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by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning: Over the past century, monetary systems change about every 30–40 years on average. Before 1914, the global monetary system was based on the classical gold standard. Then in 1944, a new monetary system emerged at Bretton Woods. Under that system, the dollar became the global reserve currency, linked to gold […]

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7-Eleven announced it will close hundreds of underperforming locations across North America. “Seven & I Holdings, 7-Eleven’s Japan-based parent company, revealed in its earnings report that 444 locations are closing,” The Hill reports. The company cited slow sales, declining traffic, inflation, and decreasing cigarette purchases among the reasons for closing the locations. 7-Eleven closing nearly 450 underperforming stores https://t.co/kK8f9MGitj pic.twitter.com/MMD5eA17mT — New York Post (@nypost) October 12, 2024 New: 7-Eleven is closing down more than 400 locations across America. pic.twitter.com/1oopka7XmY — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) October 12, 2024 From The Hill: A specific list of stores slated for closure wasn’t released. 7-Eleven has 13,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada, meaning the closures would only impact 3 percent of the company’s portfolio. The chain also has over 21,000 shops in Japan. “The North American economy remained robust overall thanks to the consumption of high-income earners, despite a persistently inflationary, elevated interest rate and deteriorating employment environment. In this context, there was a more prudent approach to consumption, particularly among middle- and low-income earners,” Seven & I said in an earnings release. The chain also pointed out that cigarette sales, once the largest sales category for convenience stores, has fallen 26 percent since 2019. A shift in sales to other nicotine products hasn’t made much of a difference, they said. Popular convenience store chain 7-Eleven is set to close over 400 locations https://t.co/IQYU7ETrgm pic.twitter.com/rl1A99hNDz — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 12, 2024 BREAKING: 7-Eleven, the popular convenience store chain, has revealed plans to shut down over 400 stores across North America. pic.twitter.com/Xek7zn4zP4 — The General (@GeneralMCNews) October 12, 2024 Per CBS News: The retailer declined to provide any details as to the locations of the stores to be closed or when the closures would occur. “Aligned with our long-term growth strategy, we continuously review and optimize our portfolio to deliver convenience where, when and how customers need it. As part of this, we made the decision to optimize a number of noncore assets that do not fit into our growth strategy. At the same time, we continue to open stores in areas where customers are looking for more convenience,” 7-Eleven told CBS MoneyWatch. 7-Eleven’s announcement follows Walgreens disclosing it would close hundreds of stores across the United States. Walgreens Plans HUNDREDS of Store Closures Across U.S.

The Kingdom of Denmark is set to cover the costs of an integration plan and a prosthetic leg for Nigerian pirate Lucky Frances, who was granted Danish residency just two years after attacking the Danish [...] The post Pirate Who Lost Leg Attacking Danish Navy Granted Residency and Prosthetic Limb as Compensation appeared first on The People's Voice.

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) appeared to have trouble managing his own personal firearm when he went pheasant hunting on opening day in his home state of Minnesota on Saturday, participating in the 12th annual Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener. Walz, who is vying for the vice presidency alongside current Vice President Kamala Harris, brought along staffers and reporters as part of an eleventh-hour media blitz geared primarily toward shoring up support among men for the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket. The Trump War Room shared video from MSNBC’s coverage of Walz’s outing, pointing out that even the reporter saw it for the political play that it was. “MSNBC implies that Tim Walz going pheasant hunting is nothing more than a desperate attempt to make up ground with male voters. Sorry Tim, men aren’t voting for a gun grabber.” MSNBC implies that Tim Walz going pheasant hunting is nothing more than a desperate attempt to make up ground with male voters. Sorry Tim, men aren’t voting for a gun grabber. pic.twitter.com/Asvq38ObkM — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 12, 2024 When the photos began to circulate on X, however, all anyone really noticed was just how often everyone involved in the pheasant hunt was pictured without a firearm of any kind — Walz included. “Tim Walz goes ‘pheasant hunting’ to try to appeal to men by showing he’s a regular dude. Only problem? No shotguns. Anywhere in sight,” Monica Crowley posted. Tim Walz goes “pheasant hunting” to try to appeal to men by showing he’s a regular dude. Only problem? No shotguns. Anywhere in sight. pic.twitter.com/f7NZLVnV0x — Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) October 12, 2024 “Totally authentic. Walz just happened to have a camera crew and staff with him while pheasant hunting, in a sad, desperate attempt to appeal to male voters. Even MSNBC called him out on it lol,” Sara Rose posted. Totally authentic. Walz just happened to have a camera crew and staff with him while pheasant hunting, in a sad, desperate attempt to appeal to male voters. Even MSNBC called him out on it lol. pic.twitter.com/YWzWGXRMhh — Sara Rose ??? (@saras76) October 12, 2024 “What’s @Tim_Walz hunting for, anyway? Bargains?” Jim Treacher asked. What's @Tim_Walz hunting for, anyway? Bargains?pic.twitter.com/wVlPdiLjvK — jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) October 12, 2024 “It’s strange to go hunting without a gun. Maybe Walz is just counting on Doug Emhoff to punch the pheasants to death,” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles added. It's strange to go hunting without a gun. Maybe Walz is just counting on Doug Emhoff to punch the pheasants to death. https://t.co/xd8y3VNN3R — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) October 12, 2024 “Tampon Tim Walz did a lot of posing for the cameras during his ‘hunting’ photo op today. He didn’t fire his gun and shot exactly zero pheasants. It’s all fake,” the Trump War Room posted. Tampon Tim Walz did a lot of posing for the cameras during his "hunting" photo op today. He didn't fire his gun and shot exactly zero pheasants. It's all fake. pic.twitter.com/84LxOE6SW0 — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 12, 2024 The one video that did show Walz with a firearm — his own personal Beretta — only made things worse as he appeared to struggle to operate it. CBS campaign reporter Shawna Mizelle posted, “@Tim_Walz is out hunting pheasants for the season opener in MN. The Harris Walz campaign recently announced the hunters, gun owners & anglers coalition. Walz often says he supports the 2nd Amndmt but advocates for ‘common sense’ legislation. & we know Harris owns a Glock.” Tim Walz brought his own gun, a beretta, to hunt for pheasants, he tells me. “ I bought it when I was we shooting a lot of trap,” the Minnesota governor said. pic.twitter.com/K1zGkWYEPY — Shawna Mizelle (@shawnamizelle) October 12, 2024 Mizelle followed several photos with video of Walz attempting to operate his firearm and complaining, “It never fits quite right, it’s not quite right.” “Watch Tim Walz struggle to load his shotgun and then complain that the kick usually hurts his shoulder. Men everywhere are in awe,” Amber Duke commented. Watch Tim Walz struggle to load his shotgun and then complain that the kick usually hurts his shoulder. Men everywhere are in awe. https://t.co/sGu5IIBvN2 — Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) October 12, 2024 “I remember my first time holding a shotgun, too,” The Federalist’s Sean Davis added. I remember my first time holding a shotgun, too. https://t.co/adCkz6Hlw2 — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 12, 2024 At one point, according to Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie, Walz asked whether former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance — who make up the Republican presidential ticket — ever hunted. Someone responded by suggesting that if they did, they would hunt endangered species. Gov WALZ was on a pheasant hunt today. According to the pooler — At one point someone brought up JD Vance & Walz asked do "those guys" hunt?  The person responded maybe endangered species.  // Yikes. — Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) October 12, 2024

Iran’s Islamic regime reportedly knew about Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack at least several months before it was carried out in 2023, according to newly released documents that were discovered months ago inside Gaza. The New York Times obtained minutes of 10 secret meetings that Hamas held that included Yahya Sinwar and his top commanders in which they planned the massacre that killed more than 1,200 people. The Israeli military discovered the documents on a computer in January 2024 as they searched an underground command center in Khan Younis. “Members of and experts close to Hamas” confirmed to the Times that the documents were legitimate and authentic, the report said. The Washington Post reported that other documents from Hamas showed that the terrorist group had even deadlier plans for its attack on Israel. Hamas’ plans were based on more than 17,000 photographs of Israel that were taken from satellites, drones, and social media postings. Hamas planned attacks at additional Israeli military facilities, Ben Gurion International Airport, a 70-story skyscraper, and “the Azrieli Center complex which comprises three skyscrapers, a large shopping mall, train station and cinema.” The terrorist group searched for ways to destroy the skyscraper, hoping to replicate, on a smaller scale, Al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly claimed that Iran had nothing to do with the attack and was not aware of its planing. However, documents obtained by the various publications also debunk this false claim. It has already been established that hundreds of Hamas terrorists received “specialized combat training” inside Iran from the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) in the months leading up to October 7. Iran sent Hamas at least $10 million, the documents state. But Sinwar wanted more and launched a “vigorous appeal” directly to Khamenei, requesting $500 million over the course of two years and training for 12,000 Hamas terrorists. “Iran trained Hamas and encouraged them to do exactly the things they did on Oct. 7,” said Farzin Nadimi, an Iran expert and senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Their goal was to get to the core of the Israeli state and crush it.” Hamas was ready to carry out the attack in July 2022, but decided to postpone it. The documents do not state why the attack was postponed, but based on details included in the notes, it is believed to be because they were trying to enlist support from Hezbollah and Iran. However, the terrorist group did not want to wait too long to launch the attack because Israel was on the verge of deploying a new laser defense weapon to shoot down rockets and missiles, the report said. Sinwar’s deputy, Khalil al-Hayya, discussed the attack in the summer of 2023 with senior IRGC commander Mohammed Said Izadi and asked for Iran’s help with striking sensitive Israeli military sites within the “first hour” of the attack, the report said. Izadi said that Iran supported the plan, but needed time “to prepare the environment.” While Iran did not conduct military strikes against Israel that day, it is not known, at least publicly, whether they provided any kind of logistical, surveillance, or other type of assistance to fulfill Hamas’ request for support during the first hour of the attack. It is clear, however, that Iran knew about the attack well in advance of the massacre. The Wall Street Journal reported that some of the documents dated back to 2019, when Qassem Soleimani was still the head of the IRGC-QF. Soleimani told Hamas that they had few allies in the region and that even Turkey, which likes Hamas, couldn’t provide “a single bullet” to the terror group. “The reality,” Soleimani said, “is that there is no one but Iran.”

Conservative activist Scott Presler revealed during an interview with Morning Wire why he believes former President Donald Trump will win the vital battleground state of Pennsylvania in the 2024 election. Presler, the head of Early Vote Action PAC, has been effectively leading grassroots efforts in Pennsylvania to register people to vote, taking aim at Amish residents and hunters, in particular, who are generally conservative and have low rates of voter turnout. “Let’s talk about the data for a second and why I think, objectively, we’re in the best place to win Pennsylvania [compared to] four or even eight years ago,” Presler told Morning Wire.  “Two things that really stick out to me are, a.) Since 2020, we have actually cut in half the amount of registered Democrats in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where they had an advantage of 650,000 four years ago,” he explained. “Now that advantage has been narrowed to 333,000.” “But the other thing that leads me to believe that President Trump has a real shot at winning Pennsylvania is that Democrats are down 416,000 mail-in ballot requests from where they were four years ago at the same time,” Presler revealed. “Those two data points show me Pennsylvania is in play,” he said. LISTEN to Presler’s interview on Morning Wire: “Flipping Pennsylvania: Trump’s Secret Weapon” “Some people are switching from Democrat to Republican — and I want to give a shout out to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for their destructive Democrat policies that are pushing so many Democrats over to our party,” the activist explained, adding that he’s also seeing “a lot of youth” register for the first time. Presler identified the top three issues in this election as the economy, immigration, and foreign policy. “There are three issues that are on people’s minds,” he said. “The first one that I hear every single day is the economy.” “I’m talking to this woman,” Presler recalled. “She was born in 1965, she’s never voted. She goes, ‘I’m registering and I’m voting because I can’t afford anything.’ This is, deeply, an economic election. People are struggling, moms are struggling to feed their kids, to afford mortgages.” “Number two, the issue at the forefront — I don’t care what state you’re in; I don’t care if you’re in Connecticut, Rhode Island — every state under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a border state,” he said. “This is an immigration election.” “And third, and probably one of the reasons why so many young people are coming over to the Republican Party, is this is a peace, not war election,” he said. “I want to be overt in this messaging: [Russian President Vladimir] Putin did not invade Ukraine under President Trump. We had peace through strength. Israel was not genocided by Iran, a.k.a Hamas, October 7th, under President Trump. We are seeing new wars that wouldn’t have happened under President Trump, and didn’t happen.” “A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote to send young men and women under 35 to fight endless wars,” Presler closed. “A vote for President Trump is a vote for peace, and to make sure that young people are able to thrive and prosper in the United States of America and abroad.” Related: GOP Makes A Play For The Amish In Key Battleground State