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June 20, 2022, 6:45 PM AST / Updated June 20, 2022, 8:22 PM AST / Source: AP (Associated Press), by Bobby Caina Calvan.

The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel.

Muratov, awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was the publication’s editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin’s clampdown on journalists and public dissent in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Previously, the most ever paid for a Nobel Prize medal was in 2014, when James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962, sold his medal for $4.76 million.

It was Muratov’s idea to auction off his prize, having already announced he was donating the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity. The idea of the donation, he said, “is to give the children refugees a chance for a future.”

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The City of Uvalde does not appear to want to answer questions on the school shooting that occurred on May 24 and stole the lives of 19 children and two teachers. To that end, they have hired a private law firm to argue that they have no obligation to release those records. This comes as journalists and parents were prevented from attending a meeting where surveillance footage from that fateful day was shown.

Lawyers for the town argued that the records, including body cam footage from officers, photos, 911 calls, emails, text messages, criminal records, and additional materials, could include "highly embarrassing information," according to a letter obtained by Vice. The city has received 148 public records requests, and argues they should not have to respond to any of them. Concerns have mounted over police mishandling of the situation.

"The City has not voluntarily released any information to a member of the public," wrote attorney for Uvalde Cynthia Trevino to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Trevino, of the firm Denton Navaro Rocha Bernal & Zech, was seeking a determination from Paxton as to what information the city is required to make public and what information they can hold back from public criticism.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has also implored Paxton to suppress body cam footage due to the potential for "weaknesses" in police response to be exposed. Children in classrooms 111 and 112 were subjected to massacre by a teen gunman on May 24, while officers waited up to an hour before trying to get into the classroom to either prevent the bloodshed or save the victims before they bled out and died.



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When Putin came to power? Just a year later 9-11 had the U.S. In shock. China was utterly silent about it. Putin actually came to the U.S.
"Putin's pro-American plan was not simply tactical. Putin's policies of support after September 11, including his agreement to an American military presence in Central Asia, represented a significant shift in Russian foreign policy. The potential for breakthrough - for a fundamentally new and improved relationship between Russia and the West - has never been greater"


"One notable moment in the Putin charm campaign came in November 2001 in rural Crawford, Texas, a tiny town in the center of the state with a population back then of 705 residents. Count President George W. Bush among them. He owned a ranch just outside of town — he'd named the property Prairie Chapel — and he and first lady Laura Bush had invited the Russian leader and his wife Lyudmila to spend the night.

There was work for the two leaders — recall that this was just two months after the terror attacks of 9/11 — with discussion of global threats and how the United States and Russia could work together to fight terrorism".

George Bush " I looked in his eyes and I could tell he was a good man!"

Six years later the new, improved Putin had this to say about the our financial crisis and near collapse.
"The world will never trust the U.S. again."

There once was a famous huge floating restaurant in the Hong Kong harbor. It was 260 feet long and had been there over 40 years serving Cantonese cuisine to more than 3 million guests.
I'm unsure if it's technically a boat or barge, but it was closed in 2020 due to the pandemic and the company laid off all their staff. This became a financial burden to the owners/shareholders, although it was closed, they were spending millions on maintenance and inspections. They decided to have it towed to a new lower-cost location. Prior to the departure, the vessel had been thoroughly inspected by marine engineers and all relevant approvals were obtained.
On it's way to the new location the restaurant encountered 'adverse conditions' and water entered the vessel making it tip. Unable to right-side it, the restaurant capsized in the South China Sea at a depth of over 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) making salvage works very difficult to carry out.

My thought... was this 'Burial at sea' really planned as a financial write off?

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A Drag Queen For Every School - "Drag Queens Make Everything Better." Yes. REALLY!!


'Crats are SOOO Earning the Ballot Box Bloodbath that's Comin' At 'Em in the '22 Mid-Terms.

WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will present evidence this week that former President Donald Trump was involved in a failed bid to submit slates of fake electors to overturn the 2020 election, a key lawmaker said on Sunday.

"We will show evidence of the president's involvement in this scheme," Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union

A decision on Roe v Wade may arrive today. If Roe v Wade is reversed, it will be then up to each State to legislate as it so wishes. In theory that could mean anything from an outright ban on abortion, to allowing abortion up to the point of birth - although in most cases something like a ban after 3 months is most likely.

I read that the Jan 6 hearing for today was postponed. They said something about needing more time to edit videos, but I think this Supreme Court decision - if it does come down today - is the real reason why.

A man who went with the stated intent of killing Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was caught and arrested near Kavanaugh's house last week, with a large stash of weapons on hand. The Biden department of justice has allowed protesters gather outside the houses of conservative justices, despite a federal statute forbidding this. There has also been multiple fire bombings of pro life pregnancy centers in recent weeks. These stories have been little reported by the majority of media. I don't believe President Biden has yet come out to condemn the would-be attempt on Kavanaugh (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Pray for peace.

A Happy Birthday to President Trump. He turns 76 today.

I guess it's technically correct that a lawyer who has been barred by having their license suspended, is still a lawyer. If they are high-profile, I suppose they could hire a lawyer in good standing as a puppet and pull strings to get what they cannot legally do.

Rudolph W. Giuliani (pronounced Juliani) is in a pile of poo right now, suspended from practicing law because he made false claims trying to get courts to overturn Trump's loss. This happened last June.

The original story appeared in the Los Angeles Times and picked up on Yahoo Finance.
The top reader comment:
"What's really funny is Rudy believing Trump was actually going to pay him."
99 thumbs up and 1 thumbs down.
Response to the first reply:
"That thing about the definition of insanity. No one else got paid but Rudy thought he would."




I guess all those years of friendship and business together Rudy thought he wouldn't be like the others.

Former United States of America Congressman and Philadelphia’s political operative has just pleaded guilty to election fraud charges brought against him. United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams Announced today that former US Congression Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiracy to illegally vote in a federal election.

As well as orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes for specific democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections. A specific example is when Myers admitted in court to driving the judge of elections in South Philadelphia, Dominick J. Demuro, and a fraudulent scheme over several years.

Judge Dominic Demuro, who was charged separately from Judge Myers also had pleaded guilty, would certify fraudulent voting machine receipts as valid after adding fake votes for various candidates for Democrats as well who had hired Myers for so-called consultancy services in Pennsylvania.

Demuro had accepted multiple payments between $300 and $5,000 to pump up the votes for Democrat candidates running for various federal, state, and local elected offices, including multiple judicial positions.

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