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When crime began to spike during the pandemic , Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made a predictably outrageous claim, as is her wont. “I do think that even when you talk about violent crime, I don’t think that poverty and economic desperation are separate from that,” she said. Ocasio-Cortez and much of the rest of the Left would have us believe our society is no better than the fictional one portrayed in Les Miserables and that all crime is in some way related to that fact. But the retail thieves who have made shoplifting a profitable business would beg to differ....

"If I win, I am going to instruct my Attorney General to look into your situation. Because there's never been so many lies, so much deception" "It's awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country " "Because you'd be in Jail!"

Just a silly thread with some "Meme's" I ran across about Hillary.

In the late interwar period, a few years before the ascendency of Adolf Hitler to the Chancellery, the famed German film director Fritz Lang created a classic of the silent film era. Spione (English: Spies) is a thriller of international espionage, intrigue, and manipulation by a criminal mastermind. Playing diplomats, politicians, and detectives against each other, using prostitutes, opium, and blackmail to control his adversaries, Lang’s arch villain Haghi pushes the world to the precipice of total war before he is brought down by the film’s hero. There is a man operating like this today. He has control of vast...

As the intensity and ferocity of national and international events seems to accelerate towards chaos, it seems to me and many others that all this is unfolding by human design. Forces at work on national and international levels seem to have been coordinating just such a climax for many years. It often appears that opposing interests are merely battling it out, but then there is often the sense that the appearance of opposing interests is merely an illusion put forth to keep us off guard as to what is actually happening on a larger scale. Is there a grand conspiracy,...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a ten-fold expansion of the Fund’s New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) and the transformation of the Fund’s premier standing credit arrangement into a more flexible and effective tool of crisis management. The NAB will be increased by SDR 333.5 billion (about US$500 billion) to SDR 367.5 billion (about US$550 billion), representing a major increase in the resources available for the Fund’s lending to its members. This responds to the call by the leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) economies, endorsed by the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC),...

As Greenspan spins and spins and obfuscates, at least a few observers refuse to let him skate. Gratifying to hear someone nail the Keynesian. Click here to watch clip via KingWorldNews.com

JULY 10, 2009 Why We'll Leave L.A. The business climate is worse than the air quality. RICK NEWCOMBE Los Angeles If New Yorkers fantasize that doing business here in Los Angeles would be less of a headache, forget about it. This city is fast becoming a job-killing machine. It's no accident the unemployment rate is a frightening 11.4% and climbing. I never could have imagined that, after living here for more than three decades, I would be filing a lawsuit against my beloved Los Angeles and making plans for my company, Creators Syndicate, to move elsewhere. But we have no...

Bernardo Provenzano's arrest, on the day Silvio Berlusconi lost power, provoked a storm of speculation The head of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, nicknamed "The Tractor" for the way he once mowed down his rivals, was arrested without a struggle yesterday after 42 years on the run. The 73-year-old was found in a small farmhouse near his home town, Corleone. A small earthquake shuddered through the hills minutes before the police arrived.At first he denied being the world's most wanted Mafia fugitive. But after an on-the-spot DNA test, he confessed: "Yes, it's true, I am Bernado Provenzano."He was then...

-- Researchers synthesize gem-sized diamonds of natural colour and exceptional hardness using Chemical Vapour Deposition. -- WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT DEBT now topping US$7 trillion (about US$100,000 for each family of four), and interest rates at historic lows, new life is beginning to breathe through the Canadian resource sector. One sign of this renewed vigor is a sudden surge in prospecting claims being staked throughout vast tracts of the Canadian Arctic. Over 1,500 new permits have been issued this year for Nunavut alone, compared to 190 last year. And according to the Nunavut Mining Recorder’s Office in Iqualuit, the largest number...

South Korean [fmr. Pres. Kim Dae Jung] Cash Transfer to North Korea Designed to Dodge American CIA by Choi Jae-hyeok (jhchoi@chosun.com) The (S. Korean) National Intelligence Service worked to make sure its transfer of $200 million to North Korea would go undetected by U.S. intelligence authorities according to statements by the S. Korean NIS and banking officials obtained by the special prosecutor team investigating the cash-for-summit scandal. Because of the detail involved, this conflicts with the Pres. Kim Dae-jung government's claim in February that the cash was sent as part of the Hyundai Group's economic cooperation projects in North...