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  • Moment wealthy 'crypto bros' are dragged out of their stunning NYC mansion for kidnapping and torturing their business partner for WEEKS

    05/24/2025 8:48:45 AM PDT · by dennisw · 43 replies
    DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 24 May 2025 | By KELLY GARINO FOR
    A gang of wealthy 'crypto bros' have been arrested for luring their former business partner to a stunning New York City mansion before torturing him for weeks. The group are accused of kidnapping the 28-year-old Italian man before committing sickening acts on him in the $75,000-per-month rented brownstone in Soho. They alleged to have Tazed him, pistol-whipped him and threatened to carve him up with a chainsaw if he did not give up the millions of dollars in his crypto account. But their plot was foiled when the victim - who has not been named - escaped and flagged down...
  • How Religion Influenced Modern Economics

    04/23/2021 10:25:27 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 23, 2021 | Michael Rosen
    Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman's book, 'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism,' provides an illuminating, if not always convincing, examination of how theology influenced modern economic thought.“One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism,” German sociologist Max Weber wrote in his landmark 1905 book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, “of rational conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling, was born from the spirit of Christian asceticism.”Weber attributed the free-market success so prevalent amongst Protestant societies to its origins in Calvinist predestinarian theology: believers could never know for sure whether they had been...
  • Bioethicists blame Terri Schindler Schiavo’s death 20 years ago for the end of Roe v. Wade

    03/23/2025 11:23:41 PM PDT · by Morgana · 43 replies
    Live Action News ^ | March 23, 2025 | Cassy Cooke
    This month — March 30th — will mark 20 years since Terri Schindler Schiavo was cruelly killed, deprived of food and water for 13 days until she finally succumbed to dehydration and starvation. It was one of the most controversial bioethics issues to arise since Roe v. Wade, in what many deemed a victory for supposed “medical choice.” Now, two decades later, a pair of bioethicists is revisiting Terri’s death, and argued that while they believe killing her was the right decision, it also ended up leading to the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. The Hastings Center is...
  • Woman banned from every Walmart in America over sneaky self-checkout trick

    02/13/2025 3:18:37 PM PST · by Morgana · 68 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | February 13, 2025 | Alice Wright
    A Tennessee woman has been banned from every Walmart in the country after an epic shoplifting spree. Ashley Cross, 37, cannot enter any of the grocery giant's 4,600 stores after being caught running a bar code scam. Cross, a known shoplifter, was caught using barcode for a watch battery to scan multiple items for $1 at self-checkouts. Memphis Police caught Cross in the process of stealing a pair of jeans, a t-shirt some boots and 11 packs of ramen noodles from a Walmart on Elvis Presley Boulevard earlier this week. The total haul was valued at $137.34, according to the...
  • Mom of teen killed while 'train surfing' is suing BART

    02/08/2025 12:14:08 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 42 replies
    KTVU ^ | February 7, 2025 | KTVU Staff
    The complaint, filed in State of California Superior Court in San Francisco this week, asks for damages and a jury trial. The mother, Marina Baran, her son, Daniel Baran, who was 19 when he was killed, and her husband, Alexander Baran, are listed as the plaintiffs. Baran's son took his fatal thrill ride in January 2024. His body was found on the tracks near Balboa Park Station.
  • MSNBC’s Reid: ‘Very Hard for Me to Look’ at Takeover of U.S. by Greed and Corruption

    01/20/2025 9:21:28 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/20/2025 | Pam Key
    MSNBC host Joy Reid said Monday during the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump that it was tough to watch the “takeover of the United States by a base mentality of greed and corruption.” Reid said, “The promise of the incoming administration is to wipe away the civic memory of Washington, to get rid of and to fire all of the people who normally transition as civil servants from one administration to the next. The promises on the table are 200 some odd executive actions, an attempt to get rid of birthright citizenship, an attempt to do mass deportation.”
  • Glaude: Greed, Selfishness, Hatred Is ‘at the Heart of Trumpism’

    12/31/2024 6:06:11 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 70 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/31/2024 | Pam Key
    Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. claimed on Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that greed, selfishness, and hatred motivate the voters for President-elect Donald Trump. Glaude said, “Its an important point that requires I think a bit truth-telling about the Republican Party in its modern iteration. There’s always been at least these three elements corporatists, libertarian and nativist. Right. So this is a really important point, right? In the sense that you’ve always had these three components and Ronald Reagan was able to balance them in interesting sorts of ways.” He continued, “And so we have here is the plutocrat, right,...
  • Salvation Army Angel Tree Drama: These People Are Not Grateful!

    12/30/2024 11:32:18 AM PST · by Morgana · 106 replies
    Cynthia Area youtube ^ | December 27, 2024 | Cynthia Area
    Salvation Army Angel Tree Drama: These People Are Not Grateful In today’s video we’ll be discussing how some parents are not grateful for the gift given to their kids for Christmas by Salvation Army Angel tree FReepers youtube and tic tok is blowing up over this. Some who received items from the Salvation Army's Angel Tree were quite ungrateful and posted about it. They have since deleted their video over bad comments but everyone saved them. People are upset, as they should be over this. Now not all were going on tic tok and saying their "Christmas was ruined" but...
  • Malcolm X estate alleges DOJ, FBI, CIA, NYPD played role in events leading to assassination

    11/16/2024 1:08:15 PM PST · by TigerClaws · 20 replies
    The estate of Malcolm X is suing the federal government, accusing it of playing a role in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader. In a lawsuit filed against the Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, CIA and New York Police Department (NYPD), the estate alleges the agencies all played a significant role in the events leading to Malcolm X’s slaying and then engaged in a decades-long cover-up of their involvement. The complaint says the quartet of agencies were aware of credible threats against Malcolm X’s life but failed to intervene. “As a direct result of the Defendants’ intentional, bad...
  • Excited For The New NFL Season? Here’s A Piece Of News That Will Infuriate You And Completely Kill Your Buzz

    08/20/2024 5:22:53 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 125 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | August 20, 2024 | ANDREW POWELL- SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BLOGGER
    The greed is unreal. When football fans realized that it costs a whopping $679.99 for NFL Sunday Ticket through the Apple Store, or $739.99 if you decide to bundle in NFL RedZone, a ton of them went absolutely bonkers in anger. The ridiculous prices were revealed by NBC Sports’ ProFootballTalk, and understandably so, it set off a reaction of rage among the NFL‘s fanbase. And to nobody’s surprise, that $679.99 price tag (or $739.99) to watch through Apple TV, iPads, iPhones and other Apple devices is the highest price out of all streaming services. Because of course it is. It...
  • Two doctors (S. Plasenca & M. Chavez)) and the 'ketamine queen' (J. Sangha) charged in overdose death of actor Matthew Perry [Greed!]

    08/15/2024 1:14:11 PM PDT · by Freeleesy · 35 replies
    NBC ^ | Aug 15, 2024
    Two other individuals, including Perry's live-in personal assistant, were charged on Thursday in connection with Perry’s death last year from ketamine.
  • Biden: I Tell People Dealing with High Prices Inflation’s Dropping, I Did Loan Plan, There’s Greed, I Have Housing Agenda

    07/18/2024 6:16:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/18/2024 | IAN HANCHETT
    During an interview on Tuesday for Wednesday’s BET News interview special “Black America Votes: The Biden Interview,” President Joe Biden said that he tells people who are dealing with high prices that inflation is falling, he believes the Federal Reserve will reduce rates, we have to confront corporate greed, he has policies on housing, and he implemented his student loan plan. Journalist Ed Gordon asked, “What do you tell people who are paying six bucks for cereal, they can’t take their kids to a movie or a ballgame, memories that last with you? What do you tell them?”
  • Gen Zers aren’t having children because of this scary reason

    06/14/2024 5:47:05 PM PDT · by Morgana · 35 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 5, 2024 | News.com.au
    New research has confirmed that increasingly fewer Millennials and Gen Zers are having children, and there is a “scary” reason why. More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are choosing not to have children due to financial challenges, according to newly released data from Australian research company the Red Bridge. Of the young people choosing not to have children, 35 percent are university-educated, and 33 percent are earning more than $2,000 a week. Just under half don’t own a home. Kos Samaras, director of Red Bridge, said the research is a sign of the times, and young people are financially...
  • Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

    06/07/2024 10:36:26 PM PDT · by Cronos · 191 replies
    Cnn ^ | 6th June 2024 | Oliver Darcy
    Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre. ...Prior to Thursday, Jones had resisted converting his personal bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation. But facing mounting legal pressure, he reversed course and caved to the demands of the Sandy Hook families, who have still not seen a penny from Jones since juries in Connecticut and Texas found him liable in 2022 for defamation and emotional distress. His lawyers said in a...
  • Biden: There’s ‘Corporate Greed,’ But People ‘Have the Money to Spend’ on More Expensive Groceries

    05/08/2024 6:08:23 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/08/2024 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” President Joe Biden stated that while “corporate greed” has caused an increase in the amount of money people have to spend on groceries and people feel real pain from the cost of groceries and food and he’s angry people have to spend more, “if you take a look at what people have, they have the money to spend.” Host Erin Burnett said, “[T]here’s real pain. Grocery prices are up 30% — more than 30% since the beginning of the pandemic, and people are spending more on food and groceries than...
  • Kenneth Smith executed for 1988 slaying of Elizabeth Sennett

    01/25/2024 6:51:31 PM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 20 replies
    y WAFF 48 Digital ^ | January 25, 2024 | By WAFF 48 Digital Staff and The Associated Press
    ATMORE, Ala. (WAFF) - The State of Alabama executed death row inmate Kenneth Smith on Thursday at the Holman Correctional Facility. The 58-year-old Smith was put to death with nitrogen gas, the first time that method was used in the United States. Smith is one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. Prosecutors said he and the other man were each paid $1,000 to kill Sennett on behalf of her pastor husband, who was deeply in debt and wanted to collect on insurance. Sennett, 45, was found dead March 18, 1988, in her home with...
  • NBC Bragged About Streaming Numbers for Peacock-Only Playoff Game, and Fans Didn’t Want to Hear It

    01/14/2024 8:48:58 PM PST · by Steven Scharf · 92 replies
    Sports Illustrated ^ | January 14, 2024 | KARL RASMUSSEN
    NBC Bragged About Streaming Numbers for Peacock-Only Playoff Game, and Fans Didn’t Want to Hear It KARL RASMUSSEN NBC announced its ratings for the Peacock-exclusive NFL Playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday night. The network boasted some massive numbers for the game, which aired exclusively on NBC’s streaming service. According to NBC, the wild-card round game was the most streamed event of any kind ever in the United States, with more than 23 million viewers tuning in. While the network was pleased with the viewership milestones, fans weren’t quite so ecstatic. Those who didn’t...
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves to go to prison over ‘dishonesty’ on COVID-19 origins: Sen. Rand Paul

    01/14/2024 11:17:20 AM PST · by thegagline · 19 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 01/14/2024 | Carl Campanile
    Dr. Anthony Fauci “should go to prison” for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and making the “worst decision ever made by a public health official in the history of time” regarding the origins of the deadly outbreak, Sen. Rand Paul charged Sunday. Paul, a Kentucky Republican and eye doctor, has repeatedly clashed with Fauci over mask-wearing, lockdowns and other emergency measures ordered and recommended by the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). “History should judge him as a deficient person who made one of the worst decisions in public health history — in the entire history...
  • Groceries in Trudeau’s Canada are so expensive that they’re driving up the poverty rate

    01/13/2024 11:29:30 AM PST · by spirited irish · 27 replies
    LifeSite ^ | 1/12/24 | Clare Marie Merkowsky
    “Marginal food insecurity captures worry about running out of food or limited food selection due to a lack of money,” said the note. “Moderate insecurity captures compromises in the quality or quantity of food due to lack of money; severe food insecurity captures missed meals, reduced food intake and at the most extreme going days without food.” In a recent report, Statistics Canada revealed that year over year Canadians were paying more for basic groceries. According to their data, prices had increased: 6 percent more for potatoes to an average $4.97 per kilogram; 7 percent more for stewing beef to...
  • Dubai's dark side: Top lawyer warns women of 'scary' dangers of heading to the UAE to marry rich men - as females flaunt their luxury lives with designer bags, clothes and supercars in the Middle East

    01/11/2024 1:19:07 PM PST · by libh8er · 13 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1.11.2024 | Aidan Radnedge
    British wives boasting of luxury new lives funded by millionaire husbands in Dubai have been warned they risk being dumped homeless on the streets at any moment. Experts have revealed a surge in complaints from not only women but also men betrayed and dumped by wealthy partners after upping sticks for the Middle East. The alert comes amid a TikTok and Instagram trend of UK women sharing footage of spending sprees in the United Arab Emirates after wedding wealthy husbands. It comes as Mail Online reported on an influx of expats pampered by rich partners, enjoying days filled with shopping...