{"id":404238,"date":"2010-03-08T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.978"},"modified":"2010-03-08T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:11:53","slug":"sign-of-the-times-city-website-down-the-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404238","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Times: City Website Down &#8212; The Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Shortly before 2 p.m., the city website came back up with a rotating picture graphic of city services on top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ronkayela.com\/citysite1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0pt auto 20px; DISPLAY: block\" class=\"mt-image-center\" alt=\"citysite1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ronkayela.com\/citysite1-thumb-500x185.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Confidence in the city&#8217;s leadership and its motives has reached such a low point that the latest breakdown of the <a href=\"http:\/\/disclaimer.lacity.org\/\">city&#8217;s website <\/a>where you can see what the City Council and mayor are up to has triggered a wave of paranoia across the activist community.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard some several people who normally see bungling incompetence and greed in City Hall&#8217;s action who suspect that the website breakdown as part of a disinformation conspiracy at a time when critical decisions our being made this week on the city budget crisis before the Council takes an unearned vacation next week. <\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp; it comes at a time when next week the DWP Commission plans to rubber stamp massive rate hikes by April 1 for an undefined green energy plan and to pay worker salaraies inflated by the latest round of pay hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Said one reader: &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think its odd the city web site is down?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think they want people reviewing the motions this week.&nbsp; Too many hot buttons issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">At OurLA.org<\/a>, a reader who believes the city deliberately wants to keep people in the dark tracked the city website&#8217;s changing its story over the last 12 hours:<br \/><font><font color=\"black\" size=\"3\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><\/font><\/font><br \/><strong>&#8220;This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on [very old date]&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much later, they changed the message:<br \/><strong><br \/>&#8220;This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Sunday, March 7, 2010&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, they changed the message to read:<br \/><strong><br \/>&#8220;This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 8, 2010&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, they changed the message to read:<br \/><strong><br \/>&#8220;This page is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 8, 2010&#8221;<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I don&#8217;t personally believe much in formal conspiracies, just conspiracies of consciousness achieved by everyone involved understanding marching orders that don&#8217;t actually need to be spelled out since that might create evidence of criminality.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, I prefer to think they are just bunglers and not smart enough to plot this. 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