A totally tangentially interesting thing about that blog is that ... OMG, someone is still using "pingback"s.
Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
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Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#192If anybody else is wondering how the molybdenum market is doing these days, here's a chart: https://www.mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/molybdenum... The price halving that killed the mine/town in the mid-1980s is barely visible at the very beginning. There was a massive price spike to above $10/lb around 2005, but it fell back to around $2 and has been pretty flat ever since. Production is reasonably evenly sp…
> The price halving that killed the mine/town in the mid-1980s is barely visible at the very beginning
where? It starts at 1996.
Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it. the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...
The modern form of argumentation on display here: "I'm not going to argue against what you say you believe, I'm going to assert you believe something else and attack that, or group you with people who believe differently than you and argue against that."
I mean they just stated a fact, it's not an argument. [1]
Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
McElroy is a specific name that originated in two small geographical regions with tightly tied genetics and the two Justins bear a strong resemblance. Most Scotch-Irish people in Canada are related in some way because the initial colonizing wave was quite small. The podcasters are from Milwaukee which shares a border with Canada, is near Canada's most populous city, and was largely settled in that same small wave. As…
The podcasters are from West Virginia.
My error.
Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
The current government's investigation found no sign of criminal collusion at the government level. It also found that money laundering had barely any influence on housing prices. At worst, the Liberals were just inept.
Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper provides endless evidence that the government is corrupted. “We investigated ourselves and found that we are not corrupt” is not a ringing endorsement. Money is power and in BC the criminal GDP is as valuable as any of our legitimate business sectors, like fishing or forestry. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-sam... https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/04/10/BC-Libera…
It was an NDP-Government led investigation; so it wasn't a case of the accused investigating themselves. If anything, the NDP had incentive to discover malfeasance.
Maybe Eby didn't read Cooper's book.
Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
BC was altered considerably by a series of economic crisis in the 90s; notably the softwood lumber dispute, the opening of raw log exports, the salmon fishery dispute, and the asian economic crisis. All told, they had the cumulative effect of shifting BC's economy away from lumber and fisheries and toward tourism and real estate.
The criminal government from 2001- 2017 did not help matters. Money laundering so extensive that it begot its own name (the “Vancouver Model”). It completely fucked the housing market.
The only crime is that you don't own a property
Re: Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it. the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...
The modern form of argumentation on display here: "I'm not going to argue against what you say you believe, I'm going to assert you believe something else and attack that, or group you with people who believe differently than you and argue against that."
What are you on about??