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LA Mayor Karen Bass calls on city departments to cut budgets, weeks after $2.9 billion LA Convention Center 'gamble' The 5% budget-cutting exercise also came just days after a groundbreaking ceremony for the LA Convention Center expansion project, which is estimated to siphon around $100 million a year from city ser...

“This austerity, in one of the richest cities on the planet, comes at a time when the city is already reeling from every possible social issue and portends a truly bleak future for this city" -- NOlympics LA

LA Mayor Karen Bass calls on city departments to cut budgets, weeks after $2.9 billion LA Convention Center 'gamble' The 5% budget-cutting exercise also came just days after a groundbreaking ceremony for the LA Convention Center expansion project, which is estimated to siphon around $100 million a year from city ser...

“This is the cost when your city leadership foolishly prioritizes mega events and tourism over the lives of the people who live here.”

'Belastung für die Anwohner': Wovor Olympia-Gegner in München warnen Sollten Olympische Spiele in München stattfinden, kämen auf die Bewohner Belastungen zu, warnen die Gegner. Ein Beispiel: Für die Athleten und Funktionäre werden Straßenspuren abgesperrt.

Presse zur Aktion....

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"I can't wait to hear how organizers plan to "deliver a major event in accordance with the highest global human rights standards" when the federal government is kidnapping people off LA's streets."

what a slap in the face to anyone living in LA

you can’t afford to attend the games in your own city, but hey we set up some TVs so you watch them

Mega-events are just parties for the rich! They’re not meant for the people who live in the city that hosts them. THOSE people are meant to be out of sight.

1,000 days later Unfortunately, the mayor's vision — which feels about 1,000 days too late — is so light on substance that it's hard to see how LA's megaevent future materializes

Torched readers know I have been begging for a vision statement from the city for the past 1.5 years. But with less than three years to go, I was hoping for some goals beyond those outlined in the games agreement. This vision really struggles to articulate any tangible benefits for the city

we’re anti-Olympics over here, but also it doesn’t feel like the city is even taking it halfway seriously

We signed this letter to CD1. 41.18 can and will be used to criminalize ANYONE existing in public that the State doesn’t want existing in public. And sweeps are only going to get worse and more frequent unless our so-called “progressive” officials step up and fulfill their campaign promises.

General meeting link in bio.

no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!

*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome

The Clippers promised progress. Inglewood's Black community paid the price A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves

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In LA, Olympic Dreams Lead to Nightmares for a Historic Black Community A federal investigation exposed a shady deal that has bigger ramifications for one of the metro area’s disappearing Black enclaves.

NEW: The LA Clippers claimed to fight climate change, but their tree-planting partner vanished while their superstar pocketed millions for doing nothing. Trees or no trees, it feels like smoke and mirrors for a city still losing its air and its children.

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The Clippers promised progress. Inglewood's Black community paid the price A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves

The Clippers promised progress, Inglewood’s Black community paid the price.
A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves.
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28 TEAM USA GOOGLE TEAMING UP WITH TEAM USA AND LA28 AS FOUNDING PARTNER TO ENHANCE THE FAN JOURNEY FOR THE LA28 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES Google Cloud to serve as the Official Cloud Provider of the LA28 Games Google to support NBCUniversal's Multi-Platform Coverage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games with Enhanced Viewing Experience MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK (Oct. 8, 2025) - LA28, Team USA and NBCUniversal are partnering with Google to deliver a more personal and interactive experience for Olympic and Paralympic Games athletes and spectators, no natter where or how you follow Team USA in Milano Cortina and the LA28 Games in the US.

Delivering the latest Al advancements, Google is surfacing new ways to search for information during NBCUniversal's coverage and helping LA28 Games organizers as they prepare for our first Olympic and Paralympic Games in the U.S. in 26 years. NBCUniversal will also partner with YouTube to provide fans with select content around the Games, serving as an extension of NBCUniversal's coverage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. "With tools like Gemini and new Google Search features like Al Mode, it's easier than ever for people to find the information they're looking for, no matter how simple or complex," said Marvin Chow, Vice President of Marketing, Google. "Our partnership with LA28, Team USA, and NBCUniversal builds on our successful collaboration from last summer, making the Olympic and Paralympic Games more personal and interactive for fans with the help of Al."

Google is now “official cloud provider” of LA28.

Does the no-build games include data centers

As you see propaganda from the mayor’s office about the Convention Center remodel, remember this:

It would almost be funny if it weren’t so sad. Everything going on in the world but we can rest easy knowing the Convention Center is getting upgraded for rich tourists 😃

We need something to believe in, and that something is… upgrading the Convention Center? What planet does this person live on?

Also Karen, how about, idk, just spitballing, HOUSING PEOPLE??

Fact check: TRUE ✅

Wohnungen keine Spiele❗
Los Angeles hat ähnliche Probleme wie München ....

NOlympics LA General Meeting, Monday October 6th, 6pm to 8pm, registration link in bio

General meeting link in bio.

no cops, no politicians, no researchers, no press*. The later three groups can DM us to schedule a meeting. The former can scram!

*journalism and academic workers attending as organizers welcome

ICE is ALWAYS at the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the RNC/DNC. It's part of the National Special Security Event (NSSE) designation. It's not just Trump's agenda.

LA Mayor Karen Bass ASKED for the NSSE designation for the Olympics LAST JANUARY. If you’re wondering why all the feds are still around.

Oh look, more LA x IOF crossover! Shout out USC for facilitating!

As Joey said, mega-events like the Super Bowl & the Olympics are often used as excuses to introduce new tech that ends up sticking around. Another example: Casey Wasserman wants to use facial recognition instead of paper or mobile tickets; you bet that tech is going to be used to track & arrest ppl.

OUTCOMES AND IMPACT STATEMENT Provide a clear description of existing capability levels that will support identified goals and objectives and whether the project is sustaining and maintaining current capabilities as opposed to building new capabilities. Describe the current state (baseline or starting point) of the project at the beginning of the FY 2022 UASI period of performance. Discuss major milestones, purchases, training activities, or other implementation steps that have been or will have been started and/or completed before the application of FY 2022 UASI funds. The goal of further developing these capabilities is not only to address all-crimes/all-hazards, but also prepare for large scale events such as the Super Bowl, All-Star Game, World Cup, and Olympics -- all of which will be present in the City of Los Angeles in the next several years. Preparation for these events from a digital perspective has to be appropriately measured and scaled in terms of both human analytic talent as well as technology. This project will continue to build toward the Olympics 2028. All technologies have a myriad of public safety uses beyond major events, and will be utilized to their fullest potential.

The LAPD justified this purchase, along with other digital surveillance technologies, by citing the Olympics and other major events coming to Los Angeles. The events are an excuse to grow the depts surveillance tech that they're using right now, including for protests. @nolympicsla.bsky.social

What is Fog Data Science? Why is the Surveillance Company so Dangerous? An EFF investigation of public records acquired from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies has uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology. Americans are accustomed to hearing ab...

It gave LAPD warrantless access to your personal data that includes your location, daily habits, and other intimate details that companies collect about you online. Data brokers sell it to surveillance companies like Fog, who in turn give it to cops. @eff.org write-up:
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Fog Data Science provides proprietary databases and analytics that, with the aid of approximate times and geographical locations, can assist Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement, Corporate Security Departments and US Intelligence Agencies in solving criminal cases, investigating suspicious activities or identifying pre-incident indicators that can assist in interdiction or mitigate risk. This unique analysis can help identify previously unknown, and possibly involved, individuals to include their timelines, travels, last know geographical locations and patterns of life. Identifiable data is linked to devices, not individuals, and is drawn from public sources collecting "opt-in" data which mitigates or eliminates privacy concerns. Fog Data Science has a unique, proprietary and patented data platform that automatically compiles, processes and validates billions of daily location signals from hundreds of million of mobile devices. By correlating these devices to the location signals, it is capable of delivering both forensic and predictive analytics and near real-time insights on the daily movements of the people identified with those mobile devices as they engage with signals spread across locations both with in the US and throughout the world. Fog Data Science's proprietary platform has been architected with massive scale in mind and provides predictive analytics and near real-time insights on how people go about their daily lives. Currently, the platform processes: · 250 million devices each month · 15 billion location signals each day 10 million fenced points of interest · 1+ million daily events . US and International Data

Analytic Services Bureau Fog Data Science provides out-sourced analytic services for clients that have occasional needs for signals analysis. Fog Data Science offers the following opportunities for engagement: Contract on a project by project basis · Customized retainer blocks for a specified number of hours and queries Our analytic support services for LEAs, government and private sector security clients to help solve cases by identifying: · Verifiable presence at a location on a specific date and time · Likely locations for residences, places of business and frequent activities · Links to other individuals, places and devices · Patterns of activity correlating to certain events, times or alibis License Access to the Fog Data Sciences' Portal Fog Data Sciences' Portal provides access to our proprietary database for those agencies with their own investigative/analysis resources. We provide training and support to ensure that users understand the results provided and can turn those results into actionable intelligence.

Fog Data Science’s Reveal is the only product in the market that provides Mobile Advertising Identification (MAID) information to State, Local and Tribal Police Agencies in the country. While there are vendors in the marketplace that provide similar data, they require clients to acquire their base products prior to providing this data. Fog Data Science is the only company that provides this data set as a stand alone product.

In 2022, LAPD bought a year subscription to Fog Data with grant money from Homeland Security to gather intelligence on people. The service gives police access to billions of cellphone data points, like your location, from ad IDs. It's what apps and the web collect to serve you targeted ads online.

No, you’re right. LA’s pitch to host was that it would be a “no-build” Olympics, which sounds nice, but there was always the caveat that they could upgrade existing structures and build some temporary structures.

Paris also aimed to be a no-build Olympics and its budget doubled.

Reminder that the World Cup & the Olympics are tryouts for Los Angeles to continue to host mega-events. If those events don’t go well…… 😈

Translation for us normal people: This is going to be a debt-exacerbating disaster that won’t be finished before the Olympics, kicking off a cascade of last-minute crises.

It's really time to start asking these people: okay, great, so which world-class conventions and trade shows are you hoping to get, what is their current attendance, and how are you planning on luring them to LA?

And, more importantly, how many hotel room nights have they promised to book?