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Go-Ahead > Tax The Top-Feeders

They have been gorging, guzzling-on-data, extracting billions all along the way. France is the first country to tax. Who's next?
Daily chart
Calls to rein in the tech titans are getting louder
The big five technology firms have spent billions buying rivals in recent years
"ON JULY 16th America’s House Judiciary Committee will summon representatives from four of the five big tech firms for a hearing entitled
"Online Platforms and Market Power: Part 2”.
The question at hand is whether the big technology firms are using their clout to crush their rivals and stifle competition. Witnesses can expect a grilling from all sides. Although American policymakers are more polarised than ever, their fondness for tech-bashing is remarkably bipartisan.
Growing antitrust scrutiny stems in part from the sheer size of the tech firms. The big five—Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft—are cumulatively valued at $4.2trn, representing one-seventh of America’s total stockmarket value. Over the past 12 months they have amassed $180bn in pre-tax profits, equivalent to roughly a tenth of all profits generated by American publicly-traded companies.
Get hooked-up > The Economist
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O-So Chatty Kellyanne Conway: When on Defense > Go-To Distraction

. . . and change the subject fast. Bring attention to yourself, deny the motive and get The Donald to lie. Send a message on Twitter. Throw in God and Country while you're at it
(See the 10 signs of Lying in an earlier post on this blog)
Kellyanne Conway says she meant 'no disrespect' with question about reporter's ethnicity
 Joe Concha 

"This was meant with no disrespect.
We are all from somewhere else "originally". I asked the question to answer the question and volunteered my own ethnicity: Italian and Irish.
Like many, I am proud of my ethnicity, love the USA & grateful to God to be an American 
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"White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said she meant "no disrespect" when she questioned a reporter about his ethnicity on Tuesday while defending President Trump amid blowback to his remarks going after a handful of progressive House Democrats.
"This was meant with no disrespect," Conway wrote to her 2.8 million Twitter followers, referring to her exchange with the reporter during a press gaggle earlier in the day at the White House.
During the press gaggle Tuesday morning in the White House driveway, Conway engaged in a back-and-forth about ethnicity with Breakfast Media's Andrew Feinberg.
"If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?" Feinberg asked.
"What's your ethnicity?" Conway responded.
"Why is that relevant?" Feinberg replied. . .
"My own ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking you," Feinberg responded.
"No, no. It is," Conway replied. "Because you're asking about - he said 'originally.' He said 'originally from.' And you know everything he has said since and to have a full conversation."
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On Tuesday, Trump declared he didn't have "a racist bone" in his body in response to growing criticism.
"Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don't have a Racist bone in my body!" Trump tweeted.READ MORE > http://www.msn.com 
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From https://www.timesofisrael.com
Trump aide Conway asks Jewish reporter,
'What’s your ethnicity?’
 
Counselor to US president asks question in response to query over which nations Trump was referring to when he said American politicians should go back to their countries of origin
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Spot The Donut/Take-The-Bait: A NOT-SO Tricky New Brain Teaser

Whoa! This is way-too-easy.
Watch how many seconds it takes you to solve the puzzle. If it's more than 22, you're not the average netizen who can solve the teaser that fast.
The girl on the Pineapple Float is the distraction. Got it?
Tricky new brainteaser challenges puzzlers to find the doughnut among the pool floats
Chloe Morgan For Mailonline
(Image from the article. Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited)
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Tricky new brainteaser challenges puzzlers to find the doughnut
among the pool floats
 Chloe Morgan For Mailonline
 
". . . The tricky visual, which also features a lady sunbathing on a pineapple float, has left even the most eagle-eyed puzzlers scratching their heads.
If you've taken your time and still haven't spotted it, here's a clue:
The answer resides towards the bottom left of the picture. 
 
< HINT: It's inside the red circle
 
 
Want to see the reveal?
Go > MSN.com
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A Mesa Girl - Karrin Kusanek Taylor Robson - Is Mulling A Run For Arizona Governor

Context first for this key character with a history > scroll down to section 2 below.
Six years ago - it's another one of those East Valley Tribune's could be qualifier stories where Karrin Taylor Robeson is "keeping her options" open. She's now looking for investments in a race for governor to pay her back 
Mesa native’s influence key to city’s future

Source: AZ BigMedia 17 hours ago
 
"This could be a
Mesa girl does good story.
But it’s really a story about how good it is for Mesa that a Mesa girl did good. . https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-grid-runs-into-road-block-no.htmlwas born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School and received her law degree from Arizona State University. Her eyes lit up as she talked about growing up in Mesa where her father, veteran lawmaker and former Arizona Senate President Carl Kunasek, owned three drug stores*
Karrin Kunasek Taylor was born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School . . .
_______________________________________________________________"For more than 20 years, Karrin Taylor Robson has been one of the most sought-after strategists on major real estate development in the West.  Trained as an attorney specializing in land use, development and zoning, she spent more than 12 years as the Executive Vice President of DMB Associates, Inc., a Scottsdale based master-planned community developer where she was responsible for ongoing land use entitlement matters and other value-enhancing efforts for its communities and businesses.  She has successfully obtained approval of municipal finance incentives and  tools that provide well over $500 million of value to her clients. Cumulatively, she has entitled more than 20,000 acres including more than 35,000 homes and over 25 million square feet of commercial uses.
About Tony J. Wall - 3w management
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Former developer Karrin Taylor Robson mulling bid for 2022 guv’s race
By Jeremy Duda 
"Karrin Taylor Robson, a developer and prominent Republican donor, might run for governor in 2022.
 
 
Robson told the Arizona Mirror that she’s had a lot of people urge her run. She said she wouldn’t go as far as to say she’s considering it, but conceded that she hasn’t ruled it out. 
“I’d like to keep all my options open as I wind my way through life,” she said.
1 Robson is a member of the Arizona Board of Regents
2 Robson is the founder and president of Arizona Strategies, a land-use strategy company based in Phoenix.
3 She was previously the executive vice president for development company DMB Associates
4. She was a land-use, zoning and development attorney with the law firm Biskind, Hunt & Taylor.
5 After leaving DMB in early 2016, she formed a consulting company
6 Robson served as DMB’s lobbyist at the state Capitol until May 2019.
7 Robson is a member of the Kunasek family, a Republican political family with deep roots in Arizona.
8 Her father, Carl Kunasek, was president of the Arizona Senate and a member of the Corporation Commission.
9 And her brother, Andrew Kunasek, was a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. 
10 She is married to developer Ed Robson, the founder and president of Robson Communities. 
“I do have a long history. My family’s been active in the political sphere since before I was born, and I love this state,” Robson said. “Over the course of life, you try and find the best place to give back to your community and move your community forward. That’s what I have always done in my personal and professional life, and I see no reason to deviate from that course.”
Though she hasn’t made any decisions, Robson indicated that, if she runs, she won’t rely on her own money to fund her campaign, at least not exclusively.
She said anyone who runs for office should be able to generate enough support that people are willing to invest in their candidacy.
“You don’t want to just go in there and do it on your own. You want to have people who are impacted by your decisions have investment in you,” she said. 
Gov. Doug Ducey was re-elected to his second term in November, and will be termed out in 2022. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Treasurer Kimberly Yee are viewed by many as contenders for the Republican nomination as well.
This isn’t the first time Robson’s name has been floated for public office. She was on the list of candidates being considered for appointment by Ducey to replace U.S. Sen. John McCain.

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Mesa: A Social Media-Savvy City Hall

That's what Ragan's PR Daily has to say back on July 29, 2012
https://www.prdaily.com/the-10-most-social-media-savvy-city-halls-in-america/

A new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago ranked the 75 largest cities in America by their government’s social media acumen. The university based their findings on “opportunities for citizen participation and information,” according to a press release.


These included:
• Hosting of open data portals;
• Comments allowed on blogs and social networks;
• The extent to which online discussions concerned policy as well as city services;
• Information on officials, budgets, city council meetings and neighborhood issues.
Here are the top 10 (some of the cities tied, according to the university’s scoring system):
1. New York
1. Seattle
2. Virginia Beach
3. Portland
4. San Francisco
5. Kansas City, MO
6. Denver
7. Mesa, Ariz.
8. Louisville
9. Philadelphia
9. Long Beach, CA
9. Sacramento
10. San Jose
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid: Dick's Daughter > Liz Cheney

It's not too soon to realize what's-in-the-cards for The House of Trump - the daily drama gets a new face reading from that 1970's playbook all over again.
The daughter of the two-term VP for George W Bush is Trump's #1 attack dog now wasting no time these days to step-out and speak up as the main defender of everything Trump speaking from the same well-rehearsed script
It's prime time for Liz. She fits the role she's now ready to assume to confront a new wave of Congressional democratic women elected to office in the last election.
It's the same-old refrain: total disregard of the facts. . . and she's 'a mom' to-boot.
She's a "proud rodeo mom', 'a soccer mom', 'a baseball mom', 'a hockey mom' and O Yeah!
Don't forget: 
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE  
Honored to serve ...
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The Daily Beast had this to say back in 2017
"Now that Dick Cheney has resurfaced to peddle his defiant new memoir, In My Time, what’s likely to strike people more than anything in the actual book is just how old and tired the former vice president looks. Frail, even. Time, stress, and a faulty ticker have taken their toll on the man once widely regarded as the toughest, scariest, most dangerous leader on the national stage . . .
You don’t necessarily want the guy to be running things, but unapologetic aggression has its uses. Now, with the Daddy Party’s Biggest Daddy shrinking before our very eyes, who will step up to assume his mantle?
My guess: Liz Cheney.
. . . With her in-your-face promotion of the Cheney worldview, Liz isn’t just defending Dad’s tough-guy ethos; she’s expanding it. In some ways, she is a more impressive—and certainly more impassioned—fighter than the ex-veep. . . Dick Cheney may be tough, he may be ruthless, he may love a good fight, “but that’s nothing compared to the women in his family.”
Source:
Dick Cheney’s Daughter Liz Will Succeed Him as Dark Lord of U.S. Politics
Liz Cheney will succeed her father as the next dark lord of American politics,
says Michelle Cottle.
Michelle Cottle
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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