Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Seeking new ways to monetize the platform, Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk says that the blue check marks will now cost $20 per month, or $240 a year. This according to the website TheVerge.com. "Employees working on the project were told on Sunday (by Musk indirectly), that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired," says the Verge. Websites on the right of the political spectrum say that the blue check verifications are diff...
Breaking: What really happened Friday morning at the Pelosi house?https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/29/news/it-doesnt-add-up-some-people-on-social-media-are-questioning-truth-of-the-attack-on-paul-pelosi/7191.html San Francisco police arrived at Nancy Pelosi's residence to find her husband Paul Pelosi struggling with a homeless man over a hammer. Police directed both men to drop the hammer (which each of them had a hand on). Pelosi complied, whereupon he was beaten on...
The Brentwood Golf Course was shut down Thursday afternoon, as authorities looked for a mountain lion who had been spotted on the course. A mountain lion was seen sprinting across the golf course at the Brentwood Country Club after an initial sighting prompted the lockdown of a nearby elementary school, the LAPD said. Authorities eventually caught, tranquilized and removed the cougar, who had been spotted by several groups of golfers. It was unclear whether or not the big cat...
1/25: A female pedestrian was struck in a marked crosswalk, across Pico Blvd. at 22nd Street in Santa Monica Tuesday evening. The pedestrian was walking her dog when they were struck by a vehicle on the westbound side of the street (nearer to Virginia park). It's unknown if the dog was struck but the canine fled from the scene. Further details are pending....
A Redondo Beach man was sentenced this week to life without parole in federal prison after he admitted to producing thousands of sexually explicit images and videos of nearly three dozen children, one of whom was exploited over the course of two years and performed sex acts online in exchange for money, federal prosecutors said. Billy Frederick, a 52-year-old accountant, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, who said that "to say his conduct is...
1/24/22: The SMPD responded to a call of a person stabbed near the Santa Monica Pier on Tuesday night. However, the victim refused police assistance. Police also found a second stabbed homeless man who was similarly uncooperative, behind the Ken Edwards center. The incident occurred at about 9:30 PM, wrote Lt. Rudy Flores. “SMPD Officers responded to a call of a possible stabbing that occurred in the area of Ocean Ave. and Colorado Blvd.” “Officers made contact with the R...
Santa Monica police arrested a two homeless men, after one of them ran a stolen car into a tree. "A records check revealed the driver of the vehicle, Kenneth Keith Dilks, a 34-year-old homeless male, had an active No Bail Felony warrant for a probation violation. He was arrested and booked on Grand Theft Auto, Conspiracy, Possession of Burglary Tools and Methamphetamine, Obstructing Arrest, Evading and the warrant," said the SMPD in a press release, which follows: The...
BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Chinese former President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the closing ceremony of a congress of the ruling Communist Party on Saturday. Hu, 79, Xi Jinping's immediate predecessor, was seated to the left of Xi. He was led off the stage of the main auditorium of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by two stewards, a Reuters witness at the congress said. Video footage published by AFP showed a steward repeatedly trying to lift Hu from...
A Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jet has crashed into a residential building in the city of Irkutsk in Siberia today. Two crew-members died as the jet went straight down into the apartment tower. A group of children on a nearby playground reacted, but were unhurt. Reportedly, the Plane had just taken off from a repair shop nearby. The 30 year old plane had been flight certified, apparently in error. The Sukhoi Su-30 (Russian: Сухой Су-30; NATO reporting name: Flanke...
Update: Comment from Laurie Lieberman at the bottom of this story. Laurie Lieberman has been on the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board for the last 8 years. Now, some people are opposing a third term for the school board member and candidate. We asked Laurie Lieberman Must Go aka @liebermanmustgo, why they oppose her re-election. The anonymous Twitter account user cited her lack of civility and basic competence. "Primarily, the issue is her temperament and troub...
There is no place in the world like Kharkiv. City of trading, city of students, always young, a little bohemian, never sleeping, always creative, always sparkling with street lights but at the same time very cosy. #Kharkiv today is standing, holding on and still very much alive. Many citizens came back, many didn't leave. It's understandable, it's our home, we love it, we want to stay, we don't want to give up on it no matter how many rockets had hit it. I drive through the...
US President Joe Biden passed through the Santa Monica Airport on Wednesday. He was only in town for a half hour, as Marine One ferried him from LAX. "Yes, I had the honor of welcoming our President to Santa Monica. What a hero and a mensch," Himmelrich posted on her Facebook page. Mensch is Yiddish for a really good guy. There were the usual traffic tie-ups on the Westside when a Democratic president passes through on the way to local fundraisers. Biden met with adoring fans...
A Su-34 crashed into apartment building in Yeysk, Russia on Monday, October 17th. The Russian military said that the fighter jet had suffered engine failure, which caused it to crash land. The Sukhoi Su-34 is an advanced Air Superiority fighter plane. Each plane costs $36 million. Russia has lost over 200 aircraft since its February 24th invasion. Numerous videos on social media showed the fiery crash demolishing a block of apartments in Russia. Russia has launched numerous...
A taco stand on Holt Avenue in Pomona was the site of a serious car vs. pushcart vendor accident. One man, a customer of the street vendor, was pronounced dead on scene. A female driver who initially fled from the scene, was taken into custody by Pomona Police. "One person was killed and eight others were injured after a car plowed through a taco stand near Holt Ave. and Dudley St. in #Pomona tonight. Police are urging the public to avoid the area as they conduct their...
UPDATE: October 12, 2022 - At 6:45 pm, a Facebook posting on The Lighthouse, a Place of Refuge, showed a video of a woman announcing that Haydne Wilson, a 23-year-old woman who has been missing since September 29, had been found. A Los Angeles Times article stated that Haydne suffered psychotic symptoms similar to schizophrenia due to a bout with long Covid and had previously experienced a memory blackout in January, when she had also gone missing, though that time only for a...
6: Firemen struggled to extinguish a fire in a cave in the side of the Palisades Park cliffs Monday afternoon. It wasn't that the fire was big. It was hidden, and firemen were not immediately sure how to access it. The fire was 20 feet from a wooden stairway that leads down to Pacific Coast Highway and the beach. Firemen believed that homeless people had occupied the cave, and set the fire accidentally. They did not think that any person who set the fire remained in...
6: Russia launched its remaining inventory of medium range missiles at downtown Kyiv Monday morning. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen said there were at last 4 explosions heard. Air raid sirens went off throughout Ukraine. Shevchenko Park in central Kyiv is "probably the city's busiest park, usually packed with people and street musicians," said Michael Luxmoore, a UK civilian reporter who lives there. Shevchenko Park now has a big crater in the middle of a children's playground...
For the second time in a month, the area between Wilshire Blvd and Montana Avenue is again dark in Santa Monica. Not all of it though. It appears to be mostly east of 10th Street and West of 14th Street, as of 7 pm. Power provider Southern California Edison now says the power will be back on sometime between 9 pm and 10:30 pm PST. Depending presumably, on where exactly you live. On Montana Avenue, the Aero Theater was open and people were in line waiting to see a movie. But...
Update, 10/8/22: The Russian proxy governor of Crimea announced late Saturday, that vehicle traffic across the bridge had resumed. The claim is unverified, but there are 2 undamaged lanes, so it is possible. Early Saturday morning, the Ukraine military hit the Kerch Bridge with a missile strike or other explosion that took out a span of the bridge. This is the only direct connection (i.e. not through Ukraine or occupied territories) between Russia and Ukraine. Russian media in...
A homeless man has been arrested for setting no less than 7 dumpster fires in five days in Santa Monica. He is now in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail after being charged with seven separate incidents of arson. One fire was behind the Silvercrest aged living facility. The press release reads as follows On September 26, 2022, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office filed seven counts of Arson against John Dean Thomason, a 51-year-old homeless male. Santa Monica...
September 29, 2022, Los Angeles, CA - Amazon's quest to sell all things to all people has a catastrophic carryover -- over 75 dead and scores injured by unsafe trucking contractors. Truckers moving Amazon goods around the country were more than twice as likely to receive unsafe driving scores compared with similar outfits. The investigative article by The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Weaver analyzes Amazon's push for prompt deliveries and the ongoing fallout of injuries...
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be loathed on Twitter. Elon Musk posted a peace plan on Twitter, and boy do people hate him for it. The 4 point peace plan invites people to vote yes or no. The proposal has 1.5 million votes, about 2/3rds of which oppose the plan. The peace plan says : 1. Ukraine-Russia Peace: 1- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people. 2- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been...
September 30, 2022 - Multiple student groups at UC Berkeley's School of Law began the school year by adopting a bylaw written by the Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) agreeing to boycott Israel and any entity supporting Israel. In addition, the new bylaw would prohibit the group adopting it from inviting any speaker who "expressed or continued to hold views...in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine." The groups adopting...
Authors note: These are my notes from a phone conversation with Albin Gielicz, candidate for Santa Monica City Council The political climate for the last few years has not been fully functional, which inhibits solving problems. Our two main problems are how to improve public safety, and how to bring the homeless home. I'm a Recreation and Parks Commissioner running for City Council on issues like public safety and homelessness, as well as economic recovery. I meet many local...
In salacious video posted to a Telegram channel called "Cargo 200", pigs in Ukraine consume the corpse of a Russian army officer. The deceased man is identified as a Captain in the 14 second cellphone video. Cargo 200 is a controversial Telegram channel, which seeks to discourage the Russian Army by posting photos and videos of deceased Russian military personnel. The 4th Geneva Convention on prisoners of war forbids the display of such images, but neither Russia nor Ukraine...
