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Firefighters continue to battle the brush fire that is burning in the hills adjacent to the Getty Center, though they are limited to working from the air due to the terrain.
Evacuations continue as employees and visitors are being sent down the hill.
For alerts, follow LAFD on Twitter. We'll continue to update as information becomes available.
MORE UPDATES: As the fire continues, more updates will be posted at this link.
2:12 p.m. "Getty Center is closed the rest of the day due to brushfire. LAFD is on the scene." [Getty Center's Twitter]
*UPDATE: 1:59 p.m. Evacuations are underway "as a precautionary measure" at Mt. St. Mary's College, which is about a mile away from the Getty. Meanwhile, employees and patrons of the Getty are being sent down the hill via tram in "an orderly fashion." The size of the fire is now estimated at 30-40 acres, according to a live on-air report from KTLA.
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does this mean there might be traffic on the way home tonight?
Well, I was going to head down to Manhattan Beach to pick up an iPhone, but not with the 405 the way it is/will be.
I've never been to the Getty, the girlfriend and I were recently talking about making a Saturday of it. I hope it comes out of this unscathed.
my friend, who works at the Getty, had to walk home... to nearby Westwood.
GETTY WAR CRIMES LAWSUIT GOES FORWARD.
J. PAUL GETTY, FBI FILE 100.1202, JUNE 26, 1940. ESPIONAGE.
MacDonald Bank is filing a $22 billion lawsuit in Washington, D.C. against the Getty Oil Company benefactors, based on J. Paul Getty's support for Hitler in WWII.
43,000 people were killed in UK by the Nazis while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin shipping oil to Hitler.
Getty was assiduously adding to his art collection with the Nazis in 1938. Greek, Lansdowne Elgin, marble statues, a Gainsborough, Raphael and a Rembrandt are among the acquired artifacts.
Jean Paul Getty’s mother, Catherine Risher was German. Dec. 20, 1940, the New York Daily News wrote about Getty’s involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City, Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces’ war production plants.
FBI reported that Getty was still shipping oil to Hitler, June, 1941, nine months after London was being bombed five months before Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Death does not rule out one going forward with civil forfeiture proceedings. Explained further, "Getty benefactors at the end of the day cannot sit on the spoils of Jean Paul Getty’s crimes." Pertaining to laws, the government or a private party can take action against property without going after the initial owner. United States legislation provides that the death of a defendant charged with a criminal offence shall not be the basis for abating or otherwise invalidating either a verdict returned or the underlying indictment.
The Law of Treason in United States, “Article Three,” defines treason as levying war against the United States or "in adhering to their Enemies," knowingly adhered to an enemy of the United States, namely, Nazi Germany and give Nazi Germany aid and comfort with intent to betray the United States.
INDICTMENT
MACDONALD BANK [FOR WORLD WAR II VETERANS AND VICTIMS]
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J. PAUL GETTY TRUST, J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, GORDON GETTY, ANN GETTY, PETER & BILL GETTY, RONALD GETTY, SIR J. PAUL GETTY JR. ESTATE, MARK GETTY, GETTY IMAGES INC, ANNE GETTY EARHART, CLAIRE GETTY PERRY, CAROLINE GETTY, PAUL PELOSI, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI, ISOLEP ENTERPRISES, SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM, BILL A. NEWSOM, FORWARD FUNDS/REFLOW AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART.
DEFENDANTS
All assets based on judgment would go to Allied Forces Veterans’ foundations.
I earned the Getty Oil Company shareholders Four Billion Bucks …
On the Reserve acquisition; the way they treat me … it really sucks!
As the Getty inheritors bask in glee;
All I asked for was that they look after me.
Four billion dollars they earned on Reserve …
My fee I surely deserve.
It turns out J.P. Getty may have been a Nazi;
His family even goes back to Germany ….
With Hitler, GÖring & Goebbels he did stand;
While trying to undermine the American land!
For paintings & artifacts he did receive;
With his oil he was able to deceive?
Hoover & the FBI & Roosevelt they knew …
That J.P. Getty & espionage he drew!
Many a young lad and Jew did die
As planes dropped bombs from the sky.
For years while Getty sat in Berlin
He may have committed many a sin.
The ashes and smoke from the chimneys it rose
While old man Getty sat cozy … he chose.
With artwork held tightly under his arm
Still dripping in blood … as the real owner met harm.
Into the ovens & on meat-hooks, bullets between the eyes …
Listen very carefully you can still hear their cries!
While the Gettys sit in England; at their estate at Wormsley;
And Gordon sings in San Francisco …
With his 727 in tow;
The Getty museum sits atop Malibu;
While the corpses of World War 2 scream … “J.P. Getty … We know you!”
And let's welcome Grant McDonald, whose latest work is entitled Epic Nonsequitur, Parts I & II.
Grant, how close are you to the fire?
Hmm, i think i understand the gist, super rich people have no souls and do horrid things to get super rich.
Yet the Getty museum is a *Building*. It didn't to nothing to noone.
I'm pretty sure all that travertine marble and gilded pomp up there will make it through the fire unscathed though.