Thursday, July 30, 2020

Confidence-Builder??? Worst Quarter Ever 2Q 2020

“It looks like we’re seeing a slowdown in the rate of growth,” Powell said Wednesday in a virtual press conference following the latest Fed policy meeting. 
“And that might be short-lived. It might not be.”
The GDP report, for its part, will likely be a permanent indication of the pandemic’s economic low point. It showed personal spending, which makes up about two-thirds of GDP, slumped the most on record. Business investment in structures, equipment and intellectual property saw the steepest slide since 1952, while residential investment dropped the most since 1980.
It could have been even worse without the ccongressional stimulus, . . .U.S. jobless claims rise for a second straight week
Economics

U.S. Economy’s Rebound Looks Shakier After Worst Quarter Yet

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    Rise in jobless claims follows virus surge, renewed closings
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Though the cause of the plunge is the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Bureau of Economic Research said the current recession began in February. Insights via @CME Group: https://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/quic...

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U.S. GDP plunged 32.9% in the second quarter amid virus-induced shutdown











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City of Mesa Planning & ZoningBoard Meeting Wed 07.29.2020

The uploaded video you see is for a quick Public Hearing that @ 4:00 pm that followed a Study Session scheduled earlier for an earlier - we don't know or see what transpired at the "study session".
6 minutes + 24 seconds is all the time it took up on the streaming remote multi-screen Zoom Virtual platform for members present to pass the Consent Agenda...this is the second board meeting this month where no election was held for Chair or Vice-Chair.
Jeffrey Crocket was not present

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Please notice: The opening image to see who is present in The Lower

Chamber
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Your Poop Could Solve the Coronavirus Pandemic


How do you test large populations for COVID-19 without an adequate testing program? 
You look at their poop.

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The Secretive Source Of Cash Police Unions Use To Block Reform

PAR investigates how police unions use taxpayer dollars to defend brutal police officers and block legislative change. We speak with a New York commuter who was arrested as a "violent" protestor for stopping her bicycle to film the police.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Disrupting Democracy: Coups & Regime-Change Made In The USA

SPOILER ALERT: BOLIVIA (but think Ukraine and Victoria Newland)
"Since the coup last October, many of the key claims used to justify the ousting of Morales — most particularly claims by the Organization of American States that the election resulting in Morales’s victory was fraudulent — have been proven to have been lies.
Yet not a single one of the foreign policy “experts” or media outlets have acknowledged their errors or even addressed these subsequent revelations, because they know that there are never any consequences for journalists and analysts as long as they remain subservient to the U.S. government agenda (while the New York Times reported on the studies proving the OAS claims to be baseless, they never acknowledged that their own reporting and editorializing treated those claims as true).
Bolivia is but the latest of a long line of thriving, stable democracies destroyed with the support if not the outright participation of the U.S. government, while jingoistic media figures disseminated the propaganda used to justify it all. And the suffering, violence, repression and tyranny left in its wake are then simply ignored by those who helped bring it about . . ."

Glenn _Greenwald
The U.S.-Supported Coup in Bolivia Continues to Produce Repression and Tyranny, While Revealing How U.S. Media Propaganda Works
Bolivia is the latest in a long line of thriving democracies destroyed as U.S. institutions cheer and lend support.
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Today’s SYSTEM UPDATE episode on this topic — with guests Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, who has lived and worked with coca farmers in Bolivia for the last 30 years, and Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic & Policy Research — will debut at 2:00 p.m. on The Intercept’s YouTube channel.
Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Anez takes part in a ceremony with the police in front of the Presidential Palace, in La Paz, Bolivia November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC2GAD9GFWF0
Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Áñez takes part in a ceremony with the police in front of
the Presidential Palace in La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 13, 2019.
Photo: Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters
"The U.S.-supported military coup in Bolivia has largely disappeared from western news outlets ever since the November 2019 massacres of pro-democracy protesters by the right-wing faction that seized power. But for Bolivians, the repression and tyranny that replaced their stable and thriving democracy endures. And, predictably, the “interim president” installed after the coup, Jeanine Áñez, continues to rule the country 10 months later, despite no possibility of being democratically elected, while she and her party plot how to prevent an election which all polls show will result in victory for the socialist party of toppled President Evo Morales. . ."
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Radical Transformation for Downtown Mesa > Take a Wrecking-Ball to City Hall

Re-Imagine that if you can - demolished.
It's an 8-story ugly eye-sore.
What does it say about locating the locus of city government to occupy what was a failed-bank building on Main Street/Center.
CITY HALL PLAZA
Bureau of Land Management
Landscaping Project ?
Or maybe one of those revitalizing so-called "Façade Improvement" projects?

(Looks like a parking lot to most people. Surely we can do better)
 
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Another "Crane-In-The-Sky" Towers Over The Low-Level Downtown Mesa City Scape

The privately-financed $500,000+ Public Relations-campaign scam scheme to Re-Package the 2016 Proposition that Mesa taxpayers REJECTED four years ago looks like a reality now in this image to the left captured on July 24th. Mesa voters rejected a proposal in 2016 that would have brought a branch of ASU to downtown Mesa. Voters did not want the tax increase needed to pay for the project, but now another proposal is in the works. . .
Or so they thought trying to hoodwink the public one Mo' time. City officials can't do their "homework" to crunch the numbers of a life cycle cost-benefit analysis ahead of time.?
Here was a headline on the controversial proposition from February 2018 in the next stage of sell-it-to-the-public featured the day following a controversial Mesa City Council on KJZZ, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting in Salt Lake City:
Mesa Moves Closer To Developing New ASU Building -
. . . or is it  "close but NO cigar"???
By  Austin Westfall   
Published: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 5:00pm

THAT WAS MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO: The spoon-fed report goes on in what was  a not unanimous vote of 5-2 in a controversial meeting on Monday February 26, 2018, the City Council approved the first steps Monday in building an ASU development in downtown Mesa.
The plan, which would not increase taxes ???????  for Mesa residents, would include a new building to house programs like film, gaming and virtual reality.
Original Price Tag: $64,500,000 +
Some later additions: "Guaranteed Maximum Price" in a series of Contract Manager At Risk (CMAR) contracts where the city transferred all the risks to contractors and their sub-contractors!
GAMING? Well then, let's play on and get down to the Real Nitty-Gritty:
How much more?
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