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Armas Weekend Reader

19-20 February 2022

Joshua Treviño
Feb 17, 2022
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Armas Weekend Reader

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Poster from the United States Government’s Office of Facts and Figures, 1942.

This week: Canada, Russia, Yakutia, and how to be happy. Let’s go —

1) “Although it’s impossible to predict economic crashes with certainty, a key economic indicator suggests the U.S. housing market is on the verge of an unprecedented crash, one that could end up being the biggest in America’s history.”

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/16/key-indicator-hints-america-is-headed-for-its-worst-real-estate-crash-in-history/

2) “[T]he party’s House campaign arm had a stark warning for Democrats: Unless they more forcefully confront the GOP’s ‘alarmingly potent’ culture war attacks, from critical race theory to defunding the police, they risk losing significant ground to Republicans in the midterms.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/15/gop-culture-war-attacks-alarmingly-potent-dccc-warns-00009265

3) “I joined the Canadian Freedom Convoy once the trucks were already firmly set in Ottawa. My time in the Canadian capital was spent gathering information, specifically to document the successful, as well as the failed, tactics and strategies of the demonstration. My reticence over details is necessary because, whether through fate or my own persistence, I am now helping the central organization with some of their strategy, and anything that I disclose publicly could be used against them. But I can give a brief overview of what is happening here.”

https://americanmind.org/salvo/oh-canada/ 

4) “[W]oke capital—corporate power bent on enforcing a political narrative against its user base—is real, and it’s growing. It is no longer just a series of anecdotes; it is becoming a disturbing and powerful reality.”

https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/20/corporate-power-and-the-gramophone-mind/ 

5) “The basic insight in place-based policy work is that where a person lives and grows up matters as much as their family stability and income level in determining life outcomes.”

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