[Tradutor] Same Sex Marriage would seem to be something that’s not controversial today – but then you haven’t met Odin. This older African American man was sitting on a fire hydrant at the corner of 14th and Broadway in Downtown Oakland holding a sign that reads “No Unlawful Sex,” and lists all of the kinds of sex that the man sees as, well, not legal. At the top of his list is same-sex marriage, although he thinks marriage before sex is just as bad, which pretty much means we’re all in trouble. The...
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[Tradutor] This came up via a search, but from the looks of this, someone placed the KTVU version of story of the Oakland City Auditor’s Report called “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs Performance Audit FY 2009‐10 – FY 2011‐12,” and which this blogger has called racist, on a website specifically dedicated to racism against African Americans called “Chimpout.” UPDATE: The WHOIS Lookup for Chimpout.com: [Querying whois.verisign-grs.com] [whois.verisign-grs.com] Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain...
[Tradutor] Courtney Ruby The Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby has presided over the preparation of a report entitled “Non‐Interference in Administrative Affairs, Performance Audit, FY 2009‐10 – FY 2011‐12,” that is plainly a racist abuse of power. It says, on page 21, that the City Of Oakland has a “culture of interference” that involves “multiple councilmembers” yet only points an accusatory finger at the two veteran black elected officials, Larry Reid (District 7) and Desley Brooks (District...
[Tradutor] In this Oakland News, the latest security report from the Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday event is slated to come before the Oakland City Council tonight at 5:30 PM. The report was originally written and presented February 27th, and in the wake of the terrible, horrible shooting that took place at the February gathering – one that took the life of Kiante Campbell. My take is that we’re going in the wrong way in downsizing Art Murmur / First Friday, but then the report makes an excellent point: that the entire...
[Tradutor] This segment of Oakland News is a sad one. It starts with a video of an assault that took place last week, March 13th, at Oakland City Hall Plaza (or City Hall / Oscar Grant / Frank Ogawa Plaza), and that has been seen just 9 times on YouTube to this writing, but that’s about to change. The woman in blue was simply writing “Long Live Israel” in hebrew on the pavement, when the other woman with the long hair, in the amber blouse started to take her chalk away, and then started cursing, and eventually...
[Tradutor] Erica Maskaleris is believed to have killed herself according to The Oakland Police reports to the media. The 31-year old woman who started the Oakland-based computer and tech consulting firm Geekosystems was last seen one week ago Thursday morning walking at the 3400 block of Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. KRON TV, Channel 4 in the SF Bay Area, ran this video from a vigil that was held for the “Find Erica Maskaleris” group, where another video that purports to show Ms. Maskaleris walking on that March 7th day...
[Tradutor] Erica Maskaleris, the 31-year-old woman who founded the tech consulting company Geekosystems, has been missing for one solid week now, as of this writing. The news that the jogger was last seen walking over at 34th and Telegraph has traveled far and wide in Oakland – as has the news that the Oakland Police Department was something like two days slow in investigating the report. You’d think with all of that, and especially the slam against the Oakland Police Department, that Oakland Mayor Jean Quan would include...
[Tradutor] Oakland News. A bit of a while since the last posting of Oakland News, but that’s because this blogger has spent a lot of time posting Oakland content over at Oakland Focus, just to keep the search engine fires burning over there, and to get back to the initial objective of having the blogs focused on local issues and news ‘feed into’ Zennie62. At any rate, let’s get to it. UPDATE: MAYOR QUAN NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED! Erica Maskaleris is missing, and has been for about the last day. According to...
[Tradutor] The recently enacted trigger in the 2011 Budget Control Act referred to as “sequestration” will have a total impact on the Alameda County, CA, of $7.1 Million. That’s according to a Power Point-based report published on February 26th by Kai Mander, Principal Analyst, of the County Administrator’s Office. Mr. Mander’s report said that the following Alameda County departments and programs would be impacted in the $7.1 million of cuts due to sequestration: Community Development Agency ($1.8 million),...
[Tradutor] On Monday, Thomas C. Frazier was appointed “Compliance Director” by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson. In this position, Mr. Frazier will have complete authority over the Oakland Police Department, including the ability to set in motion the dismissal of the current police chief, Howard Jordan. Given Thomas C. Frazier’s alleged track record as police chief in Baltimore, Chief Jordan should be concerned. Then-Chief Frazier was considered a racist top cop, who punished black police officers to a much...
[Tradutor] The Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday Festival took place last Friday, and about one month after the tragic shooting that left Kiante Campbell dead on Telegraph Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets at the geographic heart of Art Murmur. But before we see that video, here the video that shows the reactions of many just an hour after the shooting took place: And here’s the video this blogger created last Friday, one month later: Where do we go from here? I’d prefer to see The Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday...
[Tradutor] Foursquare, the popular location-based social networ, is broken. This blogger makes such an assertion because someone named JaxonP has managed to fraudulently insert themselves in mayor of Lakeshore Cafe, the popular eatery in the Tresle Glen area of Oakland. Trouble is, he has just 14 checkins in 60 days, whereas I have 36 checkins over the same period. Moreover, I was at Lakeshore Cafe yesterday, and the day before, and many times last week and never saw evidence of this JaxonP, and staff has never seen him or heard of...
