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CHICAGO (BLOOMBERG) - The former head of the JPMorgan Chase & Co precious-metals business and his top gold trader were convicted in Chicago on charges they manipulated markets for years, handing the United States government a win in its long crackdown on bogus "spoofing" orders. Michael Nowak and Gregg Smith were found guilty on Wednesday (Aug 10) by a federal jury after a three-week trial and more than eight days of deliberations. Prosecutors presented evidence that included detailed trading records, chat logs and testimony by former co-workers who "pulled back the curtain" on how Nowak and Smith moved precious-metals prices...

The Coca-Cola Company is unveiling Dreamworld, a new soda that allegedly has the flavor of dreams. The beverage giant is launching its fourth and final special edition of the year. Coke described its new flavor in a press release, saying that Dreamland, "bottles up the Technicolor tastes and surrealism of the subconscious, and adds playfully vibrant flavor notes that evoke the boundless creativity of the human imagination to the unmistakable taste of Coca-Cola." The release of the new flavor is a part the company's effort to attract new Gen Z consumers through Coca‑Cola Creations, which will introduce a series of...

8 large explosions reported from Ziabrauka airfield near Homel in Belarus. Lots of Russian military gear is stationed there & the Russians often launch attack against Ukraine from Ziabrauka. Ukraine might have counterattacked Belarusian territory for the first time.

I was going to post a link to this guy's twitter account, but it says there that the IRS has since deleted the job notice. His twitter account is here: https://media.patriots.win/post/YGoBipUUQO7O.png

The Washington Post deleted a tweet promoting one of its stories on Wednesday that suggested Attorney General Merrick Garland “politicized” the Department of Justice by authorizing an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. “Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago,” read the headline of a story written by Justice Department reporter Perry Stein. The headline in the tweet sparked outrage on Twitter, which apparently prompted the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet to remove the tweet and re-post it using a different headline. “No, he’s in the middle of unraveling a crime spree committed by the former...

Mark the date in your memory; August 8, 2022. It will be recorded in history as the "Shattering of American Democracy." Although nowhere near the bestial, violent actions of the Nazi brownshirts against helpless German Jews during the two days known as Kristallnacht in 1939, there is a similarity in the message - one of the end of the rule of democratic values and civil rights. (Kristallnacht, however was the German Nazis' opening salvo of fascism, the beginning of the extermination of Jews and democracy, on November 9, 1938.) Yesterday was a sad day for all of patriotic Americans, as...

Chinese-owned companies in Myanmar are allegedly responsible for illegal mining operations that are destroying the natural landscape of Myanmar’s border region with China, local miners of dysprosium and terbium — two heavy rare earth minerals used in clean energy products and smart electronics — told the organization Global Witness for a report published on Tuesday. Global Witness revealed on August 9 how illicit rare earth mining allegedly supported by Chinese businessmen in Myanmar has ravaged a mountainous border region called Kachin Special Region 1, writing:

A prestigious, formerly all-girls school in a wealthy suburb outside Nashville, Tennessee, has announced that they will be accepting boys who are transgender and identify as girls. A statement, obtained by Breitbart News and titled “Gender Diversity Philosophy at Harpeth Hall,” outlined Harpeth Hall’s new approach to transgenderism. The school, located in the wealthy Belle Meade suburb of Nashville, costs over $32,000 annually for middle school and over $33,000 annually for high school. “Our school uplifts the female voice,” the statement claimed, going on to explain that they would accept males as students. “As the world evolves, so do our...

"And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's." "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." " And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word...

Oregon is in a banning mood. The City of Bend this week is considering banning pet stores from selling cats, dogs and rabbits. Oddly, there is no store in Bend that actually sells cats, dogs and rabbits, so this ban would stop any store in the future from considering it. Such a ban could have the unintended consequence of reducing oversight of known sellers, while driving up the price of private sellers in the private unregulated market. The City of Eugene has been debating banning natural gas from being installed in most new homes being constructed. Expect energy prices to...

Archimedes posed a riddle about herding cattle... His problem ultimately boiled down to an equation that involves the difference between two squared terms, which can be written as x2 – dy2 = 1. Here, d is an integer — a positive or negative counting number — and Archimedes was looking for solutions where both x and y are integers as well. This class of equations, called the Pell equations, has fascinated mathematicians over the millennia since. Indian mathematician Brahmagupta, and later the mathematician Bhāskara II, provided algorithms to find integer solutions to these equations. In the mid-1600s, the French mathematician...

A Missouri water park has apologized to a Black family that booked the venue for a big party, but was left high and dry. Lee’s Summit Parks and Recreation said in a statement published Tuesday that it had conducted an internal review of an Aug. 6 event it booked, then canceled on a day when hundreds of teens were hoping to beat the summer heat and have some fun. That investigation “identified missed processes and miscommunication that led to the cancellation,” administrator Joe Snook wrote in his lengthy explanation. “A sincere apology is owed to the Evans family and our...

New details on Mar-a-Lago raid come to light As reported earlier today — President Trump declassified a binder on January 19th, 2021 that contains hundreds of pages about the Crossfire Hurricane scandal. It contains damaging information about the corrupt actors involved with our government. Two different DOJ Attorney General’s have defied President Trump’s direct lawful order to publish the binder in the Federal Register. It’s been 19 months as the DOJ defies the order, and every FOIA request to make it public. Can we now raid the homes of acting AG Monty Wilkinson, and Merrick Garland? The DOJ had already...

Protocol is to not remark on an ongoing investigation. But Trump is not a typical figure of a federal case. And the official silence has allowed the former president to fill the void. The legal walls are starting to close in on team Trump, after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home Monday and investigations advance in New York and Georgia. But it's the embattled former president and his loyalists who are the only ones doing the talking, giving Trump a platform to express his grievances and raise money from rank-and-file Republicans who claim their favored political leader...

A woman who was born with one arm and half her legs has revealed how her mother told her the disabilities were due to an attempted abortion when the parent was a teenager. Charlie Rousseau, 25, from Rouyn-Noranda, in Quebec, Canada, said she grew up feeling like a 'normal child' and 'didn't realise she was disabled' until she was a teenager. However when she was in her teens, her mother told her that the reason she was born with her disabilities is because the parent had tried to have an abortion and claimed it went wrong. The radio host told...

The entire Japanese government has resigned, Suptnik reported quoting a Kyodo news agency report. A special meeting of the cabinet started at 11.30am local time (02.30am GMT). The new Japanese government led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to be announced soon. Originally, the government reshuffle was supposed to be carried out in early September, but now due to the mention to accelerate the promotion of his economic concept of “new capitalism”, the need to take action due to rising food and fuel prices, and in order to prepare in advance for the session of parliament, the prime minister...

Eli Lilly and Company, which employs more than 10,000 people in the Hoosier state, says it'll 'be forced to plan for more employment growth outside of our home state.' The Indiana-based pharmaceutical giant made the revelation in a statement on Saturday following the passing of a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Eli Lilly is the manufacturer of drugs such as Prozac and Cymbalta. On Friday, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 1 into law making his state the first to institute an abortion ban since the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The ban, which...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials won’t approve a natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming until additional environmental studies are completed. Wyoming-based Lower Valley Energy wants to build the pipeline that would start near Montpelier, Idaho, and run to Afton, Wyoming. But the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection say it will harm protected grizzly bears and other wildlife. “The ruling is a huge victory for the climate as well as free-roaming endangered species like grizzly bears, wolverines, and lynx,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.

Explanation: Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow red. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud on the...

The drugged-out truck driver who crossed the center line of a northern New Hampshire road, killing seven people on motorcycles, was found not guilty by a jury - a verdict that sparked 'shock' 'outrage' and 'anger' by the state's governor. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, a Ukrainian national who now faces deportation, was acquitted on Tuesday by a jury of seven counts of negligent homicide and reckless conduct after less than three hours of deliberation following a two-week trial. The grateful and relieved truck driver wiped away tears, kissed his finger and pointed to the sky after he was cleared. He's been...