Friday, June 04, 2004 - 06:54 pm LA 'On The Road To Falluja'? Excerpt; The LA murder rate is going up and the police chief has requested more officers. But California is broke and cannot afford to recruit. Civil rights lawyer Connie Rice warns that with too few officers to "police humanely", parts of the city may as well be in Falluja. Los Angeles is notorious for gang violence, but even by LA standards 2002 was gruesome. With 658 murders in just that one year, it became America's murder capital. And 2003 saw the overall murder rate fall in LA by 23%, but so far this year the murder rate is back on the increase across the city. The LAPD's figures show a 5% year-on-year rise in homicides from Jan to April 2004. More at http://www.rense.com/general53/faal.htm
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 - 09:10 am So. Cal Traffic Nightmare Drives Plans for Earthquake-Country Tunnel Traffic has gotten so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' ever-expanding suburban ring that regional planners are seriously considering the once unthinkable - an 11-mile tunnel under a mountain range in earthquake country. The proposal calls for the second-longest road tunnel in the world, a new path between sprawling inland suburbs and Orange County, a suburban bedroom community that has developed into one of Southern California's fastest-growing job centers. Critics, however, question the logic of building a multibillion-dollar project they dub the "terrible tunnel" in a region so prone to earthquakes that an alternate proposal for a double-decker highway was deemed too dangerous. The tunnel would begin barely a mile from a fault that has produced a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. "It's absolutely absurd to have a tunnel 700 feet below ground in earthquake country," said Cathryn DeYoung, mayor of Laguna Niguel and a vocal opponent. "I mean, would you want to be in that tunnel?" Full article at http://millennium-ark.net/NEWS/05_Earth_Changes/051112.So.Cal.tunnel.html
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 - 09:16 am The French Muslim Rebellion of 2005 Can a similar insurrection occur in the USA? "Today, here in Los Angeles, we are already seeing ominous signs of an impending social explosion that will make the French rebellion by Muslim and immigrant youths seem 'tame' by comparison. All the ingredients are present including a hostile and racist police as in France."- Ernesto Cienfuegos/La Voz de Aztlan http://www.aztlan.net/french_muslim_rebellion.htm See also: Could French-Style Riots Happen Here? http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47284
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