[NYPost] First it was spray paint. Then eye drops. Now, even ground beef is under lock and key.
A San Jose Walmart has reportedly taken anti-theft measures to a new level, placing pricey cuts of beef and even packages of ground meat inside metal security cages to keep would-be shoplifters at bay.
Influencer Tony Bartleson — better known online as “Meatdad” — posted a video from inside the California store showing rib-eye steaks and ground beef wrapped in wire security devices. Holding up a cowboy rib-eye priced at nearly $16 a pound, Bartleson quipped: “Welcome to California.” The video also showed a three-pound package of ground beef locked inside its own metal cage. The clip has racked up more than 3.8 million views.
Bartleson said he was stunned by the response.
“Seeing basic food items locked behind cages is sad,” Bartleson said in a statement to The Sun.
“My hope is that we can get to a point where measures like this aren’t necessary anymore—where people don’t have to steal just to eat, stores don’t have to lock up food, and everyone has reliable access to the necessities they need.”
“I think most of us want to live in a world where people can put food on the table with dignity, and I hope we continue moving in that direction,” he added.
The unusual security measures sparked fierce debate online, with many shoppers saying they understood why the retailer resorted to locking up meat.
“With people stealing what they haven’t paid for, I don’t blame Walmart for doing this. If you’re an honest person who plans to pay for it, why would this bother you… bruh,” one person wrote.
This L3sbian Commie needs to go away. Far away. Without money. Shame is not in her makeup
It’s actually a low kick with very poor form, but that’s the best she has in her.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The head of one of the country’s largest teachers unions name-dropped Elon Musk during a defiant speech this week that highlighted the organization's perceived enemies.
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, 68, mentioned Musk and tech billionaire Jeff Yass during the animated Thursday speech.
She also singled out a conservative nonprofit largely credited with enabling corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited money on elections.
Weingarten bobbed and weaved as she spoke, urging thousands of educators, healthcare professionals, and public employees convened at AFT's annual national convention in DC to 'fight.'
'You, my friends, you have done it regardless of bad labor law. Regardless of Citizens United. Regardless of Elon Musk and Jeffrey Yass
…the multibillionaire (~$65 billion) Libertarian from Pennsylvania who gives lots of money to school choice and conservative/MAGA Republicans, which clearly annoys her ladyship immensely…
and everything that gets thrown at us because people in America want a union,' she said aggressively.
'And you have showed the way to get people the economic security and the dignity and the justice our members and working people in America so justly deserve.
'That's why I want to say thank you,' she concluded, ending her speech with an enthusiastic high kick.
Both Musk and Yass have surfaced as two of the largest individual political donors in US elections as of late.
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They need that fear in their eyes when they feel their last breathe slipping away!
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She has overseen the largest drop in the quality of education. Like too many females, she refuses to take accountability for herself or her organization.
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Had been watching an old 1980's film 'Das Boot'. Had not remembered it being so lengthy, with multi-segments. The last segment I watched featured a lez scene. Looked it up on the computer, yep, a LGBT remake.
Could an attempt at remaking history, even fictional history, be any more obvious ?
[JtN] The climate and transformation fund provides, among other things, subsidies for heat pumps and electric cars. Under the cuts, these subsidies will only be available to lower-income people, Bloomberg reported.
The government has argued that a subsidy program it launched to lower electricity prices for energy-intensive industries will justify cuts to the climate and transformation fund. The fund receives revenue from the country's national emissions trading system. The program requires companies receiving the subsidies to invest in making their production more climate-friendly.
Germany has been a leader in addressing the so-called "climate crisis," which included an aggressive effort to shut down nuclear power plants and power its grid entirely with intermittent energy sources.
[FOX] President Donald Trump will present the FIFA World Cup trophy to the winner of the match between Spain and Argentina on Sunday, a White House official confirmed to Fox News.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said last month on "Fox & Friends" that he and Trump would deliver the trophy to the winning team’s captain on the field of New York/New Jersey Stadium.
Infantino also said at the time that Trump would attend the contest. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the president’s attendance "a fitting conclusion to a tournament that showcased America's ability to host the world on the grandest stage."
Trump was on stage during the FIFA Club World Cup trophy presentation after Chelsea defeated Paris Saint-Germain last summer.
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[Regnum] A kitten swept away by a severe flood was rescued using a drone and a basket in China's Jilin Province. A video of the rescue went viral on Chinese social media on July 18.
Footage that has gone viral online shows a kitten perched on a tree branch being swept away by a flood. A drone later flies up to it with a basket attached to a rope, into which the kitten climbs. The kitten is safely lowered to the ground among the people.
The video ends with the rescued animal being fed.
On April 19, police officers freed a kitten stuck between drywall walls at a Moscow police station. The animal was found by its meowing. Using a special tool and a video endoscope, law enforcement officers located the kitten and then pulled it out.
[Just The News] "These are the first people that are going to get lined up and shot if what they're proposing they want to occur, occurs, because they are not aligned with true Marxist-Communist thinking."
Tower Strategy CEO Rick de la Torre argues that contemporary progressive factions have evolved away from traditional platforms, acting instead as domestic conduits for international socialist and communist theory.
[FoxNews] All 193 member states approved a peacekeeping budget roughly $550M less than the previous year on June 30.
The Trump administration says it has secured more than $1 billion in cuts to United Nations budgets in just six months, calling the reductions evidence that an institution long considered resistant to change is finally beginning to reform.
The latest milestone came June 30, when all 193 U.N. member states approved a peacekeeping budget of approximately $5.1 billion for the coming fiscal year — about $550 million, or 9.7%, less than the previous year.
Combined with a 15% reduction to the U.N.'s regular budget approved in December, U.S. officials say the agreements amount to more than $1 billion in cuts to assessed U.N. budgets, a level they describe as unprecedented.
Assessed budgets are funded through mandatory contributions charged to member states under a formula based largely on the size of their economies.
"On June 30th, with U.S. leadership, all 193 countries came together again for the second time in six months," U.S. Ambassador for U.N. Management and Reform Jeff Bartos told Fox News Digital. "We've achieved over a billion dollars of savings in six months, which is unprecedented. Any one cut would be unprecedented. The totality of the reforms is monumental."
The agreement comes as the United Nations faces mounting financial pressure and prepares for a leadership transition in 2027, with Secretary-General António Guterres set to leave office at the end of his second term. At the same time, the Trump administration has made reform a central pillar of its U.N. strategy, arguing the organization has become overly bureaucratic and inefficient.
In response to questions from Fox News Digital, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric confirmed that the peacekeeping budget was reduced by roughly $550 million and the regular budget by 15%, describing both as "unprecedented reductions."
Bartos argues the reforms reflect sustained pressure from the Trump administration and months of negotiations led by the U.S. Mission.
"The new budget, this reformed budget, the enhanced efficiency changes the culture of how the U.N. looks at peacekeeping," Bartos said. "Every dollar has to achieve impact on the ground."
He pointed to the U.N. Mission in South Sudan as an example, saying the United States worked to streamline the mission's mandate before reducing its budget accordingly.
Another reform highlighted by the administration changes how the U.N. handles unused budget credits.
Until now, U.N. financial rules required the organization to return unspent funds to member states even if those contributions had never actually been paid, a practice critics said worsened the organization's recurring liquidity crisis.
The General Assembly voted on June 30 to introduce, on a four-year trial basis, a new methodology under which unspent funds will be returned only when backed by cash actually received.
Bartos said the change could save the organization more than $1 billion over the next three years. That projected figure is separate from the more than $1 billion in budget reductions already approved over the past six months.
He called the change another example of "common-sense" reform and said it could save the organization more than $1 billion over the next three years.
The United Nations likewise welcomed the change, though officials noted it had been a long-standing priority of Guterres.
"I have been pushing for this reform for almost a decade," Guterres said after the vote. He described the previous system as a "Kafkaesque cycle" in which the organization was expected "to give back cash that did not exist."
Dujarric said the reform would allow the U.N. to manage resources "in a more predictable and responsible way" while helping ensure operational continuity, particularly for peacekeeping missions.
Bartos insists the latest budget agreements are only the beginning.
Among the administration's next priorities are reforms to staff compensation, employee benefits and the U.N. pension system, areas he argues consume resources that could otherwise support humanitarian operations and peacekeeping missions.
"We're going to continue to see us push whether it's on benefits, whether it's on staff compensation, whether it's on the pension system," Bartos said. "There's massive numbers of additional reforms that our team is working on right now."
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.
