Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Two windows and a door in a row of shops was smashed by a homeless man on Friday evening or Saturday morning. The owner of the store, Ahmad Harb, says that he may have security camera footage that will reveal the identity of the perpetrator. Harb says his windows have been smashed in the recent past, and that it cost him $1200 to replace each window. He says that his computer and some other items were stolen from his store, which sells cosmetics. He says Santa Monica police...
Russia's expansion plans may have been revealed in a song. In a clip that is circulating widely on social media, a Russian singer seemed to indicate that Putin plans to incorporate Ukraine and Moldova into Russia. From twitter: "Kremlin's favorite singer Oleg Gazmanov at the pro-war rally Putin attended on March 19th, sang the following: "Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, that is my country." This clip was sent to me by an acquaintance in Chișinău where it's being s...
13: About 50 members of the Tigrayan community in Los Angeles County, conducted a pro-Tigray protest rally in front of the Santa Monica pier on Saturday. They wanted greater awareness leading to Western intervention, in the conflict in the far northwest province of Ethiopia. Critics on the left (e.g. Joy Reid) and also on the left (Tucker Carlson) have said that US attention to Ukraine, is based on the race of the victims of that conflict. Black and brown victims of war,...
In an act of sheer courage or perhaps stupidity, a man was filmed throwing a Molotov cocktail against the wall of the Kremlin in Moscow. "Kremlin" is Russian for "Fortress." Traditionally every major city had a Kremlin. Today, the Moscow Kremlin is the site of the Russian Federal Government, including the Duma or parliament, the Russian President and the Russian high court. It is easy to assume that this man was protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that is not...
A Russian website briefly posted, then took down an article based on a briefing by the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, who admitted to massive Russian casualties in Ukraine. 25 days into the operation, 9,861 Russian soldiers have died fighting the Ukraine army, while 16,153 have been wounded. "the RF Armed Forces have lost 96 aircraft, 118 helicopters and 14.7 thousand military personnel." The 14,700 figure appears to include POWs and deserters. In comparison,...
Members of Ukraine's parliament have accused Russian soldiers of raping Ukrainian women, including civilians. There have been a series of rape claims levied against Kremlin troops by Ukrainian refugees and government officials alike since the invasion began, with Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba and opposition MP Lesia Vasylenko both citing reports of Russian soldiers sexually abusing helpless civilians. In a video posted to youtube on 3.23.22, Ukrainian army unit...
16 The Los Angeles Unified School District announced today a deal with the United Teachers of Los Angeles Union, to end its indoor mask mandate effective next Wednesday, March 23. LAUSD has been one of the few SoCal districts to stick with masking after California State and Los Angeles County orders lifted. "Only public school kids in LA are still required to wear masks," grumbled one parent on social media. Many parents blame United Teachers of Los Angeles, the school...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was nominated as US Ambassador to India six months ago, but his appointment has been held up by the Jacobs Affair. Naomi Seligman is LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's former communications director. The Mayor has testified that he never witnessed any inappropriate behavior from Rick Jacobs, the Mayor's Chief of Staff. Seligman, appearing on the John Phillips show on KABC, says otherwise. "Rick Jacobs would comment on people's body parts in very graphic...
Update 3/21/22: Shelling hit residential houses and a shopping district in Kyiv's Podil district late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, city authorities said. "According to the information we have at the moment, several homes and one of the shopping centers [were hit]," city mayor Vitali Klitschko said on his Telegram channel. He said rescue teams were putting out a large fire at the shopping centre, while other details are still to be confirmed. The Kyiv department...
16: The West has imposed sanctions on Russia for its attack on its neighbor Ukraine, and this has apparently had some effect. Adam on Twitter has posted contrasting images of supermarkets in Kyiv and in Moscow. A friend in Russia was in the supermarket last night and sent me this photo," tweeted Adam. Others report a blooming black market in Russia. Stores in Moscow and e-commerce are freezing prices on some goods, Russian Telegram channels reported. Luxury brand stores...
The 331st Guards Parachute Assault Kostroma Regiment, is an elite Russian paratrooper unit who's history goes back to 1946. Apparently, they tried to parachute or otherwise enter Kyiv. All but one member were reportedly killed, and he is in hospital, writes Ukrainsky Pravda. It is not clear whether all 2000 paratroopers in the unit, took part in the combat near Ukraine's capital. The Russian Ministry of Defense has not commented on the report. "The regiment took part in the...
You've no doubt seen the story of Marina Ovsyannikova, the gal who carried a Poster that said "No War, they are lying to you, don't believe propaganda" unto live Russian TV. The young production assistant works at Channel One News, the CBS Evening news of Russia. After 14 hours of interrogation at a police station, Marina was fined $200 and released. The fine was for posting an anti-war video; she may still be charged with "hooliganism" for carrying the poster onto TV. But...
Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger released a video on Social media and to youtube.com, where he speaks directly to Russian soldiers in Ukraine, telling them the truth about their invasion. "I'm sending you this video because things are being kept from you," said the actor, who is from Austria. "Terrible things, that you should know about. But first, let me tell you about my Russian friend that I met when I was 14 years old." He then recounted a...
16: Moscow held a rally today to support its armed forces in Ukraine. The stadium which holds 81,000 people was pretty much filled to capacity. The authorities said that 200,000 people supported the rally. Below is a long quote from Will Vernon, a journalist for the BBC, who attended the rally. This is the picture the Kremlin wants you to see: thousands of people who support President Putin and the "special military operation" in Ukraine, crammed into Luzhniki Stadium in...
Vladimir Putin on Wednesday referred to pro-Western Russians as “scum and traitors” who needed to be removed from society… setting the stage for an ever fiercer crackdown at home and even more aggression abroad. Translation from the Russian by Polina Ivanova, who writes for the Financial Times. The West, Putin said, is betting on the support of a 'fifth column', on "national traitors...on those who make money here, in our country, but live there, and "live" not even in the...
Update: The Russian army released Ivan Federov in exchange for 9 captured soldiers, on March 15, 2022. When Russian soldiers put a hood on the Mayor of Melitopol, Ukraine last week, and led him away to jail, probably few would have believed that this would be the lead up to a public execution. After all, Russia is a modern country which has hosted public demonstrations agains the war (albeit with the protestors being detained in Russian cities such as Moscow and St....
15 A three car collision on Pacific Coast Highway caused a car to roll into the sea on Thursday night just before 10 pm PST. After the vehicle rolled into the ocean, the driver and 2 passengers ran up the beach. The driver was captured later by police. Police took one man to the hospital, he is reported in stable condition. The driver is in custody. Police closed 2 lanes of PCH following the accident....
Some first rate artwork is emerging from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. ""Eastern Orthodox more than Roman Catholics, believe (images, paintings of fallen innocents) qualify as icons, in that they (are) visible images depicting heavenly beings and, in the case of the cherubim, used to indirectly indicate God's presence above the Ark (of the Covenant)" tweeted Koolynx Valtitude. "You probably know that this woman in the photo and her unborn...
A 10-foot sturgeon believed to be between 500 and 600 lbs was caught, tagged, and re-released by a fishing guide in British Columbia. Guide Yves Bisson estimates the fish could've been more than 100 years old. 'I have landed over 22,000 sturgeon on my fishing charters and this was one I'll never forget,' Bisson said. "He's going to go back and tell all the other sturgeons how he was abducted by aliens, and experimented on. None of the others will believe him." wrote...
Novaya Gazeta decided to remain open after other liberal Russian news publications, such as "Rain" TV network, closed. But they said they could not cover Russia's special operation in Ukraine, due to a recent law that could make publishers of "fake news" liable for 15 years in prison. They are, as far as we know, the only Russian language news source to have published a photo of Marina Ovsyannikova as she walked into the camera frame with a protest poster during a live broadca...
A Russian pianist who happens to weigh 594 pounds, chained himself to the door of a McDonald's, reports Russian government news website RT.COM. "After spending 30 years preaching people should be accepted for who they are, the US withdraws restaurants like McDonald's from Moscow," he protested. Russian pianist Luka Safronov, son of prominent Russian artist Nikas Safronov, handcuffed himself to the doors of a McDonald's restaurant in Moscow on Sunday to protest the company's...
You may have heard that Vladimir Putin arrested Sergey Beseda, FSB Chief of Foreign Intelligence, and his deputy Chief of Foreign Intelligence. It was assumed in the West that this was because both men had provided incorrect assessments of the welcome Russian troops would receive in Ukraine. Turns out it's about something far more mundane: the corrupt misuse of government funds. "The arrests seem to be connected to literally billions that were spent by the FSB on recruiting...
Update: Kyiv Independent identifies the woman who rushed the set of Vremya: "During the "Vremya" news program on Russia's main TV channel, Maria Ovsyannikova, a Channel One employee, rushed in front of the camera with a poster saying "stop the war, don't believe the propaganda." She recorded a video before interrupting Channel One's live broadcast. “What is currently happening in Ukraine is a crime. Russia is a country-aggressor.” Ovsyannikova said, in a translation by @Ju...
1 years to the day since British explorer Ernest Shackleton was buried, the Endurance has been found. Working in the Weddell Sea, she was discovered at 3000 meters depth on 5 March 2022, announced the National Geographic Survey. Built of Scandinavian pine and oak, the Endurance was crushed by the ice in 1915. This was filmed by the crew in 1915, amazingly. "I have been thinking much of our prospects," Ernest Shackleton wrote in the austral spring of 1915, adrift in the...
Ukraine Post Office Announces Winner of "Russian Warship, Go F@#K Yourself" Competition. The winning design features a soldier standing on a yellow and blue background, giving a warship the middle finger. The Ukraine post office website is at : https://www.ukrposhta.ua/en There is nothing about this competition on their website, which leads me to believe that it's probably just an internet meme. But it's still a pretty funny one. Another design features the logo "Finders...
