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Satya Yuga Site "SATYA YUGA once again spins the riddle trick of twisted wood and bone. The living offering of our sacred seat. new fusions of unprecedented beauty. Shadowed and familiar ….. Our Ghost Ship… In this time. crashed upon the shore of Babylon. Resurrected as a tattered...

Import Info on DIA, (I just find this interesting)

New article from this morning, it delves a bit deeper into the experiences of living inside the Ghost Ship and also of encounters with DIA and family. I get the appeal of living in a place like this, but see the danger and drawbacks as well. $300. for renting essentially a wooden platform...

The attacks on these fire victims and their families really struck a nerve with me. I have been on social media almost since it happened flagging their hurtful comments and reporting them and their accounts. Makes me wonder what is wrong with people. There were several of us fighting the trolls...

One interesting thing I found when running DIA's name and aliases through various data bases was that he has several import/export licenses for goods, one was for Indonesia and one was for India, who knows how many others he has. He was allegedly importing goods from both those countries and it...

I just cannot find the link for that. I only saw it in the one story. I have thought about this, and it could point to a small fire started in the detritus of recycle stuff and trash outside against the building, but it also makes me think of a fire within the wall and burning there. It could be...

One account from a neighbor (I will try and find the link and source (and they could be wrong)) said that there had been a small fire burning outside the Ghost Ship near one corner and they thought little of it, but about 5 minutes later the entire building was ablaze.

Excerpts from a recent article from the Portland Oregon website with statements from various people who dealt with the person who leased the building, Derek Ion Almena, pretty eye opening article. "Acquaintances painted a devastating portrait of Almena and his longtime partner, Micah Allison...

Previous complaints on the building and alleged violations. Good article. Interesting that they are not treating this as a crime scene. It seems like they should be, just in case for maybe not arson, but surely there is huge criminal neglect in play, all those people dead and others injured...

The Sata Yuga Group website. http://symbiosisgathering.com/satya-yuga/ "SATYA YUGA once again spins the riddle trick of twisted wood and bone. The living offering of our sacred seat. new fusions of unprecedented beauty. Shadowed and familiar ….. Our Ghost Ship… In this time...

For me, after seeing the odd facebook post he left and then just nothing. If I had posted something like that I would have gone back and deleted it, or posted something more appropriate. Not sure why Derick just doesn't delete or change the settings on his facebook account. It is almost like he...

More first hand accounts of what it was like inside the Ghost Ship when the fire started. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Survivors-of-deadly-Oakland-fire-say-they-are-10689539.php

Interesting to read all the accounts from ex-tenants, they claim he rented to from 20 to 50 people at a time and charged from $200. a month to $600. a month. The entertainment could not have been a big income, most of the posters I've seen have the cover charge at $5.00 per person. Still...

This is a portion of what I have gleaned so far from what information is out there. This warehouse is owned by an elderly woman who rented the building out to a single person, Derick Ion. Then Derick sublet space in the warehouse to local craftspeople and artists who could no longer afford to...

This was posted on a Reddit forum, and about an hour later was taken down. It is allegedly from a person inside the Ghost Ship Warehouse when the fire started and could be a first-hand account.