Librarian and Textician § Inopinum intactumque – Martianus Capella
East Vancouver
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Joseph Jones retweeted
Redmond, Washington charges $7,277 for school capacity on each new single-family home in 2026. The fee can only buy schools in a published plan, and the city carries the district's capacity figures in its own plan.
In Vancouver, why build housing with no school spaces? @TheVTCo
ALT VTCo diagram titled "The plan comes before the fee." Three bars drawn to scale compare school charges per new home: Redmond, Washington, single-family, $7,277 charged from 1 January 2026 (long black bar); the British Columbia regulatory ceiling of $1,000 at low density and $600 at high density (short blue bars). A note says this sets an amount charged beside a regulated ceiling, and the two fund school capital from different sources. Below, two chains of boxes. Washington: district plan with inventory, capacity, forecast and six-year financing; the city plan must gather the district's figures; a dated fee schedule set by formula; a ten-year clock, with money held in a separate account and spent or committed within ten years. British Columbia: a facilities plan of at least ten years; a sites proposal filed with local governments; a charge capped at $600 to $1,000 a unit; and a hatched box asking whether it applies inside the City of Vancouver, open on the record. Nine VSB trustees take
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BREAKING: The U.S. Army announced that is now training soldiers in North Carolina to dig mass battlefield graves for American troops for the first time in decades, rehearsing how to handle mass casualties as Trump's war on Iran is near. The Army says it hasn't needed to do this on a large scale since the Korean War.
Joseph Jones retweeted
What Washington is preparing against Iran is a premeditated war. Its date has been fixed in advance by the electoral calendar, not by any threat. Trump himself has vowed there will be no attack on Iran before the midterms, and Washington has reportedly told Arab states to prepare for a short, intense campaign after the vote.
Premeditation is fatal to any claim of self-defense. Under Article 51 of the UN Charter, even anticipatory self-defense requires an imminent threat and a necessity leaving "no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." A war that can be shelved for a month to suit an election is the product of deliberation, not necessity. The war's February start does not help: necessity and proportionality govern every phase, so a renewed campaign after a signed ceasefire must meet them again.
The stated aim, to "finish the job," confirms this is aggression, not defense. Force used to impose terms on a state is coercion against its political independence, which Article 2(4) forbids.
US law agrees. The Constitution gives Congress the war power and leaves the President only the power to repel sudden attacks. A campaign planned for months is neither sudden nor an emergency. If there is time to wait for an election, there is time to go to Congress.
Since Nuremberg, planning and preparing a war of aggression have been crimes in their own right. A premeditated war is not a defense. It is the crime itself, scheduled in advance.
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I don't get why so many on the left and the right point to ideology being at the heart of the BC results, when the evidence points to "BC NDP made a cynical election call and NDP voters stayed home" as the real factor.
Joseph Jones retweeted
Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power.
fairvote.ca/25/10/2026/bc-co…
ALT BC election popular vote versus seats
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Update: Check this out. The Conservatives did a number on Eby and his NDP and took 64 seats yesterday. However when you look deeper, the Conservatives TOPPLED 8 NDP strongholds, some by 25+ point flips!!!
It's clear, BC was sick and beyond tired of the NDP ruining this province. Change is here.
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Which Council slate came first in each of Vancouver's 22 neighbourhoods? Plus turnout, the Mayor's race, party strength and Park Board / School Board results, area by area. Maps and analysis: cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/… #vanpoli
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Update: Eby enters election day at a CAMPAIGN LOW of 7.3%. I'm predicting a Conservative super majority with 60 seats after a dismal election campaign by the NDP that they themselves called.
Now the power lies in your hands, let us know below who you're voting for today?
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MAJOR BREAKING: Just moments ago, Ansar Allah (Houthi) spokesman Yahya Saree announced MULTIPLE extremely significant strikes against Saudi Arabia that were carried out in the last 24 hours.
Most notable, by far, is the announcement that the EAST WEST PIPELINE was struck at "multiple pumping stations and the crude oil pipeline". This... is one of THE MOST significant pieces of energy infrastructure in ALL of Saudi Arabia. This was struck last month, and caused immense operational issues for Saudi Aramco.
The second operation is also INCREDIBLY significant with announced successful strikes on the Saudi Aramco infrastructure in Yanbu. The Port of Yanbu is one of the most critical export points for Saudi oil and products, and essentially could force Saudi to ONLY move oil through the Strait of Hormuz... which isn't going particularly well right now.
The third claimed strike is one that struck the Rabigh Oil Refinery for at least the second time in the past two weeks. This facility, located just Northwest of Jeddah, will further constrain the global supply of refined products that has seen extraordinary increases in the prices of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel in recent months.
In addition to these INCREDIBLY significant "alleged" strikes on Saudi energy infrastructure, Ansar Allah also carried out multiple strikes on airports across Saudi Arabia to include in the King Khalid Airport in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on the far East of The Kingdom, and the Najran Airport, along with the Air Base at Khamis Mushait.
While we do not yet know for CERTAIN that these claimed strikes by Ansar Allah resulted in devastating blows to their targets, we do know that multiple of these targets were absolutely targeted in the past 24 hours according to published Early Warning Alerts from the Saudi Directorate of Civil Defense. Alerts were issued in the past 24 hours to include Yanbu, Taif, Najran, Riyadh, Jeddah (Rabigh), Wadi al-Dawasir, Khamis Mushait, and Najran.
By all INITIAL indications... there is significant credibility to the claims made here by Ansar Allah. While we do not yet have CONFIRMATION of these claims from open source information, it is highly likely that a MAJORITY, if not all, of these claims being made by Ansar Allah are accurate.
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BREAKING: Iran has cut off LPG exports to Pakistan after Islamabad's border closure with Iran under US pressure, making Pakistan lose more than half its LPG supply, with the price of a 12 kg cooking gas cylinder now up 56% in just days, from 4,500 to 7,000 rupees, and expected to climb further, per Reuters.
Pakistan imported about 7,000 tonnes a day from Iran. Hundreds of LPG tankers are stranded at the Gabd-Rimdan and Taftan crossings, and the Quetta Chamber of Commerce has told members to stop placing new orders with Iran.
"We did not expect this from our Pakistani friends, and did not expect them to come under the influence of American pressure," said an Iranian MP.
Bessent said he is working with Pakistan and Turkey to cut off Iran's land routes. Sealing Iran off is now cutting household fuel to its neighbours.
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In my interview with @CBC News, I warned that another war with Iran seems almost inevitable and could be the most devastating yet.
Iran is unlikely to surrender. Instead, Tehran could target Gulf energy facilities, civilian infrastructure and undersea communications cables, potentially dragging the entire region into a much wider conflict.
As I warned before the previous wars, military force offers no silver bullet. Trump now faces only bad and worse options.
#IranWar
#iran
cbc.ca/news/world/united-sta…
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Preparation for a War on all fronts:
US presidential envoy Thomas Barrack said the war on Iran will start over the weekend. Donald Trump has no strategic objectives and doesn't care about the damage that will hit the Gulf countries. Therefore he wants to destroy every military and government offices and deepen the destruction in the country for no outcome for the US. It is only a question of timing (before or after the elections).
Iran won't be along and ALL its allies will be part of the forthcoming war.
Results: Iran will turn to make several nuclear bombs because it was left with no choices but to defend itself.
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BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing for a massive bombing campaign against Iran as the USS George Washington is being heavily rearmed in the Arabian Sea, with sailors loading large quantities of munitions, including standoff land-attack missiles and bunker-buster bombs, per The Wall Street Journal citing U.S. officials.
In a rare visit aboard the carrier, WSJ reporter Shelby Holliday witnessed massive stacks of munitions boxes as American forces loaded large numbers of weapons and prepared aircraft for possible renewed military action, with U.S. officials confirming the military is positioning itself for a fresh wave of attacks.
The WSJ says they are the exact weapons needed for a campaign against Iran's underground nuclear sites and hardened military infrastructure.
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Vancouver's 2026 Mayor vote, mapped by Fry−Sim margin in each local area. More maps coming this weekend. #vanpoli
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after "Martin Eden," I am now reading Sherwood Anderson's "Poor White" (1920), another classic in its time largely forgotten now.
so strange to be (re)discovering these novels once so integral to the literary scene of their time; America emerging into an age of rapid industrialization, social change. this is a weak description of novels fascinating in their depiction of life seen close-up by young men; especially, "Martin Eden" thrums with the intensity of lived experience like those early, astonishing novels of D.H. Lawrence ("Sons and Lovers," "The Lost Girl"). both "Martin Eden" & "Poor White" capture the drama of America in a time of convulsive change.
it's too bad that "literary America" at mid-century dismissed writers like London & Anderson as insufficiently Modernist, experimental. both Hemingway & Faulkner, who'd been personally helped by Anderson in their early careers, turned against him sneeringly for the relative simplicity & forthrightness of his prose.
… my take on 2026 BC provincial election …
most of the voting will be
✤ do not want an NDP majority
✤ do not want a Conservative majority
therefore
collapse of vote for any other party
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Eby NDP candidate Roly Russell (Boundary-Similkameen) says Eby called his early, opportunistic election because he couldn't control his own radical caucus!
Lmao.
