Pharmacies Keep Closing: Blame Shoplifting and Intentional Pharmacist Shortages

While local and national media outlets frequently report on food deserts, particularly in cities that lack sufficient grocery stores, there is one major shortage that goes largely unnoticed by the press: pharmacies.

“Pharmacy deserts” pose a real threat, particularly for vulnerable populations. This is something I’ve seen firsthand. Last year, the Rite Aid in my neighborhood in Riverside, California, closed down and was boarded up for good. It came as no surprise, as it had been repeatedly robbed. A few months ago, it reopened as a shoe store.

MORE … With new anti-theft stores, companies are stepping in where governments are missing

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Daughter taught that ‘heteronormativity’ is a ‘bad thing’ -Mother loses legal battle to force daughter’s school to share sex education materials

A mother has lost a legal battle to force a school to share sex education materials used in her daughter’s lesson.

A judge ruled that the commercial interests of the third-party sex education provider outweighed the public interest in forcing the school to release the lesson plan under freedom of information laws.

Clare Page, 47, began her campaign after her 15-year-old daughter came home from school and said she had been taught that “heteronormativity” was a “bad thing” and that she should be “sex positive” towards relationships.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children"

China, Pakistan and Turkey Eyeing Kashmir

When India hosted a key G20 conference in Srinagar, the capital of the Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory of India, on May 22 and 23, even though the conference was reportedly attended by around 122 delegates, including 60 foreigners, it was boycotted by Pakistan as well as its longtime allies, China and Turkey.

Pakistan called the meeting “illegal.” Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India, but it is claimed by Pakistan, which has violently targeted the region through terror groups. Hundreds of people therefore rallied in the Pakistan-occupied area of Kashmir to protest the meeting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Kashmir, Pakistan, Turkey

San Fran’s dying downtown is dealt another blow as Owner stops making mortgage payments on $550M loan for massive mall – blaming crime

San Francisco’s struggling downtown has been dealt another blow as Westfield has stopped making mortgage payments on its massive mall due to crime and tanking sales.

The firm has defaulted on the $558million loan and is handing it back to the lender, which will appoint a receiver. The mall will remain open for now.

The decision was sparked by the decision from Nordstrom, the mall’s anchor tenant, to close in August.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Biden Admin To Send Depleted Uranium Rounds To Ukraine: REPORT

The Biden administration is set to provide the Ukrainian army with depleted uranium tank rounds to equip the American tanks it is giving to the Ukrainians, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The decision to supply the depleted uranium tank rounds to equip American-supplied tanks for Ukrainian forces marks the latest escalation in the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine. The disclosure of the administration’s internal deliberations and expected decision to supply the depleted uranium tank rounds comes as the highly anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive is reportedly underway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

WARMINGTON: Democracy means being third in polls but excluded from debates that include opponents you are beating

Only in a city like Toronto that hands out free crystal meth pipes would this make any sense.

You can have four candidates behind you in the latest poll in the Toronto mayoral race but still not be allowed into the televised debates despite being ahead of most of those on the stage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Trump pleads NOT GUILTY to 37 counts of mishandling classified documents

Donald Trump made history on Tuesday afternoon as he became the first ex-president to be arrested and appear in court to be charged with federal crimes over his mishandling of classified documents.

The 76-year-old pleaded not guilty to 37 counts when he faced a judge in Miami after being booked and fingerprinted in the downtown Miami court complex

Trump appeared in court alongside his loyal aide Walt Nauta, who is also facing charges in the scheme to keep classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Bud Light sales sink 24.4% as rival Modelo continues to gain share

Bud Light sales continued to plunge as the nation’s No. 1 beer brand continues to lose share to runner-up Modelo Especial — but its sister brands are beginning to recover from the disastrous marketing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

Sales of Bud Light dropped 24.4% in the week ended June 3 — slightly worse than the 23.9% decline over the previous week which had included steep discounting over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to data from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsonIQ.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors"

Tom Mulcair: Will Justin Trudeau decide to stick around?

Now that David Johnston has stepped down, the serious work of putting in place a commission of inquiry can begin.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc embarrassed himself by saying the Liberals were never opposed to a public inquiry. But at this stage, who cares?

The important thing is that Canadians will finally have a chance to know what really happened with Chinese government interference in our elections.

He’s a delusional wee tyrant, far too much the narcissist to ever consider stepping down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Burisma boss in alleged Biden bribe scheme claims to have 15 taped conversations with Hunter, 2 with Joe: Grassley

WASHINGTON — The FBI source who reported President Biden’s alleged role in a bribery scheme said that a Ukrainian businessman claimed to keep as “insurance” 15 audio recordings of first son Hunter Biden and two of Joe Biden, a Republican senator revealed Monday.

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the staggering claim in a Senate floor speech after FBI Director Christopher Wray last week allowed House Oversight Committee members to see a redacted informant file about the claim that Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden received $5 million apiece to serve the interests of Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

Portland’s new ‘Safe Rest Village’ for city’s homeless has become hotbed of drug-dealing and crime

Frightened neighbors have said one of Portland’s new city-sponsored homeless villages has become a hotbed for crime and drug dealing.

Homeless people, who were previously camping out on the Peninsula Crossing Trail in Portland, were taken off the streets and introduced to the city’s solution, the recently-completed Safe Rest Village.

But the new village, which houses 70 people, has caused mayhem for homeowners in the vicinity, who say it’s running rampant with drug dealers, loud noises and anti-social behavior.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise"

John Robson: With Johnston Gone, We Need a Real Public Inquiry With Teeth

So it looks like there’s going to be a public inquiry into Chinese communist meddling in our elections after all. At least Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is hinting as much. Who saw that one coming?

Not David Johnston, evidently. He finally stepped down from his untenable position, which I greet with the same grace he exhibited in announcing it. Namely in resigning as depressingly ordinary rapporteur he blamed “the highly partisan atmosphere around my appointment and work,” not the real conflict of interest that made him unsuitable from the word go and the shabby initial report that made his position untenable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

What should we make of UFO whistleblower David Grusch?

David Grusch is a former midranking civilian intelligence officer and Air Force veteran. In July 2021, Grusch filed a whistleblower complaint to the Defense Department’s inspector general alleging the existence of a covert public-private sector program to retrieve and exploit crashed, unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, or what the government refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs. Grusch subsequently briefed Congress on his assertions.

Writing for the Debrief last week, Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal documented the broad substance of Grusch’s claims. In response, the government and military have continued to deny that they have evidence of any such program existing. Grusch went into more detail on his claims during an interview with journalist Ross Coulthart that aired on NewsNation on Sunday evening. In that interview, Grusch claimed that the United States retains multiple craft originally constructed by a “non-human intelligence” and that the public and Congress are being lied to.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"