Only 12 of us? Thanks baker, happy Sunday to everyone else…
We did figure out that the person who told her to contact Cheney was working for Pence. So there's that (how to you plant a plant?).
She really looked (and sounded) hypnotized to me.
"The human body, especially, has properties analogous to those of the magnet; different and opposite poles can be distinguished, poles which can be changed, linked, destroyed and strengthened; even the phenomenon of dipping can be observed."
How much metal is in the human body?
A lot more than we think. If we could extract and mine the gold, tho…
He should just leave it alone already. Why go on about it when it's obvious to everyone she was lying? I swear he gets stuck on shit too long.
Long-missing Alexander Hamilton letter put on public display
Associated Press Sunday, July 3, 2022
BOSTON — A letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen decades ago from the Massachusetts state archives is going back on display - though not exactly in the room where it happened.
The founding father’s letter will be the featured piece at the Commonwealth Museum’s annual July Fourth exhibit, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin’s office says. It’s the first time the public is getting a chance to see it since it was returned to the state after a lengthy court battle.
It will be featured alongside Massachusetts’ original copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury who’s been getting renewed attention in recent years because of the hit Broadway musical that bears his name, wrote the letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat who served as a general in the Continental Army.
Dated July 21, 1780, it details an imminent British threat to French forces in Rhode Island.
“We have just received advice from New York through different channels that the enemy are making an embarkation with which they menace the French fleet and army,” Hamilton wrote. “Fifty transports are said to have gone up the Sound to take in troops and proceed directly to Rhode Island.”
It’s signed “Yr. Most Obedt, A. Hamilton, Aide de Camp.”
The letter was forwarded by Massachusetts Gen. William Heath to state leaders, along with a request for troops to support French allies, Galvin’s office said.
The letter was believed to have been stolen during World War II by a state archives worker, then sold privately.
It resurfaced several years ago when an auctioneer in Virginia received it from a family that wanted to sell it. The auction house determined it had been stolen and contacted the FBI. A federal appeals court ruled in October that it belonged to the state.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/3/long-missing-alexander-hamilton-letter-put-on-publ/
The official synopsis of the series is as follows:
“The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.”
The action thriller starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans is LOADED with fantastic combat scenes and nine action set pieces that will look amazing on the big screen. If you have the chance to watch The Gray Man on a movie screen, seize the opportunity.
(moar goar for the four)
Schoolboy, 14, who 'used a fake ID' to get into a nightclub in Manchester's gay village, is arrested on suspicion of rape after a woman is attacked in the toilets
A 14-year-old boy allegedly used fake ID to sneak into a nightclub in Manchester
He was arrested after a woman claimed she raped in the men's toilets of the club
The woman's friends told police he offered to sell them drugs at around 4.15am
Licencing committee heard a bouncer ignored two people being inside a cubicle
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10978115/Schoolboy-14-arrested-suspicion-rape-nightclub-Manchesters-gay-village.html
Several people shot at shopping mall in Copenhagen, 1 person arrested: Police
Police have not said how many people were injured.
By Rashid Haddou and William Mansell
July 03, 2022, 12:11 PM
Several people have been shot at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to local authorities.
Danish police said they are responding to reports of shootings at Field's, which is a shopping center. One person has been arrested in connection with the shooting, police tweeted.
"We are still present, shots have been fired and several people have been hit. We work on site. People in the Fields must stay and await the police. All other persons must stay away from Fields," police tweeted via Google translate.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/people-shot-shopping-mall-copenhagen-police/story?id=86152998
Russian laser scientist dies two days after arrest for state treason
By Mark Trevelyan July 3, 2022
1:08 PM CDT Last Updated 31 min ago
LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - A Russian scientist who was arrested in Siberia last week on suspicion of state treason and flown to Moscow despite suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer has died, lawyers and a family member said on Sunday.
Physicist Dmitry Kolker, 54, had been taken from his hospital bed, where he was being fed through a tube, and bundled onto a flight of more than four hours to Moscow, where the lawyers said he was taken to Lefortovo prison and later died in a nearby hospital.
His cousin Anton Dianov told Reuters from the United States that the accusation against the laser specialist - that he had betrayed state secrets to China - was preposterous.
"He was a scientist, he loved his country, he was working in his country despite many invitations from leading universities and labs to go work abroad. He wanted to work in Russia, he wanted to teach students there," he said.
"These charges are absolutely ridiculous and extremely cruel and unusual to be levied on such a sick man. They knew that he was on his deathbed and they chose to arrest him."
The family and lawyers said Kolker was detained, and his house searched, by the FSB security service. They said the treason charges - which carry a sentence of up to 20 years - were based on lectures Kolker had delivered in China, even though the content had been approved by the FSB.
Reuters did not receive a reply to an emailed request for comment from the FSB.
Lawyer Alexander Fedulov told Reuters he had attempted to contact the authorities on behalf of Kolker but been turned away from the FSB investigative department and from the prison.
He said he would file a legal complaint on Monday over the circumstances of Kolker's detention.
On Saturday, state news agency TASS said Russia had detained a second scientist in Novosibirsk on suspicion of state treason. It was not clear if the two cases were connected. read more
A number of Russian scientists have been arrested and charged with treason in recent years for allegedly passing sensitive material to foreigners. Critics of the Kremlin say the arrests often stem from unfounded paranoia.
Dianov, the cousin, said Kolker was also a highly accomplished concert pianist and organist who performed in both Russia and Europe.
"To me, somebody who was producing such beautiful things could not have done what they accuse him of. And that's for ever how I'm going to remember him," he said, fighting back tears. "That's who Dima is to me and the rest of the family."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-scientist-dies-two-days-after-arrest-state-treason-lawyer-2022-07-03/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terminally-ill-russian-scientist-hauled-27376307
Will Donald Trump Launch A 2024 Presidential Election Bid On Fourth Of July? Here's What We Know
The 2024 Presidential Election could feature a rematch between two former presidents, with both former President Donald Trump and current president Joe Biden eyeing re-election. Neither candidate has announced plans to officially run in 2024. Although, a new report points to Trump announcing soon and being the first of the two to make things official.
What Happened: Reports say Donald Trump is getting ready to launch is 2024 presidential bid soon, instead of waiting to the midterm elections.
“There’s discussions about an early launch, and people are planning,” a source told the New York Post. “There are no specifics, but people are preparing. They are laying the groundwork.”
https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/07/27942194/is-donald-trump-launching-a-2024-presidential-election-bid-soon-heres-what-we-know
'Stay tuned' for new evidence against Trump in July hearings
By HOPE YEN - Associated Press Jul 3, 2022 Updated 23 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — More evidence is emerging in the House's Jan. 6 investigation that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol where they rioted, a committee member said Sunday.
“There will be way more information and stay tuned,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
The committee has been intensifying its yearlong investigation into the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee's vice chair, is making clear that criminal referrals to the Justice Department, including against Trump, could follow.
At least two more hearings are scheduled this month that aim to show how Trump illegally directed a violent mob toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, and then failed to take quick action to stop the attack once it began.
The committee also has been reviewing new documentary film footage of Trump’s final months in office, including interviews with Trump and members of his family.
Kinzinger, in a television interview, declined to disclose the new information he referred to and did not say who had provided it. He said many more details emerged after last week's testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and that nothing had changed the committee's confidence in her credibility.
“There’s information I can’t say yet,” he said. “We certainly would say that Cassidy Hutchinson has testified under oath, we find her credible, and anybody that wants to cast disparagements on that, who were firsthand present, should also testify under oath and not through anonymous sources.”
In a separate interview, another committee member, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said: “We are following additional leads. I think those leads will lead to new testimony."
In Hutchinson's appearance before the committee last week, Hutchinson painted a picture of Trump as an angry, defiant president who was trying to let armed supporters avoid security screenings at a rally on the morning of Jan. 6 to protest his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
Legal experts have said Cassidy’s testimony is potentially problematic for Trump as federal prosecutors investigate potential criminal wrongdoing.
“There could be more than one criminal referral,” said Cheney in an interview that aired Sunday. She said the committee will decide later in the process whether to proceed.
Cassidy also recounted a conversation with Tony Ornato, Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations, who, she testified, said Trump later grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to let him go to the Capitol after the rally.
That account was quickly disputed, however. Bobby Engel, the Secret Service agent who was driving Trump, and Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter said. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
In recent days, the committee has subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and has been seeking more information from Ornato and Engel, who were previously interviewed by investigators.
Committee members hope Cipollone will come forward.
“He clearly has information about concerns about criminal violations, concerns about the president going to the Capitol that day, concerns about the chief of staff having blood on his hands if they didn’t do more to stop that violent attack on the Capitol,” Schiff said. “It's hard to imagine someone more at the center of things.”
The committee has also been working on setting up an interview with Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She was asked to speak to the committee after disclosures of her communications with Trump’s team in the run-up and day of the insurrection at the Capitol.
Kinzinger appeared on CNN's “State of the Union,” Schiff was on CBS' “Face the Nation" and Cheney appeared on ABC's “This Week."
https://dothaneagle.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/stay-tuned-for-new-evidence-against-trump-in-july-hearings/article_60cadb45-300b-5cb0-868b-d09466e3a348.html
Americans Prepare For $10 Gas
Douglas A. McIntyre July 3, 2022 2:30 pm
$10 gas would ruin the U.S. economy, which makes it among the largest threats to cause a sharp downturn in GDP. Middle class and lower class families would move into deep financial holes, if $10 gas was added to their housing, clothing and food costs. JP Morgan says crude could rise to $380 a barrel, if Russia takes revenge against the West for its participation in the war in Ukraine.
Gas prices primarily rely on oil prices. Other components include refinery costs, transportation, and state and federal taxes. President Biden and some state governors have suggested a temporary suspension of these taxes would help consumers.
Oil prices at $380 would push gas prices above $10 a gallon, and perhaps toward $15.
A recession in America is almost certainly already in the cards. The stock market, a major source of net worth, has collapsed. High interest rates have made mortgages expensive, and this will erode prices in residential real estate. Inflation has robbed people of buying power. The CPI has risen over 8% for three months, And, many key components like some foods are up much higher.
Gas prices across the country are not uniform. Usually, California has the most expensive gas. If the U.S. average per gallon of regular is $10, it will be close to $15 in California. The state has about 12% of the population. The states with the least expensive gas tend to be near the big refineries southeast of Houston. These include Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama.
One argument that much higher oil prices will not cause a surge in prices is that people simply drive less and use more public transportation. This is only true to a modest extent. The range of public transportation is limited. Many people drive to work. Others take children to school. For them, there are no alternatives.
A year ago, $100 oil and $5 gas were unimaginable. They are now the real world. Another large jump seemed impossible until recently. Now, that has changed, too.
https://247wallst.com/energy-business/2022/07/03/americans-prepare-for-10-gas/
Car payments average $712 per month as prices for new and used cars continue to rise
Pamela Lowe July 3, 2022
The average car price becomes lower for the average person, with typical monthly payments reaching all-time highs.
According to a report by Cox Automotive and Moody’s Analytics, affordability new vehicles It continued to climb in May for the fourth consecutive month, with monthly car premiums averaging $712 a month.
“Unfortunately for the segment of the population that may need it most, it’s getting more and more out of reach,” said Evan Drury, senior director of insights at car buying expert Edmonds. Tell NPR Difficulty buying a car.
Consumer Price Index May data showed that over the past 12 months, new car prices have increased by 12.6%, and this combined with higher interest rates has resulted in more monthly payments than ever before.
Used cars increased by 16.1%.
Used car prices continue to climb according to gas prices, and supply chain records drive demand
With record gas prices and supply chain issues delaying production of new cars, more people are looking for cars with better mileage. This means more business for used car dealers.
According to Kelly Blue Book, the average purchase price for a new car in May was $47,148.
“I joke with people that every new car purchase is a luxury car purchase, and I don’t care what you buy,” Drury told NPR.
Middle-income buyers are priced out of the new car market
The Cox and Moody’s report said May saw an average of 41.3 weeks of income needed to purchase the average new car.
Alex Vetter, CEO of Cars.com, provides insight into the issue of automobile production in “The Claman Countdown.”
The main reason for the price hike is the constant computer chips shortage That operates many key functions in modern vehicles. According to Rebecca Rydzewski of Cox Automotive, things may not get worse, but there’s no sign of them improving anytime soon.
https://www.townoflaronge.ca/car-payments-average-712-per-month-as-prices-for-new-and-used-cars-continue-to-rise/
Sorry for the bad copy pasta. That article was garbage written with subheads I didn't notice. Still, that's crazy high for a car payment!
Moar Hollywood imagery for the masses.