Tuesday, March 31, 2020

ELECTRONICALLY UN-AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE: Zero Records For Presentations @ Mesa City Council "Study Session" Tue 03.31.2020

Any reasonable person is entitled to ask how are items available for input if there are none 
provided to the public ahead of time??????
At least to one suspicious observer - your MesaZona blogger - this certainly looks like trying to hijack democracy

Council Study Session Meeting Notice
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1 Hear a presentation, continue discussions, and provide direction on COVID-19 impacts, responses, and the City's future actions, focusing on Public Safety and community resources. 

2  Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on updates on 

  • recent federal legislation, 
  • federal and state funding allocations, 
  • process updates and 
  • considerations for Mesa resulting from the effects COVID-19, 

with a focus on available federal funding options, including allocating available CDBG funds toward serving Mesa’s homeless, low-moderate income families, elderly, and other at-risk populations. 
20-0415 0 RECORDS
File #:20-0415   
Type:PresentationStatus:Agenda Ready
In control:City Council Study Session
On agenda:3/31/2020
Title:Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on updates on recent federal legislation, federal and state funding allocations, process updates and considerations for Mesa resulting from the effects COVID-19, with a focus on available federal funding options, including allocating available CDBG funds toward serving Mesa’s homeless, low-moderate income families, elderly, and other at-risk populations.

3 Scheduling of meetings.

Just-In-Time > Forever Changed [from Larry Fink]

Ready?
Mar.31 -- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink thinks that as dramatic as the coronavirus has been, the economy will recover steadily, in part, because he says the situation lacks some of the obstacles to recovery of a typical crisis. Bloomberg’s Annmarie Hordern reports on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”
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Mar 31, 2020 

SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS 03.31.2020 : Solar Wind, QuakeWatch, Survival, Galactic Sheet GCR

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Daily Sun, Earth and Science News

Niall Ferguson NETWORK PHENOMENA > What ideas spread, Why and How.

It starts off with the midnight ride of Paul Revere - and his network of Free Masons in Boston. As for "Hierarchies" and chain of top-down command control-of-power > Nah 

Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 1 – “Disruption” | PBS

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Premiered Mar 17, 2020 
Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS With the help of experts in network theory and precedents from history, Ferguson argues that the printing press had similar consequences for 16th-and 17th-century Europe as the personal computer and the Internet have for the world since the 20th century, leading to polarization and the dissemination of fake news.


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Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 2 

93,924 views
Mar 17, 2020

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS Looking at the history of the Victorian telegraph pioneers and rival computer networks. Host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a decentralized, not-for-profit worldwide web shape-shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite selling our attention for billions of dollars to the world’s advertisers.

LIQUIDITY CRISIS IN CAPITAL MARKETS > Colony Capital CEO Tom Barrack

TARGETED RELIEF FOR THE BIG BOYS .... Hold on there's another side for "the little people"
Forbearances from banks forthcoming?
45,846 views
Mar 30, 2020
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Barrack Says Real Estate Collapse Will Take Hold in April


MURDER MOST FOUL

Not much to say hear > just listen:

Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul 

(Official Audio)

2,533,132 views
Mar 26, 2020

Monday, March 30, 2020

SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS: Highly Informative From The Farthest Reaches of Space * Time

Sunspots ReturnOzone Extinctions, Primordial Magnetism 

IT'S 04:55 A.M. HERE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SUN 


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