Daily Archives: July 18, 2010

Jul 18 2010

Lost Charlie Chaplin Film Discovered

A scene from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film A Thief Catcher

A scene from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film, A Thief Catcher Photo: AP

The comedy called A Thief Catcher was made in 1914 and was missing for so many years that Chaplin’s appearance in it as a buffoon policeman had been forgotten.

The 10-minute movie was discovered by the American cinema historian, Paul Gierucki, who bought a can of old film marked “Keystone” at an antiques sale in Michigan.

Jul 18 2010

US Middle Class Being Wiped Out!

The 22 statistics detailed here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate. Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace.

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