Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The People's Republic of China is apparently preparing for war by passing a mobilization statute. This according to independent reporter Jennifer Zeng, who has been both right and wrong about Beijing in the recent past. " Ready for #war?" @jenniferzeng97 tweeted. "#CCP has quietly passed its Reserve Military Service Law, which will take effect on 3/1/2023. Anyone who is 18 years or older is obliged to enlist after a national defense mobilization is announced. "After receiving...
13: Video has emerged of plastic bottles and other garbage floating into Santa Monica Bay as a result of this week's storm. Every kind of trash one can possibly imagine — from plastic bottles and cans to blankets, pillows and mattresses — has floated down creekbeds and storm drains in Los Angeles County. It ends up floating on the area’s beaches. Recent rains have of course, some positive effects too; the areas reservoirs are closer to full now. But the rain’s side ef...
There have been a lot of homeless people in Santa Monica for the last 30 years. But last Tuesday, the City of Santa Monica declared it an emergency. Like the City of LA and the County, Santa Monica has declared a state of emergency over homelessness. While some saw the move as political, others said it would allow the City to apply for funds from other sources, to combat the problem which has intensified in the last ten years. "It will amplify our request for federal aid,...
10: In August, Ben Affleck was "caught" by Papparazi kissing J Lo outside a Dunkin Donuts, while holding a bag of Dunkin Donuts. Today, Affleck appears in a Super Bowl commercial where he gives customers at the Dunkin Donuts drivethrough, whatever they ask for. Where we being trolled in August? Yeah, probably. In the commercial, Ben Affleck mans the drive through while customers recognize him and ask for selfies. "How can it be this cheap and this good?" Affleck asks,...
Is it my imagination, or is this the coldest winter in LA in like fifty years? And this last week in February is predicted to include the coldest storm of the year. This week, snow levels could fall to 1000 feet. The Hollywood sign is at 1000 feet, so it's entirely possible a white blanket could cover the Griffith Park area around the sign. The cold storm should start hitting the westside of Los Angeles County around 4 am PST on Friday, February 24th. In Southern California...
LA County Sheriff Robert Luna has identified the suspect in the February 18, 2023 murder of Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell as Carlos Medina, 65. Suspect Medina is the husband of the Bishop's housecleaner, and drove an SUV. He had previously done work in the Bishop's residence. A tipster said Medina had left his Torrance CA home for Central California. Homicide investigators served a warrant. They conducted callouts for Medina to surrender, but he refused to come out of h...
Update 9:30 PM PST (AP) A person was taken into custody Thursday in connection with the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues in Los Angeles this week, police said. The violence set off fear among the city's Jewish community as police increased patrols around houses of worship and officials decried the attacks. The two separate shootings occurred after the men left synagogues in the city's Pico-Robertson neighborhood, according to the Anti-Defamation League's Southern...
Is it a precursor to a Chinese invasion, or an alien invasion? Well, probably not, but a series of lights over the skies of North Eastern Nevada have people wondering. This comes after a series of UFO's, believed to be Chinese balloons, were shot down by US Aircraft. The first was the large balloon off the coast of North Carolina. The second was off Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The third was over Montana, and the fourth was over Lake Huron. Even the U.S. Air Force appears to be...
The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District is moving its headquarters to a new location. And it's SamoHi adjacent. The building at 1717 4th Street currently houses offices for the City of Santa Monica. It was constructed on School District property in 2003. The move will take effect on Feb. 21, 2023, announced School Superintendent Mark Kelley in a press release. The move from the current location of 1651 16th St. Santa Monica will take place the week of February 13,...
Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A collision between an American Airlines Airbus A321 and a shuttle bus on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport Friday left five people injured, officials said. Airport officials said in a statement that a jet being towed from a gate to a parking area "made contact with a shuttle bus" resulting in injuries to about five people. The Airbus A321 was empty of passengers and only had one airport worker on board. The driver of the tug vehicle pulling the...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has made a round of appointments to the Superior court bench. Our retired former Assemblymember is one of them. Richard Bloom, 69, of Los Angeles County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Bloom served as a California State Assemblymember representing the 50th Assembly District from 2013 to 2022. Bloom was Executive Director for Community Initiatives at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) from 2008 to 2010 and...
In a 9 second video posted to Twitter, a pedestrian walks by a sidewalk vendor grilling 3 animals, possibly cats or rats or rabbits, on a hand rotated spit. The posting account is "Clown World." "We are about two wrong turns away from mad max level of reality," wrote Prophecy 13. "And you will pay $4k for a tiny apartment there," posted Anne Stein. The video may be seen at : https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1623418666233761792?s=20&t=e1AOEQMUnzdW1SYTNbrV8Q In the past,...
Gaziantep Castle is a castle on top of a mound in the center of Gaziantep, Turkey. First used as an observation point during the Hittite Empire, it was expanded into a castle during the Roman Empire. The castle was severely damaged by the earthquakes in February 2023. However, some on Twitter are saying that the section that has collapses is a 'restored' part, not the original Roman castle. "Theodosian Walls have been restored several times and they collapse every time...
An initial earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8, whose epicenter was in south central Turkey, downed buildings and raised the specter of a humanitarian crisis. A second earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.5, struck southeastern Turkey hours later, the United States Geological Survey said. This is Turkey's earthquake map. "A huge fault line broke between Kahramanmaraş and Malatya. This is the reason why such strong and frequent earthquakes occur. The last time such an earthquake...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale, jolted Santa Monica and other westside LA communities awake at 2 am on Wednesday morning. There were no immediate results of damage or injury. It was the biggest earthquake in 30 years in Santa Monica, California. The jolt was followed by an aftershock at 2:03 am, about 3 minutes later, which measured 3.5. The quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 10 miles south of Malibu, the earthquake registered...
Seven people were shot to death Monday evening in Half Moon Bay, CA. This comes less than 48 hours after 10 people were murdered in Monterey Park by a 762 year old man named Huu Cam Tran. And this shooting also involved an Asian suspect and victims 67 year old Zhao Chunli was arrested after the San Mateo County shooting. Authorities said that at least 4 people were shot and killed. More shooting victims were reported at a second location. City councilwoman Debbie Ruddock said...
Update: 5:30 PM shooter identified at Huu Can Tran, 37, deceased. Update 2 pm:The suspect in the Monterey Park massacre was found shot and dead in a van in Torrance CA, according to multiple news sources. One hour ago, a witness saw a bullet hole in the side window of the van and a collapsed body. Update, 11 am PST: Police have a suspect wanted for questioning in the Monterey Park mass shooting last night in a white van. This SWAT barricade situation is currently unfolding in...
China today made an announcement long expected but still almost unbelievable: For the first time in 6 decades, the PRC's population declined in 2022. By the end of 2022, China's population had decreased by almost 850,000, to 1.41175 billion, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The National Bureau of Statistics thought that the sharp 2022 population decline was due in part to Covid restrictions, and would reverse itself in 2023. Foreign demographers doubted this...
A body was found in parking lot 1 on November 2, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), writes Lt. Rudy Flores. They discovered he had been stabbed by a friend. Almost three months later, a suspect was arrested in Michigan. Here is the press release: Officers were dispatched to the Lot 1 North Parking Lot at 1550 Pacific Coast Highway to check the status of a male inside a vehicle that appeared to be deceased. When officers arrived on scene, they confirmed...
A female Santa Monica resident was sexually assaulted by a male while walking back from the beach in the afternoon of January 10. The victim was walking up the steps from the Arizona Avenue bridge over PCH, toward Palisades Park when a young male reached between her legs from behind and slid his hand over her crotch. The victim immediately called Santa Monica police. The officers arrived within ten minutes, arrested the man, and offered to the woman a referral guide for...
Smash and grab robbers apparently drove an automobile in Santa Monica place early Monday morning, 1.9.23. They got away with various high end merchandise. "On Monday, January 9, 2023 at about 3:15 AM," wrote Lt. Rudy Flores, "SMPD Dispatch received a call from Santa Monica Place Mall Security who advised of a burglary alarm activation at Louis Vuitton (110 Santa Monica Place). SM Mall Security observed, on surveillance cameras, a vehicle that crashed into the store. Suspects...
16: The Daily Wire website was down due to a denial of service attack, as of Thursday at 5:52 pm PST. The apparent problem was described as a "Cloudfront" error. It is unclear who was attacking the conservative website, or why. The outage did not affect the company's Youtube or Apple TV products. It seems to have affected the laptop/desktop version of the website, but not the mobile version of DailyWire.com. The error reads as follows: "494 ERROR The request could not be...
9: Lisa Marie Presley passed away in a coma after an incident at home today, where she lost consciousness in her bathroom. She was found by Danny Keough, her ex husband who gave her CPR. She survived in a hospital for a time, but never came out of a coma. "She looked awful at the Globes two days ago - dead eyes - probably heavily medicated - still in deep grief over her son Ben's suicide," said our Hollywood reporter. Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2...
Our picks for the top ten local stories of 2022 come mostly from politics, Santa Monica being a political town and last year being an election year. 1. Gas, water and power prices all went through the roof. At one point it was over $7 a gallon to fill up your car. Prices did go down a little after the election. 2. Homelessness: The homeless get blamed for every crime but are responsible in fact only for some crimes. And most of those are committed against other homeless people...
Southern California Gas Company has put out an explanation for why Gas is so damned expensive: It's mostly the one month freeze in the Eastern part of the United States. Gas prices to consumers are believed to have doubled in the last sixty days. "There's no easy way to put this: January bills are likely to be shockingly high. An unprecedented cold snap across the nation in part has caused natural gas market prices in the West to more than double between December and January...
