[The Conversation.com] Americans age 60 and older lost more than US$3 billion to scammers in 2023, according to the FBI.
To put that whopping figure in context, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour recently made news as the first concert tour ever to earn $1 billion.
As a geriatrician — a doctor who cares for people over 65 years of age — I believe elder fraud has reached an epidemic scale. My patients often tell me about being scammed.
The consequences can be worse than just losing money. The experience is traumatic for many, with some victims feeling deep shame and self-doubt in the aftermath. This can interfere with their relationships, erode their trust in others and harm their mental and physical health.
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The generation(s) of Americans raised and experienced in the 20th American Century way of life, are often ill-prepared to deal with the modern era that has corrupted and collapsed what were safe and reliable choices and venues. Assume corruption and dishonesty in every financial outreach or urgent appeal that you cannot confirm from a trusted source, and you may miss some opportunities, but will avoid serious mistakes. The daily telephone barrage of foreign voices representing "medicare"windfalls, or credit solutions, or opinion surveys is a perfect example. Like most, we don't answer the telephone unless we know the number.
And with the Bidet invasion of millions of un-vetted, military age males, the coming attraction is going to be South American style organized, planned, strong-arm burglary and home invasion crews working high-end zip-code areas with little apparent defensible space after skilled recon drive-throughs. An emerging plague on Blue urban area business and residential locations, and likely interesting surprises unfolding in Red rural locations when they meet the Unorganized Militia Senior Division.
[NYPOST] A prominent south Florida lawyer abruptly withdrew Monday from repping twin accused rapists and real-estate heirs Oren and Alon Alexander. "Youse guys are toast! I'm outta here!"
A well-placed source told The Post that lawyer Jim Ferraro’s decision to step down from the troubling Manhattan case was made at least partly because of his personal ties to the 36-year-old millionaire brothers — not to mention the avalanche of additional accusations that poured in after two women sued the twins over alleged sexual attacks. Can anyone figure why so many guys need a partner while raping a woman?
The brothers’ new lawyer is Isabelle Kirshner of Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder of Manhattan. "Lemme show youse guys how it's done!"
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What odds the lads didn’t do it, or that it wasn’t rape? This is not an area I know much about.
[NYPOST] A Texas megachurch pastor has admitted previously having "inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady" after being accused of repeatedly molesting a family friend starting when she was just 12. A holy man debauching a young girl? Unheard of!
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake and a one-time spiritual adviser for Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , confessed after Cindy Clemishire told the Wartburg Watch that she was allegedly groomed for abuse that continued for four years until she was 16. If I lived in Wartburg I think I'd move someplace else with a classier name, maybe Jackson's Hole.
"When I was in my early twenties, I was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying," he told the Christian Post, a dismissive description that "appalled" his accuser. If he's 62 that was forty years ago. If the abuse stopped when she was sixteen she's in her fifties now.
"It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong," said the pastor, whose church attracts an estimated 100,000 worshippers each week. "This behavior happened on several occasions over the next few years." I kissed a girl while I was married once. So sue me. She was of age, so was I. We'd been friends for several years. No tongues were employed. I kiss my nieces (17, 16, and 8) on the infrequent occasion I get to see them. I don't feel them up, but I'm not a holy man or a politician, either. So I'm kinda conflicted here. Forty years ago, (discovered?), confessed, repented ("I'm sorry! Do I get to keep the job?") I'm not sure how you make up groping a 12-year-old to her, but has he figured something and done it?
He said the abuse "came to light" in 1987 and "it was confessed and repented of." "And as my penance...?"
Morris claims he “submitted” to church elders and Clemishire’s dad — who was head of the church he belonged to at the time — who all “asked me to step out of ministry and receive counseling and freedom ministry, which I did. Sounds penitential. Protected other 12-year-old and younger girls.
“Since that time, I have walked in purity and accountability in this area,” he claimed. Take a lie detector test.
Clemishire said she was “appalled” by his description of her as a “young lady.” Whyzzat? She was certainly young. The presumption would be that she was a lady until proven different. Was she a young wench? I remain conflicted.
“I was 12 years old. I was a little girl. A very innocent little girl. And he was brought into our home,” the now 54-year-old grandmother told the Christian Post of abuse that took her “decades to wrap my brain around as an adult.” She's a little slow then. Either that or a case of fondling was built up in her mind to something more than it was.
“I was an innocent 12-year-old little girl who knew nothing about sexual behavior,” she said. Age twelve is about the time the gonads kick and, bringing with it all sorts of curiosity.
Clemishire was also outraged at the suggestion her dad had given Morris his blessing to return to ministry. “My father never ever gave his blessing on Robert returning to ministry!” she said. “My father told him he’s lucky he didn’t kill him. I am mortified that he is telling the world my dad gave his blessing!” At first, I'm sure not. If my daughter had been groped at age 12 a punch in the nose would be the least I'd want to do. But we're talking about holy men, within a structured church. The initial murderous impulse subsides with the adrenaline, followed by hours of tedious discussion. Compromises get reached, scriptures and precedents get searched, and (reluctant) agreements get reached. So we're left with a sordid tale from forty years ago, uncomfortable memories for all concerned. I remain conflicted.
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Does he still get to keep the private jet and mansions? Cuz Jesus would want that
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She is now in her 50s and a grandmother. Not sure what rehabilitation he did to restore himself after going to third base with a 12 year old. Probably should sweep his house for hidden electronic media.
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[REGNUM] British politician Nigel Farage wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter) on June 3 that he would make an important announcement in a few hours. That same day, the British election campaign took its sharpest turn yet. Mr Brexit has officially announced his big return to British politics. From that moment on, Farage led the Reform Party and at the same time became a candidate for parliament from the Clacton constituency.
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We quit going to Pizza Hut back in 2022.
Because they jacked the prices up, dropped the amount and quality of the ingredients used, and eliminated the lunch Buffet.
We now use CICI's buffet.
It has been a good alternative.
2 people with drinks,
Salad Bar,
the ability to custom order as part of the price,
plus Dessert style items.
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[Regnum] Vandals desecrated a memorial to Holocaust victims in the village of Senoji-Varena in southern Lithuania, RT channel reported on June 17.
So many possibilities: Jew-haters of the far left (Antifa/Black Bloc), of the nationalist far right, jihadis, or troublemaking teens just having destructive fun.. .
The information board on the monument was broken, and the obelisk itself was damaged. In addition, an inscription was pasted onto the monument, “prohibiting” placing stones on it, as is customary in the Jewish tradition.
The Lithuanian police began an investigation, the head of the Varensky district of the republic, Algis Kasheta, told reporters.
“This is a well-thought-out and prepared illegal act, an act of vandalism,” Kasheta said.
As Regnum reported, in January 2024, at a street exhibition in Leipzig, Germany, portraits of Holocaust victims were drawn with permanent markers. Law enforcement officials opened a criminal case under articles of inciting ethnic hatred and damaging property.
In May 2023, on Victory Day, vandals desecrated a Soviet military burial ground in Austria. They damaged the bas-relief on the monument. The Russian Embassy informed that a note of protest would be sent to the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
Also in May 2023, a memorial cemetery for Soviet soldiers was desecrated in Warsaw. Offensive inscriptions were painted on the pedestal of the monument in black paint, and the passage to the memorial was covered with crosses and Ukrainian flags.
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The next level question the judge should be asking is, "given that the Fed Gov't has the constitutional duty to protect the various states from invasion and fails to do so, what legal recourse do the states have?"
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...long overdue Constitutional convention. Don't worry, any amendments still have to go back to the states for 3/4th ratification. The Left doesn't have the votes.
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Trump is the most obvious Law-fare victim, but the packing of the Judiciary over the past decades represents a form of class-action law-fare against traditional Americans.
[Daily Caller] Former President Donald Trump is presently leading Biden in Michigan in a five-way race by .3%, according to the RealClearPolling average. Figaro on "The Story With Martha MacCallum" said Biden’s "only" chance of winning the state is distributing money he owes to black voters.
"Obviously I won’t speak for all black voters, Martha, but I can certainly tell you by being the only black national staffer in Michigan in 2015 working for Bernie Sanders, it does not take a lot of voters to like former President Trump. It really only takes 1 or 2%," Figaro told host Martha MacCallum. "We were able to flip that state by 2% going to all the places that Hillary Clinton refused to go ... What I do know is someone better get to the state of Michigan with a checkbook in hand with no IOUs."
"This is critical that these swing states are looked at," she added. "And they don’t have to like President Trump like the poll indicates. They didn’t like Bernie Sanders, to be quite honest with you, but it only takes a small margin to make a difference. And that’s what I’m concerned about and that is what the majority of people who are saying, ’I don’t like Trump, I don’t like Biden either,’ but they cannot afford to ignore this crucial demographic."
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Monday that Trump is "careening towards a historic performance" with black voters as Biden bleeds a significant segment of them.
"The Joe Biden administration cannot afford to sit on their butt and just ignore and think that it’s just a game and not invest the time, money, resources in black media, not invest the time, money and support in those nonprofits. They need to go in Michigan right now with a check," Figaro said, before MacCallum interrupted her to ask if it would actually help Biden to make black media appearances.
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[Regnum] The United States is satisfied with the current level of readiness of its nuclear forces both in Europe and around the world. John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, announced this at a briefing on June 17.
He emphasized that the United States, as before, feels comfortable with the issue of readiness for strategic deterrence on the European continent and around the world.
Thus, Kirby commented to reporters on Washington's reaction to statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
As Regnum reported, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance in an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph said that NATO member countries have begun consultations on the need to put nuclear weapons on alert. According to him, transparency on this issue helps “send a direct signal that NATO is a nuclear alliance.” Stoltenberg added that the bloc's goal is supposedly that "there will be no nuclear weapons in the world, but as long as they exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance."
The director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, called for a calm attitude towards Jens Stoltenberg's statements about NATO discussing bringing nuclear weapons to a state of combat readiness. These words should not be given special meaning, Naryshkin concluded.
[Al Jazeera] As many as 15 people have been killed and dozens injured after a freight train collided with a passenger train in India’s West Bengal state.
The cargo train hit the Kanchanjunga Express in the Darjeeling district of the eastern state on Monday morning. Initial reports suggest that the cause of the accident was human error. India’s busy railways record hundreds of accidents every year.
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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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
