Occupy LA update Nov 24 2011

It looks as if LA City will actually shut down Occupy LA within a week and likely sooner. On Thursday the City posted notices against overnite camping at City Hall. That indicates formal/legal intent to evict, sort of like a 3-day eviction notice



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Update on situation at OWS-LA Camp: The camp is poorly situated to have much effect on LA City operations and business activity because most LA pedestrian activity, shopping,and dining occurs well south & west of camp, along 6th st, at fashion district, along/atop bunker hill district, and along Figueroa St. The only way OLA can effect disruption is by going out of their camps to disrupt business activity elsewhere, say along Figueroa st where the big LA mega-corporations, banks and shops are located. Arco Plaza could be a inviting target but it takes a bit of legwork, negotiating arduous stairways and plaza terraces to get to main plaza. Always you have to deal with legions of low- payed mainly Hispanic & African-American security guards posted at every stairwell, building entrance, and behind office bldg desks. OWS-LA would have to deal directly against mostly minority security guards who are barely getting by and have families to support. Another words, OLA disrupts & clashes directly with low-payed 99 per centers

OLA is the most poorly situated large OWS camp in USA and poses little problems in the mammoth, spatially spaced-out and vertically imposing LA dwtn district. They might occasionally get help from the real disrupters, the big LA CA labor unions who can really organize an effective dwtn protest with powerful union muscle like the SEIU and Teachers Unions. However, these unions dislike clashing/confronting the powerful LA police union representing LAPD, who are a legionary imperial guard which protects the powerful city business interests , as well as the sleazly LA politicians who really don't give a crap about OLA but only about maintaining thier power and offices.

Thats why OWS-LA has been allowed to stay at their camp so long. They are regarded more as a minor pestilence/nuisance/embarrassment to LA City and its politician hacks. What really concerns LA City officials and depts are the negative enviromental effects & health/sanitary hazards of OWS-LA. There is no doubt that if the OLA camp was regularly sanitized by LA's health dept it would be allowed to stay. As I have documented all over my blog, LA is a fairly dismal crapped-out third world ghetto-hole anyway so OLA camp really does not mar LA's image in any way. It is solely the issue of health and sanitation which is determining factor over whether LA will or will not evict OLA

It looks as if LA City will finally quit playin games with OWS-LA and we will see OLA camp shut down very soon, perhaps as early as this weekend.

A non-polemical observation of OccupyLA

Preliminary observations of the Occupy LA movement on a Thursday Oct 20 2011. A few polemics mixed with simple descriptions of OLA, it's campsite at LA City Hall, and it's relation to the surrounding LA dwtn landscape.

Abbreviations
(OLA) OccupyLA
(CH) LA City Hall
(Camp) tent city put up around CH
(LT) Little Toyko
(LA) City of Los Angeles

I parked my truck at a convenient fee parking site at Alameda and first st and took my 10 speed bicycle to the OccupyLA site at Main and first st. Biking thru dwtn LA not as problematic as i thought. Traffic in LA Dwtn Civic Area was fairly light. There were police units here and there but not a big presence. The OLA camp itself occupied a narrow green strip at north side of CH and the main south plaza side of CH, which fronted First St between Main and Spring St.

The camp was actually fairly well kept up & not the dirty Pigsty hovel viewed by many commentators on other OWS sites. The entire OLA camp( tucked beneath CH) is overshadowed & surrounded by some large Government agencies such as the massive Parker Center( LAPD), US District Courthouse, General Services, LA Transportation dept, Edward Roybal Blvd, and a host of other massive Gov agencies.

There is a long line of sidewalk food courts set up along both sides of main st next to the OLA camp, and right between the main CH bldg and the adjoining CH annex or East Bldg. Included is a long line of vendors selling fresh fruit. There is also a hamburger/ hot dog stand set up at corner of main and First , complete with heavy-duty portable oven and other grill equipment. These sidewalk food stalls/stands are something normally seen in third world cities and is evidence of LA being transformed into an immigrant-inundated 3rd world megalo-polis.
I had no trouble passing thru the south side OLA camp. It was a collection of mostly youthful folks of all races. I saw idealist hippies reviving the 60's and hippy commune living. Also young beatnick anchor brats of latino immigrants, a few bandanna-clad anarchists, a few older LA street homies & homeless, teenage runaways, even a few high school ditchers. Did not see a lot of over 40 folks. Signs were everywhere and even posted on tents facing the sidewalks. They spouted a variety of leftist slogans which made absolutely no sense and are indeed quite irrelevant in a gritty, illegal alien-overrun ghetto-polis like LA which is already a socialist- welfare city pandering to 3rd world immigrants and illegals.

There are virtually no shops around LA Civic Center for the kids to walk too but the LA Dash Bus System makes it easy to get around LA dwtn very cheap( last time i did the dash bus ride it was a quarter a ride). The closest collection of shops & eateries is in Little Toyko, which is about a block away from south side camp. I don't know if LT will be a Merchant- rich target if the OLA anarchist elements go berserk but LT has lots of low paid(and rather fat) private security guards and has guard kiosks situated at all entrances to the malls.and shop galleries.

It's quite odd to see this OLA camp enveloping CH. LA City DWTN is mostly about really tall fortess-like bldgs and not easily accessble to the public. And Los Angeles gets fairly ragged and impoverished a few blocks north, east and south of OLA camp as you head South toward the old seamy LA industrial district or north into Chinatown or Oliveras St district. A 3-4 block walk south toward the decrepit produce/ warehouse district and you run into legions of homeless.
Directly west of CH along Temple ave or First st it's all hi-rises & apt/condo bldgs, with no shops. South & West of CH more tall inaccessible hi-rises till you get to pedestrian-clogged 5th & 6th streets .

LA dwtn has no main accessible focal point for protestors to mill with the general public, except maybe Pershing Square. CH itself is a monumental, early 20th century fortress of a building as are most other adm blgds around Civic Center. These bldgs are difficult of access as you have to go thru platoons of low-paid security guards( entire LA dwtn has a small army of mostly young low-paid hispanic security guards working in nearly every dwtn bldg).

Summation of OLA: they are camped in a zone literally walled off & hemmed in by LA Civic Center hi-rises ( including the ominous spanking new state-of-art LA Police Headquarters bldg just a block away to the east) and with sporadic interactions with dense dwtn LA pedestrans & crowds. Very poor cramped site for getting out their message, foolish as it is.


This preliminary post on OccupyLA will likely expand and i will insert additional observations and make a few changes to the post to keep pace with the OLA movement, or add some polemical insights onto post. (I may also add more to my observations of OccupyLA in a future separate posting)


NOV 24th 2011 update on situation at OWS-LA Camp: The camp is poorly situated to have much effect on LA City operations and business activity because most LA pedestrian activity, shopping,and dining occurs well south & west of camp, along 6th st, at fashion district, along/atop bunker hill district, and along Figueroa St. The only way OLA can effect disruption is by going out of their camps to disrupt business activity elsewhere, say along Figueroa st where the big LA mega-corporations, banks and shops are located. Arco Plaza could be a inviting target but it takes a bit of legwork, negotiating arduous stairways and plaza terraces to get to main plaza. Always you have to deal with legions of low- payed mainly Hispanic & African-American security guards posted at every stairwell, building entrance, and behind office bldg desks. OWS would have to deal directly against mostly minority security guards who are barely getting by and have families to support. Another words, OLA disrupts & clashes directly with low-payed 99 per centers

OLA is the most poorly situated large OWS camp in USA and poses little problems in the mammoth, spatailly spaced-out and vertically imposing LA dwtn district. They might occasionally get help from the real dirupters, the big LA CA labor unions who can really organize an effective dwtn protest with powerful union muscle like the SEIU and Teachers Unions. However, these unions dislike clashing/confronting the powerful LA police union representing LAPD, who are a legionary imperial guard which protects the powerful city business interests , as well as the sleazly LA politicians who really don't give a crap about OLA but only about maintaining thier power and offices.

Thats why OWS-LA has been allowed to stay at their camp so long. They are regarded more as a minor pestilence/niusance/embarassment to LA City and its politician hacks. What really concerns LA City officials and depts are the negative enviromental effects & health/sanitary hazards of OWS-LA. There is no doubt that if the OLA camp was regularly sanitized by LA's health dept it would be allowed to stay. As I have documented all over my blog, LA is a fairly dismal crapped-out third world ghetto-hole anyway so OLA camp really does not mar LA's image in any way. It is solely the issue of health and sanition which is determining factor over whether LA will or wil not evict OLA

Project No Project: White Oak Wind Energy Project

Another massive CA green energy taxpayer-subsidized boongoogle, this one in Santa Clarita/Saugus/Canyon Country/antelope valley/lancaster region of SoCAL. Status: unknown but probably will go through despite tough environ land-use delays/approval process.

Project No Project: White Oak Wind Energy Project
White Oak Wind Energy Project
STATUS: In progress with opposition
TYPE: Wind
OPPOSITION: Residents of Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, and Leona Valley; Leona Valley Town Council, Lakes and Valleys Conservancy
PROSPECTS: Indeterminate

BACKGROUND: The White Oak Wind Energy Project is located six miles northwest of Lake Hughes, California. It is a project that includes 70 wind turbines and is estimated to cost a total of $630 million. The project will take 7 months build. The turbines have an operational lifetime of 25 and 30 years. The developer of the project is White Oak Wind Farm, LLC. which is a subsidiary of Advanced Development Services, LLC. These turbines will generate 210 megawatts of energy, enough to power about 245,000 homes in Los Angeles County.

Construction will create approximately 185 local jobs. Once the turbines are complete, 7 to 10 permanent jobs will exist to maintain the structures, and an additional 7 to 12 permanent indirect jobs will be created.

Local residents from Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, and Leona Valley oppose the project. These residents have expressed concern regarding the “visual blight” of the project. They are also worried about the “spiderweb of power lines and towers” that would cross Leona Valley.

The Lakes and Valleys Conservancy has expressed concern for many endangered or threatened birds in the area. Most recently, a tri-colored blackbird brought biologists from all over the state. A member of the Leona Valley Town Council has suggested that residents take pictures of such important species to prove their existence and importance.

Currently, the White Oak Wind Energy Project’s application for a conditional-use permit is stalled because not enough information was provided in the document.

LINKS:

Antelope Valley Press: Accessed http://www.windaction.org/news/21038
http://www.windenergyparks.com/windprojects.php?project_id=1
http://www.windenergyparks.com/docs/project_16.pdf

Wind, solar is an economic, enviro scam which feasts on Federal subsidies, mandates, and pliant politicians

“Why They Go Green” (WSJ editorial says much in few words) — MasterResource

When will Democrats and true environmentalists wake up to windpower, or what Robert Bryce calls the ethanol of electricity? Industrial wind is a scam when seen in all of its dimensions–economic, environmental, and esthetic. Bryce has identified five myths of green energy–and post after post at MasterResource by Kent Hawkins, Jon Boone, and John Droz Jr. have shown that meaningful CO2 reductions from windpower are highly debatable.

Industrial wind is chock full of environmental negatives and isn’t nearly as effective at reducing air emissions than advertised. Big Wind is corporate welfare with companies like GE and FPL skipping their federal taxes. Wind today is the legacy of Enron, the Ken Lay model of political capitalism. Wind is an assault on lower-income energy users, not only taxpayers. (And Democrats are supposed to be for the little guy….)


MY COMMENTS

Industrial wind and on-grid solar were hyped and feted back as far back as the 70's, when US was faced with the middle eastern oil embargo. The technology was well known then but , as it true today, wind & solar simply cannot get around the basic physical laws of energy. They are only now dragged up and kicked around again because of the global warming climate hysteria(pure baloney, easily criticized), and looming peak oil crisis(harder to dispute but not cause for panic).

New recovery methods and new oilfield discoveries such as Brazil offshore ..keep extending the peak oil time line, and the shale gas hydrofracture revolution will provide an abundant source of cheap natural gas supplies to power electic generation for next 100 years. Plus Nat gas burns 50% less co2 and pollutants than oil and coal. So we should be putting up nat gas power plants as well as non-co2 emitting nuclear power plants, and stop this nonsense with covering 100's of sq miles of scenic CA deserts and Kansas prairies with unsightly windtowers, and 1000's of acres of land-hogging solar panels all over USA .......

And now, desperation has set in for an industry that needs more government (point-of-a-gun) energy policy to continue its artificial boom. And so a fundraiser yesterday was held by the renewable lobby for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nevada) that caught the eye of the Wall Street Journal, which published this short op-ed, Why They Go Green:
In a free energy market, companies succeed by producing cheaper, better products than competitors. In a “green” energy market, companies succeed by holding Beltway fundraisers. For more on the distinction, ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will benefit today from a tony Washington money-raising breakfast hosted by top “renewable energy” industry groups.
Democrats may be losing altitude with most of struggling corporate America, but it’s all about the love with the green sector, floating above economic realities thanks to stimulus handouts and other perks funneled them by the majority. Mr. Reid has been a strong advocate of this transfer, and the industry is showing it knows how to give back.

That, and watching its back. The companies that belong to the American Wind Energy Association or the Solar Energy Industries Association (among the fundraiser’s hosts) produce costly products that can’t compete against traditional fuels. Their business plans are written around Washington subsidies and mandates. They’re obviously worried a Republican majority might pare back the grants, loans and tax credits, in the name of cutting government waste. One can hope.

As the event invitation noted—in requesting $2,500 to attend—Mr. Reid’s Nevada Senate competition against Republican Sharron Angle is an “incredibly important race.” Indeed it is if your balance sheets depend on the Democrats’ special way with taxpayer money.

Can Democrats and the Left wise up and chuck windpower and on-grid solar? (Off-grid solar has a free-market niche.) Industrial wind is an environmental loser, not only an economic loser. The good news is that change is in the air as the grassroots environmental movement is rethinking–and rejecting–industrial windpower. When will Big Environmental question Big Wind–or do they secretly love industrial wind because its power is more expensive and less reliable than what industrial society needs?

Obama's $ grab in the ultra-lib fringe zone of W. Hollywood

Obama visit to West Hollywood.

West Ho represents a tiny fringe community of ppl including the largest gay community in USA. West HO is also packed with up and coming/struggling/established actors, actresss, and other folk serving the hollywood entertainment industry. It is a wholly moral-less X- rated zone where U regularly see billboards featuring scantily-clad( and in some cases naked) models, even coupling poses. A walk along sunset strip is a walk thru an x-rated adult- only strip.

WEST HO does not represent America nor the common average working man. It is a tiny fringe of ultra-libs who happen to be making a lot of $ in the dog-eat-dog ruthless hollywood entertainment business. The entire W Hollywood lib zone is only a few square miles of concentrated wealth and nutty libs .

If you see the protests on the national news going on across the street from the House of Blues and Fig and Olive they are almost all by progressive lib groups who outnumber the conservatives in this tiny fringe part of LA by 15 to 1. It is a tiny fringe zone which represents less than 1 % of LA's entire ppl and land area. U may see CBS, ABC, NBC doing live reports tonight on Obama's visit into West Ho, and camera captures of the tiny fringe protestors, This will be beamed all across America and perhaps give the impression that there is this large upwelling & ferment of progressive libs in CA screaming for justice and action on the progressive agenda, This is a wholly false impression.

This West Hollywood crowd does not represent the vast majority of Ca ppl, 20 % of whom are effectively UE, and most of whom care little for the ultra lib agenda. They may demand action on jobs but most sane folks realize that jobs cannot happened without business and corporations boosting hiring. Most sane CA ppl are aware that just pumping tons of gov stim $ has failed. Only reason Dems maintain CA is because of the Hispanic/other minority vote block who have been demagouged into voting Dem.

Montebello- another 3rd wld LA theft-burg

Montebello: another Bell- type city fraud operation. Montebello City administrators theft of city re-development funds

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http://t.co/pC8W2lw

My comments:

Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.

Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.

NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.

l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.

Montebello: another Bell- type city fraud operation

LA Times links on Montebello City administrators theft of city redevelopment funds


http://t.co/pC8W2lw



Here's the reality of Montebello (Bello for short). Bello is a rather dismal forgettable bland burg located 15 miles directly east of LA DWTN. It is sited close to the west bank of the San Gabriel/Rio Hondo River. The oldest sections of the city are likely sited on bluffs & hills overlooking the river flood plain. This is where much of the aging factory/ commercial parks are sited. 1/2 of the city is the largely commercialized/industrialized section south of Olympic/Whittier Blvds. This south leg abuts City of Commerce along the western margin and is largely lower-working/laboring class. This mixed industrail/ residential zone is also heavily populated by recent latino immgrants. Ghettoized East LA jabs bello at it's NW margin, and both cities share the near 100% latinoized Whittier Blvd , which is a major east-west regional LA traffic artery, 100 % third world thoroughfare, and well known for latino/cholo cruising events. There is nothing notewothy in Bello.

Farther north near 60 fwy there are scattered areas of somewhat tidy suburban tract homes on Bello's hills, which are plainly visible as you travel along freeway 60 out of LA Dwtn. There is also a few industrail areas sited off 60 fwy. Bello never has been the Beverly Hills of East/SE LA, as latimes mistakenly attributes to it. It has always been the way it is today. Just another map color zone among a 100 or so map colors on an LA thomas guide map. Another bland faceless LA exurb. Bello does have a large Chinese expat presence, as does much of the region north and west of it, but it also is adjacent to East LA and also close to the grimy LA ghettos which encroach it from the south and east. Much ghetto population outflow issues out of the grimy densely packed 3rd world Alameda Corrider( think Bell, Maywood, South Gate, Compton, ect). These cities contain large numbers of illegals/recent latino immigrants which swarm all over LA inner areas and increasingly into outer exurb areas like Bello.

NOTE: I have delivered many times to exurban Bello hilltop residentail areas. They remind me of Baldwin Hills & Silverlake District. All of them exclusive tidy exurban islands surrounded by grimy dank lowland ghettos like isolated celtic hilltop forts.

l also once delivered to a bello business establishment in a small bello commercial park. It was run by asian immigrant expats, and the operation reeked of a scam. It was some type of off- the- books business dealing with exports/ imports and/or a real estate boilerplate operation ( my recollections somewat hazy here). However, it reeked of a shady business scam as does entire corrupt Montebello city administration.