Tuesday, October 13, 2020
RUSSIAN NAVY TO DEPLOY NEW ZIRCON HYPERSONIC MISSILE TO PACIFIC #WARTHOG...
That's phenomenal and difficult to intercept
The Russian Navy’s latest warship, Gremyashchiy, will carry the Zircon hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, its captain and Russian President Vladimir Putin said during Putin’s visit aboard the vessel October 31, according to Russian state media. The warship will be launched later this year and join the Pacific fleet. The missile is seen as a natural counter to the U.S. Navy’s Aegis air defense system. The used audio is from the Youtube audio library FB page: https://www.facebook.com/warthogdefense/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/warthogdefens... This video is created with Adobe premiere pro Warthog Defense members are sharing stories, insider tips, news from the front lines, and unique slices of military life including the tough stuff of war.
SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS: Dark Nova, Scary Implications for the Sun //Tue 13 Oct 2020
Square's Co-Founder on Financial Inclusion and the Importance of Coding
Oct.13 -- Jim McKelvey, co-Founder of Square and LaunchCode, sits down on Future ᐸGOᐳ to discuss how Square allows smaller businesses to make more money and why he provides coding education for free.
He also talks about starting the company with Jack Dorsey.
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
Broadcast Eye-Candy Goes Bad: Donald 'Ill Deuce' ' Mussolini-Moment, The Men-in-White-Coats + The Super-Spreader
All the world's a stage for The P.T. Barnum of American Politics filled with tricks-and-treats in the 24/7 media overload where some of us are merely numb. There are good actors and bad actors and they all have their exits and entrances playing many parts. Sooner - or later - the American people don't like getting punked as fools some, most, or all of the time.
We have before us choices to be made what to believe: some times the intended optics backfire to bite-back the staged performances turned-bad: Where to start?
1 The White House Rose Garden Supreme Court Nomination Press Conference > "A Super-Spreader"
2 Trump's Pandemic Medical Team Health Announcements > "The Men-in-White-Coats" Show Up
3 The White House Balcony Law-and-Order Rally morphs into "The Mussolini-Moment" for 'Covita'
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From The Poke:
A far-right Trump supporter said the president just had his ‘Mussolini moment’ and wins self-own of the week
As you’ll probably have seen by now, Donald Trump has taken to the White House balcony to show everyone just how well he’s doing despite testing positive for coronavirus just a few days ago.
His supporters were delighted, of course, including far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes, who hosts the America First podcast among many other things.
Here’s what he had to say.
And here are our favourite things people said in response
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Maureen Dowd writing in the New York Times:
Manic Panic on the Potomac
Will Mitch ditch the Donald?
WASHINGTON — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.
Literally.
Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett super-spreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger. At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking any chances. . .
McConnell did more than physically distance himself from Trump. He politically distanced himself as well, throwing cold water on the president’s whiplash-inducing reversal on a stimulus bill. . .
Clearly, McConnell does not want to invest whatever capital he has left in reviving Trump when the guy seems doomed. Why bring up an issue that really divides his Republican members weeks before an election that might be a wipeout — with the Senate in the balance?
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Proving once more that there’s no bottom to how low he’ll go, McConnell explained to reporters in Kentucky that he wasn’t ready to push a stimulus deal because “the situation is kind of murky, and I think the murkiness is a result of the proximity to the election and everybody kind of trying to elbow for political advantage.”
So it’s fine to elbow for political advantage and push to replace R.B.G. with an arch conservative who would threaten health care and abortion rights in proximity to the election. But a bill that would help millions of suffering Americans as the economy goes down the tubes? Nah. That’s too murky. . .
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Flying Under-The-Radar (The City of Mesa AZ Does This Too) > Options 1, 2 and 3
San Diego PD Uses Police Charity To Buy Off-The-Books Phone Cracking Tech
from the getting-the-goods-without-all-the-hassle dept
A law enforcement agency looking to dodge oversight has a few options. First, there's the 1033 program, which allows agencies to pick up useful things like guns, bullets, armored vehicles, grenade launchers… and… um… filing cabinets, I guess. Going this route means spending federal money rather than local money. So, if you're not spending local tax dollars, you really don't need to ask permission.
Another accountability dodge is the discretionary spending allowed by civil asset forfeiture. Law enforcement agencies directly profit from property seized and are given a lot of latitude on spending those dollars. City/county oversight is rarely involved. Very few localities have implemented strict reporting on seizures so the money flows from victims through cop shops and into the hands of cop tech purveyors.
There's a third option: use private money . . .Donors with deep pockets and minimal concerns about the people they're bypassing pay for surveillance tech and other law enforcement goodies. Again, because no public money is involved, the public is left out of the equation. This happened in Baltimore, . .The same thing is happening elsewhere. Lots of private companies and individuals are buying stuff for police departments, allowing them to circumvent accountability measures. Some of these "private" concerns should be considered public, considering their narrow focus. As ProPublica reported in 2014, the Los Angeles Police Foundation -- a "private" charity -- asked for $200,000 from Target Corp. to buy the Los Angeles Police Department data analytics software from Palantir. It also purchased several automatic license plate readers for the department. No public oversight was involved since it was "private" money.
Joseph Cox reports on more of this public/private bullshit for Motherboard
THE CONCLUSION: "No one's arguing police departments shouldn't have access to tools like these. But if they're using these to perform their public duties, they owe it to the public to inform them about their acquisitions and allow their oversight to do its job. Forming a bunch of "private charities" specifically to provide police departments with off-the-books tech is a spectacularly lousy way to engage in public service."
How Sweet It Isn't: The Rose Law Reporter's Slant On The "News That Matters To Arizona"
In plain English it's called MEDIA MANIPULATION > The Something In-The-Water are the schemes to privatize water-rights. Nothing could be more clear than that. This time it's about Queen Creek and recent actions taken by the Arizona Corporate Commission regarding Johnson Utilities. First there are some required public disclosures:
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents landowners and homebuilders working with the ACC to find a utility solution in the Johnson Utilities service area)
2 Recent Reports:
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26 November 2019
Reporting With Required Disclosures: Real Estate Developers & The Rose Law Group
Ah, Inhale that please. When it comes to The East Valley and the five cities and towns in it - and bordering counties all the way south to Casa Grande and Tucson - there's always a need for attorneys (transactional, tax law and zoning) and law groups to represent all the players on-and-off the stage, other than the public: major industry interests like Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, Government and Politics.
That's where what gets reported in mainstream media is an important thing to try to influence, to control and to manipulate to produce the desired outcomes.
Of course there's also something called 'alternative media" - and investigative reporters who are more independent and objective (and not beholden to "special interests" who represent THE PUBLIC RIGHT-TO-KNOW.
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DISCLOSURES from https://www.roselawgroup.com/news/
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Opinion: An alarming prediction about Pinal County facing a water shortage is a myth that’s based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data.
By Jordan Rose and Tom Galvin, opinion contributors | azcentral
Mark Twain once wrote of his difficulty with math by ascribing a quote about the flexible power of numbers to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Farmers, developers, landowners, residents and elected officials in Pinal County are now empathetic with Twain because we are trying to dispel a growing notion that “Pinal County is out of groundwater.”
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is working on revising a model based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data that have perpetuated the myth that Pinal County is facing a water shortage. In fact, Pinal County has plenty of water for today, tomorrow and 100 years from now.
Farmers and cities are good stewards
The agricultural and municipal sectors rely on substantial and robust aquifers and are responsible stewards of water for today’s needs and for future demand.
READ ON:
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16 December 2019
Jordan Rose: In Real Estate We Trust > How-To-Turn Land Holdings Into Pay-Dirt
If you're wondering what Jordan Rose does, she tells you herself in less-than-a-minute is a streaming video uploaded to YouTube last year . . . "she [and The Rose Law Group] gets governments to do of not to do something. . ."
Vague enough. . .QUESTION: What's that something?
And how does her law group get all the goodie$ delivered?
Here's just the most recent media report by Jim Walsh that tells you what that "something" is all about:
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents a coalition of property and business owners throughout Pinal County who have worked to bring new transportation infrastructure to the county.)
> Salt Lake City homebuilder has big plans for Phoenix region. (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Woodside Homes.)_______________________________________________________________
28 March 2020
The Rose Law Group Reports Their News The Way They Want It Read ...Nothing Wrong With That
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Flash News: Ukraine Intercepts Russian Kh-59 Cruise Missile Using US VAMPIRE Air Defense System Mounted on Boat. Ukrainian forces have made ...
