With the Blast rule set, it helps to have two monsters with the Reflection Shield ability.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Bank of England to buy £65 billion of UK bonds to stem rout

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

Bank Of England Capitulates: Restarts QE Due To “Significant Dysfunction” In Bond Market, “Material Risk” To Financial Stability

Millions Will Save on Medicare Next Year

For the first time in a decade, Americans will pay less next year on monthly premiums for Medicare’s Part B plan, which covers routine doctors’ visits and other outpatient care.
The rare 3% decrease in monthly premiums is likely to be coupled with a historically high cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits — perhaps 9% or 10% — putting hundreds of dollars directly into the pockets of millions of people.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Northern Europe: Covid-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Rising Again Raising Concerns Of New Wave

Creator of Johns Hopkins COVID tracker wins top US science award

New Infectious Threats Are Coming. The U.S. Probably Won’t Contain Them.

Politics:

Mastriano Turns to ‘Fasting and Prayer’ in Final Stretch

While it is unclear who Mastriano expects to start fasting on Thursday, the recent entreaties seem to indicate that his campaign, which epitomizes what scholars call Christian nationalist ideology, has fallen on hard times.
The messaging has grown increasingly erratic, sometimes arguably bordering on nonsensical. One of Mastriano’s main attack strategies these days is emphasizing that he is taller than Shapiro.

Justice Department Takes Jabs At Trump For FBI Claims, Unsavory Business Practices

The Justice Department turns a scornful eye towards team Trump in its new filing, suggesting that it should be forced to make good on its baseless claims about the FBI planting evidence and taking swipes at the former President’s infamous business practices.
The document takes on another level of shade, given that Trump’s team has been filing its documents under seal and DOJ hasn’t — enabling the government to respond to, thus reveal, Trump complaints that have been kept from the public.

Millions of Americans believe force justified to restore Trump to White House

Some Russians Find Draft Notices at the Border

The Kremlin has dispatched still more forces to shore up its faltering war effort, but the units are headed not to Ukraine but to Russia’s borders with other countries, where on Tuesday they were confronting young Russian men trying to join an exodus out of the country.
As the avenues for Russians to escape a draft order issued last week narrowed, the Federal Security Service sent armored vehicles to the frontiers, where some men waiting to flee were being served military call-up papers, the state news media reported.

Trump Weighed Bombing Drug Labs in Mexico

U.S. Tells Americans to Leave Russia

The U.S. embassy in Russia is urging any Americans in the country to leave and for U.S. citizens to not travel to Russia as Russian President Vladimir Putin orders a call up of 300,000 reservists to aid depleted forces in Ukraine.

Calls grow for a tougher legal approach to white nationalist group Patriot Front

Russia’s Stripped Its Western Borders for Ukraine War

Since Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been peeling military forces away from its bases in Northern Europe to plug gaps in its forces suffering high losses and battlefield setbacks against Ukrainian troops.
Of an original estimated 30,000 Russian troops that once faced the Baltic countries and southern Finland, as many as 80 percent of them have been diverted to Ukraine, according to three senior European defense officials in the region, leaving Russia with only a skeleton crew in what was once its densest concentration of military force facing NATO territory.

Nord Stream leaks: Sabotage to blame, says EU

Russia or false flag? Strange either way, in that neither pipeline was in service, or likely to be any time soon.

Why Nevada wants to use drones inside prisons

Prison staffing has grown so dire that governors in Florida and West Virginia have declared states of emergency in recent weeks.

Maybe don’t put so many people in prison?

Serendipity:

Success of experimental Alzheimer’s drug hailed as ‘historic moment’

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