Major Company to leave San Francisco due to crime and lack of leadership

Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Important Takeaways:

  • Walking away: San Francisco mall owner hands property back to bank as exodus continues
  • Shopping center giant Westfield is walking away from its San Francisco Centre mall, becoming the latest major company to leave the California city amid rampant crime problems.
  • “For more than 20 years, Westfield has proudly and successfully operated San Francisco Centre, investing significantly over that time in the vitality of the property,” the company said in a statement.
  • Westfield’s move comes less than a week after Park Hotels & Resorts announced it had handed two prominent hotels back to the bank. The real estate investment trust said it was abandoning the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55, saying the city’s streets are unsafe and expressing doubts about the area’s ability to recover.
  • Westfield’s decision to give up San Francisco Centre, which was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, appears to be due in part to Nordstrom shutting down both its downtown San Francisco locations.

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Here comes ‘Socialized Electricity’ If you make more money you will pay more

Revelations 13:16-18 “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”

Important Takeaways:

  • California Goes ‘Socialized Electricity’ – Income-based Electricity Fees in Push for ‘Equity’
  • This recent endeavor is sold to the residents of California as a way to increase ‘equity’ and help California save the planet from climate change.
  • But will this push for “equitable energy” actually create equitable outcomes, and where do these ideas in penalizing those with means to allegedly help those without seem to originate? How is it that we’ve reached a point where you might prefer not to make more money in order to keep your bills down?
  • California plans to use resident income levels to dictate electricity fees to decrease low-income family electricity costs. To break down the potential numbers, a resident who makes over $180,000 a year could pay up to $500 more in electricity fees yearly.
  • Compare that to a resident who makes less than $28,000 a year is estimated to save up to $300 annually in electricity fees under this new construct.
  • According to the rhetoric, it is to help expand and modernize California’s “green” electrical system. In case you forgot, California plans to ban fuel-burning vehicles by 2035.
  • It is estimated that the state will need to spend more than $9 billion on its power grid to make this pie-in-the-sky switch to renewable energies.

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Facebook parent company Meta has a fit over new California Bill

Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase

Important Takeaways:

  • Meta threatens to pull news posts from Facebook, Instagram if California bill becomes law
  • Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has threatened to remove news posts from those social media platforms should Assembly Bill 886, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act, become law.
  • The measure, authored by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, would require social media companies, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, to pay a monthly “journalism usage fee” — to be determined through an arbitration process — based on the social media platform’s monthly ad revenue.
  • The money would go into a fund for payments to the companies that produced the content. Media companies would be required, under the proposed law, to spend at least 70% of that money on journalists and support staff.

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Lawless California teens mob a couple of Marines after being told to stop shooting fireworks

Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Important Takeaways:

  • Horrific video shows mob of California teens allegedly beating Marines
  • Daily mail reported: Horrific video shows the moment a group of self-identified US Marines were savagely beaten by as many as 40 teenagers after the service members confronted them about their unruly behavior on a California beach.
  • A minute-long video posted on Nextdoor, a social media platform for neighbors, shows one individual throwing a punch at one of the victims from behind before a large fight breaks out. The injured victim is then seen lunging at his assailant, and then the mob was filmed kicking the victims.
  • A pair of bystanders intervened in the beating, with one woman putting herself between the victims and their assailants as she outstretched her arms and yelled, “Stop!”
  • Police said the Orange County Fire Authority was on the scene, but all victims refused medical assistance.
  • The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident and has promised to identify all suspects involved and prosecute them “to the fullest extent of the law.”

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Plumas County California shaken by a 5.5m earthquake

Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Important Takeaways:

  • 5 magnitude earthquake strikes Plumas County in Northern California, USGS says
  • A 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Plumas County in Northern California Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
  • The quake happened at 4:19 p.m. and its epicenter was the bottom of Lake Almanor near East Shore, Calif.
  • Shaking was felt as far as Sacramento.
  • Photos from the Plumas Pines Resort show bottles of alcohol that were knocked off the shelves and shattered across the floor.
  • So far, there have been no reports of injuries or any other major damage.

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Southern California shaken by swarms near Salton Sea; Experts say 65% of nation’s earthquake damage occurs in California equaling $1.8 billion a year in financial losses

Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Important Takeaways:

  • Swarms of Earthquakes shake California in recent days as officials warn the cost of yearly quake damage nears $10 BILLION – up 157% from six years ago
  • The first earthquake occurred near the U.S.- Mexico border town of Herber around 12pm Saturday and more than four dozen tremors were subsequently registered over the next 18 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
  • The earthquake and tremors in Herber reached up to 3.7 in magnitude.
  • The latest quakes come after a new report from USGS indicated that California is projected to lose an average of $9.6 billion a year from earthquake damage.
  • That number is a 157 percent jump from 2017 when it was just $3.7 billion a year.
  • A second series of earthquakes struck near Niland, a town 40 miles north of the border. After the first, more than 25 tremors shook the area after midnight Sunday.
  • According to the new USGS report, Los Angeles and Orange counties are the most costly places that can be hit by earthquakes at a projected annual loss of $3.3 billion a year.
  • Right behind the Southern California places is the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro area, with a projected loss of $1.8 billion a year.
  • Shockingly, the report also indicates California’s expected costs make up around 65 percent of the nation’s total damages.
  • Over the next three decades, California is projected to lose $288 billion

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Medvedev says he’s Rooting for Texas on possibility of Secession from the rest of the states

Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

Important Takeaways:

  • ‘I’m rooting for Texas,’ Medvedev quips about potential secession of certain US states
  • The secession of certain states from the United States of America could be a distinct possibility, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev told participants in the Znanie (Knowledge) educational marathon on Tuesday, adding that he would “be rooting for [the state of] Texas” should it decide to opt for independence.
  • “A battle of annihilation on the part of political elites and economic clans could result in certain states splitting off, a scenario which is a distinct possibility,” Medvedev said. “These states already brag about their independence as regards highly sensitive issues, such as the right to institute the death penalty for criminals and various economic issues.”
  • “California and the ‘Lone Star State,’ Texas, are already asking to go their own way, and it seems that, just recently, such a scenario would have been viewed as absurd or, at least, very strange,” he continued.
  • “However, Texas has already laid the groundwork for holding a referendum, as the [Texas state] Republicans drafted a bill on the independence of Texas, as well as a Texas [state] bill on organizing the referendum itself. They have even come up with a legal rationale based on the alleged violation of Article 1 of the Texas Constitution,” the Russian official said.
  • “New bills have emerged this year, and so the most interesting things there [in the United States] are just beginning. I don’t know how you all feel, but personally I would be rooting for Texas, and we would see what interesting solutions they might come up with,” Medvedev noted.
  • The Russian Security Council deputy chief also pointed out that the world is witnessing today the progressive degradation of the US political elite, “when the real power in this country ends up in the hands of the so-called ‘deep state,’ with the country [ostensibly] being run either by charismatic but totally useless amateurs, or feeble old men”

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Hundreds of shallow earthquakes; More faults discovered during recent study along California’s coast

Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Important Takeaways:

  • Hundreds of shallow earthquakes detected along California coast during 8-month study
  • California is experiencing a record number of earthquakes. In Long Beach and Seal Beach areas, seismologists recorded a thousand tiny tremors over eight months. The majority were shallow quakes reaching depths less than two kilometers below the surface.
  • This past earthquake was six to 10 kilometers deep — far greater than the shallow ones seen today. However, constant shallow earthquakes could build up and create possibilities for an earthquake that reaches the surface. The regulatory zone surrounding the surface of active faults, called the Alquist-Priolo zone, span a minimum of 50 feet.
  • “The surprising aspect is the relative number of shallow events,” says Yan Yang, a Caltech researcher…
  • The study also identified new faults between the Los Alamitos Fault and the Newport-Inglewood Fault and north of the Garden Grove Fault. None of the small shallow earthquakes detected in the study were the result of oil and gas activity

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California Reservoirs are refilling after atmospheric rivers dumped water in the region

Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves

Important Takeaways:

  • Water, water everywhere! Stunning photos show how historic California storms have refilled once-depleted reservoirs in drought-prone Golden State
  • California has experienced at least 11 atmospheric rivers this year, leading to a significant amount of rain and snowfall
  • The weather system has replenished the state’s once-depleted reservoirs after years of drought
  • 12 of California’s 17 major reservoirs are filled above their historical averages for the start of spring
  • The storms have created one of the biggest snowpacks on record in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The snowpack’s water content is 239 percent of its normal average and nearly triple in the southern Sierra, according to state data.

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As California drought condition eases Florida is now in severe drought

US Drought Map

Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves

Important Takeaways:

  • Florida’s brutal drought worsens; Orlando has hottest start to year on record
  • With less than 2 inches of rain this year, Orlando is enduring its second driest stretch from Jan. 1 to April 5 since the late 1800s and also it’s hottest on record for that period.
  • In Orlando, the last measurable rain was 25 days ago, when just .15 inches barely wetted the ground, boosting the year’s rain to 1.89 inches, or about as much as a single, typical summer downpour can bring.
  • California now has almost no severe drought and nearly all of Florida’s peninsula is swaddled in it.
  • The newest report shows 55 percent of Florida under severe drought now, up from 20 percent at the start of this year and less than 1 percent last year at this time.

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