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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 30, 2021 16:48:55 GMT -8
Not sure where to post this but under the current climate, this seems as good a place as any.
The scope and numbers in this article are staggering.
Low crime deterrent areas are facing an epidemic in theft and other crimes.
Retailers are spending millions to combat organized rings that steal from their stores in bulk and peddle goods online, often on Amazon
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Ben Dugan sat in an unmarked sedan in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood one day last September waiting for the CVS to be robbed.
He tracked a man entering the store and watched as the thief stuffed more than $1,000 of allergy medicine into a trash bag, walked out and did the same at two other nearby stores, before loading them into a waiting van, Mr. Dugan recalled.
The target was no ordinary shoplifter. He was part of a network of organized professionals, known as boosters, whom CVS had been monitoring for weeks. The company believed the group responsible for stealing almost $50 million in products over five years from dozens of stores in Northern California. The job for Mr. Dugan, CVS Health Corp.’s top investigator, was to stop them.
Retailers are spending millions a year to battle organized crime rings that steal from their stores in bulk and then peddle the goods online, often on Amazon.com Inc.’s retail platform, according to retail investigators, law-enforcement officers and court documents. It is a menace that has been supercharged by the pandemic and the rapid growth of online commerce that has accompanied it.
“We’re trying to control it the best we can, but it’s growing every day,” said Mr. Dugan.
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Post by barry on Nov 16, 2021 9:10:17 GMT -8
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Post by barry on Nov 23, 2021 9:12:54 GMT -8
I love this kid.
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Post by parker1865 on Nov 23, 2021 10:15:07 GMT -8
Those chubby cheeks and innocent doe eyes...gets you every time.
We stuffed a Freshman in the locker one time, that had that cherubic look, because all the good looking girls in the Senior class were giving him all their mother instinct attention. So, us male Seniors did what male Seniors do. What can I say, we were Seniors once, and young....
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 23, 2021 17:52:28 GMT -8
Meanwhile in other news...the LA County Sherrif's department issues a warning for citizens who travel on public transit...because they won't have anyone to protect them from crime and violent crime.
LA is 4th in the country for crime over all but near the top for per-capita numbers according to the Sheriff and they want to remove police forces with no proper replacement plan in place.
What could go wrong?
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Post by parker1865 on Nov 24, 2021 6:12:18 GMT -8
Meanwhile in other news...the LA County Sherrif's department issues a warning for citizens who travel on public transit...because they won't have anyone to protect them from crime and violent crime.
LA is 4th in the country for crime over all but near the top for per-capita numbers according to the Sheriff and they want to remove police forces with no proper replacement plan in place.
What could go wrong?
I can top the "What could go wrong?". NYC: Everybody, just arrived in the last 30 days? Come on in and legally vote illegally. WCGW?
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Post by vintagecomics on Nov 24, 2021 13:40:28 GMT -8
This article belongs in several threads.
It belongs in the Covid thread because it discusses how Facebook handled the censorship on vaccine adverse reactions.
It belongs in the Political thread because it discusses how politicians use Facebook.
It belongs in the Social Media discussions because it outlines how much Facebook and IG have harmed our children.
It's an interview with Jeff Horowitz, who was reporting on information he had from a Facebook Whistleblower.
It's a long read but it's a shocking eye opener to what Facebook has been doing to society for almost 2 decades.
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Post by barry on Dec 19, 2021 9:27:37 GMT -8
Manchin Pulls Support From Biden’s Social Policy Bill, Imperiling Its Passage
"“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation,” Mr. Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday,” citing concerns about adding to the national debt. “I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there. This is a no.”
The comments from Mr. Manchin, a crucial Democratic holdout, dealt the latest, perhaps fatal blow to the centerpiece of Mr. Biden’s domestic agenda. With Republicans united in opposing the legislation, Democrats needed to secure the vote of every senator in their party for the measure to pass an evenly divided Senate."
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Post by barry on Jan 25, 2022 13:21:06 GMT -8
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Post by vintagecomics on Jan 25, 2022 14:15:41 GMT -8
It's about Fu@&ing time someone wrote a real song about this.
The tide is turning, the news is coming out and the pigs that did this will have nothing but lipstick left on their snout. - BTW, I wrote that, not Kid Rock.
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Post by barry on Jun 23, 2022 7:33:13 GMT -8
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Post by parker1865 on Jun 23, 2022 9:36:07 GMT -8
This is going to even things up in the Subway, a little.
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Post by barry on Jun 24, 2022 6:38:05 GMT -8
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Post by parker1865 on Jun 24, 2022 7:05:43 GMT -8
It may be more appropriate to describe as SCOTUS has returned the responsibility to the States. After all, it was never actually settled as implied and/or persons may interpret, based on the font size and color of the Headlines (which is posturing and media divisiveness at its finest), since it was always a limbo issue and had never been settled, thus there was nothing to overturn. RBG knew this, and always opined that the States have valid authority and she worried that the Sates would be legally empowered with the authority by SCOTUS some day.
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Post by vintagecomics on Jun 24, 2022 10:34:37 GMT -8
It may be more appropriate to describe as SCOTUS has returned the responsibility to the States. After all, it was never actually settled as implied and/or persons may interpret, based on the font size and color of the Headlines (which is posturing and media divisiveness at its finest), since it was always a limbo issue and had never been settled, thus there was nothing to overturn. RBG knew this, and always opined that the States have valid authority and she worried that the Sates would be legally empowered with the authority by SCOTUS some day. My understanding from everything I've read is that this was not a for-against abortion issue but an issue of legality on whether it was supposed to be a Federal decision or not. This ruling is simply stating that it should have been a state issue and not a Federal issue based on how the law works. Meanwhile, the papers are all running with the most inciteful anti abortion rhetoric. Is that correct? I've been arguing with people over this and their response is generally "Who cares how the law works, they can't make abortions illegal!" People are willing to circumvent the law when it suits them but not when it doesn't.
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