Bank of England will buy UK bonds at ‘whatever scale’ necessary to halt crash
London CNN Business —
The Bank of England said Wednesday it would buy UK government debt “on whatever scale is necessary” in an emergency intervention to halt a bond market crash that it warned could threaten financial stability.
Investors have been dumping the pound and UK bonds since the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday unveiled a huge package of tax cuts and increased borrowing aimed at getting the economy moving and protecting households and businesses from sky-high energy bills this winter.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/investing/bank-of-england-uk-bond-market/index.html
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Storm Ian strengthens to Category 4 hurricane as millions urged to evacuate Florida Gulf Coast
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned that people in Collier, Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties were no longer safe to evacuate and urged people to get off the roads and stay inside.
“You need to get to higher ground, you need to get to structures that are safe,” DeSantis said, adding that widespread power outages would leave millions without electricity once the storm strikes.
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Deanne Criswell said she worried that too few Florida residents were taking the threat seriously. [opinion: Apparently women in the Biden administration are too stupid to know that evacuation requires gasoline and in many areas around Tampa, even yesterday, it was nearly impossible to buy gas. Or maybe evil Connecticut Yankees like Biden want Southerners stranded on the side of the road as a huge storm approaches.]
The 30 Deadliest U.S. Mainland Hurricanes
| Rank | Name/Area | Year | Category | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Great Galveston Hurricane (TX) | 1900 | 4 | 8,000 |
| 2. | Lake Okeechobee (FL) | 1928 | 4 | 2,500 |
| 3. | Katrina (LA/MS/FL/GA/AL) | 2005 | 3 | 1,200 |
| 4. | Cheniere Caminanda (LA) | 1893 | 4 | 1,100-1,400 |
| 5. | Sea Islands (SC/GA) | 1893 | 3 | 1,000-2,000 |
| 6. | GA/SC | 1881 | 2 | 700 |
| 7. | Audrey (Southwest LA/North TX) | 1957 | 4 | 416 |
| 8. | Great Labor Day Hurricane (FL Keys) | 1935 | 5 | 408 |
| 9. | Last Island (LA) | 1856 | 4 | 400 |
| 10. | Miami Hurricane (FL/MS/AL) | 1926 | 4 | 372 |
| 11. | Grand Isle (LA) | 1909 | 4 | 350 |
| 12. | FL Keys/South TX | 1919 | 4 | 287** |
| 13. | New Orleans (LA) | 1915 | 4 | 275 |
| 14. | Galveston (TX) | 1915 | 4 | 275 |
| 15. | Camille (MS/LA) | 1969 | 5 | 256 |
| 16. | New England | 1938 | 3* | 256 |
| 17. | Diane (Northeast U.S.) | 1955 | 1 | 184 |
| 18. | GA/SC/NC | 1898 | 4 | 179 |
| 19. | TX | 1875 | 3 | 176 |
| 20. | Southeast FL | 1906 | 2 | 164 |
| 21. | Indianola (TX) | 1886 | 4 | 150 |
| 22. | MS/AL/FL | 1906 | 3 | 134 |
| 23. | FL/GA/SC | 1896 | 3 | 130 |
| 24. | Agnes (Northeast U.S.) | 1972 | 1 | 122 |
| 25. | Hazel (SC/NC) | 1954 | 4* | 95 |
| 26. | Betsy (Southeast FL/Southeast LA) | 1965 | 3 | 75 |
| 27. | Great Atlantic Hurricane | 1944 | 3* | 64*** |
| 28. | Carol (Northeast U.S.) | 1954 | 3* | 60 |
| 29. | Floyd (NC) | 1999 | 4 | 56 |
| 30. | NC | 1883 | 2 | 53 |
* – Moving more than 30 miles an hour
** – Over 500 of these lost on ships at sea; 600-900 estimated deaths
*** – Some 344 of these lost on ships at sea
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New malware can steal your credit card details — and it’s spreading fast
Initially spotted in August 2022 by Cyfirma, the malware, hidden away within game cracks, has a lot of power. It can steal data found within Chromium and Gecko-based browsers, including passwords, cookies, form autofill information, and credit card data. Moreover, it targets cryptocurrency users by attempting to steal data from their wallets as long as they’re installed as a browser extension.
If you want to make sure you’re not at risk, right now, all you have to do is not download any illegal files (such as cracked games or bots for games). However, it’s a good idea to stay vigilant and also make sure you’re using one of the best antivirus software, keeping it updated, and scanning each file you download. If you own cryptocurrency, consider moving your funds to a fully-offline cold wallet as opposed to a desktop wallet.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/erbium-password-stealing-malware-subscription/
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Self-proclaimed ‘incel’ charged with pepper spraying women in hate attacks in Costa Mesa
https://abc7.com/incel-hate-attack-johnny-deven-young-costa-mesa/12273895/
Young is charged with four counts of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, four counts of illegal use of tear gas, all felonies, and four misdemeanor counts of violation of civil rights. He also faces sentencing enhancements for hate crime and personal use of a deadly weapon.
Young faces up to 13 years in prison if convicted at trial. He has a prior misdemeanor hate crime conviction in Nevada, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said Young is a self-proclaimed “incel,” a member of an online community of men who call themselves involuntary celibates and express rage against women.
“No one should have to live in fear that they could be indiscriminately attacked and then publicly humiliated on the Internet because of their gender,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. “This behavior is disgusting and the celebration of this behavior by like-minded individuals is completely unacceptable. These charges send a very strong message to that entire community that we will not tolerate violence against women in any form.”
Opinion: Obviously, I am not defending what this guy did. No!!! But this shows how stupid it is for the government to label anything a hate crime and prosecute it as a hate crime. The prosecutor in this case is in his self guilty, from a moral perspective if not a legal perspective, of a crime. He hates incels and has grossly overcharged the case. And a reminder, the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is being gutted by both the left and the right. From hate crime laws, to reversing Roe v. Wade, to trying to force employers to force their employees to get an untested vaccine, the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution is being gutted.
And let me repeat, I am not defending what this guy did. But the elite and social media treating men, especially white men like second class citizen, is part of what has fed this movement of self-avowed celibate men. And contrary to what the idiot prosecutor says, overcharging this case does not send a message to discourage this man’s unacceptable behavior but simply makes the point of why these young men are so fucking angry against those they perceive as their enemy. It doesn’t help the situation but makes the situation worse, which I suspect is actual agenda of the prosecutor so he can lock even more young white men up … and have all the Karens to himself. LOL
