Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A Russian aircraft reportedly bombed and sank one of Ukraine's Island-class patrol boats. P190 Slovyansk was formerly known as WPB-1321 USCGC Cushing. She was given to the Ukrainian navy in February 2019, along with USCGC Drummond which is now P191 Starobilisk. She was bombed in Odessa harbor, where she awaited what could be an amphibious invasion by Russian marines. P190 Slovyansk displaces 168 long tons. She is 110 feet long; about 34 meters. Her crew totaled 16 men,...
"Ukraine's Marines: Thirty enemy aircraft destroyed on the ground at the Kherson Airfield." This tweet from Illia Ponomarenko, Kyiv's Independent's war reporter in Southern Ukraine. If confirmed, this would be a major victory for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There is another tweet from "Euromaidan", which says all 30 aircraft were helicopters, and identifying the name of the airfield as Chernobayivka. There's also a video purportedly of the incident: https:/...
March 3, 2022 - Health officials have moved forward the date for ending the mask mandate in Los Angeles county, removing the mask requirement for most situations starting Friday, March 4. Masks have been required indoors ever since March of 2020, two years ago. For a brief period during the spring of 2021 the fully vaccinated were allowed to take their masks off in indoor situations. But the Delta variant surge starting in the late spring put an end to that indulgence. The...
A patrol group of 10 Russian soldiers were captured in an elevator by Ukraine territorial defense, claims the Eastern European news website 24 Visegrad. A security camera captured this photo of the soldiers, who look like they've just realized their error. They were apparently trying to reach the rooftop to take up sniper positions. The oldest rule of warfare, after all, is take the high ground. "A team of Russian soldiers wanted to use the elevator to reach the roof of an...
March 2, 2022 - A traffic study done by local business owners shows that the removal of Parking Structure 3 from use has already caused considerable traffic backup in the downtown area during peak retail and entertainment hours. This outcome was predicted by earlier traffic studies by the same company. The Parking Network (TPN) conducted a parking and traffic study for the weekend of the Super Bowl, February 12 and 13. While this might seem like an outlier regarding traffic...
March 3, 2022 - Yesterday the California Court of Appeal ruled against a property owner's group to allow the City of Santa Monica to demolish Parking Structure 3 on 4th Street in downtown Santa Monica. The parking structure has been a bone of contention between merchants, property owners, and residents on the one hand and the social-justice-minded Santa Monica City Council on the other. The city government intends to demolish the garage, which holds 336 parking spaces, and...
British singer Gordon Sumner (aka Sting) has re-released "The Russians Love Their Children Too" to highlight Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the beginning, he receives this preface: "I've only rarely sung this song in the many years since it was written, because I never thought it would be relevant again. But In light of one man's woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful unthreatening neighbor, I sing it again. To the Ukrainians fighting this tyranny, and also to the...
People are criticizing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R), after he apparently tweeted this screenshot of Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelensky speaking to Senators Saturday morning, from a bunker in Kyiv. US Security services apparently warned Senators not to tweet photos, least they reveal the endangered man's location to Russian intelligence or military. While there is nothing obvious about Zelensky's location to be taken from the photo, the screenshot may have been helpful to...
12: - Saturday’s evacuation of civilians from Mariupol has been suspended "for security reasons" after Russian forces failed to observe an agreed ceasefire, the Ukrainian parliament said. "I just spoke to Petro Andrushenko an advisor to the mayor in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city where Russia said it was opening a humanitarian corridor. He said they have had to halt the evacuation because Russia shelled the agreed evacuation point where people were to gather," said a s...
Courts & Rulings Legality of resentencing in chambers draws challenge Former Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and victims' rights attorney Kathleen Cady yesterday filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court a document labeled "Victim's Notice of Appearance and Assertion of Rights" in which it was contended that state constitutional rights of the family of a man who was slain on Jan. 23, 1992, would be trammeled if the murderer were resentenced without a public hearing,...
By now, the Ukrainians have taken several hundred Russian prisoners of war, some of which have been released since Ukraine lacks facilities to hold prisoners. But before releasing them, the prisoners are interviewed. One man said he is stationed in Nizhny Novgorod. He was told he was being deployed to military exercises in Belarus. At first, his unit was not even informed that they were being transported South into Ukraine. "One by One the, Ukrainian Army are taking Russia...
Joe Biden actually said the following to Congress at his State of the Union address on 3.1.22: "Our troops are not going to fight Ukraine." Well that's a relief. "A pound of Ukrainian people. Proud proud people." "Putin may encircle Kyiv with Tanks. But he'll never win the hearts of the Iranian people." "I told Chinese President Xi Jin Ping, We'll build roads and bridges, and we'll do it to fight the dangerous infects of climate change." "Technology of the Internet,...
A trumpet player captured by journalist Kristina Berdynskykh (@berdynskykh_k) playing a poignant rendition of the Ukraine national anthem while others residents of Kyiv look on, is making the rounds on social media. The video may be seen at https://twitter.com/Francis_A_K/status/1498402863311208448?s=20&t=9XWPjSaqZ5C_JmIu7tSJ6Q "Listening to this gut-wrenching video of #Ukraine anthem played in a subway station turned bomb shelter. Telling myself that #Putin actually revealed...
Video has emerged of a Ukrainian farmer using his tractor to tow away a Russian Armored Personnel Carrier. In the video, which has a couple discussing the scene in the background while they laugh; a soldier runs after the tractor. Needless to say the video garnered a lot of comments on social media. "That's going to make a heck of a story one day. "My dad stole this tank at the beginning of WW3", wrote Sly Bry. "It is not a tank, by the way. Armored personnel carrier."...
Four days since the invasion began. In the past 24 hours, we have seen limited Russian progress according to multiple sources. My 4th set of observations, noting the ongoing lack of clarity & abundance of ambiguity. 1/24 2/24 Terrific reporting continues from many sources on the Russian invasion. This includes @KofmanMichael, @maxseddon, @IAPonomarenko, @RALee85, @shashj, @DanLamothe, @ikhurshudyan, @McFaul, @defenceHQ, @thestudyofwar, @OrlaGuerin, among many others. 3/24...
As women and children are being evacuated, some Ukrainian women are also joining the military and helping men fight off the Russian army. "Ukrainian army has 17% women soldiers 🇺🇦Among these incredibly brave women, here is the Pict of #IrynaTsvila killed while trying to stop Russian army near #Kyev 🙏🏼 #UkraineUnderAttack #PutinsWar #PutinHitler" reads one unverified post on Twitter. "She is Miss Ukraine, Anasasiia Lenna. Ukraine has 36,000 women serving in the military. I...
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...
February 24, 2022 - Data from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health show that last week the vaccinated were 6.3% more likely to catch Covid-19 than the unvaccinated. This is at least the second week in which numbers dipped the wrong direction for proponents of the idea that it is the unvaccinated who are the main transmitters of the virus. Here are the raw numbers: Total fully vaccinated population: 7,185,622 (71.8% of the county population) Total number of new...
I can't say if it was western sanctions or equipment failure or hacking or something else. But RT.COM is down today. When one tries to pull up the home page, one receives the following error message: "403 - Forbidden . That's an error. Client does not have access rights to the content so server is rejecting to give proper response. That's all we know." The E.U. had announced that it would block Russian government websites "that spread disinformation," such as RT.com. I am...
February 23, 2022 - Los Angeles County Health Department officials today announced they would allow establishments that verify vaccination status or require negative PCR tests of the unvaccinated to have customers and workers remove their masks indoors. Masks have been required at all indoor locations since March of 2020, except for a brief period last spring after the vaccines became available to the general public. Then vaccines proved to be less effective at preventing...
As peace talks began in Belarus, the Russian campaign to subdue Ukraine's second largest city intensified. Video emerged of Russian forces shelling the car parking lot immediately in front of a large residential building in Kharkiv. Other social media reports say dozens of civilians are dead. In some cases, their bodies are in the streets for all to see. In fairness to the Russian Army, note that many civilians have taken up arms against Russians, making them legitimate...
The Observer can't independently confirm this story, but https://www.obozrevatel.com/ is generally considered a reliable, not Ukraine government website. A mutiny among Russian soldiers or mercenaries would be major news, if true. "It seems that something has begun to be suspected in Russian Belgorod. As it became known to OBOZREVATEL, a real riot among servicemen of the Russian Federation took place in the Belgorod region, which borders Kharkiv, Lugansk, Sumy regions. About 5...
More than 100 families have applied to a pilot program that gives priority on Santa Monica's affordable housing waitlist to the households who were displaced by the Civic Auditorium or I-10 Freeway projects in the 1950s and 1960s, civic officials announced this week. The new Below Housing Market program – whose enrollment deadline ended on February 22 – will provide priority in city-funded housing and inclusionary housing for up to 100 households or descendants of hou...
You have no doubt heard the story of 13 brave border guards on Snake Island, 20 miles or so South of the Ukraine coast. When a Russian frigate captain told the border guards to surrender for their own safety, otherwise he would drop a bomb on them, they told the captain to "fuck off." He then blew them all up Not so, says RT.Com. The border guards were in a group of 83 border guards, transported by Russian navy to Sevastopol in Crimea on February 24th. The 13 are alive and...
Making the rounds on social media is a one minute video of an interchange between 2 or 3 Russian soldiers in an armored personnel carrier, and a passing motoriston a country road. "Are you guys broken down?" the man asks the soldiers. "Out of fuel," one Russian soldier says. "Can I tow you back to Russia?" the Ukrainian jokes. The Russian soldiers laugh sarcastically in reply. The Ukranian drivers asking the soldiers if they know where they are going. One says, "to Kyiv," and...
