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iwanttosee
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Don't ask for help when a hurricane hits Orlando because FEMA ain't coming.
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An Armed Gang Of Shoplifters Is Terrorizing NYC Supermarkets
A knife-wielding gang of shoplifters is terrorizing supermarkets across New York City, making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in goods – and store owners gripe that cops are ignoring the rampage, The Post has learned.
The crew of five has hit dozens of stores since July, brazenly stuffing backpacks with pricey beef, salami and seafood – and flashing their blades at workers who dare try to block their exit before they speed off in getaway cars, store owners told The Post.
“Every time they come in, they are stealing about $800 worth of Dominican salamis,” Efrain Castro, who owns a Fine Fare in Upper Manhattan, told The Post. “These guys are quick. They hit hard and they empty out the case fast. They have a purpose because it’s a business for them.”
Grocers say they feel abandoned by law enforcement under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They say it’s pointless to call the authorities when the same offenders get freed after repeatedly being charged with low-level offenses – if at all.
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My comment: NYC is another liberal hellhole that needs the National Guard.
A knife-wielding gang of shoplifters is terrorizing supermarkets across New York City, making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in goods – and store owners gripe that cops are ignoring the rampage, The Post has learned.
The crew of five has hit dozens of stores since July, brazenly stuffing backpacks with pricey beef, salami and seafood – and flashing their blades at workers who dare try to block their exit before they speed off in getaway cars, store owners told The Post.
“Every time they come in, they are stealing about $800 worth of Dominican salamis,” Efrain Castro, who owns a Fine Fare in Upper Manhattan, told The Post. “These guys are quick. They hit hard and they empty out the case fast. They have a purpose because it’s a business for them.”
Grocers say they feel abandoned by law enforcement under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They say it’s pointless to call the authorities when the same offenders get freed after repeatedly being charged with low-level offenses – if at all.
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My comment: NYC is another liberal hellhole that needs the National Guard.
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Parley
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Single-family rent growth just hit the lowest level in 15 years, new report finds
Rents for single-family residential homes rose just 1.4% in August compared with the year before, according to analytics and data firm Cotality, down from a 2.3% annual gain in July. That’s also much less than the 3% average gain seen last year and is the smallest increase in 15 years.
Rent growth weakened across all price points, continuing a trend that has persisted in the second half of this year. Rents had been strengthening in the first half of this year.
There were, however, strong variations regionally. Chicago saw the highest annual rent growth at 4.7% in August, followed by Los Angeles at 2.8%, Philadelphia at 2.7% and Washington, D.C., at 2.6%.
Dallas saw a 0.6% decline in rent growth, the lowest in the nation. Dallas recently had a surge of new multifamily apartments come onto the market, which is keeping supply higher than demand, Cotality said.
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Rents for single-family residential homes rose just 1.4% in August compared with the year before, according to analytics and data firm Cotality, down from a 2.3% annual gain in July. That’s also much less than the 3% average gain seen last year and is the smallest increase in 15 years.
Rent growth weakened across all price points, continuing a trend that has persisted in the second half of this year. Rents had been strengthening in the first half of this year.
There were, however, strong variations regionally. Chicago saw the highest annual rent growth at 4.7% in August, followed by Los Angeles at 2.8%, Philadelphia at 2.7% and Washington, D.C., at 2.6%.
Dallas saw a 0.6% decline in rent growth, the lowest in the nation. Dallas recently had a surge of new multifamily apartments come onto the market, which is keeping supply higher than demand, Cotality said.
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Parley
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Maybe if you live in a big liberal Democrat city. The Democrats in Chicago and Portland are resisting the National Guard. I think the mayor of Memphis was OK with it. I do not hear any more about it in places like Washington DC or New Orleans.
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I don’t follow the NBA… but seems they may have some openings…
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California issued 62,000 commercial drivers' licenses to illegals.
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mat200
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Oxford Union ..
Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Oxford Union
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Oxford Union
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iwanttosee
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Got a few more Trillion to go before hitting 41.1 Trillion debt ceiling.
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Who "wins" in an assassination?
Elephants in Rooms - Ken LaCorte
Assassins definitely change history, but do they achieve their goals? Do they "win" politically or do their actions usually backfire? –Ken
Elephants in Rooms - Ken LaCorte
Assassins definitely change history, but do they achieve their goals? Do they "win" politically or do their actions usually backfire? –Ken
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Steve Bannon: Trump will have a third term
The Economist
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He's got my vote. There's also going to be at least ten million less Democrats infesting the United States next time around.
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How the drug cartels are ‘diversifying’ into baby-trafficking
Many of the women were lured with promises of easy cash jobs during the final months of pregnancy
On the morning of September 2, in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexican law enforcement raided a remote safehouse and uncovered one of the most grotesque cartel operations they had ever encountered. They found not just the usual drugs but rudimentary medical equipment and bloodstained tarps. The evidence confirmed what many investigators had suspected but couldn’t prove: that growing US demand has created a black market in human babies. Police arrested a brutal female gangster, Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, who was allegedly running an operation that procured these babies, luring in young mothers and performing illegal C-sections. On the streets they call her La Diabla: the She-Devil.
For months, the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had tracked La Diabla’s movements. The dossier they compiled before the raid described a woman who was an expert at seeking out impoverished, pregnant girls and reeling them in with promises of work or money. For the girls in La Diabla’s grip, the promises proved empty. The babies were cut from the young mothers’ bodies and sold for as much as 250,000 pesos ($14,000) to American buyers in El Paso, Texas. It has been alleged that many of the girls did not survive the ordeal and their organs became another product to be sold.
This seems almost too macabre to be true, but an account I heard from the mother of one victim persuaded me that the worst can and does happen. I talked to her in a cramped car in Chihuahua state as she clutched a rosary. “My daughter was a good person, she never wronged anybody… she was so excited to have her baby, investigators asked me if my daughter wanted to sell her baby, but that wasn’t the case. She was already buying everything for her son, and telling her daughter how she was going to be a big sister.”
Her voice broke as she described searching police stations, hospitals, morgues – any place that might give her answers after her daughter went missing. It was only after La Diabla’s arrest that investigators confirmed that her daughter had been one of La Diabla’s alleged victims, lured with the promise of money for prenatal care. In the end she was butchered for profit.
It would be one thing if La Diabla were a horrific anomaly but such stories echo across Mexico’s northern states, where women vanish daily into the machinery of organized crime. For years, Juárez has been synonymous with femicide, the killings of women often dismissed as collateral damage in cartel wars. La Diabla’s alleged operation is only the latest twist in the awful story.
Many of the women who fell into her operation were offered promises of easy cash jobs during the final months of pregnancy, others with invitations to make new friends or meet a man interested in taking them on a date. One woman told me she narrowly escaped La Diabla’s network. She had been promised simple, legal work for quick pay in Juárez, nothing that seemed suspicious at first. “My friend had been working with people in Juárez and making money, so I guess she told them to contact me. Over messages the guy made it seem like a good deal and I wouldn’t have to stay long. They said they wanted to help me because I’m pregnant and they kept telling me how much money I would make with them.”
How the drug cartels are 'diversifying' into baby-trafficking
Why would the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, one of the world’s wealthiest cartels, move into baby-trafficking? The short answer
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iwanttosee
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Just admit the US Constitution doesn't matter to you.He's got my vote. There's also going to be at least ten million less Democrats infesting the United States next time around.