Life is for the living - not the living dead.
Water is Life; the water at Hetch Hetchy is sacred.
A chronic thief, liar, cheat, greedy, and arrogant cannot and will not value and honor the indigenous people.
San Francisco seems not to respect and honor the water that San Francisco stole from the indigenous tribes surrounding the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
It is a pathetic and atrocious use of clean drinking water to flush the commode - idiots will not get it - SFPUC has no morals and ethics. No one in their right mind would behave like the current upper management, the worst being Steve Ritche.
SFPUC owes the indigenous billions of dollars - you may not pay the indigenous, but if you do not - as I have been saying, you and those cheating and lying will fall flat on your faces.
San Francisco, after the 1906 Earthquake, lacked access to water to drink and also to put out large fires - the fat cats from San Francisco used their influence in the United States Congress and created the Raker Act of 1913.
Once San Francisco got the water, the all-white thugs got greedy.
To this day, the corruption is blatant and in your face.
Not once has the SFPUC invited me to any meeting worth the salt; the three or four meetings with key SF City managers were arranged by me.
It is a shame that not all whites, but those who are biased and privileged, will not acknowledge that this land - Turtle Island - belongs to the indigenous tribes.
The privileged think they can come to some land, steal, cheat, and think that all was given to them on a platter - because of the color of their skin - privileged.
The United States is in dire straits, and here in California, since the Whites stole the land, nothing much has changed.
Just like that, many in California know little about the Latinos who traveled freely and know more about California than the Johnny come lately Whites - who are greedy and have tarnished the land - lock, stock and barrel.
California is the fourth-largest economy in the world; it can do better, but as one notices, the ones who try to rule and dictate are ruining California, and it's time to vote the idiots out and bring in innovative ideas that help those who need help most.
The billionaires in California, especially in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Jose, and Los Angeles, need to be put on notice: we don't need Artificial Intelligence (an oxymoron) to speed things up and create unvetted algorithms. We don't need to be ruled by machines, and billionaires can take their sordid concept elsewhere.
This land - all of it is indigenous land - and at the last moment our Governor has got up from his slumber to bring some tribes together and lie to them - time to put all the tribes on the Federal Register and treat the indigenous tribes with respect.
At this juncture, our Elders remind us, "Do not trust those who speak with a forked tongue. "
It took Gavin Newsom waiting until the last moment before he steps down to bring some indigenous tribes - most of them involved with casinos and say something about an apology.
His apology means nothing - unless all of them indigenous are put on the Federal Register and compensated for all the trials and atrocities committed by the thugs during the Wild West days.
California is the fourth largest Economy in the world.
You would not know that when one sees the thousands of homeless and many homeless living in filthy conditions - no one seems to care about the homeless.
The billionaires settled in California prey on those who live paycheck to paycheck - most of the billionaires invest in AI, thinking they can fool all the people all the time - this time around, we must stand our ground and stop their ongoing ploys and machinations.
Today, privileged billionaires are busy building Data Centers that pollute the environment, waste millions of gallons of water, and use more electricity (energy) than quantum technology.
The SFPUC lacks the expertise needed to implement the latest software to keep hackers at bay, especially when they target our reservoirs, electric hubs, and internet hubs.
SFPUC has primitive software and has failed to train the SFPUC to bring the operations to a standard that takes us to a better place. Instead, SFPUC wastes millions hiring consultants who charge a lot of money and do little.
Moving from one water treatment plant to another and hiring consultants who charge more each time makes it impossible to educate and train SFPUC operaters and technicians; this nonsense has gone on for years, and no one gives a rat's ass.
The consultants use workshops, hoping to teach SFPUC managers and technicians with very little hands-on training; those attending are left to fend for themselves.
It is the same with the project at Mountain Tunnel - Calavares, Irvington, the many large pumps and generators - that have not been maintained - the idiots prefer "deferred maintenance "- millions spent - with change orders - and thinking they can fool the taxpayers - when many taxpayers - know more and are educated on issues.
Few know that the Electric Magnetic Field has adversely affected millions all these many years - innocent people living near the areas bombarded day and night - and coming down with cancer and all kinds of other diseases, and no one has gone deep to bring the many deaths to the fore - and the attention of us all.
Way back in 2000, we had an Internet Hotel, and around 2012 some vultures wanted a site and got it at 400 Paul Avenue, changed hands, and is now named Novva, situated on 7.5 acres, promising this, that, and the other, all related to AI, not vetted.
I met the CIM group and 1547 Critical Systems Reality (CSR), which conceived a data center; we held a few meetings at 1800 Oakdale, and most of those present had no clue about the discussion.
Around 2000, I got acquainted with Monkey Brains and some technicians who worked on early laptop Macs. I worked at the Presidio, where we laid fiber and built a state-of-the-art Communication Center with Lucent Technologies and Motorola way back in 1996.
Recently at City Hall, the current District 10 Supervisor has gotten up from his slumber and introduced some proposition to stop Data Centers in the Bayview, supported by two or three others who are connected with Young Community Developers.
The City and County of San Francisco funds YCD with over $53 million - supposedly helping the youth, but have no empirical data to show how many have career jobs and stay at the job for at least five years - time for an audit.
The fact is, YCD is more into property development, can't be trusted, lies, and has been audited and found lacking in doing right.
$120 was transferred from the SF Police Department and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department to help non-profits, YCD and the Dream Keepers, put in charge of doling out the money; much of it was spent, and when it was time to audit, most of the money could not be accounted for.
Dwayne Jones and his minions failed Bayview Hunters Point.
Prior to this $300 million - community benefit - was doled out by AECOM and the SFPUC - $150 million given to Dwayne Jones to deal with Work Force - YCD received millions and failed.
Julier Ellis another SFPUC operative that failed the community.
Another $150 million was given to Juliet Ellis - who worked for SFPUC - conflict of interest - Dwayne Jones, Juliet Ellis, Susan Leal, Julie La Bonte - a joint venture with AECOM - our taxpayers' money - these vermin have no shame and take positions that they know little about - lying and cheating in broad daylight - they should be ashamed of themselves.
Dwayne Jones was connected with YCD - was indicted and worked directly with YCD, who have done nothing much to serve our youth.
Dwayne Jones, they say, is at home with an ankle bracelet - when in reality he should be in jail - Dwayne Jones is debarred from coming to San Francisco - and we know why he got this treatment - we know those who play second fiddle and think we know nothing about - when that is not a fact.
The current District 10 Supervisor is seeking fame for all the wrong reasons, has never addressed the toxic Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, nor the thousands suffering from all sorts of ailments in the Bayview.
The plight of our infants, children, youth, young adults, women and men, our beloved Elders - those with compromised health - more physical and mental - all in dies starits - in the Bayview Hunters Point - millions pocketed, and these vermin think they can keep hoodwinking the citizens of the Bayview Hunters Point.
One situation where half a million dollars was set aside to buy land and create a Trust - only for the money to be kept and hopefully not used for some mundane stuff - money set aside for the community is spent to buy buildings - and the crooks are into becoming sordid Property Managers - your time is coming.
There are some who are running to make Bayview Hunters Point better - none have the experience; chronologically, they have an understanding from the days of the Joint-Housing to today - mostly Black from the community - we call them sellouts - have worked with those in power - got money and forgotten to serve the community.
Dianne Feinstein (RIP)
In the 1980s - Dianne Feinstein as Mayor - denied the Bayview Hunters Point - Joint-Housing and other entities resources - and since then Bayview has suffered - today sellouts - that treated the community with disdain. We know them and will expose their evil deeds at the right moment.
Ever since the Joint-Housing lost its resources - Diane Feinstein made this happen - nothing much has happened since the mid-1980s. Now we have crooks from Modesto and Vallejo running the show, one going to Bogota, Colombia, to visit the Hooters, and thinking such visits and behavior are kosher.
These folks don't know the Reservoir at Hunters Point hasn't been maintained; the Reservoir is filthy and stinking, and it's been like that for the last 20 years.
At Hunters Point, depleted Uranium was tested - these ignorant so-called outsiders - wanting to lead - have no clue when they open their mouths and shove their feet in.
I call upon the few decent OGs that I know and have helped to take control of the situation - do not allow these jackasses to bully anyone.
The Hetch Hetchy Valley was one of the most beautiful valleys; the Tuolumne River ran through it, and millions of salmon once spawned there; today, the count is less than a hundred.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission abuses the Tuolumne River, taking millions of gallons of water and exceeding the quota needed to supply water to Crystal Springs, a large Reservoir south of San Francisco.
From Crystal Springs, the water is pumped to reservoirs such as the University Mound in the Portola District and the Reservoir at Potrero Hill.
The Reservoir at Lombard Street, the Sunset Reservoir, where over 350 million gallons were pumped in, and most of it was pumped out of the Reservoir - by incompetent folks who do not know what they are doing?
Imagine wasting 350 million gallons of clean drinking water?
Then there is the Hunter Point Reservoir, which hasn't been cleaned or maintained for over 20 years.
SFPUC is so stupid that it refuses to provide documents that must be kept for at least five years, and it refuses to answer any questions, leading SF OSHA to indict it on five counts.
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As less water remains in the Tuolumne River, it warms; salmon are affected; warm water harms spawning.
The SFPUC gives a damn; it sells excess water stored in the Hetch Hetchy Dam to large corporations to cool their operations, and those corporations pay SFPUC large amounts of money.
Steve Richie knows this and lies about it every time; that, and the other thing, is time for Steve Richie to step down and fade into oblivion.
The Bay Area Clean Water Agency (BACWA) was formed in 1984; today, it serves 29 agencies, gets its supply from Hetch Hetchy, and was not part of the 1913 Raker Act.
Whites know how to do business, and they do it the greedy way - they love money and do not care if they steal water and sell it at a premium and give a damn about the indigenous from whom they stole the water and today waste millions - and when they speak to us - beg us to treat the SFPUC with respect - go figure!
BACW's history is making money for SFPUC, and even then, BACW pays two-thirds of the money for infrastructure and other essential repairs and upgrades, working with SFPUC to pay the invoices.
SFPUC failed to do a needs assessment; it couldn't think about the future - greed kicked in.
Today, BACWA regrets dealing with Steve Ritchie and some other thugs. It is time Steve Ritchie fades into oblivion and stops lying about facts and trying to take credit for everything.
SFPUC takes every opportunity to fleece and bully decent workers and those who do right.
SFPUC and, before that, the SF Water Department have deceived San Francisco taxpayers and hoodwinked San Franciscans by selling millions of gallons of water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir without accountability.
The SFPUC, in recent times, has failed to listen to the public to stop pumping too much water from the Tuolumne River, adversely impacting Salmon that made their journey from the Pacific Ocean up the Sacramento River only to spawn, and the Salmon die.
Who will speak for the Salmon?
Time and time again, I say, "Who will speak for the Salmon?" at the SFPU Commission meetings. It is a shame when SFPUC has no empathy and thinks they own the land stolen from the indigenous tribes.
The SFPU Commission hears me but pays no attention to any speaker during public comment; today, the SFPUC is in dire straits.
www.osha.gov
About a year ago, three decent, hardworking employees working for the SFPUC Water Department were fired.
They were taken to task and fired because they asked to be treated like human beings, but they weren't.
All three of them were traumatized and in the hospital.
Francisco Da Costa was told about this case linked to maintaining the reservoirs; Reservoir maintenance falls under a term that demands strict standards and training called "Confined Space".
You can get all the information about " Confined Space " and the good work OSHA is doing by visiting the OSHA website: www.osha.gov
Any employee working underground and connected to the policies linked to "Confined Space " must be respected. SFPUC, with intent, sent employees to work in situations where their lives were adversely impacted; each one of them was traumatized.
SFPUC has the worst track record: an Enterprise Department that received millions; it spends money without justification, and the SF Controller's Office has to review the audits.
The SFPUC started with a $6 billion budget tied to the Sewer System Improvement Project (SSIP), which has grown to $15 billion and is heading toward $25 billion.
Few know the history of these infrastructure projects, the millions wasted on the Calavarez Reservoir and many others, all audited, yet the SFPUC makes excuses every time.
We waste billions, enrich the rich connected to large corporations, and have empirical data and Joint-Venture crooked deals, yet the Mayor of San Francisco has no clue about the situation at hand.
I attended the SFPU Commission meeting, and the agenda stated that, as part of a decision someone brought forward, the Chair's position would rotate every year, and so would the vice-chair, which makes no sense.
The SFPUC is an Enterprise Department that collects millions by selling so-called clean drinking water and treating raw sewage, also from a quarry and golf course, electricity generated from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, and more.
Millions are spent on infrastructure projects such as the Mountain Tunnel project, which has umpteen change orders, many of them over thirty percent of the initial cost.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has not improved its Reservoir protection; the SFPUC uses primitive software and can be hacked at a moment's notice.
The same goes for electricity; the SFPUC talks in circles and keeps putting its foot in its mouth.
The SFPUC doesn't listen to the public and thinks it can hoodwink us all in broad daylight.
The SFPUC is using some of its staff to lie to the public and take positions that do not do justice to the issues linked to climate change, large fires, and flooding.
It is only a matter of time before the SFPU Commissioners have to deal with issues they have not bothered to study and remedy.
When it comes to the SFPUC employees, some two thousand - the results show over eighty percent are treated with disdain - and a few privileged do as they please.
The worst department is the SFPUC Water Department: Bill Taehan, Frank Jordon, and Steve Richie wait until the California Civil Rights Department and OSHA visit, and then they fall flat on their faces.
We miss Richard Sklar, a great General Manager.
Employees should be certified to work in "Confined Space" for at least 40 hours to learn how to handle hazardous materials; be careful, especially if you have sound lungs, and more.
The matter was taken before the SF Office of Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) and falls under the United States Department of Labor. After nine months, SF OSHA indicted SFPUC Water Department on five counts. Five counts say a lot - and San Franciscans better read what follows.
We have several reservoirs in San Francisco: one at Hunter Point that hasn't been maintained for 15 years, and another in the Portola District that wasn't cleaned for over 5 years, and was only cleaned a few months ago by some third party.
The Reservoir at Potrero Hill wasn't cleaned for 6 years; the homeless urinated and defecated, and the SFPUC knew: manager Bill Taehan and Frank Jordon; upper management Steven Richie; and the SFPUC Manager who lives a quarter mile from the Reservoir.
The Sunset Reservoir, which holds 177 million gallons of water, went unmaintained for 6 years. The Reservoir was drained about a year ago, spilling 177 million gallons of water and all the so-called drinking water.
The employees got no training or certificates, used brooms when a machine with rotating brushes breaks down the sludge, had no emergency monitors, had poor lighting, worked some forty to fifty underground, and SFPUC treats the employees like dirt.
SFPUC had the audacity to lie and send a fake certificate with no date or signature, and this nonsense has gone on for years. They sent this certificate to SF OSHA, and that is a crime.
At work, one manager, Bill Taehan, got some of his workers and entertained them by showing porn - the entire episode was in the SF newspaper, and the man is known for selling copper wire and stealing from a store - sunglasses and more.
Right now, Bill Taehan is on a committee of so-called Technical Experts, seeking to use unvetted mandates linked to forcing selected units, homes, condominiums, and other units, to install "fire sprinklers", old buildings that will need expensive retrofits, most of those living paycheck to paycheck.
Bill Taechan represents the SFPUC as the worst and most corrupt with the City and County of San Francisco. He favors a third party to inspect what the SF Fire Department should do and thinks outsourcing is fine, without a second thought.
Lombard Street has a Reservoir - below is the Reservoir and above is a concrete tennis court - some players have compromised the gate to the Reservoir and take a pee, and the SFPUC managers know about this and give a rat's ass.
Imagine so-called clean drinking water pumped to homes and the financial district, and the SFPUC manager, who earns over $600,000, and his sidekick, $460,000.
Both are attorneys managing utilities, sewer and clean water treatment plants, a Quarry, millions of acres of land, some leased to cattle farmers by Calavares Dam, and more. These two clowns must be charged and fined heavily.
The SFPUC has been audited several times, and you can find the audits on the SFPUC website, shameless jackasses. They love to bully others; their time will come - they are already shitting bricks.
I am calling on the San Francisco Health Department to investigate the filthy, stinking, so-called clean drinking water pumped to a daytime population of over 1 million and a nighttime population of over 840,000.
I call on the SF Controller and the SF Inspector General to bring these thugs to book.
If this clean-drinking-water issue hits the media, shame on the Mayor and the City's Administrator.
The Treasurer, the head of the Health Department, the Police Chief, the head of Public Works, and the other clowns who do not give a fuck.
Take it from me, San Francisco has gone to the hogs.
