Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The SMPD is appealing for your help in identifying people who participated in an unlawful way, in the events of May 31, 2020 in downtown Santa Monica. This from Lt. Joseph Cortez, SMPD Public Information Officer: On June 2, 2020, at the direction of the Chief of Police Cynthia Renaud, the Santa Monica Police Department has partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, and the Los Angeles County District...
Public Information Officer Constance Farrell responded to our questions regarding the George Floyd riots. Note: The Los Angeles County District Attorneys' office files felony charges against suspects. The Santa Monica City Attorneys Office files misdemeanor charges. From the Santa Monica City Attorney's Office: How many people have been charged in Santa Monica with misdemeanors? We are still in the process of receiving reports from SMPD to make charging decisions - we have...
In line with the County of Los Angeles, the City of Santa Monica has issued new guidance for Covid-19 social distancing. Churches and synagogues can reopen, with 25% as many congregants. Theaters and swap meets can even resume. But you are encouraged not to drive to work, still. The following activities are now permitted: Faith-based organizations may resume services, with the number of congregants limited to less than 25% of the building's capacity, or a maximum of 100...
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...
The City of Santa Monica Friday apologetically announced a curfew from dusk to dawn, due to the George Floyd rioting. This closely following the loosening of Covid19 restrictions in LA County. Here is the press release from the City of Santa Monica: Tonight, we follow the City of Los Angeles in imposing a City-wide curfew from 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. to ensure public safety across our region. Emergency responders are exempt, as are those traveling to and from work or seeking or...
Minneapolis, 5/29: As volunteers cleared debris and helped board up burned out buildings in South Minneapolis, Minnesota Gov. Walz announced that the police officer at the center of the George Floyd investigation has been taken into custody for Floyd's murder. I walked down to Lake Street this morning. Volunteers were arriving to help clean up. One of the big questions is whether or not Mayor Frey allowed buildings to be burned. "So did the leaders of Minneapolis let this...
The Pier has been a bit of a mystery since the Coronavirus lockdown began 9 weeks ago. It's closed, and the police won't allow you to walk down the ramp to see it for yourself. The 110 year old Santa Monica pier was almost destroyed by storms in 1982, 1983 and 1992. But nothing has threatened the pier's businesses like the Coronavirus shutdown. To find out more about what's going on at the closed monument at the center of Santa Monica's 4 miles of beaches, we spoke to the...
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...
Upset at the killing in custody of George Floyd Tuesday by a white police officer, African-American looters emptied the Target store in South Minneapolis. They wore masks, and took TV sets and other electronics. They emptied the shelves of a large Target, then proceeded to Cub Foods, a grocery store. They set fire to the local Auto Zone store. "This is not a poor area, particularly" explained one local resident. "It just happens to be across the street from the police...
The County of Los Angeles says it is investigating large coronavirus outbreaks at nine industrial facilities in the City of Vernon, including 3 meat packing plants. The Smithfield facility in Vernon is shut down as a result, which is interesting since another Smithfield facility is shut down in the State of North Dakota. The United States may soon experience a meat supply shortage, experts say, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The atmosphere inside meat packing plants is a pos...
On May 14, the City sent out one of its dreaded "updates." This one required citizens to wear face masks when outdoors, even when exercising. Previously, masks had not been required while exercising. Before that, masks outdoors had only been advised and not required. We wondered if there was any science behind the new restriction, which had been instituted the same day by the City of Los Angeles. Both Los Angeles and Santa Monica point to a May 13 Los Angeles Department of Pub...
Supervisor Janice Hahn announced on her Facebook page that effective Friday, May 22, LA County's beach bike paths will be and are, open. Rob Wakefield, owner of Santa Monica Beach Bicycle Rentals, said "This is a real Godsend. Just as the tourist season would ordinarily open, which is our big time of the year, the bike baths open too. What a blessing," he said. "People come from every corner of the planet to explore Venice Beach," he added. "When families walk through the door...
Two men, one in his 60's and one in his 70's, shot an intruder at their deceased relatives home, drawing a large SMPD response just after 8 pm Thursday. Santa Monica Police describe the man who was shot as a white male in his 30's. None of the men resided at the property. The shooters were executors of the Estate of the previous owner of the property. They had arrived at the house to prepare it for sale. The updated SMPD press release reads as follows: "On Thursday, May 21,...
9% of Covid19 patients who are placed on ventilators die anyway. This is a statistical fact. Erin Marie says that she is Registered Nurse in Queens, and also a former E5 Sargeant in the US Army. She has discouraged the use of ventilators on Covid patients. Marie claims the hospital pulled her from her job at the ICU and reassigned her to the ER, because of her advocacy for patients. She also claims hospitals have a financial incentive to diagnose Covid-19 and to place...
Never a stranger to trying to do things they have no legal authority to do, the Santa Monica Rent Control Board is thinking about instituting a rent freeze in Santa Monica. Board Chair Nicolle Phillis raised the issue at the May 14 meeting, even though Board Executive Director Tracy Condon noted there is nothing in the City Charter that allows this. Phillis said it might be time to call for emergency powers. "At a minimum, we owe it to the public to be talking about it...
Every day, the city of Santa Monica sends out at least one "Covid-19 Update." The word 'update' is a euphemism for a new commandment. In fact, there is often more than one 'update' per day. These so-called updates from the ruling class graciously inform we lesser orders what activities we may engage in, where we may engage in such permitted activities, and how we must be outfitted in order to be permitted such unexpected boons. Never do these orders cite any studies or data...
A butane “honey oil“ factory exploded in downtown Los Angeles this evening and is now considered a crime scene. 11 firefighters were injured, three of them seriously. All are expected to recover. “Honey oil“ is the vernacular for marijuana extract or CBD oil. The manufacture of which is a frequent source of fires. The fire broke out at 6:30 PM in the toy district and it was contained just after 8 PM. 5/16: An explosion in downtown Los Angeles Saturday afternoon left multipl...
The 26 year old Santa Cruz county man killed by a shark Friday afternoon has been identified as Ben Kelly. The founder of Ben Kelly Surfboards was described as an ethical person, who was passionate about crafting surfboards. "It wasn't a way to get rich for him. He just loved the surf, the sand and the sea" remembered one friend and customer. Kelly leaves behind a wife and many friends, and a website www.benkellysurfboards.com. It says: "Why do I shape surfboards? Well... it's...
According to the Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health (LACDPH), a total of 1530 people in LA County have died of Coronavirus had underlying health conditions. These frequently include morbid obesity, diabetes, dementia, or cancer in some form. Los Angeles County has 10,000,000 residents including those illegally in the country. Thus, the County's death rate is .0153. The infection rate is therefore %0.31 in LA County, or 3 in 1000 residents. To date, Public Health has...
A parade of cars wound around St. Johns early in the evening of Saturday May 2nd. It was intended to show support and say "Thank You" to the Frontline workers at hospitals of St. John's and UCLA. Participants met at McKinley Elementary School parking lot on Chelsea Avenue. Supporters stayed in cars but were invited to "cheer, honk, have noisemakers, signs, flags, decorate their cars to show appreciation for the nurses and doctors," said a message to potential participants. "Th...
No matter what you think about how the City Council acted Tuesday night to address a potential $224 million deficit over the next two years, you have to feel pain. Not even pain for anybody in particular, just in general. Because what a City press released called "what may be remembered as the hardest City Council meeting in the City's history" was confirmation we are a community in pain. Deep cuts like these are happening or will soon happen all over the world. But these part...
A student has hacked into the Gmail system used by SMMUSD to inform teachers, parents and students of events, changes in the schools planning, etc. This according to an email sent by school district superintendent Ben Drati Saturday morning. "Around midnight last night, one student accessed the system and was able to send messages to all students for 16 minutes, before it was discovered by our technology team. The system was then disabled," according to an Email on behalf of S...
In the next few days, inside sources say, California Gov. Gavin Newsom will close all California State Beaches, due to Covid-19. This according to a source with access to the Governor's office, by way of Bill Melugin, a reporter at FoxLA. Gov. Gavin Newsom called images of packed California beaches from over the weekend "an example of what not to do," during his daily media briefing Monday. The lockdown was initially intended to not overwhelm the health care system. Outside...
We are now in our sixth week of Coronavirus shutdown and here in Santa Monica, residents are clearly developing cabin fever. People are traveling to Orange County on the weekends to go to beaches because Los Angeles County beaches are closed. Meanwhile Los Angeles County has an infection rate of .03% and a death rate of 0.005% due to Covid-19. When will this all end? Some people say it will end when we get sick of it and stop the authoritarianism leadership of LA county and...
A naked homeless man crashed through the roof of a Venice apartment he was apparently trying to enter. This according to a neighbor, who posted the incident and a photo on social media. "40 minutes later, after causing a lot of damage and terror, LAPD arrived and tased him," she wrote. The scene of the crime was Rose Ave in Venice, late Tuesday morning. It was posted on NextDoor: "[Just the new normal](https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=146296359) "This guy broke into an...
