Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are in critical condition and undergoing surgery after being ambushed Saturday night in their patrol car outside the Metro Blue Line station in Compton, suffering multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said. The two deputies, a male and female officer with the Transit Services Bureau, were shot multiple times at the Compton Police station on Saturday night. Video released by LASD shows a male suspect walking up to the car and...
There are currently 20 large #wildfires burning 476,027 acres in Oregon & Washington. Extreme fire weather continues across the region. We all need to do everything we can to minimize every single spark because, w/these conditions, a spark could easily result in a wildfire," tweeted the Oregon Fire Service. A young woman named Emily took a set of 4 photos from the Oregon coast, that are, well, eerie. Many communities are enduring evacuation orders, including in Marion...
Some days you eat the bear, and other days, the bear eats your Tostitos. A California brown bear weighing some 350 lbs walked into a grocery store in South Lake Tahoe, California on Thursday night. He was filmed by a woman named Adina Baidoo as he strode out of the market, not even offering to pay. "Okay, so for really real, this bear – this actual bear right there that I almost walked into – has gone into Safeway and has decided that he's going to go shopping. I was on 50...
Rioters set the Multnomah County Courthouse on fire in Portland Oregon Tuesday evening at 11 pm. Simultaneously, the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, nominated former VP Joe Biden as their candidate for President of the United States. People on the ground in Portland reported that first responders were blocked from the building by a group of several hundred rioters. The 19th century building also houses the headquarters of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Dept. The...
Covid-19 will be the death of many retail businesses, many but not all of them non-chain restaurants. For the last half century, Enterprise Fish Company has sold salmon, lobbed lobster and hailed halibut in a brick seafood themed store just off of Main Street. Now, that business has closed. Fisher Hardware is also closed in its Lincoln and Colorado location. No doubt the land will go for high density housing, because who doesn't want to live at Lincoln and Colorado? Bourget...
Some dude on the left set up a fake Antifa recruiting website. He also buried the email address of famous Conservative podcaster, Ben Shapiro in the code. Shapiro is known as a legal and political scholar but not as any sort of leftist or recruiter. On Monday Morning, it was the top trending item on Twitter. "A rumor started over the weekend that I was trying to catfish people on the left," said Shapiro on Monday morning. "They set up a fake recruiting website, and put my...
8/5/20: Before and after photos of the blast, show the port of Beirut scorched and lifeless. The photos from Planet Lab, are visible at the bottom of this story. Lebanese sources report that the welding of a door caused sparks which ignited 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which caused explosion at Beirut Port Tuesday. The explosion first touched off a fire with gray smoke. Moments later, a huge explosion shook the entire city, and a mushroom cloud filled the sky. Here are the...
The son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was shot and killed Sunday evening, by a gunman dressed as a FedEx driver. Her husband was also shot and is listed in critical condition. On the internet, conspiracy theories reach new heights as Esther Salas' family is tragically attacked in what seems like a professional hit. Salas is presiding over the Deutsche Bank vs. Jeffrey Epstein Estate civil case. The matter is suspicious to say the least, but it's not clear who the gunman...
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg has been undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer. In a statement that seeks to minimize speculation that she will soon retire from the Court, she claims her recent hospitalization is due to gallstones and is not related to her cancer reoccurrence. "I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam. I remain fully able to do that, she says. "On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy...
Ángela Martínez Gómez died on Monday, July 6, 2020. No cause of death has yet been released. Gomez, 42, worked at local fast food purveyor Burger King on Santa Monica Blvd. Her last shift was on June 29th. Yolanda Garcia told the Daily Mail that she is now the third worker to develop symptoms of COVID-19, but claims Burger King is yet to contact any employees about quarantining or getting tested after managers allegedly said Angela had died from injecting herself with hormones...
7/8/2020: The Santa Monica Police Department has arrested 4 people for looting Patagonia, during the riots of 5/31, police said. Two couples (two men and two women) were arrested for removing a safe from the store. Two men and two women were caught on security camera removing a safe from the Patagonia Inc clothing store. “On July 3 , 2020 Santa Monica Police Department Detectives from the Special Investigations Unit and officers from the Crime Impact Team served multiple s...
7/5/20: A man died early Saturday morning after jumping from a pedestrian bridge, onto the 10 Freeway just north of the McClure Tunnel. The Santa Monica Police Department says that officers receive a report of a person down in the 1500 block of PCH at 4:40 a.m. Police say that they responded and located a male victim deceased in the northbound lanes. Evidence at the scene suggests the man jumped onto the freeway and was dragged a couple hundred yards by a vehicle. Suicides...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced its plans for Fall semester 2020. In light of ICE's plan to deport foreign college students who are only enrolled online, MIT will invite all foreign students. Also Seniors are allowed to live at MIT and take classes conventionally. US Immigration has announced that it would deport students who outstayed their Visa's, if they are only taking classes in the US online. The theory is that they could just as easily take...
Saturday night social justice warriors shut down I-5 in Seattle, the way they have shutdown freeways since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25th. They used their bodies. The Seattle police reacted with tolerance by shutting down I-5. But one driver either accidentally or deliberately took matters into his own hands, plowing into a crowd of protestors, injuring 4 and killing one. "Summer Taylor, 24, and their friend, Diaz Love, were hit by a c...
The LA County Board of Supervisors has decided to close all its beaches for the July 4th weekend. The LA County Sheriff's Dept. said that it was surprised by the order, and would not enforce it. It is unclear whether or not the Santa Monica Police Department will enforce the order. Below is the press release from the county board of supervisors: Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced the closure of our beaches, piers, beach bike paths, and beach access...
In only the second arrest warrant known to have been issued for a participant in the George Floyd related riots on May 31, 2020, the Santa Monica Police have asked for the public's help in arresting a suspect. The FBI offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the identification and arrest of this unknown suspect. Details from the arrest bulletin sent by Santa Monica Public Information Officer Lt. Joseph Cortez, are as follow: The Santa Monica Police...
Apple has once again closed the Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade, among other stores. The iPhone purveyor Thursday closed US stores in states where COVID-19 cases numbers are rising amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. Apple closed 77 stores across 11 different states on July 2, as those regions report record cases of the virus. Of the states, California will see the most closures, with Apple shuttering 15 stores. Stores closed include the Glendale Galleria, Third...
Today Governor Gavin Newsom ordered all restaurants, museums, zoos, cardrooms, theaters, and wineries in LA County to stop indoor operations for at least 3 weeks, writes LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn. "This joins a similar announcement this past Sunday closing LA County bars. LA County beaches will also be closing for the holiday weekend," Hahn writes. "All of these closures are for the same reason: Our cases are simply too high and our hospitalization rate is increasing...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered closed all bars, wineries, nightclubs and brewpubs closed in 7 counties. This is similar to an order issued on March 15, then mitigated on June 15 in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Restaurants may remain open but can serve only half as many as their maximum occupancies to create space between diners, Newsom said at a news conference. The counties under the mandatory bar closure order are: Los Angeles, Fresno, San...
What will happen to the Massive White Elephant buildings nearing completion on Lincoln Blvd? Will young people earning $3000 a week at Google, Snapchat and Facebook line up to lease expensive NYC style high density apartments with freeway views? It's an open question what will happen to rents locally. One view is that it's even more important now to live in a nice place, since you're going to be there all day. An opposing view is now more than ever, it's okay to live anywhere...
Henry Runge, the cerebral and deeply inoffensive man who owns Wonders of the World Gallery and Museum at Lincoln and Broadway, reportedly is in the hospital recovering from injuries he suffered when he was attacked by rioters and looters the evening of May 31, in his Santa Monica store. The store sells archaeological artifacts and dinosaur bones, and is one of the few places in the world where you can buy a triceratops skull, if you have an extra $10,000 or so to spend on it....
As one group of people chanted "Black Lives Matter!" another group of people looted Santa Monica place. " I live in Santa Monica & all the instigators are from out of town - one had Florida plates." tweeted one local resident. People blamed the police for monitoring the demonstration, and leaving the Promenade alone while looters, most of them shall we say, "members of the community," smashed store windows and disappeared with Vans shoes, Gap clothing and Bloomingdales...
Angry at the police, protestors have set fire to the Third Precinct Police Station just before 11 pm local time in Minneapolis, MN. In life he was a security guard, and his surviving girlfriend begged people not to commit crimes in his name. But the police station is reportedly on fire Thursday night. Minnesota Governor calls in the National Guard. 500 troops are heading to Minneapolis-St. Paul, as local authorities completely lose control over South Minneapolis. The City of...
Mayor Pro Tempore Terry O’Day told KTLA that businesses should board up their windows given the damage already left so far. “I’m not sure how the rest of the evening is going to go,” O’Day told KTLA. “Hopefully, we can get this place cleared out," referring to Santa Monica Place. On Wilshire Blvd, looters broke into Big 5 Sporting Goods, again using George Floyd protestors to run cover for them. They have faith that the Police will not shoot them, and so far casualties...
Americans are locked down, but Americans are returning to space. However, at 1:15 pm PST, NASA announced that weather has delayed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. With lightning reported up and down the East Coast of the US, today was just not the right time for the launch, said NASA. The launch is now set for Saturday at 3:22 pm. The order to scrub came down 15 minutes and 54 seconds before the launch. Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and...
