Cops Update 2014 Oct 05

• http://copswiki.org/Common/CopsUpdate2014Oct05 <== click here for Web Version of this page, for best viewing.
• Cops Updates -- Archive of all COPS updates emails.
• http://wwwCitizensOversight.org -- Main Citizens Oversight Website.

Summary of Recent Events and activities

• 26 Sep 2014 -- CD50 Debate between Duncan Hunter Jr and James Kimber. Watch the complete debate here: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1500
• 30 Sep 2014 -- Election Integrity Meeting - met at the Mission Valley Library and planned the upcoming Oct 12 statewide and national training seminar.

Upcoming Events

Occupy San Diego -- Third Annual Anniversary and Rally in support of Occupy Central in Hong Kong, Civic Center Plaza.

Let's support protesters in Hong Kong, where it will be 10AM when we start our event! Free elections with universal suffrage!

• 07 Oct 2014 - 7pm -- Occupy San Diego -- Third Annual Anniversary and Rally in support of Occupy Central in Hong Kong, Civic Center Plaza.
  • Facebook Event: (Click JOIN) -- https://www.facebook.com/events/776773892379848/780399212017316 -- All further details are here!

Election Integrity Meeting Training on Snapshot Protocol oversight procedure

This is an important training before the upcoming gubernatorial election in November, and we will be working to get more people providing desperately needed independent oversight to thwart central tabulator election fraud. Please join us as a member of our studio audience.

• 12 Oct 2014 - noon -- Election Integrity Meeting Training on Snapshot Protocol oversight procedure
  • Facebook Event (Click JOIN) -- https://www.facebook.com/events/1548257458741014
  • Project Page: Snapshot Protocol
  • Invitation text:

Learn to conduct the "Snapshot Election Review" procedure to thwart election fraud. This procedure can be deployed in any California county and in other states that also mandate some form of post-election manual audit.

Ray Lutz designed this oversight procedure, and he will be making the presentation to local attendees and anyone viewing the video stream on ustream.tv (citizensoversight channnel).

Gather at 11:30am for social networking. The presentation will start at noon, and last for approximately an hour, including questions.

The procedure itself is simple to implement as it takes only sending an email to the Registrar of Voters (ROV) and a total of a couple of visits to the ROV to pick up a CD, witness the 1% Manual Tally, and review final reports. Staff at Citizens Oversight Projects will assist in reducing and processing the files to detect election fraud. If fraud is detected, then we will activate our legal team to follow it up appropriately.

The project page for this is here: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/SnapshotProtocol

The World Resources Simulation Center is one block from San Diego City Hall, adjacent to the Civic Center trolley station. Parking is free and prevalent on Sunday downtown. Lunch snacks will be served. Seating is limited, please RSVP.

Project updates:

Rock Church Ecpac Takeover

• This project is in a holding pattern at this time. We submitted two documents to the City of El Cajon in an attempt to proactively stop an unreasonable takeover by the Rock Church.
  • "Ten Conditions for Legal and Prudent Rental of ECPAC to The Rock Church and Other Users" -- http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1499
  • "Issues of Concern Regarding Negotiations with Rock Church for Use of ECPAC and surrounding City Property" -- http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1487
• The next City Council meetings are Oct 14 and Oct 28. We don't know when this will be back on the agenda, but there is an expectation that it will appear before the election.
  • Please be ready to attend when we get word that it is on the agenda. We usually will know on Friday prior to the meeting.

Stop The Unfair Settlement -- $3.3 Billion Settlement with Utilities over San Onofre Nuclear Plant.

• In our last update, we noted that Southern California Edison and other settling parties submitted a "Revised Settlement Draft"
  • Aguirre Severson LLP submitted an objection to this.
  • The Coalition To Decommission San Onofre (CDSO, AKA COPS) submitted an objection as an exparte communication. No rejection yet.
  • The Alliance For Nuclear Responsibility (A 4 NR) made a motion for Commission to clarify the procedure as it seems the new settlement should require a new motion, hearing, comments, etc.
• We expect a Proposed Decision and a round of comments before the CPUC actually votes on this, at a minimum.

Relevant and Interesting Links

This list was curated by Ray Lutz

• Tesla cofounder likes the idea of electric trash trucks -- http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2014/10/03/why-this-tesla-motors-co-founder-loves-electric-garbage-trucks/
• 35,000 walrus come ashore, lacking ice to haul out on -- http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/topstories/35000-walrus-come-ashore-in-northwest-alaska/ar-BB6EGXU?ocid=ansnewsap11
• Good article covering the issues surrounding Net Metering -- http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2014_09_25_why_the_net_energy_metering_debate_misses_the_point
• Executive Order 12333 (Reagan) was the start of unreasonable surveillance practices -- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140929/13451828665/executive-order-12333-documents-redefine-collection-authorize-majority-dragnet-surveillance-programs.shtml
• Salaries and Pensions of Public Employees a controversial subject -- http://transparentcalifornia.com/
  • Should ex El Cajon City Manager Bill Garrett get $301K per year in pension while El Cajon struggles with the highest poverty rate in the county?
• Comet Siding Spring will have very close encounter with Mars -- http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4212
• Total Weath Management, a San Diego Firm in deep -- http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/aug/27/ticker-total-wealth-least-part-sham/
• Hong Kong protesters use mesh network to avoid shut down by Chinese authorities -- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26285-hong-kong-protesters-use-a-mesh-network-to-organise.html#.VCw1FfldWSo
• Cell phone companies are scared to death -- of free wifi networks that will make their cell towers mostly obsolete. So they will introduce a competitive technology to compete with wifi, at least for direct connections. But the writing in on the wall, in my view. Long term, there will be no separate voice network. Only a single and hopefully free uniform network. -- http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530996/future-smartphones-wont-need-cell-towers-to-connect/
• If we adopted solar energy the way we should in sunny San Diego, I figure Sempra revenue would decline from $8 billion to about $4 billion. I can imagine it is pretty hard to sit and watch $4 billion/year fall off the table, so despite all the green talk, they desperately want to stop this trend! With Solar, money you do not spent on energy that is imported continues to circulate here, erasing our employment deficit of about 165,000 jobs. That's what the $4 billion buys. -- http://www.vox.com/2014/9/29/6849723/solar-power-net-metering-utilities-fight-states
• Climate models having a hard time predicting what will happen as permafrost thaws -- http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/carve/data-arctic-carbon-models-lack-consensus/#.VCrSavldWSo
• NRC votes 4-0 to approve storing nuclear waste at facilities indefinitely -- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/us/spent-nuclear-fuel-is-allowed-to-be-stored-above-ground.html
• Fantastic speech by Emma Watson (AKA Hermione Granger) at the U.N. regarding gender equality -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iFl4qhBsE

Closing

In the interest of not making this too long, it will be held to the minimum. I hope this regular email blast will help keep everyone up to date and help you to be able to participate more productively.

Please contribute

As always, we will also ask for your kind contributions to help fund these activities!
http://www.copswiki.org/Common/DonateToCitizensOversight

Warm personal regards,
--Ray Lutz