The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days):
- Variant News At dlive.tv: https://dlive.tv/variant_news
- Variant News On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/variant_news
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Topics For The Show:
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- Housing Tech
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCz4Q1wlBak&t=47s (00:00 to 1:46)
- https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=266711
- https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/could-new-zealands-radical-new-housing-law-help-canada-curb-its-skyrocketing-real-estate-prices
- Earth structure code approved
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWTeU7zDGI (00:00 to 1:17)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FuHguq31HI (00:00 to 01:20)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlgklDKFaI
- Ending Single Family Zoning was part of an initiative under Obama and Biden is trying to bring it back
- What is the overall plan for Housing at the Federal level and how effective can it be?
- According to the measure within the transportation package, any local government that does not comply with the federal zoning guidelines, meaning “ordinances that ban apartment buildings from certain residential areas or set a minimum lot size for a single family home,” the Department of House and Urban Development (HUD) will cut off funding to that city – funding any city needs to maintain their current low-income housing.
- Additional consequences for cities keeping their local zoning laws in place would be to punish states by prohibiting them from “receiving taxpayer funded transportation grants of any kind if they refuse to allow high-rise apartments throughout their high density zoning in their suburbs.”
- A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard for a Fourth of July barbecue may be a staple of the American dream, but experts and local politicians say multifamily zoning is key to combating climate change, racial injustice and the nation’s growing affordable housing crisis.
- https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/04/14/zoning-biden-infrastructure-bill-would-curb-single-family-housing/7097434002/
- Biden’s Infrastructure Package Will Federalize Local Zoning Laws, Displace Single-Family Homes In Suburbs (Agenda 21/2030)
- Nine facts about state and local policy
- State and local government total expenditures amount to $2.9 trillion in the United States. While this is less than the federal government’s $4.3 trillion of expenditures, nearly two-thirds of federal total expenditures are transfers (either to individuals or state and local governments). This means that state and local governments have in some respects a more prominent role in decision-making than the federal government.
- Tearing Down the Walls: How the Biden Administration and Congress Can Reduce Exclusionary Zoning
- Mrs Fudge US Queen of Housing and Urban Development
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development
- Can an ‘Activist HUD’ Make Housing a Human Right?
- HUD “assists” low-income households with rental subsidies in the private sector, primarily through Section 8 certificates and vouchers, through the Office of Public and Indian Housing. Families seeking assistance apply thorough their local public housing agency.
- HUD homes are foreclosed properties that were originally purchased with FHA loans. Residential properties become HUD homes when a homeowner is unable to keep up with their monthly mortgage payments and defaults on their loan. … Any buyer who has the funds or can qualify for a loan is eligible to purchase a HUD home.
- What is the overall plan for Housing at the Federal level and how effective can it be?
- Housing Tech
Current Events and Bizarro News:
- The Age Of The Metaverse Is Upon Us: Facebook Hiring 10,000 VR developers in Europe
- https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-facebook-hiring-10000-people-to-build-mark-zuckerbergs-project-2021-10
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99BnZ8js1_k (3 min video)
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We may not want the future Facebook is building
- Facebook Buying Up VR Companies (Oculus)
- Facebook Will Change Its Name to Embrace the Metaverse – IGN Now
- What is the metaverse? The metaverse is a shared virtual 3D world, or worlds, that are interactive, immersive, and collaborative.
- Just as the physical universe is a collection of worlds that are connected in space, the metaverse can be thought of as a bunch of worlds, too.
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgH6_iYF-pM
- Why Facebook is Spending Billions on the Metaverse
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- China is a building a Virtual Reality City
- Via Virtual Information Modeling (VIM), the new smart city will be created from the ground up using the power of virtual reality. That’s why VIM is partnering with both American and Chinese companies to construct a truly innovative city of the future in Qingdao, China.
- China’s VR Star Theme Park is a Vision of the Future, But not for Western Audiences
- These are the Top Virtual Reality Companies in China (2021)
- Brief update on IRS and Yellen. Clarification has been made where they want to monitor banking transactions that are over $600 annually
- It was first believed that all transactions over $600 would be monitored
- Eventually US Fed CBDC and updated infrastructure will allow government to analyze everything with code
- Joshua Philips: Yellen/IRS defended Democrats bank account monitoring
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63WVye5FgFo (Yellen clarifies scope starting at 26 min mark)
- Canada CRA
- Cryptocurrencies in Canadian Law
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfD4gzi9N0 (00:30 to 01:33 20:35 to 22:05)
- Canada National Crypto Currency
- US Bitcoin ETF Futures joining the traditional markets (Chicago Mercantile Exchange first to market with more joining)
- Bitcoin futures are a type of derivative trading instrument where two parties enter into a contractual agreement to buy or sell bitcoin at a predefined price at a later date, typically traded on a commodities exchange. A derivative is a term for any trading contract that tracks the price of an underlying asset.
- SEC chief Gary Gensler has been reluctant to approve a pure bitcoin ETF, due in part to concerns about the wild price swings in the market.
- First US Futures Bitcoin ETF Is Already in Danger of Breaching a Limit on Futures Contracts
- SEC chief Gary Gensler has been reluctant to approve a pure bitcoin ETF, due in part to concerns about the wild price swings in the market.
- Bitcoin futures are a type of derivative trading instrument where two parties enter into a contractual agreement to buy or sell bitcoin at a predefined price at a later date, typically traded on a commodities exchange. A derivative is a term for any trading contract that tracks the price of an underlying asset.
- CA has already released a Bitcoin ETF (no futures, the real deal coin)
- Top Bitcoin ETFs in Canada in 2021: Investing in Bitcoin
- What Is An ETF?
- An exchange traded fund (ETF) is a type of security that tracks an index, sector, commodity, or other asset, but which can be purchased or sold on a stock exchange the same way a regular stock can. An ETF can be structured to track anything from the price of an individual commodity to a large and diverse collection of securities. ETFs can even be structured to track specific investment strategies.
- Nigeria to launch digital currency on Monday, central bank says
- Updates coming on good spyware detector apps for iOS and Android
- Bizarro News
- In China kids are playing video games less (only 3 hours a week?) and firing mortars in the real (I guess COD/Battlefield is a no go)
- Robocrop picks strawberries
- Vancouver restaurant, facing staff shortage, offers $50,000 salary for a dishwasher
- Wild Boar Charges Man on Beach
- In China kids are playing video games less (only 3 hours a week?) and firing mortars in the real (I guess COD/Battlefield is a no go)