@MaryMHenning@flyandjump68@NakedHedgie Profit off new growth in the global south. Profit off building out of an AI police state in the west. Continue to trade paper/tokens for real resources to use as collateral for more financial products. Its portfolio management to accommodate a new partner (China)
@david_parker PM is irrelevant imo. Canadian resource values were left to dwindle, this is now the signal for American firms to move in and collateralize Canadian resources onto their balance sheets
Granular knowledge of how the Vancouver Condo Kings are the major supporters of people like Gregor Robertson, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney was my past reporting beat. I’m not going back to it, other reporters need to pick that up. Read JWR’s chapter about meeting Trudeau in his friend’s pent house to understand who Carney is bailing out. I can say the Chinese money behind all these Liberals makes the story so much worse than a Liberal bail out of slick developers. This is scandalous and nationally ruinous.
@phelmig@mackiemmkay@tobi It is the inevitable and mathematically predictable outcome of a debt-based money system. If you have no choice but to print, may as well direct it into your own pocket, angry pitchforks be damned 🤷♂️
@phelmig@mackiemmkay@tobi If you’re about to lean in hard to the K-shaped economy, enrich asset owners and devastate the middle class, the People become the greatest threat. This is western coordination to get a surveillance and policing architecture in place, run by technocrats (or “turbo capitalists”)
@BoringBiz_@TimothyBuffett But no one does, which gives Blackrock considerable power over corporations with over 20,000 board seats, and rather than competitive markets which benefits consumers we end up with a managed portfolio intended to maximize shareholder value
@VandelayIndCEO@peruvian_bull They can get the Fed to buy the front end of the curve and keep rolling the debt over on short duration bills, so the average person sees no benefit since all the long term rates will still be high- and they’ll pump it all into the stock market
Have you ever thought about the Pokémon definition of a “poacher”? It's basically just a dystopian corporate monopoly.
In the lore, you are branded a poacher simply for using nets, traps, or cages instead of a Poké Ball.
The entire system is a massive "Big Brother" compliance checkpoint:
• The Tech Monopoly: The law basically mandates that you must use patented corporate technology to legally interact with wildlife.
• The Global Registry: The real crime isn't the catch itself—it is dodging the database. Poké Balls automatically tag every capture to a centralized Trainer ID grid. Catching a Pokémon with a net keeps it completely untraceable and off the books.
• The Safari Loophole: People claim poachers are criminals because they over-hunt, but Ash caught an entire herd of 30 Tauros in a single afternoon. Because he paid a corporate entrance fee and used officially licensed Safari Balls, it was perfectly legal.
The Pokémon League just wants absolute regulatory control over a heavily monetized digital capture grid.
Vancouver: The pre-trial starts this week for Inderjeet Singh Gosal, who fatally stabbed Paul Stanley Schmidt to death with his kirpan in front of his wife and young daughter at Starbucks in March 2023. Schmidt had asked Gosal not to vape in front of his child.