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Seattle business owner Olga Sagan says rampant crime is forcing her to close one of her stores. / IMAGE: NewsNation via YouTube ( Headline USA ) A Seattle business owner said the city’s drug problem has become a “criminal and humanitarian emergency” that is so out of control that she had to close her business due to safety concerns.
Olga Sagan told Fox News this week that she was forced to permanently shutter one of her three bakeries in February because of a surge in shootings and drug use outside the store.
“As COVID came in and downtown emptied out, I feel like the criminal activity has really taken over the streets,” she said.
She said that when her bakery, Piroshky Prioshky, reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, “we ended up dealing with people selling drugs, buying drugs.”
In a video she shared with Fox News, a group of dozens of individuals can be seen outside her store smoking and injecting drugs on the sidewalk.
“It was to the point where it’s an open drug market,” she said.
The final straw for Sagan was a fatal shooting on March 5, when 15-year-old Michael Delbianco was killed in the 1500 block of Third Avenue in downtown Seattle .
“There is a kid who got killed there and a couple more people in the last months who lost their lives,” Sagan said.“This is not a good business environment,” she said. “That was my message for the last six months, but I honestly have run out of messages to send.”Sagan’s business isn’t the only one fleeing downtown Seattle. Amazon recently announced that it would be relocating its employees who work downtown due to the safety threats they were facing every day.“Given recent incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
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