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Articles from the December 12, 2020 edition


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  • Silver Monolith Type UFO Spotted in Synchronous Orbit Near International Space Station Tuesday

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Dec 12, 2020
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    An unidentified object hovering in space near the International Space Station was live-streamed on NASA TV on Tuesday. The object appeared to be some 10 meters in length and about 2 meters across, and perhaps 3 km from the ISS. It is in the shape of a silver monolith. Silver monoliths have been sighted in various places on Earth, since November when a silver monolith appeared in Utah's Red Rock Desert. As far as we know, this is the first one found in Earth orbit. Earth orbit is full of debris...

  • Federal Judge Orders Amazon to Allow Inspection of its Inventory for Counterfeits

    Craig Crosby, The Counterfeit Report|Dec 12, 2020

    December 9, 2019, Los Angeles, CA – Amazon repeatedly makes its illusory public claim that counterfeits are not allowed on Amazon, but that is a lie. Amazon is a voracious seller, enabler, and facilitator of an inexhaustible supply of counterfeit, fraudulent, and replica products. 200,000 brands are fighting Amazon fakes, and now one manufacturer, exhausted from endless warnings and complaints, is taking the e-commerce gorilla to the mat. Maglula, Ltd., which makes popular magazine loaders for f...

  • Self-indulgent Santa Monica City Hall Annex Gets Green Building Award from the U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles

    Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude|Dec 12, 2020
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    December 9 This week Santa Monica officials got exactly what they wanted when they approved a $76.7 million dollar City Hall annex in 2017 - at a whopping cost of $1,528 per square foot. They won an award. Specifically, they won an award for being so gosh-darn sustainable and environmentally conscientious. The U.S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles awarded Santa Monica's City Hall annex design their Project of the Year award in the Un-Built Category. (Unbuilt? This project was supposed to open...

  • Wells Fargo Bank on Main Street in Santa Monica Robbed

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Dec 12, 2020

    Police captured a bank robber who used a shotgun to rob the Wells Fargo Bank on Main Street in Santa Monica Tuesday morning. Aaron Koehler-Marsh, 27, from Bend, Indiana, had used a shotgun to obtain an unspecified sum of money from a teller, just after 9 AM. "Upon arrival, officers observed the suspect inside a vehicle exiting the bank parking lot. Officers conducted a high-risk traffic stop at the intersection of Neilson Way and Bicknell. The as yet unnamed suspect was taken into custody...