Today the Argentine central bank raised interest rates for borrowers to 40%, up from 27.25% on April 27th (archived).
Tribal Ritual In Britain Leads To Injuries After Rabbi Tosses Lithium Ion Batteries In Fire
Thirty attendees were injured in London during a bonfire celebrating the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. One of the tribal elders reportedly threw smartphones containing lithium ion batteries into the fire as a warning against their "evils" shortly before an explosion erupted from the fire causing 10 injuries with a further 20 injuries coming in the stampede that followed. The tribal elder apparently neglected to heed warnings about the evil within phone batteries triggered by immersion in fire.
US Boy Scouts Get Neuter Gendered Rename
The Boy Scouts of America have announced they will be trimming the word "boy" from the name of their flagship program. The program formerly known as the "Boy Scouts" will be known as "Scouts BSA" in a neuter genered rename (archived).
Qntra (S.QNTR) April 2018 Report
Australian Austrian Government Pursues Critics As "Racketeering Organization"
The Austrian government has begun taking racketeering actions in an effort to supress critics from the local Identitarian movement (archived). Austrian police have raided homes while seizing property and electronics from critics, and in an act of irony is attempting to justify their own organized, criminal racketeering actions by charging the Identitarian activists as though the activist victims are the ones running a criminal racket.
German "Antisemitism" Kaiser Unsurprised By Jewish Desire For New Exodus
Felix Klein, newly appointed by Mother Merkel's Government as a envoy to "handle" Germany's freshly imported Jew hate, offered his thoughts on the phenomenon (archived):
It is quite understandable that those who are scared for the safety of their children would consider leaving Germany. I hear this from my own Jewish friends. But we must do everything to avoid that.
There is no word yet on whether Klein, Merkel, or others are considering bringing back exit visa requirements as part of that everything.
Chilean State Bank And Chilean Branch Of Itau Suffer Pre-Trial Loss Against Local Bitcoin Exchange Over Account Closures
Banco del Estado de Chile and the Chileño branch of Brasilero Banking titan Itaú have been ordered to reopen accounts for local Bitcoin exchange Buda.com after the later sued over losing access to traditional fiat side financial services following account closures. The Chileño "Free Market Court" ruled that closing the accounts was premature and Buda.com's accounts with the banks must remain open until the lawsuit concludes.
Handicapped by Pacific coastline, earthquakes, and mountains which make building adequate Internet connectivity a challenge, Chile has resorted to other strategies in an attempt to remain economically relevant in our future.
Even "Locked" Microsoft Windows Computers Vulerable to BSOD Crash On USB Insertion
Code has been published which will induce an iconic "Blue Screen Of Death" crash on running Microsoft Windows installations (archived). The vulnerability lives in Window's handling of filesystems in Microsoft's own NTFS format, and can be triggered by inserting a USB drive with an exploit triggering NFTS filesystem into a running Windows computer, even if it is "locked" without any active users logged in.
While this particular trigger for the crash behavior appears to have been patched in recent Windows 10 builds, it likely lives on with a slightly more guarded trigger. It definitely lives on in an unknown number of surviving embedded Windows XP and Windows 7 installations.
Tick Tock Still Dead – Intel Remains Stalled Out At 14 nm Node Process Another Year
Reports are emerging that Intel is once again delaying its move from a 14 nm to 10 nm node process (archived) and the firm's once steady tick tock rhythm is still dead. The firm claims to be shipping some 10 nm parts this year for select customers, but yield issues are stalling mass production until at least 2019. Intel initially planned to ship 10 nm parts in 2016.
Shitware Today: China Toying With US Style Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
China has begun dipping its toes into the evils of extraterritorial jurisdiction pioneered by the USG. China's Civil Aviation Administration has begun issuing letters demanding that businesses follow Chinese anti-separatism laws and cease distinguishing between mainland China, special administrative divisions like Hong Kong and Macau, and territories including Formosa1 not yet under the Beiing government's control (archived).
Also known as Taiwan and the Republic of China ↩