To honor HM the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 the Town Council will be burying a time capsule and planting a tree in Monastery Park.
The Town Council is calling for residents of Bishop’s Stortford to supply a record of their memories’ of the Queen’s 70 year reign to be included in the capsule. The entries can be written text or stories, drawings, photographs, newspaper clippings or small physical items etc. The Council will also include items representing Bishop’s Stortford in 2022 such as a map, newspaper etc.
All entries can be dropped off to the Tourist Information Centre either in person, via post or electronically via firstname.lastname@example.org until 4pm on 31 January 2022.
For more information visit: https://www.bishopsstortfordtc.gov.uk/jubilee-time-capsule


Frenchman Macron considers artificial intelligence to monitor terrorism
PARIS – The government of French President Emmanuel Macron aims to deploy algorithms and other technologies to monitor the web browsing of terrorism suspects amid mounting tensions over a group of retired generals who recently warned the country was slipping into civil war.
Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday the government plans to submit a bill to parliament asking for permanent authorization to order telecom companies to monitor not only phone data, but also full URLs of specific web pages. that their users visit in real time. Government algorithms would alert intelligence officials when certain criteria are met, such as a web user visiting a specific sequence of pages.
Mr Macron has come under intense pressure to crack down on terrorism as well as Islamist separatism, an ideology his government claims is fueling attacks by radicalizing segments of France‘s Muslim minority. A college teacher was beheaded in a terrorist attack in October, and an administrative police officer was stabbed to death on Friday in a terrorist attack on a police station. On the same day, Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigrant National Rally party, lent her support to a group of retired generals who published a letter in the far-right magazine Valuers Actuelles, claiming that the spread of Islamism and other ideologies were pushing France towards civil war.
In the letter to Mr. Macron, the generals call for the eradication of what they see as threats to France’s national identity, ranging from the anti-racism movement, which the letter says seeks to erase history French, to “Islamism and the hordes of the suburbs”, a reference to the working-class suburbs of France which have strong Muslim populations.
âThere is no time for procrastination. Otherwise, tomorrow a civil war will end this growing chaos. And the deaths, for which you will be responsible, number in the thousands, âthe letter says.
On Wednesday, Mr. Castex declared: “I condemn in the strongest terms this initiative, which is contrary to our republican principles and to the honor and the duty of the army.”
âIt’s not about the army. These generals do not represent anyone other than themselves, âhe added.
General FranÃ§ois Lecointre, a senior French military official, said in an interview with the newspaper Le Parisien published Wednesday that he had identified 18 active-duty military personnel who signed the letter. He said they would be disciplined.
Ms Le Pen, who lost to Mr Macron in 2017 and challenges him in next year’s presidential election, published an open letter in Valeurs Actuelles on Friday, praising the generals and calling on them to join her in a battle that she described as political and peaceful.
âThe concerns that you courageously express cannot remain at the stage of expressing outrage, however powerful it may be,â Ms. Le Pen wrote.
Mr Castex noted that the generals’ letter was issued to mark the 60th anniversary of a failed coup – led by another group of retired generals in 1961 – which sought to prevent the president from l Charles de Gaulle era to withdraw from Algeria, a former French colony.
âHow can people – in particular Madame Le Pen, who aspires to exercise the responsibilities of the state – can support an initiative that does not exclude turning against the republican state? Said Mr. Castex.
In its new counterterrorism and intelligence bill, the government proposes to expand a predominantly telephone-based surveillance system first put in place after a wave of terrorist attacks in 2015 to also encompass navigation on the Web, with the aim of detecting potential terrorists who are not t on the radar of the authorities.
“We have gone from an external threat, with highly lethal attacks against France in 2015, to an internal threat, and much more difficult to follow using traditional intelligence techniques,” the French minister of intelligence said on Wednesday. Interior GÃ©rard Darmanin.
The original surveillance system, which began operating in 2017 and is expected to expire at the end of July, currently requires carriers to monitor telecommunications metadata on their networks using three separate algorithms aimed at to detect patterns that could suggest terrorism. A parliamentary report last year found that the system “has produced interesting results,” but the breadth of data it collects, mostly based on telephone data, does not provide investigators with “a sufficient level of relevance. and specificity â.
“Terrorists are using less and less normal phones and text messages, and are using the Internet more and more,” Darmanin said on Wednesday.
Mr Darmanin said intelligence officials would need the approval of him, the prime minister and an outside agency to unmask a person reported for his navigation.
Many large websites use a common form of encryption that hides the specific page a user is visiting, but for other, often smaller sites, this potentially revealing data is available to telecom operators to share with officials. intelligence.
In the future, French officials plan to deploy systems using artificial intelligence to help with surveillance. Part of the bill introduced on Wednesday would allow French intelligence officials to use older intelligence data, including data the government is currently not allowed to keep, to train AI systems to look for evidence. unforeseen models and to develop new intelligence tools. An Interior Ministry official said the data would be anonymized, although privacy experts say anonymizing the data so that it cannot be reassigned later is difficult.
âArtificial intelligence is clearly an area that should be open to intelligence services,â the official said. “We are fighting to ensure that no technological opportunity offered today is closed to intelligence or security services.”
French officials say they are reworking the text of the law to comply with a French court ruling, which emerged from a ruling by the European Union’s highest court last fall. The EU court ruled that governments could, in some cases, order telecom companies to retain data indiscriminately, but only for a limited period of time in the event of a serious threat to national security.
Privacy and digital rights activists argue that maintaining and expanding the government’s power to order surveillance of telecommunications data distorts this decision.
âThe goal is to collect as much data as possible,â said Bastien Le Querrec, member of the litigation group of the French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net. “This is the definition of mass surveillance.”
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Construction crews will break ground on the town’s new multi-million pound Water Park development in November, according to the leader of Scarborough Council.
Cllr Tom Fox told Monday’s Full Council meeting that things were progressing towards the start date and he remained hopeful that there would be no delays.
He added that newt trapping was taking place on the site, to the rear of the Burniston Road Car Park, to allow for the construction crews to move in.
Mr Fox said: “The council has passed all requisite approvals to allow Benchmark on site for the trapping of newts which will begin [on Monday].
“The anticipated start date for construction is November. As people will be aware Alpamare UK has submitted an application for a premises licence which will be heard by the Licensing Committee on October 8.
“The application is currently going through a period of consultation, and obviously we have to await the outcome of that.”
A number of councillors raised concerns about the licence application, which the operator is asking for until 2am, as reported previously in The Scarborough News.
Nearby residents have started a petition against the application, with more than 50 people having objected so far.
Cllr Peter Popple said: “There is a lot of concern on the north side about this application.”
Mr Fox said he did not want to prejudice anything that may happen at a committee but he said that he was aware there was ‘resistance’ to the application and said it would have to satisfy the usual licensing objectives.
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The death toll stood at 36 as we went to air on today's BradCast, with nearly 300 structures confirmed as destroyed. But officials have since bumped up the confirmed death toll to 53, with more than 1,000 homes and buildings destroyed in the town of Lahaina and surrounding areas on Hawaii's island of Maui. According to our guest today, who has been on the ground there since the blazes were first sparked on Tuesday, those numbers could still get far worse as he describes what has happened in his community as if "Hell opened its mouth."
You have likely heard, by now, that devastating wildfires were whipped up this week in Hawaii, amid near hurricane force wind gusts from the northern edge of Hurricane Dora, passing about 500 miles to the south. The high winds made it impossible for firefighting helicopters to snuff out the blazes in their early hours on Tuesday. Those fires then grew out of control amid dry and windy conditions over the next two days.
Officials are still battling to contain the fires as search and rescue efforts are ramping up, even as they attempt to find shelter for displaced residents and tourists in the once tropical paradise.
We're joined today by radio veteran SHAGGY JENKINS from Maui, where he formerly served as the longtime Program Director at our affiliate station there, KAKU 88.5FM. Jenkins now serves as Operations Manager for a group of Hawaii stations and has been putting in a ton of overnight on-air hours along with his regularly scheduled morning show, to try and help keep the community informed over our public airwaves during the ongoing emergency.
In addition to the firestorms that seemingly sprang up from nowhere and have leveled much of the historic, 1700s-era town of Lahaina --- once the Hawaiian kingdom's capitol city --- on the western side of Maui, Jenkins explains that fires are also raging somewhat to the east and on the Big Island as well.
"Although Lahaina made a lot of national headlines, parts of the neighborhoods upcountry, far away from Lahaina, have also had devastation. We've had complete neighborhoods and subdivisions wiped out for local families," he tells me, describing scenes that look more like bombed out cities of post-WWII Europe or in Ukraine today. "It's on a scale that we've never seen. It's just exhausting to look at, because it's still happening. I don't know how to describe Lahaina other than it's like Hell opened its mouth."
I hope you'll tune in for this must-listen conversation, particularly if you both want to know what appears to have happened and how you can help.
"It's all gone," laments Jenkins, as he becomes swept up in emotion describing the fate of Lahaina, "one of the most historic cities in the entire state."
"It's kind of hard to put into scale how much history, and how much of our old families that were born here and raised for generations, have lost everything. Some of the places that have been devastated --- they're the postcard images that you send everybody when you come to a vacation here. And they're all gone."
"The families that lived in those areas ... they're gone ... I'm sorry ... It's hard," he tells me as he chokes up, "...because we on the island, we're very close, as far as the local population. We know everybody."
Jenkins details how environmental conditions have changed in recent years as our climate crisis has taken a toll in drying out the once idyllic tropical paradise, and as "Big Ag" sugar operations up and left behind unrestored swaths of land.
"It is appreciably different" in recent years, he explains. "Part of the reason for that, not too long ago, we shut down the sugar industry here. The center body of the island is mostly ag land. And when the sugar industry left, a lot of that land went barren waiting for different owners. As all of these changes have happened, it's dried out the island. For the past five years, we have seen more and more brown than we usually do. Those conditions --- those dry, big, open-area fields --- were some of the reasons that the fires here spread so much. And since the sugar industry ended, we have had a step up in our wildfires."
One of the biggest ways we can help, Jenkins says, is to not come to Maui right now. While the island thrives on the tourism industry, now is not the time, as empty hotel rooms are being used to help house those who have lost everything. "We do not have the water, we do not have the power, we do not have the space," he asserts, noting that he is not "anti-tourist", but "every single resort that we have that has an empty room, we are trying to put in a local displaced family."
"The way that you can help us, the best way, is to stay away, and let us have the time to find and bury our dead, to fix our broken infrastructure. And, sadly, to start the very dangerous and long, arduous process of rebuilding one of the most historic cities in the state."
Jenkins does point those who would like to offer help to visit MauiFoodBank.org/Donate. As noted, I hope you will tune in for today's conversation with Shaggy.
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It was a great day for democracy in Ohio on Tuesday. And how often do we get to say that on The BradCast? [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
But first, it's not a great day for our friends in Maui, Hawaii, where windswept wildfires have leveled homes and businesses and a historic town; killed at least six and injured dozens so far; and sent some residents fleeing into the ocean to avoid the flames. That, as wind gusts above 60 mph --- part of Hurricane Dora passing about 500 miles safely to the south --- kept firefighting helicopters out of the sky, while climate change-fueled dry conditions and non-native, non-drought tolerant plant species (brought there by humans) went up like torches. Sending our best wishes to our listeners at our affiliate station, KAKU 88.5FM, "The Voice of Maui"! Please drop us a line when you can to let us know how you're doing!
Moving on from that terrible news, to much better news out of Ohio last night, where democracy was literally on the ballot. The Buckeye State GOP's anti-democracy constitutional amendment, known as Issue 1 on Tuesday's special election ballot, went down to huge defeat by some 13 points --- 57% to 43% --- according to the latest unconfirmed tallies. The measure, which could have passed with a simple majority, would have changed the state constitution to require 60% voter approval for all future constitutional amendments. As it turns out, voters don't like voting their own democracy away.
As Ohio's Sec. of State Frank LaRose was eventually caught on tape admitting to supporters --- after claiming for months it had nothing to do with abortion --- the measure was "100% about abortion". It was meant to preempt a citizen-led ballot initiative set for this November that will codify reproductive freedoms into the constitution of the otherwise right-leaning and wildly gerrymandered state.
We spend some time today explaining what happened, why it happened, and just how extraordinarily corrupt and hypocritical the measure's lead proponent, LaRose, actually is, as he hopes to become the state's GOP nominee to square off with Ohio's Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown next year. Good luck after Tuesday's $20 million, anti-democracy boondoggle, Frank!
But what happened in Ohio on Tuesday is reverberating throughout the nation today and will, almost certainly, continue to reverberate into next year's 2024 general election. It is also giving hope to a lot of otherwise "deep red" states, proving again that their citizenry can also successfully push back against GOP forces of hypocrisy, anti-democracy and pro-autocracy. Even in states like "deep red" Alabama.
We're joined today by ROBIN MARTY, Operations Director at the West Alabama Women's Center, and the prescient author of 2019's The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America and The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion.
Marty, as you might guess, is elated about the great news out of Ohio. "Of course, I am very excited about it," she says, before adding: "I'm not surprised, though. This is yet another in a series of wins for abortion rights when it is put up to a statewide vote." Indeed, every time a measure even tangentially related to reproductive rights has appeared on a statewide ballot since the corrupt U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, reproductive freedoms have ultimately won. That is true in both "red" and "blue" states alike.
But Marty also shares just some of the authoritarian horror still playing out in her own home state where abortion has now been banned entirely by state Republicans, and where her West Alabama Women's Center still offers much-needed healthcare for woman...but may no longer provide them with abortion services.
Most incredibly, as Marty tells details today, the medical professionals at her clinic are not even allowed, by law, to tell patients where they might go --- which states or clinics --- to receive lawful abortion care elsewhere. That, she says, could result in felony charges and up to 99 years in prison. In fact, she wasn't even certain she could tell me about that on air!
"The moment it became illegal in our state, not only did we have to stop every bit of abortion care that we were doing in the clinic," she explains, "our Attorney General made statements saying that, in his opinion, he believed that providing a person with information about how they could access abortion care somewhere else would, in fact, constitute a criminal conspiracy. And people could be arrested over that."
The center has just filed suit against the state A.G., hoping to win back their free speech rights. As the ACLU describes the case, the lawsuit was last month "in federal court to prevent Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys throughout the state from prosecuting those who assist Alabamians seeking to travel across state lines to access abortion care where abortion is legal. Attorney General Marshall has explicitly threatened that health care providers could face felony charges for assisting Alabamians seeking to travel out of state to obtain abortion where it is legal."
The health care providers are fighting the law adopted by the very same hypocritical GOP lawmakers who pretended to be "outraged" about "Big Government coming between a patient and their doctor" during the passage of ObamaCare in 2010. And the very same ones who, today, are pretending to be "outraged" about Trump being prosecuted for "nothing more than exercising his Free Speech rights!" (that's not why he is being prosecuted) and pretending to be concerned that social media sites are "censoring" rightwing opinions.
Marty has a lot to say on all of these topics, so I hope you'll tune in for today's very lively conversation with her!...
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For some reason, it seemed like a good moment on today's BradCast to bone up on exactly what "racketeering" or RICO charges are. I have a feeling it may come in handy in the days ahead. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
But, FIRST UP, it's Election Day in Ohio. One single statewide ballot issue, in the middle of August. That's because Republican lawmakers were hoping to undermine a ballot measure set for this November which, if successful, will codify protection for reproductive freedoms into the state Constitution.
For more than 100 years in the Buckeye State, Constitutional Amendments were adopted via the ballot with a simple majority vote. Today's measure, Issue 1, would raise the requirement needed for passage to a 60% super-majority. Of course, the GOP's Issue 1 on the ballot today would require just 50% + 1 for passage.
As we've been reporting, despite the state Republicans' attempt to sneak their anti-democracy Amendment past voters (after, earlier this year, adopting legislation to ban August Special Elections), early voting has been huge. Today's Election Day turnout was reportedly higher than expected as well. Happily, there were, so far, only a few reported problems at the polls. We'll see if that changes and we'll have reported results on this critical measure tomorrow.
THEN, over the weekend, Donald Trump's top attorney on his new indictment by Special Counsel Jack Smith for his many failed attempts to steal the 2020 Presidential election, was all over the news shows offering absurd defenses for his client's crimes. John Laura told Meet the Press, for example, that "a technical violation of the Constitution" isn't actually unlawful.
Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who happens to be a Constitutional law professor (as well as both the Lead Manager for the U.S. House during Trump's second impeachment for insurrection and a member of the bipartisan House Select Committee investigating it) strongly begged to differ. Critically, he noted in his response to Lauro's remarks, there are people serving years in jail in this country for falsifying one single vote, whereas Trump "tried to steal the entire election."
Thank you, Congressman!
NEXT, we continue to await what is almost certainly going to be Trump's fourth criminal indictment in about as many months. This one will come any day now, likely this week or next, courtesy of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis in relation to Team Trump's failed attempts to steal the Peach State's election in 2020 from Joe Biden and the state's voters.
Her case, for reasons explained on today's program, could be expansive, including many charges and many conspirators acting in concert with Trump. Exactly who will be charged and what they will be charged with remains unknown.
Among the many questions about Willis' case: Will she invoke the state's "Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations" (or RICO) Act or just simple conspiracy charges? And, oh, by the way, what are the difference between the two, as RICO is best known for use against organized crime by the mafia, etc.?
Luckily, KEITH BARBER, former attorney, former Republican and current Daily Kos contributor on law and Constitutional matters, recently wrote about exactly that and joins us today for a helpful RICO primer and insights into Willis' likely imminent indictments.
Short version of the difference between "conspiracy" and "RICO", as Barber wrote last month: "Conspiracy requires an agreement between the co-conspirators to commit what are usually specific crimes. RICO does not require proving any such agreement. So long as the parties commit the required predicate offenses, as part of the same 'enterprise,' acting 'in furtherance of a common purpose,' RICO can be satisfied."
As Barber tells me today: "The mob boss doesn't necessarily plan anything with the guy who is running the protection racket He may not even know him. But they are both engaged in the same broad criminal enterprise. That's the distinction between RICO and conspiracy. You don't have to show the connections that are shown in the [Jack] Smith indictment of Trump between the co-conspirators. It's sufficient if they engage in a pattern of racketeering activity in furtherance of the same general objective."
If you'd like a more detailed explanation, tune in to today's show, when Barber also offers his thoughts on who is likely to be indicted. "All indications are, all the hints are, that it's going to be a whole lot of people, with a whole lot of charges. It's kind of mind-boggling how many people it could be."
Also discussed: last night's court ruling in columnist E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation case against Trump and his counter-suit for defamation against Carroll. Short version: Trump's suit was tossed as the judge confirmed that, yes, Trump was found by a jury to have been a rapist according to common vernacular, and Carroll's second civil trial against him (she already won $5 million from him during the last one, now she's suing for at least $10 million) is scheduled to begin early next year and could be a very very short trial given everything that was already established as a fact in the first trial.
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It may be the dead of Summer, not exactly when most Americans are thinking about elections. But they were thinking about them last week in Tennessee and Ohio. No matter what these days, Americans are still thinking about Donald Trump. We cover all of that and more on today's busy BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
Among the stuff covered on today's program...
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When our corrupted U.S. Supreme Court, in June, handed down their closing opinions for last year's term, it became clear that we are facing a dark judicial hour in this nation.
Dark for women whose reproductive liberty and very lives have been placed at risk; dark for those who are drowning in seemingly insurmountable student debt; dark for those in the LGBTQ+ community who are seeing their very existence and right to medical care being challenged; dark for young African-American students hoping to acquire a higher education so as to overcome our nation's legacy of systemic racism; dark for the families of the ever-growing number of victims of mass shootings.
Our judicial institutions, for the moment, are still holding when it comes to accountability for the scoundrel who served as our 45th President. But, for too many others, the High Court has wrought a darkness brought on by the corrosive influence of the billionaire class and the "dark money" that billionaires and corporations use to corrupt our political and legal institutions.
That darkness comes courtesy of the Supreme Court's infamous 2010 Citizens United decision. It is a darkness also facilitated by political chicanery resulting in a Republican Party, which lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight Presidential Elections, packing a "corrupt" supermajority of six right-wing ideologues onto the nine-member High Court.
Their dark, radical interpretations of the Rule of Law have done more than simply endanger democracy's survival. By inventing a Second Amendment right of an individual to bear arms unrelated to military service in a State's "well-regulated" militia, the Roberts Court has become "destructive" of the first of the "unalienable Rights" listed in our nation's Declaration of Independence --- the right to "Life"!
Early last month, for example, CBS published a jaw-dropping U.S. statistic, citing "26 mass shootings in the first five days of July."
Yet, it is the dark and oppressive nature of the immensely unpopular decisions handed down by six unelected "radicals in robes", that, ironically, may help to facilitate a new dawn. The bright side of their decisions can be found in an incensed electorate, whose approval of the Court, as presently constituted, has plunged to a dismal 29%.
Democracy, as the late British MP Tony Benn described it, is "more revolutionary than socialist ideas." It is the light that can drive out the darkness.
The very existence of public revulsion towards the dark turn by the Court in recent years, such as overturning abortion rights and much more, make a 2024 Blue Tsunami possible. If the source of the darkness lies in the decisions of a corrupt and radicalized Supreme Court, then Democrats must convey a clear and coherent message that a vote for their candidates will serve to restore the light...including with reform of the Court itself...
Ten years ago, a BradCast like today's would have been unimaginable. Today, it's just our latest BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.]
Among our many stories covered (some of which we've been trying to get to all week but for all the breaking news that kept bumping them!)...
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Man-made climate change made record hot July three times more likely, new study finds; Extreme heat is extremely costly for small businesses; Record high temps ironically force oil refineries to curtail production; PLUS: America's first new nuclear reactor in years finally starts operations in Georgia...with higher cost for ratepayers... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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The quote in the headline for today's BradCast comes, according to one of our guests today, from former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who knows quite a bit about both Constitutional crimes and American history. Finally, Donald J. Trump is facing accountability for his worst (known) crime of all: Attempting to overthrow American democracy itself by stealing a Presidential election from the American people before our very eyes. Luckily, he was as bad at that as he is at everything else. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
"This is a momentous legal event. It's the most significant legal event of our lifetimes, one of the most significant legal events ever in the history of this country. It is up there with Marbury vs Madison, Brown vs Board of Education, Dred Scott as a defining case for the times," Katyal told MSNBC after the new indictment against the the disgraced former President was handed up in D.C. yesterday. "This indictment lays out a case that a guy who was President of the United States --- while he was President of the US --- leveraged his office, used his power to thwart the will of the people in the most solemn thing they do in our country, vote. This is the biggest constitutional crime in our history."
We're joined today discuss that crime and Trump's latest indictment (his third in four months, and his second at the federal level) for it by two favorite BradCast special coverage guests. HEATHER DIGBY PARTON is the award-winning columnist at Salon and founder of Digby's Hullabaloo blog; and our old friend "DRIFTGLASS" is otherwise known as both @Mr_Electrico on Twitter and simply "Bill" at home in "Flyover Country, Illinois" where he has long and proudly produced The Professional Left Podcast.
Following the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's new, very readable 45-page indictment [PDF] against Trump just minutes before airtime on Tuesday --- including four felony fraud, obstruction and conspiracy charges related to his attempt to steal the 2020 election before, during, and after the January 6, 2021 insurrection he incited at the U.S. Capitol --- we've had a bit of time to finally read the charges and evidence presented with them in full.
Also, we've had some time to learn about the judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan. And, boy howdy, is Trump not gonna like her. She was appointed by President Obama, has been particularly tough on January 6 insurrectionists, and famously (and correctly) wrote, in a 2021 ruling allowing the bipartisan House Jan. 6 Select Committee access to documents from the Trump White House that "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President."
As noted, he's not gonna like her one bit. Oh, well. Perhaps it balances out the Trump-appointed federal judge/stooge overseeing his federal indictment on 40 felony charges related to his theft and retention of national security documents and his attempts to obstruct the government's investigation and attempts to retrieve them down in Florida.
Among the topics discussed with "Digby" and "Driftglass" on today's special coverage...
Answers to all of those questions and many others on today's BradCast Special Coverage! Enjoy!...
Literally minutes before today's BradCast, news broke that the grand jury in D.C. hearing Special Counsel Jack Smith conspiracy case against Donald J. Trump regarding his many failed attempts to steal 2020 Presidential election had handed up a four-count federal indictment against Donald J. Trump. Seconds before airtime, Smith offered a brief statement on the new indictment. We cover both today...on the fly...
As Smith announced (we share his brief remarks in full), Trump was indicted on four federal felonies...
• Count 1: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States [18 USC 371]
• Count 2: Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding [18 USC 1512(k)]
• Count 3: Obstruction of, and Attempt to Obstruct, an Official Proceeding [18 USC 1512(c)(2)]
• Count 4: Conspiracy Against Rights [specifically, the right to vote and to have one's vote counted, 18 USC 241]
Six of Defendant Trump's alleged co-conspirators are briefly described in the 45-page indictment [PDF], though not named within it. The co-conspirators appear to be uncharged at this time. Most of their names were pretty simple to identify based on their description in the indictment (see pages 3 and 4). According to Washington Post, which names 5 of the 6 of them, it appears we got them pretty much correct as we read through the early portion of the charges on today's show. WaPo identifies them as...
• Co-Conspirator 1: Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani
• Co-Conspirator 2: Trump attorney John Eastman
• Co-Conspirator 3: Trump attorney Sidney Powell
• Co-Conspirator 4: DoJ Asst. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark
• Co-Conspirator 5: Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro
• Co-Conspirator 6: A still unidentified "political consultant" whose description matches several potential different Trump henchmen.
Looks like we were correct, at least, on Co-Conspirators 1 through 4. Emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler agrees WaPo's ID of Chesebro as number 5 is "sound". He is described in the indictment as "an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding". We speculate on the show that Co-Conspirator 6 could be Trump's 2020 campaign Director of Election Day Operations Michael Roman, but that's just an on-the-fly guess.
The most central aspect of the charges, at least to my eyes, is that Donald Trump not only attempted to steal the election by lying about it, using dozens of fraudulent claims for months after the November election, but knew that he was lying about every aspect of it.
"The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election," the indictment reads in its first paragraph...
He lost. He knew it, because he was told by his closest advisors and all the top state and federal officials with whom he conferred. And, yet, he fraudulently claimed otherwise in hopes of defrauding the American people and stealing a Presidential election. He is finally be charged for all of the above.
It's all spelled out, quite readably, in the indictment [PDF] which Smith, in his brief remarks, encouraged "everyone" to "read in full".
We will, no doubt, have more on all of this in the days ahead. In the remaining time on today's show, as salvaged somewhat from our previous planned program...
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Microsoft launches Surface laptop, streamlined Windows 10
NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft is introducing a Surface device aimed at students.
The Surface Laptop is the first Surface device without a detachable keyboard.
The laptop starts at $999, the same as the MacBook Air, but much more than what iPads and Chromebooks go for. Microsoft says the new laptop will have up to 14.5 hours of battery life, compared with 12 hours for the MacBook Air.
The laptop runs Windows 10 S, a streamlined version of the ubiquitous operating system that is aimed primarily at classrooms. Because of this, the only software users will be able to download on it will be those from the Windows Store. It will be available on June 15, though it is possible to order it ahead of time.
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Easter services will be held without the presence of faithful, without processions and without the rite of the washing of feet this year, according to a decree issued by the Holy See.
The faithful will be informed of the exact times of the services in order to be able to pray, if they want, from their home and to watch them live. On Thursday, the rite of the washing of feet will be omitted and no procession will be held after the mass. On Great Friday, priests will pray for the sick and the dead. Only the celebrant will kiss the Cross and no one else.
Some of the ceremonies, such as the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) traditionally performed at Rome’s Colosseum in the presence of the Pope, may be postponed until September 14 and 15. The Sacrament of Chrismation, that is anointing by using oil of Chrism of the baptisms, may also be postponed.
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Last week, more than a thousand workers of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Basti district of eastern Uttar Pradesh quit and joined, wait for it, the Samajwadi Party. They were led by a local BSP leader of some standing, along with one former MP and two former MLAs.
This is no big deal, sympathisers of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) might say. People have been joining and leaving the BSP forever. The vote is cast in Mayawati’s name. The rest are mercenaries for hire.
But it’s different this time. Mayawati’s supporters and voters are no longer sure if Mayawati still commands the unquestioned loyalty of Dalit voters.
The proof was the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the BSP fought on almost equal number of seats. The BSP won 10, the SP five – a clear indication that many Dalit voters did not listen to Mayawati’s advice to vote for the SP.
If Mayawati is unable to make her vote transfer, is she really the supreme leader of Dalits?
But Dalits might still vote for Mayawati, the BSP could argue. If the elephant is there on the EVM, their motor memory won’t allow them to vote for anyone else.
Although, even that seems to be increasingly doubtful. Mayawati’s hold over the Dalit vote is facing a multi-pronged attack. It is significant that politicians from the Basti district are joining the SP, and not the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or the Congress. Akhilesh Yadav has been able to project an image that is different from how Dalits have so far seen the Samajwadi Party.
When Mayawati blamed the SP, called it names, and unilaterally broke the alliance after the 2019 Lok Sabha election result, Akhilesh Yadav did not respond. He continues to wish her on her birthday. This has made Mayawati seem like the spoilsport in the larger purpose of joining forces against the incumbent BJP, while Akhilesh Yadav comes across as the good guy.
There’s another threat that Mayawati faces: Chandrashekhar Azad of Saharanpur. Mayawati is so rattled by the Bhim Army chief that she names him in her press conferences, and accuses him of being a part of the conspiracy to cut BSP votes. But Chandrashekhar Azad has become a face of curiosity and aspiration in Uttar Pradesh politics. Azad wants to do agitational politics, shake things up, be a force of disruption. Mayawati wants to stick to her old formulas that stopped working in 2014.
Chandrashekhar Azad has already announced that he intends to launch his own political party. Whether this party will contest all seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, or enter into an alliance with the SP or Congress, remains to be seen. The amount of traction he would get can also only be a matter of speculation. But Mayawati is making sure that Chandrashekhar Azad becomes a well-known figure for Dalits across Uttar Pradesh by naming him in virtually every press conference.
The rise of the BSP was about fighting against ‘upper’ caste domination. But today, Dalit youth want more than that. Having won the first round and made their point against caste domination and discrimination, the new generation Dalits want to assert equality. It is a different aspiration and Chandrashekhar Azad epitomises it.
BSP under siege
Dalits have already been deserting the BSP for the BJP since 2014, especially non-Jatav Dalits. Some Jatavs, too, have been attracted to the BJP thanks to Modi’s economic populism: free houses, toilets, LPG cylinders. And then there’s the Congress party, which Dalits used to vote for until the rise of the BSP in the early 1990s. Mayawati has also been attacking Priyanka Gandhi. Dalits going back to the Congress has always been her fear.
In other words, Mayawati is under siege from all sides. And she is not reacting astutely at all. Her response reveals her anxieties. All she wants is to retain her Dalit vote-bank. And therein lies the mistake. The biggest reason why even Dalits are giving up on Mayawati is because they see no hope of her returning as chief minister any time soon. She’s unable to project ‘winnability’.
Closed to new ideas
For this, Mayawati has only herself to blame — although if you ask Dalit intellectuals, they will blame her Brahmin aide, Satish Chandra Mishra. Mayawati has closed herself to any new ideas. She thinks the old formula can still work: marry Dalit vote-bank to non-Dalit candidates, who will also bring votes of their own caste. Two plus two equals victory.
This formula worked in the past. But now, caste politics alone won’t work. The once fragmented ‘lower’ Other Backward Classes (OBCs) have been solidly mobilised by the BJP, whose caste coalition is formidable. But caste is not the only thing that matters.
As part of her old formula, Mayawati did not need to campaign on the ground. She only needed to address a few big rallies on election eve and that was enough. But as the BSP stares at a likely implosion, Mayawati needs to get out and travel across Uttar Pradesh, re-establish connect with the masses. Kanshiram built the BSP on his bicycle. Mayawati will need to leave her ivory tower – even though it seems unlikely that she will. She might think it will reduce her stature.
All she can think of is going back from a ‘Dalit+Muslim’ strategy to a ‘Dalit+Brahmin’ strategy. So, the leader of the BSP in the Lok Sabha has been changed from Muslim to Brahmin. What she really needs to do instead is travel across Uttar Pradesh and campaign on law and order, utilising the perception that law and order in the state is best when she is the chief minister.
She doesn’t think she needs to campaign. At least not until a week before the first phase of the polling. Why campaign when you are the queen of social engineering?
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Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to star in the upcoming animated Garfield film. The actor will star alongside Chris Pratt.
The film will be based on the classic Jim Davis character, a lasagna-loving orange cat who lives with his owner Jon Arbuckle and another pet, a dog named Odie.
Jackson will be playing the part of Garfield's father, Vic.
Mark Dindal will direct the film, from a screenplay by David Reynolds. Producing the film are John Cohen and Steven P. Wegner, alongside Alcon's co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, and DNEG CEO Namit Malhotra and President Tom Jacomb. Amuse's Bridget McMeel and Craig Sost will executive produce.

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I TEND TO GET HOT RATHER THAN COLD – WHICH ONE SHOULD I CHOOSE?
Do you tend to feel hot rather than cold? Do you prefer to take off an extra layer rather than add one? If so, then you’re probably a naturally warm person. Wool is a fantastic material that breathes well and adds real warmth. However, wool can feel sticky if you are prone to sweating. The temperature rises quickly with wool, and even if the blanket feels comfy over your legs at first, the heat can soon fill your whole body. VERTIGO in 100% wool is a good alternative in this case, as it has all of wool’s excellent properties, but is light and thin. However, DROTTNINGHOLM is perhaps the most versatile of the blankets as it is made of 100% cotton. Cotton provides a very comfortable warmth, never gets sticky and is also easy to wash and maintain. DROTTNINGHOLM is coarsely knitted and has a natural weight that gives you a feeling of being enveloped and has similar properties to a weighted blanket.
I TEND TO GET COLD RATHER THAN HOT – WHICH ONE SHOULD I CHOOSE?
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You Must Bring A Hat!Picture Book - 2017 | First Sterling edition
A young boy is invited to the biggest, bestest party of all time, but he is told he must bring a hat.
Publisher: New York : Sterling Children's Books, 2017
Edition: First Sterling edition
Branch Call Number: PICTURE BOOK PHI
Characteristics: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm


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In the opening John Kleshinski Concert at the Community Music Center of Boston we heard offerings one would expect to be quite popular in Boston: an Irish-themed program of traditional and classical pieces, including a new work by an esteemed Irish composer, and CMCB’s Allen Hall was, indeed, nearly full Thursday night. But almost everyone there had some connection to the school (yours truly, a member of its corporation, included), which left us scratching our head(s); leave it to others to ponder the sociology.
Trio Festivale, comprises flutist Sabrina Hu, cellist Gerald Peregrine, and pianist Cathal (pronounced, we’re told, ca-HAAL) Breslin. All three (of whom the latter two are Irish) have connections to the University of Memphis (TN), where they became friendly with bassoonist and music administrator Lecolion Washington, who is now the Executive Director of CMCB. They thus included Boston on their premiere tour for the new piece, having already taken it to U Memphis, U of South Florida (Tampa), and U of Florida (Gainesville), concluding in a few days at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. Their compact program, run without an intermission, consisted of the Trio on Irish Folk Melodies (1925) by Swiss composer Frank Martin; a suite of traditional Irish tunes arranged for them by their U Memphis colleague Sam Shoup, and The Great Hunger (2017), written for them by Irish composer Ian Wilson, based on the 1942 sprawling poem of that name by the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh.
The Martin is a reasonably familiar. Commissioned by an Irish-American resident in Paris (where Martin spent most of his career) who then stiffed Martin for the fee on the grounds that it didn’t sound Irish enough, it cleverly weaves an often-contrapuntal tapestry of some 14 Irish melodies into a suite-like structure of three movements. While the melodic character stresses modal and pentatonic relationships and the harmony often brings out archaic sounds like parallel fifths, the punchy rhythms, occasional sharp dissonances, and overall tenor of the work are consistent with the brittle post-Impressionist milieu of Les Six. The opening Allegro moderato gives some soulful expression to the cello, well brought out by Peregrine, over which the flute floats with cheerier descants. The Adagio continues this methodology, with Peregrine and Hu carrying the contrapuntal action with conviction, if not fully polished elegance. The concluding jig (Martin of course wrote it “gigue”) was both effervescent and restrained, the players not going too fast, with some surprisingly dark and intense music in the middle, including ominous tritone marching passages, which carried forward in counterpoint to the jollier bits to conclude. This movement gave us ample opportunity to note Breslin’s rock-solid and fleet-fingered negotiation of passages of considerable complexity.
The five folk tunes arranged by Shoup illustrated perfectly the impression that nothing ever ends well in an Irish ballad. They included the ever-popular The Last Rose of Summer, The Mason’s Apron (the only up-tempo item, it’s a hornpipe, which is of English origin), the nicely voiced Lark in the Clear Air, the mournful She Moved Through the Fair, and Little Molly O’ (wherein lovers are parted because her father objects to her marrying a “foreigner,” to wit a Scotsman). The straightforward and unfussy settings were notable for cello parts that were almost exclusively played on the D and A strings (mostly the latter), with the only low extension occurring at the end of the penultimate tune; this rather suited the somewhat intimate sound of Peregrine’s 1920s French instrument (and kudos to Shoup if he planned it that way). The readings were all as characteristic and direct as the settings.
The main event came of course, in Wilson’s opus, which he characterized as a “rondo-fantasy” that sought to capture several main themes of Kavanagh’s epic work, rather than try to depict scenes from it in detail. That rather expresses the modus operandi of most composers’ interpretations of literary works, and it is in the context of, say, Beethoven’s Coriolan overture, Dvořák’s Golden Spinning Wheel, or Converse’s Festival of Pan rather than Strauss’s pictorialism, that one should approach The Great Hunger.
First a word about the composer. Americans would be hard-pressed to name more than three Irish composers of classical music: John Field, Victor Herbert and Charles Stanford, all of whom spent most of their careers outside Ireland; epicureans might throw in Michael William Balfe, Patrick Gilmore, Hamilton Harty and Ernest John Moeran. Good luck thinking about living composers. Ian Wilson, 54, comes from Northern Ireland, though he has been resident in the Irish Republic for many years. His catalogue is extensive (18 string quartets so far!) and he’s received play, naturally, throughout Ireland (north and south), in the UK and elsewhere in Europe; the current run in fact, takes support from both Culture Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. This was, however, the first time anything of his had been heard in Boston (confirmed by him via email), though a piece for Somerville’s Sonic Liberation Players is planned for next year). He’s had, he says, a few performances in California and New York. A quick review of some available online recordings of Wilson’s œuvre shows him to be a composer of ambition and depth, whose work is definitely worth treating as respectfully as his British and Continental colleagues. He usually writes in what you’d call abstract ways, though seldom abstrusely, but has sometimes imparted features of Irish music in his own, much as Judith Weir has done with Scottish turns of phrase.
Now the piece. Kavanagh’s poem, from 1942, came as a kind of rebuke to Irish culture, which had long depicted rural life in a Romantic haze of happy sons-of-the-soil peasantry. What Kavanagh, a child of rural peasants, did was burn off the haze and shine scorching sunlight on the oppressive, depressing, soul-deadening material and spiritual deprivation of such a life and its afflictions: futile labor, empty relationships, crushing poverty, enslavement to a rapacious Church. Needless to say, such a view was not popular at the time. It was especially unwelcome inasmuch as its name and chronology were meant to evoke the century-past calamity of the famine laid at the feet of the colonial oppressor; but The Great Hunger isn’t directly about the Great Hunger, and its focus is on internal rather than external evils. Kavanagh created an anti-hero named Patrick Maguire, whose relationship to soil, work, family, love and Church the poem and Wilson’s music sought to examine.
In his written notes and in a video played before the performance, Wilson pointed out that he chose several musical themes and motifs to go with various aspects of Maguire’s existence and Kavanagh’s reflections on them. The most obvious of these relates to the influence of the Church, in which Wilson picked the 16th-century chorale “O Man Thy Sin is Great,” in Bach’s harmonization. To suggest the broken relationship between Maguire and the Church, Wilson sets it in the piano with “smears” of dissonant counterpoint in the other instruments; but in referring to Maguire’s far-from-benign mother’s fully orthodox religion, the chorale is pretty much unalloyed. Overall, Wilson effectively combines triadic and chromatic passages, and offers moments of savagery juxtaposed with modified lyricism. The posture of the music is in the current post-atonal (that is, relaxed but not retrograde) idiom. As this was a first hearing, we couldn’t really tease out all the details, but can report that the piece is interesting enough that we’d like to hear it again. One thing we find intriguing is thinking about Wilson’s relationship to Kavanagh much as one ponders Kavanagh’s relation to Yeats: The critique of Irish society and culture Kavanagh presents is now over 75 years old, and Irish society has once again re-invented itself as a modern one, fully integrated in a cosmopolitan Europe. Where do old rebels like Kavanagh fit into that picture? We’re not sure Wilson has focused attention on that aspect of the culture.
Trio Festivale showed ardency and commitment, and evinced ease with the manifest complexity of some of the passages and techniques Wilson created for them.
Vance R. Koven studied music at Queens College and New England Conservatory, and law at Harvard. A composer and practicing attorney, he was for many years the chairman of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble.

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Officers investigating a cannabis factory at a disused Wiltshire pub are urging anyone with information to get in touch.
A sophisticated set-up of more than 200 plants in varying stages of growth was discovered at the derelict Unicorn pub in Melksham.
The discovery followed a call to police at around 10.15pm on March 14 following an initial report of a suspected burglary at the Bath Road pub.
The electricity board attended the scene the following day to make the property safe for officers to enter and the factory has now been dismantled.
To date, no arrests have been made however, extensive enquiries are ongoing.
Police said: “We are really keen to hear from anyone who has seen any people entering the derelict pub in recent weeks or any vehicles in attendance at the scene.
“We’d also remind the public that organised crime groups will often target derelict commercial buildings so any suspicious activity at premises like this should always be reported to police so we can carry out enquiries.”

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You *could* (and probably should....) do an authentication policy/captive portal, to help identify and add the user to the UserID cache of the FW. You could put up a splash page, to ask the user to identify themselves, if NTLM (browser based authentication does not work)
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Our online workshops are lively and interactive: incorporating fun games, exploring artists, works of art and the world, learning technique, and making original artworks.
Pragya Bhargava was one of the three Artreach-KNMA Teaching Fellows for 2020-21 in its first phase. Together they explored the topic of space!
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‘Preregistration’ is to be made with designated hospitals.
TAT NEWSROOM: Thailand’s Department of Disease Control (DDC), Ministry of Public Health has announced a new vaccine appointment method for foreigners in Thailand wanting to get vaccinated, in which they need to book in advance or ‘preregister’ with designated hospitals.
After foreigners register, they then must wait for an appointment confirmation from the hospital on the proposed date and time of vaccination.
The DDC previously opened a website for foreigners to register for vaccinations at https://thailandintervac.com/, which is now closed. The Department said the new appointment method would make it more convenient and secure for foreigners to register.
The current phase for vaccination is for foreigners aged 60 or above and those with any of the following underlying diseases – severe chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs), coronary artery disease (CAD), chronic kidney disease, stroke, cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, diabetes, and obesity (weight > 100 kg or BMI > 35 kg/m²).
Currently, the AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines are available.
The designated hospitals available for preregistration include:
Phyathai 2 Hospital
According to information on Phyathai 2 Hospital’s website (via phyathai2international.com), the registration will be in the Google Form Format and the link of the Google Form will be published on 12-16 July, 2021, from 09.00-12.00 hours only.
The vaccination period will be 19-30 July, 2021 (except weekends).
The vaccine provided will be Astrazeneca only, and it is free of charge.
Once the registration is successful, the hospital will send an SMS confirmation to the applicant’s mobile phone number given by the next day of registration.
The appointment date cannot be changed, and the right of the vaccine cannot be transferred to another person.
People with the seven underlying diseases must present evidence and personal identification at the vaccination site. The evidence can be a picture of medical records containing information with the specific disease, or prescriptions with their names. This evidence should be no more than a year old.
Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital
The next preregistration at this hospital will be open in August.
The Next Phase
The second phase of foreigners’ vaccination will be for those residing in Thailand under the age of 60. Information on this will be provided as soon as it becomes available.
For diplomats, consular officers, and staff of international organisations on the nominative list proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the DDC said its Office of International Cooperation wouls contact them to coordinate the vaccination services.
To date, Thailand has administered a total of 11,619,618 vaccine doses, including total of 8,494,230 first doses and another 3,125,388 second doses.

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You have finally secured a mortgage of your new home, and now you are currently living in it, that’s the good part. However, it is still not yet the end of your responsibility as a homeowner.
This time, you need to face handling and paying off your mortgage. But what you thought would be easy, for some homeowners, getting caught up with the mortgage is a total nightmare.
Whatever the reasons behind a late payment of your mortgage, you should consider tackling the issue as soon as it arises. It surely is a steep road to take, but there are still options that you can resort to fix your mortgage repayments.
Here are the best solutions we have come up with for every struggling homeowner.
Talk to your lender.
The basic rule to remember never avoids your lenders’ calls and consecutive mails. You already know that you have missed a repayment for a month or two, or even more- the moment you continue with your sheer denial, more problems will arise. Sitting down and having a talk directly to your lender as soon as you recognize the problem will give you more options to solve the issue.
The best-case scenario is that your lender will open a table for discussion regarding your problem and help you with it. One of their reasons is that it is possible that the market already has a high percentage of foreclosed properties and they want to save yours.
That is why it is essential that the lender your mortgage broker found is approachable and open to assist you when such a case arises. The Precision Funding can help you look for a lender that you can efficiently work with when this kind of scenario happens.
Extending your loan out to a longer-term might be the best solution to your mortgage repayment problem. However, you can only resort to refinancing if you already exhausted all your other options. Refinancing your mortgage loan requires you to pay for extra fees- this is due that your lender will break your existing mortgage contract.
Yet it is imperative to emphasize that spacing your loan out for a longer-term makes you pay more interest rate a longer time. If you can handle reduced mortgage monthly repayment fee but with extended months in your contract, then go ahead and have a refinancing.
Switch to interest-only payments
The other helpful solution to handle your mortgage repayment issue is to have it switch to an interest-only. This method means, you only pay for the accumulated interest rate per month, which is more light to handle rather than having the monthly fee plus the interest fee.
However, this solution is considered as a short-term solution to your problem. You still need to pay off the capital amount at one point. But this solution can work, especially if you are trying to save your house while you are still on a hunt looking for a decent job to pay off all your debts.
Lower down your monthly payments
The day you have closed the deal with your mortgage lender, your mortgage contract is embedded in all kinds of insurance and other fees. Which is technically you agreed upon, when such a crisis happens like, shorter cash-flow, you can opt-out to having all these extra fees included in your mortgage contract removed.
The payments that go to property insurance, local taxes, and the PMI or the Private Mortgage Insurance can all be removed or reduced if you talk to your lender. See if you can lower all these add-ons while you are still struggling in paying off your monthly mortgage.
Lower down the principal amount
You might be wondering why your mortgage lender will agree to this agreement, well one thing is clear when it comes to foreclosed properties, the entire transaction is a gruelling process. The most mortgage lenders will agree to lower down the principal amount rather than to move forward with a foreclosure process. This is highly working on your advantage, so better use it to benefit you.
This solution is only applicable for homeowners who are temporarily halted with their field of work due to health reasons, accident, or other unanticipated misfortune that requires them to be on temporary leave. Asking your mortgage lender for a forbearance gives you an allowable time to collect and save money to pay for the monthly mortgage repayments.
Forbearance technically means to suspend all the mortgage payments temporarily. However, a payment plan should be presented and must make sure to have the account up to date.
As a responsible homeowner paying off the monthly mortgage and making sure it is up to date is just one of your responsibility. However, unprecedented cases happen and monthly repayments are delayed but don’t lose hope yet as there are still options that can help you resolve the problem. If you are struggling with your mortgage repayment, it is still not the end, just look for alternatives and start talking to your lender to have professional advice.