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China On Edge Of Chaos: “7 Cities, 23 Million People Under Quarantine” – WHO SAYS `NOW IS NOT THE TIME’ TO DECLARE EMERGENCY (It’s not a time to declare emergency when 7 cities and 23 millions people are under quarantine?) – WHITE HOUSE: AMERICANS ARE SAFE FROM CHINA CORONAVIRUS (By executive order?) – Virus Death Toll Hits 25 As Beijing Confirms 830 Patients Infected – SINGAPORE CONFIRMS FIRST CHINA VIRUS CASE AS OUTBREAK GROWS: CNA – JAPAN HEALTH MINISTRY CONFIRMS SECOND CASE OF INFECTION BY NEW CORONAVIRUS FROM CHINA – Possible Coronavirus Case Under Investigation In Texas, Los Angeles – The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying “The World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” – 3 Suspected Coronavirus Cases Identified In Scotland, US Warns ‘Reconsider Travel To China’ – Wuhan Doctors See Coronavirus Cases May Exceed 6,000: Caixin – “Imagine London In Full Lockdown”

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Read moreChina On Edge Of Chaos: “7 Cities, 23 Million People Under Quarantine” – WHO SAYS `NOW IS NOT THE TIME’ TO DECLARE EMERGENCY (It’s not a time to declare emergency when 7 cities and 23 millions people are under quarantine?) – WHITE HOUSE: AMERICANS ARE SAFE FROM CHINA CORONAVIRUS (By executive order?) – Virus Death Toll Hits 25 As Beijing Confirms 830 Patients Infected – SINGAPORE CONFIRMS FIRST CHINA VIRUS CASE AS OUTBREAK GROWS: CNA – JAPAN HEALTH MINISTRY CONFIRMS SECOND CASE OF INFECTION BY NEW CORONAVIRUS FROM CHINA – Possible Coronavirus Case Under Investigation In Texas, Los Angeles – The Real Umbrella Corp: Wuhan Ultra Biohazard Lab Was Studying “The World’s Most Dangerous Pathogens” – 3 Suspected Coronavirus Cases Identified In Scotland, US Warns ‘Reconsider Travel To China’ – Wuhan Doctors See Coronavirus Cases May Exceed 6,000: Caixin – “Imagine London In Full Lockdown”

L.A.’s homelessness surged 75% in six years. Here’s why the crisis has been decades in the making

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– L.A.’s homelessness surged 75% in six years. Here’s why the crisis has been decades in the making:

Some of the poorest people in the city spend their days in the shadow of Los Angeles City Hall, napping on flattened cardboard boxes.

On any given day, as many as 20 people take to the City Hall lawn, across the street from LAPD headquarters. They’re there to “escape the madness” in downtown streets, a 53-year-old homeless man named Lazarus said last week. At night, they fan out to doorways or deserted plazas to wait for daybreak.

The growth of a homeless day camp at the halls of civic power speaks to the breadth of Los Angeles’ burgeoning homelessness problem.

The number of those living in the streets and shelters of the city of L.A. and most of the county surged 75% — to roughly 55,000 from about 32,000 — in the last six years. (Including Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach, which conduct their own homeless counts, the total is nearly 58,000.)

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 H/t reader squodgy:

“So is this where the supposed growth in the economy manifests?”

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Los Angeles to have fully electric bus fleet by 2030

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– Los Angeles to have fully electric bus fleet by 2030:

Known for its bouts of heavy smog , the city of Los Angeles on Thursday announced plans to have a fleet of fully electric, zero-emissions buses by 2030.

Authorities in the US metropolis said the project, which involves the purchase of 2,200 vehicles, would cost some $1 billion over the next ten years.

“Today’s vote represents an enormous investment in the future of a healthy and prosperous Los Angeles,” said Hilda Solis, a Metro Board Member.

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H/t reader kevin a.

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“Total Chaos” – Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures

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– “Total Chaos” – Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures:

The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.

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Ground Around Los Angeles Moving Sideways!

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– BREAKING: Ground Around Los Angeles Moving Sideways! (Nov 22, 2015):

A terrifying event is taking place in Los Angeles, CA: the ground is moving sideways in slow-motion,  rising 15 feet in four hours in some areas, utterly destroying roads, knocking down utility poles and wrecking infrastructure.

A seen in the photo above, and others below, Santa Clarita, CA is experiencing shifting ground, where entire mountains are literally moving sideways!

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Experts: Formaldehyde is spewing from massive LA gas leak — “Very dangerous for public”… methane turning into embalming fluid — Can make your body “start digesting itself” — Company knows this is happening and should warn us… Obviously they don’t want you to know about it (VIDEO)

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– Experts: Formaldehyde is spewing from massive LA gas leak — “Very dangerous for public”… methane turning into embalming fluid — Can make your body “start digesting itself” — Company knows this is happening and should warn us… Obviously they don’t want you to know about it (VIDEO):

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jan 22, 2016 (emphasis added): “One thing I happen to know about — and I can’t make any claim about it now — but I know this. Methane, when it’s exposed to sunlight, can produce as a by-product formaldehyde… Southern California gas knows that too… it transforms — when it’s subjected to sunlight — to formaldehyde. SoCalGas knows that, and they ought to be straight about it. They ought to be telling us… but they’re not.”

Report by the law firms of Morgan & Morgan, Panish Shea & Boyle, Kennedy & Madonna, and R. Rex Parris, Dec 16, 2015: Experts have stated that the gas emitted in the blowout contains mostly methane [which] can oxidize in the atmosphere [and] turn into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde can cause hypothermia, asphyxiation, and acidosis… Acidosis is a condition in which your body starts to digest itself.

Read moreExperts: Formaldehyde is spewing from massive LA gas leak — “Very dangerous for public”… methane turning into embalming fluid — Can make your body “start digesting itself” — Company knows this is happening and should warn us… Obviously they don’t want you to know about it (VIDEO)

Wildlife “disappearing” around massive LA gas disaster – “It’s completely quiet”… birds, butterflies, rabbits, coyotes are missing … all fish in pond found dead – “Makes me wonder how bad it really is” – Animal with “worst blood” ever seen by doctor

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– Report: Wildlife “disappearing” around massive LA gas disaster — Residents: “It’s completely quiet”… birds, butterflies, rabbits, coyotes are missing… all fish in pond found dead — “All of this is gone… Makes me wonder how bad it really is” — Animal with “worst blood” ever seen by doctor (VIDEO):

City News Service, Jan 18, 2016 (emphasis added): Porter Ranch residents report unexplained ailments, behaviors in pets… [A family] lost all 20 of their brightly colored Koi fish after they started dying… [Others] have noticed fewer bird and wildlife sightings.

Al Jazeera, Jan 22, 2016: [The Katz’s], parents of five… are living a nightmare… Her pride and joy was her garden and a koi pond. She cries when she recounts how all 20 fish died…“The birds, the butterflies, all of this is gone. It’s quiet now.”

L.A. Daily News, Jan 22, 2016: “We used to see coyotes and animals” [Jennifer Marotta] said. “It makes me wonder how bad it really is.”

Read moreWildlife “disappearing” around massive LA gas disaster – “It’s completely quiet”… birds, butterflies, rabbits, coyotes are missing … all fish in pond found dead – “Makes me wonder how bad it really is” – Animal with “worst blood” ever seen by doctor

TV: Radioactive material is reportedly now being released from massive gas blowout in LA — Byproduct of Uranium — Expert: “A lot” has been detected in area… Very dangerous… May be coming up from ground into people’s homes — Official: Levels can cause “significant long-term health effects”

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– TV: Radioactive material is reportedly now being released from massive gas blowout in LA — Byproduct of Uranium — Expert: “A lot” has been detected in area… Very dangerous… May be coming up from ground into people’s homes — Official: Levels can cause “significant long-term health effects” (VIDEO):

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jan 8, 2016: Their animals are dying… their fish are dying in their fish bowls, their dogs are dying, their cats are getting sick. And their children are getting sick — they’re suffering nose bleeds, they’re suffering terrible debilitating migraine headaches, asthma attacks, respiratory infections, eye infections, ear infections, stomach ailments… The health impact — it’s not just methane coming out of that hole… This is global crisis, more importantly this is a local crisis. Because not only do you have methane — you have benzene, toluene, xylene, which are carcinogenic. You have hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide — which are neurotoxic, which can injure your brain, affect memory, injure your kidneys, your liver, your other bodily organs. There’s also a lot of radon gas being measured in the area. People believe — we don’t know if this is true — the gas that is leaking at 2 miles deep is now coming out and pushing that radon up into people’s living rooms, their bedrooms, their nurseries.

Lawyers and Settlements, Jan 7, 2016: The leak has caused a continuous flow of gases and fluids. Methane alone is leaking 100,000 pounds per hour, according to Los Angeles city attorney Mike Feuer. Along with that greenhouse gas is methyl mercaptans (odorants added to gas to aid in leak detection) and aromatic hydrocarbons. More concernedly, health officials have identified benzene and radon, both known carcinogens.

Read moreTV: Radioactive material is reportedly now being released from massive gas blowout in LA — Byproduct of Uranium — Expert: “A lot” has been detected in area… Very dangerous… May be coming up from ground into people’s homes — Official: Levels can cause “significant long-term health effects”

State of Emergency now underway for L.A. gas blowout — Oil begins raining down on homes — Official: “It’s on the brink of pandemonium” — Many worry plume will ignite, cause explosion — Concern over geysers, sinkholes being created — Company: Experts have “never seen anything like this” (VIDEO)

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– State of Emergency now underway for L.A. gas blowout — Oil begins raining down on homes — Official: “It’s on the brink of pandemonium” — Many worry plume will ignite, cause explosion — Concern over geysers, sinkholes being created — Company: Experts have “never seen anything like this” (VIDEO):

Los Angeles Times, Jan 5, 2016 (emphasis added): Utility is installing screens to contain oily mist at leaking well near Porter Ranch… The structures under construction on the west side of the well head are designed to capture airborne droplets of a brine solution that “may have contained trace amounts of oil naturally occurring within the leaking well’s reservoir,” said Trisha Muse, a spokeswoman for SoCal Gas… Now, a mixture of brine water and oil is rising up into the gas company’s natural gas storage zone, then traveling up the well and into the air. As a result, local residents are finding droplets of dark brown residue on their homes, vehicles, fish ponds and gardens… [The company] acknowledged that some residents had asked about “dark brown spots on their property.” “We sampled it and, according to our retained toxicologist and medical expert,” the company said, “the residue contained heavier hydrocarbons (similar to motor oil) but does not pose a health risk.”… On Monday, plaintiffs’ attorneys sent a letter to state regulatory officials [and] demanded that state regulators “explain what is happening with the petroleum now surfacing.”… “There is a complete lack of information in the well files,” their letter says, “to show where the gas and petroleum migrates underground and the risk for creating sink holes and geysers.”

Read moreState of Emergency now underway for L.A. gas blowout — Oil begins raining down on homes — Official: “It’s on the brink of pandemonium” — Many worry plume will ignite, cause explosion — Concern over geysers, sinkholes being created — Company: Experts have “never seen anything like this” (VIDEO)

Doctors Urge California Residents ‘Leave Now … While You Can’ As Gas Leak Fears Grow

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– Doctors Urge California Residents “Leave Now…While You Can” As Gas Leak Fears Grow:

California Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, concerning the ongoing, currently unstoppable methane gas leak spewing from Aliso Canyon that has created a nightmare for residents of Porter Ranch.

“I will tell you, this goes well beyond Porter Ranch. We’ve had complaints from as far as Chatsworth, Northridge, and Granada Hills,”emphasized Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander during a Porter Ranch town hall meeting on December 28. “Apparently this plume of toxic chemicals and whatever it might be, doesn’t know zip codes […] This is the equivalent of the BP oil spill on land, in a populated community.”

Aliso Canyon sits less than two and a half miles from Porter Ranch and less than 30 miles from the city of Los Angeles — the second most populous city in the United States — whose outlying total statistical area includes nearly 18 million residents, as of 2013.

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Pediatrician Dr. Richard Kang gave an ominous warning during the Porter Ranch meeting, saying, “Unfortunately, the only real way to get away from the symptoms is… you have to relocate — you have to get away from the environment.” Health complaints include severe headaches, nosebleeds, respiratory issues including increasing cases of asthma, and a number of other issues.

Read moreDoctors Urge California Residents ‘Leave Now … While You Can’ As Gas Leak Fears Grow

Los Angeles Airport to Build Special Terminal Just for Celebrities

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– Los Angeles Airport to Build Special Terminal Just for Celebrities:

Welcome to the 1%’s new airport terminal. Los Angeles international airport on Thursday won approval to build a special terminal to allow celebrities, sports stars and the world’s wealthy to glide directly from their chauffeur-driven limo to their first-class seat without having to interact with any of the general travelling public.

The airport’s Board of Airport Commissioners unanimously approved LAX’s plan to redevelop a cargo hangar into the US’s first terminal dedicated to the rich and famous . The airport said the Los Angeles Suite, which will allow celebrities and diplomats to avoid paparazzi, or protesters, by allowing cars to drop off guests behind closed doors, will be operational at a temporary facility within six months.

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After California’s forced vaccination mandate, Los Angeles now requiring microchipping of pet cats

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– After California’s forced vaccination mandate, Los Angeles now requiring microchipping of pet cats:

They say as California goes, so goes the nation, right? Let’s hope that’s not the case this time.

The Los Angeles Times reports that after state lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown passed legislation forcing most California children to be vaccinated, officials in L.A. County are now forcing all cat owners to microchip them.

Read moreAfter California’s forced vaccination mandate, Los Angeles now requiring microchipping of pet cats

Peak Inequality: $500 MILLION Asking Price For Los Angeles Mansion

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– Peak Inequality: $500 Million Asking Price For LA Mansion (Dark-Bid, May 27, 2015):

Just when you thought you had seen it all, Nile Niami pulls another mansion out of his hat. The film producer and speculative real estate developer announced the asking price for the mansion he is building on a hill in Bel Air, the location where the memorable Fresh Prince of Bel Air TV show takes place. Unfortunately, Will Smith is not fresh enough for this place. You have to be a literal prince to afford it.

The mansion is not even finished yet, but it will be over 100,000 square feet. The main residence is 74,000 square feet, but several other homes will be included. At 5,000 square feet, the master bedroom is larger than most people’s houses. The property also features a 30-car garage and a Monaco-style casino.

Read morePeak Inequality: $500 MILLION Asking Price For Los Angeles Mansion

‘Knee Deep’: 10,000 Gallons Of Oil Spills On LA Streets

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– ‘Knee Deep’: 10,000 gallons of oil spills on LA streets (RT, May 15, 2014):

A ruptured oil pipe near the city of Glendale, Los Angeles County, has caused a massive leak as 10,000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto streets, which is knee high in some places, the Los Angeles Fire Department reports.

Earlier in the days much as 50,000 gallons had reportedly spilled onto the streets, but Captain Jamie Moore, a public information officer with the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), later revised the figure.

Read more‘Knee Deep’: 10,000 Gallons Of Oil Spills On LA Streets

Los Angeles, A City Of Poverty And Unemployment

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– Los Angeles, a city of poverty and unemployment (WSWS, April 15, 2014):

On Wednesday, the second part of the Los Angeles 2020 Commission report was published. The report, taken together with its December 2013 predecessor, lifts the lid on the brutal, crushing conditions facing workers in the second largest city in the US.

In its introduction, the first report, “A Time for Truth,” declares that “Los Angeles is barely treading water” and is “becoming a City in decline.” This is an understatement. The report reveals that 40 percent of families either make poverty wages or are unemployed. In the author’s own words, four out of every ten residents live “in what only can be called misery.”

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Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation

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– Los Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation (Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 19, 2014):

The Freedom of Information Act is not the only law the public can use to obtain records from the government. Most states have similar laws for accessing documents on the state and local levels. Here in California, EFF is using the California Public Records Act to learn what new technologies local law enforcement agencies are using and whether these technologies violate our rights.

Do you drive a car in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area? According to the L.A. Police Department and L.A. Sheriff’s Department, your car is part of a vast criminal investigation.

The agencies took a novel approach in the briefs they filed in EFF and the ACLU of Southern California’s California Public Records Act lawsuit seeking a week’s worth of Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) data. They have argued that “All [license plate] data is investigatory.” The fact that it may never be associated with a specific crime doesn’t matter.

Read moreLos Angeles Cops Argue All Cars in LA Are Under Investigation

Los Angeles Residents Exchange Guns For Groceries (Video)

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– Video:  Los Angeles offers groceries in exchange for guns (BBC News, Dec 27, 2012)

– LA residents swap guns for groceries (ABC News,/AFP, Dec 27, 2012):

The mayor of Los Angeles has backed US president Barack Obama’s call for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa brought forward the date of a gun buyback event following the December 14 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 people dead.

The Boxing Day buyback saw 1,016 weapons, including 41 rifles, handed over.

Gun owners could take their arms to one of two locations in return for a $100 grocery store gift card for handguns, rifles and shotguns, or a $200 card for automatic weapons.

Read moreLos Angeles Residents Exchange Guns For Groceries (Video)

Los Angeles Air Radiation Doubles (Video)

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Resuming its upward trend after dropping in the Spring, Los Angeles air radiation has doubled in a recent 52-day period ending August 1, 2012. This reading was taken from the dust aggregate of three HEPA air filter machines that showed radiation emanation reading 205% of normal. The previous 96-day period registered 192% of normal. This equates in the present period, on a per day basis, to represent roughly a doubling of the last period’s alpha and beta dust. Spot checks of the HEPA filters before vacuuming to create the aggregate dust pile showed a hot spot on one HEPA filter topping out at ~284% of normal eventually settling down to ~239% of normal. These readings were taken at Radiation Station Santa Monica where there is no “radon progeny” to influence the readings meaning that these numbers are accurate. The possible reason for this doubling of the radiation could be explained by a surge in beta and gamma radiation detected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Rad Net station at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles during early July. That graph will appear on an upcoming EnviroReporter.com post called “L.A Air Radiation Doubles.”

AND NOW … LAPD: ‘If You Notice A HEAVY MILITARY Presence Around Downtown Los Angeles This Week, Don’t Be Alarmed — It’s Only A Drill’

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– LAPD: Joint Military Drills In Downtown LA Won’t Disrupt Public’s ‘Daily Routines’ (CBS News, Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2012):

If you notice a heavy military presence around downtown Los Angeles this week, don’t be alarmed — it’s only a drill.

Joint military training exercises will be held evenings through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Read moreAND NOW … LAPD: ‘If You Notice A HEAVY MILITARY Presence Around Downtown Los Angeles This Week, Don’t Be Alarmed — It’s Only A Drill’

Radioactive Los Angeles Air, 300% Over Normal Background (Video – Nov. 16, 2011)

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Disturbing readings from one of Radiation Station Central’s HEPA filters after just 30 days of use: 308% of normal background higher. Alpha and beta radiation captured by the filter can be attributed to the triple Fukushima Japan meltdowns, melt-throughs and melt-outs and the decision to begin burning 550,000 tons of radioactive debris in Tokyo from October to March, sending a double dose of radioactive fallout on the Jet Stream over the Pacific to land on America, Canada and beyond. Finding this high a level of radiation is considered dangerous by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Ingested alpha particles can be up to 1,000 times more dangerous than their beta and gamma counterparts.

Read moreRadioactive Los Angeles Air, 300% Over Normal Background (Video – Nov. 16, 2011)

‘Inflammatory Art’ Meets Stupid Cops: Alex Schaefer’s Depiction Of A Chase Bank Branch Going Up In Flames Drew Attention Of L.A. Police, Who Asked If He Was A Terrorist (Pictures)

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Another Chase bank branch on fire by Alex Schaefer:

Instantly famous thanks to brilliant art, fearful & brainwashed Americans calling the police,  stupid cops and the Los Angeles Times.

From the article:

“The flames symbolize bringing the system down,” he said. “Some might say that the banks are the terrorists.”


Alex Schaefer’s depiction of a Chase branch going up in flames drew the attention of L.A. police, who asked if he was a terrorist. He said the work was a metaphor for the havoc banking practices have caused the economy.

– An artist’s incendiary painting is his bank statement (Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2011)

Standing before an easel on a Van Nuys sidewalk, Alex Schaefer dabbed paint onto a canvas.

“There you have it,” he said. “Inflammatory art.”

The 22-by-28-inch en plein air oil painting is certainly hot enough to inflame Los Angeles police.

Twice they’ve come to investigate why the 41-year-old Eagle Rock artist is painting an image of a bank building going up in flames.

Schaefer had barely added the orange-and-yellow depiction of fire shooting from the roof of a Chase Bank branch when police rolled up to the corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Sylvan Street on July 30.

“They told me that somebody had called and said they felt threatened by my painting,” Schaefer said.

“They said they had to find out my intention. They asked if I was a terrorist and was I going to follow through and do what I was painting.”

No, Schaefer said. He explained that the artwork was intended to be a visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy.

A terrorist certainly would not spend hours on a public sidewalk creating an oil painting of his intended target, he told the officers.

The police took down his name, address and telephone number on a form — Schaefer declined to provide his Social Security number — and departed.

“They were friendly. They weren’t intimidating,” he said. “I figured that when they left, they probably decided the episode was stupid and they’d just wad up the form and throw it away.”

Wrong. On Tuesday, two more officers showed up at Schaefer’s home. This time they were plainclothes detectives.

“One of them asked me, ‘Do you hate banks? Do you plan to do that to the bank?’ ” Schaefer again explained what his painting symbolizes.

Read more‘Inflammatory Art’ Meets Stupid Cops: Alex Schaefer’s Depiction Of A Chase Bank Branch Going Up In Flames Drew Attention Of L.A. Police, Who Asked If He Was A Terrorist (Pictures)