{"id":12102,"date":"2023-07-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12102"},"modified":"2023-07-02T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:19:41","slug":"7-2-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12102","title":{"rendered":"7.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">so SBF and an attorney:<br \/>\n\u2022 falsified a &#8220;payment agreement&#8221; between FTX &amp; Alameda<br \/>\n\u2022 backdated it by ~2y<br \/>\n\u2022 wet signed it to avoid DocuSign timestamp<br \/>\n\u2022 submitted it to an external auditor<br \/>\n\u2022 used it to obtain a $400M funding round <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x1qODBrKbU\">pic.twitter.com\/x1qODBrKbU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Molly White (@molly0xFFF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/molly0xFFF\/status\/1673493302933430272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/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\">The IRS after I make a $601 venmo transaction <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ldgrqXS0f5\">pic.twitter.com\/ldgrqXS0f5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stclairashley\/status\/1673459405273038848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>Chinese nuclear power plants <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/world\/asia-pacific\/20230623-118053\/\">have been releasing into the ocean<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> water containing tritium at levels up to 6.5 times higher than the annual amount scheduled to be released from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.\u2019s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to a document the Japanese government compiled for other countries ahead of TEPCO\u2019s discharge.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Speaking of that link, a Washington Post reporter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TaylorLorenz<\/a>, just shared important advice for the public:<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in a space with many people (such as an airport) and wish to avoid COVID, you should hold your breath as much as possible:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BvZB3FvudC\">https:\/\/t.co\/BvZB3FvudC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1673701082243952643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"js-mpu-paragraph-marker\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.666667em; caret-color: rgb(51, 48, 46); color: rgb(51, 48, 46); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cIf the <a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/3pohKe6\">functioning of the Bundesbank<\/a> is endangered by an inadequate or even negative net equity, the Federal Republic of Germany can be obliged to inject capital,\u201d it said. \u201cDepending on the extent and probability, the risks arising from monetary policy could, in the worst case, endanger the budgetary autonomy of the German Bundestag\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/google-violated-its-standards-in-ad-deals-research-finds-3e24e041\">vi\u00ado\u00adlates those stan\u00addards<\/a> about 80% of the time, ac\u00adcord\u00ading to re\u00adsearch from Ad\u00ada\u00adlyt\u00adics, a com\u00adpany that helps brands an\u00ada\u00adlyze where their ads ap\u00adpear on\u00adline. The firm ac\u00adcused the com\u00adpany of plac\u00ading ads in small, muted, au\u00adto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcally-played videos off to the side of a page\u2019s main con\u00adtent, on sites that don\u2019t meet Google\u2019s stan\u00addards for mon\u00ade\u00adti\u00adza\u00adtion, among other vi\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A reminder of why Julian Assange remains in prison in the UK, Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter. Several others were killed while the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y7g5jfdMq9\">pic.twitter.com\/y7g5jfdMq9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GUnderground_TV\/status\/1673685360637882371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It should be apparent by now that the <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine?utm_campaign=post\">Ukraine war is an enormous disaster<\/a> that is unlikely to end anytime soon and when it does, the result will not be a lasting peace. A few words are in order about how the West ended up in this dreadful situation.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/06\/28\/editorial-bridge-toll-hike-fuels-barts-insatiable-appetite-for-money\/\">plummeting ridership yet budget increases<\/a>, BART has transformed from a transit system into an employment agency<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">T<\/span>he<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 123, 255); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 1.15rem\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a>is &#8220;slow-rolling&#8221; enforcement of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 123, 255); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 1.15rem\" rel=\"noopener\">hospital price transparency<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>requirements and fighting to hide thousands of related documents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/biden-administration-enabling-hospitals-violate-price-law\">according to a new report.<\/a> Despite the Biden administration&#8217;s messaging in favor of price transparency, records from the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hhs\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 123, 255); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 1.15rem\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>show inconsistent and often lengthy enforcement time frames for hospitals not in compliance, according to a Foundation for Government Accountability report obtained exclusively by the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"box-sizing: border-box\">Washington Examiner<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.666667em; caret-color: rgb(51, 48, 46); color: rgb(51, 48, 46); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">She said they would need to deploy \u201chand-to-hand combat\u201d \u2014 persuading big brands in person rather than from behind their desks \u2014 as part of the effort, the person said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span> \u201cI do believe that they\u2019re going to have superior ad product instantly [under Yaccarino],\u201d said Lou Paskalis, an advertising veteran and chief executive of AJL Advisory. \u201cThe issue is content moderation. And it exists in two dimensions. For everybody else. And for Elon.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NATO 2030: Toward A New Strategic Concept<\/p>\n<p>(That concept being social media censorship \u201cto protect its political center-of-gravity\u201d) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J14luWVmN5\">pic.twitter.com\/J14luWVmN5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1674332261213433857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 48, 46); color: rgb(51, 48, 46); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 241, 229); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Other lights are flashing. Hopper says the number of price checks in advance of booking has risen by between 25 and 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 versus 2019. More travellers are also looking at flying on Monday to Wednesday, when fares tend to be cheaper.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); --summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); font-family: var(--article-font-family); font-size: calc((17 \/ var(--article-base-font-size)) * var(--article-text-size-scale) * 1rem); font-weight: var(--article-font-weight); line-height: calc(1.588235); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word\">Some people who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bill-gates-office-sexually-explicit-questions-7dc240f5\">sought jobs at billionaire&nbsp;Bill Gates\u2019s private office<\/a> described going through an extensive screening process that included being questioned by a security firm about their sexual histories, past drug use and other parts of their private lives that might indicate they were vulnerable to blackmail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> A bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/olin.wustl.edu\/docs\/Research\/CABI-US-Generic-Pharmaceutical-Industry-Economic-Instability.pdf\">research<\/a> into the generic pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p>Eight teenagers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/east-bay\/teens-arrested-oakland-robberies\/3241827\/\">recently arrested for a string of more than 35 robberies<\/a> in Oakland, are all back out on the streets Wednesday.&nbsp;The robberies included an attack on a 63-year-old woman in Rockridge last Sunday and the lack of punishment is prompting concern and frustration from residents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">One of the federal prosecutors who allegedly declined to charge Hunter Biden with tax fraud <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/06\/29\/doj-prosecutors-charge-hunter-donate-biden-harris\/\">donated to President Joe Biden and the other gave money to Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> while working in the private sector, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>\u201cIf you end up in a world where <\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-30\/zoltan-pozsar-launches-new-research-firm-after-leaving-credit-suisse\">you can now force commodity exporters to accept your currency<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria,\" times new roman serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:> for those commodity imports and not the US dollar, you basically have gained sovereignty from a monetary perspective,\u201d Pozsar says. \u201cAnd so again, you will not have to run with as much FX reserves. And so you know, this is going to have feedback effects on demand for Treasuries in general and on the margin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 14px 0px; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family\" georgia pro serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba text-decoration:>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/festivals\/summerfest\/2023\/07\/01\/odesza-delivers-body-rattling-edm-spectacle-at-milwaukees-summerfest\/70366232007\/\">first seconds<\/a> of Friday&#8217;s 90-minute set foreshadowed the powerful lighting and overwhelming bass that was to come, and has become mandatory for the EDM big leagues. A brief white flash left me momentarily blind, while a quick bass rumble pulsated through my entire body and clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Between his jobs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/06\/27\/wisconsin-beer-vendor-opens-door-for-2026-gubernatorial-run\/70358616007\/\">serving beer at American Family Field<\/a>, working as a machinist and staffing the front desk at a local dry cleaner, Strnad estimates he works an average of 70 hours each week. He believes his work experiences set him apart from other potential candidates<\/p>\n<p>Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimzellmer.com\/w\/23\/thursday.html\">photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so SBF and an attorney: \u2022 falsified a &#8220;payment agreement&#8221; between FTX &amp; Alameda \u2022 backdated it by ~2y \u2022 wet signed it to avoid DocuSign timestamp \u2022 submitted it to an external auditor \u2022 used it to obtain a $400M funding round pic.twitter.com\/x1qODBrKbU \u2014 Molly White (@molly0xFFF) June 27, 2023 The IRS after I [&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\/12102"}],"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=12102"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12102\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}