[Don Surber Blog] The Daily Mail reported, "A woman, armed with a pickaxe, was shoplifting at a Los Angeles Rite Aid.
"Shoppers videotaped the bizarre scene on Thursday as the woman walked up and down the aisles with the weapon in hand.
"She reportedly threatened employees and customers and warned that she would come back as she walked out with a basket full of merchandise.
"It comes as LA and cities throughout California continue to be plagued by robberies amid the state's zero bail policies."
There's your democracy. Californians voted to decriminalize shoplifting. Californians elected pro-criminal DAs.
Shoplifting and the outright looting of stores are rampant in California.
But just as the media called massive riots by Democrats in city after city mostly peaceful protests in 2020, the media is denying the theft.
In the epicenter of the new lawlessness, the San Francisco Chronicle is the bulwark for thieves.
It published on July 20, "San Francisco’s shoplifting panic desperately needs some context" by Adam Johnson.
He began, "You no doubt have seen The Video. A man, in broad daylight, brazenly empties the shelves of a San Francisco Walgreens and casually rides a bike out of the store with little intervention from a nearby guard.
"The lawlessness, the complete societal breakdown. A shocking sight that offends the basic notions of law and order.
"When I say you’ve no doubt seen the video, I am absolutely confident you have, because a recent analysis by the media watchdog FAIR found that the video — taken by ABC7’s Lyanne Melendez — garnered over 300 articles of media coverage around the world and millions of clicks, from the United Kingdom to Mexico to France and beyond.
"That’s a sizable amount of coverage, indeed, for a single instance of petty theft."
If someone stole his bicycle, I doubt he would consider the theft petty.
On October 15, the Chronicle reported, "Is shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective."
Relying on city government data, the Chronicle claimed, "But the timing of Walgreens’ decision led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision."
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Watched the cops take a woman out of CVS in handcuffs a couple days before Christmas. Don't know if she was shoplifting, trying to pass a bad prescription, or what. But that wild-west business ain't playing here.
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When was the last time anyone read about an Amazon delivery truck being hijacked ?
Your laptop is now your store. Order 'on-line' from Home Depot and your purchase can be picked up from an (outside the store) locker. Sears stores eventually became little more than ordering and pick-up centers as well.
The middle-man (brick & mortar stores) are rapidly disappearing. Once you hit the "Purchase item" button, you are dealing directly with the Chinese manufacturing facility. Shoplifters and 'smash & grab' gangs are simply facilitating the transition.
I am certain you are familiar with the marketing term...."Factory Direct."
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And this is a good thing how exactly? Amazon is exactly the kind of megacorp that nobody should be doing business with.
Why do you think Antifa/BLM are attacking these stores? They need to destroy small business, because SMEs are the foundation of strength for America. More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.
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It's difficult to succeed when people expect you to actually do something.
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A large amount of Amazon sales are Amazon renting out digital storefront to small businesses.
Yes Amazon is evil and only looking for a profit, but it does seem what they do could easily be reproduced by others but so far nobody has seriously stepped up and tried.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Source contains some charts in English
[ColonelCassad] At the current growth rates, in the second half of the 20s (if not earlier), it will surpass the volume of the conventional film industry in its usual sense.
People who in modern realities deny the role and importance of the video game industry in mass culture and everyday leisure of a huge part of society, the further, the more they move away from the real state of affairs. Of course, you can deny reality, especially since at one time they also denied the role of radio, cinema, television, the Internet, which of course did not interfere with the formation and development of innovations within society with the transition from innovations to routine consumption. In the case of video games, consumers are no longer children, but people over the age of 24.
So, the average age of a Russian gamer is slowly increasing, and last year it was 24+ years:
30 percent of the respondents belonged to the age group from 14 to 24 years old.
37 percent- from 25 to 34 years old.
33percent - from 35 to 44 years old.
59 percent of Russian gamers are men while 41percent are women.
That is, in 2020, 70 percent of consumers of video game products are people from 25 to 44 years old, that is, the most able-bodied part of the population of the Russian Federation .
This, of course, does not mean that this growth, in the case of the gaming industry, does not take various ugly forms, like the same financial pyramids with NFT tokens, mobile gacha dumpsters, as well as other loot boxes, "game services", etc., not to mention mention the progressive creative impotence major publishers and glossing over all and all pervasive povestochkoy (which leads to a collapse, even those huge conglomerates as "Aktivizhn-Blizzard" and Ubisoft ").
But anyway, it's all there, there will be the main thing, will continue to grow, covering most of the country's population.
The state in this regard mainly demonstrates ridiculous approaches and, as a rule, a poor understanding of what to do with all this.
A recent interview with Mizulina's (Yulina Mizulina, Russian senator (Russian Federation Council)) daughter, clearly shows this.
As a result, we are witnessing a wonderful picture when state and opposition speakers compete among themselves for the title of "Best Luddite of the Year". On the one hand, the conditional right Vitaly Milonov (Russian national deputy), with shouts, needs to pray and ban video games, because of them children are being killed in schools.
On the other hand, the conditional leftist Semin with calls to play chess and read Marx. At one time, the Liberal Democratic Party tried to flirt with this topic by dragging some young deputy Vasily Vlasov (Russian national deputy) into the federal agenda, but everything ended very badly there.
"Party blogger" Yuri Khovansky (Russian video blogger) is in jail for the propaganda of terrorism, the "former producer of the Goblin" who was involved in the persecution of people, ended up in a psychiatric hospital, the deputy's assistant got used to organizing the physical persecution of various bloggers, etc. etc.
The CPRF and the video game industry exist in virtually non-overlapping universes. "United Russia" is also not far behind (in Sevastopol, if something is remembered for seven years, it is the organization of tournaments in "tanks" and "counter"). On the other hand, if you look at what the Liberal Democratic Party was doing, probably for the best.
...Pakistani-American Muslim whose family has deep ties to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the radical Muslim Brotherhood...
Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, has written a book describing her life experience during a time when her husband Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... was sending pictures of his penis to various underage girls around the country. [One of Andrew Breitbart’s Funniest Moments]
Back in 2011, Andrew triggered a series of events that long outlasted his time with us. Very influential New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner was texting pictures of his penis (amid other things) to underage girls. Andrew was tipped off and eventually exposed the story. It was a hot mess of DNC, MSM and the entire Clinton machine circling the wagons to protect Weiner and attack Breitbart. Andrew won against the entire machine in epic fashion. It was just awesome.
A few years passed, and then Anthony Weiner was caught doing it again, only this time there were criminal charges. Huma has written a book about her life in the aftermath of Weiner’s exposure and appears on CNN to talk about it.
There is a facet to the Huma Abedin story that no one in the media will discuss, including Dana Bash. Huma’s husband, Anthony Weiner, tried to cut a deal with federal officials at the Southern District of New York (SDNY) to avoid criminal prosecution. Weiner offered to give Huma Abedin’s laptop, which included all of Huma’s electronic communication files with Hillary Clinton, to the US Attorney’s office and FBI in return for no prosecution.
Huma’s laptop was essentially the Abedin/Weiner insurance policy against the Clintons. The laptop contained copies of all the emails that were missing from the Clinton private servers, because Huma’s email account automatically copied the emails to her account in the cloud so she could access them from any device. There were 350,000 emails and at least 344,000 Blackberry communications on the laptop. [FBI FILES]
The Abedin laptop had all the Clinton emails that Hillary Clinton’s lawyers said were no longer available, as the servers were destroyed and data deleted.
The Southern District of New York (SDNY) and FBI took custody of the laptop, but never made the deal with Anthony Weiner.
Despite numerous mistaken reports about the Clinton email issues at hand, it was THAT Abedin laptop that was the true purpose of Bill Clinton meeting with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac, Arizona 2016.
A review of the Inspector General report about the FBI activity surrounding the Abedin laptop, an overlay of the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages around the time of the laptop, and a review of James Comey statements about the laptop, all tell a remarkable story about the coverup.
[PJMedia] Ms. Abedin worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law. Ms. Abedin and Naseef overlapped at the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) for at least seven years.
Throughout that time (1996–2003), Ms. Abdein [sic] worked for Hillary Clinton in various capacities. Ms. Abedin’s late father, Dr. Zyed Abedin, was recruited by Naseef to run the JMMA in Saudi Arabia. The journal was operated under the management of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a virulently anti-Semitic and sharia-supremacist organization. When Dr. Abedin died, editorial control of the journal passed to his wife, Dr. Saleha Mahmood Abedin — Huma’s mother.
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Ms. Abedin worked for many years at a journal that promotes Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier, Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef ran the Rabita Trust, a formally designated foreign terrorist organization under American law.
In their eyes Carlos Danger's great sin was that he listed after tender youth of the wrong gender
[Guardian] Harris is navigating a position that comes with great influence but few formal responsibilities — and the stakes are even higher for her compared to past vice-presidents See? You raycisss's and misogynists are just expecting too darn much from her!
Earlier this month, Kamala Harris convened the inaugural meeting of the National Space Council, an important summit that brought together cabinet secretaries and top space and military officials in the sun-drenched atrium of the US Institute of Peace. Over the course of nearly two hours, the vice-president engaged the panel in discussion with real, earthly implications for national security, the climate crisis and workforce development.
But attention in Washington was diverted elsewhere. At the supreme court, the justices were weighing the future of abortion rights. Republicans in Congress were threatening a government shutdown over their opposition to Covid-19 mask mandates. And as Harris spoke, public health experts confirmed the first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the US.
Such is the challenge of Harris’s mission: a historic first navigating an inescapably secondary role. Her work on the president’s most urgent priorities — combatting the coronavirus pandemic and enacting his legislative agenda — is often overlooked, while her efforts on her own policy portfolio often goes unnoticed.
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Her "course" obviously does NOT include working with Biden to solve current challenges and problems. She is likely waiting until Biden is gone to initiate her program of social change and repression.
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She and her boss are either the most clownishly incompetent, repulsive, degraded characters to hold those offices,
or
extraordinarily cunning, devious and secretly brilliant masters of a kind of strategic subterfuge.that eludes the grasp of ordinary folks like us.
"...like it or not, Democrats ought to get used to the idea of nominating Kamala Harris if Biden doesn’t run. They’re unlikely to have much of a choice."
Someone in the clip said the woman “went crazy on the airplane, punched this man in the face, spit on him, scratched him (and) poured hot water on my leg.”
Full-spectrum. MMA caliber.
According to TMZ, Cornwall went ballistic because the man wouldn’t mask up while eating and drinking.
[Jpost] Will an overt airstrike on Iran really achieve so much more for Israel in terms of a delay than continued covert operations?
The targets in Iran would vary.
The first would be Natanz, Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. The complex consists of two large halls, roughly 300,000 square feet each dug somewhere between eight and 23 feet below ground and covered by several layers of concrete and metal. The walls of each hall are estimated to be approximately two feet thick. The facility is also surrounded by surface-to-air missiles.
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Well, I hope it's a CRUSH rather than a strike.
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