Publisher Michael Durand has boasted his newspaper The Richmond Review is a vehicle for citizens and organizations to share diverse points of view and ideas. The opinions currently being published fall in line with his Old Boy Network well suited to 1950’s San Francisco.
In a frenzied effort to silence opposing views in the heated ballot measure to make The Great Highway a permanently car free area the Richmond Review is censoring vocal advocates.
Michael Durand and former publisher Paul Kozakiewicz, currently a contributor, have selectively locked our voices out of the Richmond Review’s “Comments and Replies” section in an act of unprofessional and discriminatory journalism.
Michael Durand – Publisher Richmond Reviewdrinks from the cup of Censorship
This censorship of two individuals reminds us of the censorship the Nixon Administration tried to impose to stop the publishing of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Attached are several “Comments and Replies” submitted by Liz and Lee Heidhues which Michael Durand has refused to publish.
Buried in the second section in a recent Wall Street Journal is the news that Exxon Mobil predicts, “the world isn’t on pace to make dramatic emissions reductions needed to stem climate change.”
And it’s fair to say the world won’t reach its climate change goals because companies like Exxon can’t afford to do what’s necessary. The Exxon profit margin is at risk
Exxon Mobil says humans will use roughly as much crude oil in 2050 as they do today and that the world isn’t on pace to make dramatic emissions reductions needed to stem climate change.
In its annual energy outlook, the Houston-based fossil-fuels producer said it expects carbon emissions to drop for the first time in 2030. But the world will need policy changes, breakthroughs in technology and market solutions if governments want to keep global temperatures on pace to meet the goals of the Paris climate accords set out in 2015.
The company said it believes oil and natural gas will continue to top the world’s energy sources a quarter century from now, even as renewable energy grows and coal use falls sharply. But Exxon says passenger cars will consume less fossil fuel and chemical plants will use more oil.
The company expects the world’s natural-gas demand to rise 21% by 2050, and oil 2%, with most of that growth in industrial sectors to fuel manufacturing and as chemical feedstock. Meanwhile, it sees consumption of biofuels, solar and wind rising exponentially and coal dropping off 39%.
Last year, Exxon also said the global effort to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions isn’t on track to keep the planet’s temperature from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius by 2050.
Exxon said carbon capture and the use of hydrogen-based fuels need to expand rapidly for the world to meet Paris climate goals. The company plans to invest billions over the next few years in both technologies. It faces dozens of lawsuits across the U.S. accusing it of climate-change deception.
It’s no Labor Day in America for the marginalized unhoused in San Francisco.
Homeless and handcuffed in America by the US Park Service Police – 9.2.2024
The United States Park Service Police are seen handcuffing and tossing a shirtless homeless person into the paddy wagon. This is America in the post ‘Grants Pass’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson Supreme Court decision last June.
A decision due in large part to the advocacy from Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco City Attorney.
America’s cops at all levels and in all jurisdictions have been unleashed to abuse the most marginalized amongst the population.
Unhoused citizen being hustled into United States Park Service police van
The shameless felon Donald Trump’s push to be President has no ethical limits.
The felon guy is classless and clueless.
This is a felon awaiting sentencing who has ridiculed and disrespected veterans. Including the late Senator and presidential candidate John McCain. Who spent several years in a prisoner of war camp during the Vietnam war.
His latest sunken morality stunt was to bring a personal photographer to a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. To commemorate the deaths of 13 American soldiers in Afghanistan three years ago.
National Public Radio (NPR) reported what happened.
Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has learned.
A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.
When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.
Donald Trump, Republican nominee for president, visited Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the third anniversary of a suicide bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” according to the statement. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”
Trump participated in an event to mark the third anniversary of a deadly attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdrew from the country; 13 U.S. service members were killed in the attack. The Trump campaign has blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, for the chaotic withdrawal.
In a statement to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a physical altercation, adding: “We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” Cheung said in the statement.
The Trump campaign declined to make that footage immediately available.
In a statement to NPR, Arlington National Cemetery said it “can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”
Felon and rule breaker at Arlington National Cemetery
Opponents of Proposition K staged a car rally on Market Street to decry the measure as a threat to San Francisco’s largely residential Westside.The Standard 8.24.2024
These people should get out of their cars and get some exercise.
Maybe, they wouldn’t be so uptightand stop their bloviating.
The Standard says it all about their political idiocy. Entitled motorists didn’t even know where to protest. On Saturday they polluted the atmosphere with their climate killing hunks of junk downtown.
Seven miles from the site of Ocean Beach Park.
These bitter people believe that cars come first. Forget it. They have lost at the Board of Supervisors, the ballot box and the courthouse Yet, they refuse to give up their misguided birth right. And continue this fight against the environment. It’s over.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 8.24.2024
Two rallies Saturday presented dueling visions for the fate of the Great Highway, San Francisco’s coastal boulevard at the center of a debate about how the city uses its streets and whether parks or cars should dominate.
About 80 community members at a Panhandle Playground rally listened as Sunset resident Josh Kelly called the campaign to create a Great Highway park “part of a long tradition of San Franciscans reclaiming space in their city for people and not for vehicles.”
“Closing (the highway) is not feasible, is not a good idea, and it wasn’t brought as a community-led compromise,” Sunset District resident Albert Chow, owner of Great Wall Hardware, said to a crowd of about 35 community members on Market Street.
“My mother taught us never do something half-ass.” Kamala Harris
SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 8.22.2024
It’s a proud night in San Francisco.
Oakland native, San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General, Vice President and now officially the Democrats’ presidential candidate possesses a big smile and contagious laugh.
Make no mistake this veteran prosecutor is all business when it comes to convicted Felon, sexual abuser, bankrupt businessman and pathological liar Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris told the world that she intends to expose the real Trump and win the election November5th.
Liz and I had a watch party for two in our San Francisco Richmond District neighborhood. The streets were uncommonly quiet this evening as our neighbors wanted to view this historic moment. An Oakland/San Francisco native sister stepping onto the stage in Chicago to introduce herself to the world.
Liz wearing her “Childless Cat Lady” designer T-shirt proudly points to who she will be voting for on November 5th
Excerpt from The New York Times 8.22.2024
Vice President Kamala Harris ceremonially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president on Thursday night in a speech that alternated between calls for unity and stinging rebukes of former President Donald J. Trump as an “unserious man” whose return to the White House could have devastating consequences for the United States.
“With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past,” she said, casting herself as someone who can bring a deeply divided country together.
Like a prosecutor making a closing argument, Ms. Harris denounced Mr. Trump point by point, repeatedly accusing him of preparing to systematically erode the democratic values of the country if he returns to the White House.
“Consider what he intends to do if we give him power again,” she said, her voice rising. “Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol. His explicit intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy. His explicit intent to deploy our active duty military against our own citizens.”
“Just imagine,” she said, “Donald Trump with no guardrails.”
Our regular house guest Bendi awaits his owner Betty to take him home and watch Kamala’s speech.
I was nearly in tears when I read of the passing of Golden State Warriors legend Al Attles at age 87. From the time I was 15 and the Warriors arrived in San Francisco I have been an avid follower.
Nothing better exemplifies Al Attles career than the 1975 game four NBA finals playoff between the Warriors and Washington Bullets (now the Washington Wizards). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_NBA_Finals.
The on court brawl in Landover, Maryland which found Al Attles being ejected is one of the all time classic moments in Warriors history.Following his ejection the incensed Warriors proceeded to rally and win the game 96-95 to complete a four game sweep and with it the NBA championship.
Liz and I were living on Waller Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Liz was pregnant with our soon to be born daughter, Atlanta. We did not have a television and listened to games on radio. Bill King was an audio television. His description of this moment is classic. It is attached.
Warriors all timegreat radio announcerBill King in all his announcing glory. Go to the audio clip at 2:53 through 4:10 as he breaks down Al Attles vs Mike Riordan fight NBA finals May 1975 – Game 4.
The never to be forgotten brawl in the fourth game of the 1975 NBA playoffs between the Warriors and Washington Bullets
San Francisco Chronicle article on Al Attles passing – August 21, 2024
Top photo: Al Attles, incensed that Washington Bullet Mike Riordan viciously fouled Rick Barry, argues with Richie Powers prior to his ejection from game four of the 1975 NBA playoffs
A story is major news when the British tabloids blast a story on the front page.
This is not the kind of publicity which shines a favorable light on San Francisco which sees itself on the global stage through rose tinted glasses.
The reality is totally different to long time residents who have experienced the venal nastiness of San Francisco officialdom. It begins with the Mayor’s office and slithers down into the agencies which oversee life on the streets in this densely populated City of 800,000 people packed into 50 square miles.
This incident of police overreaction is sadly too often a way of life in 2024 San Francisco.
Shameless political creature San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins who compared legitimate peaceful protesters to Hamas terrorists is using her office to harass and abuse.
Indicting 26 citizens who are protesting the ongoing war crimes by Israel against the people of Palestine.
Seeking reelection this November Brooke Jenkins, an opportunistic political hack who destroyed her predecessor DA Chesa Boudin, owes her livelihood to Mayor London Breed. This malicious prosecution is nothing more than an election year ploy which needs to be seen for what it is.
OUTRAGEOUS: Civil rights protesters in handcuffs at San Francisco jail 8.12.2024
An abuse of prosecutorial discretion. These indictments need to be tossed from the criminal court docket immediately.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 8.12.2024
On Monday morning, as the remaining individuals suspected of taking part in an April 15 protest that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge turned themselves in, demonstrators marked the occasion with another protest, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and railing against the prosecution of those dubbed the “GG 26.”
Each of the suspected demonstrator’s cases includes 38 counts of false imprisonment, which accounts for the 37 victims named in the complaint. The 38th charge is a catchall for hundreds of others who were stuck on the bridge that day, officials said.
Civil rights protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge – 4.15.2024
Twenty-one of the 26 people filed into the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office building downtown around 8 a.m., while dozens of others chanted, banged on drums and scrawled notes of support in chalk on the nearby sidewalk. One of the people charged raised a defiant fist as their group entered the building, prompting an eruption of cheers from the crowd.
“This is not about us, this is about what’s happening in Gaza, and we are demanding a cease-fire,” said Jeff Wozniak, who is part of a group of attorneys representing the defendants. “We are here trying to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide and that has always been the message, that has always been the reason for these actions.”
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