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Getty Fire Evacuates LA Area and Causes Traffic Jam on the 405
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by Amy Judd | July 8, 2009 at 05:19 pm
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The Getty Center fire that broke out around 1pm this afternoon in teh Sepulveda Pass has caused evacuations in the area and in the Mount St. Mary's College area in Brentwood, and more than 150 firefighters are on scene. It was reported to have broken out at 1200 Getty Center Drive.
The fire has already burned 10 acres and is currently causing a traffic jam on the 405 freeway. No structures are threatened, but water dropping helicopters are working.
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Brush fire near the Getty Center, Sepulveda Pass, West Los Angeles, July 8, 2009
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Visitors and employees were evacuated from the Getty Center at 2pm and the people currently residing at Mount St. Mary's were also asked to relocate for now.
[Updated at 3 p.m.: The Getty Center is closed for the day. Officials said it could reopen Thursday if the fire is extinguished.]
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iBenThe Hagueat 18:08 on July 8th, 2009
The museum just closed, I was in the second building, as the guard instructed us to get out and leave the premises. We couldn't, we weren't allowed to walk down the hill, and the tram wasn't operating. The fire was really close to the parking area and entrance of the tram down the hill. After waiting for an hour or so, we got down and were guided away from the fire, but not before we could take pictures of firefighters walking in the ashes of the fire. It was quite close, and lots of people were actually very scared.
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at 18:33 on July 8th, 2009
Thank you for your personal account.
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A. Tranat 19:35 on July 8th, 2009
Hope the fire will be contained and the artworks are well protected.
at 13:14 on July 9th, 2009
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.
Getty/Hitler