San Francisco is now the proud owner of the U.S.’s highest-EVER average gasoline price @ $4.75 a gallon

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Prices for gasoline in one of nation’s major cities reached an all-time on Thursday— the highest average price ever recorded in the United States, according to fuel savings platform GasBuddy. Average prices for the fuel in the San Francisco metro area reached a new all-time high of $4.75 a gallon, breaching the previous record of … Read more

Man is sent to jail after being denied a jury and being on house arrest for the last 2 years bonus: the judge owns stock in chevron

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not much to be said that isn’t already in the screenshot but yeah, we live in an oligarchy where the rich can do whatever they feel. Bonus bonus: the actual ruling he won has been blocked. Read more: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/1029-judge-kaplan-held-investments-in-chevron-when-he-ruled-for-company h/t  scentlessgrape

Dem cries to ‘defund police’ fade as crime surges… Keep or Replace? Fate of Minneapolis Force in Voter Hands…

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Democratic cries to ‘defund police’ fade in U.S. mayoral races as crime surges Oct 29 (Reuters) – Felicia Moore, Atlanta’s city council president, vows to hire 250 police officers to help combat her city’s rising crime rate if she is elected mayor next week. Her most prominent Democratic rival, former Mayor Kasim Reed, wants to … Read more

World Series sticker shock: $1,000-plus for standing-room-only tickets

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Ticket prices on the secondary market for Friday night’s World Series game at Truist Park remained above $1,000 as of Thursday afternoon, and some of those tickets came without a seat. Some sellers on StubHub, the official fan-to-fan ticket marketplace partner of MLB, and other resale sites were seeking between $1,000 and $1,300 for standing-room-only … Read more

Cuomo sex crime case: Sheriff says ‘overwhelming evidence’… Faces mug shot, fingerprinting…

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Cuomo sex crime case: New York sheriff says ‘we have an overwhelming amount of evidence’ A New York sheriff said Friday that “we have an overwhelming amount of evidence” against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a day after a criminal complaint accused him of a sex crime against an aide. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple also … Read more

NFT Just Sold for $532 Million — But Didn’t Really Sell at All…

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A white-haired, green-eyed pixelated character known as a CryptoPunk 9998 just sold for more than half a billion U.S. dollars — or so it appeared — the latest wild development in the booming non-fungible token space. But the Ethereum blockchain shows the money from the NFT trade ended up right back where it started, raising the question of why … Read more

Gold’s Slow and Steady Response to Inflation

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From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How and when gold will take inflation’s cue, Venezuela’s forced adoption of a “gold standard,” and engineers are looking to utilize gold to store more than just monetary wealth. Gold’s lack of … Read more

Pandemic prostitution increasingly profitable in Queens

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When you see the women on certain street corners along Roosevelt Avenue in East Elmhurst, wearing mini skirts and sometimes schoolgirl skirts, you notice they’re often scanning their cell phones. Law enforcement believes that’s because they’re making contact with customers who find the women’s “massage” services on a website called Bedpage.com, or they’re simply steering … Read more

Number 2 US General John Hyten says China has done HUNDREDS of hypersonic missile tests

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US Gen. Says China’s Done ‘Hundreds’ of Hypersonic Weapon Tests While DoD is ‘Bureaucratic’ – Report The development of hypersonic weapons, according to Hyten, exemplifies the vast differences between the US and China’s approaches. In the last five years, he reportedly claimed, the US has conducted nine hypersonic tests, whereas the “Chinese have done hundreds.” … Read more

CNN Says We Must Cut Down Trees To Save Earth

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In order to cut carbon emissions CNN says we have to cut down trees and bury them. “ Plant trees, sure. But to save the climate, we should also cut them down” “ Beyond these practical uses, wood can also serve purely as a long-term carbon storage device. The key to locking away the carbon … Read more