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Sudden local bank closures in San Francisco area surprise residents

November 15, 2023 -

In March, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Santa Clara failed as depositors pulled their funds due to panic from the venture capital community that SVB served. Days later, federal regulators shut down Signature Bank in New York over concerns that a panic run would strike the area next.

Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank, followed, requiring a government-arranged sale to avoid a similar insolvency crisis. By May, the crisis has reached San Francisco, where ...

Rumblings point to impending San Andreas earthquake – is New Madrid next?

8 days ago -

Right on schedule after the second Great American Eclipse, the San Andreas, for which Hollywood movies have been made, is showing signs of an upcoming "tremor," as Metro (United Kingdom) reported.

The tiny California town of Parkfield, which sits atop the San Andreas seismic zone, is considered the "earthquake capital of the world." And it is there that experts say the epicenter of the next major California earthquake might occur.

Parkfield sits about dead center between ...

San Francisco to prosecute pro-Palestine demonstrators who blocked Bay Bridge

December 22, 2023 -

On Dec. 15, the office of San Francisco District Attorney (DA) Brooke Jenkins said the 80 individuals involved in the protest would be charged with five misdemeanors each. The charges are as follows:

The Nov. 16 protest organized by the groups IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace Action blocked all lanes of westbound traffic into the City by the Bay for more than four hours. It also coincided with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ...

T-Mobile CLOSES DOWN flagship San Francisco store amid city’s chaos

May 10, 2023 -

According to the Post Millennial, T-Mobile closed its two-level flagship store at the upscale Union Square area back in April. An employee assigned to T-Mobile's Mission Street location attested to the closure, which left 17,000 square feet of retail space vacant.

A spokesperson for the telecom firm said in a statement to SFGATE that the closure of the Union Square location was part of an effort to reshape T-Mobile's retail strategy. The spokesperson added that affected ...

San Diego County supervisor blames Biden administration for influx of 125,000 illegals

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"Over 125,000 migrants have been dropped in San Diego County since September 2023. That’s just the minimum we know about and doesn’t include families, boat arrivals or elderly people who are processed differently. The numbers have gone through the roof," he said.

According to Desmond, illegal immigrants are freely crossing the border without obstruction due to resource shortages. Instances of this lax enforcement are evident in locales like the Jacumba Hot Springs in the southeast ...

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: Thousands of illegals flood San Diego, local shelters reach capacity

October 05, 2023 -

As of writing, local shelters have reached capacity, including the estimated 950 beds in San Diego, which are usually enough to accommodate recently arrived migrants who need a place to sleep for a couple of nights.

Because of this, immigration agents are now leaving people on the streets, at bus stops and in train stations, in turn angering local officials and worrying aid groups.

In one such scenario, an unmarked white bus pulled up to a park and dropped off ...

San Francisco bakery refuses to serve cops due to store’s gun ban

September 01, 2023 -

The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA) took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to call out the bakery for its policy that bars serving armed and in-uniform police officers and military members.

"We are not asking Reem's or any business with a bigoted policy to serve our officers," it wrote. "We're asking them to own their discriminatory policy [and] and put up a sign so we know not to spend money in your establishment — on or off duty.”

SFPOA President ...

San Francisco announces plans to PUNISH businesses for fleeing due to rampant crime

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The so-called "Grocery Protection Act," introduced by city Board of Supervisors member Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist), says stores that try to leave San Francisco would have to provide the city with six months' notice, allowing city leaders time to look for a replacement retail tenant.

This bill was introduced not long after Whole Foods Market closed down its flagship San Francisco store after just a year of being there. Crime was so rampant at Whole Foods that the store ...

San Francisco dumping massive amounts of sewage in the bay, warn environmental advocates

12 days ago -

San Francisco Baykeeper says it is filing a lawsuit against both the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) and the city itself after learning that raw sewage and trash-filled runoff is flooding the bay every time there is a heavy rainstorm.

The watchdog organization conducted its own investigation to discover that San Francisco and its public utility commission violated hundreds of Clean Water Act provisions over the past five winters, including with the dumping ...

San Vicente migrant camp in Darien Gap set ON FIRE, partially burns down

2 months ago -

A migrant camp often covered by war correspondent Michael Yon, who has appeared on the Health Ranger Report numerous times, San Vicente, which is located just steps away from the jungle, went up in flames after about 250 migrants themselves set it ablaze while rioting and attacking the workers and servicers of the camp.

According to El Blue, there was an altercation between two migrant couples that escalated into a massive Black Lives Matter (BLM)-style melee. This ultimately ...

San Francisco retailers LEAVING metro area in droves due to unchecked RETAIL THEFT

August 20, 2023 -

Two major businesses have shuttered their doors in the City by the Bay in 2023 alone. Whole Foods Market (WFM) was forced to close its flagship Trinity Place location in April, more than a year after it opened. The branch had opened in March 2022 to much pomp.

"To ensure the safety of our team members, we have made the difficult decision to close the Trinity store for the time being," a WFM spokesperson told Newsweek. "All team members will be transferred to one of our ...

Young protesters use traffic cones to paralyze self-driving cars in San Francisco

August 15, 2023 -

The group roams around the city at night on their bicycles, wearing masks to protect their identity and deploy orange traffic cones to stop autonomous vehicles on the road. "It's simple. We just drive around in their main travel routes and we wait for them," said John, the unofficial spokesperson of the group. It's not clear how the group found out that a traffic cone could paralyze a self-driving car.

Safe Street Rebel also uploaded a TikTok video urging San Francisco ...

San Francisco authorities tear down Elon Musk’s flashing “X” sign on Twitter headquarters

August 01, 2023 -

The company is currently being rebranded by new owner Elon Musk, and the sign was part of that effort. However, the city claims that the sign was installed without their permission, which led to an investigation by authorities.

A spokesman for the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, Patrick Hannan, said that replacement signage needs to obtain a permit in order to insure its “consistency with the historic nature of the building” and guarantee it has been ...

Park Hotels & Resorts FLEEING San Francisco, says city’s “path to recovery remains clouded”

June 11, 2023 -

Two major downtown hotels owned by Park Hotels & Resorts Inc., the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco, are both expected to be removed from the trust's portfolio due to "major challenges" in the California city.

Because many of San Francisco's streets are now too unsafe to walk, Park Hotels & Resorts no longer wants the liability of having these two properties in its portfolio.

"This past week we made the very difficult ...

San Diego-based urine drug testing company accused of fraud, mafia-style tactics of intimidation

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San Diego-based urine drug testing company accused of fraud, mafia-style tactics of intimidation

No room for defectors in cut-throat urine drug testing industry

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San Francisco FINALLY installs safety nets to prevent suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge

2 months ago -

On Jan. 3, officials reported that crews had installed stainless-steel nets on both sides of the picturesque 1.7-mile-long (2.7-kilometer) bridge.

Estimates suggest that at least 2,000 people have plunged to their deaths since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. To combat this, San Francisco city officials approved the creation of the Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Deterrent System in 2014. (Related: Healthy habits and mental well-being: Natural ways to beat depression.)

The ...

San Francisco Police Department’s headcount is SHRINKING despite increases in starting pay for rookies

January 18, 2024 -

According to Bloomberg, the SFPD's police academy only graduated 26 officers in 2023 – the lowest in at least 10 years and less than a third of the total number from 2019. To boost numbers, the City by the Bay increased the starting salary for neophyte officers to $112,398. This amount is the highest for rookie cops in major U.S. cities, nearly double the starting pay for New York City police officers and more than what many Secret Service agents earn.

Police in the ...

San Francisco boasted they would hire thousands of sacked Twitter employees – It didn’t happen

January 02, 2024 -

(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)

In early 2022, it was nearly impossible to make statements regarding certain hot button issues; any information contrary to the establishment narrative about covid vaccines, gender ideology, Hunter Biden's laptop, the war in Ukraine, or the events of January 6th were treated as radioactive.  Tens of thousands of people lost their social media accounts merely for reprinting the facts.

Musk reactivated many ...

San Francisco’s posh hotels have turned into “dens of death” due to DRUG CRISIS

September 13, 2023 -

The New York Post expounded on this issue in a report about the so-called "dens of death" at the City by the Bay. These dens of death had formerly been posh hotels much sought after by tourists.

About 20,000 rooms in about 500 hotels have turned into single-room occupancy (SRO) housing for homeless people. These rooms, infected with roaches and other vermin, have become mute witnesses to addicts frequently overdosing on street drugs. According to residents, several ...

Video of deserted mall and streets in downtown San Fran reveals Democrats destroyed city

July 21, 2023 -

(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)

San Francisco Chamber of Commerce CEO Rodney Fong recently drew a dire historical parallel of the faltering metro area to the 1906 earthquake: "We have a lot of work to do as residents are more pessimistic than ever."

Marc Benioff, the chief executive officer of Salesforce, the city's largest employer and anchor tenant in its tallest skyscraper, warned this week that the metro area is in trouble.

Benioff ...