Odds and Ends — 12 April 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Fraud victims want China to recover $4.3B worth of Bitcoin seized by UK police
…police found 61,000 BTC in the property rented by Wen and her boss, Zhimin Qian, the suspected mastermind of the investment fraud scheme.
Under a mattress? Hidden in the freezer?
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose to its highest level in five weeks, a setback for prospective homebuyers during what’s traditionally the busiest time of the year for home sales.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 6.88% from 6.82% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.27%.
https://twitter.com/DrewMcWeeny/status/1778463051920125993
Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude for the U.S.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Covid vaccines not linked to fatal heart problems in young people, CDC finds
Politics:
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1778473947190747404
Trump campaign calls for additional, ‘much earlier’ debates
Candidates on track to lose need to debate. Candidates on track to win, not so much.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1778457487274033350
The director of the U.S. Agency for International Development told lawmakers this week that a famine is underway in northern Gaza, which has been devastated by six months of Israeli military operations and is the part of the territory most cut off from aid.
The director, Samantha Power, is the first senior American official to say publicly that famine has begun in the Gaza Strip, where aid agencies and global experts have warned for months that nearly all 2.2 million Palestinians would soon face extreme hunger.
https://twitter.com/StevenBeschloss/status/1778433052902932926
Georgia Lt. Governor Probed in Fake Elector Scheme
State prosecutor Pete Skandalakis said Thursday that he will lead the investigation into Lt. Gov. Burt Jones’ (R) alleged role in trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
https://twitter.com/ArtCandee/status/1778407636259467406
Nigel Farage’s new party fired an election candidate for being ‘inactive’. Turns out he was dead.
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1778134555091726612
Leo rejects Senate subpoena from panel probing gifts to Supreme Court justices
The conservative judicial activist called the move “politically motivated,” and the committee chair said Leo had left them “no other choice” but to move forward with the compulsory process
https://twitter.com/OurShallowState/status/1778471598938599716
Republican state representative left a loaded handgun in Colorado Capitol bathroom
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1778454587952787947
DNC Covered Biden’s Legal Bills in Special Counsel Probe
President Biden used campaign donations to help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel’s probe into his handling of classified documents.
The payments, made through the Democratic National Committee, are at odds with the Biden campaign’s recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees.
https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1778573115494166990
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/zackstanton/status/1778439280337023030
What a Terror Attack in Israel Might Reveal About Psychedelics and Trauma
https://twitter.com/Locati0ns/status/1778457965411889324
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