Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Like a lot of Americans today, I do a lot of "thrifting"---seeking bargains at thrifts around the L.A. area. One of my regular stops is the Council Thrift next to the large post office on Venice Blvd. Due to the always overbearing parking enforcement on Venice---and the awkward bike lane now between the parked cars and the sidewalk (thanks to the social engineers who decided THAT was a good idea)---I tend to like to park on the quiet side street, Inglewood Blvd., where I can...
Editor's Note: This is an official press release from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Spanish language text omitted. SACRAMENTO – With extreme weather stretching California's energy grid and threatening public health and safety, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services issued an emergency alert at 5:45 pm, asking residents to conserve power. As a result of this action, the California Independent System Operation (CaISO) saw an immediate and significant drop i...
Councilmember Lana Negrete along with three Santa Monica commissioners and 8 other candidates have qualified for the City Council election ballot this November. All 12 candidates submitted their papers before last week's filing deadline and are now vying for three open seats on the Council that formulates policies for the city, election officials said. Negrete is the only incumbent seeking re-election. Mayor Sue Himmelrich and Mayor Pro-Tem Kristin McCowan announced over the...
September 1, 2022 - Today, Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, announced that doses of the new booster shot targeting Omicron will be arriving in the county between September 6 and 9. The Federal Drug Agency has given Emergency Use Authorization of the new vaccine that can be given to anyone over age 12 who has not had a Covid vaccine within the past two months. The bivalent boosters are not to be used as a primary series, but only as a booster following at least one...
A Brighter Future (ABF), a newly formed PAC, endorses four experienced parent leaders for the SMMUSD School Board election on November 8, 2022: - Angela DiGaetano- Esther Hickman- Stacy Rouse- Miles Warner The ABF candidates bring experience in school governance and knowledge of SMMUSD from the perspective of both current parents and alumni. Once elected to the school board they will: - Prioritize education, students and teachers; - Exercise fiscal competency to spend our tax...
The United States Needs to Get Serious About Latin America The United States needs to get serious about the Western Hemisphere and this means doing more than announcing foreign aid programs which may or may not survive congressional editing. China has replaced the United States as the leading trading partner for many countries of the region, but thousands of U.S. businesses are active in Latin America and the Caribbean. Millions of American jobs depend on trade with the Wester...
If you've always dreamt of being an IRS agent, now is the time. But you may have to use a gun to collect the taxes, apparently. The Internal Revenue Service is advertising for new special agents, according to an ad posted to social media. Applicants should know they may be required to work "50 hours per week, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends" and "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary." It was...
The Santa Monica City Council this week voted to place on the November ballot a measure capping at 3% the rent increase for rent controlled units City officials said this measure will support rent controlled tenants who will be impacted by the 6% rent increase that will take effect September 1. Annual increases are currently based on inflation and limited to a maximum increase of $140. The proposed measure would reduce the cap to 3% or $70 for future years, said city officials...
Someone is about to lose his job at the printing palace in Moscow. Russian posters featuring the USS George Bush aircraft carrier, and the sunken Russian cruiser Moskva, have accidentally been printed in Russia. This according to Illia Ponomarenko, correspondent for the English language Kyiv Independent. "Russia just can't live without such things every single year," tweeted Ponomarenko. "Today is their navy day. So a media outlet in Bashkiria released a greeting pic...
Update, July 28 2022: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “there are no agreements” on a U.S. request to release WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan from Russian custody. Peskov told reporters that Moscow was aware of media reports of a U.S. proposal for the release of Griner and Whelan. “Since there are no agreements that have been finalized now, I have nothing more to add,” Peskov said. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he will discuss...
14: He has been speculated to have Parkinson's, poisoning and various forms of cancer. I have speculated as much as anyone else, but US and UK intelligence chiefs are in agreement that Vladimir Putin, 69, appears to be in good health and in no risk of dying. "There is no evidence" that Putin is ill, MI6 chief Richard Moore told reporter Jim Sciutto, echoing what CIA Director Bill Burns said on July 20th. Putin is said to be expecting another child with Russia's secret fir...
They are called Milbloggers, which is short for military bloggers. They have cheered the invasion since day one. They believe Putin's problem is he has held back and not used enough brute force on cities like Kyiv and Kharkiv. Their opinions are so important, expressed as they are on Telegram, that Putin himself has met with a group of them in the Kremlin, to ask them to lay off the criticism in the name of national unity. But now, one infamous military blogger has concluded...
Remember the Hunter Biden laptop? You could get banned from Facebook or Twitter for mentioning it in the run-up to the November 2020 US Presidential election. Well it turns out that not only is the thing authentic (Hunter left it with a computer repairman in New Jersey in 2018). But it contains evidence that the president's son cavorted with prostitutes and used illegal drugs. This is the same Hunter Biden who shlepped bags of cash back for "the big guy" from places like...
Rumor has it that before he was shot dead by an unlikely assassin, a shocking surprise; that former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe made the mistake of tweeting about Hillary Clinton. The main stream media are all telling us the tweet is not true. And anytime the MSM tell us to ignore the man behind that curtain, we get suspicious. Because this is 2022. Shinzo Abe, 67, was the conservative Prime Minister of Japan for 10 years between 2006 and 2020. He left the job in 2008 due to ulcert...
The political action committee behind the petition to recall LA County DA George Gascon today turned in 717,000 signatures. Backers need 566,000 of the signatures to be qualified as those of registered voters, for the Gascon recall to be on the ballot on November 7th, 2022. Inevitably some of the signatures will not qualify, so it is not yet known whether or not they made it Funded by George Soros, Gascon was formerly the progressive District Attorney of San Francisco. He has...
17: Dutch farmers have shut down the small country as they protest new restrictions on the use of fertilizer, they say will cut their production of food by 30% or more. The restrictions on Nitrogen are intended to cut the tiny country's carbon footprint. Which is already negligible, because there are less than 6 million people living there, representing 0.1% of the world's population. The small European Union state is almost entirely urban, but there are a handful of...
In a scene right out of a movie, inmates at Russia's prisons are being recruited to serve as mercenaries in Ukraine. Those who survive will win their freedom. Terms of service include large payments of Rubles if they survive. But they will have no identity cards or papers, and if they are killed, their bodies will not be returned to their families. Russian Armed Forces have lost tens of thousands of men prosecuting their invasion of Ukraine. It is said to be extremely difficul...
June 23, 2022 - Both the Centers for Disease Control and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health are revealing that individuals who are up to date with their Covid-19 booster shots are becoming infected with the virus at nearly twice the rate as the merely vaccinated. The unexpected reversal of the vaccine's effect is more pronounced in some age groups than others, according to data from the LADPH. On June 19, CBS news showed a case rate chart from the CDC that...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center received a call Wednesday morning from Unilever CEO Alan Jope, who informed the SWC of the company's decision to put a halt to Ben & Jerry's Israel boycott. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the SWC, was informed of the decision personally in a phone call Wednesday morning from Unilever CEO Alan Jope. Shortlybenandjerrys-unilever-quote_2022 after the call between Rabbi Hier and Mr. Jope, Unilever officially announced it reached a new agreement...
June 24, 2022 - The death rates from Covid-19 for the past month have been so low for those under 50 years old that the Los Angeles County Health Department is unable to show them on a bar chart. Even the unvaccinated are not expiring from Covid at a rate that can be shown on the chart at the health department's Covid central. "Rates for some age categories are not shown due to small numbers," is the explanation given on the chart that only shows death rates for those over 50...
15: The Santa Monica City Council this week approved revisions to the city's 6th Cycle Housing Element Update which will be resubmitted to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Last October, the Council adopted the 2021-2029 Housing Element, which "prioritizes 100% affordable housing in city-owned land" and "addresses historic discrimination and satisfies affirmatively furthering fair housing." The Element also included the city's plan to...
15: The State of California has broken grounds on a new pedestrian bridge over PCH that connects Will Rogers State Beach with the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon. The State budgeted $11 million to build the bridge, and to widen the existing bike path. Located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Will Rogers State beach is owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. However, it is managed and maintained by the Los Angeles County Depa...
June 10, 2022 - Results from the primary election that was held on June 7 are still preliminary as vote-by-mail ballots still have several days to reach their destination. But results are available from the 580,358 vote-by-mail ballots already received and the 242,187 votes cast at vote centers. The following data from the California Secretary of State and the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder are as of June 9 and June 8 respectively. For almost all offices, candidates...
You may have seen paid solicitors gathering signatures for Santa Monica's half percent transfer tax on real estate. Mayor Sue Himmelrich has proposed the tax to fund homeless programs. Local property owners are bitterly opposed to the proposal. So we spoke to one of the signature gatherers outside Bob's Market on Ocean Park Blvd. "Want to sign the safe homes and schools initiative?" he asked me. I responded as if he was a Russian warship invading my island, and he just...
June 2, 2022 - The Westside Current broke the news yesterday that Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin of District 11 has hired a private security company to guard his government office in Westchester. On Tuesday, Bonin voted against a Los Angeles City Council motion to prohibit homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools. Debra Huston, a resident of Westchester, discovered the private security guarding Bonin's office when she attempted to enter the building yesterday....
