{"id":10905,"date":"2022-11-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10905"},"modified":"2022-11-13T08:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:03:30","slug":"11-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10905","title":{"rendered":"11.13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cemetery records, newspaper articles and ground-penetrating radar now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/06\/us\/lebanon-cemetery-black-history-cec\/index.html\">indicate more than 3,700 souls rest at Lebanon<\/a> \u2013 many of them tightly situated, leaving geophysicist Bill Steinhart, who has surveyed most of the cemetery, to say, \u201cIf they\u2019re not touching, they\u2019re nearly touching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of Salem said Monday it would take a full work week at a cost of $4,200 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemreporter.com\/2022\/11\/03\/city-charges-thousands-for-records-proving-public-statement-about-investigating-police-official\/\">provide the public records that back up a city statement explaining its silence on the departure<\/a> of a top police official suspected of misconduct<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a <a href=\"https:\/\/alexwasburne.substack.com\/p\/the-totality-of-the-circumstances\">similar body of evidence<\/a> laying before us on the origin of SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the past month, Hollywood celebrities have gone all out for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently didn&#8217;t get the memo from 2016 (or any year): Ordinary Americans don&#8217;t want Hollywood telling them how to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Firemen, yes. Teachers, yes.  Entrepreneurs, yes \u2013 Hollywood, never. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9miyDMnCLy\">pic.twitter.com\/9miyDMnCLy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankLuntz\/status\/1589281368097566720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/07\/politics\/democrats-nightmare-scenario-election-eve-analysis\/index.html\">outside the Beltway bubble of politicians and journalists<\/a>, democracy feels like a far more distant, esoteric concept than the daily struggle to feed a family and to be able to afford to commute to work. From Pennsylvania to Arizona, the return to normality after the Covid-19 nightmare that Biden promised remains elusive to many as the economic after effects of the once-in-a century health emergency linger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oodaloop.com\/technology\/2022\/11\/07\/us-doj-announces-seizure-of-3-36b-in-cryptocurrency\/\">law enforcement seized $3.36 billion<\/a> of bitcoin from a man who \u201cunlawfully obtained\u201d over 50,000 bitcoin from darkweb market Silk Road over a decade ago. <\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been 100 days since DOJ agreed to expedite my foia request for documents on their failure to protect the homes of Supreme Court Justices from illegal and intimidating protests. So far they have produced nothing. I guess we don\u2019t get to learn the truth before the midterms. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wcii1QNNMs\">https:\/\/t.co\/wcii1QNNMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FoiaFan (@15poundstogo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/15poundstogo\/status\/1589657504237383680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Few people have been more <a href=\"https:\/\/centuryofbio.substack.com\/p\/atoms-are-local\">effective advocates of engineering biology<\/a> than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drew_Endy\">Drew Endy<\/a>. As an early pioneer in the field of synthetic biology, he helped to launch the undergraduate majors in <strong>biological engineering<\/strong> at both MIT\u2014which was the first of its kind in the country\u2014and Stanford. His trainees have founded some of the leading companies in the discipline. Clearly, some of his ideas have taken root. However, the concept of the biologization of industry\u2014which I view as one of the most compelling visions for the future of the Bioeconomy\u2014seems to have remained dormant. Here is the core <a href=\"https:\/\/openwetware.org\/wiki\/Endy:Research\">premise<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/true-crime\/jamie-balagia-dwi-lawyer-represented-cocaine-traffickers\/\">translator\u2019s report for Rennie explained, Villota was complaining that he\u2019d paid<\/a> someone $1.5 million to bribe public officials and that he seemed to have nothing to show for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/walkingtheworld.substack.com\/p\/walking-el-paso\">mostly because it\u2019s literally on the Mexican border<\/a>, with its main drag ending in a pedestrian bridge vaulting over the border fence. A bridge that\u2019s constantly busy with Mexicans coming into El Paso to shop for clothes, mabye find a little work, visit relatives, or splurge on a mall day, and Americans going into Juarez, for the same reasons, and also to fix up their bodies at prices that won\u2019t send them into debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4982c7e9-5dd7-4e99-9430-eface0db4a8c\">Never use a token you created as collateral<\/a>?.?.?.?Don\u2019t borrow if you run a crypto business. Don\u2019t use capital \u2018efficiently\u2019. Have a large reserve,\u201d Zhao tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway it is still early and confusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-11-09\/bankman-fried-s-ftx-had-a-death-spiral-before-binance-deal\">but that seems to be the story of FTX<\/a>. Coindesk reported on Alameda&#8217;s FTT exposure, and then Changpeng &#8220;CZ&#8221; Zhao, the founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., the largest crypto exchange, raised eyebrows by tweeting that Binance would sell its FTT holdings &#8220;due to recent revelations.&#8221; People worried that this would tank the price of FTT and put pressure on FTX, so they started withdrawing money from FTX.  FT didn&#8217;t have the money, and Bankman-Fried started calling around asking for a loan or a bailout. Eventually he called CZ himself, and they announced a non-binding letter of intent for Binance to acquire F\u00b0TX and make customers whole. Bankman-Fried&#8217;s fortune basically vanished, as did his &#8221; emperor aura.&#8221; Venture capital investors in FTX &#8211; which last raised money at a $32 billion valuation &#8211; are probably getting zeroed, the price of FTT collapsed, and now regulators are investigating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of this changes the fact that Biden will be 81 years old on Election Day in 2024 or that 56% of&nbsp;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2022\/exit-polls\/national-results\/house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">those who voted Tuesday<\/a>&nbsp;don\u2019t have a favorable opinion of him or that 74% of those same voters are \u201cdissatisfied\u201d or \u201cangry\u201d about \u201cthe way things are going in the United States.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, former-President Donald Trump is more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/democrats-are-stuck-with-biden-now\">unpopular<\/a> than Biden, with 58% of voters saying they have an unfavorable view of him. So Biden still has a decent chance of beating Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the USPS, IV3&#8217;s use of NCOA data may violate the terms of their license. In a statement, the agency told WIRED that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/true-the-vote-iv3-app-voter-fraud\/\">NCOALink database can only be used for updating mailing lists<\/a>, adding that \u201cthe alleged use of NCOALink services by the entity identified in your article is under review.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1) Hi all:<\/p>\n<p>Today, I filed FTX, FTX US, and Alameda for voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SBF (@SBF_FTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBF_FTX\/status\/1591089317300293636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good news! In light of the relatively good outcome for Democrats in the 2022 midterms, there have been no claims about Russian interference in the election. Russia is accused of interfering in Our Democracy only when Democrats do not win.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1591085456313430016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But both Adobe and Apple &#8211; and every other tech giant &#8211; has decided that the rise of networked computing is an opportunity to exercise ongoing control over their customers. 50\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@doctorow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doctorow\/status\/1590993957357768704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This is now \u2014 at least \u2014 the fifth journalist raided by Biden\u2019s FBI for reasons that remain unclear.  Arnu\u2019s beat may not be typical, but his work <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coasttocoastam.com\/guest\/arnu-joerg-101962\/\" target=\"_blank\">appears normal<\/a> as far as the process of journalism goes.  Simply because Arnu isn\u2019t a member of the mainstream press, does not mean he should not be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/firstamendmentcoalition.org\/2010\/05\/aa-when-can-a-newspaper-publish-documents-meant-to-be-private\/\" target=\"_blank\">granted freedoms protected<\/a> by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FOUR HUNDRED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11416209\/FOUR-private-jets-arrived-Egypt-COP27-climate-delegates-accused-hypocrisy.html\">private jets arrived in Egypt<\/a> during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of &#8216;hypocrisy&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2022\/11\/pr-publicist-emails-journalism-oof.html\">Wednesday afternoon, I found myself talking on the phone<\/a> with a very nice woman who was telling me, as seriously as possible, why New York City is the best city for witches. On every criterion used to judge metropolitan witch friendliness, she pointed out, New York had scored incredibly high. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of the melting pot for witchcraft,\u201d Sharon Sullivan told me.  Sullivan is the managing editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/lawnlove.com\/\">Lawn Love<\/a>, a website that connects people to local landscaping businesses. I was talking to her because I had responded to a press release (\u201c2022\u2019s Best Cities for Witches\u201d) emailed to me by Lawn Love earlier that day. I had to ask: Why was a lawn services company creating quasi-scientific studies about witches?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/article\/the-coming-transatlantic-rift-over-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Jeremy Shapiro convincingly argues<\/a>, we should expect US pressure for Europeans to take care of a much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/opinion-us-vote-a-wake-up-call-for-trans-atlantic-ties\/a-63729901\">larger share of the costs of supporting Ukraine<\/a> to grow very soon. And we&#8217;re talking here about the best of all worlds for Europeans without a Trump type of president back in the White House any time soon which would mean that all bets on security guarantees for Europe are off. <\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">speechless <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GxhA84sauf\">pic.twitter.com\/GxhA84sauf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Concoda ? (@concodanomics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/concodanomics\/status\/1591232063906217984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Assets: <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/TREAST\">Securities Held Outright<\/a>: U.S. Treasury Securities: All: Wednesday Level<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-dark-ships\/\">analysis<\/a> by satellite data monitoring firm SpaceKnow, the two \u201cdark ships,\u201d each measuring around 95 to 130 meters long, passed within several miles of the Nord Stream 2 leak sites. \u201cWe have detected some dark ships, meaning vessels that were of a significant size, that were passing through that area of interest,\u201d says Jerry Javornicky, the CEO and cofounder of SpaceKnow. \u201cThey had their beacons off, meaning there was no information about their movement, and they were trying to keep their location information and general information hidden from the world,\u201d Javornicky adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how it <a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-enron-moment\/\">worked<\/a>: FTX would create a synthetic token that tracked the price of Bitcoin but with leverage. So, if Bitcoin went up by 10 percent, the FTX token would go up by 20 percent. Of course, if Bitcoin prices fell, the losses would double. These tokens were not real Bitcoin but a creation of FTX, their own tokens.   The company used their gains to raise cash by using their own tokens as collateral for loans. Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Lightspeed, Temasek, Blackrock and others invested over a billion in the company which at one time was valued at $32 billion. FTX and Alameda Research\u2019s intermingled ownership should have raised eyebrows, but history shows greed trumps diligence.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so good. It\u2019s going to be in 4 parts because it\u2019s so long.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Druckenmiller\u2019s 2023 forecast <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UfEkZVduhl\">pic.twitter.com\/UfEkZVduhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StealthQE4\/status\/1591543181631430656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cemetery records, newspaper articles and ground-penetrating radar now indicate more than 3,700 souls rest at Lebanon \u2013 many of them tightly situated, leaving geophysicist Bill Steinhart, who has surveyed most of the cemetery, to say, \u201cIf they\u2019re not touching, they\u2019re nearly touching.\u201d The city of Salem said Monday it would take a full work week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10905"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}