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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Breitbart News Exploits An Angel Mom In The Mendoza Family Here In Mesa

Bright Bart [Cartoon show The Simpsons] looks up the words
EXCLUSIVE - ANGEL MOM: TRUMP WALL DEAL A
'BRILLIANT MOVE' TO EXPOSE DEMOCRATS
"Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, co-founder of Angel Families, says President Trump’s plan to secure $5.7 billion in border wall funding by offering a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals three-year work permits is a “brilliant move.”
What's that all about > Politics
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/
Good stuff to know about Mesa with history of SB1070 here
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Hard to imagine that any "Angel Mom" would say that offering 'a million illegal aliens and foreign nationals' three-year work permits to make a Trumped-up deal to get $5.7 billion-bucks to build a wall is a BRILLIANT MOVE.
Even the Mayor of Mesa got caught last year on open mic calling Donald Trump an idiot.
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One thing is clear in the article: there was a single incident in HIGHWAY SAFETY.
Angel Mom Mendoza’s son, 32-year-old Mesa police officer Brandon Mendoza was killed by a drunk illegal alien who was driving the wrong way down a highway in Mesa, Arizona.
More than 20 years a group of mothers took action to found MADD. Yes they were mad. Mad over highway safety and thousands of people getting injured or killed year-after-year.
Let's put all the personal details and pumped-up rhetoric aside for now and take notice of a multiple reports today [one from from KNXV Phoenix ]

Report: Arizona falling behind with traffic safety laws

Duration: 01:00

Arizona is one of 11 states who received a Red rating in the 2019 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws report, meaning we “fall dangerously behind in adoption of Advocates’ recommended optimal laws”.

Image result for 2019 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws report

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Videos:

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Report: Arizona
falling behind with
traffic safety laws

ABC15 Arizona

YouTube - 6 hours ago

1:00

Report: Arizona
falling behind with
traffic safety laws

MSN.com - 5 hours ago

1:00

Report: Arizona
falling behind with
traffic safety laws
KNXV Phoenix

MSN.com - 5 hours ago

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Re-Visiting Mayberry RFD Today in Downtown Mesa

It was just for a while to honor the Martin Luther King Holiday
Here's Mayor John Giles with his wife-and-family in the back of an old pick-up truck that he used in a re-election campaign.
It's driven by his son-in-law and business-partner in a private law practice to settle claims for personal injuries and accidents.
The Grand Marshall of the Martin Luther King Day Parade walked-on-foot in front of them heading down Center Street.

A few people showed up on Center Street on both sides.This was the scene taken just minutes before the parade headed down to make a turn on First Street. X marks the spot

Here's the Mesa City Council in a vintage fire truck
In the driver's seat: Mark Freeman, 31-year Fire Captain
Seated to his left: David Luna, 27-year veteran MPS
On-board:
Kevin Thompson, Jeremy Whittaker, Jennifer Duff and Francisco Heredia

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It wasn't all happy-day time all over again for just a short time. This story came out:
On Monday, Arizona Republicans showed casual contempt and a dismissive attitude towards racial equality, and the public in Mesa, AZ saw it.
The East Valley Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade and Festival is a public-private partnership, with the City of Mesa officially involved in organizing and sponsoring the event. I will post photographs later, illustrating the parade as I did for Veterans’ Day, but what I saw, and did not see, prompts me to write before the day is gone.
What follows is a first-hand report from https://ricochet.com/590324/gop-losing-race-by-not-entering/ of the parade: organization, the crowd, parade entrants, and the festival following the parade.
GOP: Losing Race by not Entering
By Clifford A. Brown
The Next part:
Parade Organization:
Unlike the Veterans’ Day parade, where a non-profit group has had primary responsibility for organization and funding over the years, today’s parade was a public-private partnership event.
The City of Mesa takes lead responsibility:

The Crowd:
The crowd looked like Mesa. There were young families and senior citizens. Most of the people who lined the parade route, standing or sitting in folding camp chairs, were white or Hispanic, with apparently more blacks marching in the parade than lining the route. This reflects Arizona’s demographics, . .

The Parade Entrants: [Hit the link for Ricochet above]
Historically black churches were well represented in the parade, still core institutions in community life. Music radio stations were represented, while conservative talk stations were not, differing from the Veterans’ Day radio station contingent. A highlight of this parade, which was not in the most recent East Valley Veterans’ Parade, was a group of Buffalo Soldier reenactors, on foot and mounted.
There was little overt ideological messaging, except for a few hand-crafted signs and a few standard leftist chants. Police officers walked the route shaking hands and giving children “junior police” stickers. The overall atmosphere was positive and celebratory, complemented by a wonderful Arizona January day, shirt sleeves, a few fluffy clouds, and sunshine.
[Blogger Note: after this I just couldn't follow contributor Cliff Brown's thinking or reasoning if there were any of that to start with!]
A Tale of Two Parties:
Witnessing today’s parade, seeing who showed up to march, or set up a booth, and who did not, brought to mind Justice Clarence Thomas’s indictment of the national GOP in My Grandfather’s Son . . .
Brown ends his report like so:
"Laziness leads to losing. You can’t win if you don’t play. The fastest way to lose a race is by not showing up at the starting line."
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About the author:

Contributor

Clifford A. Brown

Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments.

M.A. Political Science

M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD.

Served

In the 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down

In the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung

Commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004.

Wide-ranging public policy interests.

Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.

January 22, 2019

Monday, January 21, 2019

Controversy. Account Suspended. Real Story. Real News

Run that headline by again please . . . 3 days in a Friday-to-Monday news cycle.
HUH?
All this from a one-minute encounter - and it went viral > viewed at least 2.5 million times and retweeted at least 14,400 times.
Someone later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video
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INFORMATION WARFARE
EXAMPLE OF INFLUENCE MARKETING
BEWARE
"This is the new landscape: where bad actors monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways.
And we all did."
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Getting social on Social media. The 1-minute encounter went viral. Why? So many reasons
A word: DISRESPECT
Look: Make America Great Again
Story: Read it

Kaya Taitano was at Friday's Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, and filmed this confrontation between a teen in a Make America Great Again hat who stood directly in front of a Native American elder, who chanting and beating a drum. Other teens were taunting him and shooting video in the distance. The elder was identified as Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Tribe. He's a Vietnam veteran. title: KC🇬🇬🇺🇬🇺🌴🇬🇺🌴🌴 on Instagram: "The amount of disrespect.... TO THIS DAY. #SMH #ipmdc19 #ipmdc #indigenousunited #indigenouspeoplesmarch #indigenouspeoplesmarch2019" duration: 00:00:00 site: Instagram author: null published: Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) intervention: no description: null

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The Caption from Instagram:
© Instagram/Kaya Taitano Kaya Taitano was at Friday's Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, and filmed this confrontation between a teen in a Make America Great Again hat who stood directly in front of a Native American elder who chanting and beating a drum. Other teens were taunting him and shooting video in the distance. The elder was identified as Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Tribe. He's a Vietnam veteran.
title: KC🇬🇬🇺🇬🇺🌴🇬🇺🌴🌴 on Instagram: "The amount of disrespect.... TO THIS DAY. #SMH #ipmdc19 #ipmdc #indigenousunited #indigenouspeoplesmarch #indigenouspeoplesmarch2019" duration: 00:00:00 site: Instagram author: null published: Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) intervention: no description: null
The Headline from CNN Business

Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter

By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business 3 hrs ago

Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.

The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.

The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. "Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020," its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.

Late on Friday, the account posted a minute-long video showing the now-iconic confrontation between a Native American elder and the high school students, with the caption, "This MAGA loser gleefully bothering a Native American protester at the Indigenous Peoples March."

That version of the video was viewed at least 2.5 million times and was retweeted at least 14,400 times, according to a cached version of the tweet seen by CNN Business.

The video had been posted earlier on Instagram by someone who was at the event, but it was @2020fight's caption that helped frame the news cycle.

Way-Too-Easy: "Fake News", Big Fat Hoax, TLDR + Alternative Facts

< Can you read this?
[Just the big print please. Don't sweat the small stuff]
Hmmm. . . not so easy-to-read. Take your time.
Not so easy-to-read even though it's in black-and-white.
If you're still paying attention, here's what two shrinks have to say: "The main factor explaining the acceptance of fake news could be cognitive laziness, especially in the context of social media, where news items are often skimmed or merely glanced at . . . " Too Long Didn't Read. Stop. Pause.
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The good news:
The good news is that psychologists and other social scientists are working hard to understand what prevents people from seeing through propaganda.
Damn. They are working hard to understand. Get this [or not]
The bad news:
The bad news is that there is not yet a consensus on the answer.
WHY DO PEOPLE FALL FOR FAKE NEWS?

Are they blinded by their political passions?

Or are they just intellectually lazy?

By Gordon Pennycook and David Rand [ Dr. Pennycook and Dr. Rand are psychologists.]

Jan. 19, 2019

What makes people susceptible to fake news and other forms of strategic misinformation? And what, if anything, can be done about it?

These questions have become more urgent in recent years, . .

This is not just an academic debate; it has real implications for public policy.

Our research suggests that the solution to politically charged misinformation should involve devoting resources to the spread of accurate information and to training or encouraging people to think more critically. You aren’t doomed to be unreasonable, even in highly politicized times. Just remember that this is also true of people you disagree with.

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Gordon Pennycook is an assistant professor at the Hill & Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan. David Rand is an associate professor at the Sloan School of Management and the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 19, 2019, on Page SR12 of the New York edition with the headline: Why Do People Fall for Fake News?.

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Millennial Millions - SNL

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Published on Jan 19, 2019

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Dave Tulane (Kenan Thompson) hosts the Millennial Millions game show where millennial contestants (Rachel Brosnahan, Pete Davidson) compete against baby boomers to win prizes like social security and health insurance.
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