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He's back in a self-created local spotlight as the champion of something else. But first let's go back to his double-dealing days holding the trust in public elected office at the same gambling millions in under-cover investments for his own private wealth-creation here in Mesa in 2017.
Here's a snippet from this blog 02 May 2018
Who’s Mugging Mesa? Mega-Millionaire Bob Worsley Is Crossing The Line Mixing-Up Elected Public Office and Real Estate Speculation
Your MesaZona blogger is excited and thrilled to feature this investigative reporting from The Arizona Daily Independent. If you have been faithful readers of this blog now with over 178,000 views, thank you very much for being less stupid than some of the folks who like their news "Spoon-Fed" by corporate mainstream media. . . Here's some damn good hyper-local reporting - take a look
Who’s Mugging Mesa?Mesa’s ASU Project Needed To Make Good On Worsley’s “Bet”(Featured image Credit: By: Red Pill Approved ComicsMarch 4, 2018) "At the February 26 meeting of the Mesa City Council, Sen. Bob Worsley made a rare appearance in an effort to promote a proposal to enter into an Intergovernmental Agreement with Arizona State University. The senator’s appearance surprised many Mesa residents who had never before seen their representative show any interest in the City’s business. . .
Here's Bob Worsley again in the Spotlight on this blog site - Why? . . . That's a reasonable question for sure. Looks like he's looking to make a fortune in a personally-enriching life after a short shady shrift in politics. His betting game might be up at the end of one term as LD25 AZ Repub State Senator after coming-out as a major gambler mixing up politics and real estate speculation here in downtown Mesa. Here's an entire listing of every post featured on this blog site than you can find here
Whoever said Mesa is boring was trying to sell you an urban myth
ARIZONA: Here in Arizona it was the primary election in CD8 that got some attention last week when AZ State Senator Bob Worsley's cultivated squeaky-clean-conservative-and-religious family-man image got tarnished in the media when - Worst Case Scenario or is it? - public-elected office-holder Worsley and his political campaign manager Kent Lyons (who's his business partner in a for-profit risky real estate speculation here in downtown Mesa, the $130-Million-Dollar Habit Metro development) got caught in an alleged Montenegro Revenge Porn Sex/TXT . . . more details in related content below
Before 'getting a call' from a close cohort of friends in 2012 to rescue the State Congressional seat lost by fellow conservative-religious good friend Jerry Lewis, Mesa Mega-Millionaire Bob Worsley who lives in a 5900+ Sq. Ft. McMansion on Presidio Circle in The Groves in northeast Mesa, Worsley managed to amass a personal fortune. . . once in office he became a proponent of personal corporate welfare for himself and his friends.
Reports go back for years (see below).
A stranger to most people here in Mesa, Worsley came out publicly last week as a State Senator to promote his own self-reportedly $20 million-gamble in real estate speculation for private profit in a swarm of low-ball sell-offs and buy-ins on more than ten downtown Mesa properties
Cover for The Horseshoe Virus: How the Anti-Immigration Movement Spread from Left-Wing to Right-Wing America
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070—known to be one of the most sweeping and strict anti-immigration state laws passed in the United States—caused tremendous upheaval in Bob Worsley's religious community in Mesa, Arizona. Deeply troubled by the blatantly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric swirling in public political discourse, Worsley ran for state senator in 2012 against the previous Senate president and author of SB 1070, and won. A three-term state senator, Worsley approached much of his political career with a commonsense approach to conservative leadership, balancing justice and compassion with every decision he made. ."
That post headline is definitely a mouthful that boggle the brain. To put it all another way, it's all information-warfare overload to influence our ideals creating chaos and confusion - what's true and what's not is now an open question caused by the spread of viral dis-information defined as generating falsehoods aimed at creating a political goal . . . in a well-sourced and lengthy opinion piece by Emily Hazelton referenced farther down, the intended outcome and goal is simply to cause us to give up, exhausted, skeptical and cynical of politics
At the same time the spewing of the falsehoods, the conspiracy theories, the lies, the distortions and all the information encoded with anger is not meant to win any battle of ideas: ITS GOAL IS TO PREVENT THE ACTUAL BATTLE BEING FOUGHT BY CAUSING US TO SIMPLY GIVE UP. There are hard decisions to be made to overcome the chaos
In early 2018, dozens of Sinclair newscasters across the country echoed Trump’s diatribes against the press by reading from the same script warning of “fake stories” from “some members” of the media. (Deadspin captured the repetition of the script in an eerie video montage.) In July, Sinclair released online an interview with Judy Mikovits, a conspiracy theorist who has accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of manufacturing the coronavirus. When the segment drew criticism, the company canceled the planned on-air broadcast but called itself “a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial.”
Here's a clip to introduce just one person:
"In a 2018 book, “Network Propaganda,” Yochai Benkler, a director of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, and two researchers there, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts, mapped the spread of political disinformation in the United States from 2015 to 2018. Analyzing the hyperlinks of four million news articles, the three authors found that the conservative media did not counter lies and distortions, but rather recycled them from one outlet to the next, on TV and radio and through like-minded websites.
The dearth of competition for factual accuracy among conservative outlets leaves their audiences vulnerable to disinformation even if the mainstream news media combats it. . ."
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (Oxford University Press 2018) and The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from Oxford University “in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the study and public understanding of the Internet and information goods.”
"As I'm sure you're already aware, there was a lot of focus this week on Twitter's content moderation practices, after it chose to stop people from linking to a sketchy NY Post article that contained some emails taken from a computer that was claimed to have been Hunter Biden's laptop. While many in the Trump orbit were insisting that this was "anti-conservative bias," the company said that the issue was violating its "hacked content" policies, as well as its policies against showing images revealing personal information, such as email addresses.
As we have discussed in the past this policy was already quite controversial, out of fear that it would be used to block reporting on leaked documents.
Late last night, Twitter announced that after hearing those concerns, they were changing the policy. . .
So, what’s changing?
1. We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them
2. We will label Tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on Twitter
As the new announcement notes, the policy against linking to private information or manipulated media remain in place -- suggesting that this won't actually change the ability to link to that NY Post article. But it does fix the hamfisted nature of that policy.
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