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New Sacramento King’s Arena on the Way!

 

I never knew why anyone was ashamed of the truth. Did you ever notice that a railroad company numbers its cars from 1,000, instead of 1? Few men love the truth for its own sake. The biggest, strongest, machine in North America is being used to tear down the iconic Sacramento, California USA Down Town plaza. To make room for the new Sacramento Kings area, which will be located in Down Town Sacramento, California and will have no parking, nor will there be any updates to the freeway and you have seen the traffic headaches that come out of Candle Stick Park. The iconic Open Air Mall and buildings are the only active clothing shopping center, in the area, and is being torn down. Sacramento Downtown Plaza, formerly known as Westfield Downtown Plaza and Downtown Plaza, is a two-level outdoor shopping mall, with glass elevators, named brand stores, at one time, there was a Macy’s, Weinstock’s, Java City Coffee Shop, Rustaller Brewery, Forever 21, Hard Rock Café, Gap, Banana Republic, Foot Locker, Guess Store, Eddie Bauer, and Hammond’s Candies Candy Store, and Mrs. Fields Cookies. a playground for children, beer garden, food court, movie theater, office buildings, a college and bank, owned by JMA Ventures LLC, located in downtown Sacramento, California, United States near the State Capitol building. The shopping center was bordered by J Street to the North, L Street to the south, 7th Street to the east and 4th Street to the West.

 One resident, Dean Nelson said, “It brings back a lot of memories. There’s a lot of nostalgia here, but that’s progress. After 89 years they’re ready for a new building, so I’m happy to see the progress, but sad to see the old building go.” Apparently, Mr. Nelson believes this is where he met his wife, Annie Courier. Dean recount a romantic evening when he and Annie were walking through the mall and she was so busy applying makeup, that she dropped her compact into a fountain, because she walked into a pillar. This is where he claims he met the love of his life, a 16-year-old Latvian refugee, Named Erin Michelle Golodryga, who was recently left with a $3 Million inheritance. Erin claims, “Dean couldn’t speak English, so they put him in the first grade for a while. I felt sorry for him because he didn’t have any friends, so I’d go visit him and hang out with him, but then after a few months he went away and I never saw him again.” Attorney General Kmala Harris says, “It was difficult for the staff when the decision was made to tear down the old mall because several of their children attended shopped their and the community has many generational ties to it.” Other member of the community, including Sarah Howe, age 12, says, “I’ve been coming here since kindergarten so it’s kind of sad to see it go. This place is just really awesome. I know this mall inside and out and I just love it here.”

 Hundreds of Thousands of people are fight the construction of the new arena, as it is too expensive, the design does not fit in with the vibe of the city, and there will be no parking for events that will pack in up to 18,336 individuals. The new arena will cost $477 million, with $255 million of that being funded by the City of Sacramento. The rest of the arena cost of $222 Million, will be funded by the Sacramento Kings owners. The final cost of the new arena, after financing is expected to be nearly $800 Million. This is at a time when the city of Sacrament is in debt by $245 Million and the state of California may actually be in debt by $1 Trillion, and the United States of American is in debt by $17.7 Trillion. And that is why a judge will reconsider Sacramento, California USA, fronting the $255 Million to finance this arena deal. The new Kings arena may have to change its design to fit in with the historic look of the community, if they want this deal to pass. Many are still upset about the new Crocker mansion, which once used to display art in a historic Victorian mansion, but has now been moved to a modern complex, which looks like a prison. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Arena Down Town Plaza Mall is still being torn down to make ways for the new arena. However, Honorable Judge Timothy Frawley vehemently reported that much of the lawsuit will remain intact. However, percentages of the lawsuit and the new arena are not legally sufficient. The police have complained that there will be crowd control issues, and the down town infrastructure will not support so much new traffic and so much human capital spilled into the area at one time. Many critics feel the new arena is illegal and wasteful and that the Sacramento City Council and Mayor Kevin Johnson are guilty of fraud and abuse of power, in demanding this new arena, at a time when California is deep in debt and running out of water.

 California is the most populous state in the nation, and the human population continues to rise. An increasing population increases demands on resources such as land and water, which are also needed by native plants and animals. Loss of habitat and habitat fragmentation are contributing to the decline of many native plant populations. California Environmental Quality Act announced 28 August 2014 that it will provide evidence in a new court find that the new Kings arena is a threat to public safety and the environment. Remember how Bryan Stow, age 42, of Santa Cruz, suffered brain damage because the Dodger’s Stadium did not have adequate security or room for the cops to respond and Byran Stow was beaten to a bloody pulp and now has brain damage that could affect memory, thinking ability and even personality – as a result of a severe skull fracture and bad bruising to his frontal lobe of his brain. Frontal lobe: The part of each hemisphere of the brain located behind the forehead that serves to regulate and mediate the higher intellectual functions. The frontal lobes are important for controlling thoughts, reasoning, and behaviors. Now Bryan Stow has to be waited on Hand and Foot for the rest of his life.

  Also, do not forget the nightmare traffic, at the candle stick Park, when a tsunami was cars comes rushing out for events. The recent Paul McCartney farewell show, at Candlestick Park, was horrible because some ticket holders reported missing the show altogether due to the traffic gridlock. One of our reporters on the scene, Darren, reported that it took him more than three and a half hours to get from Oakland to the concert, in San Francisco, California, which was just 11.3 miles. Many others report that traffic, after the concern was not any better, with some concertgoers saying that cars did not move for an hour and a half, as they waited in their cars to exit the parking lot. That New Sacramento King’s Arena is a disaster waiting to happen, there will be rush hour traffic, people getting off work, converging with people trying to go to a basketball game or concert, at the new arena, and they will all just collided onto the highways, streets and roads, at once, making it impossible for Emergency Responders to rescue people, and the city will be socked in by traffic, like Great Brittan on a Winter’s morning. So if someone is having a heart attack, or there is a fire or flood, it will nearly be impossible for the crews to reach you on time.

 Also, many worry about the damage to native plants from the construction and pollution. Up to 26 species of California plants may now be extinct in the state, and some plants have been so severely reduced that they are at risk of extinction. Human activity has introduced many exotic plant species that can outcompete and choke out native plants, and climate change will impact native plants in ways that are difficult to predict. To further highlight this issue, the Tahoe yellow cress is a California endangered plant species, which means that killing or possessing this plant is prohibited by the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). Tahoe yellow cress is a dark green, low growing perennial herb that branches extensively. It blooms with yellow flowers between late May and early October, depending on precipitation and lake levels. At the time of this webpage’s posting, Tahoe yellow cress is a candidate for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act, and the California Natural Diversity Database reports 17 occurrences of Tahoe yellow cress that are presumed to still exist, and some have been seen in Midtown Sacramento, and at the Sacramento River. Nonetheless, alas for humanity, the glory and the glare of warfare, under false notions of renown, are too often sufficient not only to conceal the bloodshed and the horror, but to stimulate to undue vengeance, and to make resistance premature, and turn the desire of justice into a passion for revenge.

 

Income Rising and Earth Rising—Income Inequality Rising

 

Harris 047

 

Whether you have a keener eye for wild creatures’ behavior than for the behavior of that theoretically domesticated creature, man, is an interesting question. Political corruption sometimes seems too big a problem for any individual or group to tackle. White collar criminals, dirty politics, and scandalous business practices have been around for a long time. Fear of using our rights, as well as ignorance of the channels open to individuals, still keeps most ordinary citizens from acting to solve such issues. Yet, as groups like Common Cause, Nader’s Raiders, Occupy Walls Street, the Tea Party, and the NAACP have shown, concerned individuals can bring political and/or economic pressures to bear and clean up corrupt individuals and institutions. Not only politics, but also the air, water, soil, and spaces around us are filled with pollutants. Well, environmental pollution is ultimately caused by human attitudes and assumptions. As a society, the vehemence to milk the technological cow, the community has often failed to take a long-range look at the possible side effects and unwanted consequences of progress. It is not that technology has failed to plan, but that it has failed to plan for more than immediate advantage and profit, in response to public demand. For example, Sacramento, California has done a great job of increasing the population of the state, but the infrastructure and jobs are seriously lacking. Many of the roads in Sacramento, California are too small for new full sized vehicles, there are pot holes in the streets, congestion on the highway, and there is a 7 percent unemployment rate. Also, the sale of new homes is down by two percent and more people are buying existing home, as the new home average about $334,000.00, but a preexisting home is usually about $100,000.00 less.

 

 

Harris 011

 

 

Speaking of technology, the computer is 75 years old and was actually invented to crack codes. However, more wealthy people became interested in other uses for the computer and they eventually were adapted for person use, such as typing documents, watching movies, listening to music, making movies and searching the internet. Rich people actually help the rest of society get technology because they can afford to buy it when technology is new and expensive, and as the product start to flood the market, they become less expensive and the average citizen can afford them. The smart phone is being called the greatest equalizer of modern times. By the end of the decade, experts are optimistically predicting that everyone will have a smart phone, which is basically a hand held computer and phone, all in one. There is already a $35 smart phone in India. However, technology has been able to bring down the cost of everything, but health care, education and government. Experts are reporting that health care, education, and government suffer from cost disease, but as technology is driving down prices for everything else, health care, education and government keeps getting more and more expensive to operate. These specialists also reporting that online education is a great way to reach inner city children, who do not have the books, supplies or transportation to get to school and may have teachers, who do not care; online education would help these students, as they would be able to learn, in a good environment and education is one way to eradicate poverty. And to really understand people, and do business with them, you must understand their culture, and do not make assumptions. Different cultures are unique.

 

Harris 053

 

Everyone should be able to get housing, health care, and transportation without bankrupting themselves or the country. Inflation has been high by most measures, in the recent decade, and wage growth, for the majority of employees, has been even lower, if not declining. The average skilled worker, with a college degree, should be making about $34 an hour. That is if we were keeping up with inflation. However, only the top 20 percent of people, in America, even make $29.54 an hour. That means even small amounts of inflation have been agonizing for the other 80 percent of people in the labor market, as only workers, in the 90th percentile, and up have seen their wage gains outpace inflation, though not by much. The Dow Jones is in record regions, soaring about 17,000 and doing really well, but that is a reflection of corporate America, and not the citizens. The poor performance of wages, in recent decades, is because America has exported so many jobs, overseas, and started buying products from these foreign countries, so American dollars are being spend all over the world, but we are not getting anything in return, but stuff. No jobs, no cash, just new Nike’s, smart phones, Toyota, and other products. And the public simply wants to consumer and keep buying new things—they want more and more cars. These require roadways, freeways; they eat up land and displace houses. The increase in vehicles produces air pollution. However, even in today’s smoggy atmosphere, few people are willing to give up their freedom and autonomy associated with automobiles.

 

Harris 043

The public is going to have to take a stand and be uncomfortable, at some point; the discomfort will only be temporary. We all belong to the family of humankind. Men, women and children are a part of nature, not apart from nature. Natural resources and inanimate energy are increasingly regarded as affected with a public interest. If this is not sound and moral doctrine, I do not know what is. Certainly the resources were left by the Universe or geology to mankind and not to the Standard Oil Company of California or Avian. The loss of water, since last year, is equivalent to the annual loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet and since 2000, seven states have experienced their driest periods in centuries and scientists have warned the drought could last up to 100 years. Gas prices have come down, but are still at an all-time high, and in the Western United States of America drought: 63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost, and the surface of the Earth is rising. The Earth, on average, has lifted up about 0.16 inches over the last 18 months. Sierra Nevada Mountains and California coastal regions, they have risen up by over half an inch. However there is apparently no increased risk of earthquakes. Therefore, with the presented information, it is clear that individual households must give and take not only for his advantage, but for the welfare of other members of the household in mind. People who would not cheat their relatives think nothing of cheating strangers. However, every stranger is intricately and important related to each of us in the larger spider web of humanity. I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply cannot build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusions, misery, and death. I see the World gradually being turned into a wilderness. I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.