Building Tucson in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Building Materials / Tucson 
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Building Tucson in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Archaeological excavations conducted for the City of Tucson by Desert Archaeology near the 800 block of West Congress Street recently exposedthe foundations of a turn-of- the-century brick manufacturing plant and several 2,700-year- old Early Agricultural period pithouses. Initially, the brickyard seemed like an obstacle betweenthe archaeologists and the ancient site below. However, as excavations progressed, it became apparent that the historiccomponent of the site could enrich studies of modern Tucsonans' efforts to adapt to life in the Santa Cruz River valley. 

 

The Tucson Pressed Brick Company (TPBCO) operated on the west side of Tucson between 1908 and 1963, but brick manufacturing on the site began as early as 1896. The founder of the brickyard was Quintus Monier, an architect and stone mason. Mr. Monier and the brickyard that he founded played a very important role in the expansion of Tucson by providing an abundant supply of low-cost, durable, fire-resistant construction material. 

 

Excavations and historic research on TPBCO have shed light on early twentieth-century brickmaking and architecture. They also have revealed competing efforts to erase both the Old-Western and eastern American images of the city as economic fortunes changed. Early image-conscious Tucsonans' efforts were devoted to the eradication of Tucson's adobe heritage. Later campaigns to revive that heritage attempted to recall a stereotype of the Tucson that existed before the influx of eastern U.S. migrants, sometimes at the expense of memorable and monumental brick architecture.

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Source: Archeology in Tucson

Don't Launch Your Drone to Watch the Superbowl; Big Brother is Watching You

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

No Fly Zone / Superbowl

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The military is doing exercises to get ready for the big game. Today at 2pm, Channel 5 reported on last night's news that two fighters from Luke AFB will be doing a low and loud flyby of the Stadium.

During the game fighters from Tucson will be on guard.

F-16s from Tucson to enforce 'no fly' zones during Super Bowl game

The FAA asked that the 162nd Wing Arizona National Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other agencies work together during the Super Bowl to enforce strict flight restrictions around the stadium.

All this hubbub for a game? Dysart School District is laying off over 100 teachers after this spring's semester because the school district does not have the funds. After residence voted down a bond, the teachers have now gotten their pink slips. People cannot afford any new taxes.

Do you hear me Governor Ducey? 

Of course not. The fighters must already be buzzing his office. 

So have fun oooing and awwing at the sight of the jet fighters and realize the money to keep football safe is more important than our public school system.

Source: KPHO

U.S. Radiation Report 23 Nov 2014

Staff Writer, J.J. West

Radiation / Fukushima Fall Out
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 U.S. Radiation Report 23 Nov 2014

Phoenix and Tucson's radiation levels increased the week before Thanksgiving. What is going on? When is the United States going to get serious about Fukushima?

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RadNet radiation monitors have detected renewed surges in air readings of dangerous beta radiation across the country. Over a dozen metropolitan test sites registered four-month highs.

Impacted cities include San Diego, Bakersfield, Phoenix, Amarillo, Montgomery and Madison. Some of these sites recorded beta readings literally going off the chart at 1,000 total beta counts per minute (CPM). EnviroReporter.com and others including experts and manufacturers, consider 100 CPM to be an alarm trigger. Many American cities surpassed this threshold in this latest reporting period.

Source: EnviroReporter

Arizona: Do You Know Where Your FEMA Camps Are?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

FEMA / Concentration Camps

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What? You don't believe the United States has Concentration Camps? Ask some older Japanese about that historical fact. While you're at it, ask a Native American how they like their "reservation."

The United States has many dirty little secrets that they hope you will not find out about or will chalk it up as a conspiracy theory.

What happens if, it's not a theory but a fact? We'll begin with the programs and Executive Orders comprising FEMA.

Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990

allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995

allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997

allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998

allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999

allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000

allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001

allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002

designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005

allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051

specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310

grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049

assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921

allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...

National Security Act of 1947

allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities.

1950 Defense Production Act

gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy.

Act of August 29, 1916

authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.

International Emergency Economic Powers Act

enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

If you aren't anywhere in the realm of concerned, you better check your meds. Here's a list of camps designated in the State of Arizona:

• Ft. Huachuca - 20 miles from Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales Rex '84 facility.
• Pinal County - on the Gila River - WWII Japanese detention camp. May be renovated.
• Yuma County - Colorado River - Site of former Japanese detention camp (near proving grounds). This site was completely removed in 1990 according to some reports.
• Phoenix - Federal Prison Satellite Camp. Main federal facility expanded.
• Florence - WWII prison camp NOW RENOVATED, OPERATIONAL with staff & 400 prisoners, operational capacity of 3,500.
• Wickenburg - Airport is ready for conversion; total capacity unknown.
• Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) - Fully staffed and presently holding prisoners!!
• Sedona - site of possible UN base.

Then you have to consider, schools, hospitals, prisons, hotels, stadiums. The list can grow longer as the government needs more space to place people. Or, maybe that's why the government needed to store all those grave liners. Who knows?

If you are concerned by this information, then contacting your elected officials would be the next step after you review all of the laws and Executive Orders for yourself.

There's more to the story. A television show that investigated FEMA camps was censored from TruTV after the show confronted a congressmen about a bill, H.R. 645, he co-sponsored. It is a must see: Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory. 

We live in a time where the government has no credibility, passes laws to criminalize The People, and works with terrorists. Do you really believe there's no such thing as a FEMA camp?

Or perhaps you would believe a Supreme Court justice instead? Antonin Scalia was visiting the University of Hawaii's law students and had this remark about Kore­ma­tsu v. United States, which was about Japanese Internment Camps:

"Well, of course, Kore­ma­tsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again."

Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning "In times of war, the laws fall silent."

"That's what was going on — the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot. That's what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It's no justification but it is the reality," he said.

No, Justice Scalia, the laws are very clear. Silence is unnecessary. The United States government has already set up it's camps. Why else would you make that type of statement to the public?

Still the question stands: How long are you going to remain silent?

The Supreme Court has done a great job so far not backing The People, but instead insuring the elite ruling class all the advantages to keep us in the Kore­ma­tsu of political, economic and legislative internment.

When is the Supreme Court going to stop playing favorites and start doing the job We The People pay them to do?

And, silence is not an answer.

Source: Friends of Liberty, Associated Press,

Mars Madness Hits the University of Arizona

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Education / Community Interest
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A new exhibit has opened in Pima County, “Mars Madness: Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey to Outer Space” opens on January 21st through August 1st in Special Collections at the University of Arizona.

Mars Madness: Sci-Fi Exhibit Opens in Special Collections 

Two events are planned in conjunction with “Mars Madness.” Both events are free and open to the public and will be held in Special Collections, 1510 E. University Blvd.

Opening Reception with Wolf Forrest, contributor to Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars
Tuesday, January 21
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Book Signing with Gloria McMillan
Saturday, March 15 (during the Tucson Festival of Books)
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sounds like great fun to anyone who loves science fiction literature. 

Source: U of A