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Comparing how China handles their real estate issues with how Canada handles their real estate issues is really enlightening.

“We are going to be left with so many units,” she said in an interview. “And people have these terribly high variable rate mortgages where long-term income won’t be able to cover the mortgages on these properties. Owners will be cash flow negative.

“We will see that – or we will see a ton of [these units] hitting the real estate market, depreciating the values of them. And I don’t think people are going to cash out equal to the mortgage they owe on the property, so investors will be walking away with empty pockets. It’s terrible.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-bcs-airbnb-crackdown-will-devastate-some-real-estate-investors/

Imagine complaining that your speculative investment got fucked

The amount of water for all uses in Gaza has plunged to 3 liters per person/day. Like three liters. Two bottles of pop. For an entire day. By comparison, a single apartment tower uses 100K-200K liters per day.

At what point are people going to respond to pro-Israeli rallies with actual

IDF just doing war crimes bombing hospitals, and even reporting on it, much less a sternly worded letter is going 'too far' and uncivil.

Hamas’s Qassam says it has ‘foiled ground incursion’ in northern Gaza (Al-Jazeera)

Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, say they have “foiled an Israeli ground incursion into Beit Hanoun and the east of Bureij,” adding that “violent clashes” are now taking place.

A senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, has said that Israel was attempting “to create an image of victory”.

“Cutting off communications from the Gaza Strip is an attempt to cover up the crimes of the [Israeli] occupation without any oversight or accountability,” Hamdan added

Ron DeSantis hasn't been in the news (that I've seen) since the second GOP debate, the last week of September. washed

According to the New York Times, satellite images show that the IRGC missile forces opened long-range missile silos at noon today.

Jamaal Bowman was charged with setting off a false fire alarm so as to give Democrats more time to read Kevin McCarthy's spending bill. The bill "ultimately passed with more Democrats voting for it than Republicans." (NYT)

Does anyone have a breakdown of military and civilian deaths from the Al-Aqsa Flood? I've been trying and every single article obfuscates the military impact of the operation and basically insinuates that it was a massacre of civilians.

Saw someone actually defend Operation Paperclip by saying the US had to get the Nazi scientists before Russia could use them.

Genuinely insane that Jackson Hinkle is the most viewed twitter account right now

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Fighting is currently taking place in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Significant IDF forces operate in the region.

A spokesman for the Gaza health ministry said in a televised statement that Israeli strikes had killed nearly 400 Palestinians in the past several hours, raising its death toll in the Strip to over 7,700, including nearly 3,200 children.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/28/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-news/5212de6e-f785-590d-bf50-447a27bd9cf5?smid=url-share

Fucking COME ON HEZBOLLAH!!!

Been reading William Gibson's The peripheral, and came across this topical scene:

"Indeed," said Lowbeer. "The use of explosives is unusual, and we prefer to keep it so. Too much like asymmetric warfare."

"Terrorism," said the rental.

"We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state."

Bloomberg:

The European Union is falling behind on plans to provide Ukraine with a million artillery shells by March, people familiar with the matter said, potentially giving Russian forces an advantage in the supply of ammunition.

Under plans made earlier this year, the EU pledged to provide the artillery ammunition rounds to Ukraine over a 12-month period, first by dipping into existing stocks and then through joint procurement contracts and increasing industrial capacity.

With more than half of that time now gone, the initiative has so far delivered about 30% of the target and, based on the volume of contracts signed to date, risks missing its goal, according to people and documents seen by Bloomberg News. Several member states have privately asked the bloc’s foreign policy arm to extend their deadline, the people added.

Weird explosion video from Gaza today.

https://streamable.com/a2lxeb

Not like anything I've seen before. Secondary explosions, not bombs, very strange. Israelis might have hit a stockpile or something successfully with this one.

feels like we're at or nearing an inflection point wrt this whole imperial con game, with ukraine and europe basically tapped out and israel coming into play. wondering how much centcom getting btfo'd would help the dedollarization process but honestly more curious as to how they plan on cannibalizing japan and sk and what their plans are afterwards.

like, the BRI loans are all in dollars, but they're owed to china; not as if the US can just push a button nd suddenly own all the infra, but i cant imagine china just writing off all the loans or having everyone buy rmb when the US decides its time for more interest rate shenanigans. real head scratcher this

many Long Island IDF volunteers will meet their ends tonight

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: 'Within 24 hours, we will move to expand the attack from the ground, sea and air' - Gallant

In other news, it sounds like US police currently have a place surrounded with the shooter from yesterday inside.

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

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The duty of the nation and supporters of Palestine is to escalate the struggle against the forces of aggression.

The primary duty of all forces supporting the right of the Palestinian people and opposing the genocidal war against them is to intensify their struggle against the countries involved in the aggression and war against our people. This comes in light of escalating genocidal crimes and the cutting off of all communications with Gaza in an attempt to hide the massive and egregious crimes committed by the enemy against unarmed women, children, and the elderly.

It is inconceivable, after the fall of about 8,000 martyrs, tens of thousands injured, and the displacement of one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza, along with daily genocidal crimes, that the international and Arab response would be at this level. The UN General Assembly's statements have been weak, the European Union's stance is hostile and supports the continuation of genocide, and the positions of the United States and Britain are fully involved in the criminal war against our people.

This aggressive alliance will not be dismantled by timid positions or half-hearted stances, but requires an escalation of serious revolutionary action against all these forces, primarily the United States and the other forces of the aggression alliance. Their embassies and bases remain active and present in Arab countries and around the world, untouched by even the minimum amount of protest.

The Front expresses its deep appreciation for every act of solidarity. Still, the scale of zionist crimes against our people requires much more. The magnitude of the massacre and genocidal war should shake the world and mobilize all Arab, friendly forces, and supporters of freedom worldwide.

The Front calls for escalating the struggle and focusing on the embassies of the countries of the aggression alliance and its supporters, considering America as the spearhead of this aggression. They should realize the consequences of their actions and their clear complicity in the killing our children and in the massacres and genocidal war against our people.

Providing justifications and excuses to lower the level of revolutionary and solidarity action to symbolic and formal levels is a stab in the back of Palestine and its people, and will comfort the aggression alliance to give it space to continue crimes against our people. The Front reaffirms its previous call for a mass flood towards the embassies, interests, and bases of the aggression forces and a greater role for solidarity parties and forces in escalating the struggle against the alliance of enemies worldwide.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

October 28, 2023

American advisers recommended that the Israeli military, during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, limit itself to special forces raid operations with massive air support instead of a full-fledged invasion, which would lead to heavy losses and a threat to hostages.

The Pentagon called on the IDF to study the experience of the American army in battles with ISIS in Iraq. - CNN

Somehow everything suddenly began to heat up. Biden said: “I warn the Ayatollah: if our forces are attacked, we will respond, and he must be ready.” - Politico

Looks like the IDF is broadening their horizons and striking medical facilities in Egypt

Taba isn't anywhere near Gaza (nor anywhere near Israeli population centers), so I'm really not sure what the IDF is thinking.

babe wake up it's 10am, time for your daily helpless doomscroll

Death to America

US Embassy in Lebanon telling American citezens to GTFO

Al Jazeera:

Netanyahu crossed a red line: Israeli opposition leader
Leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, has slammed Netanyahu, saying the PM “crossed a red line” after blaming the country’s security establishment for the failures that led to the October 7 attack.
“While IDF soldiers and commanders are fighting valiantly against Hamas and Hezbollah, he is trying to blame them instead of backing them up,” Lapid said on X.
“The attempts to evade responsibility and place the blame on the security establishment weakens the IDF while it is fighting Israel’s enemies. Netanyahu must apologize for his words.”

Update:

Netanyahu deletes controversial tweet: Report
Israeli media report that PM Netanyahu has deleted a controversial statement where he blamed the military and the Shin Bet – Israel’s intelligence services – for having assessed before the war that Hamas was deterred and wanted to come to a settlement.
We earlier reported that Benny Gantz, a retired general and member of Israel’s war cabinet, said Netanyahu “must retract” the statement, adding that “leadership must show responsibility, decide to do the right things and strengthen the forces”.