Thursday, November 14, 2019

Resolutions on The Tentative Agenda for Mesa City Council Mon 18 Nov 2019

The Tentative [Draft] Agenda + Meeting Details were published, printed and made available as required to the public yesterday 12 Nov.
You can access them here > http://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
COUNCIL, COMMITTEE AND BOARD RESEARCH CENTER
Please take the time as a responsible and interested member of the public to EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT-TO-KNOW.
. . . that's one of the fundamental principles in a representative democracy.
The seven Council members - including the mayor - whom you have elected have the responsibility to listen to their constituents and represent your interests - that's the job you pay them to do.
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6 Take action on the following resolutions:
> 19-1161
Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Highway Safety Contract with the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to accept $59,156 in grant funds. 
The funds will be used by the Police Department’s Traffic Division to purchase a vehicle to enhance DUI/Impaired Driving Enforcement and STEP Enforcement in the City of Mesa. (Citywide) *6-a
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Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Community Maintenance Agreement with DMB Mesa Proving Grounds, LLC, and Eastmark Community Alliance, Inc., for maintenance of specialty features and materials, arterial roadway landscaping, and the Great Park, associated with the development of Eastmark.
(District 6)
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> 19-1143
Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into the Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Operations and Maintenance Agreement with Valley Metro Rail, Inc
This amendment identifies the responsibilities of Valley Metro Rail, Inc. and the City of Mesa in the operations and maintenance of the Gilbert Road Light Rail Extension. (Districts 3 and 4)
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> 19-1241
Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community for the receipt and distribution of $1,695,000 in Proposition 202 Funds. (Citywide)
Under this Agreement, $800,000 is awarded to the following City of Mesa programs: 
  • Fire and Medical Department, Immunization Program ($85,000) and
  • Radios for Special Operations and Outreach ($125,000);
  • Community Services Department, Housing Authority, Affordable Housing Landlord Outreach and Retention ($75,600);
  • Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities Department, Cemetery Historic Document Archival ($60,500);
  • Police Department, Mobile Force PA Speaker System ($2,778),
  • 21st Century Police Training (21CPT) Equipment  ($62,760),
  • Community Engagement Academies ($4,680),
  • Digital Forensics Unit Training ($63,406),
  • Microfiche Transfer ($90,580),
  • Community Engagement Activities Equipment ($8,696);
  • City Manager's Office, Special Projects, Barricading for Community Event Safety ($50,000),
  • Mesa K-Ready, Kindergarten Readiness Program ($45,000),
  • Mesa Counts on College, American Dream Academy ($27,000);
  • Arts and Cultural Department, Mesa Arts Center, Arts in Service ($54,000), and
  • i.d.e.a. Museum, Barriers to Access ($45,000). 
$895,000 The balance of the funds will be distributed to other local community agencies, including A New Leaf, Mesa Public Schools, Child Crisis Center, Bogden House, Visit Mesa, and the United Food Bank as a pass-through grant.
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File #: 19-1241   

Type: Resolution Status: Agenda Ready


In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/18/2019

Title: Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community for the receipt and distribution of $1,695,000 in Proposition 202 Funds. (Citywide) Under this Agreement, $800,000 is awarded to the following City of Mesa programs: Fire and Medical Department, Immunization Program ($85,000) and Radios for Special Operations and Outreach ($125,000); Community Services Department, Housing Authority, Affordable Housing Landlord Outreach and Retention ($75,600); Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities Department, Cemetery Historic Document Archival ($60,500); Police Department, Mobile Force PA Speaker System ($2,778), 21st Century Police Training (21CPT) Equipment ($62,760), Community Engagement Academies ($4,680), Digital Forensics Unit Training ($63,406), Microfiche Transfer ($90,580), Community Engagement Activities Equipment ($8,696); City Manager's Office, Special Projects, Barricading for Community Event ...
Attachments: 1. Council Report, 2. Resolution
 
City Council Report 
Date:  November 18, 2019
To:  City Council Through: Scott J. Butler, Deputy City Manager, Government Relations   
From:  Sharon Skinner, Grants Coordinator  
Subject: Resolution approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRP-MIC) and administer awarded funds as pass-through grants to designated awardees.   Citywide  
Purpose and Recommendation 
The requested resolution will authorize the City Manager to sign an Intergovernmental Agreement on behalf of the City of Mesa with the Salt River Pima- Maricopa Indian Community (SRP-MIC) to receive and disburse grants totaling $1,695,000 in Proposition 202 Funds. (Citywide)   Under this Agreement, $800,000 is awarded to City of Mesa programs. The specific grant funding amounts and recipients are: 
$ 800,000.00 to the City of Mesa for the Fire and Medical Department, Immunization Program ($85,000), and Radios for Special Operations and Outreach ($125,000); Community Services Department, Affordable Housing Landlord Outreach and Retention ($75,600); Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities Department, Cemetery Historic Document Archival ($60,500); Police Department, Mobil Force PA Speaker System ($2,778), 21st Century Police Training (21CPT) Equipment  ($62,760), Community Engagement Academies  ($4,680), Digital Forensics Unit Training  ($63,406), Microfiche Transfer  ($90,580), and Community Engagement Activities Equipment  ($8,696); City Manager’s Office, Special Projects, Barricading for Community Event Safety ($50,000), Mesa K-Ready, Kindergarten Readiness Program ($45,000), and Mesa Counts on College, American Dream Academy ($27,000); Arts and Cultural Department, Mesa Arts Center, Arts in Service ($54,000), and i.d.e.a. Museum, Barriers to Access ($45,000). 
  • $ 100,000.00 to A New Leaf, Inc.
  • $ 500,000.00 to Mesa Public Schools.
  • $ 75,000.00 to the Child Crisis Center. 
  • $ 75,000.00 to the Bogden House. 
  • $ 20,000.00 to Visit Mesa.
  • $ 125,0000.00 to United Food Bank.
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Background 
Proposition 202, passed with the 2002 Gaming Compact in Arizona, directs participating Tribal Governments to share 12% of their gaming revenues with surrounding local governments.
Nonprofit organizations are only eligible to compete with a local government agreeing to serve as a pass-through agent. 
Discussion 
The SRP-MIC has elected to distribute a total of $1,695,000 to the city of Mesa and local non-profit organizations. SRP-MIC does not require a resolution of support for applicants to apply for funding. To disburse this funding to entities other than the City, the City must first enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with SRP-MIC for the receipt and distribution of funds.  
Alternatives 
The only alternative to authorizing this Intergovernmental agreement is to deny it.
Such action would negate the grants to the entities, including $800,000 in funding for the City of Mesa Fire and Medical Department, Housing, Parks, Recreation & Facilities, Police Department, City Manager’s Department, Mesa Arts Center, i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa K-Ready, and Mesa Counts on College and return the funds to the SRP-MIC for redistribution to other local governments of their choosing.  
 
Fiscal Impact 
  • Mesa Fire and Medical Department Immunization Program will receive a combined total of ($210,000).
  • Housing Department will receive ($75,600).
  • Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities will receive ($60,500).
  • Police Department will receive a combined total of ($232,900). 
  • City Manager’s Special Projects Office will receive ($50,000). 
  • Mesa Arts Center will receive ($54,000). 
  • i.d.e.a. Museum will receive ($45,000). 
  • Mesa K-Ready will receive ($45,000).
  • Mesa Counts on College will receive ($27,000). 
Overall operations and maintenance expenses will not increase as a result of this grant. 
The other pass-through grants will have a negligible fiscal impact in the form of administration costs to accept payment and cut checks for fund disbursement. 
 
Coordinated With 
Staff has coordinated with the Mesa Fire and Medical Department, Housing, Parks,
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Recreation & Facilities, Police Department, City Manager’s Department, Mesa Arts Center, i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa K-Ready, and Mesa Counts on College staff, who helped to prepare the funding request.  
SRP-MIC invited the City of Mesa to apply. 
SRP-MIC does not accept unsolicited grant requests.  
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> 19-1249
Authorizing the City Manager to enter into insurance agreements to obtain property, liability, cyber risk, and aviation insurance, as recommended by the City Attorney’s Office, and authorizing up to four additional annual renewal periods, as long as the rate/premium of the insurance does not exceed a 2.5% increase each year. (Citywide)
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Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Airport Development Reimbursable Grant Agreement with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Multimodal Planning Division Aeronautics Group for the construction of two high speed exit taxiways on Runway 4L/22R at Falcon Field Airport. 
The total estimated cost for this project is $1,370,000, with the FAA paying 91.06% ($1,247,522). 
Funding for the remaining 8.94% estimated cost ($122,478) will be split between the ADOT grant at 4.47% ($61,239), and the City. 
The City's 4.47% ($61,239) is funded through the Falcon Field Airport Enterprise Fund. (District 5)
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Hump-Wednesday Mid-Week Round-Down of News From KJZZ

While it might seem like an odd choice to select an opening image for this post, sometimes one animated image can say more than a thousand words - on some of the following self-selected headlines and short copy that goes with the podcasts on https://www.kjzz.org , the image is just a convenient shortcut  to looking at both what's on the surface of stories in-the-news and the difference between looking deeper and figuring out what it's all about.
Of course that's all totally open to interpretation from your own point-of-view . . . that could be somewhat shallow [or not]. Depending on the prevailing circumstances, for example in just the first story -
Why was this guy, employed here in Mesa [nobody ever said for what company], making ammunition at home to sell at gun shows ... 59 people were killed two years ago in The Las Vegas Massacre!!
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Here we go:  Jump-in feet first!
Let's get started and catch-up on all the short and brief snippets of KJZZ News
 
1 Counter: Haig first pleaded not guilty 2 years ago.
   There's  a Deal now?
Man Charged In Vegas Massacre Ammunition Case Changing Plea
A Mesa man is changing his plea in a case related to the Las Vegas massacre. He’d been accused of illegally manufacturing ammunition sold to the gunman.
Nov. 13, 2019
Ducey Says Congress Should Do Its Job On DACA
2 Dicey is happy to shirk the responsibility. . .
As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates whether the White House has the authority to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Governor Ducey sees the issue as Congress' responsibility.
Nov. 13, 2019
 
3 Here we go again! "No oversight" . . .
No Oversight In Place For AZ Dry Washes Once EPA Rule Change Final
Arizona expects to lose federal oversight over a large chunk of its waterways once a new Trump administration rule goes into effect.
Nov. 12, 2019
FBI Arrives To Assist In La Mora Murder Investigation
4 The Feds have to sweep in again . . .
FBI agents have arrived in Sonora to assist Mexican authorities investigating the brutal murder of nine people near the small community of La Mora.
After Massacre, Some Unsure Of Future In Sonoran Mormon Town
Nov. 12, 2019
 
5 Aw-Aw! Makes you want to find out the 16 in Arizona. . .
1,680 Dams Found At Risk Across U.S., 16 Are In Arizona
A two-year investigation by the Associated Press found almost 1,700 dams pose a risk nationwide. Of the 1,680 dams in question, 16 of them are in Arizona. To learn more about the investigation into Arizona dams, The Show reached out to Felicia Fonseca, the Associated Press’s northern Arizona reporter.
Nov. 12, 2019
As AZ Republicans Defend Trump, Cindy McCain Calls Them Out 
6 Can Arizona be 'turning blue'???
Arizona's Republican congressional members stay committed to Trump as impeachment investigation prepares to go public this week. Over the weekend, Cindy McCain wondered, on CNN's "The Axe Files," if the Republicans' will to speak freely died along with her husband, the late Senator John McCain.
Nov. 12, 2019
 
7 Right. Water is the most precious commodity in the desert.
Save it for all those data centers ...
AZ Rejects Plan To Use Groundwater For Palo Verde Station
The state Department of Water Resources has rejected a proposal from APS to use groundwater in the Buckeye area to cool the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station.
Nov. 11, 2019
Mesa Cuts Ribbon On Third Phase Of Eastmark Great Park 
8 3rd Phase for a 'Master-Planned Community'
The third phase of the Mesa Eastmark Great Park was dedicated Saturday. Jo Martin, Mesa Parks and Recreation Advisory Board president, said several new attractions include spaces for people and pets.
Nov. 10, 2019
 
9 Too bad they got denied ... or is it?
Grand Canyon University Denied Nonprofit Status
Phoenix-based Grand Canyon University was handed a surprise this week when the U.S. Department of Education decided not to recognize the formerly for-profit GCU as nonprofit. Expectations were that, with the Trump administration’s focus on deregulation, GCU wouldn’t have any difficulty getting the status change approved.
Nov. 8, 2019
Canal Convergence Brings International Art To Scottsdale 
10 The City of Scottsdale - Knows How
Friday evening, a 10-day celebration of water begins in downtown Scottsdale. Canal Convergence features public art installations from around the world, and on the first weekend of the event, attendees will be able to purchase beers made from recycled water from Scottsdale’s Advanced Water Treatment Plant. The theme of the event this year is “The Story of Water.”
Nov. 8, 2019
 
11 Of course . . what else can he do?
Petersen Appeals Unpaid Suspension From Assessor Job
Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen is appealing a four-month, unpaid suspension, but the governing body that put Petersen on ice has to figure out what the review process will be first.
Nov. 8, 20
CAP Conducting Maintenance On Siphon In Mesa 
12 Hey! Did the City of Mesa just 'forget' to tell people who live here ???
The Central Arizona Project is performing infrastructure maintenance that will impact customers for the next several weeks.
Nov. 7, 2019
 
13 All this talk about how great the AZ-Mex trade and Phoenix closes two offices of 'trading partners'???
Phoenix Closes Its Business Liaison Offices In Mexico 
The city of Phoenix will no longer have offices in Mexico, Arizona’s main trading partner. On Wednesday, the City Council voted to shut down the two business liaison offices in Hermosillo, Sonora, and Mexico City.
Nov. 7, 2019
 
 

Welcome To The Neighborhood: Copper Canyon Law LLC

Happy to see a long-vacated neglected eyesore of a one-story 100-year-old building getting a make-over inside and outside for one more adaptive re-use -  the new location for Copper Canyon LLC from their previous offices on 237 West Main Street. The transformation has been going on for months, starting with repairs to the roof and gutting the interior. It's just east of The Columbarium and Center Street.
< What you see is an image taken yesterday as some final touches and awnings were installed on the north side of 43 East 1st Avenue that faces the Mesa Arts Center parking lot.
Here's the sidewalk street frontage view from across First Avenue >
It's a work in-progress, as well as a big boost to a transitional form-based zoning neighborhood one block from the Central Business District on Main Street.
They had this to say on Facebook on August 22nd about the new 1st Avenue location
"Our project is moving along nice, as we are hoping to be moved over in the next week or two. It has been amazing to see the transformation in this historic building. We have gone great lengths to try to preserve the historic elements; from the nostalgic trusses to the newly polished concrete floors.
We think it offers a rustic charm. Almost there!"
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Website: https://coppercanyonlaw.com/
 
Practice Areas
Whether your matter involves estate planning, litigation, tax or bankruptcy, our experienced, goal-oriented attorneys will work with you to help you achieve yours.
Copper Canyon Law has another location in Sunland Springs at Signal Butte and Baseline  
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Attorneys
( See https://coppercanyonlaw.com/our-team/ for additional information)
> C.J. Eagar is a founding member of Copper Canyon Law LLC. He graduated from Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University and focused his studies on estate planning and probate issues. Additionally, he was a member of the Civil Justice Clinic at ASU Law, representing clients who were victims of mortgage fraud during the housing crisis of 2008. Click on photo for the full biography
> Cody Huffaker is a founding member of Copper Canyon Law LLC. Cody's practice focuses on trust and estate litigation, business litigation and dispute resolution, and construction litigation.
> Kyle Cramer is a founding member of Copper Canyon Law LLC. His practice is focused on Tax and Bankruptcy matters. Kyle specializes in the resolution of federal and state tax debts, including offers in compromise, payment arrangements, penalty abatements, audit assistance, and discharging tax debt in bankruptcy. He is also an experienced tax preparer, having prepared thousands of tax returns.
> Alan Christenson focuses on all aspects of real estate law, including drafting and negotiating leases, purchase contracts, construction contracts, loan documents, easements, and other related documents. He also has experience representing businesses in a variety of corporate matters, including entity formation, joint ventures, contract review, and contract negotiation. Alan graduated with honors from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2009.
> Timothy Coons is a partner at Copper Canyon Law. He focuses his legal practice on business and employment law. This includes litigating issues arising from business partner disputes, business contract disputes, restrictive covenants (including non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements), employment contracts, workplace discrimination/harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, commission disputes, independent contractor misclassification, and executive compensation.
> Spencer M. Coons graduated from the University of Tulsa with a J.D. and M.B.A. His practice has focused on commercial business litigation, contract disputes, oil and gas, real estate, employment law, probate, trusts, and estates. 
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On Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/coppercanyonlaw/ 
Location on Google Maps 

A Fast-Moving Story: Maricopa County Assessor [and wife arm-in-arm] Defiantly Flaunt A High-Priced Fashion Detail

After posting a Bailbond,wired by his business partner in Utah, to get released from Federal custody in Arkansas, this image before boarding a plane back to Arizona (one of three states where he faces charges for adoption fraud and human trafficking allegations), captured his wife wearing a Chanel scarf - a revealing detail and fashion accessory faux pas?
5 kids raised on his day-job earning about $78,00 a year. . .
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It's been made public before from a number of reliable reports
> Subpoenaed back records show deposits made to his banking account $2.7M
> On the average, Peterson has spent about 4 hours a day on his job as the  Maricopa County Assessor
> He's in-charge of a state office that handles over $508B in real estate registrations and valuations
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One of the outstanding questions any reasonable person might ask, is do you have confidence that the Maricopa Board of Supervisors - and the newly-appointed County Attorney - can or will be impartial and objective?
Have they even been credible when one of the first actions they took was to order a quick 'internal audit'??

Then they appointed an interim long-time bureaucrat - Bill Wiley - as a temporary fill-in?
His prior experience was with the Flood Control District and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality



 

Interactive Map of Hate in The United States: State-by-State

You can get the big picture thanks to The Southern Poverty Law Center. But first for those who live here in Arizona and ever wondered why Governor Doug Dicey first opposed a Nike building in Goodyear, the inserted map tells you >
There's a certain caucus of conservative Republicans here in Arizona who tried to exert their political influence for what is a pure economic development decision.
Ducey later changed his mind when that cohort who tried to control him became known. Lesson learned?
We still have a long way to go to change Arizona politics
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Hate in the United States
Each year since 1990, the SPLC has published an annual census of hate groups operating within the United States. The number is a barometer, albeit only one, of the level of hate activity in the country. The hate map, which depicts the groups' approximate locations, is the result of a year of monitoring by analysts and researchers and is typically published every January or February. It represents activity by hate groups during the previous year.
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All Hate Groups Have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.
In 2018, we tracked 1,020 hate groups across the U.S.
LINK > https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
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November 12, 2019
The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency.
 . . . Miller has gained a reputation for attempting to keep his communications secret: The Washington Post reported in August that Miller “rarely puts anything in writing, eschewing email in favor of phone calls.”
The Daily Beast noted in July that Miller has recently “cut off regular contact with most of his allies” outside the Trump administration to limit leaks. . . "
 

Trump Senor Advisor Stephen Miller Outed As Ally For White Nationalism

Hmmm. . . so what's new about this vicious raving sissy?
Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism
Revealed in Leaked Emails
. . . It's quite the story that hit the headlines yesterday.
Retribution from a fired former editor of Breitbart News
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"The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.
In this, the first of what will be a series about those emails, Hatewatch exposes the racist source material that has influenced Miller’s visions of policy. That source material, as laid out in his emails to Breitbart, includes white nationalist websites, a “white genocide”-themed novel . . , xenophobic conspiracy theories and eugenics-era immigration laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in “Mein Kampf.”
Hatewatch reviewed more than 900 previously private emails Miller sent to Breitbart editors from March 4, 2015, to June 27, 2016. Miller does not converse along a wide range of topics in the emails. His focus is strikingly narrow – more than 80 percent of the emails Hatewatch reviewed relate to or appear on threads relating to the subjects of race or immigration.
Hatewatch made multiple attempts to reach the White House for a comment from Miller about the content of his emails but did not receive any reply. . .
Katie McHugh, who was an editor for Breitbart from April 2014 to June 2017, leaked the emails to Hatewatch in Juneto review, analyze and disseminate to the public. McHugh was 23 when she started at Breitbart and also became active in the anti-immigrant movement, frequently rubbing shoulders with white nationalists. McHugh was fired from Breitbart in 2017 after posting anti-Muslim tweets.
She has since renounced the far right.
 
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“What Stephen Miller sent to me in those emails has become policy at the Trump administration,” McHugh told Hatewatch.
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Here's just one subject that Michael Edison Hayden details
Miller recommends ‘Camp of the Saints’ to Breitbart
"Miller recommended in a Sept. 6, 2015, email that Breitbart write about “The Camp of the Saints,”a racist French novel by Jean Raspail. Notably, “The Camp of the Saints” is popular among white nationalists and neo-Nazis because of the degree to which it fictionalizes the “white genocide” or “great replacement” myth into a violent and sexualized story about refugees.
The novel’s apocalyptic plot centers on a flotilla of Indian people who invade France, led by a nonwhite Indian-born antagonist referred to as the “turd eater” – a character who literally eats human feces. . .
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McHugh, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:34 p.m. ET: “[Breitbart editor] Neil [Munro], Julia [Hahn] and I are going to do a series of stories on [nonwhite SAT scores] to break it down. Neil says it’s easier for people to digest that way and change their minds.”
Miller, Sept. 6, 2015, 3:41 p.m. ET: “On the education angle? Makes sense. Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.”
Hahn wrote a Breitbart story on Sept. 24, 2015, headlined “‘Camp of the Saints’ Seen Mirrored in Pope’s Message.” The article ran 18 days after Miller’s email on the same theme. Hahn is now an aide to Trump
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Elizabeth Moore, a spokesperson for Breitbart, responded to Hatewatch’s request for comment about Miller's relationship with editors at the website with the following statement:
The SPLC claims to have three- to four-year-old emails, many previously reported on, involving an individual whom we fired years ago for a multitude of reasons, and you now have an even better idea why we fired her. Having said that, it is not exactly a newsflash that political staffers pitch stories to journalists – sometimes those pitches are successful, sometimes not.
It is no surprise to us that the SPLC opposes news coverage of illegal-immigrant crime and believes such coverage is disproportionate, especially when compared to the rest of the media, which often refuse to cover such crimes.
No one in our senior management has read the book, “Camp of the Saints,” but we take The New York Times at their word that it is a “cautionary tale,” and the National Review at theirs that “the central issue of the novel is not race but culture and political principles.”
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> Miller forwards Infowars link to aid McHugh’s reporting
> Miller backs immigration policies Hitler once praised
READ MORE  https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019
  

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 Sends More Satellites Into Space

STARLINK . . . First 60 went up in May > Vision for a space-based satellite network to improve service and a source of revenue for human colonies using the business model that these two people are discussing
Published on Nov 12, 2019
Views: 7,670 at time of upload to this blog
Nov.11 -- Elon Musk's vision for space-based internet service as SpaceX launches its second batch of sixty Starlink satellites.
Bloomberg's Dana Hull has the latest on "Bloomberg Technology".

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Zelensky Calls for a European Army as He Slams EU Leaders’ Response

      Jan 23, 2026 During the EU Summit yesterday, the EU leaders ...