[NYPOST] Shocking surveillance video caught the moment an employee at an Arizona Wendy’s sucker punched an elderly customer, knocking him unconscious and leaving him fighting for life.
The clip, obtained this week by 3TV/CBS 5, shows the employee initially bringing three drinks up to the counter to the hunched-over customer, who starts pointing at them as police say he "complained" about the order.
The elderly customer, who has not been identified, then licks one of the drinks and seems completely unaware that the staffer is slowly walking from behind the counter.
The worker, identified by cops as Antoine Kendrick, 35, then walks up to his side — loading up to deliver a powerful right haymaker to the side of the still-oblivious customer’s head.
The Wendy’s worker, identified as Antoine Kendrick, 35, was seen winding up for a big right hook while the elderly customer appeared unaware he was there.
"The customer fell to the floor, striking his head, and lost consciousness," Prescott Valley police said on July 28, when Kendrick was arrested.
The toppled customer was airlifted to a local hospital, and was still listed at death's door, 3TV/CBS 5 said Monday.
Rather than help, Kendrick casually grabbed his belongings and strolled out of the store, the footage shows.
Police did not detail what was said during the disagreement before the punch, and the surveillance video had no sound. Customers insisted that nothing could have justified such a brutal blow to an elderly customer.
"Oh, wow that was a pretty hard hit — that was a Mike Tyson hit," one customer said.
"The customer didn’t touch him, so he had no right to touch the customer, period, end of story. I just think that’s horrible and wish it didn’t happen. It puts a bad light on our entire society."
New information:
Kendrick has been booked on one count of aggravated assault, police said at the time. Wendy’s has yet to comment, the local station said, and reps for the fast food chain did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment Thursday.
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Note to self -never order Hawaiian Punch at an Arizona Wendy's.
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I live in Prescott Valley, newly arrived from southern California. There seems to be less than 2 dozen black people in the town. No excuse for this behavior, its part of the reason we left our last home. I hope they send this punk packing after he gets out jail. We don't want this here.
A massive brawl broke out between up to 20 family members during a funeral for an elderly woman in Richmond on Aug. 6, leading to one injury, one arrest and $20,000 in damage, officials said.
The Richmond Police Department said it responded to the Rolling Hills Memorial Park at 1:30 p.m. after several reports of a "chaotic altercation" between eight to 20 family members who were reportedly armed.
Sgt. Aaron Pomeroy said it was an instance of family drama that started between a brother and a sister who were attending their mother's funeral and who do not get along — and "it goes back many years."
The brother and sister sister were talking and got into an argument, when her boyfriend came over and encouraged her to walk away, Pomeroy said.
"The brother started beating on the boyfriend, and that's when it escalated and it became a brawl and we started to get calls," he said.
At some point during the physical fight, the brother got into the vehicle with the intention of driving over his sister, Pomeroy said.
"He attempted to drive toward his sister in an aggressive way, but instead he struck another female and sent her to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries," he said. The victim is 33 years old.
In the car, the brother also damaged the grass, knocked over and damaged headstones and vases, and broke a water main that ejected copious amounts of water and flooded the funeral plot, Lt. Matt Stonebraker, a spokesperson for the department, said.
The driver also reportedly knocked over the casket, but Stonebraker said the body didn't fall out.
When the brother got out of the car, a family member hit him in the head with a cane, injuring him, Pomeroy said.
"They used the cane to try to get him under control," he said. "The suspect was hit a couple times. The cane came from someone who was at the funeral. I don't know that they ever identified where the cane came from."
"We sometimes get family disputes at the cemetery or at the church," Stonebraker said. "This was no different, but it was an especially large family fight and they said possibly armed. This one went above and beyond. Usually you don’t get the injuries. In this case it looked like they had some really bad blood."
No shots were fired and no guns were found.
The brother, a 36-year-old from Bay Point, was arrested for felony assault with a deadly weapon and vandalism. Pomeroy said the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office is reviewing the charges.
Rolling Hills Memorial Park said it could not comment on the incident as it’s under police investigation. Police said preliminary estimates from the park suggest the fight caused $20,000 in damage.
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Talk about "knocked out of the box..."
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I used to work in Richmond. It is what happens when a slum mates with a barrio.
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Didn’t get quite that bad at my father-in-law’s funeral but his daughter and son had a royal set-to verbally at the house after the funeral; not pretty.
[FoxNews] The suspect who tried to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio was shot and killed after a six-hour standoff with police
An armed suspect who tried to breach a secure area at the FBI field office in Ohio, led police on a chase, and exchanged gunfire with officers was shot and killed by police after an hourslong standoff, Ohio Highway State Patrol said.
Multiple reports have identified the suspect as Ricky Walter Shiffer. Law enforcement is reportedly investigating whether he was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The suspect was shot after he raised a gun toward police, patrol spokesperson Lt. Nathan Dennis said during a press conference.
Multiple federal, state, and law enforcement agencies were on scene where a standoff with the suspect was underway, Ohio State Highway Patrol tweeted earlier.
The standoff with the armed suspect, who was wearing body armor, lasted for more than six hours in a rural field in Wilmington, Ohio. It wasn't immediately clear whether the suspect was in custody.
A spokesperson for Ohio State Highway Patrol or the FBI Cincinnati office could not be reached for comment.
Ohio State Highway Patrol said it responded to Interstate 71 in an attempt to locate an armed suspect who fled from the FBI Cincinnati Field Office.
At approximately 9 a.m., an armed subject attempted to breach the Visitor Screening Facility at FBI Cincinnati, according to tweet from FBI Cincinnati's account.
Unconfirmed information shared internally among agents suggested the suspect possibly brandished a nail gun and an AR-15 style rifle, the source said.
Troopers located the suspect's vehicle, a Ford Crown Victoria, near the northbound Interstate 71 rest area in Warren County around 9:37 a.m.
Law enforcement pursued, and the suspect traveled about 60 miles northwest before the pursuit ended at I-71 and Hwy 73.
State Highway Patrol said shots were fired from within the suspect's vehicle. The pursuit continued on Interstate 71 until the suspect exited at state Route 73, traveling eastbound before turning onto Smith Road, Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
The suspect's vehicle came to a stop around 9:53 a.m. on Smith Road near Van Trees Road in Clinton County. Ohio State Highway Patrol said the suspect exited the vehicle and exchanged gunfire with officers.
It was not immediately clear if the suspect had been injured. State Highway Patrol said no officers or bystanders were injured. The incident remains a "standoff situation" at this time.
Fox News Digital reached out to FBI Cincinnati for more information. An FBI spokeswoman said by phone they did not immediately have any comment.
In an email to Fox News Digital, Ohio State Highway Patrol later confirmed it "is currently investigating an active incident near Interstate 71 and state Route 73 in Clinton County."
"The #FBI, Ohio State Highway Patrol, and local law enforcement partners are on scene near Wilmington, OH trying to resolve this critical incident," FBI Cincinnati tweeted.
Another law enforcement source told Fox News that the FBI office is now secure and safe after the incident.
WLWT had also confirmed a potential threat at the FBI Cincinnati Field Office.
According to the outlet, the FBI said the suspect was armed but would not disclose with what type of weapon.
Clinton County Emergency Management Agency sent out an alert announcing a lockdown in effect for all buildings within a 1-mile radius of the intersection at Smith Road and Center Road.
[Cincinnati.com] Two days previously, the account in Shiffer's name posted angry messages about the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... search Monday at Trump's home and club Mar-a-Lago.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Shiffer account posted:
"I'm having trouble getting information, but Viva Frei said patriots are heading to Palm Beach (where Mar A Lago is). I recommend going, and being Florida, I think the feds won't break it up. IF they do, kill them." (Viva Frei is a right-wing YouTube personality.)
The same day, the account posted:
"People, this is it. I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me. Leave work tomorrow as soon as the gun shop/Army-Navy store/pawn shop opens, get whatever you need to be ready for combat. We must not tolerate this one."
The post concluded:
"This time we must respond with force. If you know of any protests or attacks, please post here."
The Truth Social account, before it was disabled Thursday evening, said Shiffer was a construction mechanic in Columbus, Ohio, which is about 100 miles from the FBI Cincinnati office. A search of public records identified a 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer in Columbus.
The Truth bio also suggested Shiffer was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and made a reference to Ray Epps, a man at the center of a January 6 conspiracy theory:
"I tried to explain to Epps that it would only make sense to go into the building if they approved the fraudulent votes," the bio reads.
Shiffer was not charged in relation to the insurrection, according to a USA TODAY effort to track those prosecutions, and does not appear in a Justice Department index of the prosecutions.
A Twitter account in the name of Ricky Shiffer, with a photo of a man who closely resembles the photo in the Truth Social profile, was also suspended on Thursday evening.
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So it was the State Troopers who shot him, not the Feebs.
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I wonder how police body armor performed against the nail barrage. It would be good to know whether the gun was pneumatic just to get a plumb line on how stupid and crazy he was.
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Skidmark’s Daily Mail link has a photo of Mr. Shiffer, taken at the January 6th event.
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Not a very smart place to shelter during a storm, and those were some pretty strong storms up that way that day. RIP guys.
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I see so many damaged or hanging trees in my woods here that I get very nervous walking around if it’s windy. Have cut ‘safe’ (looking) trails through the worst areas but sometimes even solid looking trees go down. Sad for some good men.
For a very long time, Disney films were Rated-(Golly)G promotions of America’s most conservative values. But times have changed, and the company has kept up. In fact, it may have run substantially ahead.
Apropos of evolution, a cast addition to an upcoming Marvel series has been announced.
As reported by EOnline, "Shea Couleé is bringing her charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to [Disney’s] Marvel Cinematic Universe."
You might remember Shea from another show:
The RuPaul’s Drag Race star has landed a role in the upcoming Disney+ series Ironheart, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. And that’s a BFD.
The star spoke of humility:
"It’s really so humbling to be able to crossover into a much more mainstream avenue, and push the needle forward as far as drag is concerned, in the way that it’s consumed and in pop culture. I’m so deeply excited for everyone to see what this role is, what it entails and everything it is."
While the character’s details remain under wraps, it seems there won’t be a drastic departure from drag:
Not only that, she’s been able to leave her trademark stamp on her character, whose identity has not yet been revealed.
Per Shea, expertise will be on order:
"Everyone at Marvel has been so unbelievably open and receptive to my experiences and my expertise about drag and they’ve allowed me to really come in to the MCU and put my very specific Shea Couleé print on the Marvel Universe."
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Please don't look her/him/it up. Takes many whiskeys and least one big quarrel to forget something like that.
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This one bar I used to go to, there was this old lush who hung out and basically swallowed any abandoned drink, ice and all. He must have been the owner's uncle or something, cause he never got bounced or hassled for doing it. You should have seen him clean up after last call.
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I remember I was a tyke when I and my cousin sister were playing, while nearby our daddies were passing out after drinking. And we tip toed and cleaned up.
The fuss that was made when the mommies came home that evening!
[Guardian] Ah, yes, the Center for Deception and Confusion.
The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its Covid-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said people no longer need to stay at least 6ft (about 2 metres) away from others.
The changes are driven by a recognition that more than two and a half years since the start of the pandemic an estimated 95% of Americans ages 16 and older have acquired some level of immunity, either from being vaccinated or infected, agency officials said.
US to hold push for Covid boosters until fall in order to better protect against BA.5
"The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years," said the CDC’s Greta Massetti, an author of the guidelines.
The CDC recommendations apply to everyone in the US, but the changes could be particularly important for schools, which resume classes this month in many parts of the country.
Perhaps the biggest education-related change is the end of the recommendation that schools do routine daily testing, although that practice can be reinstated in certain situations during a surge in infections, officials said.
The CDC also dropped a "test-to-stay" recommendation, which said students exposed to Covid-19 could regularly test instead of quarantining at home to keep attending school. With no quarantine recommendation, the testing option disappeared too.
Masks continue to be recommended only in areas where community transmission is deemed high, or if a person is considered at high risk of severe illness.
School districts across the US have been scaling back their Covid-19 precautions in recent weeks even before the CDC relaxed its guidance.
Masks will be optional in most school districts when classes resume this fall, and some of the nation’s largest districts have dialed back or eliminated Covid-19 testing requirements.
Some have also been moving away from test-to-stay programs that became unmanageable during surges of the Omicron variant last school year. With so many new infections among students and staff, many schools struggled to track and test their close contacts, leading to a temporary return to remote classes in some places.
The average numbers of reported Covid-19 cases and deaths have been relatively flat this summer, at about 100,000 cases a day and 300 to 400 deaths.
The CDC previously said that if people who are not up to date on their Covid-19 vaccinations come into close contact with a person who tests positive, they should stay home for at least five days. Now the agency says quarantining at home is not necessary, but it urges those people to wear a high-quality mask for 10 days and get tested after five.
The agency continues to say that people who test positive should isolate from others for at least five days, regardless of whether they were vaccinated. CDC officials advise that people can end isolation if they are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication and they are without symptoms or the symptoms are improving.
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It's fun watching the COVIDians screech, wail and rend their garments as their adopted, synthetically produced in a Chinese lab religion dies. Every new variant was supposed to be the second coming and now it turns out Fauxi is just a dime store Jim Jones / Marshall Applewhite / Elmer Gantry.
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Wasn't Lorenz one of the loudest of the deathcasters? The Maskless kill people, let the Unvaxxed die, kill the unvaxxed before they kill us, all that Science! ?
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Until I built my porch and carport (shade half the house) I could set my thermostat anywhere and and not keep the temperature inside at 81 if it was over 96 outside.
When one of my fellow expat trailing wives was looking into her husband's upcoming assignment in South Africa in 1996, she was warned to expect being raped on average of once a year. And she would be restricting herself to the nice parts of the city, not mining country — where the common belief is that AIDS can be cured by having sex with a virgin.
[Breitbart] South African authorities charged 14 men with rape this week in connection with the brutal gang rape of eight women at an abandoned mine near Krugersdorp on July 28, the South African news channel Newzroom Afrika reported on Thursday, noting that the “majority” of the suspects charged with rape on Thursday are illegal migrants “from Mozambique.”
South Africa’s National Prosecution Authority (NPA) charged seven men with “multiple counts of rape, sexual assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances” on August 10 in connection with the July 28 incident, South Africa’s Eyewitness News (EWN) reported. An additional seven suspects in the gang rape were also charged the next day, August 11, according to a separate video report by Newzroom Afrika, bringing the total number of men charged with rape in the case so far to 14.
EWN noted on Wednesday that the seven men charged with rape that day “form part of a group of eighty-one, who were originally arrested on charges of being in the country illegally.” The news outlet revealed that one of the males charged with rape on August 10 “alleges he is only 15. He is yet to undergo an age assessment.”
Odds are good that he is lying about being underage — that is a consistent problem wherever there are illegal migrants to sympathetic countries.
Newzroom Afrika reported that the “majority” of the men charged with rape in the case on Thursday identified themselves as “from Mozambique” during an appearance at the Krugersdorp Magistrates court that afternoon.
The suspects “were able to confirm their nationalities […] the majority of them are from Mozambique, one from Lesotho, and as well as one South African,” Newzroom Afrika reporter Malungelo Booi stated while standing outside the Krugersdorp Magistrates court on August 11.
EWN further noted on August 10 that, of the 81 suspects arrested in the wake of the July gang rape, “[t]wenty-one […] have since emerged as minors. They are now appearing in the children’s courts. The remaining 60 are making their third appearances in the dock on Wednesday.”
South African authorities arrested 81 suspects in the immediate aftermath of the July 28 gang rape outside Krugersdorp. None of the suspects were charged with rape until this week, however, as the majority of them were initially detained on suspicion of illegal immigration. Authorities in South Africa suspect that a gang of mainly illegal migrants was responsible for the hours-long mass rape of eight women aged 19 to 37 years old last month while the women —mainly hired models — tried to film a music video at an abandoned mining facility.
“It’ll be pretty! No need to pay extra for security, dood — they’d only get in the way and bring down the mood.”
The men, according to the accounts of some of the victims, encircled the women while firing guns into the air and subsequently initiated a horrific gang rape of the group that lasted approximately four hours.
“One of those eight women was raped by 10 different men,” Newzroom Afrika reporter Malungelo Booi revealed on August 11 moments after speaking with an NPA spokeswoman outside the Krugersdorp Magistrates court.
[ZeroHedge] Five U.S.-listed Chinese state-owned companies unexpectedly announced plans to delist from US exchanges over SEC audit requirements, Bloomberg reported. In separate filings on the Hong Kong stock exchange, PetroChina, China Petroleum & Chemical, China Life Insurance, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, and Aluminum Corp. of China, some of the largest state-owned companies, said they would voluntarily delist their American depositary share (ADRs) from the New York Stock Exchange.
All five companies said to expect an SEC filing to delist the securities by the end of the month, adding that delisting their ADSs would occur ten days after that.
According to the PetroChina filing, continued US listing meant "considerable administrative burden for performing the disclosure obligations," plus the companies complained about low trading volumes on the NYSE.
The delisting announcements come one week after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan angered Bejing. For years, the Chinese have shunned US auditors from inspecting the books. If both countries cannot agree with rules for Chinese auditing companies, then the SEC will delist them from US exchanges by 2024.
About 300 businesses based in China and Hong Kong, with over $2.4 trillion in market value, risk being kicked off US Exchanges as the SEC increases scrutiny of the firms, Bloomberg Intelligence estimated in May. Among the biggest are China Life, PetroChina, China Petroleum & Chemical, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc.
"These state-owned enterprises are in strategic sectors and deemed to have access to information and data that the Chinese government may be hesitant to give access to foreign regulators," said Redmond Wong, a strategist at Saxo Markets.
The news of the sudden plans to delist major state-owned companies sent Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Pinduoduo Inc., and JD.com Inc down 3% to 4% in the premarket US on Friday morning. Kraneshares CSI China Internet Fund ETF declined nearly 3%.
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The news of the sudden plans to delist major state-owned companies sent Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Pinduoduo Inc., and JD.com Inc down 3% to 4% in the premarket US on Friday morning. Kraneshares CSI China Internet Fund ETF declined nearly 3%.
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Ha! I mooned ol' Moon!
Gave 'em an exclusive
of the full pudge tochis!
Him and Yoon, that new loon!
Wishing us ill, since Jong-il,
and all manner of hocus pocus!
"We have to assume that there will be legitimate protests from the population against the situation that threatens our existence in the fall, i.e. gas shortages, energy difficulties, supply problems, possibly recession, unemployment, but also growing poverty right through to the middle class, i.e that legitimate protests against this situation against political decisions are undermined by extremists," Kramer also claimed.
[NYP] The computer repair shop owner who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop claims in a new book that an FBI agent threatened him to stay silent.
John Paul Mac Isaac said two federal agents came to his Mac Shop in Wilmington, Del. in December 2019 to recoup the laptop following a subpoena, he details in his new book "American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth."
The repairman, who had volunteered to hand the laptop over to the feds two months earlier, said the alleged threat came after he made a joke, telling them: "Hey, lads, I’ll remember to change your names when I write the book."
"Agent Wilson kept walking but Agent DeMeo paused and turned to face me," Paul Mac writes of the encounter.
Isaac said the agent then told him: "It is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things."
[Townhall] Nearly a year after the government forced Americans to receive a vaccine in order to live a normal life, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is back tracking what they originally said about the jab.
First reported by the Epoch Times, the CDC is finally admitting that it gave false information about the Wuhan Coronavirus vaccine.
The CDC has been caught with blood on their hands.
They wrongfully said it conducted a certain type of analysis of the vaccine over one year before the CDC actually did.
A spokesperson for the CDC said that they are revising several Information of Freedom Acts (FOIA) and issuing corrections for information it previously claimed was being observed "by the most intense safety monitoring efforts in U.S. history."
Take for instance myocarditis. For several months report after report was released about an athlete dropping dead on the court or field after suffering chest pains.
Heart problems such as heart inflammation is a known life-threatening side effect of the Covid vaccine, a fact mainstream media so blatantly ignored.
In July, the Epoch Times submitted a FOIA to the CDC to obtain reports of a study that showed post-vaccination heart inflammation.
However, the CDC said that their team did not conduct any reports through October 2021, admitting that "an association between myocarditis and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination was not known at that time."
By now it is apparent that the CDC withheld information to prevent vaccine hesitancy. The White House played along with their games as well. Mr. "the vaccine will prevent you from getting Covid" Joe Biden, first claimed that all you need is the first shot. Then that quickly turned into two shots then a follow up booster and then another booster. And now the CDC is preparing for another round of infections this winter saying people need another shot to protect themselves.
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CDC has lost all credibility IMO. And there will be no repercussions for them giving out false info.
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As we have clearly seen.
When politics and medicine are mixed people die.
We should DEMAND the CDC have safe guards in place to protect it's ability to deliver medical solutions absent of political influences.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] Shocking surveillance video caught the moment an employee at an Arizona Wendy’s sucker punched an elderly customer, knocking him unconscious and leaving him fighting for life.
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
For a very long time, Disney films were Rated-(Golly)G promotions of America’s most conservative values. But times have changed, and the company has kept up. In fact, it may have run substantially ahead.
[Guardian] Ah, yes, the Center for Deception and Confusion.
The news of the sudden plans to delist major state-owned companies sent Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Pinduoduo Inc., and JD.com Inc down 3% to 4% in the premarket US on Friday morning. Kraneshares CSI China Internet Fund ETF declined nearly 3%. 
[NYP] The computer repair shop owner who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop claims in a new book that an FBI agent threatened him to stay silent.
