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It may seem like a surprise to many that there could be a confrontation between Chinese gangsters at a marijuana farm on the Oklahoma prairie.But it is a reality that has been commonplace in Oklahoma since legislators opened the state up to the medicalmarijuana business. As of January 2022, there hadn't been widely reported cases of Chinese gangsters specifically involved in the Oklahoma marijuana business. However, it's important to note that organized crime groups often exploit vulnerabilities in various industries, including the cannabis market. Here are some ways in which organized crime groups, including those with Chinese connections, might become...

Disturbing video shows two young brothers, aged 12 and seven, stab a 59-year-old woman in her garage then flee on their bikes in Harris County, Texas. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said the unnamed woman, who has a mental illness, got into an argument with the boys around 2:00 p.m. on Saturday outside of her home on April Valley Court. The children initially rode off on their bikes, then surveillance camera footage from a neighbors house captured them returning about 12 minutes later, reported Click2Houston. Video showed the shorter boy wearing blue gloves and a white shirt and the taller...

"My Brain is the key that sets me free.""No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.""What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.""Never tell the audience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.""Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.""An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect."More quotes at:https://www.azquotes.com/author/6929-Harry_HoudiniHarry Houdini (March 24, 1874 -- October 31, 1926) Resting place -- Machpelah Cemetery"And although Houdini...

The Los Angeles and Miami homes of renowned musician and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs were raided by authorities as part of a federal investigation, officials said. The action is related to a sex trafficking probe in New York, The Associated Press reports, citing officials who are not authorized to speak publicly about details of the investigation. It is unclear whether Combs was the target of the investigation. His sprawling Holmby Hills property in Los Angeles was swarmed with federal and local law enforcement and helicopters Sunday. The musician’s Miami home was also raided, the Department of Homeland Security said. “Earlier...

Donald Trump rode the escalator at Trump Tower (soon to be called Letitia’s Crib or Engoron Tower) in June 2015, promised to build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it. It was the foundation of his successful presidential campaign.In 2015, there were just under 600,000 “Illegal aliens apprehended in the United States” according to Statista. Many of those apprehended were sent back home.Today there are over 300,000 known migrants entering (and almost all staying in) the U.S. each month. Migrants are arriving from all over the world, including from geopolitical adversaries like China.YouTube screen grabThen there are those not...

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? "But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village." Luke 9 1 Then...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow had been committed by radical Islamists. "We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries," Putin said. Even though Russia knows who carried out the terrorist attack in the Crocus concert hall, but the mastermind behind it is still in question, and we need to find out whether radical Islamists really decided to strike at the country, the Russian president said. "In...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden visited five cities in a multiday trip last week, former President Donald Trump was hardly seen in public, spending most of his time in South Florida. Trump has held just a single public campaign event since he locked up the Republican presidential nomination on March 12: a rally in Ohio funded not by his campaign but by backers of a Senate candidate whom he had endorsed. The events page on his campaign website has had nothing listed. Biden, meanwhile, has been barnstorming the country. After a trip to North Carolina on Tuesday, the...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board's handling of the case prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker to order that procedures for dealing with situations involving domestic violence be revamped. Pritzker announced that LeAnn Miller, 63, of Junction submitted her resignation. Miller had prepared a report recommending Crosetti Brand's release from prison. The 37-year-old felon had repeatedly violated orders...

If you want to know what the country thinks about President Joe Biden’s agenda, look at how they vote. Not at the ballot box. But with their feet. Earlier this month, the Census Bureau released data on “net domestic migration.” This tracks where people are moving between counties in the country. Last year, the 10 counties that gained the most through net migration had one thing in common – they were conservative counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020. At the other end of the spectrum, all 10 counties that saw the biggest negative net migration also have one...

Hallelujah, so-called Women’s History Month is almost over, and we’ll soon get a break from having woke feminist pieties shoved in our faces. By now, we’ve all had our fill of encomiums to pampered mediocrities like Kamala Harris, Sonia Sotomayor, and other first this-that-or-the-other-things. As Women’s History Month draws to a close, let me introduce you to a total baller who was also a Christian nationalist and a true heroine of the West — what the left today calls a "white supremacist domestic terrorist." Today, March 25, is Greek Independence Day. In 1821, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman...

Chief Executive of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association has described an increase in thefts last year — driven mainly by robberies from shops — as “frightening”. Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Vincent Jennings said it is not just just the thefts that are concerning, but the associated incidents — such as assaults, assaults causing harm, drunkenness, misogynistic and hateful comments being made to staff and public order offenses. Annual crime figures released by the Central Statistics Office show there was a significant increase in theft offenses last year. Almost half of the more than 74,000 thefts and related...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-net-worth-hits-6-190742175.html?guccounter=1 BloomyBerg via yahoo Details at source

Baltimore is in the throes of a policing apocalypse, and the situation is nothing short of apocalyptic. Last week, just THREE police officers were left to patrol an entire district teeming with 61,000 residents. Let that sink in. Calls for help, including reports of child assault, are going unanswered because the police simply can't keep up. It's a dire state of affairs when law enforcement is unable to respond to the most basic calls for assistance. Adding insult to injury, the department is now forced to postpone police training in a desperate bid to address the severe shortages. But how...

First of all, I would like to express again my deep condolences to the families and friends of those who perished in the inhuman terrorist attack of March 22, and wish a speedy recovery to the injured and wounded. I would like to thank everyone who saved people and helped the injured in extremely difficult circumstances. In this difficult time, our society showed an example of true solidarity, unity, and mutual support. I know that the victims’ families are receiving words of sympathy from people of different ethnicities, from all regions of our country and of all ages, including children...

LOS ANGELES, CA — The National Association Of Perverts (NAP) Rated Planet Fitness 'The Best Gym In America' after learning this week the workout chain giant allows men to use the women's locker rooms whenever they want. "We couldn't be happier to learn that our members will have access to women's changing rooms all over the country," NAP Spokesperson Lester Johnson told reporters. "For years, we perverts have been forced to peep through closed doors and leer around corners. Thankfully, with the rise of the transgender movement, we can now move freely through the women's locker room and stare all...

Remember the WNBA? The women’s basketball league the NBA started to draw more women into watching basketball? In it’s inaugural season, the WNBA finals drew 2.85 million viewers, when the Houston Comets won the first of their four championships. It’s never reached those heights again, and the Comets folded in 2008. There was a mild uptick to 728,000 viewers last year. So you’d think the league would welcome an exciting, highly skilled new breakout player. You’d be wrong. - “For almost three decades the WNBA has been a laughing stock and disgrace of a professional sports league that only survives...

To learn more about the French Intervention in Mali in depth, check out this video's next part on Nebula in Modern Conflicts: https://nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore...

The title neatly summarizes the content of this video taken from Russia 1 state media. Commentator Vladimir Solovyov admitted that there were only three unarmed guards present at the concert at the Crocus City Hall. Which explains why the terrorists were not confronted on scene by armed police. Commentator Vladimir Solovyov is clearly agitating for war against NATO and the United States. Commentator Margarita Simonyan claims that the West refers to the Russians as "pig faced".

Since the time of Moses, only nine red heifers have been sacrificed. Now, a “massive altar” for the tenth red heifer sacrifice has been built in Israel, and there is a tremendous amount of speculation that it could happen soon. In September 2022, five red heifers were flown from the state of Texas to the land of Israel. Since that time, one of them has been disqualified, but the other four continue to be candidates for a red heifer sacrifice. As I discussed last week, there was “a practice run of the purification ceremony” in 2023. But an official ceremony...