Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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News2Share covered a confrontation Saturday May 13th, between protesters identified as "Antifa," others identified as pro-life, and members of the Santa Monica Police Dept. Some of the SMPD officers were mounted on horses. The confrontation took place just East of the 100 year old Santa Monica Pier, in Palisades Park. "#Antifa members violently clashed with law enforcement as they gathered to try to attack participants of a "Baby Lives Matter" rally in Santa Monica, Calif. on...
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...
Russia has bombed and damaged the Kakhovska hydroelectric power plant. The dam, on the Dnipro river, is the largest such installation in Europe. President Zelenskyy will hold an emergency meeting of the National Security Council of Ukraine due to the explosion of the dam of Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, says Anton Gerashenko, a Ukrainian source connected to the government. "Kakhovka HPP is the sixth (lower and last) stage of the cascade of Dnieper hydroelectric power pla...
A recent petition states that LA County is conducting a free needle distribution program in the 7 Eleven parking lot, across the street from the Santa Monica Proper Hotel. A luxury hotel, the Proper's rooms start at about $1,000 a night. A petition to rid Santa Monica of the County of LA's distribution program has the signatures of at least one Santa Monica City councilmember, Phil Brock. "The City of Santa Monica and the County along with Venice Family Clinic have been...
Seismographs recorded a 3.4 magnitude earthquake 2 miles West of Malibu Beach Monday morning, May 8th 2023. The earthquake struck at 8:05 AM PDT. It was felt as a rolling motion in Santa Monica, which was about 7 miles away from the Epicenter....
April 26, 2023 - Santa Monica Auctions, a longtime art business in Santa Monica, will be holding a two-day auction which will include the original canvas artwork for the iconic “Hope” poster of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign for president. Two later versions of the image were created by Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey, but that to be auctioned is the sole original work of art for the campaign poster. Of the later versions, one is in the Smithsonian Institution’s Nationa...
Tucker Carlson had an average of 3.5 million daily users, much higher (by a factor of 10) then any CNN personality. So why did Fox News dump their most popular and most famous act? Because he violated the cardinal rule of media: Don't go after the advertisers. The $785 million dollar Dominion Voting settlement, while it did not help Tucker's case with Rupert Murdoch, was a survivable event for Tucker. but going after their advertisers was not. Tucker spent part of his April...
Buzzfeed.com has announced that it is closing its news division permanently, effective today, 4.20.23. Staff were given notices and escorted to the door. The company plans to focus on the Huffington Post brand, which it says has more readership. On April 20, 2023, CEO Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed Media would be shuttering BuzzFeed News and focusing The Huffington Post, laying off about 180 workers. Turns out that carrying water for the Democrat Party does Not, in...
