Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said Trump is drawn to QAnon like a moth to a flame.
Figliuzzi said Trump is embracing the movement because he feels “increasingly cornered.”
Figliuzzi warned that violence could ensue if the QAnon movement felt threats to its leader.
A former FBI official said former President Donald Trump is likely feeling cornered and embracing the QAnon movement out of desperation.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, was weighing in on Trump’s links to the QAnon movement during a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.” Host Nicolle Wallace asked Figliuzzi if he thinks Trump knows just how dangerous the movement is to the US.
“Oh, not only do I think he knows it, but I think that’s what attracts him to this. It’s like a moth to the flame,” Figliuzzi said.
“And the thing is, he knows that he’s increasingly cornered,” Figliuzzi added. “He’s in trouble on so many legal fronts, even criminal fronts now, that this is, kind of, the almost last act of a desperate man.”
Figliuzzi referenced Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where a QAnon song played during Trump’s speech. During the rally, Trump’s supporters were seen pointing their fingers to the sky in a strange, one-finger salute, which experts say might have been a nod to the movement’s slogan, “where we go one we go all.”
While the stadium in Ohio was not fully filled, and thus a sign that Trump may be losing support from his base, Figliuzzi said there’s still a significant threat from Trump and the QAnon movement.
“What is extremely dangerous based on past histories of cults, is that as they come near the end, as the leader is threatened, they get more and more dangerous,” Figliuzzi said. “And they do something cult experts call ‘forcing the end.’”
This could happen if the movement’s leader “calls for the violence” or is “taken out,” Figliuzzi said.
“The members take a step up and force the ending — whatever that could be,” Figliuzzi said. “That’s what concerns me and we’ve learned from January 6, it only takes a small number of people to do that.”
The Trump rally in Ohio is just one of many recent instances in which the former president appeared to embrace QAnon — a movement that claims without basis that Trump is fighting a deep-state cabal of pedophiles. In a stream of messages after the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, Trump shared over a dozen posts on his Truth Social account, some of which referenced QAnon and contained baseless conspiracy theories about the FBI. Other posts by the former president on the Truth Social platform in September included a reposted image of himself sporting a “Q” lapel pin, along with the movement’s “where we go one we go all” slogan.
Figliuzzi and a representative at Trump’s post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.
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The 2022 F1 Singapore Grand Prix is taking place from September 30 to October 2.
It’s the biggest party weekend of the year in Singapore.
A three-day luxury ticket package to catch the race costs $9,898 Singapore dollars, or $7,036.
The F1 Singapore Grand Prix is back after a two-year pandemic hiatus, and the city is gearing up for its biggest weekend — think parties, fast cars, and global music acts converging all in one spot.
Home to the first Grand Prix night race, the country shuts down public roads in the city center and transforms them into a brightly lit track known as the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Around 268,000 fans attended the 2019 F1 Singapore Grand Prix — the second-highest on record since the 2008 inaugural race, race organizer Singapore GP told local news outlet The Straits Times. This year’s race, held from September 30 to October 2, is expected to draw a similar turnout, Singapore GP told local news outlet Today.
Those without tickets can catch the action on two of the country’s major pay-TV broadcasters. It’s a big, celebratory event — even non-F1 fans will head out to the clubs for a slice of the action.
Want in? Get ready to pay up. Here’s how much it’ll cost you to party big during F1 weekend in Singapore.
Public roads in the city center are shut down and transformed into the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
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Ticket prices start at 98 Singapore dollars, or $70, for the practice race on Friday and go as high as S$988 for the race on Sunday. Three-day tickets will set you back as much as S$1,288.
There are also three-day hospitality packages, which include free-flow drinks and access to viewing galleries for prices ranging from S$1,605 to S$9,898.
The S$9,898 package — the Formula 1 Paddock Club — lets attendees watch the race from an air-conditioned suite above the pit garages. They also get access to walk down the pit lane and check out the cars and the race crew.
Concert tickets: Only for those who hold race tickets
The F1 concert lineup this year includes Westlife, Green Day, and Marshmello. To catch the concert, you’ll need to have tickets to the race first.
Prices for top hotels: Upwards of S$1,700 a night
The Marina Bay Street Circuit is surrounded by some of the largest hotels in the city.
A representative for the Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore told Insider that room prices during the F1 weekend were around S$1,700 to S$2,000 per night. In contrast, rooms on a non-F1 weekend at the Ritz start from S$650 a night, per the hotel’s website.
There are still rooms available at Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay hotel, where the Singapore Night Race (Track View) package costs S$2,500 per night. A representative for the company told Insider a minimum stay of three nights is required during that period.
Hotel room rates in Singapore are almost reaching a 10-year high, based on data from the Singapore Tourism Board. In July, the average room cost was S$259 — the highest since prices peaked at S$261.66 a decade ago in September 2012.
Rooms at the Fullerton Hotel Singapore are completely sold out for F1 weekend.
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Big-name parties: Upwards of S$80
Of course, the party doesn’t end when the race ends.
Amber Lounge is one of Singapore’s biggest F1 after-parties, which is also held in Monaco and Abu Dhabi. This year’s party will be held at The Fullerton Bay Hotel and touts “immersive theatrical cabaret,” “cirque-themed performances,” and lots of Champagne.
Entry passes for the party cost between S$800 and S$1,200. Groups of 10 who are looking to party in a VIP suite and have S$45,000 to burn can buy a package that includes vodka, caviar, and yes, Champagne.
Marquee Singapore, a nightclub at the Marina Bay Sands, or MBS, is celebrating race weekend with DJ Steve Aoki on September 30 and Afrojack on October 1. General admission tickets start from S$80, while express entry tickets start from S$250.
There’s also the Mandala Weekender party happening at the MBS convention center for all three nights of the race weekend. The party costs upwards of S$148 a head and and features artists such as Kelis, Rae Sremmurd, and Rudimental.
Special F1-related food deals: Upwards of S$200
Restaurants around the city are catching F1 fever, too.
Perched 57 stories above the ground, right at the top of the iconic MBS, is Cé La Vi Singapore. The rooftop restaurant opens up to views of the city-state on one side and the open sea on the other. It has a four-course F1 set menu: For S$300, you can feast on dishes like Boston lobster and Japanese king crab.
The Marina Bay skyline as viewed from Marina Bay Sands.
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LAVO, an Italian restaurant also on the MBS rooftop, is holding a Race Weekend Party Brunch. For S$248, diners get to enjoy their food with free-flow drinks while Swiss DJ Gil Glaze spins his beats.
Alternatively, diners can indulge in some French food over at La Brasserie’s Winning Formula Brunch, which costs S$238 with free-flow Champagne and house wines.
That cat food smell might be enticing to your pup, but just because your dog wants to eat the cat’s food doesn’t mean he should eat it. Dogs and cats have different nutritional needs, which is why their food is created and balanced differently.
Dog food vs. cat food
Cats are carnivores and need a high meat content in their diet. Their food is meat-based and has much more protein and fat than dog food. Dogs, however, are omnivores, which means they eat meat, vegetables and fruits. Dogs require more of a balanced diet of these ingredients.
Dog food is nutritionally deficient for cats. And cat food is typically much too high in protein and fats for dogs — which makes it smell great, but unhealthy for dogs to eat cat food over time.
Can dogs eat dry cat food?
Unless directed by your veterinarian to do so, you should not feed dry cat food or wet cat food to your dog. Although eating it on occasion wouldn’t be toxic for your dog (like if your dog gets into the cat’s food), eating cat food in place of his balanced dog food diet or as a treat would be bad for your dog’s health.
However, there are certain situations where a veterinarian may recommend cat food to a dog who has cancer and has lost too much weight or muscle mass and isn’t eating well. Always check with your veterinarian before making any changes to your dog’s diet.
Is cat food dangerous for my dog?
Cat food is too high in protein and fat for dogs to eat — even as an occasional treat. When dogs eat cat food, it can lead to the following health problems:
Upset stomach
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Obesity
Pancreatitis
Kidney disease
Liver disease
How to stop your dog from eating cat food
Keep your cat’s food in a separate room from where your dog eats, with the door closed.
Feed your cat at regular two to three meal intervals — just like your dog — rather than leaving their food to sit out all day.
Place your cat’s food up on a high perch or countertop where your cat can eat it out of reach from your dog.
Keep your cat’s food in a sealed container, like the Yamazaki Home Airtight Pet Food Storage containers, throughout the day, so that your dog isn’t smelling it and tempted to eat it.
For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected 10 brutalist interiors from the UK to Brazil and Indonesia that show how textiles, plants and colours can be used to soften monolithic concrete spaces and create a cosy atmosphere.
Brutalism as an architectural style often makes use of concrete to create large, sculptural buildings. These interiors in brutalist buildings feature plenty of concrete and hard angles but still manage to feel both warm and welcoming.
Colourful tiling, wooden details and tactile textiles as well as an abundance of green plants were used to create inviting living rooms, bathrooms and even workspaces in these brutalist buildings, which include the Barbican in London and Riverside Tower in Antwerp.
Designer Dan Mitchell worked with architecture studio Patisandhika to create this brutalist home in Bali, which features a double-height living room filled with books, records and green plants.
The house has a split-level design that was modelled on modernist architect Ray Kappe’s Kappe Residence. Inside, colourful objects, textiles and furniture draw on the work of Clifford Still, Ellsworth Kelly and the Bauhaus movement to make the house feel homely.
As the name suggests, House of Concrete Experiments features sculptural concrete walls. Warm wood detailing offsets the grey hues, while the concrete floor has been inlaid with black stones to create an interesting pattern.
Large windows and geometric skylights help make the room feel bright and inviting.
Studio Okami Architecten stripped the walls of this flat in Antwerp’s Riverside Tower to let its original structure take centre stage.
Colourful details such as a turquoise table and baby-blue spiral staircase and a playful, sculptural lamp make the home feel contemporary, while plenty of green plants give more life to the otherwise grey interior.
Designed as a “neo-brutalist” house, Beton Brut in India has a number of dramatic features, including a skylit atrium that extends through the home.
The Grid Architects described the home as “typified by bare concrete, geometric shapes, a monochrome palette and a monolithic appearance”. Wooden flooring and furniture and plenty of textiles soften the house’s brutalist interior and potentially stern appearance.
This flat in the Shakespeare Tower of London’s brutalist Barbican estate was overhauled by Takero Shimakazi Architects in a nod to the client’s strong ties to Japan.
Details such as gridded timber panels and timber joinery were added throughout the flat, which also features Japan-informed details including an area lined with tatami mats.
Debaixo do Bloco’s design for this sculptural house in Brazil is divided into three sections to provide a clear distinction between the various programmes.
Inside, the interior has a mid-century modern feel, with gleaming wood parquet flooring and a glass PH table lamp by Danish designer Louis Poulsen decorating a side table.
The brutalist Smithson Tower in Mayfair is the location for this “homely” office designed by ConForm Architects. The studio split the space into eight zones defined by the strong structural grid of the existing building, and added low-level joinery.
The result is a design that softens the stark office spaces and makes the rooms feel more intimate.
Designer Shawn Hausman created the colour-drenched interior of hotel The Standard in London, which is located in a brutalist building, to contrast “the greyness of London”.
“I would say with this property we were a bit more colourful than usual, and I think part of that is acting in contrast to the brutalist building that the hotel’s in,” explained Hausman.
In the bathrooms, stripy pink-and-black tiled walls and pops of pale mint green give the room a fun, playful feel.
The long corrugated concrete volumes of Preston Hollow in Dallas were designed to reference brutalist Texan architecture from the 1950s and 60s, but the house was built to wrap around courtyards, creating a lively, open impression.
Inside the low-slung buildings, mid-century modern-style furniture nods to the home’s architectural references but the interior is brought up-to-date with the addition of modern art.
British architect John Pawson created this flat in London’s Barbican building using his signature minimalist aesthetic.
The flat, which overlooks central London and has a small concrete balcony, has been kept almost empty with just a smattering of furnishings and pale wooden surfaces. Three artworks, a Buddha sculpture and a grandfather clock are the only decorative elements in the space.
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden for lowering gas prices.
Trump claimed the decrease was a politically motivated scheme.
“Right after the election, it’s going to double up and go higher than anybody ever believed,” Trump claimed.
Former President Donald Trump, while in Ohio to rally support for Republican Senate candidate JD Vance, slammed President Joe Biden for the recent decline in national gas prices.
In a tweet, the White House recognized Saturday as the 95th day in which gas prices have steadily declined since reaching record highs earlier this year. According to the White House, the national average for a gallon of gas sits at $3.68.
The administration — and Biden himself — have claimed that the drop in prices is the steepest decline in more than a decade. Insider was unable to independently verify the claim.
Trump slammed Biden for going into the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to release crude in an effort to ease overpriced gas despite the reserve being “only for war.” But Trump did the same during his administration when Saudi Arabia’s crude production drastically decreased following attacks on its production facilities, per CNBC.
“He’s using that to keep prices down as much as he can just before the election and right after the election, it’s going to double up and go higher than anybody ever believed,” Trump claimed at the rally on Saturday.
Trump claimed the current average is still “double and triple” what it was during his administration.
The Associated Press reported the national average was as low as $1.87 per gallon during May 2020, but the outlet attributed the low cost mostly to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
While the crowd cheered during Trump’s rant on the current status of gas prices, some supporters didn’t seem too bothered.
When an interviewer from Right Side Broadcasting Network pushed a woman clad in a pro-Trump hat to say the gas prices for her 5.5-hour drive were bad, the woman didn’t agree.
“Wasn’t too bad,” the supporter said of the gas prices.
It can be very painful when dogs split their nails, but preventive measures and proper dog split-nail treatment helps them heal smoothly and comfortably. Understanding the different types of dog split nails lets you manage these injuries effectively, along with always seeking necessary care from your veterinarian.
Types of dog split nails
There are three ways a dog can split nails:
Vertically: occurs when the nail splits down the middle
Torn hangnail: with the dog split nail underneath
Ouch!
Dogs can split their nails because of numerous reasons, including overgrown nail length, awkward movements onto a hard surface or carpet, age or even illness. Even the smallest tear is agonizing and must be treated immediately, especially if the quick, or the dark park in the center of the nail that contains blood vessels and nerves, becomes exposed.
Preventing dog split nails
To prevent dogs from spliting their nails, trim nails regularly and monitor nails for bleeding. Keep nails short to prevent injury or discomfort. Overgrown nails develop cracking, says Kristie Thompson, owner of Paws & Claws Pet Spa in Anza, California.
Dog split nail treatment
Here’s a list of items — your split nail emergency kit — to use if your dog splits a nail:
Apply styptic powder to stop bleeding, holding a Q-tip or gauze to nail for 45 seconds.
Once controlled, the nail itself should be treated and removed only at your veterinarian’s office. Never remove the split nail yourself due to increased pain or infection!
Until arriving at your vet, temporarily wrap your dog’s paw with gauze and vet wrap (or sock).
Medical treatment for a dog split nail may involve sedation, pain medication, antibiotics and bandaging. Don’t worry, your dog’s nail does grow back in time.
“I recommend a doggie shoe with Velcro over the bandaged foot and keeping it clean and dry, says Kristie.” An example is the medical bootie by Healers Pet Care.
Split nails are as painful as they are “cracked up to be,” but rest assured! Maintaining these safety techniques and veterinary support will bring your dog much relief and ease.
Many homeowners are having their backsplash serve as the feature of their kitchen design. With so many choices in the material, style and color, a backsplash can be added anywhere there is countertop space. When planning your kitchen remodel, be sure to speak with your designer about the available options for your backsplash because this design feature matters!
Trump put down a $3 million retainer for attorney Christopher M. Kise, a sum that The New York Times called “unusually high.”
The retainer was reportedly paid for through his Save America PAC.
The competency of Trump’s current legal team has been questioned by his advisors and others.
After having been rejected by several other attorneys, former President Donald Trump ended up paying an exceptionally large retainer for a well-known lawyer.
Christopher M. Kise, formerly the solicitor general of Florida, agreed to defend Trump with an “unusually high” $3 million retainer, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
The former president reportedly struggled with finding a credible defense attorney recently, a problem he’d faced before.
As Trump continues to face legal peril, his advisors and former attorneys have pointed out that the quality of his legal team has taken a turn for the worst. Outside of Kise, Trump’s previous legal team includes “a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking-garage company, and a former host from a propagandistic cable outlet,” MSNBC reported, citing The Washington Post.
Kise has appeared before the Supreme Court on four cases and has previously worked with Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, CNN reported in August after Kise was confirmed to be a part of the legal team. He will take on BOTH Trump’s classified documents case and the January 6th case.
Kise has been credited with helping DeSantis become governor in 2018 after publicizing that his opponent, Andrew Gillum, purchased tickets to see “Hamilton” from an undercover FBI agent, according to Law and Crime.
A former Trump attorney, Eric Herschmann, has called into question the competency of some attorneys on the team, The Times reported. Law enforcement officials have scrutinized two of Trump’s lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, after they claimed the former president didn’t have access to classified documents, The Times reported.
That cat food smell might be enticing to your pup, but just because your dog wants to eat the cat’s food doesn’t mean he should eat it. Dogs and cats have different nutritional needs, which is why their food is created and balanced differently.
Dog food vs. cat food
Cats are carnivores and need a high meat content in their diet. Their food is meat-based and has much more protein and fat than dog food. Dogs, however, are omnivores, which means they eat meat, vegetables and fruits. Dogs require more of a balanced diet of these ingredients.
Dog food is nutritionally deficient for cats. And cat food is typically much too high in protein and fats for dogs — which makes it smell great, but unhealthy for dogs to eat cat food over time.
Can dogs eat dry cat food?
Unless directed by your veterinarian to do so, you should not feed dry cat food or wet cat food to your dog. Although eating it on occasion wouldn’t be toxic for your dog (like if your dog gets into the cat’s food), eating cat food in place of his balanced dog food diet or as a treat would be bad for your dog’s health.
However, there are certain situations where a veterinarian may recommend cat food to a dog who has cancer and has lost too much weight or muscle mass and isn’t eating well. Always check with your veterinarian before making any changes to your dog’s diet.
Is cat food dangerous for my dog?
Cat food is too high in protein and fat for dogs to eat — even as an occasional treat. When dogs eat cat food, it can lead to the following health problems:
Upset stomach
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Obesity
Pancreatitis
Kidney disease
Liver disease
How to stop your dog from eating cat food
Keep your cat’s food in a separate room from where your dog eats, with the door closed.
Feed your cat at regular two to three meal intervals — just like your dog — rather than leaving their food to sit out all day.
Place your cat’s food up on a high perch or countertop where your cat can eat it out of reach from your dog.
Keep your cat’s food in a sealed container, like the Yamazaki Home Airtight Pet Food Storage containers, throughout the day, so that your dog isn’t smelling it and tempted to eat it.
