Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In a viral video, a Sikh grocery store owner beats a man stealing his inventory with a stick. The owner was repeatedly told by a counter clerk and a grocery store robber that "there ain't nothing you can do," and that "ay, just let him go" as the man loaded his inventory into a trashcan on wheels. The Sikh man, identified as the owner, disagreed and takes out a stick to beat the robber. "South Asian business owners in Stockton bravely defend their livelihood against perpetual...
A dead man was found in a 55 gallon barrel on Malibu beach Monday afternoon. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies were seen looking into the black barrel on Monday afternoon. Authorities did not immediately identify the victim, who appeared to be an African ancestry male. They did not say how the man died or whether his death appeared to be foul play. It's hard to imagine, however, a non criminal manner in which the man's body could have found its way into the barrel. "No...
A suspect is in custody after a stabbing at the public bathrooms on the beach. The victim was said to be a 26 year old homeless man. He died the next morning at the hospital. Authorities have not yet released the name of the victim or the perpetrator, who will likely be charged with murder. Police did not know the relationship of the two men. Street People of Beverly Hills posted it to their Instagram account. Half a dozen Santa Monica police officers were seen on video...
The US recovered non-human biological pilots from crashed alien aircraft, said a UFO whistleblower Wednesday. If true, it is the biggest news story since the birth of Christ. The revelation came in an exchange between David Grusch, and Rep. Nancy Mace. Grusch led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency until 2023. He made his claims in front of a House oversight committee in Washington, as the issue of alien life received its...
A pre-dawn fire scorched the sculpture at the entrance to the California Incline, connecting Santa Monica to the Pacific Coast Highway. The blaze, which may have been intentionally set, occurred at the sculpture Beacon Overlook (2000)] by Jody Pinto, near California Incline. This is at the terminus of California Avenue, as it descends to PCH. While the cause of the fire was not immediately known, dozens of homeless people reside in Palisades Park and on the cliffs that...
19: Work crews from the Dept. of Transportation and the City of Santa Monica have prevented a partial collapse of mud and dirt unto Pacific Coast Highway. On Tuesday, they removed part of a natural formation that seemed in danger of falling. Traffic on PCH was interrupted for 3 hours while the crews worked, in order to prevent damage or injury to traffic on the highway. There are occasional mudslides from Palisades Park. This year has seen about 42 inches of rain in LA...
The Biden administration says that it has secured voluntary commitments to "manage the risks" posed by AI. The companies named in the press release include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. "Today, these seven leading AI companies are committing to: Ensuring Products are Safe Before Introducing Them to the Public." People like Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have said that artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to mankind. Frequently the...
In a closed session last Tuesday and this coming Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council will discuss two offers from developers who want to replace the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with ten stories of luxury condominiums. The 3000 seat auditorium is part of Santa Monica history, but has been closed since 2003. The move is a desperate measure to right the City financially, by loping off a piece of its Civic Center. Santa Monica wasn't in great shape financially prior to the...
In a very flowery email written by Jerry Yang, Chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, the University accused Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne of misconduct in 12 research papers apparently written years ago. The email also announced Appointment of Richard Saller as Interim President. Stanford (which is my alma mater), has been involved in a number of scandals in recent years. Crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried grew up as a faculty brat there. Recently...
Wilshire Blvd is blocked in a Westbound direction, at 2321 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica. There are at least 3 Santa Monica Police vehicles present. It seems to involve a homeless resident, though it was uncertain how....
The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was built in 1958 and holds about 3000 people. The City closed it permanently in 2002, stating that it was too small and acoustically challenged to serve as a concert venue any longer. One local resident says that in a closed session, the Santa Monica City Council could sell it off to developers in a desperate attempt to close a budget shortfall. Tricia Crane, Chair of the Northeast Neighbors Association, believes the potential sale is a...
There seems to be an epidemic of screaming homeless people in and around Santa Monica. Some draw a connection to LA County Dept of Public Health's free needle and pipe distribution program. One homeless man in an alley behind block apartment buildings, screamed all night about a woman who had, well, apparently broken his heart. "We have had a mentally unstable woman in our neighborhood screaming her head off for weeks. I remember someone mentioned some sort of mental health...
There is a report on Twitter that the LAPD are searching for a missing girl South of the Santa Monica pier. "Critical missing child in Santa Monica. 13yo girl last seen walking SB from the Santa Monica Pier. Wearing a white top with blue jeans. Also wearing a blue bathing suit underneath." says the Tweet, from @downtownlascanner. The account monitors police scanners and is ordinarily reliable....
The modeling and fashion world is mourning the loss of Jane Birkin at 76. An iconic actress and model, she moved from her native Britain to France, where she found fame singing with Serge Gainsbourg. "Jane Birkin, the British-French singer and actress whose collaboration with the artist Serge Gainsbourg made her a defining figure of the 1970s and whose personal style inspired a luxury handbag, has died at 76." tweeted the NY Times on July 16, 2023. "Farewell to this endlessly...
7/5/23: Tenants of Victor's Cleaning and Tailoring, Santa Monica Rubber Stamp, Crisp Imaging, Tibetan Arts and Santa Monica Guitar this week received notice that they must be out by August 15th, 2023. The one hundred year old structure is about to be demolished and replaced by density. Four stories of pack and stack apartments will replace the 1920's era, one story building with parking in back. Downtown Santa Monica has pretty much turned over and into block apartments which...
7/5/23: When asked by a reporter, Hunter Biden vehemently denied that he had anything to do with the Cocaine found at the White House. https://nypost.com/2023/07/07/post-irresponsible-for-asking-about-cocaine-in-white-house/ Mainstream media will ignore it. But cocaine was found in the White House Library Tuesday, where Hunter had been using his laptop. So put two and two together, folks. Hunter was kicked out of the military over his cocaine use. The White House tried to...
Santa Monica Police report that they have arrested a man who had a knife fight with one or two other men. In the course of that fight, a dog was injured. The dog was taken to a veterinarian, where the animal is said to be in good condition. "A suspect is in police custody following an altercation this evening on Colorado Avenue near 4th Street," the SMDP posted to Facebook. "The fight between two subjects (possibly 3) resulted in minor injuries to the suspect under arrest as...
Algae blooms are at a record high this year, and they are causing a record high number of dead and dying aquatic mammals on California beaches. Experts are not sure why the bloom is thicker than it has been in fifty years; this years heavy rain and runoff of fertilizer is a good guess. But they are sure that 100's of marine mammals are beaching themselves. The Pacific Marine Mammal Center rescues, rehabilitates, and releases marine mammals once they are ready. Marine Mammal...
Jennifer Zheng, a usually reliable reporter, says that she has interviewed Shao Chao, a researcher and vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He says that he was given 4 strains of coronavirus, that were developed specifically as bioweapons. His task was to determine which strains could infect the greatest number of species. He said that he and others, deliberately spread the coronaviruses during the 2019 games. Actually he was asked to "check the athletes'...
The origin of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic which killed millions and caused worldwide disruptions, definitely originated in the Wuhan Institute of virology in mainland China. "Ben Hu, patient zero, the first person in the world to become infected with COVID-19 worked at the Wuhan Institute for Virology and Tony Fauci's NIH paid for this dangerous gain of function research." This acording to US Senator Rand Paul, who tweeted same this morning. "Sharri Markson's book What...
Events in Russia are moving almost too quickly to follow. Reuters is reporting that the Pirgozhin Wagner mutiny has taken Voronezh. This city is on the way to Moscow from the military town of Rostov, which Prigozhin secured Saturday morning. "Wagner PMC reports they have taken control of military objects around Voronezh and the Russian army there has chosen to side with 'the people.' They mean Wagner PMC," said a tweet from Igor Sushko and others. Voronezh is six hours by...
Leader of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin today published a statement accusing the Russian Army of shelling a Wagner's encampment. Prigozhin added that he is moving his units to Moscow to "punish" the military, "restore justice." He urged the Russian defense ministry not trying to stop his units, and threatened to kill anyone who will try. Friendly fire accidents are common in warfare. The Vietnam war included many such incidents, where one US military unit attacked another...
The US Coast Guard says it has 96 hours to rescue five people on a missing, overdue submarine that visited the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday, June 18th. The submersible had one crew member and 4 passengers, who paid about $250,000 each to visit the world's most famous wreck, to the West of Newfoundland Canada. "The purpose of the submersible was to study the wreck site," said Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the US First Coast Guard District. He said one could speculate...
In unrelated developments, Westfield Shopping Centers has announced it will ditch a mall in Downtown San Francisco. This, a week after Hilton Hotels successor said it was walking away from the City's largest hotel and its 4th largest hotel by room numbers, so that it won't have to make payments on a $725 million debt. Both companies cited San Francisco's abysmal security situation. Homeless people cover San Francisco like zombies, and no part of town is safe from crime. For...
Venice Blvd was designed to be a working street. It looks like a freeway, or used to. People drive 70 miles an hour on it's 4 lanes of grandeur and utility, that also angle from Southwest to Northeast. It was a quick route between downtown LA and Venice. Venice High School and the former Helms Bakery are some of the sites on its 12 mile length, down to sunny Venice Beach. So what was the problem? The problem is working class Venice Blvd travels mostly through minority...
