Monday, August 03, 2020

Bravo! Record Voter Participation in Aug 4 Primary Election

In the face of a pandemic, Maricopa County just hit record Primary participation!
Over 700K voters have already cast an August Primary ballot in-person or by ma...il.
Voters can still vote in-person or drop off early ballots now through Election Day.
Visit www.Locations.Maricopa.Vote.
¡Tomando en cuenta la pandemia, el Condado Maricopa alcanza participación histórica de la Primaria! Más de 700k votantes han emitido sus boletas para la Primaria de agosto en persona o por correo. Los votantes aún pueden votar y devolver sus boletas en persona hoy hasta el Día de la Elección. Visite www.Ubicaciones.Maricopa.Voto.
Adrian Fontes, Maricopa County Recorder
Maricopa County
Condado Maricopa
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Maricopa County voters—our most important partnership is with you.
Voters make democracy work.
We’re proud to be able to expand access in spite of COVID-19. More access to voting options means more voters can participate
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Solar Wind, Freshwater Changes, Extinction Review | S0 News Aug.3.2020

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How the U.S. Economy Just Lost 33% of its Value

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PROPUBLICA: Plandemic ReVisited


Appearing 9 minutes ago on twitter
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With the 'Plandemic' video back in the news, here's our investigation explaining why it's not trustworthy.
On this blog 20 July 2020

28 July 2020

CONSERVATIVE "MIS-INFORMATION" >> Sinclair Broadcast Group Back In The News: Hit-Piece on Fauci

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Let's start off with the following Bloomberg report yesterday that casts doubts on the Sinclair Broadcasting Group - "one of the largesttelevision station operators in the country, with 191 stations in 89 markets broadcasting to 629 channels. For the most part, the company operates in small, conservative metropolitan locations. Most viewers aren’t likely to be aware of the Sinclair brand, because the thousands of hours of programming it produces each week air on channels affiliated with such household names as ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Telemundo and Univision.
Sinclair Pulls the Plug on Anti-Fauci Propaganda — This Time
Will the broadcasting company now drop a program attacking the prominent public health expert, or just repackage it?
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"...It did so grudgingly. “We hear your feedback regarding a segment on this week’s ‘America This Week,’” Sinclair noted in a tweetSaturday morning. Yet the company still seemed ready to plow ahead. “We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial,” it added in another tweet. By Saturday afternoon, however, the company pulled back: “After further review, we have decided to delay this episode’s airing,” it announced ...
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I’m an Investigative Journalist. These Are the Questions I Asked About the Viral “Plandemic” Video.

ProPublica health care reporter Marshall Allen describes the questions he asks to assess coronavirus misinformation, starting with a viral video that claims the coronavirus is part of a “hidden agenda.”
by Marshall Allen
 
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CLO: “Collateralized Loan and other Obligation” // Will The Banks Collapse?

What author Frank Portnoy is about to describe is necessarily speculative, but it is rooted in the experience of the previous crash and in what we know about current bank holdings. The purpose of laying out this worst-case scenario isn’t to say that it will necessarily come to pass. 
The purpose is to show that it could. 
That alone should scare us all—and inform the way we think about the next year and beyond.

This article appears in the July/August 2020 print edition with the headline “The Worst Worst Case.” 
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"After months of living with the coronavirus pandemic, American citizens are well aware of the toll it has taken on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. All of these factors are serious and could mire the United States in a deep, prolonged recession. But there’s another threat to the economy, too. It lurks on the balance sheets of the big banks, and it could be cataclysmic. Imagine if, in addition to all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, you woke up one morning to find that the financial sector had collapsed. . .
>>> Thus far, I’ve focused on CLOs because they are the most troubling assets held by the banks. But they are also emblematic of other complex and artificial products that banks have stashed on—and off—their balance sheets. Later this year, banks may very well report quarterly losses that are much worse than anticipated. The details will include a dizzying array of transactions that will recall not only the housing crisis, but the Enron scandal of the early 2000s. Remember all those subsidiaries Enron created (many of them infamously named after Star Wars characters) to keep risky bets off the energy firm’s financial statements? The big banks use similar structures, called “variable interest entities”—companies established largely to hold off-the-books positions. Wells Fargo has more than $1 trillion of VIE assets, about which we currently know very little, because reporting requirements are opaque. But one popular investment held in VIEs is securities backed by commercial mortgages, such as loans to shopping malls and office parks—two categories of borrowers experiencing severe strain as a result of the pandemic.
The early losses from CLOs will not on their own erase the capital reserves required by Dodd-Frank. And some of the most irresponsible gambles from the last crisis—the speculative derivatives and credit-default swaps you may remember reading about in 2008—are less common today, experts told me. But the losses from CLOs, combined with losses from other troubled assets like those commercial-mortgage-backed securities, will lead to serious deficiencies in capital. Meanwhile, the same economic forces buffeting CLOs will hit other parts of the banks’ balance sheets hard; as the recession drags on, their traditional sources of revenue will also dry up. For some, theMeanwhile, loan defaults are already happening. There were more in April than ever before. Several experts told me they expect more record-breaking months this summer. It will only get worse from there. erosion of capital could approach the levels Lehman Brothers and Citigroup suffered in 2008. Banks with insufficient cash reserves will be forced to sell assets into a dour market, and the proceeds will be dismal. The prices of leveraged loans, and by extension CLOs, will spiral downward. . . 
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Image source: Based on data from Fitch Ratings. The fourth CLO depicts an aggregate leveraged-loan default rate of 78 percent.
You can perhaps guess much of the rest: At some point, rumors will circulate that one major bank is near collapse. Overnight lending, which keeps the American economy running, will seize up. The Federal Reserve will try to arrange a bank bailout. All of that happened last time, too.

The Looming Bank Collapse

The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.
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EVIDENCE-BASED METRICS > Rose Law Group Founder Jordan Rose Chimes-In On Arizona Public School Openings

EMs. Rose says state legislators are looking at preventing the legal industry from growing due to COVID-19-related claims.

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Arizona public school community weighs pros, cons, COVID-19 as return looms
Case-by-case scenarios Valley of Sun school districts face
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As droves of Valley students start the 2020-21 school year this fall among the global pandemic of 2020, Arizona school districts move forward independently with no two plans alike.
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“Successfully suing a school would be very difficult as you would somehow have to prove that this was the only place the child could have caught the virus and that the school acted negligently by failing to follow CDC and state safety guidelines,” Rose Law Group Founder Jordan Rose said, to a hypothetical situation where the virus spread quickly through one particular school. . .“One thing seems clear --- all schools are trying to implement measures to reduce the risk of the spread of the virus. Most Arizona schools are allowing parents to chose having their child attend online if they feel uncomfortable with sending them to school. . . Pandemic Is Fraying Even Furthe

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Magnetic Shift Effects & Vulnerability | S0 News Aug.2.2020

Lot to look at. . . 
where have we been and where are we going? 
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