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Daily Sceptic- The Health Effects of Cousin Marriage in British Pakistanis

In most of Europe and the Americas, cousin marriage is extremely rare — only a few percent of people are married to their first or second cousins. But in other societies — mostly in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia — it’s much more common. By some estimates, more than 50% of Pakistanis are married to their first or second cousins.

The Road To Zero

In a fiat monetary system in which exponentially rising debt is a feature, not a bug, borrowers are always going to need relief in the form of lower interest rates. So much for “higher for longer”. Central banks are being a bit stubborn right now, but it won’t last.

That left the benchmark prime rate stuck at 4.95 per cent, more than a percentage point above its 20-year average of 3.87 per cent.

Since lower rates tend to inflate home prices, many bargain-hunting homebuyers were high-fiving the rate freeze. Most floating-rate borrowers and real estate stakeholders, however, were left groaning.

Good Friday On Turtle Island

Woke America:  Victor Davis Hanson – An insurrectionist.  Trump’s courage to fight.  A cartoon.

Great Leader Kim Sung Carney’s Canada:  Seeking asylum in Gay North Dakota.  Will give more money to Hamas.

Stories You Won’t Find At The CBC:  Cousin marriage in Britain.  A mission of guilt.  Diversity is our strength.  Resurrection and restoration.  The week in jihad.

A  Good Friday Hymn.   And Classics for Easter.

Quoi?

A good summary here.

Dan Knight- Campaign 2025 – The Montreal Reckoning, Canada’s Leaders Debate Exposes the Great Divide

And what unfolded over two hours wasn’t just a policy discussion—it was a full-blown national identity crisis.

Because this wasn’t a debate about tweaks to tax rates or transit plans. No, this was a live autopsy of what decades of bureaucratic rule, foreign appeasement, and soft authoritarianism have done to what used to be one of the freest, most prosperous countries on Earth.

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