Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Niall Ferguson NETWORK PHENOMENA > What ideas spread, Why and How.

It starts off with the midnight ride of Paul Revere - and his network of Free Masons in Boston. As for "Hierarchies" and chain of top-down command control-of-power > Nah 

Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 1 – “Disruption” | PBS

49,895 views
Premiered Mar 17, 2020 
Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS With the help of experts in network theory and precedents from history, Ferguson argues that the printing press had similar consequences for 16th-and 17th-century Europe as the personal computer and the Internet have for the world since the 20th century, leading to polarization and the dissemination of fake news.


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Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 2 

93,924 views
Mar 17, 2020

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS Looking at the history of the Victorian telegraph pioneers and rival computer networks. Host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a decentralized, not-for-profit worldwide web shape-shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite selling our attention for billions of dollars to the world’s advertisers.

LIQUIDITY CRISIS IN CAPITAL MARKETS > Colony Capital CEO Tom Barrack

TARGETED RELIEF FOR THE BIG BOYS .... Hold on there's another side for "the little people"
Forbearances from banks forthcoming?
45,846 views
Mar 30, 2020
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Barrack Says Real Estate Collapse Will Take Hold in April


MURDER MOST FOUL

Not much to say hear > just listen:

Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul 

(Official Audio)

2,533,132 views
Mar 26, 2020

Monday, March 30, 2020

SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS: Highly Informative From The Farthest Reaches of Space * Time

Sunspots ReturnOzone Extinctions, Primordial Magnetism 

IT'S 04:55 A.M. HERE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN 


Bloomberg Markets & Finance: 04:35-Minute Reality Check For Global Equity Markets

Mar.30 -- Investors are coming round to the view that the human toll of the coronavirus pandemic is "going to get worse before it gets better," according to Peter Dixon, global equities economist at Commerzbank. "Reality is setting in, and it's going to be a long haul," 
Dixon said in an interview on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
158 views
Mar 30, 2020

Mesa City Manager Chris Brady On The-Hot-Spot: 116-Minute Council Meeting Thu 03.26.2020



There's at least half-an-hour to start off for a number of micro-issues and evasive banter over things that are "unclear".
It takes about 28 minutes to get down into the nitty-gritty contentions where the city manager gets defensive, and D1 Council member Mark Freeman is called on for relief to change the subject to the homeless. . . . and what the city needs to do to get more federal funds.
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35 minutes in it's all about bathrooms and parks and playgrounds and then: "The Chris & Candace Show"
File #:20-0399   
Type:PresentationStatus:Agenda Ready
In control:City Council Study Session
On agenda:3/19/2020
Title:Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the impact of COVID-19 on the City’s financial position, and the City's budget forecast.
Attachments:1. Presentation

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116-Minute Council Study Session Thu 03.26.2020


Bloomberg Markets & Finance: Tracking End-of-Month Re-Balancing

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Mar.30 -- Quarter-end strains may add to the skittishness of an already volatile market. End of the month tweaks to money manager portfolios may add as much as $1 trillion to stock markets according to strategists. 
Bloomberg’s Dani Burger reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe.”
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DHS denied claims that it would destroy evidence following the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti | Daily Beast

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