News Silo Silo — Now With Steve Zahn! — Returns in November But will ever they tell us why elevators aren’t allowed? By Molly Templeton | Published on July 29, 2024 Image: Apple TV+ Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Apple TV+ It’s a terrifying and bleak world outside of the Silo, as Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) learned in the ominous finale of Silo’s first season. The adaptation of Hugh Howey’s series was renewed for a second season before the first had even wound up, and Ferguson has said that the creators hope to make it to four seasons in total. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: First, they’ve got to survive season two, which will premiere November 15th. The premiere date was announced at San Diego Comic Con alongside a surprising bit of casting news: Steve Zahn is joining the show for the upcoming season. He appeared at the panel alongside Ferguson, Common, Howey, and creator and showrunner Graham Yost. According to Variety, Zahn’s character “only interacts with one character in Season 2, Ferguson’s Juliette Nichols, due to the solitary nature of his character.” Zahn himself said his character “has been living alone for decades,” and Ferguson described him as “scary and weird.” Apple TV+ summarizes Silo like this: Silo is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and those who try to find out face fatal consequences. Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will. Season two also stars Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, Alexandria Riley, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Clare Perkins, Billy Postlethwaite, Rick Gomez, Caitlin Zoz, Tanya Moodie, and Iain Glen. It premieres November 15th with a single episode; the 10-episode season runs weekly through January 17th, 2025. [end-mark] The post <i>Silo</i> — Now With Steve Zahn! — Returns in November appeared first on Reactor.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. It’s official: Universal Basic Income will be the Trojan horse they use to replace the dollar with a government-run surveillance crypto-token, or central bank digital currency. Last week, Thailand’s left-wing government announced a program to give free money to 50 million Thais with the catch that it will be in the form of a CBDC. The program is large—$14 billion, which is equivalent to nearly $1 trillion in U.S. terms. But only if you join the borg. I’ve been warning for years they would use free money or a Universal Basic Income to impose a CBDC in the next recession. Using a CBDC’s ease of administration—after all, a bureaucrat can, at the touch of a button, give money to millions of people or take it from millions of people. This would radically upgrade our totalitarian banking system—the one Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used against Canadian truckers—to surveil and control literally every dollar in existence. That’s pretty bleak. And it looks like Thailand’s taking the plunge. In case you’re unfamiliar, a CBDC is a government crypto-token that replaces the U.S. dollar with a system in which bureaucrats armed with machine learning can see every dollar you spend and even block your transactions if you’re buying the wrong thing or donating to the wrong people. Fortunately, CBDCs are massively opposed by the American public. In a survey last year, the libertarian Cato Institute found that just 16% of Americans support a CBDC, while fully 74% oppose it. Unfortunately, that’s where the Gaslight Industrial Complex comes in, using free money—Universal Basic Income—as the bait. Just last week, Silicon Valley tycoon Sam Altman released the results of his decadelong effort to sell a UBI by giving free money to people and tracking what they did next. It turned out pretty much how you’d expect: People worked less, they saved less. In fact, the recipients of free money went deeper into debt. Their health didn’t improve, and their financial position actually got worse. It pretty much washed right through them, replacing paid work with chilling on the couch with all that entails for one’s dead-end prospects. Essentially, they gave up. None of this should have been surprising. We’ve got plenty of natural experiments that people stop working when you give them free money, from trust-fund babies to permanent college students working on that second Ph.D. in gender studies to people quitting work immediately when they hit 65. I was actually pleasantly surprised that Altman reported the results, warts and all. There are other UBI pilots running through universities like Stanford or NYU that, given left-wing bias, will amount to propaganda selling a UBI to voters that, as in Thailand, is begging to be run through a CBDC. So what’s next? During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries—including the U.S. and Canada—implemented UBI-style policies, from stimulus checks and the Paycheck Protection Program to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit and Canada Recovery Benefit. They’ve now cut their teeth and will be pushing hard next recession with an eye to making the handouts permanent. I’d give it about two weeks between pushing the universal basic income and pushing CBDC to administer it. If they succeed, it would convert millions of Americans into permanent wards of the state while converting the dollar from an asset we own to the financial equivalent of COVID-19 lockdowns forever. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Thailand Bribes Voters Into a Central Bank Digital Currency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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People were able to land on the moon and are going to do it again. Mars is being explored by rovers, and space probes have been sent to the outer reaches of the solar system. But how to quickly get to our closest star system, Alpha Centauri? Will people ever be able to do this? The Alpha Centauri star system is approximately 44.4 light years away (about 40 trillion km), and is the closest to Earth. This system contains three stars: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Procyma Centauri, which is believed to be orbited by a habitable planet. This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth. Calculations by NASA scientists have shown that current spaceships will be able to reach Alpha Centauri in about 150 thousand years, taking into account modern engines. But if it were possible to travel at the speed of light, such a flight would take about 4 years. But the laws of physics say that only particles that have no mass, that is, photons or particles of light, can travel at the maximum known speed in space. Therefore, some scientists believe that people will never be able to get into the Alpha Centauri system, but others believe that this is possible in a not very long period of time, albeit with the help of unmanned missions. That is, you need to use the lightest possible spacecraft that can reach a speed slightly lower than the speed of light due to lasers or sunlight. For example, Marshall Eubanks, CEO of Space Initiatives Inc., believes that a swarm of tiny probes could be sent to the Alpha Centauri star system to explore it. Tiny spacecraft need less energy to move, so they can reach very high speeds. Tiny spacecraft need less energy to move, so they can reach very high speeds. Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, says either sunlight or lasers should be used to speed up the probes. To move quickly in space, the device needs to be small and have a small mass. It can be powered by either a solar sail, which uses a pulse of sunlight, or a photonic sail, which uses a pulse of a laser beam. “We are in the midst of a real revolution in space flight and space exploration, with extremely small systems,” Eubanks told Live Science in an email. “While an individual small spacecraft will not be as capable as a larger spacecraft, such as the Voyagers, their development times are much shorter; they are relatively inexpensive.” Both provide the necessary acceleration for a small device. According to Lubin, if you imagine the probe as a sailing ship, then solar or laser light in this case will be a tailwind. Scientists believe that there are no physical obstacles to accelerating the spacecraft to almost the speed of light, which will allow it to reach the Alpha Centauri system as quickly as possible. According to scientists, such a probe could take close-up pictures of not only the stars in the system, but also a potentially habitable planet. While Lubin believes that such a mission will not take place any time soon, Eubanks is confident that it will take place within this century. He envisions small probes launching as early as the 2040s and reaching the Alpha Centauri system in the 2060s. As for large spacecraft, Eubanks believes that they will be able to go to nearby stars at the end of the 21st century. Scientists believe that if there is some breakthrough in the development of new propulsion technologies, then people on a spaceship will be able to go to Alpha Centauri in the 22nd century. It is likely that this mission will definitely last not 4 years, but much longer. The post We will be able to reach the Alpha Centauri in our lifetime appeared first on Anomalien.com.

According ABC’s The View, there’s was no good reason for former President Trump to tell Christians to vote for him and openly suggested that courting them with policies meant doom for the country. They kicked off their Monday doom session by clutching their pearls and predicting the worst outcomes for America if Christians supported Trump en masse. They also decried the idea that parents with children should pay less in taxes. They were up in arms because Trump made this statement to a crowd at a recent campaign event: I don't care how, but you have to get out and vote, and again, Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years! You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. “What was he talking about? Is he saying, no one ever has to vote after they vote for him? What is he -- help me. What is going on?” huffed moderator Whoopi Goldberg. Of course, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin insisted – without evidence – that Trump’s comment had the worst intentions: FARAH GRIFFIN: There's two interpretations. He's either saying, ‘you won't have to vote again because I'm going to say there and there's not going to be another election.’ That's one interpretation. The other is, ‘Dear Christians, I'm going to remake this nation in such a way that it will embrace, you know, the laws will reflect your beliefs and you won't need to vote because it's taken care of.’ Either, I think, should be concerning. (…) He's talking about changing things so much that you wouldn't need to vote again in the future.     “Very scary, both of them,” added pretend moderate Sara Haines. “It was very ominous and scary the way he said it. But the explanation being possibly, ‘Don't worry, we'll get everything in line for the Christians,’ that's Project 2025. So, either way, you're saying something pretty scary.” While staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) has repeatedly suggested that black voters are a monolith who must vote Democrat (and claims black Republicans don’t actually exist), Farah Griffin took Issue with the idea that Trump was the Christian candidate: Well, he also puts us all in a box that all of us as Christians see things the same way and want the same policies. Which, some of the most prominent like Russell Moore, it’s been a deep Donald Trump critic since 2016. There are plenty of Christians who don't want Donald Trump in the White House. “Does he think that Christians aren't going to notice, like, if he remakes the world, that they're not going to notice he's not living in the world he's remade?” Goldberg declared. Fake Republican Ana Navarro didn’t want anything to do with that. Instead, she wanted it to be known that she left the Cult of Biden for “my girl Kamala.” “And I'm going to call her ‘my girl, Kamala’ because I have I have loved that woman since hello,” she proclaimed. “And I have been saying for the longest time that she's underestimated and the narratives that were created of her were just not accurate. And I think people are getting to see that. When she was the number two, she acted like the number two, but baby, now she's a number one, and she is slaying, killing it.” Despite the fact that The View had praised President Biden for supposedly cutting child poverty in half with a child-tac credit, Navarro suggested it was horrific for Senator and Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance to say parents with children should pay less in taxes: “He has said in more than -- more than once that he thinks…people with children must be rewarded…He wants people with children to pay less taxes.” Without evidence, she claimed Vance wanted people without kids “punished” and “wants people with children to have more voting rights.” She also never explained what “more voting rights” even meant. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View July 29, 2024 11:03:57 a.m. Eastern (…) FMR. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don't care how, but you have to get out and vote, and again, Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years! You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. (…) 11:04:37 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Okay. Let's talk about what that was. She made sense. What was he talking about? Is he saying, no one ever has to vote after they vote for him? What is he -- help me. What is going on? ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: There's two interpretations. He's either saying, ‘you won't have to vote again because I'm going to say there and there's not going to be another election.’ That's one interpretation. The other is, ‘Dear Christians, I'm going to remake this nation in such a way that it will embrace, you know, the laws will reflect your beliefs and you won't need to vote because it's taken care of.’ Either, I think, should be concerning. SARA HAINES: Very scary, both of them. FARAH GRIFFIN: He's talking about changing things so much that you wouldn't need to vote again in the future. GOLDBERG: Does he think that Christians aren't going to notice, like, if he remakes the world, that they're not going to notice he's not living in the world he's remade? FARAH GRIFFIN: [Laughter] Right. Well, he also puts us all in a box that all of us as Christians see things the same way and want the same policies. Which, some of the most prominent like Russell Moore, it’s been a deep Donald Trump critic since 2016. There are plenty of Christians who don't want Donald Trump in the White House. SARA HAINES: Well, and if you have to explain it – If you have to explain, like, how many times have we all watched it and said, ‘Well, they're saying this? What do you think he meant?’ You need to rewrite whatever's going on or, like, get a script. One of the two because that didn't make sense. It was very ominous and scary the way he said it. But the explanation being possibly, ‘Don't worry, we'll get everything in line for the Christians,’ that's Project 2025. So, either way, you're saying something pretty scary. GOLDBERG: Yeah. ANA NAVARRO: Well, I want to talk about my girl, Kamala! And I'm going to call her ‘my girl, Kamala’ because I have I have loved that woman since hello. And I have been saying for the longest time that she's underestimated and the narratives that were created of her were just not accurate. And I think people are getting to see that. When she was the number two, she acted like the number two, but baby, now she's a number one, and she is slaying, killing it. (…) 11:07:59 a.m. Eastern NAVARRO: He has said in more than -- more than once that he [Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH)] thinks people without children, that that's bad and must be punished, and people with children must be rewarded. He wants people with children to have more voting rights. He wants people with children to pay less taxes. (…)

The Monday morning flagship network news shows began with heavy doses of rank propaganda for Vice President Kamala Harris, telling viewers to find joy in saying “this is an entirely different campaign” with “momentum” and “new signs of strength” for Democrats now that President Joe Biden has been axed. In contrast, they showed they’re in lockstep with the Harris campaign by falsely attacking Trump for saying there “won’t have to vote anymore if he’s elected” and bragging Senator JD Vance (R-OH) is still “facing backlash” nearly a week into the (clearly coordinated) campaign to destroy Vance for “2021 comments referring to some Democrats as childless cat ladies”.     CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller pinch-hit on Monday and showed her partisan stripes (as she’s married to longtime liberal activist, former New Orleans Democratic mayor, and National Urban League boss, Marc Morial): “[T]here are new signs of strength for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign including new poll numbers and a growing financial haul. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is turning up the heat on her with a series of personal attacks.” Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes followed suit in working to gain brownie points for her new handlers: The Harris campaign says it brought in $200 million in the first week of her candidacy, that is a record. It’s also touting more than 170,000 new volunteers. Now the campaign says this is sign of pent-up interest in the race as the party converges around a new message about the Republican nominees, arguing they’re weird. Cordes excitedly added that Harris hasn’t just “rak[ed] in campaign cash”, but “also experienced a polling surge.” Cordes’s tone flipped the script for the Trump/Vance ticket. First, she whined the former President “tested out a series of new personal attacks this weekend” and Harris received “backup” in fighting Trump “from potential running mates...who held events on her behalf around the country.” The CBS correspondent also touted the latest word games against Trump before closing with negative doses for Vance on the “cat ladies” smear and a false claim that giving illegal immigrants citizenship wouldn’t mean they could vote (even though voting is, in fact, largely open to those who have U.S. passports) (click “expand”): CORDES: They also went after Trump for this unusual plea he made to Christian conservatives — TRUMP: Christians, get out and vote! Just this time. [APPLAUSE ] You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years — you know what, it’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. CORDES: — the Harris campaign said he was signaling an “end to democracy”. Republicans weren’t sure what he meant. (....) CORDES: Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, gave this explanation to CBS News — VANCE: I think he's saying get out there, make sure this election matters because if you don't, the next four years we may not have a real election if the Democrats give illegal aliens the right to vote. CORDES: It’s important to note the Democrats have not suggested that undocumented migrants should get the right to vote any time in the next four years. Democrats went after Vance all weekend, actually, for his past claim that childless cat ladies run the Democratic Party and even some Republicans said privately that they’re worried his comments will further erode Trump’s support among women. ABC’s Good Morning America understood the assignment on Monday. Correspondent Rachel Scott celebrated this day as “an entirely different campaign” with “Harris hoping to seize on that new momentum”. Scott used most of her segment to attack Vance and celebrate him “facing backlash for these comments he made three years ago disparaging Harris and other Democrats for not having children.”  As for Trump, Scott huffed that “[a]fter surviving an attempted assassination, former President Trump says he’s now backing away from calls to tone down the rhetoric” and fawned over “Democrats pouncing” with the claim about Trump joking this will be the last election if he wins.” “Donald Trump starting to sharpen his attacks against his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, mocking her laugh, mispronouncing her name, calling her unhinged and extreme. Vice President Kamala Harris responding to those new attacks from both Trump and Senator J.D. Vance, calling it all just plain weird,” she concluded. ABC political director Rick Klein also marveled (click “expand”): [T]his is an entirely different race than it was just a week ago, and one thing is for certain, it is close. We’ve had four major polls come out just since Joe Biden left the race and endorsed Harris. You have everything from a Harris plus two to a Trump plus three, basically a tied race all within the margin of error. We’ve also gotten some initial battleground state polling that’s encouraging for Democrats...[I]t has been quite a honeymoon for Vice President Harris. Just in the space of a week — so a week ago, 35 percent of the country saw her favorably — now it’s up to 43 percent. That includes a big jump among independents. She is now the very rare politician viewed more favorably than unfavorably at least for the moment. On the other side, we have seen kind of the opposite happened for Donald Trump. Coming out of his convention and that assassination attempt, we talked last week, he got to a four-year high in favorability of 40 percent, now it’s down to the mid-30s, back where it’s been for a long time, and J.D. Vance, this has not been a good debut week for him. The number of people who view him unfavorably jumped by eight points in the space of a week. Look at that gap, 15 points underwater overall (....) Just a week ago, 14 percent of the country said they were unfavorably inclined to support either one of the candidates. They — we call them the double haters. Now that number is cut in half, and check this out. The enthusiasm gap that Democrats have worried about, at least for now, entirely erased. Democrats enthusiastic about Kamala Harris’s candidacy just like Republicans are for Trump, and this is a striking number — 49 percent of independents say they are enthusiastic about Kamala Harris. Compare that number to Trumps and you see how this race has been turned on its head[.] NBC’s Today had senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson tout Team Harris “deploying a new adjective to blast the Republican ticket” as “weird” and “fueled by controversy surrounding Mr. Trump’s running mate JD Vance” with this manufactured “cat ladies” controversy. Jackson played a clip of Vance from last week in which he told the great Megyn Kelly that what he said in 2021 was “about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.” She also went after Trump by hyping a December appearance on NBC by Liz Cheney: It's gonna be a LONG 100 days of leftist bias. The 'Today' show themes on Monday: --Kamala raises BIG BUCKS --Kamala says Vance is WEIRD -- Trump now on DEFENSE over jokes about not needing to vote after 4 years of excellence...End of Democracy! Liz Cheney says so! pic.twitter.com/DM1ratLzhh — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 29, 2024 To see the relevant transcripts from July 29, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

New England Patriots star defensive tackle Christian Barmore will be absent for an unknown amount of time after his team announced he was treated for blood clots.The news came as a shock on Barmore's 25th birthday and just months following a contract extension with the Patriots.'Had this gone untreated, it could’ve been the worst for Christian Barmore.'The team posted the surprise news on X Sunday evening, revealing that Barmore had visited a Boston-area hospital: "Over the weekend, Christian Barmore was diagnosed with blood clots. He was appropriately treated by the doctors at Mass General Brigham, who tested, evaluated and treated Christian. Our principal concern at this time is Christian's health and well-being. Fortunately, Mass General Brigham provides some of the best healthcare in the world.""While there is no current timetable for his return, we know Christian is getting tremendous care and we look forward to his full recovery," the team added.Barmore posted to Instagram that same evening and wrote, "Thank you everyone for all the support, thoughts, and prayers. I'll be back soon."Barmore's agent, Nicole Lynn, thanked the Patriots' athletic trainer, Jim Whalen, for "his absolute diligence and care over the last couple of days," ESPN reported. — (@) NFL Network's Ian Rapoport said Sunday that Barmore had a bruise on the back of his calf and "kind of thought it was nothing," but Whalen insisted on having it looked at anyway."Had this gone untreated, it could’ve been the worst for Christian Barmore," Rapoport added.New England drafted Barmore in the second round in 2021 and has played there his whole career.The news comes as a huge blow to the team after the 6'5" player led the team with 8.5 sacks in 2023. He was set to be a starter this season as well.Barmore was rewarded with a huge contract extension in April 2024 worth $83 million with an $18 million signing bonus. He is set to earn an average of $20.75 million per season starting in 2025 with over $31 million in guaranteed money.Barmore also led the NFL in passes batted down at the line of scrimmage in 2023.The defensive player posted a thank you message on his birthday the morning the team announced his health issue, giving his fans an opportunity to wish him luck in his recovery."We love you B […] Prayers on a full recovery we will miss your absence. You're our Superman. GO PATS," one Patriots fan wrote.We love you B ❤️?????? Prayers on a full recovery ? we will miss your absence. You're our Superman ?♂️ GO PATS— Patriots Luchador (@PatriotLuchador) July 28, 2024 The 2024 NFL regular season starts Sept. 4. The Patriots’ first game is Sept. 8 against the Cincinnati Bengals.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A fatal shooting took place early Monday morning near a controversial New York City shelter for illegal immigrants, according to multiple reports.Authorities stated that gunfire erupted near the Randall’s Island shelter around 3:30 a.m. As a result of the attack, three victims were rushed to a nearby hospital.Violence is 'becoming common practice' at Randall's Island.A 44-year-old woman was pronounced dead after she was shot in the face and back, authorities reported. A 32-year-old man, who was hit in the throat, and a 31-year-old woman, who was hit in the back, reportedly are in stable condition. The New York Police Department said the investigation is still ongoing, and no arrests have been made.Authorities are searching for at least two male suspects, WABC-TV reported. Both suspects fled the scene — one on a moped and the other in a car with New Mexico license plates, the news outlet stated.Anything else?The Randall’s Island shelter has become a hotbed for violence since it began housing illegal aliens. Multiple incidents have occurred on or near the property over the past year.In February, a video of illegal immigrants attacking NYPD officers at the shelter went viral on social media. The footage captured a group of officers struggling to handcuff and detain an individual while a mob of illegal aliens, mostly adult males, attempted to disrupt the arrest. Some individuals in the unruly crowd hurled backpacks and bottles at the officers as they ultimately subdued and carried out the suspect.A few months ago, a group of five illegal alien males allegedly beat another man while he was eating on his bed. A security guard also sustained injuries while attempting to break up the altercation. A local law enforcement source told Fox News Digital that attacks are “becoming common practice” at the shelter.In May, another security guard working at the Randall’s Island shelter was punched, scratched, and bitten after he tried to break up a fight between a couple. A 24-year-old illegal immigrant was fatally stabbed at the Randall’s Island shelter after a group of men attacked him in January.Many of the illegal aliens at the shelter have reported that shelter residents have split into “camps” based on ethnicity, and “everyone has a knife.” Other individuals reported rampant theft.At least two of the suspects believed to be responsible for the fatal January stabbing are believed to be members of the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua.Fox News Digital reported that the suspects involved in Monday’s shooting also are being investigated for possible ties to the gang.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Blaze News' first installment of its two-part series on store workers who use their guts, fists, and wits to battle crooks tooth and nail features a mother and daughter encountering a crook right at closing time ... a hard-working dad on a conference call with his daughter's school as he's ready to wind things down for the evening when a thug puts a pistol in his face ... and a woman behind a counter who reads the riot act to a gun-toting goon who threatens to shoot her if she doesn't hand over all the register's cash. You no doubt recall that she has a piping hot weapon ready for him, too.Thing is, we found so many similar examples that we had to offer a second part. In this roundup, you'll read about a female clerk in an Ohio smoke shop who stands up to a thug who put a gun in her face and demanded money ... a Target security guard who punched an unhinged female in the face after she aggressively backed him into an office after demanding "reparations" amid a grocery bill topping $1,000 ... and an 80-year-old liquor store owner who gained fame after he shot a hooded, rifle-toting crook — an incident that was caught on surveillance video and showed the assailant turning tail and running out of the store yelling, "He shot my arm off! He shot my arm off!"'There was quite a bit of a struggle. ... You can see she grabs that vape case and smashes it over his head, and then as as they fall to the ground she grabs a sword and takes a couple swings at him and hits him ...'In some cases, these store employees working behind the counters and elsewhere own the businesses and feel the loss acutely when thugs steal from them. But in other cases, they don't own the businesses — and you'd figure they have no reason to battle back, but they do anyway because it's the right thing to do, and they care about the people who employ them.Indeed, they're the best of us. Check out their stories below:Female Family Dollar clerk fights male who pushes through plexiglass barrier, stabs at her, tries to grab cash from registerA female clerk at a North Carolina Family Dollar fought off a male customer who pushed through a plexiglass barrier, stabbed at her, and tried to grab money from the cash register — and the scary encounter was caught on surveillance video.The customer at the Sharpsburg store paid for a cigarette lighter with cash about 12:09 p.m. on July 14, 2022, the Rocky Mount Telegram reported. Sharpsburg is about an hour east of Raleigh. When the clerk opened the cash register, surveillance video shows the male push through a plexiglass barrier and stab at the clerk, WRAL-TV reported. The Telegram said he was holding a knife.The clerk quickly responds by beating back the male with her hands, the station said, adding that police said the male was trying to steal cash from the register. Video shows the male running out of the store after the struggle; the clerk appears to throw something at the male as takes off.The clerk called 911 and said the suspect was headed north on U.S. 301 toward Rocky Mount, the Telegram said. Rocky Mount is about 10 minutes north of Sharpsburg. The clerk suffered a cut on her hand during the struggle, the Telegram said. Video shows the clerk holding her left hand and signaling for help, WRAL said.Sharpsburg police quickly caught the suspect, the Telegram said. WRAL said he was arrested the same day the incident took place.Mohammud Alsaleh, 34, was charged with attempted armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious bodily injury, the Telegram said, adding that he was jailed under a $250,000 bond in the Nash County Detention Center.'He shot my arm off! He shot my arm off!' 80-year-old liquor store owner lets his shotgun do the talking when hooded crook armed with rifle walks inAfter four male suspects wearing facial coverings and hoods pulled up to the Norco Market & Liquor store in California at 2:45 a.m. July 31, 2022, one of them entered the establishment brandishing a rifle. But that didn't scare 80-year-old store owner Craig Cope.He saw what was happening outside his store on surveillance cameras, KCAL-TV reported, after which Cope armed himself. Surveillance video of the exchange inside the store shows Cope offering a brief warning to the rifle-wielding crook, who does not relent, after which Cope opens fire and finds his target.The wounded suspect flees back to the vehicle, screaming, "He shot my arm off! He shot my arm off!" You can view a video report about the incident here.Despite suffering a heart attack after the incident and requiring three stents, Cope returned to work just days later. He told KCAL in a follow-up story that the would-be robber he shot is "in the hospital, in critical condition. So, it must have been a pretty good shot." Regarding the foiled robbery, Cope told one reporter, "I took care of it, and that was that." Cope's wife, who told KCAL she didn't want to be identified, issued a warning to prospective criminals in the area: "Stay out of Norco, because everybody in Norco has a gun." Norco is just shy of an hour southeast of Los Angeles and about 20 minutes southwest of Riverside.KABC-TV reported that Cope suffered a stroke in October 2022, and his store's Facebook page announced that he died on the morning of Dec. 27, 2022.Three of the four male suspects from the incident pleaded guilty Sept. 20, 2023, to six felony charges and were immediately sentenced, the Mercury News reported. Davon Anthony Broadus, 24, Justin Kyle Johnson, 22, and Jamar Elijah Williams, 26, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, attempted robbery, carrying a loaded stolen firearm, possession of an assault weapon, and two counts of receiving stolen property, the Mercury News said, adding that charges of assault with an assault weapon and cruelty to an elder were dropped. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gary Polk sentenced them to five years in custody, the paper said.The trio drove Rasheed DaShawn Lee Belvin, 23 — the suspect Cope shot — to a hospital, where all of them were arrested, the News said. Neither of Belvin’s arms were shot off, the paper noted. Belvin’s attorney made a motion to have his case diverted to Mental Health Court, where charges could have been dropped after treatment, but the judge denied the motion, the Mercury News reported. Belvin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, attempted robbery, assault with a machine gun or assault weapon, cruelty to an elder, carrying a loaded stolen firearm, illegal possession of an assault weapon, and two counts of receiving stolen property, the Press-Enterprise reported, adding that Polk on Oct. 31, 2023, sentenced Belvin to 10 years in prison.San Francisco store owners fight back against teenage smash-and-grab robbers who use hammers as weapons. The crooks lose.Owners of a San Francisco camera store fought back against a trio of teenage smash-and-grab robbers, and even though the crooks used hammers in the fight, they all ran off apparently without any merchandise.The teens walked into the Chinatown store around 3:20 p.m. on March 21, 2022, and asked about the price of a camera, KPIX-TV reported, adding that they stayed in the store for about three minutes and then departed. The station said they returned about 30 minutes later — but they weren't interested in a transaction.“All of a sudden, they pulled out a hammer, and they started trying to smash the glass,” shop co-owner Sergio told KPIX. Problem was, the cases behind the counter are plexiglass and wouldn’t break, the station said, adding that one glass countertop case did shatter.Surveillance video shows one of the store owners grabbing what appears to be a bat or a rod, and he approaches the crooks, two of whom swing hammers at Sergio and the other co-owner.“One of the guys up there is trying to hit my partner with a hammer,” Sergio told the station. “I run, and I try to grab a bat that I have. Try to protect myself and my business here.”KPIX said a neighboring business owner ran over to help and was hit in the head with a hammer, after which he needed 10 stitches.“One of the guys, they put the pepper spray in my eyes,” Sergio added to the station. “The other guy is trying to hit me with a hammer, and I’m trying to protect myself.”After about a minute, the attempted robbery and hammer attack were over, KPIX said. Video shows the trio running out of the trashed store, apparently without any merchandise. The station said the store co-owners have been in the camera business for 27 years, but now, they're nervous about coming in to work. "We don’t know them – but they know us because we work over here seven days a week," Ariel, the other co-owner, told KPIX.Sergio added to the station, "After this, I’m worried, and I’m scared — because God forbid if they come back. Hopefully they [are] not gonna come back. But if they come back with a gun, what happens?”You can view video of the altercation here. You can also watch a video report about the crime and the aftermath here.Smoke shop owner fights back, stabs would-be thief: 'I was in a fight or flight mode'Johnny Nguyen, owner of the Smokestrom Smoke Shop in Las Vegas, was in his store in the middle of the day Aug. 3, 2022, when two individuals wearing ski masks walked in. Surveillance video shows Nguyen asking them, "Why are you guys wearing masks like that?" Nguyen then said, "Can you guys just leave?"One of the individuals takes a tip jar, and Nguyen says they can take the jar but asks them to leave the coins. Suddenly, one of them jumps over the counter. Nguyen responded by stabbing the would-be thief seven times with a knife while the other individual ran out of the smoke shop.As he's being stabbed, the would-be thief yells, "I'm dead! I'm dead!" then falls to the floor. Nguyen dragged the crook near the front door; the store owner also called police.Nguyen told KVVU-TV, "I was in a fight or flight mode… a lot of adrenaline going through my body." He also told the station he plans to purchase a gun for the store in the event his store is robbed again.Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two juveniles involved in the attempted robbery. The stabbed would-be robber was taken to a hospital; authorities didn't reveal the suspect's condition. No charges were immediately filed against Nguyen.Masked thug points gun at female clerk in smoke shop, demands cash and vapes. But she's not about to let him waltz away without a fight.Dejea Steiner was working behind the counter at the Magic Wizard Smoke Shop in Euclid, Ohio, last summer when a masked individual pointed a gun at her and demanded cash and vapes, WJW-TV reported.Steiner grabbed a display case to retrieve the items, but she had no intention of complying. “I wanted to get out of that situation, so I did whatever I could,” the 27-year-old told the station.For starters, Steiner rammed the display case into the robber's face, WJW said, adding that after she and the robber ended up on the floor fighting, Steiner grabbed a sword she remembered was near the cash register and started swinging it. The station said the suspect fired his gun and yelled several times for Steiner to “get back!”“After the gunshot, I just ran out the door,” Steiner told WJW, adding that she hollered for help. The suspect grabbed several items as well as cash and took off, the station said.Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer told WJW the suspect is very dangerous — and that Steiner is fortunate to have gotten away from him: “The clerk is just very lucky she wasn’t injured or killed during the incident. I am so glad she is OK.”The June 27, 2023, incident was captured on surveillance video. “There was quite a bit of a struggle," Euclid Police Capt. Mitch Houser noted to the station. "You can see she grabs that vape case and smashes it over his head, and then as as they fall to the ground she grabs a sword and takes a couple swings at him and hits him — but the sheath was still on, so it didn’t do any damage.”Steiner told WJW she's all done with violent criminals, saying they've "kind of made people fed up, you know? I come to work every day. The people that own the store, they are struggling, too — and then to see people go out here and do this type of thing and harming people, you know, it's not OK.”Steiner added to the station that she hopes to become a graphic designer — and she also holds out some hope for the armed crook who took what wasn't his.“I understand life is hard," she explained to WJW. "It's hard for me. I've been through so much stuff. I'm even considered homeless right now, and I still get up and work. You need to work. We need to all try and help the economy. If you get a second chance at life, please do the right thing.”Target security guard punches unhinged female in face who reportedly chased him into office after demanding 'reparations' amid $1K grocery bill: 'This is my Rosa Parks moment'The incident took place in October 2022 in Blue Ash, Ohio, after Karen Ivery asked the Target cashier for the manager regarding her bill of more than $1,000 in groceries and "reparations," the New York Post said, citing a police report.When speaking with the manager, Ivery first asked for reparations and then grew angry as she walked “aggressively” toward the manager, the Post said, citing the report. “Ivery kept berating her about reparations and her privileged life,” the report said, according to the Post, as the customer continued walking toward the manager.With that, Zach Cotter — a loss-prevention officer — intervened and asked Ivery to calm down and leave the store, the paper noted, citing the report. But Ivery allegedly began screaming at Cotter and followed him to his office, the Post reported.When he tried to shut the door, Ivery allegedly forced her way into the office — and Cotter threw a punch, the Post added, citing the report. Ivery fell to the floor after the wallop. You can view video of the punch here.Later, a rather jaw-dropping scene took place in the office as one of the cops called to the scene tells Ivery that video shows her backing the security guard — who feared for his safety — into an office. She replied that "when people are backed into a corner, they can choose to do the right thing, or they can choose to lash out."Ivery also claimed she "held the line" and then "moved my line continuously" before accusing store employees of "gatekeeping me." Soon, she was holding aloft her left fist and hollering, "If the laws are meant to hold people down, you will fight for me, my community! You will come for me!"She added, "People that look like you are done trying to gatekeep people that look like me." Video also shows Ivery telling a police officer, "This is my Rosa Parks moment, dude. Don't play with me."Authorities determined that Ivery was the “aggressor,” after which she was placed under arrest, the Post said. “Ivery was confrontational with officers on the scene and didn’t want to explain her actions,” the report added, according to the paper.Ivery was sentenced to a day in jail and charged $110 for disorderly conduct, the Post said, citing the Daily Mail. The Post said a Target spokesperson declined to comment about the incident.'They're just sick of it': 6 smash-and-grab crooks hit jewelry center, but tenants — some of whom 'feed three families' — fight back to defend their livelihoodsSix black-clad crooks attempted a smash-and-grab robbery at a downtown Los Angeles jewelry center on Sept. 6, 2022, but the tenants — some of whom "feed three families" — weren't having it and fought back against the robbers to defend their livelihoods, KCBS-TV reported. Surveillance video caught the mayhem during the attempted robbery at St. Vincent Jewelry Center; the station said tenants used display cases as barriers and threw objects at the would-be robbers. You can view a video report about the incident here."The majority of our tenants have the kind of glass that you can't break, so [the robbers] were not successful," Nejdeh Avedian, general manager of the center, told KCBS. A security guard detained one of the suspects in a nearby parking lot, after which police took the suspect into custody, the station said.Avedian told KCBS the majority of his tenants are from other countries and put their entire livelihoods on the line for the jewelry they're selling — which Avedian said explains why they fought back. "You know what?" he added to the station. "I think they're just sick of it."Avedian explained to KCBS that "some of these tenants, they feed three families, so the grandfather, the father, and now the son — so they're not going to just sit there and let people take all this jewelry without doing anything about it."The jewelry district was established in 1972, but Avedian told the station smash-and-grab robberies have been surging in the jewelry district in the last two years — presumably because consequences for getting caught are minimal."There's no repercussion for them," he noted to KCBS. "Their repercussion is, if they get caught, they go to jail; the next day, they're out walking around the streets. We want police to help us, and they are. We're setting up meetings with them. We've been discussing it with them. We just need more help from [Council District]14, from our council member, from our government, to help us with these types of things."Employees of family-owned jewelry store fight back against hammer-wielding smash-and-grab assailantsEmployees of a California jewelry store fought back against hammer-wielding assailants and repelled their smash-and-grab robbery attempt on May 22, 2022. Video KTLA-TV obtained shows employees at the Princess Bride Diamonds store at the Bella Terra mall in Huntington Beach react quickly to several assailants with hammers running into the store around noon to smash the display cases. You can view KTLA's video report about the incident — which includes surveillance video of the fight — here.Among the employees were a brother and sister who work for their father. The Baca family has owned the shop for several years.“We had an idea that it could happen, but it’s always different when it actually does happen,” Dallas Baca said, adding that one suspect hit him in the head with a hammer during the altercation.“I didn’t even register it until after they left because there was so much like adrenaline going on,” Baca said of the strike to his temple area.Sarah Baca told KTLA she "picked up a chair" and "hit the one guy in the head that was attacking Lily,” who is another employee.“I’m just glad everyone’s OK. I’m glad that our team banded together, and we were able to put up a fight and stop what was happening,” she added.The thieves stole about $7,000 worth of jewelry in the incident, Huntington Beach police spokeswoman Jennifer Carey said.Other workers in the mall said they were happy the employees fought back.“I guess they walked in the store, broke some things, but the family fought them off, so good for them, right?” surf shop worker Kyle Sary noted.NYC jewelry store worker fights back when robbers threaten to kill him if he doesn't open display case. He survives, but crooks get away with $1K in rings.A New York City jewelry store worker managed to escape injury after he fought back early this year against robbers who threatened to shoot him if he didn't open a display case. The robbers, however, got away with rings valued at $1,000 — and they both changed clothes during their getaway in an effort to evade capture.Police said the pair watched Ray’s Midtown Jewelry on Lexington Avenue near East 45th Street for about half an hour before entering the store, the New York Daily News reported. Crime Stoppers said it all went down around 5:20 p.m. Jan. 4. One of the robbers racked his gun several times and threatened to shoot the 53-year-old worker if he didn’t open a display case, police told the paper.But the worker fought back, wrestling with the second robber, who was toting a can of pepper spray, the paper said. With that, the gunman didn't wait on the outcome of the fight and smashed the glass display case with his gun, the Daily News noted.While the worker wasn't hurt, police told the paper the duo ran off with rings valued at $1,000 — and changed their clothing. However, the Daily News said the gunman, while racking his weapon, left behind ballistic evidence police recovered. Authorities released surveillance images of the suspects and asked the public to help identify them, the paper said.The Post reported that a man who gave only his first name — Michael — said he entered the jewelry store moments after the armed robbery.“You could see the glass was smashed all over, and [the owner] was terrified,” Michael — a 57-year-old customer who works in financial services — told the paper. “He’s scared, you know. I mean, he hasn’t opened up since. And you feel bad for the guy because you know this is really killing his business. I mean, he’s got overhead, and he’s afraid to open.”A clerk at a news stand right next to the jewelry store — who also gave only his first name, Sharif — told the paper he's scared that he'll also become a victim.“New York City is a big problem now. No security,” the 58-year-old Brooklyn resident told the paper. “It is really getting very bad here. We have a problem. I do not know who comes in, who has a gun. They ask for $100 in [lottery tickets], and then they reach in their jacket, and I am worried they pull out a gun.”Gun-wielding crook holds up convenience store, but clerk fights back while handing over cash. Crook fires shots — and he miraculously misses.Valins Cesar opened the Bi-Low Market in Delray Beach, Florida, around 7 a.m. Dec. 5, 2021, and a male he identified as a regular customer walked in soon afterward.“When he usually comes [in], he says, ‘Hey, brother, how you doing?’ And we would make a joke and stuff,” Cesar recalled to WPBF-TV. But the familiar customer was not in a laughing mood this time — and Cesar told the station the male walked around the counter, pulled out a gun, and pointed it at Cesar’s head.“He says, ‘Open the register. Give me the money,’” Cesar recounted to WPBF. “I’m like, ‘OK. That’s what you want.’ And I open the register and give him the money.” Surveillance video captured the moment Cesar held the wad of cash and dropped it the crook's bag — as well as the life-and-death decision Cesar made next. Video shows Cesar throwing a fast punch when the gunman appeared to be looking away, and then a struggle broke out. Cesar shoved the gunman backward and through the door that separates the area behind the counter from the rest of the store.As the gunman stumbled to the floor, he fired a shot into the ceiling, the station said, adding that seconds later, the gunman fired another shot — and this bullet flew past Cesar and hit a box of cigars.“I didn’t know the gun was real,” Cesar told WPBF, noting his reasons for deciding to fight the gunman. “When he goes down, the gun went off like boom! That’s when I realized the gun is real.”Other thoughts went through Cesar's mind as well, the station said — and they were all about his wife and children. “I was thinking, 'If I was to die, I mean, who's gonna help them?'” Cesar recounted to WPBF. “I mean, like, the kids need their father.”Police identified the suspect as Brandon Bryant, who was in police custody, the station said, adding that investigators noted Bryant also is responsible for an armed robbery two days prior at Bodega Delray.WPBF added that despite the hair-raising incident, which included a bullet flying past him, Cesar didn't miss any work. Why? Because he has a family to feed, he told the station. You can view a video report about the incident here.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When Biden finally dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Obamas – some of the most powerful people in the Democratic party – did not initially follow suit, leading people to speculate that maybe Michelle would run. However, that conjecture has been put to rest, as the Obamas have now endorsed Harris. Glenn Beck plays the footage of Harris getting the phone call from Barack and Michelle announcing their official endorsement, which is included in one of her campaign ads. Did Kamala Harris make a SECRET DEAL with Obama to get the Nomination? www.youtube.com “It doesn’t ring true to me,” says Glenn, wondering what it “cost her” to get the stamp of approval from Obamas – a very “transactional couple.” “Not nothing; I think we can be certain of that,” says Stu Burguiere. “Here’s my guess,” says Glenn. “One of the pieces that it cost was Mark Kelly. Barack and Michelle want Mark Kelly; they do not want Kamala Harris. That's why he hadn't endorsed, and he was hoping that this would all go away after Joe Biden endorsed Kamala. I think Joe Biden [endorsed her] as a slap across Michelle and Barack's face.” “I don't think [Biden] likes [the Obamas] at all, and I don't think they like him,” he continues. “[Biden] issued that letter and then he came out and said, ‘Oh by the way, I also endorse Kamala.”’ According to Glenn, however, “if [the Obamas] have a chance to turn on [Kamala] and do a coup on her, they will.” “Why do you think Mark Kelly was such a big favorite of the Obama family?” asks Stu. "Mark Kelly is the Pacifica," and "[Harris] is the Ferrari," is Glenn's answer. To hear his explanation of this metaphor, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.