Info in Bits & Pieces

$86 MILLION
The FBI misled a U.S. magistrate judge in its request for a warrant to seize $86 million in assets from safe deposit boxes at a privately owned business in Beverly Hills, California, court documents show.

$119 MILLION
AT&T has won a task order, worth $119 million to modernize U.S. customs and Border Protection’s voice and data networks.

$200 MILLION
Boeing says it has reached a $200 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that it deceived its own investors and the public about the safety of its best-selling 737 MAX jetliner.

$900 MILLION
Pharmaceutical giant Biogen has agreed to pay $900 million to settle claims that it paid kickbacks to physicians to encourage them to prescribe its multiple sclerosis drugs, the DOJ announced on Sept. 26.

NEWS:
Afghan Taliban Sign Deal for Russian Oil Products, Wheat
The Taliban have signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, and wheat to Afghanistan, Acting Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told media. Russia offered the Taliban administration a discount to average global commodity prices.

NEWS:
Blasts Near Nord Stream Were Explosions, Not Earthquakes, Swedish Seismologist Says
A Swedish seismologist said on Sept 27 he was certain the seismic activity detected at the site of the Nord Stream pipeline gas leaks in the Baltic Sea was caused by explosions and not earthquakes or landslides. The explosions took place in the water and not in the rock under the seabed.

NEWS:
HHS purchases drug for use in radiological & nuclear emergencies.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it has spent $290 million on a drug to treat radiation sickness in the event of a nuclear emergency.
https://aspr.hhs.gov/newsroom/Pages/ARS-Oct2022.aspx

HISTORY:
On April 17, 1964, the first Mustang went on sale. 22,000 were sold on that day alone. Ford originally forecasted about 100,000 Mustang sales in the first year. More than 400,000 were sold. The car has gone through six generations of design from 1964 to present. It has appeared in over 3,000 TV shows and movies.

QUOTE:
”We fully believe that vaccines are one of the great discoveries in medicine. However, mRNA genetic vaccines are different.”
~~~ Sherif Sultan, president, International Vascular Society.

QUOTE:
”Everything is what it is, and not another thing.”
~~~ Bishop Joseph Butler (1692 – 1752)

AXIOM:
”Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
~~~ Winston Smith in “1984” by George Orwell

QUOTE:
”The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed.”
~~~ G.K. Chesterton, “Heretics” (1905)

QUOTE:
”No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
~~~ Douglas MacArthur

ENCOURAGING:
God is not limited by our imperfections or weaknesses. In fact, He works them into His plan, overcomes them, and blesses us for responding to Him with faith and persistence.