"Movements can really scramble your personal life."

-Thom Hartmann this AM amen

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Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes. Phys.org

This article explains in part why climate change is happening so much faster than originally predicted. Since CO2 is becoming "more potent as more released into atmosphere," climate changes we see in near future will likely also be exponential... wow

PHYS.ORG

Carbon dioxide becomes more potent as climate changes, study finds

A team of scientists found that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.

our uncertain future

So now along with financial / climate catastrophes, we'll have Israeli vigilantes scouring the world for Hamas?

With 2.5 vacant units for every unhoused resident, L.A. developers line their pockets in homeless emergency (Public Comments at 10/31/23 city council meeting)

Blog by Kay Ebeling 

Housing cost keeps me from moving back to my hometown L.A. Meanwhile I've been watching their City Council meetings online from five hundred miles away, to keep track of all the progress, to watch the fast and effective actions council is taking after homelessness was declared an emergency January 2023.  

Progress has been inept and scandalously slow as City of Angels Blog reported  in May. 

However, I've kept watching the meetings, mostly because of the lively Public Comments section, which to me is where the real stories lie, although the city website doesn't even bother to include them in their “minutes.”

Here are some interesting words from the Oct 31 meeting, Video is linked below.

At 01.37.25 Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger, who is circulating petitions to run for council herself, calls in her comment by phone.

Transcript:

On item Twenty three. 

Interesting thing about this emergency declaration, there's no rent freeze, there's no eviction moratorium.  The main function of it is to expedite building contracts. 

Now I don't know what kind of emergency you all have ever experienced where we go, quick, we need to expedite a process that'll take years, even if we start today it’ll take years. 

And in an emergency, specifically, you look around for resources you have like the roughly two and a half vacant units for every unhoused resident that exists in Los Angeles.  And you use that. 

(Two and a half vacant units for every unhoused resident that exists in Los Angeles!)

Stacey, cont’d: 

You look at what capital incentives are profiting off of the crisis and you curb them.  All this emergency declaration does is make it really easy for developers to line their pockets.  Then Item 24 is an emergency action that's super vague but okay thanks, Mayor Bass.  You do those emergency contracts. 

Item twenty six is an economic study about the rent stabilization ordinance.  My problem with these studies is that you get funding for them, you use the public’s time to pass the motions for studies, and then time goes by and we never hear back. 

We're still- waiting to hear back the report on 4118. 

So I don't know if a hundred and eighty some thousand dollars for this study is going to be money well spent.  That's information that would be good to have but I don't know why it's going to cost so much to get that information. 

Item twenty eight is a joke. Let's light up the Sixth Street viaduct for domestic violence awareness month. Those lights aren’t helping. If you want to help victims and survivors of domestic violence, get people off the street,

(Those lights aren’t helping. If you want to help victims and survivors of domestic violence, get people off the street,)

As a survivor of domestic violence, I can say with absolute certainty that those lights aren’t helping.  Domestic violence is the leading reason women become homeless. 

If you want to help victims and survivors of domestic violence, get people off the street, make housing a human right, make health care free, all those things will help D-V victims a lot more than lighting up a bridge and I don't know why we're entertaining Kevin DeLeon’s motions anyway. 

Comments continue at 01.40.25 of video

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[Earlier in the meeting at 01 31 14 public speakers [SOUNDS LIKE] Sandra and James Myers made thus plea to the ever distracted City Council members present:

S:  This is about the homeless [SOUNDS LIKE] nonprofit organization Hopkins. They have you in the program for a year, and we did everything they said and we never received our voucher.  Then they started selling the vouchers for four hundred dollars apiece.  If you're a couple, that's eight hundred dollars we can't afford.  And I'm like well that's not right. 

So we went downtown to the library and the case manager told us to give this to the president of the meeting here today. So he can see the names of the people involved at Hopkins. 

You guys give millions of dollars to them, for them to provide places for the homeless, and they're not doing what they're supposed to do.  And it's time to be heard about that.  The people need help and [the homeless agency] is not giving it to them. If we do the program, why do we have to pay four hundred dollars apiece for the vouchers?

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A court officer takes her papers and the meeting goes on.

Here at City of Angels Blog we will be covering more Public Comments at city council meetings and other words of interest in the coming months. I used to transcribe for a living and AI has replaced all my jobs, so I finally retired at age 75. But I still want to keep up my skills, dinosaur as they are. Beats dementia…

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The L.A. city council is not making much progress in the homeless emergency,

As City of Angels Blog reported in May: WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2023

TRANSCRIPT: Public speakers beg for housing; L.A. City Council approves a luxury Marriott instead, on site that used to be a public library and had been promised to the community for years.

https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2023/05/transcript-public-speakers-beg-for.html

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The speaker calling in transcribed here, Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger, is now circulating petitions to run for City Council herself after months of appearing before Council with smart, intuitive, problem solving comments in her 1-4 minutes of allotted time, during which most council members are shockingly and shamefully distracted,  In her comments, Stacey also often sings in a theater-trained voice an improvised lyric about city government, a practice I hope she puts to good use in her campaign for council. 

Almost every time Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger speaks at Council Public Comments, she zings a ringer and summarizes everything the city government is doing wrong and how to fix it, with insight and Rogers and Hart clarity.

Watch here in the near future at City of Angels Blog for more coverage of Stacey’s campaign and other public comments to L.A. City Council meetings.

WATCH THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING HERE 

https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2023/11/regular-city-council-103123-quoted-in.html 

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-ke

Stacey Segarra-Bohlinger

 

 

Regular City Council - 10/31/23 quoted in 11/17/23 post here at City of Angels Blog

TRANSCRIPT: Ukraine Indicts Giuliani Pals As Russian Spies: Countdown with Keith Olbermann 11.15.23

"The 2019 memo suggesting Hunter Biden be investigated was made up out of whole cloth. Now we know what that was" 

[Video Below] 

Olbermann: It is still the longest of long shots, but there could still be indictments in this country of Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani for their conspiracies with Russian operatives. Because the evidence that the Hunter Biden Burisma story is the product of the G R U, Russian Military Intelligence and the evidence that it might yet claim Giuliani and our Hitler exploded yesterday, when the government of Ukraine indicted on Charges of Treason a member of its own parliament a former member of its own parliament and a former national deputy prosecutor general.

Accusing them of being part of the Russian Intelligence spy network inside Ukraine, inside the previous Ukrainian government and of working with the Russians and Giuliani to falsely fabricate the Biden Administration investigation that Trump tried to blackmail President Zelenski into. 

EVIDENCE NO LONGER BURIED

It appears to be too much to hope that Giuliani will be charged in Ukraine or that this country would extradite him there. On the other hand until these startling indictments were handed down in Kiev, it appeared that Trump’s entire labyrinthine scheme involving untold nefarious elements of Russian society had been completely buried. 

But the Trump Russia investigation has now thrust an arm out of its grave, like at the end of the movie Carrie. And it seems to be looking for Trump but it is closer to Giuliani and it might even be seeking out House oversight chairman James Comer. 

The prosecutor indicted for treason is named Constantine Kulik. He wrote the 2019 memo apparently made up out of whole cloth-- 

"a covert influenced campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives in 2020 election"

--suggesting that his country should investigate Hunter Biden and his work while a member of the Board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. [He and two colleagues] were considered so dirty, so in league with Russian spy and intelligence operatives that [SOUNDS LIKE] Derkach was sanctioned by U.S. Treasury Department in September 2020 during Trump’s presidency… for a covert influenced campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming presidential 2020 election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the U.S. designed to culminate prior to election day. Now we know what that was.  

{Update Nov 17, found out Olbermann runs a transcript of all his podcasts here so scratch this idea for CofA Blog, back to stream zone... ]

KEITH OLBERMANN's Nov 15 2023 podcast: 

 

Great time to be alive if you dig science...

Converging air masses, people riding the wind down a sidewalk- in China a snowstorm this week marks beginning of winter in our global climate crisis. I'm just sitting here at six thousand feet watching on two monitors with the glory of Tahoe out the window in the background. The footage of snow wiping out everything for days all around China in this video is amazing. Great time to be alive if you dig science...  

Great time to be alive if you dig science...

 

-ke

Bill Maher on Catholic schools being so much better than public today: “How fucked up is this country that to get a no bullshit education now, you have to go to the place that's completely based on bullshit?” Nov 10 2023 at end of show 

 i can't believe i have to live through another illegal war by my country.

Don't settle for censored news about Gaza

Secy of State Blinken does not want Americans to see Al Jazeera coverage of war on Gaza... Click here and watch Al Jazeera live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo 

Trump misspells 'US" claiming that U.S. Is Spelled 'Us'

Anyone who reads a lot would know that USA is spelled U.S. when abbreviated per AP news style, which is updated yearly & used by all professional publications in USA. So Trump is spelling U.S. incorrectly:

Wonder if weapon sales in Ukraine and Israel is the reason U.S. economy is rising

Within days of Acapulco and Europe from Spain to Scotland going underwater with unexpected hurricanes, a climate change denier takes over as speaker of the house USA. It's Biblical, the arrogance and ignorance and ... 

I never leave my doctor's office feeling better

American doctors won’t prescribe drugs that actually make you feel good. They claim it's to protect us from getting addicted. They instead write an Rx for psychotropics or uptake inhibitors or derivatives of snake venom, etcetera, which come with a warning, Do Not Stop Taking Abruptly or you could die from “discontinuation syndrome” which leaves me shaking my head saying, um, you mean withdrawal? At age 75 I’d rather be addicted to something that actually makes me feel better than the pharms I get today. Most the drugs my doctors prescribe have such awful side effects that I'm distracted from the initial illness, so I guess you could say the drugs work. Such bad medicine we get in USA. Thank god for cannabis…

Finally becoming just another human

I wish I had more energy I say to myself then think again. After a lifetime of being busy all the time, a workaholic who prided myself on being able to function on four hours sleep a night, an advocate so passionate that once I signed onto a project, I ate drank and slept it- I got up in the middle of the night to write press releases, gulped coffee while reading dozens of news sites in first hours of the day- I work-work-worked starting around age fifteen and don’t regret a minute of it: But now I'm tired At age 75 I want to linger over first cup of coffee and get around to making the second cup an hour later, sit sometimes like in a trance binge watching series on Prime or YouTube, laughing at senseless jokes; indeed I'm often mindless nowadays after decades of being so sharp I developed razor's edges all over my personality- I'm finally slowing down and softening, simplifying. Finally. It feels great,

On top of a manic approach to work, I was a single parent from age 40 on and I couldn't just bake cookies now and then. I had to be a Stepford Single Mom, rushing through days determined that everything be perfect- except for my relationship with my children, but that's another blog post… At one point I was riding L.A. transit to Burbank every evening and working overnight at a transcription company then riding back to our apartment in Thai Town where I worked a second job from home. During this time I invented “power sleep” a way to get all the rest you need for the day in about twenty minutes. You find the minutes before sunrise that are the absolute darkest minutes of the night, then lie down flat and repose, intensely. Then twenty minutes later as the day breaks, get up and start another jam packed workaholic day. I used to do that. Around 2005 to 2008 or so I did that several nights a week. Then I added producing City of Angels Blog about the pedophile priests to my schedule, and wrote all those stories, a full time job in itself, for ten years. No wonder I'm tired. Rightfully tired.

Honest, starting at age 15: June 2022 post: I was a teenage anti Vietnam war activist. Memoir by Kay Ebeling, featuring Nancy Pelosi and the Black Panthers https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2022/06/encountering-black-panthers-and-nancy.html

-ke

Biden has won me over

Biden is so poised, controlled, and competent in the midst of international crises, he has won me over past few weeks. Yeah he talks like an old man and I don't agree with everything he says but I'm an old lady and I don't agree with most Democrats. What USA needs now is a smart President and Biden’s brain is obviously still sharp and active. He's capable and comfortable wielding the benevolent power of the United States now when it's needed.

KayE of Calif.

@CassandraofTro2

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Biden's poise, control, and competence in crises has won me over past few weeks. The world needs a smart U.S. President now, and Biden seems comfortable wielding the power of the United States, which can be benevolent, when it's needed.

Best place to get coverage of Middle East crises, I think, is Al Jazeera, available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo

-KE

revised version

If Jim Jordan becomes House Speaker, it shows that thousands of Catholic priests getting away with pedophilia did so much cultural damage, it penetrated America at its core and corrupted our nation's very foundation. I think 

The Twin Towers are still tumbling down

Between Congress having no speaker and all branches of US military incapacitated by Tuberville, I am FREAKING SCARED that USA is being set up for an attack from which we will not be able to defend ourselves. I'm stocking up on nonperishables meanwhile and staying alert...

Pedophile priests presaged USA self destructing

If Jim Jordan becomes House Speaker, it means the damage and moral sickness from thousands of priests getting away with pedophilia has penetrated into the American zeitgeist and is corrupting and destroying our nation's very foundation. 

Biden's accomplishments so far, Copy and Pasted

 President Biden’s accomplishments SO FAR

•Signed The Inflation Reduction Act

• Locked In Lower Health Care Costs For Families

• Took The Most Aggressive Climate Action In American History

• Lowered The Deficit With The Single Largest Nominal Reduction In American History

• Made The Largest Corporations Pay Their Fair Share In Taxes

• Signed The CHIPS And Science Act, Lowering Costs, Creating Good-Paying Manufacturing Jobs Across The Country, And Ensuring The United States Manufactures More Critical Technologies Here At Home

• Signed The American Rescue Plan, Jump Starting The Economic Recovery

• Signed The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Making An Unprecedented Investment In All 50 States And Territories republicans voted against but took credit for

• Signed The Most Significant Expansion Of Benefits And Services For Toxic Exposed Veterans And Their Survivors In More Than 30 Years

• Signed The Most Significant Gun Violence Prevention Legislation In Nearly 30 Years

• Authorized Successful Counterterrorism Missions Against The Leaders Of Al Qaeda And ISIS

• Created 10,000,000 Jobs • Unemployment Rate Near 50-Year Low

• Historic Confirmation Of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

• Rallied The World To Support Ukraine In Response To Putin’s War

• Strengthened NATO’s Collective Security

• More People With Health Insurance Than Ever Before With 5 Million Gained Since 2021

• Pardoned All Prior Federal Offenses Of Simple Marijuana Possession

• Announced A Plan To Provide Student Debt Relief To More Than 40 Million Americans

• Implemented $15 Minimum Wage For Federal Workers And Contractors

• Vaccinated 78% Of American Adults Fully Against COVID-19

• Signed Two Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights

• Over 14 Million Households Receiving Lower Cost Or Free High-Speed Internet Through The Affordable Connectivity Program

• Mailed Over 650 Million Free COVID-19 Tests Directly To Tens Of Millions Of Americans

• Lowered The Cost Of Hearing Aids By Making Them Available Over The Counter

• Created More Manufacturing Jobs In 2021 Than In Any Single Year In Nearly 30 Years

• Signed An Executive Order To Encourage Competition Across Industries

• Lowered Energy Costs For Families By Leading The World In The Largest Release Of Oil Reserves In History

• Capped Out Of Pocket Expenses On Prescription Drugs For Seniors At $2,000 Per Year

• Jumpstarted The First National EV Charging Network And Made Historic Investments Into EV Batteries And Materials

• Rejoined The Paris Agreement

• Signed Legislation To Reauthorize The Violence Against Women Act

• Reignited The Cancer Moonshot With The Goal Of Cutting The Cancer Death Rate By At Least Half Over The Next 25 Years

I’ll stop there since Biden could bring people back from the dead, turn water to wine and walk on water and MAGA would still not give him credit

Gotta Hand it to Vladimir P

I’m in shock that after an anti American act such as trying to overturn the presidential election, that so many Americans still support Donald Trump. He is facing 91 charges across four criminal cases, so far, including 13 raps for attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia alone.

The nationwide suicide cliff jump we’re watching is the result of an amazing job of propaganda and brainwashing since Fox News showed up in 1996, paving the way for now dozens of news sites that have mesmerized millions and created the misinformed population we have in USA today.

Brainwashing people through their TVs and phones is a unique way to attack a nation, as was flying airplanes into highrise office buildings.

I honestly feel bad for all the MAGA believers because sooner or later they are going to snap out of it and realize the damage they are doing to the USA. If they really are patriots, they are going to feel very guilty when they wake up. Enemies of America have attacked USA using disinformation as a weapon, and they’ve won, by getting MAGA Republicans to do their dirty work.

I look forward to finding out who was behind this information warfare coup. My theory after a career that included work in Public Affairs for two US Govt agencies is, USA engaged in at least 3 wars illegally, causing great hardship to other nations and now we are being attacked back. And my neighbors who support Donald Trump are aiding and abetting the enemy, convinced by decades of disinformation drumbeat into their heads into believing their anti-American activities, such as on Jan 6 2021, are the acts of patriots.

Gotta hand it to Vladimir P, he knows how to conduct an espionage operation, and this takeover of the minds of Americans will live in military history, both for its originality and its success. Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans, please Snap Out Of It, and maybe we can stop this coup that is DESTROYING the United States before it’s too late.

At least USA can no longer go to war to “spread democracy” since we don’t have it here ourselves anymore.

More scary stuff as Americans forget history and repeat its worst parts

You could run footage from a 1954 McCarthy hearing and then play today's Congressional Repubs grilling Merrick Garland, and see scary similarities; the tone, intimidation, false accusations, and refusal to let witnesses respond is astounding

Is destroying Twitter part of the Trump / Putin coup? Sat AM weblog

Just read a twitter post saying we don’t need to stop using fossil fuels, we need to get rid of 80 percent of the human population instead. The post was followed by a stream of comments from persons who agreed, making suggestions on ways to do so.  Now and then I go to Twitter out of old habit because up to about a year ago, I was following several really smart people and news sources there, so I’d learn things. But when Elon took it over, most the smart people left “X”, and, unfortunately, they all went disparate ways, to different “new” twitter-like sites that I can't find now, or when I do find one, I can't find my old twitter connections anymore. I can't help thinking someone arranged to ruin Twitter on purpose, as I found out so much there that was never reported on MSM but instead covered by smart people (lots of journalists who've been fired for having integrity in our times now do blogs and podcasts) so of course the powers that be who want to see USA destroyed wanted to destroy Twitter. It truly frightens me that there is now a platform where persons who are so satanic / twisted / misinformed / sociopathic can spread homicidal ideas with impunity. This does not bode well for America’s future…

Going to web log a while, first drafts off top of head, here is one now

Food Bank Food Recipe. Chicken broth, add solids from canned spinach and canned yams, liquefy, drink as soup. If you are hungry it tastes wonderful, not something you’d ever overeat. Spices help. Everything is better with spices. I am living on 800 a month and food stamps that last two weeks, a new experience for me. All those years I was working were not counted by Social Security, the years with U.S. government followed by decades of finky funky jobs I could do and still be a stay at home mom. Thank God for subsidized housing and food stamps- and food banks- sometimes I have a glimmer of memory of- as a tweenager- hearing Lyndon Johnson make speeches about his war on poverty and feeling reassured, that I would not be in bad shape if I ended up as a broke old lady, and I did.  So glad at least HUD survived the following decades, I think because builders and property owners make money on HUD. Ah America, what will you do next. Good morning.