@ralfrpatterson@intern Acceleration of the evolution of design is possible with space mining / warfare / border patrol & automation of decision making afforded by AI advances. Watch @elonmusk for first moon landings for humanoids before humans with @SpaceX and moon base of operations sooner than 2030.
@sunlorrie Add the critical infrastructure backlog that municipalities have punted by $100’s of Billions, and property taxes pauses with Chow in election year like #toronto & we can now see how we can’t afford to spend more outside our borders anymore, 2015-2025 the lost decade. #failure
@FirstSquawk What everyone fails to note is its systemic, programmatic and integrated at the device, software and the gui and application level, and dopamine/adrenaline and engineered like the worlds perfect cigarette just for you or me. @CNNSOTU#metaneedsmaid
@michaeljburry what’s should avg Joe/Jane do with any investments or real estate or cash with the crash of Pandora’s box / black hole that we are about to watch unfold?
LATEST TRADE WAR 🚨: Canada thinks it has an acceptable deal to break the impasse ; Trump and Carney to decide.
-source Globe and Mail
"Canadian negotiators believe they have arrived at a proposal that could break the impasse with the United States on trade talks, a source briefed on the negotiations said, but they cautioned that the fate of the agreement is now in the hands of the Prime Minister and President."
"That the decision is now with the two countries’ leaders, Mark Carney and Donald Trump, was backed up by a second source, who gave The Globe and Mail a similar update."
"A third source said Canadian negotiators are much more optimistic than they were following Monday’s meetings, but cautioned that negotiations were continuing and remained intense."
"Talks are down to the wire and Canadian negotiators have just hours left before new 50-per-cent tariffs come into effect under Section 338 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday."
"All of the sources were briefed on the state of talks as of Tuesday afternoon."
#cdnpoli #polqc
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A billionaire's son-in-law wired $120 million to a man in Miami for a beach in Albania. Two months later, prosecutors named that man as a leader of a cocaine ring.
Here is the timeline.
April 2026: a development group backed by Jared Kushner pays over $120 million to Artur Shehu for a strip of protected coastline on the Zvernec peninsula, future site of a luxury resort near Vlora.
June 2026: Albania's anti-corruption prosecutors seek Shehu's arrest, one of 20 people accused in a pipeline moving South American cocaine into Europe hidden in shipments of charcoal and fruit paste. They allege he washed the proceeds through Albanian real estate. Zvernec included.
How do you launder money through a beach? You forge the deed. Prosecutors say Shehu's people manufactured titles, including one built on an Ottoman-era land record that an archivist mistranslated to insert a Shehu name where the real owner's had been. Albania's High Court ruled the document false. The lawyer and the archivist were convicted.
And here is the part that should end the "nobody could have known" defense. Per the Wall Street Journal, villagers in Zvernec wrote to Kushner's side almost two years before the sale. They said the land was theirs. They said Shehu took it in the 2000s. They said they had been in court against him for nearly twenty years and asked the developers not to proceed.
The group bought it anyway.
Shehu, who left Albania after a shootout at his bar and now lives in Miami, denies everything. His lawyer says the family has held that land since Ottoman times. Consider what the forgery allegations are about and sit with that sentence for a second.
To be clear, because it matters: prosecutors have accused Kushner, Affinity and Sazan Real Estate Development of nothing, and Reuters found no evidence the buyers knew about the suspicions when they closed.
What people are getting wrong: the project has not collapsed. Permits were never issued, construction is stalled, an environmental review is pending, SPAK is investigating, and Edi Rama still insists it goes forward. Belgrade collapsed. That was December, when Affinity walked hours after Serbian officials were indicted over forged heritage paperwork. Albania is frozen, not finished. The number is roughly $1.4 billion, not $5 billion.
The reason any of this is frozen at all is not the EU, not the courts, and not the press. It is sixty days of Albanians in the street with inflatable pink flamingos, refusing to let a protected lagoon get sold out from under them.
A flamingo stopped a billion dollar deal. Put that on a flag.