Will The ‘Green’ Economy Trigger The Next Meltdown?

“Back in the last century, I spent a large part of my investment career packaging up financial assets, like mortgages, into bonds – securitisation. I was heavily involved with the acquisition financing of a US home lender… which went spectacularly wrong a few years later when we discovered to our shock and absolute horror – about the same time everyone else did- that all assumptions behind sub-prime mortgage lending were pants. Pretty much ended my career in big banks…

Sub-prime was a small, but very significant part of the ABS market. When it tumbled it shook markets to the core.”

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Looks like more f**kery in the Georgia election

There is always just a plausible enough explanation to justify not having to acknowledge that this highly suspicious fuckery needs to be dealt with.

Welcome to the People’s Banana Republic of the United States.

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Radical Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland

Radical Democrats Are Turning Minneapolis Into A Violent Wasteland

The world witnessed in the streets of Minneapolis this spring and summer the feature presentation after many increasingly violent coming attractions, created, produced, and distributed by a one-party, radical left government.

If you want to know what the real-time self-destruction of a city looks like, Minneapolis offers the perfect model. This is no Detroit-esque collapse prompted by the degeneration of an industry-dependent metropolis. This is the willful push down the path of ruin of a city burgeoning with opportunity and rife with promises of the American Dream. It is suicide.

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Data suggests Canada is rolling out COVID-19 vaccines at a slower rate than peers

Data suggests Canada is rolling out COVID-19 vaccines at a slower rate than peers

Speed up immunizations – that’s the message from some doctors in Canada – as no province has administered more than 50 percent of the COVID-19 doses it has received so far.

Data compiled from the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group reveals the country is administering vaccines at a slower pace than some of its peer countries.

Israel, Britain, the United States and Germany have all inoculated a larger share of their populations, despite Canada being one of the first to start authorizing vaccines.

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Chicago’s ‘Affordable Bail’ Results In At Least 32 Arrested For Violent Crimes After Being Released

Chicago’s ‘Affordable Bail’ Results In At Least 32 Arrested For Violent Crimes After Being Released

Since Chicago has adopted an “affordable bail” approach that allows more people charged with violent crimes to pay a fee to be released, at least 32 have been arrested for committing violent crimes after they were put back out on the streets.

CWBChicago reported Tuesday that it “identified 32 people who were charged with committing murder, attempted murder, or aggravated battery with a firearm while free on bail for serious felonies in 2020.”

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Man viewed extreme Isis content before Reading knife attack, court hears

Man viewed extreme Isis content before Reading knife attack, court hears

A man who stabbed three people to death in a minute in an alleged terrorist rampage had viewed material about a notorious Isis executioner, a court has heard.

Khairi Saadallah murdered three men in a park in Reading on 20 June as they enjoyed a summer’s evening.

A hearing at the Old Bailey to determine if the attacks were terrorist acts and therefore subject to a higher sentence, was told that Saadallah viewed extremist material in the days before the attack and had a longstanding interest in extremism.

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A quarter of Canadians don’t want the COVID-19 vaccine. We asked the experts why

A quarter of Canadians don’t want the COVID-19 vaccine. We asked the experts why

After the COVID-19 pandemic tossed the world into chaos, the light at the end of the tunnel was the announcement that major pharmaceutical companies had vaccines in development.

Two vaccines, made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, have now been approved for use. As Canada rolls out its vaccination campaign, beginning with frontline workers and later the general population, life may soon return to normality.

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NY Times Story On Cleveland Crime Wave Seems To Overlook Some Significant Factors

Just last week I wrote about the strong possibility that the U.S. will set a new record for the increase in the murder rate this year. That seemed like pretty big news to me but I only saw it appear in a Twitter thread and in one story quoting the author of that thread.

So when the NY Times published a piece Saturday about the rise in violent crime in Cleveland, I read it thinking perhaps the Times was going to get the word out about the trend and maybe even kick off a discussion about what was behind it. 

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Covid: LA ambulances told not to transport “goners” to hospital

Covid: LA ambulances told not to transport “goners” to hospital

Ambulance workers in Los Angeles County, California, have been told not to transport hospital patients that have extremely low chances of survival.

The directive comes as officials say the region could soon hit over 1,000 Covid-related deaths per day, and hospitals are overrun with patients.LA ambulances told not to transport some patients

Emergency workers have also been told to ration oxygen, which is in short supply due to the pandemic.

Hospital beds in LA are running low and officials fear a post-holiday spike.

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Report: U.S. Funded Specific Research at Wuhan Lab that Led to Coronavirus

The World Health Organization is beginning an investigation into the scientific origins of the coronavirus. They’ve assembled a blue-ribbon panel of doctors, researchers, and scientists to get to the bottom of the mystery.

As it turns out, investigative reporter Nicholson Baker did most of the work for them. Writing in New York Magazine, Baker reveals a horror story about an accidental release of the coronavirus deliberately created in a lab funded by U.S. tax dollars.

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Ghouls: Leaked Report Reveals ‘Systematic Malpractice’ in Communist China’s Organ Transplant System

Evidence of large-scale forced organ harvesting has cast a shadow on China’s organ transplant system for more than a decade.

Now an internal document analyzing organ allocation and transplant data in one Chinese province has revealed systemic reporting abuses by hospitals. The abuses throw serious doubt on the credibility of China’s official organ registration system, which may further point to state-sanctioned organ extraction from prisoners against their will, according to an expert’s analysis of the report findings.

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Rex Murphy: 2021 just started and we may have already had the woke joke of the year

The New Year is so fresh upon us it hasn’t even called for a change of diapers, and what is possibly the best woke joke we’re going to meet in all its remaining days has fallen into the headlines.

A pious congressman, the Rev. Emanuel Cleaver, who was called upon to deliver the prayer for the opening of the 117th Congress, concluded his two-minute invocation with the time-and-liturgically hallowed “Amen.”

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GOLDSTEIN: Jet-setting politicians undermine the case for lockdowns

The real issue with so many politicians of all political stripes flying out of the country over the Christmas/New Year holiday isn’t that they ignored the advice of their own governments not to do so.

It’s that they’ve undermined the credibility of government-imposed public health measures and lockdowns to fight the pandemic, and handed their fiercest critics an argument about why they’re unnecessary and extreme.

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Ontario reports 3128 new Covid cases

Ontario is reporting another day with more than 3,100 new COVID-19 cases, along with 51 new deaths, as hospitalizations hit a record high and test positivity remained at worrisome levels.

“Locally, there are 778 new cases in Toronto, 614 in Peel, 213 in York Region, 172 in Durham, 151 in Middlesex-London and 151 in Hamilton,” Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote on Twitter.


Health authorities to start naming specific Toronto workplaces with significant COVID-19 outbreaks

…There are currently more than 250 active workplace outbreaks across the province, according to the latest provincial data — the second-highest source behind care settings. There are currently 16 active workplace outbreaks in Toronto, Dr. Eileen de Villa, the city’s medical officer of health, said Monday.

Three employers with outbreaks that “pose a significant public health risk” are now named on the city’s website: skin care manufacturer DECIEM, meat processor Sofina Foods and circuit board manufacturer TTM Technologies. The new cumulative data shows warehouses, manufacturing and distribution companies have had the largest number of outbreaks at 132, followed by bars and nightclubs with 41. Food processors have seen 31 outbreaks since the start of the pandemic, and the retail sector has registered 24.

I am very curious about what is considered an essential business and how you make the list.

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