Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Authorities responded to a person threatening to jump off a bridge in Santa Monica Tuesday, causing a traffic tie up as first responders rallied, the SMPD said in a press release. Video of the incident has appeared on the Facebook group Santa Monicans Against Crime, posted by Janet McLaughlin. We watched as SM Police and Firemen pulled reluctant man off the bridge, over the rail and to safety. Police and the SMFD responded to the incident just after 9 a.m. on Ocean Avenue and...
Immigration sources confirm that Jose Solano Landaeta, the suspect who beheaded a 27 year old mother of two in a San Carlos, CA neighborhood September 8th, was in the United States illegally. Jose Solano Landaeta, 33 from Venezuela, entered the country on a tourist visa about ten years ago, say ICE sources. He never left. Landaeta is said to have swung a Samurai sword at his ex-girlfriend's neck, separating her head from her body. First responders were said to have been revolt...
Rarely have I seen a turn in the weather so abrupt as this Friday afternoon. Suddenly, the 97 degree heat and humidity has persisted for 2 weeks in Santa Monica was just over. The palm trees started swaying in the wind. The clouds blocked the sun and rain started falling on the parched landscape. Hurricane Kay was expected to bring 100 MPH winds into the mountains east of San Diego. On pricey Montana Avenue, people hurried to escape the coming storm. While Kay has weakened to...
21 Queen Elizabeth II, whose seven decades on the throne of the United Kingdom was a longer reign than any other British monarch, has died at the age of 96. The queen "died peacefully" on Thursday afternoon at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands, royal family officials announced. She died with her entire family gathered around her. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and of 14 other sov...
Los Angeles was shocked to hear of a gunfire incident at the Mobil gasoline station down the block from the Beverly Center. Two men jumped out of a white SUV and opened fire on the occupants of a black SUV. On August 19, 2022, rapper Tyquian Bowman aka "Quando Rondo" was shot at near the Beverly Center in West Hollywood. Bowman was reported to have been shot. However, on August 20th his representatives denied that he was wounded in the incident, or that he had been hospitalize...
Photos of people being freed from salvery are rare. This photo was taken in 1907 after Slavery was outlawed in most of the known world-but still being practiced as part of the Arab slave trade. The British frigate had intercepted a slaving ship and freed several men. The sailor is sawing off his shackle (not his foot), as the man looks in the other direction. This man was saved off the coast of Oman, just prior to being sent into longer-term slavery-by the skin of his neck....
15: A long narrow light has been seen over towns from Ontario Canada through Boulder Colorado to Texas. There is some suggestion that it is a satellite, though it doesn't look like something SpaceX launched. "what did it look like for you?? It looked like a string of lights that wasn't always in a straight line either?" tweeted Pottery Maven. "I think those are the Starlink satellites that Musk keeps sending up," tweeted Alex Morris "They just launched from California...
Authorities in Boulder City, Nevada, say they are headed to the Hoover Dam after reports of an explosion Tuesday morning. This according to the AP. Videos posted on social media showed what appeared to be a fire or explosion in a building near the base of the dam. Officials say a transformer briefly caught fire Tuesday at Hoover Dam, there were no injuries reported. “There is no risk to the power grid and power is still being generated,” according to Jacklynn L. Gould of the...
Santa Monica firefighters extinguished a fire at 100 Palisades Drive early Tuesday morning, by chopping a hole in the building's roof. This according to Capt. Patrick Nulty, who sent the following press release: On Tuesday July 12th, 2022 at approximately 8:36 a.m. Santa Monica Firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire in the 100 block of Palisades Avenue. Upon arrival, Firefighters found a two-story apartment building with a working fire in one unit on the...
15: The State of California has broken grounds on a new pedestrian bridge over PCH that connects Will Rogers State Beach with the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon. The State budgeted $11 million to build the bridge, and to widen the existing bike path. Located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Will Rogers State beach is owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. However, it is managed and maintained by the Los Angeles County Depa...
On Saturday, two men snatched a woman's purse, then stole her Ford Explorer and left the scene. Police were called. They tried to pull over the Explorer, which hit a parked car near 14th Street and Pearl. They driver surrendered, but the passenger, one Lavonte Montgomery, gave the police a foot chase. He ran ten blocks north and was later taken into custody at Pine Street and 14th Street. Police arrested him. They basically charged the men with robbery, reckless driving, and...
The deaths of an aspiring actress and her architect friend have been ruled homicides, says the LA County Coroner's office. This result was not too surprising, given that David Pearce has been charged with murder after the two were dumped outside local hospitals. Christy Giles, 24, and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, both died of “multiple drug intoxication,” says the Los Angeles County Clinical Examiner-Coroner. Marcela Cabrales-Arzola also suffered numerous organ fai...
In a Chrome stable channel update announcement, published March 25, Google confirms it "is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild." In an unprecedented response, Google Inc aka Alphabet, issued an emergency security update on its Chrome browser. It confirmed that attackers are exploiting "a high severity zero-day vulnerability," meaning your data could be mined by guys in a cafe in Lagos, Nigeria. The emergency update to version 99.0.4844.84 of Chrome is hi...
The Azov Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim that they have killed a 4th Army general, this time in combat near Ukraine. The heavily contested city has also been the site of around 2500 civilian casualties. Major General Oleg Mityaev, commander of the elite 150th motorized rifle division of the Russian army, was killed today near Mariupol. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented yet on the claim. The Russians have lost 3 other Major Generals and no less than...
While the majority of Americans both on the political right and left, deplore last month's Russian invasion of Ukraine; a few welcome it as being on the right side of history. "CPI opening ceremony with Soviet and American flags with The Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner playing in the background before the unvailing of the Donetsk People's Republic flag! Proud to be apart of this historic day!" Tweeted Dr. Ryan L. Cotten. He is a self described "Marxist-Leninist,"...
In a story that this reporter anticipates will get Fox News Host Tucker Carlson fired; Carlson basically said that the US is lying about its bioweapons program in Ukraine, not Russia "Military biological development labs funded by the US are under development in Ukraine. That's the Russian claim," said Tucker "What exactly are they, the US Government, doing in these secret biological research labs? Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, it's not exactly a hotbed of...
As you might expect, conspiracy theories are making the rounds on Russian social media. One theory that the real reason Russia invaded Ukraine has nothing to do with history, national pride, neo-Nazi's or internal Ukraine politics. It's about the CIA Biolabs, of course. The US Embassy to Ukraine denied these rumors 2 years ago. But some Russians nevertheless deflect blame for their invasion, on the US and the CIA. "I'm not sure what the whole truth is, but for one, there are...
Someone in Ukraine's government tax office has a sense of humor. A post from Ukraine's tax office says there is no need to declare captured Russian tanks or other equipment as income. The release reads as follows: "Have you captured a Russian tank or armored personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland! There is no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment, because the cost of this ... does not...
2/16/22 The RCMP has arrested a cougar in a neighborhood of Vancouver. For, well, stalking I guess. This from CanadaPoliceReport.com. The report is reprinted below. The cougar was tranquilized, and released elsewhere. Which impressed me especially, since I witnessed Santa Monica police shoot a mountain lion who wandered into downtown Santa Monica in 2012. The cougar is also called Puma, Mountain Lion or Catamount. The big cat is listed as Least Concern by biologists, who not...
Why is Vladimir Putin suddenly making such a big issue about Ukraine? After all, the Soviet Union broke up 30 years ago and Ukraine has been independent ever since. What if his crisis level urgency has an otherworldly explanation? Some speculate that the answer is about a race to reverse engineer alien technology. I don't know if I believe it myself, but it does explain why there's suddenly a large US military facility in Poland near the border with Belarus. It explains the...
The AP Reports that in a last minute meeting brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joseph R. Biden has agreed to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, possibly in Paris, in a summit next week. Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. But the comparison between Biden and 1938's British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, are obvious. In 1938, Chamberlain agreed to meet Hitler, and came away with a deal allowing the Fuhrer to walk away with the Sudetenland, the...
8: Some were reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds," when surveillance footage captured a bizarre moment. One Tuesday afternoon, ordinary life in a neighborhood in Mexico was interrupted when a flock of birds fell from the sky mid-flight. A local veterinarian told police in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua that the birds could have died after inhaling toxic fumes. But others believe it's more likely that they were struck by lightning mid flight. "Those...
According to a post on NextDoor, dognappers attempted to steal a French Bulldog from an owner in Santa Monica. The three teenagers pinned the owner on the ground. But he beat them off through use of pepper spray. Lady Gaga's bulldogs were famously the subject of a theft in 2021. Los Angeles County is currently experiencing a crime wave, as are other areas of the US. The Nextdoor post reads as follows: "*DOG THIEVES IN OCEAN PARK* I was just jumped in broad daylight by 3...
Elon Musk would be proud. In a show of support to send the crypto currency "to the Moon," the Santa Monica Pier will display the Shiba Inu dog that represents Dogecoin in lights on the Ferris Wheel. The Ferris wheel is part of Pacific Park, the amusement park on the Santa Monica pier. The Pier is 111 years old, and is a symbol of Los Angeles and of Santa Monica. Doge is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu dog...
2/1/22: I've never really warmed up to Whoopi Goldberg. Aside from culturally appropriating my own ethnicity (her real name is Karen Henry); she just isn't that funny. She also walks with a heavy helping of self righteousness. She speaks about topics of which she has no particular knowledge. Nowhere was that more evident than when she said that the Holocaust in WWII was not a reflection of Racism, because it was white people killing other white people. Anyone who has read...
