Gentrification SOLVED the East Palo Alto Murder Problem... and... 10 Towns That Changed America... a PBS TV Show...

A California city’s transformation from ‘murder capital’ of the U.S. to zero homicides...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-08/a-california-citys-transformation-from-murder-capital-of-u-s-to-zero-homicides

Gentrification COULD Be Used to Fix San Francisco's Problems in the Tenderloin District... Might Transform it into the Next South of Market District... 

 

In 1992, East Palo Alto was dubbed the “murder capital” of the U.S., with 42 murders in its 2.5 square miles — a per capita rate higher than that of any other city of any size. In 2023, according to East Palo Alto Police Department statistics released last week, the turnaround seemed complete: zero homicides.

Law enforcement leaders, residents and city officials point to a complicated mix of circumstances that turned a crime-ridden community into what the mayor now calls “one of the safest places to live in the peninsula.”

The San Francisco Peninsula that Mayor Antonio López referred to is home to Stanford University, the opulent town of Atherton and well-heeled Palo Alto. Residents and city leaders scoff at the overly simple idea that gentrification solved the city’s problems, although the median household income has drastically increased, and the typical home price is a little more than $900,000.

South West Washington DC Transformed from a Shantytown into a Clean Safe Location for High Rise Apartment Buildings
and Government Offices...

10 Towns That Changed America...

https://interactive.wttw.com/ten/towns

Ever since the first European settlers arrived, North America's town founders and planners have asked some big questions about how to shape the places we live.

What if we arrange our homes and businesses around an orderly grid of streets? What if we build a company town with housing for all of our workers? What if we lay out a town to provide people with more green space? What if we build homes ultra-efficiently, the way Henry Ford built cars? What if we tear down old neighborhoods to build new ones? What if we don't?

The pursuit of these "what ifs" has led to some great experiments in urban planning, with results that have impacted many other places-for better and occasionally for worse.

St. Augustine, Florida
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Salt Lake City, Utah
Riverside, Illinois
Pullman, Illinois
Greenbelt, Maryland
Levittown, New York
Southwest Washington, DC
Seaside, Florida
Pearl District, Portland, Oregon

Let's Pass the Dianne Feinstein Assault Weapons Ban Law... 

A Smart Approach to Mass Murder!

Republican'ts Oppose the Assault Weapons Ban Because THEY ARE PRO-DEATH. but The Era of Evil is Coming to an End... 

Let's Pass the Dianne Feinstein Assault Weapons Ban - A Proven Way to  Save American Lives. We Have the Opportunity to DO THE RIGHT THING. 

The U.S. Once Had A Ban On Assault Weapons — Why Did It Expire?

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire

""The GOP today is less a political party and more an inchoate mass of cultural grievances, conspiracy theories and lowest common denominator political slogans. Trump, for all his toxicity, is a symptom of the GOP's decades-long descent into madness. Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party's rank-and-file supporters."

"If there is any silver lining, it is this: for all the Republican voters who love Trump, there is a larger mobilized group of voters who loathes him!!

Let's Ban Alcohol Ads on TV. We Banned Tobacco Ads and That Worked! Everyone Knows That Alcohol is Dangerous... Keep it Legal but STOP Promoting Use.

The Main Trouble with Those TV Ads Is:
I'm an Alcoholic and Those Ads Make Me want to Drink. We Have Delivery Service Here and I Could Simply Order Online! So Two or Three Times an Hour I'm Tempted... 

It Appears That Crown Royal is Promising a Psychedelic Experience...
Drink and You'll Go to "Pepperland" in a Yellow Submarine Just Like the Beatles Did!
That's Simply Not True...
http://gvan42.bravesites.com/
They are Just Encouraging People to Drink More and that Leads to Brain Damage, Liver Damage and Automobile Crashes... DUI Tickets and Eventually Death... But That's Balanced Out by all the Bad Decisions that Lead to Unwanted Children... 

It's Damn Unlikely that You will become "The Most Interesting Man in the World." More Likely You Will Become Just Another Loudmouth Drunk... and a Menace to Society... maybe get in a Fight...

We don't see Tobacco Ads on TV anymore...
Because WE, as a Society,
Refused to Allow Obvious Poison on TV.

Notice the Side Effects Printed in Tiny Letters 

Let's Stop Advertising Prescription Drugs... and Non Prescription Drugs as Well... Who Benefits from these Advertisements? NOT THE VIEWERS... NOT PATIENTS...

Corporations make money selling Alcohol, Drugs and so do the TV Networks... Corporations that have a Horrible Track Record of Abusing People... Remember The Massive Lawsuit that Purdue Pharmaceuticals Lost about Oxycontin? Killing People, Causing Addiction... Billions of Dollars... and The People that Caused the Nationwide Crisis Got To Keep Millions of Dollars... 

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Ronald Hadley Stark & The Brotherhood of Eternal Love... One Kilogram of Liquid LSD

https://belhistory.weebly.com/ronald-stark.html

Stark told them that he had a mission to use LSD in order to: “facilitate the overthrow of the political systems of both the capitalist West and communist East by inducing altered states of consciousness in millions of people.”

The Brotherhood was impressed, and the Golden Era of cheap, high-quality LSD began. From then on through to 1973, Stark and the Brotherhood dosed almost an entire generation of America’s youth.

Here's an Interesting Radio Show that was broadcast from Foothill Junior College near San Jose, CA in the 1990s. David Emory Inherited Mae Brussel's Show when she died... 

https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org

/recording/sz062609-11?nns=David%2BEmory

Program Title: 

The C.I.A. and L.S.D. / produced by David Emory.

Description: 

Documentaries about U.S. intelligence agencies and the military's development and popularization of LSD for their own purposes.

r.1. pt.1. The influence of the CIA on the cultural and intelligence figures who helped popularize the use of LSD in the 1960's (13:36) ; pt.2. Captain Al Hubbard as an agent : Humphrey Osmond, Aldous Huxley, Louis Jolyon West and Jack Ruby (13:39) ; pt.3. Louis Jolyon West's work on LSD for the CIA : Aldous Huxley, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary (12:44) ; pt.4. The CIA and Timothy Leary (11:20) ; pt.5. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love : Timothy Leary and William Mellon Hitchock (12:08) -- r.2. pt.1. Brotherhood of Eternal Love : manufacturer and world distributor of LSD (13:03) ; pt.2. Ronald Hadley Stark : U.S. intelligence supplies the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (13:14) ; pt.4. The world and work of Ronald Haldey Stark (14:19) ; pt.5. Ronald Hadley Stark and the underworld of intelligence agents (13:46) -- r.3. pt.1. Ronald Hadley Stark and American intelligence (12:37) ; pt.2. Ronald Hadley Stark and Timothy Leary (12:26) ; pt.3. Timothy Leary's international flight in the 1970's : the CIA denys involvement with LSD (12:56) ; pt.4. CIA's attempts to distribute LSD : efforts to blunt political activism (12:20).

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Emory, David.

L S D -- Research.

L S D -- Political aspects.

C.I.A. and L.S.D. / produced by David Emory.**The

Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996

Kesey, Ken.

HITCHCOCK, MELLON.

West, Louis Jolyon.

Osmond, Humphrey.

STARK, RONALD HADLEY.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

RUBY, JACK.

Distributor: 

Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1990.

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and on FaceBORG I Said:

The Johnny Depp Amber trial is a Classic Example of The Fall of the Roman Empire: "Bread and Circuses" - THIS is the Circus that's designed to Distract Attention from The Reality that Western Civilization is Collapsing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

And Biff Rose Replied:

you know better than that oh Saint Gregory II.....that ol' cliche about The Fall of the Roman Empire....everyone knows there was a transition....bridged over and re-glued together...by Saint Augustine's BEST SELLER....1500 years on the NY Times Best Seller list...." The City of God"... where the "Rome's Caesar" was renamed "The Pope" and the Roman Senators were all re-named Cardinals and Bishops....and the Vestal Virgins were re-named nuns.........and the mystical "God of the Army" was shifted from MITHRAS whose birthday was Dec 25th to Jesus whose birthday was shifted to Dec 25th..so much..OR MOST of "that Old Time religion" was continued intact..just like NOW as N.O.W..... the New Order of the Word...where the Roman Empire CONTINUES thru "Caesar CZAR" Vlad Putin...and Moscow the THIRD ROME arising...petulant as a kid...blocking food for the world's poor.....unless the old dead..dying and corrupt WEST Hollywood... release some of those great and totally decadent fleshpot flicks Czar Putin likes to watch late at nite before halting another shipment of grain to Sri Lanka,,WTF's WRONG witchoo Saint Greg?

You know damn well every thousand years there's a BIGGIE to satisfy and tittylate yo' Tupac....a THOU years ago it was the eastern Orthodox SCHISM where the original Nicaean Creed ( the Apostle's Creed of 325 a.d....) was re-invoked where grace PROCEEDS from the FATHER...some Monks in the 6th century I read inserted "and the SON" and so the gospel read "Grace proceeds from the Father, AND THE Son and the Holy Spirit".....SPIRIT used to be GHOST but as the tired and waning West's white male.........began losing it in Nam......grace began proceeding from a FATHER MACHO dude once more and the Patriarch Kyrill in Moscow has blessed that move by coronating Czar Putin whose gonna beat the WEST cuz he's ONE with the FATHER fig...the WEST meanwhile keeps praying to the SON GUY....the fall guy Jesus.....to come riding in on the silver stallion...from Calvary to the cavalry....Czar Putin meanwhile keeps dangling the Atomic Carrot over the heads and those GIVING head in the WEST'S Hollywood...

and I Replied:

and today the verdict was read... She got fined 15 Million for lying about Johnny Beating her up and He Got fined for Lying about How it was all a Hoax... She Called the cops, they found nothing wrong... so she threw wine all over the living room and tipped over some furniture AS IF there had been a Fight... and She Called the Cops again... and They Found Nothing Wrong Again... BUT... When Johnny said That action was a Hoax... the Jury awarded her 2 Million... because they didn't think it was a HOAX... it was Just another day in Paradise!

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Looks Like a Flower... a Digital Flower That is!

Here's a Great Song That I'm Playing 

while Posting on this Blog...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCgZxrf8nrU

Grateful Dead - Live: 

China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider (5-3-72)

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and the Movie: Magic Trip by Ken Kesey... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_l1aqwX3KQ

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Vote For Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia. The GOP/QAnon Candidate Promotes Banning "Beloved" a Book that Makes Slavery Look Like a Bad Idea! THAT'S HIS IMPORTANT ISSUE! We Actually Have Some REAL TROUBLES Today... Whitewashing the Civil War IS NOT One of Them...

https://terrymcauliffe.com/ <--- Share This Link on Social Media... It Costs NOTHING to Promote Terry. It's Important To Beat That GOP TrumpNik® before QAnon Takes Over America. 

Democrats for Freedom! Defend the Right to Teach Accurate American History in School. 

https://www.amazon.com/Beloved-Toni-Morrison/dp/1400033411

"BELOVED" Is the New York Times Bestseller • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, Toni Morrison: an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery. This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

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We Should Thank Candidate Youngkin for Promoting Sales of this Excellent Book... All a Part of The GOP/QAnon Operation BLOWBACK! 

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TRUMP LIES MATTER. How can we help his base WAKE UP? It appears that REALITY is not noticed by TrumpNiks... HEY! YOU! WAKE UP!

Mad King Donald is Destroying our Farmers with his BONEHEAD Trade War. Prices Higher, Wages Lower, Suicide Increasing, Alcoholism Increasing, Drug Overdoses Increasing, Businesses Going Bankrupt, Stock Market Going Down, #MAGAKillers... WAKE UP! North Korea just Flipped US The Bird... Treaty? No, They Just Continue to Build Atom Bombs and say uckFay ouYay onaldDay... Did Trump Just have Jeffrey Epstein Murdered? Ask Yourself, Who Would Benefit from a Dead Epstein? OMG! You just asked yourself a question... That's the road to THINKING... and Thinking makes people #Runaway from Czar Donald... WAKE UP! Most People Voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Most People STILL Do Not Like Trump... STOP BELIEVING TRUMP'S LIES... You Can Do It! You CAN THINK For Yourself! WAKE UP!

Why Not Tell Your Representatives to IMPEACH? They Will NOT Know what you think unless you tell them... In absence of Public Comment, they will continue to do what Corporations and the Super Rich pay them to do... DUH!

Use this Link to Contact your US Senators...

https://www.senate.gov/senators/How_to_correspond_senators.htm

and use This one for Representatives in the House...

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

US Representative Sherman Calls for Crypto Ban, Says It Threatens to Diminish American Power. Bitcoin is An Alternative to The Almighty Dollar...

Currently, any International Purchases go thru the FED in New York - EXCEPT Bitcoin Transactions... For Example: Sanctions on Iran, Venezuela and Russia prohibit those countries from doing business in DOLLARS. Oil Sales in Saudi Arabia use DOLLARS. China sells the USA Merchandise for DOLLARS that we trade for YUAN.  Bitcoin avoids USA Control of Currency TOTALLY.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-rep-sherman-calls-for-crypto-ban-says-it-threatens-to-diminish-american-power

Bitcoin-Bashing Democrat Calls for Blanket Ban on Cryptocurrencies.
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-democrat-ban-cryptocurrencies

Congressman’s Plea to Ban Bitcoin in the US Validates BTC and Crypto, Says Anthony Pompliano. https://dailyhodl.com/2019/05/13/congressmans-plea-to-ban-bitcoin-in-the-us-validates-btc-and-crypto-says-anthony-pompliano/

New Zealand Bans Assault Rifles... Why Don't We Do That here in the USA? Have not ENOUGH People Died??? Are WE CRAZY??? NRA=EVIL...

New Zealand bans military type semi-automatic weapons used in mosque massacre...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout-ardern-guncontrol/new-zealand-bans-military-type-semi-automatic-weapons-used-in-mosque-massacre-idUSKCN1R205Z

Is Trump's travel ban actually working? Is it preventing Muslims from entering the USA?

The answer is YES... Those people over there can't come in...

I do not see any benefit to the USA to allow Muslims in... They can keep their Beliefs OVER THERE... Why don't they simply BUILD an Islamic Paradise? Why do they want to #RunAway ???


https://www.vox.com/2018/7/29/17625194/travel-muslim-ban-lawsuit-waiver-how
The only people granted EXCEPTIONS are people who have Relatives Already in the USA.
and the Exceptions are very few...

https://www.wired.com/story/upholding-trump-travel-ban-supreme-court-harms-scientists/
Headline: "IN UPHOLDING TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN, THE SUPREME COURT HARMS SCIENTISTS"

Difficult to believe the headline of this article... are there Muslim Scientists? Really?

Yes, there is at least one (HANI GOODARZI) and he wants other Iranians to Come to the USA instead of DOING GREAT WORK IN IRAN... They could cure cancer in Iran but for some unknown reason they want to live in San Francisco...

Goodarzi saw this coming. His wife, also Iranian, is a lawyer and had warned of the likelihood of this outcome. But even that knowledge couldn’t keep him from feeling devastated. His parents and in-laws were hoping to relocate here from Iran to be closer to family. Those hopes are now dashed.
UNLESS THEY ALL GO LIVE IN IRAN... I hear it's wonderful... Hasta La Vista, Baby!

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The Supreme Court voted to uphold the president’s September 2017 proclamation restricting travel into the US for nationals from several countries, most of them predominantly Muslim: Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Syria, North Korea, and Venezuela. 

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Trump's Muslim Ban has started. Preventing Terrorists from entering the USA... or something like that. Maybe... Maybe not...

It seems unlikely that Trump's Muslim Ban will accomplish anything... Because...

Trump's Muslim ban does not go far enough. He still will allow people from Saudi Arabia to travel here freely. Remember that 14 out of 19 hijackers on 9/11/2001 were from Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden was a Saudi. If he is going to have an effective Muslim Ban he should remember to ban the main home of the terrorists. DUH. He should also ban people from Iraq. Since we blew up their country and committed mass murder they should have a desire for "Payback"... Or... Maybe... we should simply stop hating foreigners... Almost all people in the USA were foreigners when they came here. Fear is not the answer.