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 It seems inevitable now. What was propping up Canadian housing prices even through the worst of housing market crashes elsewhere were banking rules forcing Canadian banks to keep 100% coverage and investors fleeing into Canadian housing when all else was failing. The latter however now is ready to give. Canadian banks will likely be fine due to well-enforced banking rules, but the housing investors are done for. They've driven up prices so high in Vancouver and other Canadian cities that once the homes begin losing value, that'll be that. Value will sink like a stone into water and trillions of dollars will vanish overnight. Three quarters of the economy, at least. And that's probably the conservative estimate. There is exposure everywhere by a great many players of this financial game. All interconnected with a great many of these companies playing at being investment companies the same way Mom and Pop investors play at the game: without clue and context that they're

I cannot reiterate enough: Covid-19 is a killer virus. Its uncontrolled and unmitigated spread throughout the world is a mistake we'll regret for generations. Its insidiousness is in its ability to be asymptomatic or merely "mild" in its acute phase. However, it is a virus with terrible consequences over the short and long-term for the many who will catch it despite its seemingly asymptomatic or mild effects. Its ability to disable (https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/covid-autoimmune-virus-rogue-antibodies-cytokine-storm-severe-disease/) and dysregulate (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568269/) the immune system is its greatest strength. It is a virus that shares much in common with measles, Hepatitis, and even HIV. Catching it once can and will likely wreck one's defence against other illnesses. Have you been sick more than once in the past few years? That is far out the ordinary. Prior to Covid, the average for people catching ill was once every fo

We are living in Neo-Antebellum times where the wealthy and powerful have divided society into strict class regiments so entirely there is no semblance of solidarity anymore. People have been so alienated from each other we are even divided from ourselves, our sense of self-preservation heightened to both extreme highs and dulled to the point we care not for own health any longer. We are each of us walking contradictions fleeing from imaginary dangers and sleep-walking into apocalypse. Edgar Allan Poe in his prose, specifically "The Masque of the Red Death" and the poem "The Raven" wrote of death. Both stories present an opposing perspective of death: the former is of death whilst revelling in company, ignoring it entirely; and the latter is of death whilst wallowing in it, seeking only solitude and nothing more. This dichotomy must have haunted Poe, that people would either pretend death was not at their doorstop, and that if they let it in would merely lament its

Anthony Rota brought a Nazi into parliament, and encouraged a standing ovation. Perhaps some few will likely go to bat for the former Nazi soldier, Yaroslav Hunka, using the same old tired arguments: it was such a long time ago; he couldn't have known what was happening; he was just following orders; and so on. He's well-within his own lifetime still. He hasn't died. Many of his victim's died back then but some survived, and likely to this day, they haven't been made full for reparations for the loss of life and property of their antecendents. Furthermore, crimes against humanity never expire. He was a former SS volunteer. The absolute scummiest of scum. He was a snitch and likely thug for Himmler's gangs, which were under the direct rule of Hitler, which by 1941-42 had disposed of all pretext and were fully into their systemic murder operations in Ukraine. The simplest rule for intent would've been, what did he know and when did he know it? By 1941, there w

Meh, we've been through this story before. Anti-government party wants to shut down the government. Minimal governance party does as little as possible to dissuade the anti-government party. Governance by Committee as the US does is mainly about the optics. The day to day stuff will probably just keep on doing by itself but big budgets, which need Congressional approval will probably just halt in place. Sometimes, they'll probably have to be restarted at a later date. Competent government could just bypass this sort of stunt but Democrats think it makes good political theatre and have no interest in stopping. Republicans think their voters just eat this sort of stuff up. However, it's all just theatre. But parties have their leaders mainly interested in the same things but it's all about the optics for them.

We're fucked. There should be no uncertainty or ambiguity. We're hooped. We're over a barrel. We're fucked, six ways to sundown. The evidence is both in the numbers and should be clear anecdotally as well. Just in case you don't know the numbers, a Covid infection has a 1% minimum death rate in the acute phase and 15% disability rate in the long-term. It takes 2-years to recover from a long Covid infection but Covid infections can infect an entire population's worth of people over the course of a year, if not faster, which means the likelihood is people will become sicker before they get better if we're doing nothing to mitigate transmission. Oh, Covid can also mutate faster than we can build immunity to it. What this means is over the course of five years, if not faster, we'll have at least 50% of the population disabled. (I think we're already there.) Moreover, since Covid's introduction into the population, other diseases have grown in numbers