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The long tail of Covid-19 continues to coil around the throat of Western civilization, growing ever tighter, compressing the chest and stomach of society, inducing ever more and more death from heart attacks and strokes. We are witness to a spectacle observed very rarely in human history, that of the beginning of near-total collapse of civilization brought upon by novel virus. Once upon a time, smallpox spread across the continents of North and South America, bringing to the ground where the bodies were conveniently buried over in shallow graves the cultures and civilizations of North and South America. The colonizers were free to run roughshod over the ever decreasing survivors as though what had happened and what was still happening was not just inevitable but just in some form. The people of the West were anointed to spread across the landmass. It was destiny manifest. The lands were cleared with very little war and hardly any risk for the invaders. The greatest risk was encroaching

Trudeau’s Money Heist: Emergencies Act Allows Seizure of Bank Accounts, Securities, Crypto of Those Suspected of “Links” to Convoy Members w/o Court Order   Just a reaction going off on a tangent from Yves Smith's thinking on this. She's misidentified what's important about the Liberal Party invoking of the EA. There's a sentiment that the protests are mainly American funded, and following the money will bring us to the doorstops of particular American groups of people with vested interests in ending restrictions and discrediting Covid-19 measures. The EA invoking is likely not about stopping the money (although certain individuals will probably be targeted to set examples, and the banks will play along with this as Canada retains far more control over its banks than the US does theirs). It's about discovering where the money's coming from. And getting these names will probably lead to certain discrete talks between Canadian and American officials about maybe ta