Monday, November 30, 2020

Jim Rickards And Robert Kiyosaki On Gold, Bonds, Inflation, Economy And ...

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S&P Agrees to Buy IHS Markit in $44 Billion Deal

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#DiaperDon > The Internet Started To Have Some Fun -Actually Lots of It...and Then

Just As #DiaperDon Starts Trending, Trump Claims That Twitter Uses 'Fake' Trends, Calls For 'Termination' Of Section 230

Failures

from the for-national-security? dept

Mon, Nov 30th 2020 9:30am — Mike Masnick

"It's no secret that Donald Trump doesn't like Section 230. Wait. Actually, let's back up and try that again: it's no secret that Donald Trump doesn't like what he thinks Section 230 is about, which has little-to-no-resemblance to what Section 230 is actually about. However, over the long weekend, things took an even more ridiculous turn than usual. It started on Thanksgiving when the President was signing some legislation and taking some questions from the press. For unclear reasons, the setup where he had to sign things was with a very small desk affixed with the Presidential seal. While this desk has been used before for such things -- and Trump has even joked about the size of it, the framing of the shot -- the lack of people around him, the wide frame of the shot, the tread over carpet, and just... everything really made it look like the President was sitting at an elementary school desk . . . .

TOO MUCH FUN

It was not long until #DiaperDonald started trending on Twitter.

And, then, it was not much longer beforel the Commander-in-Chief of the military, and the leader of the United Stated of America decided to throw a tantrum on Twitter and claim that Twitter made up its trending topics (it does not).

Filed Under: diaper don, donald trump, intermediary liability, national security, section 230, temper tantrum, trending, trends
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Goodbye Determinism, Hello Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

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Out-of-Touch Public Officials: They Say They Believe In Citizen Participation But Have A Stranglehold On Public Policy


Here's are four official statement from The City of Mesa: https://www.mesaaz.gov/government/mayor-council
 
1. The Mesa City Council sets policies based on the input and needs of its citizens.
2. Mesa operates under a charter form of government with citizens electing a mayor and six councilmembers to set policy for the City.
3. The mayor and council are elected on a non-partisan basis.
4. The Mesa City Council believes that its people, not leaders, are what makes a City great and actively works to encourage citizen participation in the decision-making process.
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OK. All those words sound nice for sure > the City also outlines the different ways for people and citizens to participate:
Whether it is through neighborhood meetings, advisory boards and committees, telephone calls and letters, or email 
PLEASE NOTE: 
For the time being there are few if any NO neighborhood meetings and other ways to communicate public needs and public input are limited.

City Council Meetings and Study Sessions Notice

To decrease COVID-19 exposure, the City Council Chambers is closed, but public participation and viewing will be available electronically. 

See the City Council Meetings page for full details about meeting participation 

Likewise - looking at the the graphic in the middle there is selected citizens participation with the following statement:

You may click on any of the City boards and committees listed below to learn more about the purpose and requirements for each board, and to see the current list of members and term end dates.

If you are interested in serving on a City board or committee, please visit the Advisory Board & Committees Application Center. There you will begin by creating a customer profile with a login and password once before applying.

APPOINTMENTS TO THE BOARDS (AND COMMITTEES) ARE RECOMMENDED BY THE MAYOR AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.

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THE REALIZATION THAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS WERE SO FAR OUT OF TOUCH WITH PUBLIC OPINION INSPIRED A SMALL GROUP OF POLITICALLY DIVERSE ACTIVISTS TO CHALLENGE THE CONSERVATIVES' STRANGLEHOLD ON PUBLIC POLICY...

That's the story of citizen initiatives in different states that voters approved by a majority

 

 

 
 
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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends (Live)

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"Recreational Marijuana" - The Cannabis Industry - Can Turn Some of The Reddest States Green

Arizona can be one of the next states in the new legal economy to see the benefits.
> Here's one reason in the case of voter approval of Proposition 207
THE REALIZATION THAT PUBLIC OFFICIALS WERE SO FAR OUT OF TOUCH WITH PUBLIC OPINION INSPIRED A SMALL GROUP OF POLITICALLY DIVERSE ACTIVISTS TO CHALLENGE THE CONSERVATIVES' STRANGLEHOLD ON PUBLIC POLICY
A post on this blog from 3 years ago 
 
> Here's a story with some on-the-ground details from growers in Oklahoma: 
What is happening in Oklahoma is almost unprecedented among the 35 states that have legalized marijuana in some form since California voters backed medical marijuana in 1996. Not only has the growth of its market outstripped other more established state programs but it is happening in a state that has long stood out for its opposition to drug use. Oklahoma imprisons more people on a per-capita basis than just about any other state in the country, many of them non-violent drug offenders sentenced to lengthy terms behind bars. But that state-sanctioned punitive streak has been overwhelmed by two other strands of American culture—a live-and-let-live attitude about drug use and an equally powerful preference for laissez-faire capitalism.

“Turns out rednecks love to smoke weed,” Baker laughs. “That’s the thing about cannabis: It really bridges socio-economic gaps. The only other thing that does it is handguns. All types of people are into firearms. All types of people are into cannabis.”

How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Oklahoma entered the world of legal cannabis late, but its hands-off approach launched a boom and a new nickname: ‘Toke-lahoma.’

[Tokelahoma] lead image

Photographs for Politico Magazine by Misty Keasler/Redux

By PAUL DEMKO

Indeed, Oklahoma has established arguably the only free-market marijuana industry in the country. Unlike almost every other state, there are no limits on how many business licenses can be issued and cities can’t ban marijuana businesses from operating within their borders. In addition, the cost of entry is far lower than in most states: a license costs just $2,500. . .

“They’ve literally done what no other state has done: free-enterprise system, open market, wild wild west,” says Tom Spanier, who opened Tegridy Market (a dispensary that takes its name from South Park) with his wife in Oklahoma City last year. . .

But lax as it might seem, Oklahoma’s program has generated a hefty amount of tax revenue while avoiding some of the pitfalls of more intensely regulated programs.

>Through the first 10 months of this year, the industry generated more than $105 million in state and local taxes. That’s more than the $73 million expected to be produced by the state lottery this fiscal year, though still a pittance in comparison to the overall state budget of nearly $8 billion. In addition, Oklahoma has largely escaped the biggest problems that have plagued many other state markets: Illegal sales are relatively rare and the low cost to entry has made corruption all but unnecessary.

. . . All of which has made Oklahoma an unlikely case study for the rest of the country, which continues its incremental march toward universal legalization. Oklahoma is struggling with the sudden growing pains common to all booms.

 

 

 
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Zelensky Calls for a European Army as He Slams EU Leaders’ Response

      Jan 23, 2026 During the EU Summit yesterday, the EU leaders ...