Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Santa Monica's City Council thinks the city is just fine. One councilmember called the homeless residents and neighbors, their wants and desires equivalent to those of people who pay rent and pay taxes. The 'freedom' of some, most of whom suffer from drug addiction and mental illness, to live in filth, disease and to commit crimes with impunity, is valued over the ability of the rest of society to live healthy lives in law and order. Watch the videos shot and distributed by...
Left are two headlines (both Nov 24th from NYTimes.com), of the identical story, a couple of hours apart. This happens frequently with the New York Times. An initial headline (and story) comes out, not accurate and not balanced. To be followed later by revisions, which correct the headline (and story) and "center" it to a degree. *But the first headline and story are what enters the stream of news and tilts the worldwide news narrative.* The initial headlines and stories then...
10: Appearing today at a “Dealbook" interview by Andrew Sorkin of the New York Times, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that advertisers who have a problem with him can "fuck off."In a post to Twitter, Pershing Square fund manager Bill Ackman defended Musk. Ackman, who is Jewish, also defended Musk from charges that a recent post to X.com was anti-Semitic. Ackman wrote: I thought @elonmusk's interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free s...
November 24, 2023 - An apparently mentally ill or drug-influenced man was arrested by Santa Monica Police after climbing atop the pedestrian bridge over the Pacific Coast Highway on Friday, November 10 and hurling a metal pole onto the street below. No cars were hit or people injured. The man, Carlos Hernandez-Martinez, 29, is homeless and was charged with a felony the Los Angeles County District Attorney. The crime is "throwing an object at a vehicle with intent to cause...
Tesla and X owner Elon Musk is expected to visit Israel next week, during which he will visit towns near the Gaza border that were attacked by Hamas on October 7, N12 reported on Thursday. According to the report, Musk will meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit. The visit comes as Musk continues to come under fire for failures to combat antisemitism on his X (formerly Twitter) platform, for sharing content from antisemitic...
A group of pro-Hamas protestors shut down traffic near The Grove for about an hour on Third Street and Fairfax Friday. Traffic was rerouted They were chanting slogans such as “Biden Biden, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!” At 1 pm PST, the demonstration broke up. After half an hour in the grove, the demonstration moved to the intersection of Third Street and Fairfax. The Los Angeles Police Department has declared a tactical alert citywide due to the prote...
I have an old friend Israeli who lives in the U.S., named Phil Isaac. But Isaac reads news in Hebrew, and has many friends in Israel. I asked him a series of questions about the Hamas Israel War. Q: Can Hamas actually be removed from the Gaza Strip? Some US military people say this is too ambitious. A: Yes. Hamas is done, finished, as far as operating in Israel goes. Hamas can be removed from power inasmuch as the Nazis were removed and ISIS too. As it turns out, the strong...
November 17, 2023 - The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously this week to strengthen the City's Vision Zero safety commitment. This will include the following practical steps: - An engineering analysis regarding upgrading all present intersections to all-way stops - Upgrading non-signaled intersections to all-way stop-controlled intersections - Upgrading the portal for residents to report a dangerous intersection - Adopting signs at two-way stop-controlled...
Security camera footage from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, shows Israeli hostages involuntarily brought into Al Shifa Hospital. The footage is dated October 7th, and was released Sunday November 19th by the Israeli Defense Force. "EXPOSED," tweeted the IDF. "This is documentation from Shifa Hospital from the day of the massacre, October 7, 2023, between the hours of 10:42 a.m and 11:01 a.m. in which hostages, a Nepalese civilian and a Thai civilian, were abducted from Israeli ter...
A Moorpark professor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for the killing of a Jewish man Paul Kessler at a protest in Thousand Oaks on November 6th. Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter for the murder of Paul Kessler, 69, who was waving an Israeli flag across Westlake Blvd from a pro-Hamas rally. Alnaji was taken into custody Thursday 11.16.23, by The Ventura County Sheriff's Office. Witness accounts differ, with...
The 99 Cents Only Store located next to the Whole Foods Market in Venice is about to close. The store is at Lincoln Blvd and Rose Avenue. According to the company, they were unable to renegotiate the lease for any amount of rent that made sense. 99 Cents stores sells all kinds of products from fresh fruit to electronics, to pharmaceuticals and clothing and housewares. Not all of their items cost 99 cents. I recently saw a small tree for sale there for $39, which is kind of at...
Someone stole the United States flag from the post office on Nielson Way in Ocean Park. The postmaster noticed it missing around October 31st, 2023, but believes the disappearance has nothing to do with Halloween. The flagpole at a Santa Monica Post Office flies only the MIA/POW flag now, says the postmaster at the contract post office. He has ordered a new flag,. but they are apparently on back order with the Chinese company that makes America flags for US Post Offices. No,...
6: A fire Saturday morning under the 10 freeway has closed the interstate for 3 to 12 weeks, while the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) repairs damage to a bridge. The fire started at a homeless encampment and quickly spread to a storage facility with pallets and vehicles such as trucks. The fire quickly became too intense for firemen to put out quickly. It burned for about 8 hours starting at 4 am Saturday morning. 150 firefighters, 12 trucks and a...
IDF forces kill Hamas terrorist who paraded the dead body of German-Israeli woman Shani Louk through the streets of Gaza as Palestinians cheered her death. This hours after she had danced for peace and love in the Negev desert near Gaza. Her mother, Richarda Louk told Rabbi Shmuley that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have informed her that they had taken out one of the terrorists- seen in the viral video parading her body on a pickup truck. Hamas kidnapped 240 people from the...
AP, CNN, Reuters the NYTimes.com were all forced to deny prior knowledge of the October 7th Hamas massacre in Israel, after it became evident that all 4 organizations had employed a card-carrying Hamas terrorist to cover the events of October 7th. Following the publications in Israel about the part of the Gazan journalist Hassan Eslaiah (a CNN freelancer) in documenting the massacre in Israel while joining Hamas on October 7th, Eslaiah posted a message on his Telegram channel...
Three weeks after Israel advised Gaza residents to flee South to avoid fighting, Gaza City still contains about 200,000 of its original 1,000,000 residents. New video posted to social media shows why. "Many Gazans are sharing this footages which appears to show a group of residents gunned down by Hamas police on the Al Rasheed beach road as they tried to flee south from the Israeli offensive and it triggers outrage among residents", posted @ Gaza_report. He appears to be a...
A pair of climate activist vandals in a London museum took hammers to attack a $90,000 painting on Monday, Nov. 6th. The painting from 1651, depicts the goddess Venus reclining and looking into a mirror help by her son, Cupid. After attacking the masterpiece with hammers, the couple naturally delivered a speech. "Women did not get the vote by voting. It is time for deeds and not words,” said the female destroyer. “Politics has failed us!” continued her boyfriend. Hopef...
Vice President Kamala Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is helping raise money for a Gaza fundraiser that could end up in the hands of Hamas. Hamas has collected billions in charity and foreign aid over the past 20 years. It has been spent on weapons systems, and 300 miles of tunnels to protect Hamas soldiers while they kill Israeli civilians. Emhoff has helped raise a whopping $8M through her Instagram account where she boasts over 300,000 followers. While the fundraiser is...
Update 11.7.23: It’s unclear that anyone actually witnessed the suspect hitting the victim over the head with a megaphone. Some accounts are that he simply shoved Kessler, who then tripped and fell, smashing his head on the concrete. For this reason, it is not currently clear that anyone will be charged with homicide over the incident. There were competing pro Palestine and pro-Israel rallies across Westlake Blvd from each other. Kessler had crossed the street to confront t...
9: A cousin of Shani Louk's said that the family received an official notice from the IDF and ZAKA that a bone from the base of Louk's skull had been found matched with Louk's DNA. Doctors determined that a person cannot live without the bone found and concluded that Louk could not possibly still be alive. Shani Louk was 23 years old. She grew up in part in Oregon. After capturing her, Hamas paraded her naked body around Gaza. Then they beheaded her. She had gone to the...
October 26, 2023, Los Angeles, CA – A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleges Amazon employed a secret algorithm code-named "Project Nessie" that guided Amazon to raise prices and improve profits on items across its most popular online shopping categories. Because of Amazon's dominance in e-commerce, the algorithm led competitors to raise their prices and charge customers more. When competitors didn't raise their prices to Amazon's level, the algorithm-which is no l...
12: A woman who was hit on her bike Friday at the corner of Idaho and 19th Street, died of her injuries Saturday night. Her family terminated life support one day after the collision, as no brain activity could be detected. Friday morning at approximately 8:45 a.m., Santa Monica Police Department officers responded to the intersection of 19th and Idaho for a traffic collision involving a vehicle and a cyclist. The victim, a 69-year-old woman who was struck on her bicycle,...
On October 23, 2023, the New York Times in a rare admission, said that it misinformed on it's early coverage of the blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. When Islamic Jihad, not Israel bombed a hospital parking lot in Gaza, falsely saying 500 people had died (it was about ten), the NY Times Quickly Blamed Israel. "The Times's initial accounts attributed the claim of Israeli responsibility to Palestinian officials, and noted that the Israeli military said it was...
1/29/23: A mob of angry Moslems descended on a passenger plane landing with evacuated people from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Sunday. They demanded to be allowed to board the plane and "kill the Jews." Authorities told them to pick 3 representatives to board the plane and verify that none of the passengers were Israelis. "The lynch mob which stormed the airport in Dagestan, Russia to search for Jews as a plane was landing from Tel Aviv is now searching cars in front of...
