Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
Are there any GTA fans here? pic.twitter.com/fY3Pw3R0MQ — Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 1, 2026 Ukraine shared a video of drone pilots training with “Grand Theft Auto V.” The experience doesn’t replace real training, but is a good way to relax, officials said. Gamers have skills that make them ideal candidates for being drone pilots. …
The city of Los Angeles has a major street light problem. Thousands of the lights are out because thieves strip them of copper wire which they then turn around and sell for cash. To deal with this problem and fix the lights, the city government is proposing a new TAX on the law abiding citizens …
Guest Post by John W. Whitehead “We’re fighting wars, we can’t take care of … daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”—President Donald J. Trump “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are …
A Los Angeles model accused of meeting men online and burglarizing their homes is now facing several serious criminal charges. Adva Lavie has been placed on home detention with an ankle monitor and pleaded not guilty in November. According to online court records, she faces multiple charges, including burglary and extortion. Her next court date …
Thirteen charged in a nine-state Home Depot theft ring accused of stealing $2.2M from 128 stores; they face 780 counts, including grand larceny, conspiracy, and possession of stolen property. pic.twitter.com/71Jvz3ZWtQ — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 15, 2025 NEW YORK – New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced charges against over a …
Over 1 million stolen identities of Americans were used to make false Medicare claims, stealing $14.6 billion dollars from American taxpayers – $14.6 billion in false claims – Pakistani executives charged in Illinois for $703 million scheme using stolen Medicare data – DOJ charged 324 defendants including 96 licensed medical professionals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists – …
If your bike vanishes from a train station after sitting there for more than two hours, the police will not investigate. No CCTV checks. No proper report. Unless you somehow hand them exact timestamps and a suspect description, they will not lift a finger. If your bike is under £200 in value, forget it. Technically …
Google is under intense scrutiny for making contradictory statements about the health of the open web, even as publishers and industry critics are seeing issues with how it siphons content for its AI-powered services, arguably accelerating the same process. In a recent legal filing, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline”—a …
Zohran Mamdani wants to wipe every misdemeanor off New York’s map. Not just petty theft. Not just drug possession. DUI, unarmed assault, prostitution, fare evasion. All gone. “Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them …
5 entire grocery stores are leaving the city of Milwaukee at once, along with 2 walgreens locations. Local officials and residents are outraged, and want the stores to stay. Kroger who owns the 5 Pick n Save locations says the stores are leaving for ‘health of the business’ reasons… which requires an investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7OAPXl1-Q
Gold holds, fiat fades, trust cracks. The dollar didn’t lose 97% of its value. They stole it. Right in front of you.Over decades.While telling you it was “2% inflation.” Gold doesn’t lie.Silver doesn’t print itself.Fiat is the scam. pic.twitter.com/1K0YZcqV8K — Mr. Uppy (@MisterUppy) July 29, 2025 DOGE was a giant con. The Deep State remains …
Fair Tax Act would abolish IRS and income tax, replacing it with national sales tax to stop inflation and protect working families. Paul Mullen’s right—Americans are drowning in layers of taxation and inflation-fueled theft. The Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25) slashes this bureaucratic stranglehold by abolishing income, payroll, and capital gains taxes, replacing them with …
Please press play and watch israel rapidly work it’s way up the list. Great news!! END ALL AID TO ISRAEL.End ALL foreign aid – but especially Israel Israel takes the most from AmericaEven more than Ukraine, and it needs to stop. pic.twitter.com/H2TXoNBTK0 — ĐⱤØ₲Ø🇺🇸 (@KAGdrogo) December 6, 2024 Israel has taken the most money from …
The new staffer was supposed to help Toronto-Dominion Bank spot money laundering from an outpost in New York. She instead used her access to bank data to distribute customer details to a criminal network on Telegram, according to prosecutors in Manhattan. Local detectives who searched her phone allegedly found images of 255 checks belonging to …
A group of female thieves were caught on camera stealing from a TJ Maxx in Brooklyn NYC. Shockingly, they were armed and started an altercation with a security guard on their way out of the store, revealing that even after passing legislation to curb retail theft, NYC’s shoplifting problems are far from over.
There’s a new crime wave targeting convenience stores throughout the city, and its unlike anything New York’s ever seen before…
by Michael How does it feel to live in one of the most crime-ridden nations on the entire planet? Our major urban areas are absolutely teeming with predators, and millions upon millions of law-abiding citizens are literally afraid to leave their homes at night as a result. Of course at this point it isn’t exactly …
Former New York Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Long Island to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Santos, a Republican, had been set to begin trial next month on a 23-count superseding indictment accused him of wire fraud, identity theft, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. …
About four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data. The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive …
Is crime inflationary? Businesses experience crime and need to make a claim on insurance. Insurance needs proof.Proof needs documentation.City says, no documentation allowed without a fine (tax). Option 1: pay fine, insurance claims made, insurance prices increase, raise… https://t.co/gRnF63p6vf — Neely (@NeelyTamminga) July 10, 2024 Retail Theft Sting Operation: Over two days at four Sacramento …
RIP Shoplifting. pic.twitter.com/O8fPIZSPt8 — Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) June 7, 2024
Taisha Simon had heard of people stealing money the federal government gives families to buy groceries, but she didn’t realize she would become one of their victims. It happened last June when the 42-year-old mother headed out for the big shop she does at the beginning of each month after getting $939 in US food …
by Michael The tremendous chaos that is gripping communities all over this country did not emerge out of a vacuum. For years, poverty and homelessness have been on the rise. According to a recent report from Harvard University, the number of homeless Americans has increased by almost 50 percent in less than a decade. Meanwhile, the ranks …
NYC had a retail center in one of its richest neighborhoods, but when it shut down there was debate as to why. Was the rent too high? Was there not enough foot traffic? Well today NYC is back, there’s foot traffic, rents are reduced, and the stores are still empty, for some reason.
NYC’s shoplifting epidemic now has grocery stores in its sights, and thats a bad thing not just for the store owners, but also for the new yorker’s who will no longer have a place to buy food after it closes.
An Air Canada worker and several others have been charged or sought in connection with what cops are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history. The Ocean’s 11-esque heist occurred at Toronto Pearson International Airport this past year, and saw a gang make off with 20 kilograms of gold bars worth some $20million. Another …
Dollar tree will now close 1000 stores nationwide, but nobody’s talking about how even if Dollar Tree’s stores remain open, they’ll be unrecognizable to their customers because dollar stores / discount stores are fighting a losing battle in the war against shoplifting.
“Theft has reached alarming levels” “The retail giant has initiated an opening of a police station within one of its stores” “The first such facility is in Atlanta” “This strategic decision comes on the heels of Walmarts prior attempts to curb theft by locking up numerous items” Walmart has taken a significant step by establishing …
The fulton center mall is shutting down. The tenant blames crime, but the city is suing the tenant and claiming crime is under control. What do you think?
