It certainly didn't take that long for America to go from record-low crime rates to reliving the worst of the seventies. And that means this kind of thing is <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/amid-attacks-thefts-retail-workers-174956439.html">normal now</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		In her 37 years in the grocery industry, said Kim Cordova, a union president in Colorado, she had never experienced the level of violence that her members face today.

	
		So when she was negotiating contracts for 21,000 grocery workers in Colorado this past winter, the usual issues of wages and scheduling were certainly on the table. But just as critical, if not more so, was safety.

	
		“What happened with COVID?” said Cordova, president of Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. “People have changed. Sometimes I wonder if I am living in a Netflix movie. This can’t be real.”

	
		The union negotiated a contract that ensures workers have the right to defend themselves if a customer attacks them.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	This isn't "COVID". This is pro-crime policies, spurred on by Black Lives Matter race riots, which set loose countless criminals from prison and refused to arrest criminals on the loose, and effectively legalized all sorts of crimes.


	The collapse of the criminal justice system has <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/downtown-denver-business-owner-to-charge-1-fee-to-recover-shoplifting-losses">emboldened criminals</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		A Downtown Denver business owner says shoplifting at his stores has gotten so bad he's having to charge customers a fee to make up the costs.

	
		"[It's called the] Denver Crime Spike Fee, and so that'll be a 1% transaction fee for all of the items that are purchased in our stores," Derek Friedman, owner of several Sportsfan and Sock Em Sock Emporium locations in the Denver metro, said Sunday.

	
		Since 2019, he says shoplifting at his downtown and Federal Boulevard stores has tripled.
</blockquote>


	The New York Times remains baffled by what's causing "people" to commit violence in stores.

<blockquote>
	
		According to a New York Times analysis of FBI assault data, the number of assaults in many retail establishments has been increasing at a faster pace than the national average.

	
		From 2018 to 2020, assaults reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies overall rose 42%; they increased 63% in grocery stores and 75% in convenience stores.
</blockquote>


	&nbsp;It's a mystery.

<blockquote>
	
		Still, some politicians have seized on viral videos of brazen shoplifting to portray left-leaning city leaders as soft on crime. Others have accused the industry of grossly exaggerating losses and warned that the thefts were being used as a pretext to roll back criminal justice reforms.
</blockquote>


	The criminal justice reforms will continue until grocery workers are all armed.

<blockquote>
	
		“These criminals feel like they own the store,” said Tony Settles, a clerk at a Safeway in downtown Denver. “The No. 1 thing that can fix this is accountability.”

	
		She thinks the hands-off approach to shoplifting is leading to a broader breakdown. Kyong Barry, 59, who has been working in the grocery industry for more than 20 years and is a member of UFCW Local 3000, said she had recently noticed that regular customers were walking out the door without paying for items.

	
		“It’s like a disease,” she said. “When there are no consequences, some people think: Why should I pay if others are not?”
</blockquote>


	It's the socialist disease.

Retail Workers Union Wins Right to Fight Back Against Violent Shoplifters

It certainly didn't take that long for America to go from record-low crime rates to reliving the worst of the seventies. And that means this kind of thing is

Retail Workers Union Wins Right to Fight Back Against Violent Shoplifters

There's a legal doctrine known as "attractive nuisance".&nbsp;


	America is a massive attractive nuisance. It draws massive numbers of illegal alien migrants. Many of them are raped, beaten and even die trying to make it across the border so they can benefit from sanctuary cities and states.


	And the welfare state.


	Biden's decision to dismantle border enforcement and welcome in illegal aliens leads to death. Like these <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/san-antonio-migrants-texas-tractor-trailer-dead-injured/">51 deaths</a>.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		At least 51 migrants died after they were abandoned in the back of a tractor-trailer that was discovered Monday in San Antonio, officials said Tuesday. More than a dozen others were taken to local hospitals with heat-related injuries.
</blockquote>


	Biden has a statement explaining why, as usual, it's not his fault.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		The tragic loss of life in San Antonio, Texas that took place yesterday is horrifying and heartbreaking.&nbsp; Our prayers are with those who lost their lives, their loved ones, as well as those still fighting for their lives. As always, I am grateful for the swift work of all of the Federal, state, and local first responders.

	
		While we are still learning all the facts about what happened and the Department of Homeland Security has the lead for the investigation, initial reports are that this tragedy was caused by smugglers or human traffickers who have no regard for the lives they endanger and exploit to make a profit.
</blockquote>


	Much as Biden's party has no regard for the lives it endangers to get cheap votes.&nbsp;


	The smugglers are responding to incentives and conditions created by the Biden administration intended to make it easy for illegal aliens to come here and stay here.


	Biden did this.

Biden Blames "Smugglers" for Deaths of 51 Illegal Aliens Drawn By His Open Border

There's a legal doctrine known as "attractive nuisance".&nbsp;


	America is a massive attractive nuisance. It draws massive numbers of illegal alien

Biden Blames "Smugglers" for Deaths of 51 Illegal Aliens Drawn By His Open Border

After Epstein's death, I wrote that there <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/12/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-doesnt-expose-truth-it-daniel-greenfield/">would never</a> <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2021/05/nobodys-guilty-anything-jeffrey-epsteins-death-daniel-greenfield/">be&nbsp;any answers</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		"The truth died on the top of a prison skyscraper whose administration and guards flagrantly violated their own rules, removing Epstein from suicide watch six days after a supposed suicide attempt, leaving him alone in his cell, and failing to check on him until it was too late. Blame will be passed around. Conspiracy theorists will cash in on it for years. And the questions will remain unanswered."

	
		This is all a tedious joke. As is the prolonged battle over Epstein's estate and the Maxwell case that will also go nowhere. The Epstein case is a black hole and nothing's ever coming out of it again.

	
		The last chance of that happening ended when Jeffrey Epstein was found dead.
</blockquote>


	Ghislaine Maxwell gets a 20-year sentence. Absolutely nothing gets resolved. Did anyone really think it would?


	Now Epstein's accomplice gets<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/us/ghislaine-maxwell-sentencing/index.html"> two decades</a> of keeping her eyes open all night. It's a small measure of justice.

<blockquote>
	
		Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence Maxwell to 30 to 55 years in prison, while the probation department recommended 20 years. Maxwell’s attorneys requested a more lenient sentence of between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison.
</blockquote>


	&nbsp;


	Maxwell is 60. There's not that much difference between 20 and 30 years. And it doesn't particularly matter.


	The most basic questions, including the full client list, remain unanswered. There's plenty of fertile ground for speculators, conspiracy theorists and accusers, but little in the way of substantial answers.


	Whatever Epstein knew was buried with him. That includes the question of why three states bent over backward to accommodate him. And basic questions about the sources of his money and the involvement of intelligence assets.&nbsp;


	Whatever Maxwell knows will likely stay with her. The truly explosive part of what Epstein knew likely wasn't just his client list, but his connections. It's likely that Maxwell didn't know those things.&nbsp;


	And if she did, well she knows how Epstein did.


	And there's the question of how <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-really-happened-night-crooked-25390316">her own father died</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		It's 30 years since Robert Maxwell’s naked body was found in the sea off the Canary Islands, his death a mystery which endures to this day.

	
		The media mogul, whose company owned the Daily Mirror, had been reported missing by the crew of his luxury yacht hours before the discovery.

	
		At that moment Betty told me: “Whatever has happened, I can assure you he did not kill himself. He would never do that.”

	
		As this was being arranged – with difficulty as Maxwell was very overweight – the rescue pilot told Betty and me: “I have plucked many bodies from the sea and I just want to tell you he did not drown. There was no water in his lungs.”

	
		I then escorted Betty and Philip to view the body of my boss.

	
		His skin hadn’t discoloured or wrinkled but what intrigued me was that he was lying with his arms up either side of his head and his hands were clenched.
</blockquote>


	<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/02/after-jeffrey-epstein-found-hanged-1-am-associate-daniel-greenfield/">These things happen</a>. Right?

<blockquote>
	
		A modeling agent and close associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in Paris, French prosecutors said Saturday.

	
		Police said Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his cell Friday night at La Santé Prison in the heart of Paris. He had been in police custody for over a year as French prosecutors investigated him on suspicion of raping minors over the age of 15 and sexual harassment. He was also considered a witness in an investigation into child sex trafficking.

	
		The prosecutor’s office said Saturday that an investigation was under way to determine the cause of Mr. Brunel’s death.

	
		It is not clear whether Brunel was sharing a cell with other inmates or if there was CCTV footage inside.

	
		An investigation has been launched into the cause of his death.

	
		“A night patrol found his lifeless body at about 1am,” said an investigating source.

	
		“A judicial enquiry has been launched, and early evidence points to suicide.”
</blockquote>


	Jeffrey Epstein was found&nbsp;hanged at 1 AM.

Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years of Trying Not To Commit Suicide in Prison

After Epstein's death, I wrote that there would never be&nbsp;any answers.


	
		"The truth died on the top of a prison skyscraper whose administration and

Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years of Trying Not To Commit Suicide in Prison

"Trans women&nbsp;of color" has become the magical slogan of intersectionality, invoking the ultimate condensed victim class on whose behalf any power grab can be justified.


	But they may want to put their political appropriation on hold.


	A Pew survey shows that black people are the<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/?utm_content=buffer84c2d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer"> least likely</a> to believe that people can magically change genders by thinking themselves female.

<blockquote>
	
		Six-in-ten U.S. adults say that whether a person is a man or a woman is determined by their sex assigned at birth. This is up from 56%&nbsp;one year ago&nbsp;and 54% in&nbsp;2017.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	The propaganda is actually backfiring.

<blockquote>
	
		Most Democrats say that whether a person is a man or a woman can be different from their sex at birth (61% vs. just 13% of Republicans).
</blockquote>


	Also, they believe that the government can magically make as much money as it wants and inflation will go away if you ignore it.

<blockquote>
	
		The view that a person’s gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth is more common among those with lower levels of educational attainment and those living in rural areas or in the Midwest or South. This view is also more prevalent among men and black people.
</blockquote>


	The same people who wrote that sentence also probably attended a whole bunch of sessions on critical race theory and unconscious bias.


	Anyway, 61% of white people believe that you are born a man or a woman, and 38% disagree.


	68% of black people believe it and only 31% disagree.


	The numbers are much more anti-reality among Hispanics and Asians, though majorities still believe in reality.


	In more good news, 43% of Americans say that societal views on gender identity are changing too quickly.

Black People Least Likely to Believe People Can Magically Change Gender

"Trans women&nbsp;of color" has become the magical slogan of intersectionality, invoking the ultimate condensed victim class on whose behalf any power grab can

Black People Least Likely to Believe People Can Magically Change Gender

Why settle for cutting deals and trying to end sanctions on&nbsp;Venezuela and Iran, when Biden can also plow money into the Taliban.


	I had previously documented <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/biden-sends-nearly-1-billion-afghanistan-taliban-daniel-greenfield/">how much money</a> is still <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield/">going as aid into Afghanistan</a>, much of which will ultimately end up in Taliban hands.

<blockquote>
	
		Kicked in another $204 million.

	
		That's on top of the $782 million in "humanitarian aid" allocated to Afghanistan last year since the Taliban took over. This year, Biden signed an executive order allocating $3.5 billion of the Afghan assets held in the Federal Reserve for the same purpose. But even not counting those funds, Biden has dedicated $986 million to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.

	
		That’s nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money and nearly $4.5 billion in total funds.
</blockquote>


	But now the radicals in the Biden administration are going further <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/06/28/taliban-afghanistan-white-house-money/">for Al Qaeda's allies</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		Senior Biden administration officials are working with Taliban leadership on a mechanism to allow Afghanistan’s government to use its central bank reserves to deal with a severe hunger crisis&nbsp;

	
		&nbsp;Biden aides have begun talks to restore to the Afghan government at least partial use of the frozen funds that are kept in U.S. institutions.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	I predicted this would happen using the feigned concern about a "humanitarian crisis". (Terror states are one perpetual humanitarian crisis.)


	In February, Biden split the $7 billion in Afghanistan's central bank reserves between 9/11 victims (who had won a<a href="https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/03/afghanistans-frozen-foreign-exchange-reserves-what-happened-whats-next"> $6 billion judgment</a>&nbsp;but may only see half of that after Biden's DOJ fought them in court) and aid for Afghanistan.


	So there are billions at stake here.

<blockquote>
	
		In negotiations with Taliban officials, they have tried to set up a system through which career central bankers and bureaucrats could manage the assets to stabilize the Afghan economy — while simultaneously erecting safeguards that would ensure the funds are not siphoned off for misuse by the Taliban
</blockquote>


	No such safeguards would matter or work. The Taliban control the situation on the ground, which means they'll use the money how they please. Any officials in their territory will follow their orders.


	Any thoughts otherwise are more of the same delusional nonsense behind signing a "peace accord" with the Taliban.

<blockquote>
	
		Senior administration officials have expressed optimism about the progress on talks,
</blockquote>


	Much as they did on the peace talks.

<blockquote>
	
		Mehrabi declined to comment on the details of the negotiations. He said talks are ongoing between the U.S. and the Taliban, but stressed that the “mechanism has not been finalized by all parties involved.” Mehrabi said food costs have skyrocketed by 18 percent in the past several months. Basic household goods rose in cost by 35 percent during the first few months of the year; in May, inflation for household goods hit 42 percent, Mehrabi said.

	
		“These reserves belong to the Afghan people; they are needed to stabilize prices,” he said. “The faster it is delivered to the central bank of Afghanistan, the sooner we will see the impact of the reduction in prices that are critical to enable ordinary Afghans to afford food, cooking oil, and sugar and fuel. Now, they can’t do that.”
</blockquote>


	And Biden and his leftist regime are much more concerned about inflation and food prices in Talibanistan than in America.


	These "reserves" belong to the American people. They're a fraction of the fortune that we lavished to "rebuild" Afghanistan. They belong to the victims of September 11 who won a court case that Biden illegally chose to disregard.


	They don't belong to the terrorists. And even if they did, we would be within our rights to seize them.


	&nbsp;

Biden in Talks to Unfreeze Billions of Dollars to Taliban

Why settle for cutting deals and trying to end sanctions on&nbsp;Venezuela and Iran, when Biden can also plow money into the Taliban.


	I had previously

Biden in Talks to Unfreeze Billions of Dollars to Taliban

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