¡Venga! Empanadas Vehicle Blocks SF Fire Dept Access to Water Supply Pipes. Why ?

Note:  See latest August 16th, 2017 Update at bottom of page about:    

     How To Park Safely and about for profit bikers, space takers, uber, robot car crashes, app delivery drivers, public safety and #NeverAdopters who understand "1984" and don't want corporate top down, high tech schemes that harm us all.

   Scroll down to the end of this page to see the latest update... 

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**  WED JULY 9, 2017  ** UPDATE:   ¡Venga! Empanadas' Owner's Vehicle Blocks SFFD Water Supply Access Daily & During Today's SF Fire Department Emergency Response, at their cafe's location. 

SFFD Emergency Call 400 Blk Valencia

     This morning, during our daily coffee meeting outside on the sidewalk in front of Ferguson's Plumbing and Showroom, at 435 Valencia Street in the Mission District,  we saw SF Fire Department trucks pull up in front of Venga Empanadas parklet and the residential hotel next door. 

SFFD at Venga Empanadas

    Apparently they were responding to some emergency in the Hotel or Alley next door.  

     We weren't sure why they were they but the brave fire fighters have their gear on and went fast down the alley less two doors down from where we were standing,  next to the fire department water supply pipes.    

      We noticed there was fresh paint and miniature Red Cones on the curb which was being re-painted by SFMTA.  

SFFD Red Zones & Water Supply Pipes 

    We looked above the cone and newly painted red zone and saw a car illegally parked there. 

     We've seen that same car parked there nearly every day for the past year or so,  but never really paid any attention to it,   until this incident today with the Fire Department in action, responding to an emergency call.   

    The SFFD didn't need access to the water supply today, but now we have a better understanding of why there are small Red Fire Zone painted on curbs.    Now we see, that its necessary to have those tiny areas clear of obstacles at all times, to fight fires and save lives.  

SFFD Fire water Supply

1 of 2 Red Zones Repainted

       At the same time, we noticed that a car was blocking the SFFD Access Right-Of-Way to the SFFD Water Supply Pipes on the wall of Ferguson's Plumbing. 

   It's  the same spot we stand at every day -- where we were drinking our coffee, listening to the radio,  but today we learned more about why there are little strips of red zone no parking spots all over the city.

       Lo and behold,  it was the Venga Empanada Owners car, parked illegally in an SFMTA Red Zone, blocking access to the Fire Department Water Supply.   

Venga Empanadas Decal In Window

Freshly Re-Painted SFFD Red Zone

 Imagine if there was a big fire at Ferguson's Plumbing Showroom or Samovar Tea;   Venga Empanadas or the Residential SRO Hotel next door and the S.F.F.D. needed to run hoses and equipment across the street and sidewalk to connect them to the high pressure water supply lines -- being blocked.

    It would be tragically ironic if the blocking of access to the SFFD Water Supply pipes, daily,  by the Owner or Staff of Venga Cafe themselves were to lead to more property damage or loss of life during emergencies due to obstacles & delays to the fire fighter's response, at their own cafe or the adjacent stores and hotel residents next door to them.

END JULY 9, 2017 UPDATE

     
   **UPDATE:   WED AUGUST 16, 2017  -  Vehicle Parked Safely in Same Spot without Blocking Fire Department Water Supplies: 

   This August 16th Update has been moved to its own posting page here: 

    It combines follow up on this story and new information about how unsafe food delivery; ride share; robot vehicle and bikers create hazards for us all on our own streets and sidewalks.   They all drive as if they are above the law and above respecting the space and safety of others in our community.   They avoid all the real costs of doing business that the rest of us pay for because we follow the laws and these renegade operators DO NOT.    We pay for using meters and don't idle our engines like they do.   We don't run lights or cut off pedestrians or park blocking red zones or on sidewalks because it's wrong, unsafe and illegal to do so.

     This linked update includes info on $78 Million Dollar Awarded in wrongful death suit involving the Domino's Pizza Delivery Time Guarantee model that pressured drivers into speeding and driving recklessly to meet corporate goals that killed . 
innocent people, from coast to coast.

     Also includes pics and links to stories of robot cars crashing and information about liability issues for drivers who work for these 'new' for profit ride share and delivery systems.

     These renegade foreign owned (not from here) for mega-profit corporations and their stressed out, underpaid drivers and robot machines cause us so many problems and steal local spaces and cash flows from local communities to fund the lifestyles of the elite and their investors in New York and London City.... 

   Click on the link below to continue reading.


     https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2017/08/about-unsafe-uber-cruise-food-delivery.html

 

 END OF UPDATE

US President Jimmy Carter Hired Saudia Arabian Usama bin Laden to create Al Qaeda in 1979. Fact Not Conspiracy

( drafted July 18th, 2017 & overlooked until today 10/1/2018 & published)

     While studying the recent Trump-Centric media stories about "Fake News" we decided to review what's happening with the "Conspiracy vs Fact" world.


       Many journalists, researchers, historians, investigators and "media outlets" and "think tanks" have been producing a plethora of "facts", "conspiracy theories" and outright propaganda that overwhelms us all.    

          People in my peer groups, consist of a large number of elders who "know things" from first hand and second hand (info coming from close, trusted or known reliable sources) sources, going back many decades.


   Many come from older families who passed on core knowledge, principles and experiences that are highly trusted and reliable. 

    Meanwhile, as real facts and knowledge has been passed down and confirmed by word of mouth exchanges for generations  --  Likewise, media channels and propaganda operations have tried to diminish or otherwise hide the truths known and shared amongst insiders and long time 'activists' and whistleblowers.


     The Elite do this by calling them derogatory names (i.g. disgruntled employees, troublemakers, rabblerousers, mud rakers) and try to attach misleading names, labels and stereotypes (i.g. Hippies, Old People, Over 30, Conspiracy Theorists, Pot Heads, Homeless, Crazy, Paranoid) onto them (in movies and "cartoons" like Family Guy which essentially accepts pedophiles, incest and abuse as common and normalized) to distract the masses (consumer audiences, handheld device addicts) from the truth or veracity of stories and messages, no matter where they come from. 

      One controversial topic (that we thought was settled and proven) has to do with who started Al Qaeda and hired Usama bin Laden to import terrorists into Afghanistan in 1979 - to set up training camps near the border to aggravate the Russians into attacking, which they did in December of 1979. 

    A Trap (provocation) set up by the US CIA, ordered by President Jimmy Carter. 

   While researching this topic, we saw a Wikipedia post that stated it was a "Conspiracy Theory" that said statement being true!     

    I could not believe, in 2017,  the fact that Jimmy Carter ordered his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski (Polish)  to hire Usama bin Laden (Saudi Arabia)  to create training camps near the Russian Border inside Afghanistan using extreme Islamic Terrorists to provoke the Russians into attacking, is shown on Wikipedia as a 'Theory' or 'Conspiracy Theory'.   

   

      I've SEEN a copy of the presidential order or directive, saying so, signed by Jimmy Carter in the summer of 1979.


        So, it appears that Wikipedia has either been changed or never did catch up to the facts about such a major event that has led to the creation of more CIA backed Terrorist Groups and Acts around the globe.   

   Information about this was published on our blogs or on the largest global citizen journalists site NowPublic.com which was bought, gutted and destroyed by Anshutz finance company, who owns Examiner.com    

   Had we not seen the actual order by President Carter and read the interviews with Brzezinski in which he admits same (albeit in a twisted no we didn't, yes we did manner) it would be a Theory about a Conspiracy. 

   But, once you see documents that are trusted and hear the players directly involved tell you what they did,  it's not longer a theory -- its a proven fact -- until new information or other reliable facts come to light.      It's the same time frame of the order authorizing the hiring of Usama bin Laden (for purposes of importing and organizing terrorists from the middle east into Afghanistan) but goes a bit farther.


     It's the same time frame of the order authorizing the hiring of Usama bin Laden (for purposes of importing and organizing terrorists from the middle east into Afghanistan) but goes a bit farther.   


      Provoking other sovereign nations into attacking "third world" nations using propaganda and psychological warfare, at home and abroad using taxpayer dollars and deception. 


      It's just plain wrong.   Our past leaders in government and corporations (and in their revolving doors) have been so unprincipled and war mongering and deceptive, it sickens my stomach. 


         I was raised in many states and other nations on solid values of being honest, doing no harm and to trust our 'leaders' who are supposed to protect our lands, rivers, oceans, lives and food supplies and societies to better us all.


      Too many people now text while driving, biking, babysitting, walking, skating focussed more on the images on their devices than the humans, animals and life around them, everywhere.   400,000 MORE people harmed each year in the U.S. due to Distracted People !    

   Tried to find that original presidential order and it's proven to take much more time to find than it did about ten years ago,  when I had copies of it and helped write blog posts about it.       

   I did reach the Jimmy Carter Archives and did find something officially registered called "A Finding" (by the president).  

   When I first saw this I got chills down my spine thinking about how often and easy it is,  for men in power to breaks laws and treaties and acts of bad will to cause war, pain and suffering for trillions of dollars in profit and oil.  

     When I read presidential orders or documents like this or like when we saw Bush use reverse engineered "logic" (without foundation in proof) and legal justifications and word twisting to sanction torture, kidnapping and murder, at will, in secret, without protections of due process, treaties and good rule of law -- it makes me feel ashamed to be a "U.S. Citizen".   

   I really have to stop here.  

   After having worked at over 200+ major corporations in banking, finance, software, hardware, high tech, investment, real estate firms and government agencies -- for decades --  I often become sad at all of the for mega profit harm and premature death caused by massive corporations, institutions, war mongers, haters, abusers and individuals throughout the world.  

    I'm so grateful to all the people and peer groups and independent journalists I've encountered over decades (and with intel, military, legal and police contacts made) who all perceive the world in a very mature, adult and sobering manner.   

    Not charmed or deceived by never ending propaganda machines that are all around us and inside our homes, offices, streets and distracted devices and cell phone androids and ipods. 

    We (semi-enlightened and fairly reasonable and sane folks) are unfortunately, surrounded by large numbers of people who spend more time interacting with devices, busy trying to 'live like' the images and lifestyles being pumped into them by way of music, video, gaming, app and mass media channels, 24/7.   

   These folks spend more time with 'things' and CNN type hype channels than they do with their elders in their community, their children, family, pets and neighbors.

    The more we see 'them' out of touch with real life while addicted to the for profit machines -- the more often my friends reduce their useage.     Many of us spend less than an hour total staring at or using their hand held devices.  

   Instead, we make more friends, see more stuff in our neighborhood and have many more close, diverse relationships and exchanges and community building, because we value reality more than video landia.     We live here and now, not there or then in online world.    

   We've found it better to be more critical thinking and have more human interactions in real life now, than to be in an addictive, screen staring Passive Mind State in which all is taken in and stored (accepted) without filters, debate or vetting.

   I'll be updating this post more another time. 

  

  Be safe wherever you go and whatever you do in this wild, crazy, upside down world we live in... 

James