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A GMA reporter covering San Francisco's Westfield Mall closure has admitted his bosses told him not to appear live from fentanyl-ravaged downtown early in the morning because it was 'too dangerous'. Chief national news correspondent Matt Gutman told viewers he had been advised against appearing live from Union Square or the mall for ABC's 4am Good Morning America segment on Thursday. The veteran broadcaster instead reported on the latest in a long series of downtown retail closures from a separate part of the west coast 'zombie city'. 'It is worth mentioning that we are not at Union Square or the...

AT&T has announced that it is shuttering its flagship store in downtown San Francisco in yet another blow to the city's struggling retail sector. The store at 1 Powell Street in the city's Union Square shopping district is one of the largest in the country and will close on August 1, a spokesperson confirmed. It is the latest episode in San Francisco's retail apocalypse, which has seen numerous high street retailers abandon the city's downtown area amid rising theft and homelessness, which has also driven away customers. But the closure is also part of a wider trend for the telecommunications...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaking from the White House, President Biden announced his administration's bold plan to require all wildfires be electric by 2025. "My administration is committed to fighting pancakes, I mean climate change, and today we announce our boldest initiative yet!" mumbled the President to a group of dolls gathered in his closet he mistook for reporters gathered on the White House lawn. "By 2025, all wildfires will be powered exclusively by clean, electric energy. Gotta do it, folks! Not a joke! I wonder what that redhead smells like!" The Biden team unveiled details of the plan, including new...

SKYCovion covid vaccine has just got regulatory approval from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”). SKYCovion was developed in South Korea with significant funding from Bill Gates. It combines a part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein with an “adjuvant.” The self-assembled nanoparticle vaccine is adjuvanted with GSK’s AS03 adjuvant technology.SKYCovion COVID-19 vaccine authorised by MHRA, UK Government, 26 May 2023 This vaccine appears to be targeted at underdeveloped countries. The MHRA states that: the duration of protection is unknown and no protection is anticipated after the first dose. Additionally, the safety and efficacy of the vaccine...

"Rose Montoya, who exposed her fake breasts on the White House lawn after meeting President Biden on Saturday June 11, is facing severe backlash from the LGBTQ+ community. New York Post has gathered that the self-proclaimed "Latine, bisexual, nonbinary transgender woman" has become estranged from fellow transgender individuals who are leading the charge against her controversial actions. Montoya shared a video on social media displaying her bare breasts at the White House, resulting in her being banned from the premises. Although she has since deleted the video and issued an apology, the repercussions of her actions remain. Many transgender individuals...

CEOs are increasingly issuing return-to-office mandates. They may well have legitimate reasons to require workers to return to their desks—and see it backfire anyway. After prolonged remote work, “people are realizing that there’s been this slow erosion of the culture of their organization,” author and workplace strategist Erica Keswin said on Bloomberg’s The Tape podcast on Friday. “A CEO said to me this week, ‘The party’s over. We are bringing our people back.’” Venture capitalist Paul Graham recently tweeted that founders he’s spoken with have changed their minds about remote work and are trying to get staff back to the...

Wickes, a do-it-yourself retailer and garden center that has been in existence for over 50 years in the United Kingdom, is facing backlash and calls for boycotts following a strong statement by the company's chief operating officer in support of LGBTQ+ rights. ...One year after Wickes reportedly had a parade float with a slogan that read "No LGB without the T," Chief Operating Officer Fraser Longden participated in a virtual trans summit on Thursday hosted by PinkNews and sponsored by company EY. "I don't think I'm ever going to change some of the bigots' minds, I'm never going to win...

Bud Light’s royal collapse as the king of beers was anything but a coincidence. One former Anheuser-Busch employee is speaking out and calling Bud Light’s collapse over Dylan Mulvaney a strategic attempt to forever change the beer’s audience: away from the traditional man, in favor of the 2023 definition of what a “man” or “woman” can be. The anonymous ex-employee sounded the alarm as a guest on OutKick’s “Tomi Lahren is Fearless.” The full episode airs tonight at 7 ET. Here’s a clip: Speaking with Tomi, the whistleblower provided insight into what people at the brewing plants were thinking as...

Months after he made a headline grabbing six-week hospital visit for clinical depression, Fetterman was asked in a Senate Environment Committee hearing Wednesday if he had any remarks about the overpass disaster. 'I, uh, would just, um, really like to, you know — the 95, 95, 95. You know?' he responded. 'Obviously, you're pretty much preoccupied with 95, and I, I certainly am too... and we know its a major atery (sic), not just for Pennsylvania, but for the East Coast.'

LGBTQ Nuns BOOED By Fans As LA Dodgers Stadium Pride Night Is EMPTY While THOUSANDS PROTEST! Several hours before the first pitch was thrown at the Los Angeles Dodgers' Pride Night, a large group of protesters gathered outside the stadium gates. 30 seconds in this video you will see the booing, and how empty the stadium was. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Federal student loan payments have been on pause since March 2020. But that will change soon.Columbia University in Manhattan in New York on May 10, 2021. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)The U.S. Department of Education, which oversees a $1.6 trillion portfolio in federal student loan debt owed by about 43 million Americans, has posted a notice at the top of its student aid website confirming when borrowers should start paying their bills again.According to the notice, interest will kick in starting Sept. 1, but borrowers won’t need to make payments until October.“Congress recently passed a law preventing further extensions of the...

Should we just go ahead and give free needles and free crack pipes to everyone in America? After all, if New York City and Los Angeles plan to solve their raging drug problems by handing out free drug paraphernalia to addicts, perhaps we can solve our nationwide drug crisis the same way. Let’s make the entire country one big “harm reduction zone” and then everything will return to normal, right? Unfortunately, that is not the way that the real world works. If you give addicts what they need, they will thank you. And then they will go ahead and do...

Every city has exactly as much crime as its voters are willing to tolerate.The voters of San Francisco sure are willing to tolerate a very large amount of it.Check out this report from ABC News:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7at8A2NdRM

June 10 was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such as Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran, Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and, later, President Salvador Allende of Chile. For some 150 years, the federal government had been a limited-government republic. After World War II, however, the federal government was converted to a national-security state. The...

House Oversight Chairman James Comer revealed Thursday that he expects there is evidence of at least $20-$30 million being made in illegal payments by foreign nationals to the Biden family.Appearing on Fox Business, Comer stated “We have more bank records coming in but we’re gonna exceed $10 million this week but I think we’ll get up to $20-$30 million.”He further noted that it is becoming clear that the Bidens potentially engaged in bribery, influence peddling, and money laundering.“This is going to be hard for Biden to explain, this is not going to go away, and I think eventually the mainstream...

As Beege Welborn pointed out earlier this week, the owners of Westfield Mall in downtown San Francisco have announced that they’ll be giving the property over to the lender. The mall had already lost Nordstoms last month and this week the Cinemark movie theater also announce it was closing. In fact, today is the theater’s last day.The Cinemark movie theater complex sent an email to its customers announcing its final films would play Thursday, and the complex would close on Friday.In a statement to The Standard, Cinemark confirmed the decision to permanently close the Century San Francisco Centre 9 and...

CNN’s town hall with 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, hosted by anchor Anderson Cooper, placed first in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic on Monday, beating both Fox News and MSNBC. The town hall, which came the eve of former President Donald Trump’s indictment on federal criminal charges related to the documents case, drew 1.34 million total viewers and 239,000 in the demo. Since the ouster of Tucker Carlson from Fox News, the highly-coveted 8 p.m. slot on the network has seen its ratings sink. On Friday, with Harris Faulkner guest-hosting, the hour landed in #41st in all of cable...

The problem of rampant shoplifting at San Francisco drug stores, grocery stores and retail stores has become obvious to everyone at this point. And yet, as Beege noticed this morning on Twitter, you still have reports like this one from NBC News about the “perception of crime,” as if the crime isn’t real, it’s just a misperception.In a report for NBC on the closing of San Francisco's Westfield Mall, correspondent Miguel Almaguer claims it's merely the "perception of crime" as the reason the mall is closing. pic.twitter.com/uzg1eoYng7— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) June 14, 2023It is fair to say that violent crime...