Vancouver Housing Unaffordability Due To Foreign Ownership, Chinese Funds, & Migrant Millionaires, Study Says

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via Zerohedge: A new study has provided evidence linking unaffordable housing in Vancouver to foreign ownership, Chinese capital and millionaire migrants, according to the SCMP. A white paper published by Josh Gordon, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy, found a stunning 96% correlation between metro Vancouver municipalities’ price to income ratios and the proportion … Read more

NOTICE ANYTHING MISSING?: Latest Suicide Data Show the Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis.

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via Bloomberg: Mental health problems manifest in a number of ways and encapsulate a wide range of conditions, including substance abuse disorders, crippling anxiety, schizophrenia, and suicidality. A person’s susceptibility depends on genetic, social, and environmental factors. These contributors are believed to be intertwined; psychological stressors can activate a genetic predisposition, so life circumstances matter … Read more

Is This The Beginning Of A New Oil Crisis In Canada?

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By Nick Cunningham Canada is desperately trying to build the much-delayed Trans Mountain Expansion, but even as it tries to advance the ball on one front, another pipeline has found itself in the crosshairs. Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline carries more than a half a million barrels of oil and products per day from Alberta, across … Read more

George Orwell Underestimated The World We Live In

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via theatlantic: No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—doublethink, memory hole, unperson, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Thought Police, Room 101, Big Brother—they’ve all entered the English language as instantly recognizable signs of a nightmare future. … Read more

Reddit has been bought by Big Media. They use bots to upvote their content and proceed to control the views of users through headlines.

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by The18YONormie Let’s state two things first: More and more people are relying on headlines to get all the information. According to this Forbes Article “A recent study confirmed this phenomenon isn’t in our heads; in fact, 59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren’t actually clicked on at all, implying the majority of article shares aren’t … Read more

Twitter says it will shadow ban Donald Trump tweets it deems harmful

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ae2VGjk_4 Recently Twitter has decided that it will start shadow banning or removing any tweets by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, which they deem offensive. They state they will start by labeling these tweet as potentially offensive, thus diminishing their exposure. This no doubt raises a lot of questions as what Donald … Read more

VIDEO PROOF Andrew Yang’s microphone was turned off: his lips are moving and Biden even turns to him but we at home heard nothing. Yang was given the least time to talk out of all 20 candidates.

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While not as ‘mainstream’ as other candidates Yang has been getting a lot of attention online. This was his first chance to make an impression to audiences at home and his mic was cut off whenever he would try to get a word in when not directly asked. He was given the least amount of … Read more

Formula For When The Great Stock Market Rally Ends

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via readtheticker When valuations for the boring water company or the boring electric company is trading like your Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Netflix or Google (ie FANG) you know something is wrong. This is when a seriously over valued market is screaming at you. Of course the reader must understand in a world where money … Read more

Google Maps Gets 100 Vehicles Stuck – Sheeple Blindly Follow Route Into Muddy Field

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via THEMINDUNLEASHED: (TMU) — A Google Maps mishap last weekend resulted in nearly one hundred people driving their cars into the middle of a muddy field, where many of them became stuck. Some of them even caused damage to their cars trying to get through the rough terrain. It all started on Sunday with an accident on Pena Boulevard … Read more

NYT Op-Ed Calls For Public Shaming Of Border Protection Agents

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via dailycaller: A New York Times op-ed calls for the public shaming of U.S. government employees working in migrant detention facilities. “These agents’ actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities,” writes Kate Cronin-Furman. Cronin-Furman said she is not calling for the “doxxing” of government workers, but she describes a scenario where a border protection … Read more

Russia to tow nuke power station to Arctic… ‘Chernobyl on Ice’

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via CNN: Murmansk, Russia (CNN)Next month, a floating nuclear power plant called the Akademik Lomonosov will be towed via the Northern Sea Route to its final destination in the Far East, after almost two decades in construction. It’s part of Russia’s ambition to bring electric power to a mineral-rich region. The 144-meter (472 feet) long platform painted in … Read more

First US leader to enter NKorean territory; ‘Great friendship’… ‘Big moment, big moment, big progress’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxinVTODi60 via AP: The Latest on President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia (all times local): 7:15 p.m. President Donald Trump is on his way back to Washington after a four-day trip to Asia during which he became the first American president to set foot in North Korea. Trump attended the Group of 20 summit in … Read more