Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In an intercepted radio communication between a young Russian serviceman and his parents, an unnamed conscript tells his parents that three tank guys" in his unit gang raped a 16 year old girl. It's not a boast; the mom makes a sound like they all agree this is wrong. He also says that they ate a dog yesterday. "We eat MRE's every day, but we get tired of them. We wanted meat." he explains. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in its 36th day. Reportedly some conscripted...
16: Tonight's Academy Awards ceremony included a moment of silence for Ukraine. Aides for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had proposed a last-minute slot at the Academy Awards Sunday night, but the producers decided that would be too overtly political. A week ago, says the New York Times, a push for backing Ukraine during the Oscars began when Kunis, an actress of Ukrainian origin, and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, spoke on a video call with Ukrainian...
The city of Santa Monica has finalized a settlement with a 31-year-old man who was struck in the head by a gunshot fired by a former Santa Monica Police Department officer, officials announced this week. The $1.75 million settlement was approved by the Santa Monica City Council Tuesday night, according Daniel Balaban, the plaintiff's attorney. A notice filed in Los Angeles federal court on March 14 stated that the complaint filed by attorneys for Van Nuys resident Wolfgang...
March 24, 2022 - Last week, 100 additional people died of the Covid virus, as such deaths are calculated by the LA County Department of Public Health. 80 of those deaths were of vaccinated individuals. Currently, 72.5% of the county is fully vaccinated. If the vaccine had no effect, then one would expect roughly 72.5% of deaths to occur in vaccinated people. Instead 7.5% more deaths than expected occurred among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated last week. The vaccines have...
Update 3.27 Wall it was initially reported that the Orsk had been sunk, it was in factor sistership Saratov that was hit. “At 7:45 AM, a Tochka-U SRBM was fired towards the landing ships Saratov, Tsesar Kunikov, and Novocherkassk. To avoid an explosion, Saratov sunk at a depth of 5 meters. Kunikov and Novercherkassk left port damaged. 8 killed on Kunikov and 3 killed and 3 injured.” 3.24.22: In another significant development in the Russia Ukraine war, the Ukrainian Navy cla...
11: At about 2 pm PST, the main road leading down from downtown Santa Monica onto Pacific Coast Highway was closed due to a potential "jumper," a person who threatens to kill himself. Police were attempting to talk him out of suicide, and the road was closed in both directions causing a backup. "Update: The Crisis Negotiations Team is on scene and attempting contact with a distraught individual resulting in the closure of the California Incline. We thank you for your...
A very vivid picture has emerged of mandatory lockdowns in Shenzhen Province. Sometimes called China's Silicon Valley, Shenzhen province has a population of 20 million people. The following is from a post on Twitter: I'm in Shenzhen now, where I live. The video of the man being shamed for climbing the fece for food is the desperation we can all feel after just one week. The building I live in is completely shut off by a big metal gate that's guarded 24/7. Tests are done every...
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,...
Imagine the Ukraine army not only pushing Russia back from recently occupied areas, but from the areas it took from Ukraine in 2014. It's a worst case scenario for Russian military planners. According to the Ukraine government, Russians in Crimea realize their military is in complete collapse, and they're trying to get out of town before the worst case possibility comes to pass. "Russia is preparing to block Russians from leaving occupied Crimea," tweeted Euromaidan Press....
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...
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...
March 18, 2022 - The City of Santa Monica prevailed against local business owners in its goal to demolish Parking Structure 3 on 4th Street downtown, but the site remains embroiled in litigation. The Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association still has a lawsuit pending against the transformation of the site from parking into supportive housing. Originally, Superior Court Judge Michael Beckloff granted an injunction against demolition, on grounds that the California...
During the fighting in the Mariupol region, the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet, captain of the first rank Andrey Paliy, was killed. This was reported by the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev and the senator from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva . The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has not officially confirmed the death of Paly. Paliy graduated from the Kiev Higher Naval Political School in 1992 with a degree in social psychology. The following...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Courts & Rulings FBI wins narrow high court ruling on failed mosque sting operation The FBI can invoke privilege for state secrets to duck a lawsuit over a failed operation spying on Muslims after 9/11, the Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision Friday. Sheikh Yassir Fazaga, an imam with the Orange County Islamic Foundation, brought the suit with two other Muslim men over a decade ago, saying their rights were violated through the FBI counterterrorism investigation...
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...
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...
