Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The People's Republic of China is apparently preparing for war by passing a mobilization statute. This according to independent reporter Jennifer Zeng, who has been both right and wrong about Beijing in the recent past. " Ready for #war?" @jenniferzeng97 tweeted. "#CCP has quietly passed its Reserve Military Service Law, which will take effect on 3/1/2023. Anyone who is 18 years or older is obliged to enlist after a national defense mobilization is announced. "After receiving...
Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82. Her family says she had "a brief illness" before dying. Jo Raquel Welch first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became best-selling posters that...
Is it a precursor to a Chinese invasion, or an alien invasion? Well, probably not, but a series of lights over the skies of North Eastern Nevada have people wondering. This comes after a series of UFO's, believed to be Chinese balloons, were shot down by US Aircraft. The first was the large balloon off the coast of North Carolina. The second was off Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The third was over Montana, and the fourth was over Lake Huron. Even the U.S. Air Force appears to be...
Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A collision between an American Airlines Airbus A321 and a shuttle bus on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport Friday left five people injured, officials said. Airport officials said in a statement that a jet being towed from a gate to a parking area "made contact with a shuttle bus" resulting in injuries to about five people. The Airbus A321 was empty of passengers and only had one airport worker on board. The driver of the tug vehicle pulling the...
Hilarious comedian Jiaoying Summers brought the glamor to her sold out birthday show roast at The Hollywood Comedy. Jiaoying wowed in a House of Mua Mua beautiful pink gown as she sipped on XOJU cocktails and had the crowd laughing at her biting wit, which included stunning Bling Empire star Leah Qin. Sponsored by Mandalay, Younger World and SUM Ventures....
Gov. Gavin Newsom has made a round of appointments to the Superior court bench. Our retired former Assemblymember is one of them. Richard Bloom, 69, of Los Angeles County, has been appointed to serve as a Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Bloom served as a California State Assemblymember representing the 50th Assembly District from 2013 to 2022. Bloom was Executive Director for Community Initiatives at People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) from 2008 to 2010 and...
Gaziantep Castle is a castle on top of a mound in the center of Gaziantep, Turkey. First used as an observation point during the Hittite Empire, it was expanded into a castle during the Roman Empire. The castle was severely damaged by the earthquakes in February 2023. However, some on Twitter are saying that the section that has collapses is a 'restored' part, not the original Roman castle. "Theodosian Walls have been restored several times and they collapse every time...
14: We are receiving reports of an active shooter situation at Upland High School in Upland, San Bernardino County, California. The Upland Police Department cancelled an earlier alert at about 10:30 am, so the report is somewhat confusing. This morning we, along with other local agencies, received a report of a shooting at our high school. Our officers responded to the school and deemed this to be a non-credible report. The safety of our students and school staff is...
You may have noticed the white SUVs with the rotating lights on the roof, on the streets of Santa Monica. Soon, you will see them driving without drivers. Waymo's announced that it will also offer a robotaxi service in Los Angeles starting in 2023. So sightings of Waymos on Westside streets are becoming more common. You may even see one without a driver. I'm always reminded of that scene in Total Recall, the 1998 version with Arnold Schwarzenegger where he ends up a passenger...
An initial earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8, whose epicenter was in south central Turkey, downed buildings and raised the specter of a humanitarian crisis. A second earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.5, struck southeastern Turkey hours later, the United States Geological Survey said. This is Turkey's earthquake map. "A huge fault line broke between Kahramanmaraş and Malatya. This is the reason why such strong and frequent earthquakes occur. The last time such an earthquake...
A mentally ill individual caused Santa Monica Blvd to come to a halt Tuesday morning by blocking traffic with his body and his actions. A Santa Monica Big Blue Bus had to wait for police to remove the individual before it could proceed. We asked Lt. Rudy Flores why traffic came to a halt and why Santa Monica Blvd., was blocked off at 11th Street "Officers responded to 14th / Santa Monica regarding a male standing in the middle of the street throwing things at passing...
img 1) Left Preston Ezewiro from the Mira Costa High School boys varsity basketball team attempts a shot at the basket while Anton Berge Wells makes an attempt to block the shot by Ezewiro on January 31st 2023 inside the north gym on the campus of Samohi as Samohi hosted Mira Costa in a bay league basketball game and lost 59-36 with the loss Samohi's record falls to 3-6 in league play 16-11 overall. IMG2) Left Joshua Hecht leaps into air as shoot the basketball at the basket...
According to LA County officials, 24,000 gallons of untreated sewage leaked into three of the city's beaches Wednesday. The Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health (LACDPH) downgraded the size of the spill after three beaches were shut down on Wednesday; it's unclear when they will re-open. "Water contact may cause someone to become ill," the department warned. "Heal the Bay scientists also recommend avoiding recreational activities requiring contact with waters in...
(AP) Hamzah Alsaudi, a senior on the wrestling team at San Francisco State University, disappeared Jan. 19 after taking a "cold plunge" in the ocean at Esplanade Beach in Pacifica. Teammates told police Alsaudi went in with two teammates but was swept away by a large wave. "It's very hard to accept that they stopped the search for a strong person like Hamzah," said his mother, Nadia Shaheen. Police said rescue crews searched for Alsaudi until about 8:30 p.m. on the day he...
IMG 1) Left Owen Lagerwey from the Mira Costa High School boys varsity soccer team is shielded from the soccer ball by Kieran Quinn from Santa Monica High School at Santa Monica High School on Monday January 30th 2022 as SAMOHI hosted Mira Costa in a bay league soccer match in which Costa won 2-1 in overtime. With the loss SAMOHI's record dropped to 3-5-1 in league and 9-7-1 overall IMG 2)Left Nikolas Wheeler from the Santa Monica High School boys varsity soccer team half voll...
9: A Kremlin spokesman dismissed former British PM Boris Johnson's claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the claim as a "lie" Monday, telling reporters "What Mr. Johnson said is not true. More precisely, it is a lie," he said according to an NBC News translation of the comments. The former U.K. prime minister recalled a phone call with Putin in a BBC documentary in February 2022, just b...
Ask Rusty – About Difficulty with Social Security's Sign-in Process Dear Rusty: Last month I tried to contact Social Security who never picked up a phone on their end. The same with the IRS. When I finally got through, they said I had to join ID.me before they could help me. That took me over a week, and many applications and rejects, to get through. The last step was holding up my Social Security card and my driver's license on a Zoom call to an ID.me representative. I f...
Tuesday's gun battle that disrupted downtown Santa Monica, turns out, was just a dispute between friends. Manuel Jaramillo, 52, fired several rounds at Emilio Reyes, 43. One struck Reyes in the arm. He reacted by ramming his SUV into the van driven by Jaramillo. Below is the press release from Lt. Rudy Flores, SMPD PIO: On January 24, 2023, at approximately 3:42 PM, Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) Officers were flagged down by several people, who heard gunshots near 6th...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter scale, jolted Santa Monica and other westside LA communities awake at 2 am on Wednesday morning. There were no immediate results of damage or injury. It was the biggest earthquake in 30 years in Santa Monica, California. The jolt was followed by an aftershock at 2:03 am, about 3 minutes later, which measured 3.5. The quake was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 10 miles south of Malibu, the earthquake registered...
Seven people were shot to death Monday evening in Half Moon Bay, CA. This comes less than 48 hours after 10 people were murdered in Monterey Park by a 762 year old man named Huu Cam Tran. And this shooting also involved an Asian suspect and victims 67 year old Zhao Chunli was arrested after the San Mateo County shooting. Authorities said that at least 4 people were shot and killed. More shooting victims were reported at a second location. City councilwoman Debbie Ruddock said...
Update: 5:30 PM shooter identified at Huu Can Tran, 37, deceased. Update 2 pm:The suspect in the Monterey Park massacre was found shot and dead in a van in Torrance CA, according to multiple news sources. One hour ago, a witness saw a bullet hole in the side window of the van and a collapsed body. Update, 11 am PST: Police have a suspect wanted for questioning in the Monterey Park mass shooting last night in a white van. This SWAT barricade situation is currently unfolding in...
China today made an announcement long expected but still almost unbelievable: For the first time in 6 decades, the PRC's population declined in 2022. By the end of 2022, China's population had decreased by almost 850,000, to 1.41175 billion, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The National Bureau of Statistics thought that the sharp 2022 population decline was due in part to Covid restrictions, and would reverse itself in 2023. Foreign demographers doubted this...
A body was found in parking lot 1 on November 2, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), writes Lt. Rudy Flores. They discovered he had been stabbed by a friend. Almost three months later, a suspect was arrested in Michigan. Here is the press release: Officers were dispatched to the Lot 1 North Parking Lot at 1550 Pacific Coast Highway to check the status of a male inside a vehicle that appeared to be deceased. When officers arrived on scene, they confirmed...
A man pointing guns at cars brought the Santa Monica Police to Kansas Ave and Cloverfield on Wednesday evening, January 18, 2023. The man ran from officers as they arrived at about 9:25 pm. The suspect, later identified as Andres Isaac Solorio, jumped the fence to an enclosed and secured patio of an apartment in the 2500 block of Kansas Ave. Officers heard residents of the units, yelling for help. Solorio then jumped back into the breezeway and fled on foot into the...
