/phoenix-mesa-gateway-airport-terminal-phase-2/

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At the same time, US submarines Hartford and Connecticut were stuck in the Arctic ice as they were training an attack on Russia. According to the legend of the exercises, the US submarines were supposed to surface and strike conditional targets in Russia, but the thick ice prevented them from fulfilling the scenario of the exercise.

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