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title: Simulation du Sénat 2024 : Un nombre record d’étudiants à la barre de la Chambre rouge
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title: Explore the House of Commons at West Block
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title: Explore the Senate of Canada Building (with American Sign Language)
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title: Explore the Senate of Canada Building (Descriptive Video)
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title: Explore the House of Commons at West Block (Descriptive Video)
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title: Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/5dcaae7ef8723ff0475d31a40e85a920.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Gutsy Women: Eva Bartlett"></p>"In a conversation with Eva Bartlett, Brian Gerrish (UK Column) learns what takes a young woman from Canada to travel to explore the world.<br>Bartlett (2007) paid for herself to go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2008-2013) to understand what was really happening. <br><br>Eva paid a price for her courage on the front lines: she suffered physical harm from Israeli soldiers &amp; from illegal Jewish colonists; she endured arrest, shackling and custody by the Israeli police; and she experienced the trauma of being in the firing line when Israeli troops targeted live rounds against unarmed Palestinian protestors—a frequent occurrence. <br><br>Eva visited Syria (2014-2021, 15 times), rather than relying on the reports of others while observing from a distance. Western media reports on the Syrian war were heavily distorted to meet what she clearly regards as a US-UK-NATO official line.<br><br>In more recent years, Eva went to see and experience the reality of life in both the Crimea and in the Donbass.<br><br>It was in the Donetsk environs that Eva was to understand the horrors of the Ukrainian shelling and rocket attacks that the Russian civilian population has endured for nearly a decade. She spoke with local families, she witnessed the destruction, and she filmed and reported the reality of the dead bodies and parts of bodies of those killed in recent attacks.<br><br>Placing herself at risk on the front line of conflict zones, Eva Bartlett has then had to defend herself against vile and dangerous social media and related attacks. Abuse ranges from accusations of cowardice by armchair social media warriors to her being placed on Myrotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the supposedly non-official Ukrainian death list <br><br>Canadian state-aligned media  (CBC), clearly intent on undermining her Donbas reporting in whatever manner they could, smeared her, drawing from the kill list entry... <br><br><br>Related:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/<br><br>Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer<br>https://youtu.be/zSECq3kxT4I?si=nkVj9UD-EFD3hqin&amp;t=88<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br><br>My Gaza playlist:  https://odysee.com/$/playlist/ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/ <br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/

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title: 3CX Version 20 Update
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<p>3CX just released version 20 of its PBX telephone system. 3CX has been my favorite phone system that I’ve setup at multiple businesses. Let’s explore version 20!</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="new-admin-console">New Admin Console</h2>
<p>All-in-One Admin/Client URL. Version 20 also uses a condensed URL to make it easier to remember. The entire system moves on-prem Debian 10 to 12 and is a huge change.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="changes-in-administration">Changes in Administration</h2>
<ul>
<li>SIP Trunk location moved</li>
<li>Department Hours added no longer global</li>
<li>DID routing is now done at the destination (Extension, Ring Group, Digital Receptionist, etc.)</li>
<li>Queues, Ring Groups, and Digital Receptionists can all be assigned independent holidays and hours of operation.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="new-features">New Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Windows Softphone (Microsoft Store)</li>
<li>Google Transcription Update (New API)</li>
<li>Split DNS (Enhanced security and faster on-prem phones) - Hairpin NAT Support Required</li>
<li>Improved Reporting (Call logs are improved)</li>
<li>2FA Added</li>
<li>Ability to monitor quality of calls</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="call-processing-scripts">Call Processing Scripts</h3>
<p>You can now create custom scripts that route calls based on time, caller id, and a lot more variables. I’ll leave a link below if you want to explore this, but programming specific phone numbers, or numbers with a certain country code and area codes to groups of agents can be huge for businesses.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/call-processing-script/">https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/call-processing-script/</a></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="new-apis">New APIs</h3>
<p>The update also brings new API access for both the system configuration and client configuration. Each has a new set of calls they will take and you can extract user information to your app or even website.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="before-you-move">Before You Move</h2>
<ul>
<li>Check Phone Compatibility <a href="https://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/">https://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/</a></li>
<li>Allocate Downtime (Debian 10 -&gt; 11 -&gt; 12) will take time.</li>
<li>Check off the official checklist <a href="https://www.3cx.com/blog/releases/v20-upgrade-checklist-faq/">https://www.3cx.com/blog/releases/v20-upgrade-checklist-faq/</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="3cx-setup-videos">3CX Setup Videos</h2>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: Un comité du Sénat étudiera les effets du plafond des permis d’études
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guid: https://christitus.com/cursor-editor/
title: Cursor Editor
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<p>Cursor AI Editor is revolutionizing the way developers write code, offering an AI-powered environment that accelerates the software development process. With features like Ctrl+K, Copilot++, and AI chat, Cursor provides an unparalleled coding experience that’s both efficient and intuitive.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ctrl+K</strong>: This feature allows you to edit and write code seamlessly with AI assistance. Whether you’re tweaking existing code or generating new code from scratch, Ctrl+K simplifies the process.</li>
<li><strong>Copilot++</strong>: Enhance your coding with Copilot++, a native autocomplete feature that suggests mid-line completions and entire diffs, making your coding session smoother.</li>
<li><strong>AI Chat</strong>: Engage in a conversation with an AI that understands your codebase. This feature is perfect for debugging or when you need insights about your project.</li>
<li><strong>Ctrl+L</strong>: This feature allows you to edit and write code seamlessly with AI assistance. Whether you’re tweaking existing code or generating new code from scratch, Ctrl+ L simplifies the process.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="tips-and-tricks">Tips and Tricks:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Utilize @ Symbols</strong>: Quickly reference files or code symbols within your project by using the “@” symbol. This can significantly speed up your coding process by allowing you to generate code with specific dependencies or ask about certain files.</li>
<li><strong>Fix Lints with Ease</strong>: Cursor’s AI can help you fix lint errors instantly. Just hover over any lint error and click the “Fix” button for an AI-generated solution.</li>
<li><strong>Terminal Ctrl+K</strong>: Write terminal commands in plain English. This feature is incredibly useful for writing SQL commands, filling in arg parse arguments, or parsing JSONs with jq.</li>
<li><strong>Vision</strong>: Use images to prompt the AI. This is especially helpful for web UI development, allowing for rapid iteration based on visual inputs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started:</h2>
<p>To experience the full potential of Cursor AI Editor, start by exploring the Ctrl+K feature. It’s the gateway to understanding how AI can assist in your coding tasks. Remember, the more you interact with the AI, the better it becomes at predicting and assisting with your coding needs.</p>
<p>Cursor AI Editor is not just a tool; it’s a new way of approaching software development. By integrating AI into the coding process, Cursor ensures that developers are equipped with the best resources to build software faster and more efficiently.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tjFnifSEEjQ?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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title: How would you build Wordle with just HTML &amp; CSS?
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<p>I’ve been thinking about the questions folks are typically asked in front-end interviews these days, and how well those questions assess a candidate's depth of understanding of web standard technologies, and not just their ability to employ JavaScript algorithms and third-party frameworks. It made me think about the sort of questions I would like to hear or ask in an interview myself.</p>
<p>I think this sort of question would be a useful one:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"How would you attempt to build <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html"><em>Wordle</em></a> (<em>...or some other complex app</em>) if you could only use HTML and CSS? Which features of that app would make more sense to build with JavaScript than with other technologies? And, can you imagine a change or addition to the HTML or CSS standard that could make any of those features more straight-forward to build?"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Now, to be clear, this is meant to be a contrived exercise. I don't actually think a game app like Wordle <em>should</em> be built without using any JavaScript, <em>(though I do think the app could be better if it functioned at all without it!)</em>. In reality, I feel there are many user experience enhancements to an app like Wordle that <em>only</em> JavaScript is capable of providing.</p>
<p>Still, I like this question as an exercise. Discussing any approaches to this challenge will reveal the candidate's broad knowledge of web standards–including new and emerging HTML and CSS features–and as a huge benefit, it would help select for the type of folks who are best suited to lead us out of the JavaScript over-reliance problems that are <a href="https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/">holding back the web today</a>.</p>
<p>Interview questions aside though, I also thought this would be a fun little experiment to explore myself! So I took a few hours yesterday to do just that, and in the rest of this post I'll cover how I approached it.</p>
<h2>A Quick Attempt</h2>
<p><strong>Here's a CodePen link with the demo and code for my first attempt:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/scottjehl/details/LYvQxqa">Wordle, just HTML &amp; CSS</a></p>
<p>By the way, if you aren't here to play games (or you want to save some time), you can find the answer to the puzzle in this little disclosure:</p>
<details><summary>Reveal Answer</summary>PROUD</details>
<p>The approach I took for this example leans hard on HTML form validation for the game logic. I'm using a text <code>input</code> for each letter of the word, with <code>pattern</code> attributes describing the correct letter. The browser can natively use a pattern attribute to determine whether the input's value is "valid," which in the case of this contrived example can mean that a letter is correct.</p>
<p>To give an example, if the correct word was "TIGER" then the first letter's <code>input</code> could have a pattern attribute like this: <code>pattern="[tT]"</code> which would match lowercase and uppercase T. Additionally, the inputs have a <code>maxlength</code> attribute to limit their content length to 1 character.</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tT]"&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Through these two attributes alone, we can already write a CSS selector to visually display whether a typed letter is correct or not, using a gray or green background similar to Wordle itself, like this:</p>
<pre><code>input[type="text"]:invalid {
    background-color: lightgray;
}
input[type="text"]:valid {
    background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Neat! But there are some problems.</p>
<h3>Delaying Validation</h3>
<p>As written above, the validation styles will show immediately as you are writing the letters, rather than after you type the entire word, which makes it too easy to change your answer as you see whether each letter is correct or not. That's not how Wordle works!</p>
<p>Instead, we want the validation to kick in <em>only</em> after a word is entered and complete. You could try to do this in a number of ways. I decided to use the <code>:not()</code> and <code>:has()</code> CSS selectors to qualify the validation styles to only apply when the user is done entering a whole word. The game board grid uses an HTML <code>table</code> element and each "word" row sits in a <code>tr</code> element. The following styles will apply to <code>tr</code> elements that do not contain focused or empty inputs, meaning every input has a character in it and the user is no longer typing in any of the inputs.</p>
<p>To gauge whether the inputs are empty, I added a <code>placeholder</code> attribute to the HTML <code>input</code>, which conveniently pairs with the <code>:placeholder-shown</code> selector that matches empty inputs. Here's the HTML and CSS:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tT]" placeholder=" "&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
    background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
    background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Nice. Now the form validation happens after a complete guess for each row. <em>Small note: iOS Safari seems to only allow this selector to work with placeholder attributes that have at least some sort of string, so I added a blank space to its value, but there's probably a better character that I could use (maybe "A"?).</em></p>
<h3>Disabling Future and Completed Rows</h3>
<p>Another thing I wanted to do to match the game's behavior is to only allow interaction with the inputs in the active row. Admittedly, I didn't fully pull this one off for restricting keyboard focus, but I was at least able to disable touch and click-focus on those inputs by using a similar selector to the prior ones, and disabling pointer events.</p>
<pre><code>/* disallow next row until row is populated */
tr:has(input:placeholder-shown) ~ tr input,
/* disallow revisiting populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input {
    pointer-events: none;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Good enough, moving on.</p>
<h3>Announcing a Win</h3>
<p>When the correct word is typed, it would be nice to hide the rows after the correct guess and display a message that the game is over. To do this, I used a rule similar to the ones above, with some additional generated content to announce the win.</p>
<pre><code>tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:invalid, input:focus)) ~ tr {
    display: none;
}
table tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:invalid, input:focus)):after {
  content: "You Win!";
  /* ...some additional less critical styles here */
}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Improvement to test:</strong> This winning announcement should be accessible, and I'm not sure that CSS generated content will be announced in assistive tech, even if I use an aria-live region. Perhaps it'd be better to toggle the CSS display of a status message that follows the table, or have a status column on the right with messages that can be revealed as needed. I'm thinking on this.</p>
<h3>So What About Tan?</h3>
<p>Now, admittedly, so far the game only offers the gray and green states of Wordle, which represent letters that are either not in the word at all (gray), or are entirely correct and in the right place (green). Unlike the real Wordle, it's missing the "tan" state that tells you a letter is in the word, yet in the wrong place. This means that the game is playable, but it's pretty hard!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, HTML validation only offers a binary answer, and what we really want here is a sort of in-between state that's valid but not super-valid.</p>
<h4>Validating for Tan</h4>
<p>So pattern validation only allows us to match for one type of pattern, but that pattern could refer to the whole word if we wanted to use it for the tan state instead of the green state. For example, the following pattern would match every letter in TIGER, both lowercase and uppercase: <code>pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]"</code>.</p>
<p>Once again, our familiar CSS could target that valid pattern to color an input tan if it contains a letter that is in the word at all:</p>
<pre><code>/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
</code></pre>
<p>So now our problem is tan works, but green doesn't. We need a little help showing the green state for letters that are not ONLY in the word, but in the right place as well.</p>
<h3>Extending with JavaScript</h3>
<p>Okay. Let's add some JavaScript to get 3 states instead of 2.</p>
<p>The following 10 lines add an <code>input</code> event handler (which fires whenever the user changes the input's value) to all of the inputs in the page. It will grab a regular expression pattern in that input's custom <code>data-correct-pattern</code> attribute and add a <code>data-incorrect</code> attribute to the input when the pattern doesn't match the input's current value:</p>
<pre><code>document.querySelectorAll("input").forEach(inpt =&gt; {
  inpt.addEventListener("input", function(e) {
    const correct = this.value.match(new RegExp(this.getAttribute("data-correct-pattern")));
    if (correct) {
      this.removeAttribute("data-incorrect");
    } else {
      this.setAttribute("data-incorrect", true);
    }
  });
});
</code></pre>
<p>With that attribute toggle, I can write some CSS to add the green state! Here are my 3 states, the third of which using that new data-incorrect attribute:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
  background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:not([data-incorrect]) {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>You can view the demo of this version here:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/scottjehl/details/JjVpNEb">Wordle, almost just HTML &amp; CSS</a></p>
<h2>Caveats and Implementation Ideas</h2>
<p>Needless to say, these examples don't do everything that the real Wordle does, so I won't attempt to itemize the differences here. Perhaps the most important difference to note is that there's no validation of real words, so you can enter any old letters you please.</p>
<p>I also want to explore how to make the state of the app persistently make sense to assistive technology, which might mean having an additional table column with cells containing the result of each validation (toggling the display of various possible messages so that they are accessible. Maybe that'll be a followup post (and if you're interested, <a href="https://blog.mayank.co/how-i-built-an-accessible-version-of-wordle">here's a more practical article about improving actual-Wordle's accessibility</a>).</p>
<p>Also, um, the puzzle is always the same answer? True! The real Wordle has a different word every day. A fuller implementation of an approach like this would need some dynamic handling on the server side to deliver different HTML patterns for the word of the day.</p>
<p>Having said all of that, I find it pretty awesome that HTML and CSS alone can get us so far today, and it's totally possible that there are different HTML patterns that could pull off all 3 colors without JS already, as well (perhaps if we built a large QUERTY keyboard out of radio inputs...)</p>
<h2>What if :valid was a function?</h2>
<p>Okay, as for the the last part of my original question. What could be added to HTML or CSS to make that last example possible without JavaScript? One thing comes to mind for me: an ability to validate multiple patterns on one input.</p>
<p>For example, let's revisit that <code>pattern</code> attribute value. The existing <code>pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]"</code> will match for all of the letters in the word Tiger, uppercase or lowercase. From that, you get a simple yes or no match for whether the letter is in the word at all, again like this:</p>
<pre><code>input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
</code></pre>
<p>That gives us the tan color, but again we still have the green pattern to worry about. What if that <code>:valid</code> pseudo-class allowed for arguments, though? If it did, then I could pass a string to it, like <code>:valid("[gG]")</code> to specifically match for a g or G. Even better, maybe the value could accept the standard CSS <code>attr()</code> function too, which would allow the HTML to define additional patterns for the CSS to validate. In my second demo, I used a <code>data-correct-pattern</code> attribute to define that second pattern.</p>
<p>Here's how the markup and CSS might look for that dreamed-up feature, which could allow the second demo to work without JS:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]" data-correct-pattern="[tT]" placeholder=" "&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
  background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid(attr(data-correct-pattern)) {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>JavaScript:</p>
<pre><code>...none needed.
</code></pre>
<p>Maybe I'll file an issue in the CSS standard asking for <code>:valid(attr(...))</code>! :)</p>
<h2>Thanks!</h2>
<p>I hope you enjoyed this post. Please feel free to reach out with ideas or questions or improvements on <a href="https://mstdn.social/@scottjehl">Mastodon</a>. Thanks for reading!</p>


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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/04/6zSYrzok.jpg" alt="Steam is a ticking time bomb"><p>Steam has been the dominant force in PC games for over a decade, giving its owner Valve significant control over the entire ecosystem of desktop and laptop gaming. In many ways, Steam has been a force for good, but its near-monopoly status over game sales and distribution increasingly feels like a bomb that could go off at any time.</p><p>First, some overview for you non-gamers out there. Steam is first and foremost a game store, where the games you purchase can be installed and opened using the Steam desktop application ("launcher"). Steam is also a social network that games can hook into using the <a href="https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk">Steamworks SDK</a>. Games can add achievements, multiplayer features, and mods that integrate into the Steam application. Those are many of the same features available across all games on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, to the point where Steam is usually discussed in the same breath as full-blown consoles. Steam is often inseparable from PC gaming.</p><p>Valve has maintained its strong position with a few unquestionably pro-consumer moves. There are store-wide sales on a regular basis. The multiplayer services are free for players, unlike on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo consoles. Most recently, Valve has given PC gaming on Linux operating systems a boost through its <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_9.0/README.md" rel="noreferrer">Proton compatibility layer</a> and its contributions to the Wine project. Steam's <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/steam-hardware-software-survey-welcome-to-steam" rel="noreferrer">public surveys</a> offer a unique look at the state of PC gaming. Those actions have given Valve a positive image in the gaming community, to the extent where <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/freddre/art/Gabe-Newell-Portrait-288307422" rel="noreferrer">memes idolizing Gabe Newell</a> (the president and co-founder of Valve) have been common for over a decade now.</p><p>Valve and Steam are far from perfect. The company was <a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/valve-to-pay-3-million-in-penalties-for-misrepresenting-gamers-consumer-guarantee-rights" rel="noreferrer">slapped with a $3 million fine</a> for violating Australian consumer laws, which might be why the Steam Deck is <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/when-does-the-steam-deck-release-in-australia/" rel="noreferrer">still unavailable in Australia</a>. Steam's 30% cut on each purchase has been criticized over the years, especially with Steam's market share being too large for many developers to ignore. The moderation and game policies on Steam also haven't been great—more than a few offensive games made it past Steam's content filters before later being removed, like <a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/valve-to-pay-3-million-in-penalties-for-misrepresenting-gamers-consumer-guarantee-rights">a 2018 game that simulated a school shooting</a>.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="the-launcher-party">The launcher party</h3><p>Steam's position in the market is a functional monopoly, but there have been challengers. The greatest example is the Epic Games Store, which started as just the launcher for Fortnite, then <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/4/18125498/epic-games-store-details-revenue-split-launch-date">became a full-blown store in 2019</a> for third-party games. The Epic Games Store was light on features at first, and still doesn't have many of the community-centric features in Steam, but it has a Steamworks-like multiplayer framework and other core functionality. Epic also <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843018/epic-games-store-first-run-developers-revenue" rel="noreferrer">doesn't take as much money from game developers</a> as Steam's 30% cut.</p><p>Epic Games has been clear about seeing Steam as a direct competitor, and has done everything from giving away free games to paying for timed exclusives to entice players. Borderlands 3 was initially only available on PC through the Epic Games Store for six months, before arriving on Steam—<a href="https://www.pcgamesn.com/borderlands-3/epic-exclusive-deal" rel="noreferrer">Epic paid $146 million for that</a>.</p><p>This is supposed to be how competition in the marketplace works, and it should be a shining example of how PC is a fundamentally different platform for games than consoles and (for the most part) smartphones. There's no room for alternative distribution or better deals for developers in locked-down consoles. In reality, the Epic Games Store has been met with indifference, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/b3wrkl/outer_worlds_is_not_an_epic_games_exclusive_if_it/" rel="noreferrer">ridicule</a>, and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b3mul4/how_to_stop_epic_exclusivity_dont_ever_buy_the/" rel="noreferrer">boycotting attempts</a>.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/04/gb8x76ayopz71.jpeg" alt="Steam is a ticking time bomb" loading="lazy" width="640" height="788" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>This meme had over 32,00 upvotes on the PC Master Race Reddit community in 2021 (Source: </span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/quaz30/still_prefer_steam_over_epic/"><span>Reddit</span></a><span>)</span></figcaption></figure><p>I have no desire to defend Epic Games. The game launcher isn't amazing, and the company doesn't support Linux at all. I did want to see more competition for Steam, though, if only because one company controlling much of the sales and online infrastructure for the massive PC games ecosystem is scary. The lock-in effect with Steam is so great that <em>giving games away for free</em> is not putting a sizable dent in Valve's dominance. It's difficult to get an exact comparison, but Epic <a href="https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-games-store-2023-year-in-review">reported 75 million monthly active users</a> in December 2023, while Steam has <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/charts/" rel="noreferrer">around 20-30 million concurrent users</a> at any given moment.</p><p>There are a few other game stores and platforms attempting to cut into Steam's dominance. Microsoft has <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass" rel="noreferrer">PC Game Pass</a> and the Microsoft Store, EA and Ubisoft have store and multiplayer ecosystems for their own games, and the CD Projekt-owned <a href="https://www.gog.com/" rel="noreferrer">GOG.com</a> specializes in classic and DRM-free games. CD Projekt has been <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/gog-looks-like-its-in-a-much-healthier-spot-after-a-hairy-2021/">open about its difficulties keeping GOG running</a> in the past, and it's clear Epic hasn't (yet) achieved its goal of a store with a Steam-level userbase and game library.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="you-forgot-the-mac">You forgot the Mac</h3><p>If you want a preview of an uncaring and anti-consumer Valve, look no further than the company's efforts on Mac. Valve <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2010-04-26-steam-for-mac-uses-opengl-intel-only-10-5-or-higher.html">released the Steam store on macOS</a> in 2010, alongside native Mac ports of the Half-Life series, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Portal. Valve continued releasing new games on Mac for a while, such as Portal 2, fully committing to the Mac as a gaming platform.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CeKeLDfj-hE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Team Fortress 2 Now available on OS X" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Unfortunately, that enthusiasm didn't last long. The gaming ecosystem on Mac never matched Windows PCs, so there wasn't as much money in it. Steam on Mac continued to receive the same updates and new features as the Windows version, and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/250820/view/2898585530113880709" rel="noreferrer">SteamVR support arrived in 2017</a> after coming to Windows in 2014, but there wasn't much else happening.</p><p>Valve never updated any of its earlier games to run in 64-bit mode, because the underlying Source engine was 32-bit across both Windows and Mac (<a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/CSGO-64bit-Linux">with the exception of CS:GO</a>). Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications in 2019, with the release of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Catalina">macOS 10.15</a>, making all of those games inaccessible on newer Mac hardware. Valve eventually <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/01/steam-drops-macos-support-for-32-bit-games/">dropped support for Steam on macOS 10.14</a> in February 2024, making all 32-bit Mac games on Steam unplayable, even for computers with that operating system still installed. Before that, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/1/21244468/steam-mac-support-end-steamvr-windows-linux" rel="noreferrer">Valve killed SteamVR on macOS in 2020</a>, only four years after its introduction.</p><p>Valve also declined to release a Mac version of Counter-Strike 2, which is a 64-bit game built on the newer Source 2 engine, and later shut down the older CS:GO game. The company <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/10/valve-confirms-counter-strike-2-no-macos/" rel="noreferrer">said in 2023</a> that Mac players, combined with Windows PCs using DirectX 9 graphics and 32-bit operating systems, collectively were less than 1% of active CS:GO players. When the only way to play CS:GO on a Mac was to boot into an outdated version of macOS on older hardware, the minuscule player base makes sense.</p><p>You might think that Valve's current lack of interest in releasing games on Mac doesn't have anything to do with Steam as a service. However, much of the software development in Steam happens <em>because</em> of Valve's games. The initial release of Steam was <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-versions/">inspired</a>, in part, by the need for an update manager and anti-cheat solution for Counter-Strike. Valve started working on the Wine project and Proton compatibility layer because it wanted to sell a Linux-powered gaming handheld. When the Steam community market <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/9594" rel="noreferrer">launched in beta in 2012</a>, the first supported game was Team Fortress 2.</p><p>Steam for Mac no longer exists to sell Valve's own games, and it has visibly suffered as a result. Steam is still not updated to run natively on Apple Silicon-based Mac computers, nearly four years after Apple's transition away from Intel CPUs started. It's now a slow and clunky barrier to playing the games I own on my Mac computers—a far cry from the pro-consumer persona that Valve and Steam usually enjoy.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/04/Clipboard-Apr-5--2024-at-12.27-AM.png" alt="Steam is a ticking time bomb" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1221" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Steam is the last Intel-only app on my Mac</span></figcaption></figure><p>Valve isn't obligated to continue supporting all its games and software features on Mac, especially when Apple's reluctance to natively support Vulkan and other cross-platform technologies makes game development more complex. There's no excuse for Steam on Mac to be a far worse experience than on other platforms, though.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="a-scary-future">A scary future</h3><p>Steam didn't always have the glowing popularity it enjoys today. The store's breakout moment was the release of Half-Life 2 in 2004, which required Steam for activation and online play. The Amazon customer reviews for the boxed PC versions echo many of the same complaints you hear today with other game launchers: it's unnecessary, it breaks sometimes, it needs an internet connection, and so on.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/04/image.png" alt="Steam is a ticking time bomb" loading="lazy" width="1394" height="1460" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Amazon product reviews for Half-Life 2 (Source: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Half-Life-2-PC/product-reviews/B00006I02Z/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_viewopt_kywd" rel="noreferrer"><span>Amazon</span></a><span>)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Steam is a lot better now than it was in 2004, and issues with internet connectivity and always-on digital rights management (DRM) have mostly faded away as global internet infrastructure improve. However, there's a still a degree of normalization that exists with Steam. The mid-2000s complaints about requiring a launcher for a game have faded away: now the problem is when <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/x4gind/this_is_what_2k_calls_quality_of_life/" rel="noreferrer">a game needs a launcher</a> <em>in addition to</em> Steam. The discourse about how you can't truly "own" cloud games or always-online games usually ignores that you also don't "own" Steam games, because it's still a form of DRM.</p><p>It's also a bit strange to see Steam held up as a shining example of PC software, when it's still a 32-bit executable on Windows and Linux, which <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4031347072445004353/" rel="noreferrer">causes problems</a> on desktop Linux systems that already dropped 32-bit libraries. Funny enough, the only platform with a 64-bit Steam client is Mac.</p><p>Valve has avoided many of the same anti-consumer moves as other tech and gaming giants, likely due to its smaller size, status as a non-public company, and the long-time leadership of Gabe Newell and other executives. Valve won't stay that way forever—the company is not immune to the pressures of capitalism, and there are already examples of anti-consumer behavior.</p><p>Eventually, the full decline of Steam will commence. There will be competitors ready to take its place, but the current reluctance to embrace any Steam alternatives right now makes me worry that even a malicious Valve could keep a stranglehold on the PC as a software platform for years.</p>

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<p>In the vast ecosystem of Windows, managing device drivers can be a complex task, especially when dealing with third-party drivers. Tools like <strong>Driver Store Explorer</strong> (also known as <strong>RAPR</strong>), <a href="https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer">hosted on GitHub</a>, offer a streamlined approach to handling drivers in the Windows driver store.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-driver-store-explorer">What is Driver Store Explorer?</h2>
<p><strong>Driver Store Explorer [RAPR]</strong> is a user-friendly application designed to simplify interactions with the Windows driver store. It supports a range of operations including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Listing</li>
<li>Adding</li>
<li>Installing</li>
<li>Deleting third-party driver packages</li>
</ul>
<p>This tool is invaluable for both casual users looking to clean up their driver store and professionals managing multiple systems.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Driver Enumeration:</strong> Lists all third-party driver packages stored in the driver store, along with the devices associated with each driver. It also allows exporting this list as a CSV file for further analysis.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Management:</strong> Facilitates adding new driver packages to the store and deleting old or unused ones, helping in maintaining an optimal system performance.</li>
<li><strong>Offline and Online Store Management:</strong> Works with both online (local machine) and offline driver stores, providing flexibility in various scenarios.</li>
<li><strong>Efficiency:</strong> Identifies old and potentially unused drivers for deletion, making it easier to free up space and keep the driver store tidy.</li>
<li><strong>User Interface:</strong> Features a full-fledged GUI that supports grouping, sorting, and selecting specific columns for a customized view.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started</h3>
<p>To start using Driver Store Explorer, download the latest version from the <a href="https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases">releases page on GitHub</a>. Once downloaded, the application does not require installation and can be run directly, making it a portable tool for various uses.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="practical-applications">Practical Applications</h2>
<p>Driver Store Explorer is particularly useful in scenarios such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>System Cleanup:</strong> Removing old and unused drivers to free up disk space.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Updates:</strong> Adding new driver packages to the store before installation.</li>
<li><strong>Troubleshooting:</strong> Identifying and managing drivers associated with problematic devices.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="alternative-driver-management-tools">Alternative Driver Management Tools</h2>
<p>I personally do NOT recommend any tools if you have internet access and download the OFFICIAL drivers from your manufactures website. I use DriverStoreExplorer to export my drivers and import them into my windows image. However, if you don’t have the drivers or can’t find them all for your system, use the tools below.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>SDIO - Snappy Driver Installer</strong> (<a href="https://www.snappy-driver-installer.org/">visit website</a>) is a freeware tool that simplifies the process of installing drivers from the Windows driver store. Its user-friendly interface supports both online and offline driver stores, offering an efficient solution for managing drivers on Windows systems.</li>
<li><strong>3DP Chip Net Downloader</strong> (<a href="https://www.3dpchip.com/3dpchip/3dp/net_down_en.php">visit website</a>) use an ad-blocker and ONLY grab the NET download to get network driver bundle. <strong>This should only be used as a LAST RESORT!</strong></li>
<li><strong>DriverPack Solution</strong> (<a href="https://driverpack.io/en/foradmin">visit website</a>) This is a popular tool that was made in Russia. <strong>I do not trust it</strong>, but in a pinch it can also do network driver installs. Only use the DriverPack Offline Network Driver Installer.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>Driver Store Explorer is a powerful and user-friendly tool that simplifies the management of Windows drivers. Its ability to handle both online and offline driver stores, coupled with a comprehensive set of features, makes it an essential utility for anyone looking to manage drivers on Windows systems efficiently.</p>
<p>Whether you’re a professional IT administrator or a casual user wanting to keep your system lean, Driver Store Explorer offers the functionality needed to manage your drivers effectively.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R5RAgqB6YxM?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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title: « L’importance de redonner » : le sénateur Mockler fait ses adieux à la Chambre rouge
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link:
https://sencanada.ca//fr/sencaplus/personnalites/limportance-de-redonner-le-senateur-mockler-fait-ses-adieux-a-la-chambre-rouge/


guid: https://christitus.com/glazewm-tiling-window-management/
title: GlazeWM Tiling Window Management
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<p>GlazeWM is a powerful tiling window manager for Windows, designed to enhance productivity by allowing users to efficiently manage their windows and workspaces through keyboard-driven commands. This guide will walk you through the installation process and introduce you to some of the most commonly used hotkeys in GlazeWM.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="installation">Installation</h2>
<p>There are several methods to install GlazeWM, ensuring flexibility depending on your preferences or requirements.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="direct-download">Direct Download</h3>
<p>The simplest way to get GlazeWM up and running is by downloading the latest executable from the <a href="https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm/releases">releases page</a>. No installation is necessary; just run the <code>.exe</code> file.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="winget">Winget</h3>
<p>For those who prefer package managers, GlazeWM can be installed via Winget with the following command:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">winget install glazewm
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="hotkeys">Hotkeys</h2>
<p>GlazeWM offers a variety of hotkeys to streamline your workflow. Here are some of the most essential ones:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Alt + Arrow Keys</strong>: Move focus between windows</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Shift + Arrow Keys</strong>: Move the focused window in the direction of the arrow keys</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Number</strong>: Switch to a specific workspace (e.g., Alt + 1 for workspace 1)</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Shift + Number</strong>: Move the focused window to a specific workspace</li>
</ul>
<p>These hotkeys are customizable, and users are encouraged to tailor them to their specific needs through the GlazeWM settings.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="official-hotkey-maps">Official Hotkey Maps</h3>
<p>Alt Hotkeys</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/34844898/194635035-152ed4a6-e5a1-4878-8863-f62391e7d703.webp" alt="GlazeWM Hotkey Maps" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<p>Alt+Shift Hotkeys</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/34844898/194635089-d5ed152b-1527-43e8-a69c-4e154b97a207.webp" alt="GlazeWM Hotkey Maps2" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="custom-hotkeys">Custom Hotkeys</h3>
<p>I made some modifications based on the programs that I use all the time. Here are the ones I use the most:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">keybindings:
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec 'C:\\Program Files\\Thorium\\Application\\thorium.exe'"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+B"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec wt"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+X"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec explorer"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+E"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec '%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Programs\\cursor\\Cursor.exe'"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+W"]
</span></span></code></pre></div><h3 data-sanitized-id="personal-config">Personal Config</h3>
<p>My doesn’t change that much from the default but I do have a few changes to the workspace layout. Mainly I hate the massive gaps by default. Here is a link to my config file:</p>
<p><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/glazewm/main/config.yaml">Raw Config File</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="livestream-using-glazewm">Livestream using GlazeWM</h2>
<p>GlazeWM work starts at <a href="https://youtu.be/mJqNBBSViDU?si=3hZKYYp3kOJ3ZILG&amp;t=2015">33:35</a></p>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJqNBBSViDU?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0I8HyVMKEeo?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


guid: https://www.brixsweden.org/?p=4575#comment-146
author: ;SalahAden
content: <p>Wonderful Sri-Lanka</p>
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title:
Comment on Hambantota Port, a regional energy hub  Cooperation breeds innovation in Sri Lanka by SalahAden

link:
https://brixsweden.org/hambantota-port-a-regional-energy-hub-cooperation-breeds-innovation-in-sri-lanka/#comment-146


guid: https://christitus.com/windows-24h2/
title: Windows 24h2
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<p>Here is a list of all the features in Windows 24H2.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="windows-24h2-update-highlights">Windows 24H2 Update Highlights</h2>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="microsoft-copilot-enhancements">Microsoft Copilot Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Positioning:</strong> Copilot button moved to the far right corner of the Taskbar for easier access.</li>
<li><strong>New Commands:</strong> Users can now ask Copilot for:
<ul>
<li>Wireless networks, system/device/battery information</li>
<li>Storage cleaning, emptying recycle bin, toggling battery saver</li>
<li>Startup apps, IP address, turning on accessibility features (narrator, voice access, magnifier, high-contrast, voice typing, live captions)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Animations:</strong> New animations indicate Copilot assistance for copied text or images.</li>
<li><strong>Settings:</strong> A dedicated “Copilot in Windows” setting for UI customization and plugin configuration.</li>
<li><strong>Interface:</strong> Copilot interface can now be undocked and resized.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="file-explorer-improvements">File Explorer Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Archiving:</strong> Support for creating 7zip and TAR files.</li>
<li><strong>PNG Metadata:</strong> Enhanced viewing and editing capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="quick-settings-panel-updates">Quick Settings Panel Updates</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pagination:</strong> Scroll through all quick settings.</li>
<li><strong>Wi-Fi &amp; VPN:</strong> Refresh button for Wi-Fi list and improved VPN UI.</li>
<li><strong>Live Captions:</strong> Easier access with a single click.</li>
<li><strong>Performance:</strong> Faster opening times.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="phone-link-enhancements">Phone Link Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manage Mobile Devices App:</strong> New app for basic phone-PC linking functionalities.</li>
<li><strong>Phone Link App:</strong> Remains for syncing text messages and notifications.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="energy-saver-mode">Energy Saver Mode</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Efficiency:</strong> Reduces energy consumption and system performance.</li>
<li><strong>Desktop Icon:</strong> Energy-saver indicator for desktop PCs.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="sudo-for-windows">Sudo for Windows</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command Line:</strong> Elevated process execution with various configuration options.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="microsoft-teams-integration">Microsoft Teams Integration</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unified Client:</strong> Merges Teams for work, school, and personal use.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="general-improvements">General Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Installation Interface:</strong> Modernized offline installation interface.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Installation:</strong> New button during Wi-Fi setup for driver installation.</li>
<li><strong>App Removals:</strong> Cortana, Mail, Calendar, Maps, People, Movies &amp; TV, and WordPad removed from default installation.</li>
<li><strong>Taskbar and Printing Enhancements:</strong> Wi-Fi icon animation, new Task Manager icon, and Windows protected print mode.</li>
<li><strong>USB80Gbps Support:</strong> For new hardware with the updated USB4 standard.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="gsudo">GSudo</h2>
<p>Here is the best alternative for ANY version of Windows right now. While Sudo is nice in the future, updating to 24H2 is NOT RECOMMENDED! Use this instead:</p>
<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo">https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo</a></p>
<p>Direct Install:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">winget install gerardog.gsudo
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="24h2-livestream">24H2 Livestream</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ynmLm5_K_1E?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/00wdDITpfXU?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


title: La Série du siècle de 1972 alimente toujours ma fierté pour la feuille d’érable : sénateur Loffreda
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guid:
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link:
https://sencanada.ca//fr/sencaplus/opinion/la-serie-du-siecle-de-1972-alimente-toujours-ma-fierte-pour-la-feuille-derable-senateur-loffreda/


title: Les banques canadiennes investissent dans les catastrophes climatiques : sénatrice Galvez
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guid:
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link:
https://sencanada.ca//fr/sencaplus/opinion/les-banques-canadiennes-investissent-dans-les-catastrophes-climatiques-senatrice-galvez/


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guid:
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title:
La résistance aux antimicrobiens est une menace mondiale – et le Canada est mal préparé : sénateure Seidman

link:
https://sencanada.ca//fr/sencaplus/opinion/la-resistance-aux-antimicrobiens-est-une-menace-mondiale-et-le-canada-est-mal-prepare-senateure-seidman/


guid: https://christitus.com/vpn-tier-list-2024/
title: VPN Tier List 2024
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<p>Did you know most VPNs are owned by only a few companies? Those companies can even sell your data on top of charging you a subscription fee.</p>
<p>In this post, we’ll be looking at the best VPNs for 2024.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-use-a-vpn">Why Use a VPN?</h2>
<p>If you are looking for <strong>privacy</strong> or an <strong>encrypted connection on the go</strong>, setting up a wireguard or openvpn server is a great way to do that. This established a secure connection to your home network and helps block attacks that could happen on the host network providing you internet in a hotel, coffee shop, or other public setting. Setting these up are free and the best way to protect your privacy while helping your maintain a secure connection.</p>
<p>The next use case for a VPN is torrenting or streaming media from another country (geo-unlock). All VPNs generally are advertised as being able to do this, but make sure the VPN does not LOG any user activities and has servers in the country you want to watch streaming from.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="corporate-vpns-and-the-big-tech-companies">Corporate VPNs and the Big Tech Companies</h2>
<p>Kape Technology</p>
<ul>
<li>ExpressVPN</li>
<li>CyberGhost</li>
<li>Private Internet Access</li>
<li>Intego Privacy Protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Ziff Davis</p>
<ul>
<li>IPVanish</li>
<li>StrongVPN</li>
<li>Encrypt.me</li>
<li>SaferVPN</li>
<li>Perimeter 81</li>
<li>FastVPN</li>
<li>Internet Shield VPN by VIPRE</li>
<li>SpeedtestVPN</li>
<li>netDNA</li>
</ul>
<p>Nord Security</p>
<ul>
<li>NordVPN</li>
<li>NordLayer</li>
<li>Surfshark VPN</li>
</ul>
<p>I could go on, but these are the heavy hitters in the market. Most other VPN conglomerates own 5-10 different VPN brands each.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-best-vpns">The Best VPNs</h2>
<p>These are independent VPNs that are owned by a single company and outside the 14-eyes countries. Mullvad is hosted in Sweden which doesn’t have laws to intercept traffic. Likewise, ProtonVPN is hosted in Switzerland which also doesn’t have these laws.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="final-tier-list">Final Tier List</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/vpn-tier-list-2024/vpns.webp" alt="vpn-tier-list-2024" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sPf1q_YLaKQ?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


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title: Appel de candidatures : 11e poète officiel ou officielle du Parlement
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link:
https://sencanada.ca//fr/salle-de-nouvelles/appel-de-candidatures-11e-poete-officiel-ou-officielle-du-parlement/


guid: https://christitus.com/zoxide/
title: Zoxide
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<p><strong>Zoxide</strong> is an enhanced version of the traditional <code>cd</code> command, drawing inspiration from tools like <code>z</code> and <code>autojump</code>. It’s designed to make navigating your filesystem faster and more intuitive by learning your habits. The more you use it, the smarter it gets, allowing you to “jump” to your most frequently used directories with minimal input.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Smart Directory Jumping:</strong> Navigate to your most used directories with just a few keystrokes.</li>
<li><strong>Cross-Shell Compatibility:</strong> Works seamlessly across all major shells.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive Selection:</strong> Use <code>zi</code> for interactive directory selection with <code>fzf</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Easy Installation:</strong> Simple setup process across various platforms.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started</h2>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="basic-commands">Basic Commands</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>z foo</code>: Jump to the highest-ranked directory matching <code>foo</code>.</li>
<li><code>z ~/foo</code>: Works just like <code>cd</code>, allowing navigation to absolute paths.</li>
<li><code>z ..</code>: Move up one directory level.</li>
<li><code>z -</code>: Return to the previous directory.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="installation-steps">Installation Steps</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install Zoxide:</strong> Available for Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and Android.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>All operating systems have zoxide in default repositories and can be installed by using the <code>zoxide</code> package</li>
</ul>
<ol start="2">
<li><strong>Shell Integration:</strong> Easily integrate zoxide into your preferred shell (Bash, Fish, Zsh, and more).</li>
<li><strong>Optional fzf Integration:</strong> For enhanced interactive selection, install <code>fzf</code> (v0.33.0+).</li>
</ol>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="configuration">Configuration</h3>
<p>Customize zoxide with various flags and environment variables:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command Prefix:</strong> Change the default <code>z</code> and <code>zi</code> commands with <code>--cmd</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Hooks:</strong> Adjust the frequency of directory score updates with <code>--hook</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Data Directory:</strong> Specify the database location with <code>_ZO_DATA_DIR</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Exclude Directories:</strong> Use <code>_ZO_EXCLUDE_DIRS</code> to exclude directories from zoxide’s database.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="integrations">Integrations</h2>
<p>Zoxide integrates with a wide range of applications, from file managers like <code>lf</code> and <code>ranger</code> to text editors like <code>vim</code> and <code>emacs</code>, enhancing your workflow across tools.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="links">Links</h2>
<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide">https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XE1f7Tr0suo?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


guid: https://www.brixsweden.org/?p=4606#comment-156
title: Comment on Invitation to Webinar: Europeans for the Belt and Road Initiative by Shoaib Kahut
author: ;Shoaib Kahut
content: <p>I would love to attend this seminar</p>
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guid: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu:59aaeb86308356bde0b736f39adbb50465f7ff24
title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu:59aaeb86308356bde0b736f39adbb50465f7ff24
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/_TnjUNiyM8k" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnjUNiyM8k

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guid: https://christitus.com/windows-utility-improved/
title: Windows Utility Improved
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<p>The Chris Titus Tech WinUtil is now the #2 Most Popular Powershell utility in the World on GitHub.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-does-it-do">What does it do?</h2>
<p>It has 5 main tabs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Program Installation - Check all the programs you want and click install in one go.</li>
<li>Tweaks - Disable Telemetry and cut down on running background services.</li>
<li>Config - Configure your system and launch legacy Win7 Control Panels.</li>
<li>Updates - Change Windows Update to only use Security Updates or Disable them altogether.</li>
<li>MicroWin - Create a minimal ISO to Install Windows.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-run-it">How to Run it?</h2>
<p>Launch Terminal(Admin) by right clicking Start Button</p>
<p>Type this command in to launch the toolbox</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">irm christitus.com/win | iex
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Want an EXE? Help fund the project:</p>
<p><a href="https://cttstore.com/">https://cttstore.com</a></p>
<p><em>NOTE: This exe is a wrapper for the command above. No purchase is needed to run the script!</em></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="improvements-in-2024">Improvements in 2024</h3>
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<li>Import and Export Commands
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<li>Improved UI</li>
<li>Winget Installer uses 3 methods to install apps, System Scope, User Scope, and Unelevated.</li>
<li>Get Classic Right-Click Menu</li>
<li>Edge Removal</li>
<li>Co-Pilot Removal</li>
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<h3 data-sanitized-id="development-enhancements">Development Enhancements</h3>
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<li>Fixed Unit Tests</li>
<li>Modular
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<li>Config Folder (All tweaks are in JSON format in their own file. <code>applications.json, tweaks.json, feature.json, etc.</code>)</li>
<li>Function Folder (All functions are independent: private functions are not in GUI and public functions are in GUI)</li>
<li>lint, logs, pester, releases are all github related actions and for debugging.</li>
<li>scripts Folder is for the main section setting up runspaces and launching GUI.</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/dbbIUn65ReY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbIUn65ReY

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title: The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/t2L9WQG9WjE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)"></p>In this presentation, film maker, researcher and philosopher Fehmi Krasniqi provides a concise demonstration of the origins of the metric system using water droplets- a lost discovery known to the ancient Egyptians and demonstrated in his film K19: The Great Pyramid. The importance of embracing the truth of the vast contributions to human civilization and the growth of ancient Egyptian science by black Africans is discussed at length as well as the existential importance of choosing the more difficult of the two paths ahead of humanity going into a very precarious future. Additionally, Fehmi's new documentary "The 10th Hieroglyph: Mother" is also discussed at the end of the presentation.<br><br>To Watch part one of this two part presentation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4LmigzNek<br><br>Watch the trailer for Fehmi's new film "The 10th Hieroglyph: The Mother" (en francais) here: https://youtu.be/hANujYTe1v0?si=eJjcxoaMgBsDL6uM<br><br>Watch K19: The Great Pyramid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAtkjy_YK4<br><br>Support Fehmi's work here:<br>https://www.gofundme.com/f/book-great-pyramid-k-2019<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2L9WQG9WjE

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/ChLyUhpIZBA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Education, Economics and the Mind with Cynthia Chung"></p>In this excerpt, Cynthia Chung speaks with Vince and Brandi (hosts of the Campus Earth Curriculum on the Grass Roots Warrior Network) to discuss her work on history, philosophy, cultural warfare and solutions.<br><br>Watch the full 2 hr interview here: https://rumble.com/v3xje9d-campus-earth-curriculum-28-education-economics-and-the-mind-with-cynthia-ch.html<br><br>Follow the Alternative Education Alliance here<br>alternativeeducationalalliance.org<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLyUhpIZBA

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/-pX1Hf3U2tM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Escaping Calypso's Island Ep.03: Energy Wars"></p>Watch ep. 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9qaTawttE<br><br>Watch ep. 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv97LL4LUNw<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Sponsor these videos by making a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pX1Hf3U2tM

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<p>This PowerShell profile script introduces a comprehensive set of functions and aliases aimed at enhancing the PowerShell experience. It includes everything from module management and profile updates to utility functions and quality of life improvements.</p>
<p>GitHub Project: <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/powershell-profile">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/powershell-profile</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
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<p><strong>Module Management</strong>: Automatically installs the <code>Terminal-Icons</code> module if not present and imports it along with the Chocolatey profile if available.</p>
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<p><strong>Profile Updates</strong>: Includes a function <code>Update-Profile</code> to check for and apply updates to the PowerShell profile script from a specified URL.</p>
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<p><strong>PowerShell Updates</strong>: A function <code>Update-PowerShell</code> checks for and installs the latest PowerShell version using <code>winget</code>.</p>
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<p><strong>Admin Check and Prompt Customization</strong>: Adjusts the prompt based on whether the user has administrator privileges and customizes the window title accordingly.</p>
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<p><strong>Utility Functions</strong>: A collection of utility functions such as <code>Test-CommandExists</code>, <code>Edit-Profile</code>, <code>Get-PubIP</code>, <code>uptime</code>, <code>reload-profile</code>, <code>unzip</code>, <code>hb</code> (for uploading documents), <code>grep</code>, <code>df</code>, <code>sed</code>, <code>which</code>, <code>export</code>, <code>pkill</code>, <code>pgrep</code>, <code>head</code>, and <code>tail</code>.</p>
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<p><strong>Quick File and Directory Management</strong>: Functions for creating new files (<code>nf</code>), and making and changing directories (<code>mkcd</code>).</p>
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<p><strong>Quality of Life Aliases</strong>: Includes shortcuts for navigation (<code>docs</code>, <code>dtop</code>), editing the profile (<code>ep</code>), process management (<code>k9</code>), enhanced listing (<code>la</code>, <code>ll</code>), Git shortcuts (<code>gs</code>, <code>ga</code>, <code>gc</code>, <code>gp</code>, <code>g</code>, <code>gcom</code>, <code>lazyg</code>), system information (<code>sysinfo</code>), networking utilities (<code>flushdns</code>), and clipboard utilities (<code>cpy</code>, <code>pst</code>).</p>
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<p><strong>Enhanced PowerShell Experience</strong>: Sets <code>PSReadLine</code> options for color coding and initializes <code>oh-my-posh</code> with a specified theme for a better visual experience.</p>
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<p>This PowerShell profile script is designed to streamline and enhance the PowerShell user experience, incorporating a wide range of functions and aliases that cater to various needs from system administration to development tasks.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/ipod-3.jpg" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun"><p>The Apple iPod earned a place in history for helping push MP3 players into the mainstream, and kicking off a product line that changed the entire music industry. Does the original iPod from 2001 still have a place in modern world? Of course not, but I wanted to try it anyway.</p><p>I have a first-generation 5GB Apple iPod, initially owned by a family member before being passed to me. I think I mostly used it around the mid-2000s, but I don't really remember. It has spent at least a decade in my storage, and I figured it might be fun to try using it.</p><p>The first challenge was charging up the iPod to see if it still worked. That's easier said than done in the modern age.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="the-firewire-woes">The FireWire Woes</h3><p>The first few iPod models used a FireWire 400 port, because Apple wanted one port for both charging and data transfer—something USB couldn't easily do at the time. Most PCs at the time didn't have FireWire ports, but all of Apple's own Mac computers did.</p><p>FireWire might have been a decent idea in 2001, but it eventually lost the connectivity wars to USB and Thunderbolt, and has now faded into obscurity. I have two modern Mac computers, and Apple appears to still support all iPod models in the modern Apple Music application. However, physically connecting a FireWire 400 device like this iPod to a modern Mac requires daisy-chaining several adapters. You need to jump from FireWire 400 to FireWire 800, then FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt 2, and finally Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3. There are <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNR8MVMP/" rel="noreferrer">cables that adapt directly from FireWire 400 to USB</a>, but I haven't found any evidence of those working with old iPods.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/ipod-1.jpg" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1278" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>You can go from FireWire 400 to 800 with a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/PASOW-FireWire-Cable-Firewire-9-pin/dp/B00X65XHZG" rel="noreferrer">cheap passive adapter or cable</a>, and Apple still sells the <a href="https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter" rel="noreferrer">Thunderbolt 2-to-Thunderbolt 3 adapter</a> for $50. However, <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=firewire+800+to+thunderbolt">Apple's old FireWire-to-Thunderbolt 2 adapter</a> currently goes for $100 or more on eBay, which would not be a wise purchase for this short-term project. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5IqD26DXEY" rel="noreferrer">the wise words of Spencer Shay</a>, “I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid.”</p><p>Thankfully, I already <a href="https://blog.corbin.io/post/706475452492087296/restoring-my-powermac-g3">revived and upgraded a 1999 PowerMac G3</a> two years ago, and that computer has a FireWire 400 port. I didn't need any adapters there, just a basic FireWire cable. I ordered the cable, plugged in the iPod, and the player came to life.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="the-ipod-experience">The iPod Experience</h3><p>Thankfully for me, but perhaps making this article less interesting, the iPod turned out to be completely functional. It's a bit scratched up, but the internal hard drive, click wheel, FireWire port, and screen are all in working order. The battery even still holds a charge, though it doesn't last more than a few days in standby.</p><p>The iPod's system software is a series of menus that you navigate using the click wheel. Moving your finger or thumb clockwise on the click wheel scrolls down, and moving it counterclockwise scrolls up. There are four buttons surrounding the click wheel: Menu, Skip Forward, Skip backward, and Play/Pause. This original model has a wheel that physically moves and physical buttons, but later models replaced that with a capacitive touch area and buttons inside the wheel.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-gallery-container"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-gallery-row"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/OM_1715060684954-5.jpeg" width="1228" height="984" loading="lazy" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun"></div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/OM_1715060684958.jpeg" width="1213" height="966" loading="lazy" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun"></div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/OM_1715060684960-4.jpeg" width="1168" height="926" loading="lazy" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun"></div></div></div></figure><p>The click wheel definitely still feels simple and intuitive. It doesn't take me long to pick out a playlist or album, and there's even a sense of momentum in the software: as you keep scrolling in long lists, the scrolling becomes faster. It would be great to have more buttons, though, as I have to back out to the main menu to toggle shuffle or repeat.</p><p>When you're on the Now Playing screen, the iPod shows the song title, artist, and album, with a timeline of your current position. You can scroll the wheel to change the volume, or click the center button and scroll to change the position in the song. I wish there were easy access to the shuffle and repeat options, instead of having to go back to the main menu first, but that's probably asking too much from this two-inch screen.</p><p>There's a hold lock on the top, which can prevent accidental button presses while the iPod is in a pocket or bag. The 3.5mm headphone jack is also on the top of the iPod. The headphone port works as expected, except it doesn't seem to pause music playback when I unplug the cable. I think that feature was added in later iPod models.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="sync-me-up">Sync Me Up</h3><p>Now that I knew the iPod was in working order, it was time to copy some music. I already had Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and iTunes 4 installed on the PowerMac, so the next step was moving some of my music collection to that computer. I didn't have to do any file conversions because most of my music is already in MP3 format, so I just had to wait a while as gigabytes of music slowly copied to the PowerMac over a network transfer. Fun fact: you can still connect to a file share from Mac OS X 10.4 (which uses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol">AFP</a>, not SMB) on the latest macOS Sonoma 14.</p><p>I have definitely enjoyed using this 2004 version of iTunes. The core interface is still mostly the same as later versions of iTunes and the current-day Apple Music application, with playback controls and song information at the top, a mini-player, the sidebar with all your playlists, an equalizer, and some basic organizational features. There's no grid view for albums, though, only a multi-column “Browse” list.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/image.png" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="550" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>There's also a fun visualizer for music playback, but it seems to run at about one frame per second with my meager 350 MHz PowerPC G3 processor and ATI Rage 128 graphics card. It looks the same as the classic visualizer option in the modern Apple Music application, though. I have to give Apple some credit for keeping that around for over two decades.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/image-1.png" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="550" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>When the iPod is connected, it appears in the iTunes sidebar and on the Mac desktop. There are three synchronization options: copy all music to the iPod and keep it synced with new changes, copy specific playlists, or manage songs and playlists manually. Those are roughly the same options you get when copying music to a modern iPhone or iPad.</p><p>I chose the manual sync option, which meant dragging music from my iTunes library to the iPod in the sidebar. This version of iTunes treats the iPod as just another library, with a separate management panel hidden in the iTunes settings. You can even play music directly from the iPod's storage, without copying a song back to your local library first.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/image-2.png" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="550" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>This original iPod has a 5GB hard drive, and 4.6GB of that is available for music storage. I copied around 650 songs to the iPod before it filled up, most of which were 250-300kbps MP3 files. That's not quite the “1,000 songs in your pocket” that the iPod's tagline claimed, but it's still a lot of music.</p><p>That storage could be used for more than just music, too. The iPod appears on my PowerMac's desktop as a portable hard drive, and I can copy and move files with the Finder application.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/image-3.png" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="564" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I know this was a popular feature back in the day, and it's also present on many later iPod models, but it's not too useful for me. This is a portable hard drive that I can use with one single computer.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="time-to-listen">Time to Listen</h3><p>So, how does the iPod hold up as a music player? It's not that bad, honestly. It can take a few seconds for a song to start, as the tiny mechanical hard drive spins up and looks for the correct data. It seems like the next few tracks are loaded into cache after that, because there's no delay when skipping to the next track or going back.</p><p>I don't have any complaints with the sound quality. I tried listening to some of the same tracks on my 2020 M1 MacBook Air and the iPod, switching back and forth with the same Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones in wired mode, and I couldn't tell a difference between the two devices. The DAC in the original iPod still holds up well with my library of (mostly) high-bitrate MP3 files.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/ipod-5.jpg" alt="I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1278" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>As mentioned previously, it's a bit of a pain to go back to the main menu just to change shuffle and repeat settings. You also can't add or remove songs from a playlist directly from the iPod—that has to be done on iTunes. Still, the core music playback works just as well now as it did back in 2001, once the difficult task of <em>copying the music</em> is over.</p><p>Finally, I didn't notice any audio tracks skipping, even when the iPod was playing music for an extended period in my car with constant road vibrations. Not bad for a tiny mechanical hard drive!</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="wrapping-up">Wrapping Up</h3><p>Even though Apple officially <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/10/23065412/apple-ipod-touch-canceled-discontinued">stopped selling traditional iPods in 2017</a>, and the iOS-powered iPod Touch was <a href="https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16050420/apple-ipod-nano-shuffle-discontinued">discontinued in 2020</a>, iPods are still popular among people who want a dedicated music device free from the distractions of modern smartphones. Some models are still relatively affordable, and they still work perfectly with iTunes or the newer Apple Music desktop application.</p><p>However, the original iPod is not a great music player for the modern era. It's bulky, the screen isn't that great, and the FireWire port is a giant middle finger to modern technology. This is the most inconvenient way I have ever listened to my own music, and I'm including the Mickey Mouse-branded portable CD player that I used over a decade ago.</p><p>Still, I had fun trying out Apple's first music player. Maybe I should break out my first-generation iPod Nano next?</p>

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<p>Hastebin is a simple and efficient tool for sharing code snippets and text online. It’s particularly useful for developers and content creators who need to quickly share pieces of code or logs without the hassle of setting up a more complex environment. Here’s a quick guide on how to use Hastebin:</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started-with-hastebin">Getting Started with Hastebin</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Access Hastebin</strong>: Open your web browser and go to <a href="http://bin.christitus.com/">http://bin.christitus.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Create a New Paste</strong>: Simply start typing in the large text area on the Hastebin homepage. Once you begin typing, Hastebin automatically creates a new paste.</li>
</ol>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="saving-and-sharing">Saving and Sharing</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Save Your Paste</strong>: To save your paste, press <code>Ctrl+S</code> or click on the ‘Save’ icon in the top right corner. Hastebin will then generate a unique URL for your paste.</li>
<li><strong>Share Your Paste</strong>: Share the URL with anyone you want to have access to your text. They can view it directly in their browser without needing to log in or create an account.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="additional-features">Additional Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Duplicate</strong>: You can create a new paste based on the current one by clicking the ‘Duplicate’ button. This is useful for making modifications without altering the original paste.</li>
<li><strong>Raw View</strong>: For a plain text version of your paste, click on the ‘Raw’ button. This is particularly useful for embedding the text in other applications.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="powershell-function">PowerShell Function</h2>
<p>Quickly upload a file via this function</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="gdscript3" data-sanitized-class="language-gdscript3"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="n">function</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hb</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">args</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">.</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Length</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">eq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"No file path specified."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">args</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Test</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="ne">Path</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Get</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Raw</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">else</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"File path does not exist."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/documents"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">try</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Invoke</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">RestMethod</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Method</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Post</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Body</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">ErrorAction</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Stop</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">hasteKey</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">.</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">key</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">url</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/$hasteKey"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Output</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">url</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">catch</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Failed to upload the document. Error: $_"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="bash-function">Bash Function</h2>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="gdscript3" data-sanitized-class="language-gdscript3"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="n">function</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hb</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># -eq 0 ]; then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"No file path specified."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">elif</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">!</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">f</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$1"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">];</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"File path does not exist."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/documents"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=$</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">curl</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">s</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">X</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">POST</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">d</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$(cat "</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="mi">1</span><span data-sanitized-class="s2">")"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$uri"</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="err">?</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">eq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">];</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hasteKey</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=$</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">|</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">jq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">r</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'.key'</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/$hasteKey"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">else</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Failed to upload the document."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="syntax-highlighting">Syntax Highlighting</h2>
<p>Hastebin supports syntax highlighting for multiple programming languages, which makes it easier to read code snippets. The site automatically detects the language based on the syntax, but you can also manually specify the language by using the appropriate file extension in the URL (e.g., <code>http://bin.christitus.com/example.py</code>).</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h3>
<p>Hastebin is a handy tool for anyone looking to share text or code snippets quickly and efficiently. Its ease of use and no-nonsense approach make it a favorite among many in the tech community.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TpI1siclED0?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


title: Une stratégie nationale pour la jeunesse aiderait les enfants à s’épanouir : sénatrice Moodie
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<p><strong>I have some exciting news!</strong> I just launched <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified">a crowdfunding campaign</a> for a new online course I plan to produce. It's called <strong>Web Components Demystified</strong>, and it aims to explore web components holistically, covering not only the details of the collective standards behind web components, but also how they're being used across the web today and what's ahead as well. <strong>The time for learning web components is now</strong> and I intend to help teams get up to speed with all they can do.</p>
<iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified/widget/video.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"> </iframe>
<p>You can find out more about the project, and secure access to the course materials over one Kickstarter, where you'll find various reward tiers for individual and discounted team access, all at an early bird rate.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified" data-sanitized-class="wcd-ksbutton">Help this project succeed on <img src="https://scottjehl.com/assets/wcd-kickstarter.png" alt="Web Components Demystified on Kickstarter"></a></p>
<p>I've set up a <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">project site</a> as well.</p>
<h2>Back the Project Now and Save!</h2>
<p>The campaign will run through June 8, and it needs to meet its goal in order to be funded at all. Of course, my hope is to exceed its goal so that I can consider ways to increase the scope and quality of the course, and perhaps offer in-person and online team training for the material in the fall.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether it has already met its goal, <strong>it's advantageous to back the project now</strong> as you'll save with early bird pricing that will increase after the campaign finishes. Thank you so much for your support. Here's hoping <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified">the campaign</a> succeeds!</p>


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Le gouvernement fédéral doit prêter l’oreille quand les Premières Nations se disent favorables à l’exploitation des ressources : sénateur Wells

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title: Senate Explained: The Speaker of the Senate
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title: Just Speculating: You May Not Need a SPA framework
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<p>If you follow Web Performance topics closely, perhaps you've heard about <a href="https://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/speculation-rules.html">Speculation Rules</a>, a new browser API that aims to improve page-to-page navigation speed for multi-page websites (<em>aka normal websites</em>). While not yet a W3C standard, Speculation Rules are already fully supported in the stable version of Chromium-based browsers. That means you can use them today to improve the time it takes users to navigate from particular pages to another, and it'll work for folks who use Chrome, Edge, and others while not impacting the experience in browsers that don't yet support it.</p>
<p>As a fan of technologies that aim to help reduce our reliance on JavaScript for critical front-end infrastructure, I'm excited for the potential that Speculation Rules offers. Page-to-page navigation speed is often touted as a key reason that teams decide to build sites using Single-Page-App JavaScript frameworks, but in order to reap the benefits those frameworks provide, <a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/single-page-applications/">there's often an upfront performance cost</a>.</p>
<p>I would uh, speculate that Speculation Rules used in combination with <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions">Cross-Document View Transitions</a> will offer a preferable and elegant approach to mimicking all of that with JavaScript. It may be a minute before we can rely on these things across browsers, but they happen to be built in ways that are harmless to opt-into already, which is great.</p>
<h2>How SR works, in brief</h2>
<p>The way Speculation Rules work is similar in some ways to existing standards like resource hints (you know, <code>rel=preload</code>, <code>prerender</code>, <code>preconnect</code>, etc), though the format is more robust and expressive, and formatted as JSON. The rules can be delivered via a <code>script</code> element with a type of <code>speculationrules</code>, like this example from MDN:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;script type="speculationrules"&gt;
  {
    "prerender": [
      {
        "where": {
          "and": [
            { "href_matches": "/*" },
            { "not": { "href_matches": "/logout" } },
            { "not": { "selector_matches": ".no-prerender" } }
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "prefetch": [
      {
        "urls": ["next.html", "next2.html"],
        "requires": ["anonymous-client-ip-when-cross-origin"],
        "referrer_policy": "no-referrer"
      }
    ]
  }
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Or perhaps preferably, via an HTTP header that references a JSON file containing something like the example above, like this:</p>
<pre><code>Speculation-Rules: "/rules/prefetch.json"
</code></pre>
<h2>Find Out More!</h2>
<p>I hope to see more experimentation and broader browser support for Speculation Rules in the near future. For more on the topic, I'd recommend checking out <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API">MDN's great documentation of the Speculation Rules API</a>.</p>
<p>And also, don't miss Barry Pollard's talk, <em>From fast loading to instant loading</em>, from Google I/O, which I'll embed here below:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bSua9vMdrNM?si=PYxU66J33tGNCsA5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>


title: TRAILER: Calypso's Island Energy Wars (1 min)
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Alors que d’autres pays bonifient leur offre de services, le Canada augmente son nombre de fonctionnaires : sénateur Colin Deacon

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Le système des travailleurs migrants échoue à l’égard des travailleurs et des employeurs : comité sénatorial

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Le gouvernement doit conclure des accords pour ouvrir de nouveaux marchés pour les produits du phoque canadiens :  Rapport du Sénat

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title: The Edward Teller Plan for the Strategic Defense of the Earth with Chuck Stevens
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/l4a0rwyH2Gw" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Edward Teller Plan for the Strategic Defense of the Earth with Chuck Stevens"></p>As the world careens towards a dangerous precipice of thermonuclear war, the need for creative problems solving has never been higher.<br><br>On Sunday May 12, 2024, the Rising Tide Foundation hosted Chuck Stevens (co-founder of the Fusion Energy Foundation and International Labor Committees) who introduced the hidden history of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the rise of pulsed electron beam weapons, the efforts to break free from the Cold War formulas of Mutual Assured Destruction, Lyndon LaRouche’s Fusion Energy Foundation, and the modern world’s last chance to revive a strategic doctrine to convert next generation fusion-driven technology towards a real defensive strategy.<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4a0rwyH2Gw

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title: French Journalist Christelle Néant on Ukraine's Decade of War on Donbass Civilians
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/d9ea32403a906b4e794b4212e7962f25.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="French Journalist Christelle Néant on Ukraine's Decade of War on Donbass Civilians"></p>Christelle arrived in Donetsk in 2016 to report on what had already been two bloody years of Ukraine warring on its former population in the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics. <br><br>She reported from extremely dangerous frontline positions, documenting the Ukrainian shelling and violations of Minsk accords, also giving a human face to the civilians being terrorized by Kiev's forces. <br><br>When the Special Military Operation began in February 2022, Christelle had already seen towns destroyed--and people she knew and had come to love killed--by Ukraine's bombings.  She reported from Mariupol--the city Western corporate media lied about from afar--taking testimonies from civilians who spoke of being prevented from leaving by Ukrainian forces, fired on by Ukrainian forces. <br><br>Néant saw time and again how Ukraine used civilian populations as human shields in cities and towns throughout the Donbass, Russian forces liberating them with painstaking care.<br><br>Her words are incredibly powerful, providing and overview of nearly the entirety of Ukraine's (NATO's) bloody war on the Donbass and on Russia.<br><br>Follow her work at:<br><br>https://t.me/internationalreporters  <br><br>https://www.ir-press.ru/<br><br><br>My related links at this post: <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/french-journalist-christelle-neant-on-ukraines-decade-of-war-on-donbass-civilians/<br>

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title: Responsive Video Works Now. These Features Could Make It Work Better.
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<p>Recently in the <a href="https://webperformance.slack.com/">Web Performance Slack group</a>, there was some discussion around Responsive Video and what else it is lacking, <a href="https://scottjehl.com/posts/using-responsive-video/">now that it works at a baseline level</a>.</p>
<p>I thought I'd write a quick post that lists a few features that are on my wishlist and include relevant links to WhatWG issues where you might lend your feedback!</p>
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<li><strong>Responsive Poster Images:</strong> Now that we can offer multiple sources for a video, having one poster image source per video is a major shortcoming. For the simplest resolution switching use cases, it would be best for performance to have ways to deliver different image sizes depending on a device's needs, so something like <code>srcset</code> and <code>sizes</code> comes to mind as a potential option, or even just allowing a poster attribute on <code>source</code> elements in addition to the <code>video</code> element. That said, while the majority of responsive image usage today may be for delivering different video resolutions, the media attribute allows us to target much more, such as pixel density, or landscape and portrait formats to serve users based on <s>which decade they were born</s> the orientation of a device's viewport. With all of the possible needs we may have, simply <strong>allowing a child <code>picture</code> element to act as a video element's poster might be ideal</strong>. Here's an issue where that is proposed: <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10378">HTML Video: Allow a child Picture Element to Control the Video Poster Image</a></li>
<li><strong>Post-Pageload Responsiveness</strong> One thing that surprises folks about responsive video is that it's only responsive when the video first loads, unlike the picture element's behavior which reevaluates sources when media changes (on resize for example!). Not only is this unexpected, but it could be problematic when certain video sources are expected to be delivered at different viewport sizes and they aren't (again, the orientation aspect ratio example comes to mind). <a href="https://scottjehl.com/posts/even-responsiver-video/">I recently blogged about a web component that instructs the browser to be more responsive with video</a>, reevaluating media when it changes, and time code syncing so a video can resume playing where it was when a source swaps. I used that component as a proof of concept to attach to this issue: <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10377">Specify That Responsive Video Elements Re-Evaluate Sources on Media Change, Like Picture </a></li>
<li><strong>Lazy Behavior for Autoplay, Poster, and more:</strong> It would be great if the video element had lazy loading. I think it would be even greater if the now-familiar <code>loading="lazy"</code> worked on video elements and controlled a few relevant properties. For example, if <code>loading="lazy"</code> was combined with <code>autoplay</code>, maybe the autoplay feature could only apply when the video enters the viewport? Additionally, with that attribute in place, it'd be great if the poster image loaded lazily too, (admittedly, a child <code>picture</code> element could handle that part too). Also, it'd be nice if <code>loading="lazy"</code> caused a video to delay its preloading behavior, waiting to load video data until the video is actually going to be used. Here's an issue for that: <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10376">Video loading=lazy attribute support</a></li>
<li><strong>Srcset and Sizes for Video:</strong> The <code>video</code> element and its <code>source</code> elements only support the <code>src</code> attribute, unlike <code>img</code> and the <code>picture</code> element's <code>source</code> elements which support <code>srcset</code> and <code>sizes</code>. Support for srcset and sizes attributes would allow developers to deliver video based on conditions the browser knows best. It would offer a resolution based delivery for cases where art direction is less important. <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10379">HTML Video and its Source Elements Should Support SRCSET and SIZES</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I'd love to see some community feedback on any or all of these. Thanks for reading!</p>


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author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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Donbass War Correspondent &amp; Journalist, Dmitry Astrakhan, on 10 Years of Ukraine's Brutal Terrorism &amp; Slaughter of Donbass Civilians

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/4206080c7ef70cd3cefabe1a95e5e15e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Donbass War Correspondent &amp; Journalist, Dmitry Astrakhan, on 10 Years of Ukraine's Brutal Terrorism &amp; Slaughter of Donbass Civilians"></p>In Donetsk's Kievsky district on May 27, I interviewed Dmitry Astrakhan, a war correspondent and journalist who has covered Ukraine's brutal war on the civilians of the Donbass since its inception one decade ago.<br><br>He details Ukraine's war crimes, attacking Donbass civilians since 2014, along with the complicity of the OSCE in enabling these atrocities. He covered the liberation of  Mariupol, and countless other Donbass regions, and saw Ukrainian forces using civilians as human shields, a well-established fact by now, keeping civilians on one or two floors, and putting Ukrainian forces above them who then fired on Russian forces. <br><br>“You could see white flags on one level, and machine gun firing from another.”<br><br>He took testimonies regarding Ukrainian snipers shooting at civilians, Ukrainian forces exploding buildings knowing there were civilians inside, in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).<br><br>Dmitry spoke of too many Ukrainian war crimes to detail here. Instead, listen to the first-hand experiences of this courageous Donbass journalist. <br><br>Follow Dmitry at:<br><br>https://t.me/astrahandm<br>https://iz.ru/author/dmitrii-astrakhan-0 <br><br><br>My related links:<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/donbass-war-correspondent-journalist-dmitry-astrakhan-on-10-years-of-ukraines-brutal-terrorism-slaughter-of-donbass-civilians/

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title: The problem with GIMP
author: ;Corbin Davenport
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/05/gimp.jpg" alt="The problem with GIMP"><p>GNU Image Manipulation Program, more commonly known as <a href="https://www.gimp.org/">GIMP</a>, is one of the most popular photo editors. It's packed with features, works on multiple platforms, and comes up frequently as a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop. There's one persistent issue, though: the name.</p><p>First, some history. Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis started developing GIMP in 1995, in an attempt to address the lack of free or affordable graphics tools on Unix platforms. Recursive acronyms were all the rage in the free software community back then, so Kimball and Mattis considered a few different names based on acronyms for "Image Manipulation Program." In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191926/https://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/" rel="noreferrer">a 1997 interview</a>, they explained that "the name IMP sounded wrong," and finally landed on the name GIMP.</p><blockquote>It took us a little while to come up with the name. We knew we wanted an image manipulation program like Photoshop, but the name IMP sounded wrong. We also tossed around XIMP (X Image Manipulation Program) following the rule of when in doubt prefix an X for X11 based programs. At the time, Pulp Fiction was the hot movie and a single word popped into my mind while we were tossing out name ideas. It only took a few more minutes to determine what the 'G' stood for.<br><br>And to make the matter clear, the GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program, but has since been dubbed GNU software by Richard Stallman (with our agreement). Spencer and I decided that GNU Image Manipulation Program is a better usage of the 'G'.</blockquote><p>The Gimp was a character in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film <em>Pulp Fiction</em>, and as the name might imply, he was a sex slave for the characters Maynard and his cousin Zed and wore a bondage suit. He's in <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/get-the-gimp-breaking-down-pulp-fictions-most-notorious-scene-82595/">one of the most famous scenes</a> in the movie.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="the-problem">The problem</h3><p>The term "gimp" still has a connection with the BDSM community, and it's sometimes said as a derogatory word for people with physical or mental disabilities. Those meanings don't reflect well on the GIMP project, at least in the United States and some other English-speaking regions, so over the years there have been constant calls to change the name.</p><p>The GIMP project has <a href="https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it" rel="noreferrer">an FAQ</a> that addresses the name controversy in a somewhat bizarre way, making the point that changing the name would do more harm than good.</p><blockquote>The name was originally (and remains) an acronym; although the word “gimp” can be used offensively in some cultures, that is not our intent. On top of that, we feel that in the long run, sterilization of language will do more harm than good. GIMP has been quite popular for a long time in search engine results compared to the use of the word “gimp”. So we think we are on the right track to make a positive change and make “gimp” something people actually feel good about. Especially if we add all the features we’ve been meaning to implement and fix the user interface.</blockquote><p>Whether or not the GIMP project thinks the name is a problem, it does come across as at least unprofessional in many English-speaking spaces, which is a problem for software aimed (in part) towards professionals. How many schools, businesses, or individuals have avoided using or endorsing GIMP because of the name? How much potential market share (and thus, funding) has GIMP missed over the years because it stuck to the original name?</p><p>It's difficult to find good data to prove the name's real-world impact, because many of those discussions are likely offline or through internal communications, but there are some reported examples. One developer who requested a name change in 2019 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/3617#note_547260" rel="noreferrer">said</a> it was a hard sell in education:</p><blockquote>I have, on two occasions now, recommended this program to photography and graphic design educators (as an alternative to Photoshop) who told me that they considered it and found it good as software but weren't permitted by their institution to use it in the classroom because of the name.</blockquote><p>One person who claimed to work for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/jsypl/does_the_gimp_need_a_new_name/c2evm65/" rel="noreferrer">said</a> the name was a problem with hospital staff:</p><blockquote>I used to work for the NHS in the UK (an FT, for those what knows). I spent a good deal of time on a project to introduce FOSS into non-clinical roles; GIMP was the biggest hurdle. One developer was so put off by the name she would call GIMP 'that horrible drawing programme' and refused to use it. I suspect a good deal of resistance was due to the interface, but I've seen the name cause people embarrassment. tl;dr Helping an NHS hospital to mitigate the prohibitive cost of Photoshop licenses failed due to the word 'gimp' :) </blockquote><p>In a very old forum thread, another person <a href="https://www.gimpusers.com/mailmsg.php?451D8969.9020208%40gmail.com">explained</a> how the name came across as silly when working in marketing:</p><blockquote>I've used GIMP for about 5 years in a professional capacity at 2 different places of employment. At the first place, I was in a marketing department. We all had Photoshop installed, but I used GIMP 95% of the time. The VP of marketing would always smirk and make some dorky comment whenever he was looking over my shoulder and asked what software I was using. Basically, he didn't take GIMP as very serious software due to its name. Granted, if he took the time to let me show him how awesome GIMP is, he would come around. But he simply doesn't have the time for that (not a hands-on graphics guy), but he makes the final say of which graphic software packages we use/purchase. That's a piece of US culture for you that's not tied into the OS market.</blockquote><p>One more person in a Hacker News thread <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723440">mentioned</a> a problem with adopting GIMP in education:</p><blockquote>Anecdotally, I've had three experiences so far where the name "GIMP" got its usage rejected. Two of these were in two different K-12 institutions.</blockquote><p>I suspect these complaints have decreased over the years as "gimp" as a derogatory term has become less common, but it's still a topic that comes up in online discussions every now and then.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="the-arguments">The arguments</h3><p>There have been a many attempts to convince the GIMP project to change its name over the years. One <a href="https://www.gimpusers.com/forums/gimp-user/2965-please-change-the-derogatory-name">discussion</a> on the GIMP user mailing list in 2006 explained, "While all other credible opensource projects are gaining ground in a professional IT setting, the GIMP is being held back because of the instant derogatory impact of the name." In true mid-2000s FOSS community spirit, the first comment asked if the default colors (black and white) could be changed to "read african-american and caucasian."</p><p>There was another push in 2019, with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/3617">issue #3617</a> opened by GNOME developer <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/users/BrainBlasted/projects">Christopher Davis</a> pointing out all the previously-mentioned problems. It also raised another fair point: GIMP is just not a good name and doesn't explain anything about the application, especially when compared to examples like Photoshop or Illustrator.</p><p>The issue thread quickly became more about gatekeeping than the actual topic at hand, as the link had been shared on social media to encourage people to make their voices heard. There were a few <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030057/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/3617#note_547558" rel="noreferrer">remarks</a> about the people voting and making comments not being active GIMP contributors, and that apparently made their opinions not worth considering.</p><blockquote>As @JohnMH pointed out, anyone who actually gets work done doesn't care about the name of a software. The most vocal people on this thread who are pushing for the "GIMPs rebranding" (which would end up hurting the little recognition the program has managed to gain over the years) haven't contributed a single line of code to the project, I've would have understood a developer that who had spend years working on this project, seeing all his effort go to waste because of programs name... You on the other hand, are complaining for what reason, people are getting offended? Who? I'd even argue that most to of the people who for some reason use GIMP don't even know what the word really means, even I didn't know it was a "derogatory" term before this discussion.</blockquote><p>The issue #3617 was closed and later fully deleted, and then <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/3618#note_547423" rel="noreferrer">issue #3618</a> was opened for the same name request, then closed again. There are occasionally <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8758" rel="noreferrer">new issues</a> opened up to discuss the name, but they are quickly closed with short comments telling people to read the FAQ.</p><p>That 2019 discussion prompted <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2019/08/28/gimp_open_source_image_editor_forked_to_fix_problematic_name/">the creation of Glimpse</a>, a fork of GIMP that initially just changed the name, but also had greater ambitions for interface changes and usability improvements. However, the main developer eventually had to leave the project due to work conflicts, and it eventually <a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/glimpse-gimp-fork-archived/">ended in 2021</a> due to a lack of contributors. That's not entirely surprising, as a hard fork was never the right solution, and the project received <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/general-discussion/1140854-glimpse-0-1-released-as-the-rebranded-fork-of-the-gimp" rel="noreferrer">a lot of hate</a> from segments of the FOSS community.</p><p>Most of the arguments in defense of GIMP's name don't really hold up: it's fine because it's an acronym (being an acronym is not a free pass), the word isn't commonly used as a slur anymore (but it still is one), it's not an offensive term outside of American English (that's still a problem), and the people complaining about it will find everything offensive (there are real-world reports of the name being a problem).</p><p>There is one decent argument against changing the name that comes up in these discussions. The GIMP project is now 25 years old, and there are decades of tutorials, guides, videos, and other materials that reference the GIMP project. It might be one of the most recognizable open-source projects, and most of the first few pages of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=gimp">a web search for "gimp"</a> are related to the photo editor and not the other terms. If the project was renamed now, it could (at least temporarily) cause some confusion and make it harder to find tutorials and other resources.</p><p>Even the legacy of the current name doesn't seem like a show-stopper, though. When OpenOffice was <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1347102/the-openoffice-fork-is-officially-here.html" rel="noreferrer">forked to create LibreOffice</a> in 2010, and then the original OpenOffice slowly withered away, there was no significant catastrophe. LibreOffice was simply "the new OpenOffice" and that was that. All the times Google or Microsoft have renamed their products haven't been the end of the world, either.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="gatekeeping-is-bad">Gatekeeping is bad</h3><p>The discussions around GIMP's name are really just examples of a larger problem in open-source software: gatekeeping. That attitude is easily visible in the big 2019 issue thread, with remarks like "the upvotes and downvotes may not be accurate to the preferences of the GIMP community, due to this thread on social media" or accusations that some just "joined in on the social media bandwagon." The opinions from people outside of GIMP's active contributors or GitLab repository apparently aren't worth taking seriously. The GIMP project is under no obligation to bend to every request, but it's a bit strange that this has come up over and over again for over two decades, and each time it's shot down relatively quickly.</p><p>The <em>entire point</em> of FOSS is to create alternatives to paid and proprietary software that are as widely accessible as possible. GIMP, <a href="https://krita.org/en/">Krita</a>, and other similar editors have succeeded at allowing some people to avoid using Photoshop. There are many other aspects holding GIMP back, like poor interface design and worse tools than Photoshop (the <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/gimp-3-is-coming-the-3-features-that-im-most-excited-about-and-why/">upcoming 3.0 update </a>will fix some of that), but the name is also a contributing factor.</p><p>It's not easy to change the name and branding of a well-known project, but if it means GIMP could be a more direct competitor to Photoshop and earn a foothold in businesses and education—as LibreOffice and many other FOSS projects with more tolerable names have achieved—isn't that worth the effort? Isn't the point of all this to make software that everyone can use and recommend?</p><p>Kimball and Mattis should have gone with XIMP instead. It's still a bad name, but it sounds cool.</p>

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<p><strong>Big News! I'm excited to share that I'll soon be joining <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace</a> as a software engineer on the web performance team!</strong></p>
<p>As you may already know, Squarespace is a website design, development, management, and delivery platform that has been used to create millions of websites for online businesses, artists, bloggers, restaurants, bands, and more. In this role, I know there will be loads of opportunities for me to learn and grow, not just from the great folks on the perf team with whom I'll be working directly, but also on the complementary accessibility team, and from the many <a href="https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2020/the-nuts-and-bolts-with-tanya-reilly">incredibly talented folks</a> in the broader organization.</p>
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<p>The potential for impact in this position is inspiring: the performance team's work quite directly improves the experience of users and businesses at a truly <em>massive</em> scale. I've long thought of Squarespace as a company that visibly prioritizes good design, and <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/about/company">their values</a> and <a href="https://www.squarespace.com/showcase">showcase</a> certainly attest to that. Tools that offer a high level of creative and design flexibility to their users can make for some of the toughest and most interesting performance challenges. All the while, the ways we can performantly and accessibly deliver engaging multimedia content on the web have been <a href="https://scottjehl.com/posts/speculation-rules/">evolving</a> and <a href="https://scottjehl.com/posts/using-responsive-video/">improving</a> rapidly.</p>
<p>In joining this team, I'm excited to put into practice the many things I've learned over the years as an independent web designer and developer, <a href="https://www.catchpoint.com/blog/will-serving-real-html-content-make-a-website-faster-lets-experiment">tools developer</a>, <a href="https://scottjehl.com/posts/responsive-video/">web standards contributor</a>, and big fan of the web.</p>
<p>Well, that's it for now–<a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">I've got an online course to finish</a>!</p>
<p>Thanks for reading. Onward!</p>


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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/ublock.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)"><p>Google has been working on a new platform for Chrome extensions over the past few years, called Manifest V3. The update has been controversial, with some changes negatively affecting content blocking extensions (ad blockers). Most of the focus has been on the uBlock Origin extension, as developer Raymond Hill stated <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-452843669">back in 2019</a> that the changes “would be the death of uBO and uMatrix.”</p><p>Extensions not updated to the new Manifest V3 will <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/" rel="noreferrer">start to be turned off</a> in June 2024. The news lead to headlines like “<a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-changes-3386506/">Google's Manifest V3 changes will soon disable uBlock Origin on Chrome</a>” and “<a href="https://securityboulevard.com/2023/11/google-manifest-v3-ad-blockers-richixbw/">Google to Force-Block Ad Blockers — Time to Get Firefox?</a>” This is a pretty technical topic that can get confusing, and using rage bait in headlines has led to a lot of people thinking uBlock Origin and other ad blockers will be completely removed from Chrome, which is <em>not</em> the case.</p><p>This is my attempt to explain what’s going on with Manifest V3 and content blocking extensions in Google Chrome. I’ve been <a href="https://corbin.io/software/">developing Chrome extensions</a> for over a decade, so I can talk about this more in depth than others, but I will be referring to Hill and other developers for the exact specifics on how content blockers are affected.</p><div data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-blue"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-callout-emoji">💡</div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-callout-text">This was updated on June 17, 2024, to reflect the latest news from Vivaldi and other web browsers about the Manifest V3 transition.</div></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-manifest-v3-and-why-does-it-matter">What is Manifest V3, and why does it matter?</h2><p>Manifest V3 is an updated software platform for Google Chrome extensions, which was first announced as a draft proposal in 2018 and <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-88/">became available to use in January 2021</a> (with the release of Chrome 88). It adds some new features for extensions, but it also changes some behaviors and removes a few APIs. In the software development world, this is called a “breaking change.” The last time Google did this was in 2012, with <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/updates-to-manifest-v1-chrome-web-store.html">the introduction of Manifest V2</a>, so it’s been a while.</p><p>Manifest V3 generally has the goal of making browser extensions safer, less resource-intensive, and more aligned with modern web development. Many extensions on Manifest V2 require background packages to function, which are essentially browser tabs that are hidden in the background, and Manifest V3 replaces these with <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-overview/#service-workers">service workers</a> that are only activated when needed. Manifest V3 also <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/mv3-overview/#remotely-hosted-code">blocks remotely-hosted code</a> in extensions because it could be used to update extensions outside of the Chrome Web Store safety review process (remote lists or configuration files are still allowed). It’s also adds support for Promises to many Chrome APIs, which allows developers to write cleaner code, and there are other minor changes as well.</p><p>Google explains in its developer documentation, “Manifest V3 is a major step towards our vision for the extensions platform. Manifest V3 focuses on the three pillars of that vision: privacy, security, and performance, while preserving and improving our foundation of capability and webbiness.”</p><p>Google <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230314010454/https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/mv2-sunset/">initially planned</a> to stop accepting new Manifest V2 extensions in the Chrome Web Store starting in 2022, then start turning off Manifest V2 extensions in early 2023, culminating in the removal of all Manifest V2 extensions in January 2024. However, there were so many missing features and complaints that the timeline was <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E">paused in December 2022</a>. Google started adding more APIs to Manifest V3 to close the functionality gap, including the <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/offscreen/">Offscreen Documents API</a> (for audio playback and other functions that don’t work in Service Workers) and <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/userScripts/">User Scripts API</a>.</p><p>With many (but not all) of the complaints now addressed, Google has <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/">resumed the timeline for migrating to Manifest V3</a>. Chrome will start turning off Manifest V2 extensions as early as June 2024, but Chrome browsers deployed in organizations with custom extensions get to live until June 2025. After that, Google will rip out all the code required to run Manifest V2 extensions.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="why-are-content-blockers-affected">Why are content blockers affected?</h2><p>The most controversial change in Manifest V3 is replacing the <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest">Web Request API</a> with a new <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest">Declarative Net Request API</a>. The Web Request API is used by all content blocker and ad blocker extensions (except extensions already ported to Manifest V3) to monitor incoming network traffic, and then decide if a specific request should be allowed, blocked, or modified. The Declarative Net Request API is a completely different architecture.</p><p>The <strong>Web Request API</strong> allows an extension to monitor nearly all of your web browsing activity, especially if the same extension also has access to your active browser tabs. That’s a <em>lot</em> of trust to put into a browser extension, akin to giving an application Administrator access on a Windows PC.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f8af73ffe-136c-4778-b3dd-d9b8491fb4c0_1600x1200.png" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="1200" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>The old Web Request API (Credit: </span><a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html"><span>Google</span></a><span>)</span></figcaption></figure><p>Google said in a <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html">blog post from 2019</a>, “because all of the request data is exposed to the extension, it makes it very easy for a malicious developer to abuse that access to a user’s credentials, accounts, or personal information. Since January 2018, 42% of malicious extensions use the Web Request API.”</p><p>The Web Request API can also slow down the entire browser because Chrome must wait for an extension to process every single network request, and the extension’s code might not be optimized for performance. That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization (<a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Doesn't-uBlock-Origin-add-overhead-to-page-load%3F">uBO has an explainer wiki page</a>), but there were probably other extensions not doing that well. It’s not hard to see a situation where multiple poorly-optimized extensions installed using the Web Request API could dramatically slow down Chrome, and the user would have no way of knowing the issue.</p><p>Google’s solution to those problems is the <strong>Declarative Net Request API</strong>. Instead of Chrome sending every network request to the extension, which then does all the filtering and processing and sends the result back to Chrome, the extension provides the list to Chrome and the browser does all filtering on its own.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f50c73488-5216-4af1-9d25-a40b89b6f745_1600x1200.png" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="1600" height="1200" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>The new Declarative Net Request API (Credit: </span><a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarative-net-request.html"><span>Google</span></a><span>)</span></figcaption></figure><p>The same blog post explains, “This approach has advantages for both user security and privacy, as well as performance. With a declarative approach, Chrome does not need to expose any sensitive data to the extension. The browser can perform the action requested by the extension without sending it all the data associated with the network request, because the extension already specified the conditions under which different actions are taken. This enables the extension to perform content blocking without needing access to all of a user’s personal information.”</p><p>That all sounds great! However, for the Declarative Net Request API to be a fully complete replacement, the Chrome browser must implement similar filter rules as content blocker extensions. Initially, it only supported AdBlock Plus-like syntax for filters and didn’t allow more than 30,000 filtering rules for each extension — for context, <a href="https://easylist.to/">EasyList</a> is just <em>one</em> of the lists enabled by default in uBlock Origin and other ad blockers, and it has over 75,000 rules. Updating most of those rules also required a full extension update, instead of the extension downloading new lists as needed on its own.</p><p>Raymond Hill, the main developer for uBlock Origin, wasn’t a fan of the original proposal. He said in <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-456134855">one GitHub comment</a>, “That new declarativeNetRequest API seriously reduces what blockers can do, to the point they will become distinguishable only by their UI, not their capabilities. As a user, I personally wouldn't accept browsing the world wild web without the advanced features in uBO, I find this unthinkable.”</p><p>Thankfully, Google <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-filtering-in-manifest-v3/">kept working</a> on the Declarative Net Request API to make it more capable. Chrome now allows extensions to include 100 rule lists, with up to 50 lists active at once. There are also additional filtering options, including an option to have case-insensitive rules, which cuts down on duplicates in filter lists. The maximum number of filter rules now varies by use case — an extension can now have up to 30,000 dynamic rules (filters downloaded by the extension) if they are deemed as “safe” (block, allow, allowAllRequests or upgradeScheme), an additional 5,000 other types of dynamic requests, and more filters included in the extension package.</p><p>It’s incredibly easy to see these changes as Google clamping down on ad blockers to protect its monopoly in online advertising. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case: Google knows as well as I do that a total crackdown would give governments like the European Union and United States more ammo for antitrust lawsuits. It would also be a motivator for more people to switch browsers, which would weaken Google’s browser monopoly. The stated claims about security benefits also make sense, because that’s just how software development works — old features that can cause security or performance issues are replaced with better (but sometimes less capable) solutions. A lot of people <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2802303/dos-lives-in-windows-me--how-to-regain-the-ability-to-boot-and-run-in-character-mode.html">were upset 23 years ago</a> when Windows ME removed real mode DOS, too.</p><p>The new Declarative Net Request API is still a downgrade in capability compared to the older API, but the feature gap has closed significantly. If a certain website finds a workaround for ads that Manifest V3 extensions can’t block, then you probably should just switch browsers or stop going to that site. I would like to see the rules limit continue to increase, though.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="what%E2%80%99s-happening-to-ublock-origin">What’s happening to uBlock Origin?</h2><p>With the general explainer about all content blockers out of the way, we can talk about <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm">uBlock Origin</a>. It might be the most popular Chrome extension (at least among tech and privacy enthusiasts) that is affected the most by the new Declarative Net Request API, because it has implemented more complex filtering than most other ad blocking tools. Interestingly, Google’s <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-filtering-in-manifest-v3/">recent blog post</a> about improvements to the API mentioned AdGuard and Adblock Plus by name, but not uBlock Origin — even though most news coverage and online conversations have been focused exclusively on uBO.</p><p>Raymond Hill already has a spin-off extension, called <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home">uBlock Origin Lite</a>, which runs as a Manifest V3 extension using the new API. It includes the same default rule lists as uBlock Origin, it’s more efficient on resources (because Chrome handles all the content filtering), and it doesn’t require permission to all pages like regular uBlock Origin. You can enable more advanced filtering by granting all permissions, though.</p><p>I tried browsing around with Chrome 119, switching between no ad blocking extensions, regular uBlock Origin, and uBlock Origin Lite. I didn’t notice a significant difference between Origin and Origin Lite on popular websites, except that Origin Lite doesn't have the element zapper for removing arbitrary elements in a page. That limitation seems to mostly be a design restriction to keep Origin Lite as lightweight as possible, rather than something enforced, but there is <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/5#issuecomment-1575516516">a discussion</a> on implementing it. A full list of technical differences between uBO and UBO Lite is <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)">available on GitHub</a>.</p><hr><p><strong>PWInsider with no content blocker: 2.3GB RAM</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f553e11e0-d391-421b-8dc5-1d8d7b44beae_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p><strong>PWInsider with uBlock Origin Lite: 430MB RAM</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f3af47632-ee0f-4a8c-a02d-fa074fea75a2_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p><strong>PWInsider with uBlock Origin: 393MB</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f12b4ce35-8688-4834-bb3a-93931193ec8a_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p><strong>Fandom Wiki with no content blocker: 1.6GB RAM</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fc2eca1f1-bd9a-4da8-b837-6727a9c4a40a_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p><strong>Fandom Wiki with uBlock Origin Lite: 295MB</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fd9f37407-64e0-4ee0-ba3c-8b20f1d6bbc3_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p><strong>Fandom Wiki with uBlock Origin: 297MB</strong></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fdccdfcff-c974-4604-94f7-e7e2a5a82305_2360x1640.jpg" alt="Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1390" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><hr><p>It’s worth noting that the memory usage of each example above (as reported by Chrome’s task manager) doesn’t reflect the memory consumed by extensions. There’s some additional overhead in uBlock Origin, but uBlock Origin Lite isn’t running any processes at all unless the settings panel is opened.</p><p>Since there’s already a Manifest V3 version of uBlock Origin, there’s only one question left: what will be the fate of the uBlock Origin extension currently on the Chrome Web Store? Will everyone with uBlock Origin installed be automatically updated to Lite, or will the Lite version remain a separate install? I asked Raymond Hill, and he’s <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2977">still figuring out</a> the best plan:</p><blockquote>I haven't decided yet how this will work, and I don't know what is feasible. Forcing uBO Lite on people might not be the best move, as this would essentially obliterate all customization they might have made to uBO -- uBO Lite is too different from uBO to make a seamless transition. People can already move on their own to uBO Lite if they want, probably safest approach is to explicitly opt-in to uBO Lite, some might prefer to install a another MV3-based content blocker.</blockquote><p>uBlock Origin for Chrome has over 34 million installations according to the Chrome Web Store. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="what-are-other-web-browsers-doing">What are other web browsers doing?</h2><p>There’s a lot of confusion about how Manifest V3 and the Declarative Net Request API will affect other web browsers. Generally, this is the same situation as the <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/google-chrome-privacy-sandbox/">Privacy Sandbox</a>: Chromium web browsers are probably going to follow Google’s lead, while Firefox and Safari have more flexibility.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="mozilla-firefox">Mozilla Firefox</h3><p>Mozilla has a reverse-engineered implementation of Chrome’s extension API, which is missing some APIs found in Chrome but also has some unique additions. The extra functionality already allows uBlock Origin on Firefox to <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox">work better</a> than the Chrome version.</p><p>Firefox is <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/">working on support for Manifest V3</a>, including the Declarative Net Request API, so that extensions created for Chrome can still be broadly compatible with Firefox. However, Mozilla does not currently have plans to remove support for Manifest V2 extensions, and V3 extensions on Firefox are allowed to continue using the older Web Request API. This comes with some potential performance and security issues, but Mozilla seems willing to deal with that. uBlock Origin is not going anywhere on Firefox.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="apple-safari">Apple Safari</h3><p>Apple also has a reverse-engineered implementation of Chrome’s extension API, again with some differences compared to Chrome. <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-15_4-release-notes">Safari 15.4</a> in 2021 included initial support for Manifest V3 extensions.</p><p>Safari’s implementation of the Web Request API was already <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/assessing_your_safari_web_extension_s_browser_compatibility#:~:text=settings%20on%20websites.-,webRequest,-Not%20supported%20in">more limited than Chrome</a>, and there is <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/blocking_content_with_your_safari_web_extension">a version of the Declarative Web Request API</a> available for Manifest V3 extensions. Safari seems to require the newer Declarative Web Request API in Manifest V3 extensions — just like Chrome, but not Firefox. As far as I’m aware, Apple has not stated a timeline for extensions to migrate to Manifest V3.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="vivaldi">Vivaldi</h3><p>Vivaldi is based on the same Chromium source code as Google Chrome, and the Vivaldi team <a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/" rel="noreferrer">confirmed in a blog post</a> that it will keep Manifest V2 functional until Google fully rips out the code around June 2025. Vivaldi has a built-in tracker and ad blocker that is unaffected by changes to extension architecture.</p><p>However, it's not clear where Vivaldi users will download Manifest V2 extensions. Vivaldi doesn't have its own extension repository, and the Chrome Web Store will start hiding Manifest V2 extensions as Chrome drops support for them. Extensions that are open-source (like uBlock Origin) could be sideloaded through developer options, but that's not ideal.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="opera">Opera</h3><p><a href="https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/" rel="noreferrer">Don't use Opera or Opera GX</a>.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="brave-browser">Brave Browser</h3><p><a href="https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/" rel="noreferrer">Don't use Brave Browser</a>.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="microsoft-edge">Microsoft Edge</h3><p>Microsoft initially planned to phase out Manifest V3 extensions around the same time as Chrome, but that plan was put on hold after Google's initial delay. The <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3" rel="noreferrer">official documentation</a> just says, "We continue to analyze the concerns raised by extension developers and explore the optimal path for the Microsoft Edge Add-ons ecosystem."</p><p>Even though it's not clear exactly when Manifest V3 will be phased out in Microsoft Edge, it will happen eventually. Microsoft already stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions for Edge in July 2022.</p>

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guid: /fr/sencaplus/opinion/cessons-de-traiter-la-terre-comme-de-la-salete-senatrice-simons/
title: Cessons de traiter la terre comme de la saleté : sénatrice Simons
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guid: https://christitus.com/why-you-NEED-to-contribute-to-open-source/
title: Why You NEED to Contribute to Open Source
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<p>There is a video called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nY_cy8zcO4">Don’t Contribute to Open Source</a> by Theo t3 and most people don’t understand its purpose or didn’t watch the entire video.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-video-problem">The Video Problem</h2>
<p>The problem wasn’t the video itself but the title. Only 30-40% of people watch a video all the way through AND an even higher percentage of those people do NOT understand GitHub.</p>
<p>So the takeaway most took from the video is NOT to contribute to open source projects. When the intent of the video was to NOT make needless Pull Requests to projects and bog down Open Source Maintainers.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-contribute-to-open-source">How to contribute to Open Source</h2>
<ol>
<li>Start with Issues and capturing bugs in software. This helps you understand the issues with using the given project.</li>
<li>Develop a fix for the issue and submit a pull request</li>
<li>Wait for the project maintainer to approve and merge your PR.</li>
</ol>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="pull-request-etiquette">Pull Request Etiquette</h3>
<ul>
<li>Do NOT make massive changes. Batching tons of fixes into one PR is a BAD idea. Fix one thing and submit it for the feature you are working on. Multiple features = Multiple Pull Requests.</li>
<li>Do NOT make massive formatting changes. Using an extension like prettier and changing every line in a code is a good way to get banned from the project.</li>
<li>If it is a complex feature pull request. Consider making multiple commits in your PR. Example: Fixing error checking commit, new function commit, etc. The idea is to make it easier to read what is happening in the Pull request. Breaking it up in to multiple commits helps the maintainer understand what your LARGE PR is doing. Again, if it starts effecting multiple features… Consider breaking it in to two or more pull requests.</li>
<li>Check project documentation for branch submissions. Some projects do not want you to commit to main. They might have a beta or test branch they want submissions to go to. Be careful on which branch you are using.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-if-you-are-not-a-developer">What if you are NOT a Developer</h2>
<p>Learning to submit issues properly on Github is a tremendous help. As someone that maintains one of the biggest powershell scripts in the world, most issues are poorly presented or documented. Instead of making an issue that says “It don’t work!”, do the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Document the Steps you take.</li>
<li>Screenshot the error.</li>
<li>Establish what you EXPECT it to do.</li>
</ol>
<p>Do not do a massive text dump! Instead use the attach button if you are uploading a large log file. As a general rule of thumb, if it more than 15-20 lines long… It should be an attachment so it doesn’t clutter up the issue thread.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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guid: /fr/sencaplus/personnalites/rencontre-avec-la-presidente-du-senat-raymonde-gagne/
title: Rencontre avec la Présidente du Sénat Raymonde Gagné
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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/jfks-cia-killers-who-managed-a-global
title: JFK's CIA Killers Who Managed a Global UFO Psyop (Montreal Seminar featuring Matt Ehret)
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<p>In this Montreal Seminar, Matt Ehret introduces the origins of the UFO disclosure movement from the bowels of MI6, Tavistock and the leading deep state operatives in the CIA. It is no coincidence that these same operatives launched MK Ultra, ushered in a psychedelic drug movement, launched the Vietnam war, and murdered John F Kennedy.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"WKNubssjHn8","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-WKNubssjHn8" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WKNubssjHn8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div>

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/breaking-the-binds-curing-western
title: Breaking the Binds: Curing Western Schizophrenia
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<h2>By David Gosselin</h2><p>They are playing a game. They are playing at not<br>playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I<br>shall break the rules and they will punish me.<br>I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.</p><p><em>Knots</em> – R.D. Laing (Psychiatrist and <em>Tavistock Insitute</em> resident)</p><p>In the 1950s and 60s, R.D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, and several other Tavistock and MK-Ultra-linked researchers took a keen interest in the study of schizophrenia. One of the key concepts that emerged was the idea of “double binds,” <a href="https://solutions-centre.org/pdf/TOWARD-A-THEORY-OF-SCHIZOPHRENIA-2.pdf">coined by Gregory Bateson in 1956</a>. Bateson posited that schizophrenics exhibited signs of inner division and splintered personalities due to certain “communication dilemmas” they had experienced within dysfunctional family systems. These individuals, usually from early childhood, repeatedly found themselves in situations where they were confronted with mutually contradictory expectations about their thought and behavior, both of which they had to adhere to simultaneously.</p><p>For example, if a child was expected to be a “perfect boy” or “perfect girl” and meet the expectations of an emotionally unstable or “needy” parent, meeting these needs meant the child had to suppress his or her own feelings of sadness, joy, or helplessness as a means of regulating the outside world i.e., the family. On the other hand, were the child to express their authentic feelings or “tell the truth,” since perfect boys and girls never lie and <em>always</em> “tell the truth,” they would be punished, deemed selfish and ungrateful “bad girls” or “bad boys” who didn’t appreciate all the things their parents did for them. In a word: these scenarios involved keeping the outside voices happy by silencing the <em>inner voice</em> or upsetting the outside voices and being true to the<em> inner voice</em>.</p><p>These basic communication dilemmas created what Bateson termed “binds” or what Laing called “knots,” inescapable predicaments in which there was “no way to win.” Moreover, because leaving a family was not and never could be an option for a helpless child, a dissociation occurred, leading to what R.D. Laing famously described as the “Divided Self.”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.jpeg" width="434" height="317" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/54c401c2-ce37-4ec6-98d0-197f91683109_434x317.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":317,"width":434,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Laing famously captured these predicaments in his <em>Knots</em>, a book where he explored the many “games” individuals encountered within various relationships, including with themselves, their “self,” others, and the family. These divided selves could hold mutually contradictory ideas, and even contain markedly different personalities, each of which ultimately belonged to one and the same person. Depending on the situation, the individual would access different parts of themselves and simultaneously shut off others.</p><p>Alas, is this perhaps why Tavistock and related MK-Ultra networks across the web of Anglo-American “<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/03/14/are-governments-across-the-five-eyes-using-hypnosis-against-citizens/">Five Eyes</a>” took such interest in studying what Laing and researchers at the Rand Corporation called “games”? When observing the countless “double binds” and “illusions of choice” churned out by our Western Narrative Matrix, leading people to box their identities and thinking within the narrow confines of Left vs. Right politics, “vaxxed” and “unvaxxed,” Capitalism or Communism, one can’t help but feel as though much of what we see and hear is a “game” not unlike the ones studied by Laing and company in Palo Alto, California.</p><p>And this is where our story of “games” begins.</p><h2><strong>The Divided Self</strong></h2><p>In <em>The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness,</em> Laing described the problem of the schizoid personality and schizophrenic experience. The schizoid personality was either trapped watching their inner world from the outside or watching the outside world from the prison of their inner world. In a word: they were estranged from their own <em>self</em>, exiled from home in their own body. However, Laing didn’t only look at the question of schizophrenia in the usual clinical sense, but also in a broader phenomenological and existential sense: the schizoid individual was not able to “experience” his or her own “experience” of “experiencing” either his or another’s “experience.”</p><p>Later, in <em>The Politics of Experience</em>, Laing reflected on the more general idea of existential madness permeating our society:</p><p>“If we can begin to understand sanity and madness in existential social terms, we shall be more able to see clearly the extent to which we all confront common problems and share common dilemmas.” (Laing, 108)</p><p>Laing rightly observed that many “normal” and “everyday” families engaged in very irregular and “crazy-making” behaviors, but for him the schizoid personality was believed to be on the extreme end of a much broader spectrum, the schizoid being an individual whose identity and primordial <em>self</em> had been completely dissociated due to the various unbreakable “binds” and “dilemmas” that characterized their daily life.</p><p>So, he observed that even people who were healthy and normal could experience disassociated states under extreme stress. In <em>The Divided Self</em>, Laing writes:</p><p>“It is well known that temporary states of dissociation of the self from the body occur in normal people. In general, one can say that it is a response that appears to be available to most people who find themselves enclosed within a threatening experience from which there is no physical escape. Prisoners in concentration camps tried to feel that way, for the camp offered no possible way out either spatially or at the end of a period of time. The only way out was by a psychical withdrawal ‘into’ one’s self and ‘out of the body. This dissociation is characteristically associated with such thoughts as ‘This is like a dream’, ‘This seems unreal’, ‘I can’t believe this is true’, ‘Nothing seemed to be touching me’, ‘I cannot take it in’, ‘This is not happening to me’, i.e. with feelings of estrangement and derealization. The body may go on acting in an outwardly normal way, but inwardly it is felt to be acting on its own, automatically.” (Laing, 78)</p><p>This became the standpoint by which to analyze the overall family and societal systems which appeared to induce many to alienate their own <em>self</em> in order to become “well-adjusted” members of society. Laing observed that much of our experience is structured in such a way that many lose the ability to explore the deeper nature of their authentic <em>self.</em> Interestingly, he observed that fantasy was “the first kind of meaningful experience that children are taught to sever themselves from early on.” There were also dreams, imagination, and many other aspects of one’s “subjective” inner world. Alas, from an early age we learned very much about “the world” outside us, but very little about how to navigate the inner world within ourselves, or the <em>self</em>.</p><p>Most famous for his book <em>The Divided Self</em>, <em>The Politics of the Family</em>, and <em>The Politics of Experience</em>, Laing also examined these unique predicaments in <em>Knots</em>, a book exploring the many “binds” individuals could encounter within various family situations, including relationships with others, one’s “self,” “false selves,” the family, and society in general. Ultimately, Laing, like other tavistockians, recognized that these general “group dynamics” within the dysfunctional family system could ultimately be modelled and extended to society generally, albeit with certain adaptations for scope and scale.</p><p>And this is where our story of “games” takes a turn.</p><h2><strong>Let’s Play a Game</strong></h2><p>In the 1960s, Laing had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7j1b6F3MFU">the idea of applying “Game Theory,”</a> championed by the Rand Corporation as the military strategy for winning the Cold War game of nuclear chicken with the Soviet Union. He had been introduced to the theory at the <em>Mental Research Institute</em> in Palo, Alto, California—the same institute that was the stomping ground for none other than <a href="https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/huxleys-ultimate-revolution-the-battle">Bateson, Huxley and a whole crew of social engineers</a> and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/">“researchers” of MK-Ultra notoriety</a>. He observed that much psychiatry and the mores of society in general seemed geared towards creating “well-adjusted” individuals, each operating based on a set of learned behaviors unconsciously modelled after their early exposure to life within the dysfunctional family.</p><p>So, Laing studied the various communication dilemmas and incongruent thought patterns and behaviors that ostensibly “normal” families used as a means of covertly meeting their own needs and interests. Notable was the proclivity for playing a host of “games,” each member having its own set of rules and patterns to play by. However, these were not “normal” games. There existed two sets of rules: one was explicit, the other was not i.e. there was a “quiet part.”</p><p>Before proceeding, we should consider: what is a tribe, whether political, social, or cultural, if not a special kind of extended or artificial <em>family</em> within which one’s broader identity and “ego” are wound up? It is a well-known fact that from an early age, children learn to see themselves either in reflected glory or disgraced shadows. So, when faced with some cognitive dissonance, or abuse (whether emotional, physical, or psychological), the child is faced with a bind: recognize that they are powerless and have no ability to resolve the situation, and must therefore learn “to cope,” or try to defend one’s <em>self</em> and then experience the threat and feeling of alienation or exile from the tribe, in this case the dysfunctional family. In either case, one loses.</p><p>Usually communicated covertly in the form of “shaming” or threats of “punishment,” given the child is unable to face the unmanageable reality of there being something deeply wrong with the family or tribe itself, the child resorts to “make-believe,” that is, rather than accepting that there is something wrong with the family, they come to believe that there must be something wrong with them. A world of “make-believe” emerges, serving as a means of convincing oneself that things are “normal” and that “this is the way things are.” We learn what to see and what not to see.</p><p>From a phenomenological and existential standpoint, Laing rightly observed that many everyday families engaged in very irregular and “crazy-making” behaviors, but his ensuing observations and solutions only led to a more intricately woven web of madness—one which still entraps many individuals who aspire towards a transcendence of society’s <em>madness</em>.</p><h2><strong>From Insane Normality to Creative Madness?</strong></h2><p><em>Thus I would wish to emphasize that our “normal” “adjusted” state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities, that many of us our too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt to false realities.</em></p><p><em>—R.D. Laing</em></p><p>Keying off Freud, in the preface to the Pelican edition of <em>The Divided Self</em>,Laing wrote that:</p><p>“Our civilization represses not only “the instincts,” not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely forget or deny, will run the risk of either being destroyed by others, or of betraying what he knows.” (Laing, 11).</p><p>So, Laing said that psychiatry should be on “the side of transcendence, of genuine freedom, and of true human growth.”  Like Freud and others, he observed that there was much darkness to unearth beneath the veil of supposedly “normal” families, all of it stifling the natural growth of “human potentialities”:</p><p>“The greatest psychopathologist has been Freud. Freud was a hero. He descended to the ‘Underworld’ and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see if we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.”</p><p>(Id., 25.)</p><p>When Dante descended into the underworld, he was not alone. He was guided by the poet Virgil, a bridge to the wisdom of the classical world. He also had a second guide, a voice of love and reason belonging to the <em>higher spheres</em>, embodied in Beatrice. Whether ontologically or metaphorically, there was no such thing for Dante as the existence of the<em> Inferno—</em> “the underworld<em>”—</em>without the existence of <em>Paradiso</em>, nor the mediating climb of <em>Purgatorio</em>. The “underworld” was ultimately only understood as the logical extension of what happens when we do lose sight of the<em> higher spheres. </em>Knowledge of one without the other, however, was not really knowledge, only “experience.”</p><p>Alas, Laing, like Freud, descended into the underworld, but with none of the classical wisdom or appreciation for an innate creative spark of love that guided and informed the poet Dante, and all true philosophers and saints. Psychiatrists like Laing, Freud and many others concerned themselves with modelling and analyzing the psychoanalytic mechanics and psychodynamics of our existential experience of reality, its subterranean recesses and “underworld,” but they also got lost in doing so. In the case of Laing, whether after a psilocybin or LSD trip where one too many series of false connections were made or through some vein attempt to find oneself by “losing oneself,” from a higher epistemological standpoint, Laing seemed to have lost sight of a <em>simple</em> truth: one can only learn so much about health from studying sickness. Said otherwise, Beauty is much more than the absence of deformity and proportion; Good is much more than the absence of bad or evil, and Freedom is much more than the absence of oppression.</p><p>The idea of breaking free from the strictures of an overly compartmentalized identity, an oppressive world, or of no longer being the slave of arbitrary law and customs is not a new one. In pre-classical Greek times, Dionysian rituals and later bacchanals typified the misguided attempt to “transcend” the world, that is, to “lose oneself” and no longer feel bound by the limitations of the material world. This was done largely through frenzied hypnotic dance and song, and substances.</p><p>Fast forward to our own times and we find parallels with the modern drug culture. This is especially the case with LSD and “psychedelics,” heralded as the mind-altering trip to hyperspace that can “free” us from the prison of our limited experience and make us the more creative and insightful individuals that we always wanted to be. One need only eat a particular species of mushroom or consume a “magical” substance, suddenly the ego dissolves, we splinter into pieces— “losing ourselves”—old bonds are undone; finally, the pieces are reassembled and lead us to a truer <em>self</em>.That many of the new “connections” respecting the real world might not actually be true, no matter how true they<em> feel</em>, won’t matter, since we can always just take another trip and try it all over again.</p><p>Laing concludes chapter 6 of <em>The Politics of Experience</em> with the following reflection:</p><p>“From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not “true” sanity. Their madness is not “true” madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us and by them on themselves. Let no one suppose that we meet “true” madness any more than that we are truly sane. The madness that we encounter in “patients” is a gross travesty, a mockery, a grotesque caricature of what the natural healing of that estranged integration we call sanity might be. True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality; the emergence of the “inner” archetypal mediators of divine power, and through this death a rebirth, and the eventual reestablishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.” (Laing, 101)</p><p>Alas, whether through the Dionysian mysteries of old or psychedelic trips of late, these various attempts at transcendence through “liberation” of one’s inhibitions are a quintessential example of what Plato called “imitations.” Imitations of freedom by “losing oneself” or imitations of the “mystical” by mimicking what <em>feels</em> like freedom and transcendence. However, both remain classic examples of an epistemological and philosophical <em>bind</em>—one that no number of substances, distractions, or “magic” can resolve. However convincing the ensuing illusion of freedom, as we will see, these “imitations” are not “the real thing.”</p><p>Unfortunately, once broken through to <em>the other side</em>, Laing came to associate creativity and new forms of thought and action with the irrational and esoteric “mysteries,” harkening back to the paganism of pre-classical Greece. </p><h2><em><strong>Creative</strong></em><strong> Freedom</strong></h2><p><em>I wish to relate the transcendental experiences that sometimes break through in psychosis to those experiences of the divine that are the living fount of all religion.</em></p><p>—R.D. Laing</p><p>The longing associated with the idea of transcending our world, whether we think of it as a “vale of tears” or “mortal coil” has been expressed by poets, theologians, and philosophers throughout history in poetry and song, treatise and dialogue, speech and sermon. It is the desire to access that part of us which has something perennial, transcendent, and which exists above and beyond the flurry of ephemeral ebbs and flows. Shelley described it as the “desire of the moth for the star,” C.S. Lewis called it <em><a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/cs-lewis-weight-of-glory-longing">sehnsucht</a></em>, the sage and poet Rumi described it as a returning to one’s “native home.”</p><p>How a Beethoven, Einstein, Keats or the others never needed an LSD trip to “find themselves” or develop the kind of creative and moral Promethean identity that allowed them to access “the real thing” escaped Laing and his disciples, as it did the initiates of Dionysian mysteries of old, as it still does so many of us.</p><p>But the exceptional and difficult cases like Beethoven, Keats, or Einstein, which might be cast aside by the average psychoanalyst, clinician, ideologue or populist, are the true teaching moments. That these individuals were able to transcend their own mortalities and the preconceived notions that bound their spheres of thought and experience was lost on the spawn of tavistock in much the same way today’s LSD and “flow state” enthusiasts commit the same epistemological blunder, each in their own original way arriving at the same essential fallacy.</p><p>Based on the modeling of “madness” vs. “well-adjusted” normality, transcendence and creativity were treated as closer to the irrational, sensual passion and esoteric. Lacking the moral fortitude and true <em>foresight</em> of the Promethean, as has happened many times before, the pendulum swung from the suffocating strictures of the traditional Apollonian to the irrational frenzy of the Dionysian.</p><p>So, Laing wrote:</p><p>“But since society, without knowing it, is starving for the inner, the demands on people to evoke its presence in a “safe” way, in a way that need not be taken seriously, is tremendous — while the ambivalence is equally intense. Small wonder that the list of artists in, say, the last 150 years, who have become shipwrecked on these reefs is so long — Holderlin, John Clare, Rimbaud, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud, Strindberg, Munch, Bartok, Schumann, Buchner, Ezra Pound…(Ib., 116.)</p><p>Laing committed an epistemological fallacy in his own somewhat original way, and in some sense useful manner. However, even in his time, other psychoanalysts on the side of genuine transcendence, health, and creative freedom already pointed to a much healthier approach, namely, by identifying and removing the various neurosis which were developed to protect ourselves when we could not and thus inhibited the free interplay of the creative faculties and insight into the nature of the creative mind and spirit—our deeper <em>self</em>.</p><h2><em><strong>Introducing Lawrence Kubie</strong></em></h2><p>In his book <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process</em>, Dr. Lawrence Kubie describes an important aspect of this healing through the function of “free association” and the myriad qualitative transformations in outlook, feeling, and being that individuals can experience when they learn to properly <em>master</em> what he calls the <em>preconscious</em> processes.</p><p>Dr. Kubie writes:</p><p>“Free associations have a general significance beyond their exploratory importance in psychanalytic technique. It is through free association that the mind shakes itself out of its ruts, or if you prefer Max Muller’s figure shakes itself apart and together again, finding its way off the beaten path, stumbling onto new connections. It is through free association that the mind moves without conscious, deliberate bias or preconception from thought to thought, from idea to idea, from feeling to feeling.” (Kubie, 53.)</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.jpeg" width="302" height="351" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03a8e72d-0207-4509-a8e0-593744ab8e8c_302x351.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":351,"width":302,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Dr Lawrence Kubie</figcaption></figure></div><p>Kubie elaborates how free associations, properly understood, are how man creates, “whether an artist, scientist, lawyer, businessman, analyst, or analysand.”<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/12/02/breaking-the-binds-curing-western-schizophrenia/#_ftn1">[1]</a> Kubie then elucidates knowledge of a matter that has ever eluded the compulsive Kantian or modern contemporary and theorist, but which was understood and demonstrated by the greatest classical artists throughout the ages, namely, the relationship between art and science, artistic insight and scientific epiphany:</p><p>“There is an important analogy between the creative process in the sciences and the arts and the processes of free association: an analogy which is so close as to be almost an identity. This arises from the fact that it is impossible to produce free associations, to be freely imaginative, to be freely creative if at the same time and in the very moment of “freedom” one attempts to maintain a watchful, critical scrutiny of what one is producing. The person who is producing free associations with least internal friction and interference is unable subsequently to retrace the path of his associations, unable usually to remember many of the items or their sequence. (This is analogous to the difficulty one has in recalling a list of nonsense syllables, which, rearranged to form words and sentences, would be easily remembered as a single unit.) Therefore, any retrospective inspection of free associations must depend upon a detached observer who notes and records their sequence, or upon some automatic recording device. Similarly, the creative scientist or the creative artist, writer, or musician, has been to set down his productions, put them aside, and let time elapse, before he will be able to turn back to them with objective scrutiny”, with lessened identification and less personalized defense of them, than is possible at the moment of creating or immediately thereafter.” (Id., 54-55.)</p><p>Kubie describes how the same free associative processes have much value in both psychoanalytic-therapeutic processes and artistic or scientific ones:</p><p>“This conflicting confluence of forceful influences occurs under two circumstances: (a) It is used deliberately and for therapeutic purposes in analysis to expose the distorting influence of unconscious processes. (b) It occurs in spontaneous or induced state of partial dissociation, as in falling asleep or waking, in hypnagogic reveries, under hypnosis or drugs, in states of abstraction or trance, or in those states of extreme concentration of attention which approach the process of hypnotic induction, and in which much scientific and artistic, literary, or musical creativity occurs.” (Id., 58.)</p><p>Yet, contrary to the perceived and popular notion of “freeing ourselves,” whether in lifestyle, taste, philosophy, or outlook, Kubie points to the artful and at the same time scientific approach necessary to harness, guide, and master these <em>preconscious</em> processes:</p><p>“I have said that free associations are the most natural and spontaneous creative process of which the mind is capable. Yet it would be quite fallacious to conclude from this that they are also the easiest. There are individuals for whom the process is impossible, except where they are entirely off guard, as when dozing, falling asleep, waking, under drugs, or delirious. These are individuals for whom this mental leap-in-the-dark is so fraught with guilt or terror that they can no more allow their thoughts to roam freely than they could run down a flight of stairs with closed eyes. Such individuals have to stretch out their mental toes to feel carefully for each next step before they can trust themselves to express a next word. Logical and chronological sequences are the hand-rail to which they always cling. For some people this is true even when they are alone. For others it is true only when in the presence of other human beings. Still others are hampered in this way when in the presence of certain people, but not of others. Actually for everyone, although in varying degrees, free associations carry implications of guilt or anger.” (Id., 58.)</p><p>Mastering these processes allows us to make a host of new “connections” in a manner where we learn to consciously master the creative <em>interplay</em> between various parts of our mind, rather than relying on “magic.” Without conscious appreciation or mindfulness about the nature of the creative process, one may often be left with pseudo-creative novelty, neurotic art, or simply incomplete or confused art due to its remaining caught in the preconscious realm, <em>without</em> the conscious philosophical and spiritual faculties necessary to impart to this preconscious work a lasting or <em>timeless</em> form, as all great art has.</p><p>To the degree the preconscious or conscious aspects of the creative process are hindered or incomplete, the other side must suffer. We will therefore lack the creative freedom of an authentic <em>self</em>. If connection from the preconscious towards the conscious is confused, the art will lack the refinement which only a conscious mind can affect; if the reverse is the case, the art will likely be stilted, formulaic, lacking in the originality and creativity springing from preconscious thought, given the mind is not given the sufficient freedom to wander and creatively <em>play </em>between worlds. The reason why the former fallacy is more prevalent in “liberal” thinkers and the latter more obvious in “conservative” thinkers becomes increasingly clear.</p><p>So, madness was for Laing seen as something that more closely modelled creative epiphany, given the more obvious limitations of the “well-adjusted” individual, the “one dimensional man” of Marcuse, or in modern parlance, the “normie.” While this <em>madness</em> allowed one to depart from certain pre-established and preconceived notions that others felt tied down to i.e., finding one’s <em>self</em> by losing oneself, everything concerning our deeper understanding of creative <em>insight</em>, epiphany and true transcendence depends on our ability to unwind the seemingly intricate loops and splices of this Laingian “knot.”</p><p>Kubie understood the paradox:</p><p>“Consequently, creativity itself depends upon the process of free association, which makes possible preconscious analogic processes, yet at the same time exposes them to deformation under the influence of concurrent unconscious processes. This inescapable paradox lies close to the heart of our problem. Free associations are essential to creativity; because they free the sensitive, fluid, and plastic preconscious system from the rigidity imposed at the conscious end of the symbolic spectrum. Yet at the same time they expose it to the distortions and also to the rigidity imposed by the unconscious system.” (Id., 57.)</p><p>To face the madness, we require some higher ground by which to transcend it. Freud, Laing, and others believed we had to move past the creation of “pseudo-realities” and “pseudo-subjects,” including the many coping mechanisms individuals used as a means of operating in “the real world” from early on, but in modelling the endless mechanics of everyday dysfunctional systems, they also lost sight of the simple truth that no amount of modelling can ever arrive at.</p><p>Now, it’s time to break the binds.</p><h2><strong>From “Double Binds” to “Double Loops”: Crossing the Threshold of the </strong><em><strong>Self</strong></em></h2><p>Most of us have at some time in our lives found ourselves stuck in some kind of “knot” or situation where there appeared to be “no way to win.” In more instances than should be the norm, our lives became entangled in these “knots” and “binds without knowing that we were playing a “game.” The “self” became organized around these perceived psycho-spiritual paradoxes, bounding our sphere of thought and action according to a set of fixed “rules.”</p><p>However, much of these “rules” were not consciously followed but learned as a series of “felt thoughts” or cognitive dissonances. Though it is normal to instill healthy felt thoughts in children about what behaviors they should feel good about and which ones they should feel bad about, given children only learn by felt thoughts until they develop the capacity to use their higher faculties of reason, the problem is that just as easily as good “felt thoughts” can be instilled, so too can bad ones, leading to practices and behaviors that lead to <em>self</em>-destruction, as Laing so often observed in patients struggling with “knots.”</p><p>While Laing studied many “knots” and “binds,” some of his solutions were in many ways just as sick. However, instead of the “double bind” pioneered by the likes of a Bateson or Laing, some clinicians have proffered the idea of a “double loop.” Let us take an example from Laing’s <em>Knots</em> and then consider the difference between the nature of “double binds” and “double loops”:</p><p>My mother loves me.<br>I feel good.<br>I feel good because she loves me.<br>I am good because I feel good.<br>I feel good because I am good.<br>My mother loves me because I am good.</p><p>My mother does not love me.<br>I feel bad.<br>I feel bad because she does not love me.<br>I am bad because I feel bad.<br>I feel bad because I am bad.<br>I am bad because she does not love me.<br>She does not love me because I am bad.</p><p>The “bind” involves a felt thought tied to an image. If that felt thought and image cannot be readapted and changed to something more adaptive, one will always follow the other, creating an eternal feedback loop. The “double loop” involves an individual doing what would in therapeutic work generally be called “grief work.” The individual allows himself or herself to sit in the pain, to feel the whole of the experience that they’d been pushing down or trying to avoid in order to regulate their affect. Instead, they allow themselves to go through the entire process and make it to <em>the other side</em>. Said otherwise, they don’t play the “game,” instead they sit through the pain.</p><p>Of importance is that a qualified and competent therapist or guide is there to affirm the person in that state of grief, which involves a re-integration of the lost parts of one’s <em>self</em>. This is also the moment when new healthier and adaptive thoughts can be introduced, ones that reflect a higher truth about one’s <em>self</em> and the world. On a higher spiritual level, it involves the truth washing in over us or the light breaking in, with a rediscovery of that sacred spark, an image of God—a glimpse or a glimmer—of the “real thing.” For, in that moment we are seen and <em>see</em>.</p><p>So, once Dante had emerged from the underworld and beheld scene after scene of madness, sin after sin, he saw in many of these souls a bit of himself. In seeing the same weaknesses within himself and at the same time allowing himself to hear a higher calling or <em>inner voice</em>, he became capable of slowly and lovingly removing all the imperfections or obstacles that stood in the way of his divine <em>self</em>. Ascending the mount of <em>Purgatorio</em>, he found the climb became easier and easier. Finally, he rose through the spheres of <em>Paradiso</em>, becoming lighter and lighter and lighter as the truth became clearer and clearer and clearer.</p><p>In the “double loop” moment we are seen as whole, with the many broken off parts reintegrated into their coherent whole and everything slowly falling into place. In a limited but powerful form the process metaphorically mirrors the broader idea of being <em>seen</em> not only by others, but by God himself, that is, pure Being unencumbered by the contradictions and illusions that characterize our world i.e., absolute Truth and clarity—the truly transcendent—of which mortals can only attain a glimpse, whether through song, poetry, prayer and meditation, or acts of charity.</p><p>When properly achieved, the “double loop” offers us a said glimpse of being <em>seen</em>—the “real thing.” So, it’s no surprise that when the poet Dante rose to the summit of <em>Paradiso</em> and gazed into the bright light until he could look no more, what he saw in that final vision was not some Zeusian deity or bearded old man, but as the poet recounts, he saw an image of his own face, “a human face.”</p><p>The poet was finally <em>seen</em>.</p><h2><strong>Unbinding</strong></h2><p>A heavy drinker and depressive himself, Laing never appeared to escape the underworld he descended into. With fame and fortune and all the freedom necessary to achieve “transcendence,” Laing was a surprisingly unhappy soul and self. Neglectful towards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society">his own family,</a> sadly, Laing’s oldest child, Fiona, spent years in mental institutions, also treated for schizophrenia. His oldest son from his second marriage, Adam, committed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society">suicide after a break-up</a> with his long-term girlfriend. Having lost access to the real thing inside himself, having become alienated from the deeper creative spark which lies at the heart of every great discovery, conversion, or great art, Laing lost the ability to see it within himself and others.</p><p>When we have access to genuine knowledge of it within ourselves, we become capable of <em>seeing</em> and reaching it in others; when we don’t, some of us become exceptionally good modelers, like Laing and his heroes. Through bad epistemologies and in certain cases, arguably a dash of evil, false notions of spiritual transcendence were proffered, “ecologies of mind” and transcendent “ecstasy,” essentially harkening back to pre-classical paganism, the “losing oneself” in a ritualistic hypnotism of dance and song, and substances.</p><p>One does not get “lost” when listening to the late quartets of Beethoven or passions of Bach, when reading the sonnets of Shakespeare or degrees of prayer of St. Theresa, one “gets found.” One does not get lost when hearing the Sermon on the Mount or reading the letters of St. Paul the Apostle, one gets <em>found</em>. We discover something that had been there all along, reflected at one time “through a glass darkly,” and then finally, “face to face.”</p><p>Unlike the best of Western classical culture and its Judeo-Christian traditions, these new forms of “transcendence” were offered, at least ostensibly, in an attempt to cast off the rightfully decried Apollonian chains of a “well-adjusted” society held together by certain rarefied religious customs and traditions, which had admittedly been drained of much of their vitality and spiritual depth within an increasingly affluent modern West. For, while many new great things like industrial agriculture and technological revolutions allowed humanity to rightfully uplift and raise masses out of the poverty and oppression presided over by a once untouchable class of “gods,” this genuine and necessary progress was not without a response by the would-be “gods.” A new kind of “brave new world” emerged, one rife with all the distractions, drugs, and “entertainment” that could be used to divert and distract people from the “real thing.”</p><p>So, transcendence and authentic self-actualization were in the hands of modern social engineers presented in the form of clever imitations—some even with a luciferean bent i.e. “the worship of the self.” These were presented over the discovery and development of a whole divine <em>self</em>, an <em>imago viva dei</em>, itself the intimation of a universal <em>Self</em>—God—such that we know even the most authentic, creative, and loving human individual to be only an image or <em>glimpse </em>of the “real thing.”</p><h2><strong>No More Games</strong></h2><p>Laing spent much of his time modelling the “games” played within dysfunctional families. In particular, he paid special attention to those played within the kinds of family systems which gave rise to schizoid personality types. So, Laing, a good modeler, achieved positive effects in treating some of his schizophrenic patients because he acted in such a way that they felt seen.</p><p>However, what Laing lost sight of within himself, or others, is a simple truth, one which no amount of modelling, existential phenomenology and mechanics can ever arrive at. For, one <em>cannot</em> model the soul or the mind, but we can begin to acquaint ourselves with the mysteries of our own deeper <em>self</em> and soul and mind by developing the practices and engaging in original creative work or charity, under the condition that we never lose sight of the guiding light for such work, that is, never lose sight of the <em>higher spheres</em> from which such inspiration or creative insight descends. The “underworld” can ultimately only be understood as the logical extension of what happens when we do lose sight of these said<em> higher spheres.</em> Or, as Augustine put it, evil has no ontological existence.</p><p>Individuals with epistemologically and spiritually impoverished maps of reality will often be compelled to deduce what their experience of the world offers them as reality, no matter how twisted or divorced it might be from the simple Truth and eternal laws—laws which the innate creative spark found within each sovereign individual makes us uniquely capable of discovering. That most people around us may not be able to hear a sacred whispering within themselves, or simply have it drowned out by a “brave new world” or trauma or other forms of brainwashing does not in any way erase the existence of this sacred whispering—not if we <em>listen</em>. The best a “brave new world” can do is try to drown it out, but it can never be erased.</p><p>Alas, individuals like Laing, Freud, and others were psychiatrists who had descended into the <em>Inferno</em> without a guide or the classical wisdom necessary to carry them to the higher spheres. As a result, some of the theories they brought back were mad or madder than what they themselves saw within the underworld they had so diligently studied.</p><p>Having spent so much of his time in the existential mire of modelling the myriad dysfunctional and twisted games observed in dysfunctional families, Laing had forgotten how to distinguish between imitations of Goodness, Truth, and Beauty and “the real thing.” Laing in many ways became the very alienated and disassociated individual he spent much of his life studying. Like many before him who descended without a guide, gazing into the abyss, the abyss gazed back.</p><h2><strong>Winning the Game</strong></h2><p>They say we’re only as sick as our secrets.</p><p>As long as we allowed ourselves to be fooled by imitations, having spent much time fighting monsters or breaking out of one illusion only to fall into the next, the game always won.</p><p>To survive, we attached ourselves to false ideas of love, truth and humanity. We believed that it was the only way to survive, to “stay in the game.” Having felt perhaps never truly seen, we lost sight of our own deeper<em> self</em>, or as in too many cases, never realized that there was something more already there—a sacred spark. Perhaps we lost sight of it because we were from an early age only taught to view our experience and thoughts in the light of others’ expectations, distortions, or false prescriptions, whether imparted to us by parents, institutions, or the very <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/lifting-the-veil-from-ancient-rhetoric">magicians themselves</a>.</p><p>Rather than remaining the disenchanted players of a rigged game or escaping into the fantasy of games which only we could control, we one day realized that the only way to win the game was to stop playing the game.</p><p>We decided to play <em>no more games</em>.</p><h2><strong>Works Cited</strong></h2><p>Laing, R.D. <em>Knots</em>. Pantheon Books, 1970.</p><p>Laing, R.D. <em>The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Madness</em>. Penguin Books, 1960.</p><p>Laing, R.D. <em>The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise. </em>Penguin Books,1967.</p><p>Kubie, Lawrence S. <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process. </em>The Noonday Press, 1963.</p><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/12/02/breaking-the-binds-curing-western-schizophrenia/#_ftnref1">[1]</a> Kubie, Lawrence S. (M.D.),. <em>Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process,</em> p. 53<em>. </em>The Noonday Press (1963).</p><p><em><strong>David Gosselin</strong> is a poet, researcher, and editor based in Montreal. He writes on Substack at <a href="https://davidgosselin.substack.com/">Age of Muses</a>.</em></p>

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<h2>By Matthew Ehret</h2><h3><em><strong>Perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to saving the beleaguered republic at this late stage of self-induced rot is a pervading belief among a large portion of the US citizenry that America itself were better off burnt to a crisp.</strong></em></h3><p>It isn’t just the Antifa or BLM rioters who lit cities on fire in 2019-2020 who believe this to be true, but the majority of the Democratic Party base itself has become drunk on the idea that the USA is a nation built entirely on slavery and systemic racism with no redeeming value. Eco-terrorists like Extinction Rebellion, and Deep Green Resistance justify the notion that declaring war on industrial civilization is a legitimate goal for the 21st century, while establishment technocrats race to “reset” civilization under Great Narratives more compatible for a depopulated, post-truth, bug eating world order to which the plebs of earth are expected to adapt.</p><p>The creation of this new generation of Americans yearning for the collapse of America did not emerge over night. With the murder of John F. Kennedy, educational systems were increasingly infused with a doctrine known as Critical Theory which posited that all of history had to be interpreted through a lens of “minority groups suppressed by systemic white males” with no room for nuance, free will, or actual causal ideas. <a href="https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/investigative-reports/the-club-of-rome-and-the-rise-of-the-predictive-modelling-mafia/">Cybernetics and Systems Analysis</a> became the conduits for this reform under the influence of the OECD’s Sir Alexander King (Lord President of the British Empire’s Scientific Secretariat, Director General of Scientific Affairs of the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD) and advisor to NATO.</p><p>Slowly, this perverse Marxist-Freudian worldview, sometimes dubbed <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-the-frankfurt-school-and-critical">“The Frankfurt School” </a>took over the institutions of America during the Cold War, finding its loudest expression in something known as “The 1619 Project”.</p><h3><strong>What is the 1619 Project?</strong></h3><p>The New York Times’ 1619 Project which was unveiled in June 2019 by Nikole Hannah-Jones and attempts to smear the entirety of American history as simply a slave-promoting fraud from the moment the first slave arrived in Jonestown in 1619.</p><p>During its short existence, this “project” has quickly won over thousands of academics, and in spite of its proven fallacies (<a href="https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memory-hole/">which it had to secretly cover up in Orwellian fashion</a>), Jones was still <a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/nikole-hannah-jones-wins-pulitzer-prize-1619-project">awarded the Pulitzer Prize</a> legitimizing the fraud in the minds of countless school administrators, policy-makers, and academics.</p><p>If one truly accepts the claims of the 1619 Project, which have been turned into a Pulitzer curriculum and already <a href="https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/education/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4-500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has/article_a2921b75-d012-5e9e-9816-8e762539f1d4.html">embedded in 4500 U.S. schools</a>, then America’s dissolution would be no great loss to the world. In fact, one would have to conclude that since the republic was always built upon the defense of slavery (going so far as to paint the British Empire as an anti-slavery bastion which the founding fathers broke away from only due to their fear of having their slaves removed), then America was always… evil.</p><h3><strong>The First Paradox</strong></h3><p>If it were true that the creation of the American republic was just driven by a desire to protect the institution of slavery from the abolition-loving British then it should be asked: why did every American state shut down the African slave trade by 1793??”</p><p>Don’t believe me? Let the facts speak for themselves.</p><p>By 1784, six states in the new nation had voted to totally abolish slavery (Rhode Island in 1774, Vermont in 1777, Pennsylvania in 1780, Massachusetts in 1781, New Hampshire in 1783 and Connecticut in 1784), while the importation of all new slaves was banned by every other state by 1793. The important Northwest Ordinances passed in the 1787 Continental Congress ensured that no slavery would be permitted in the immense North West Territories (giving rise to the later addition of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin as free states). This agreement was established during the 1774 Continental Congress where a non-importation act was signed by all colonies stating: <em>“That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported, after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.”</em></p><h3><strong>Another Paradox</strong></h3><p>If Britain was threatening to end the slave trade as the 1619 Project authors teach, then why did the Empire override dozens of petitions from the colonies between 1650-1765 demanding an end to slavery? Rather than oppose slavery, the British Royal Africa Company, under the direction of the Privy Council, and Board of Trade enforced the mass important of 8 million African slaves into the Americas during the 18th century alone! These same organizations constantly strove to destroy all efforts to establish manufacturing within the colonies from 1630-1765 which everyone knew was the only effective pathway to liberating a society from reliance on slave labor.</p><p>Additionally, IF it were true that the 1776 revolution were driven by the intent to protect the slave economy from the freedom-loving British Empire, then why did England only ban slavery in 1807 and why did they wait until 1833 to begin extending this ban across their colonies?? Did the founding fathers have a crystal ball and act on events that would occur only 65 years in the future? If the British truly hated slavery so much, then why did the empire maintain a global system of subjugation, famine, and exploitation across Asia, Ireland and beyond for so many generations?</p><p>So what happened? Was the British Empire seriously pushing an anti-slavery agenda? Why did America’s anti-slave trajectory fall apart so soon after the revolution and why did the rot spread to the point of necessitating a Civil War by 1861?</p><p>How to proceed with a serious investigation?</p><h3><strong>The Matter of Money</strong></h3><p>Since one of the most effective keys to understanding history starts with the question of “who controls the money”, economics is a good place to start.</p><p>Approaching the matter this way will cause the inquiring mind to confront the battle between two opposing paradigms of statecraft which defined the world in which the American revolution arose <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/07/04/the-international-dimensions-of-1776-and-how-an-age-of-reason-was-subverted/">as part of an international phenomenon involving leaders from Russia, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, India, and Morocco.</a></p><p>The battle over what sort of system of economics would govern America after political independence was achieved in 1783 will here become a very valuable question.</p><p>Where certain players of that age believed that “value” should be locked into rules of money-worship and profit (which all people desired since money bought pleasure and helped us avoid pain), others disagreed and believed value should be looked for elsewhere. These others believed that value transcended matters of pleasure/pain and touched upon something less transient and more universal… but what?</p><h3><strong>Introducing Ben Franklin</strong></h3><p>During the 18th century, these latter forces centered themselves around the figure of America’s “father of founding fathers”, Benjamin Franklin, who drafted some of the most important policies that led to the sovereign control over currency from his <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0041">1729 ‘On the Necessity for a Paper Currency’</a>, onwards. Franklin used his powerful printing presses to spread both sovereign banking and anti-slavery pamphlets, books, and treatises for decades before the revolution itself was declared in 1775. One of the most powerful anti-slavery books printed by Franklin was the influential 1737 ‘<a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2019franklin38906/?sp=15&amp;r=-0.91,-0.106,2.82,2.122,0">All Slave Keepers Who Keep the Innocent in Bondage’</a> by Benjamin Lay which argued that any Christian keeping slaves was an offense against God.</p><p>Lay wrote: <em>“No greater sin Hell can invent than to prophane and blaspheme the pure and Holy Truth, which is God all in all, and remove God’s creatures made after his own image, from all the comforts of life and their country… and bring them into all the miseries that dragons, serpents, devils and hypocrites can procure and think of”.</em></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.jpeg" width="506" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cb920ee7-f1d1-4847-9e4f-d92e5b10d438_506x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":506,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><em>Ben Franklin</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>In the mind of Franklin and his co-thinkers these issues (economics and slavery) represented two sides of the same fight.</p><p>Franklin argued in his many writings that “value” originated in what you create that satisfies the needs of humanity, and not what “things” you possess or wish to consume. Since a society of creators/producers requires sovereign manufacturing to generate real wealth and constant internal improvements of infrastructure to coordinate the development of all parts of a nation under a unified intention, Franklin recognized clearly that the production generated by “slave labor” is a chimera and actually represented a form of “anti-value”. Like heroine consumption today, anti-value simply means any form of “momentary profits” that might even be measurable as GDP and generate money flows, but actually represent a destruction of that society’s ability to sustain its own existence over time. (1)</p><p>The reason for this is simple.</p><p>Slavery destroys the creative powers of mentation in both the laboring slave who is valued only for their animal labor, and also the decadent slave master who’s potential for creativity becomes narrowly defined by ways to keep the slave under control.</p><p>It is thus no coincidence that Franklin also created the anti-slavery alliance in the 1760s and later founded the 1785 Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves alongside several of his devoted proteges. These proteges included the figures of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Gouvernor Morris who all happened to become the creators and leaders of the “American System of political economy” premised on the use of a national bank, productive credit, protective tariffs, and large scale manufacturing to promote the economic sovereignty of the new nation. I introduced some of this in my recent essay <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-part-288">How to Save a Dying Republic part 2.</a></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.jpeg" width="750" height="356" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/999761ed-ff68-4f55-8048-6849a24cd68b_750x356.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":356,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When Jefferson took control of the Presidency from 1801-1809, a major victory was won for the pro-slavery oligarchs of America who saw immense profits to be gained by spreading their <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2018/10/30/two-confederacies-converge-on-lincoln/">peculiar form of society under a perverse form of Manifest Destiny.</a></p><p>Admittedly, these oligarchs would have been much happier with the victory of Aaron Burr to the presidency in 1801 since an immediate dissolution of the union would have occurred between slave and free states as early as 1804 (to be discussed in a future essay). Unlike Burr, Jefferson was at least against breaking up the Union into northern and southern confederacies (with the free states merging with Canada and the slave states becoming their own nation), and that is why Hamilton (Jefferson’s political nemesis) ironically organized aggressively for his victory winning the fatal ire of Burr.</p><p>Sadly, Jefferson’s devout belief in agrarianism, hate for manufacturing, love of slavery, and British enlightenment thinking still made him an instrument for the slave power’s cancerous growth during his terms in office.</p><h3><strong>The British Empire’s Global Game</strong></h3><p>By destroying Indian textiles and subduing the “Chinese dragon” with a program of <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/what-can-we-learn-from-the-opium-wars-between-british-empire-and-china/articleshow/71461004.cms">mass opium consumption that would stain the 19th century</a>, the City of London quickly took control of world textile manufacturers which created a primary export market for southern slave plantation cotton and a new set of addictions began: the addiction to the easy money derived from cheap slave labor. This proto globalization established a global closed system of controls onto all nations through cash cropping, free trade, speculation, and drugs.</p><p>By 1840, over 20% of the British population was employed in textiles under such anti-human conditions that Charles Dickens described in his <em>Tale of Two Cities</em> and other writings.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.jpeg" width="750" height="356" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7d5df0d7-f106-414c-bda6-bd4d717938fc_750x356.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":356,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Best of Times and Worst of Times</strong></h3><p>With the <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-1804-northern-secession-plot">1804 murder of Hamilton</a>, and undermining of America’s national credit system between 1804-1836, British free trade grew as protective tariffs were taken down, and credit towards infrastructure projects like the Erie Canal, roads, rail, etc., shriveled up. Speculation ran rampant whenever this monetarist system was unleashed driven by booms and busts and the rise of “state-rights” programs that superseded all national initiatives. This process was taken directly from classic divide to conquer tactics which I outlined in my last essay <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-to-save-a-dying-republic-part-93e">Lincoln and the Greenbacks</a>.</p><p>An astute Whig economist looking upon this bipolar process in America (while comparing it to the depressingly stagnant Canadian economic situation of 1791-1850) stated in 1853:</p><blockquote><p>“Though the ratio of the increase of the population has been greater in Canada than in the United States, yet their increase of wealth has barely kept pace with the population, and they are as poor as they were half a century since. They have enjoyed the blessings of Free Trade with England all the time, we have only a part of the time. Whenever we have attempted to supply ourselves by our own industry, with the comforts and necessaries of life, we have improved our condition as a people; and during the intervals of Free Trade and large importations of foreign goods, we have relapsed again into a condition bordering on bankruptcy; while the Canadians have been constantly exhausted, and kept so poor by Free Trade, as to be unable to get sufficient credit to have even the ups and downs of prosperity and bankruptcy in succession.”  (2)</p></blockquote><h3><strong>The Slave Power Spreads</strong></h3><p>By 1836, the 2nd National Bank was officially killed after a mass propaganda campaign convinced a duped mob that it was an instrument of tyranny in America, and over the coming 6 decades, the only five presidents who would make any serious effort towards reviving America’s nationalist system would end up dead while in office (Harrison in 1841, Taylor in 1850, Lincoln in 1865, Garfield in 1880, and McKinley in 1901). The man who is today celebrated for having “killed the bank” and “paying Americas debts” was in reality a force of pure destruction. Jackson “paid the debt” by cutting all infrastructure projects and unleashing mass speculation which resulted in a devastating 1837 bank panic that drove the nation into discord and depression. An unrepentant racist, Jackson also gave enormous assistance to the slavocracy by emptying the southern lands of Cherokee in the genocidal “Trail of Tears” and giving the land over to cotton planting oligarchs loyal only to their profits, “way of life” and the British Empire.</p><p>This story is told in all of its ugly detail in historian Michael Kirsch’s groundbreaking 2012 study <a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2012/eirv39n49-20121214/04-45_3949.pdf">“How Andrew Jackson Destroyed the United States”.</a></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.jpeg" width="750" height="355" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/00bc252d-9713-4976-a212-b7b38a076099_750x355.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":355,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Between 1801 to 1840, southern cotton exports exploded from 100,000 bales/year to 1 million bales/year with 80% of the exports going to Britain. The City of London-Wall Street-New Orleans triangle dominated the world system with New Orleans representing over 12% of all U.S. banking capital. The southern slave states grew to represent the world’s fourth biggest economy through the support of the British Empire both financially and also in the logistical support needed to import mass slavery into the Americas. This degeneration proceeded slowly until the presidencies of Jackson and his handler Martin van Buren, but after this, cotton exports increased to 4 million bales/year by 1860 and the slave power grew immensely under the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 that ensured the spread of slavery west of Mississippi.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.jpeg" width="750" height="463" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b405042-d5e1-468f-bf09-f8c2e57e041e_750x463.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":463,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>While many radical abolitionists in the USA and British Canada then advocated the dissolution of the union as an alternative to civil war, stronger souls <a href="https://youtu.be/iqYfFUwacUM">like Frederick Douglass recognized the higher historic fight at hand</a>.</p><p>As a lesson to modern leftists who believe in the 1619 Project and feel no sorrow at the burning of America under a new civil war today, Douglass took the time to research history, and broke with William Lloyd Garrison (the leader of the abolitionist movement) defending the Constitution in 1852:</p><blockquote><p>“I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory… In that instrument [the U.S. Constitution] I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but interpreted, as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither. While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slaveholding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it”.</p></blockquote><p>This higher understanding of history and the principles of the Constitution caused Douglass to ally himself with Lincoln where he worked with all his might to recruit 200,000 black soldiers to the cause. Later in life, Douglass attacked British free trade and “cheap labor” in defense of the Nationalist system <a href="http://american_almanac.tripod.com/fredfree.htm">writing in 1871</a>:</p><blockquote><p>“Cheap Labor, is a phrase that has no cheering music for the masses. Those who demand it, and seek to acquire it, have but little sympathy with common humanity. It is the cry of the few against the many. When we inquire who are the men that are continually vociferating for cheap labor, we find not the poor, the simple, and the lowly; not the class who dig and toil for their daily bread; not the landless, feeble, and defenseless portion of society, but the rich and powerful, the crafty and scheming, those who live by the sweat of other men’s faces.”</p></blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.jpeg" width="750" height="531" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7b9da46c-2f05-45d8-a3fb-dcd33a37a77e_750x531.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":531,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The British Hand Behind the Civil War</strong></h3><p>During the entirety of the Civil War, the British Empire’s <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/07/24/the-imperial-myth-of-canadas-national-policy-and-its-implications-for-today/">guiding hand could always be felt</a>, from supplying the south with battle ships, weapons, and finances to providing logistic and diplomatic support internationally. <a href="https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/montreal-city-of-secrets-civil-war/">Even British Canada was given over to the Confederacy’s intelligence headquarters</a> which deployed spying, money laundering, and terrorist operations against the Union during the entire war.</p><p>Speaking to the British Parliament, Lord Robert Cecil (Marquis of Salisbury) expressed Britain’s logic succinctly when he said in 1861:</p><blockquote><p>“The Northern States of America never can be our sure friends because we are rivals, rivals politically, rivals commercially…. With the Southern States, the case is entirely reversed. The population are an agricultural people. They furnish the raw material of our industry, and they consume the products which we manufacture from it. With them, every interest must lead us to cultivate friendly relations, and when the war began they at once recurred to England as their natural ally.”</p></blockquote><p>A future installment will tackle the role of British operations in Canada that organized the murder of Lincoln, sabotaged the industrial reconstruction of the South, and undid the internationalization of Lincoln’s system around the world during the 19-20th centuries. This sabotage of potential created the foundations for the creature embedded within America now organizing a new Civil War and dissolution of the republic once and for all.</p><h4>Footnotes</h4><p>(1) In the minds of those dirigistes like Franklin (including the Colbertist school of France, and its international leaders like Jonathon Swift, Daniel Dafoe, and Cotton Mathers in America who all wrote pamphlets supporting manufacturing over slave labor), a machine produced by the creative mind of man can accomplish the work of 100 laborers- thus liberating those laborers from the demands of the material forces of nature and freeing them to develop their powers of mind.</p><p>(2) Ezra Champion Seaman, Essays on the Progress of Nations (1853), p. 599</p><blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.jpeg" width="750" height="238" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2bb49ff-849b-466a-ab9f-a99e81f5e2fb_750x238.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":238,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div></blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.jpeg" width="750" height="515" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e154602a-4f95-44b1-b52a-7f0c5f14d53a_750x515.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":515,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>And follow my work on Telegram: t.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h2>

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The Fatal Flaw of Controlled Oppositions: Collectivism vs Individualism, East vs West, One vs Many (and everything in between)

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<p><em>“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”</em></p><p><em>-Rudyard Kipling</em></p><p>The British imperial poet Rudyard Kipling’s famous lines showcase a pervasive belief of all oligarchist systems that the world— with its diverse cultures, languages, races and creeds- can never work together in brotherhood. Said otherwise, the differences of the parts making up the whole cannot be resolved in any way unless those differences can be destroyed through purgative violence, or cultural homogenisation. Outside of death or Borg-like assimilation, no resolution to the paradox of the ‘One and the Many’ or ‘East vs West’ exists in the mind of a Kipling, Rhodes, Mackinder, Kissinger, Schwab or Huntington.</p><p>Sadly, due to the dominance of the British Empire since Kipling wrote those words, which has shaped so much of our recent history (and academic systems), these assumptions have trickled down into the minds of most citizens living in the western world.</p><p>It is my hope that in the course of the following short essay, that Kipling’s racist, ignorant, and outright wrong-headed belief in both the “white man’s burden’ as well as the incompatibility of eastern and western thinking will be resolved in your mind.</p><p>BUT, before getting into the thick of things, I wanted to say a few words about an important technique of epistemological warfare used by oligarchists for millenia… The creation of false opposites.</p><h1>False Dualisms (or How to Keep Your Mind in an Invisible Box)</h1><p>Here’s how the game of herding humanity with false mental models of reality works:</p><p>1) Create a theorum-lattice grounded in a limited set of intentionally wrong fundamental axioms and assumptions. That then creates a “school of thought” controlled by a priesthood.</p><p>2) Then encourage a nearly infinite array of disputes within that school over time giving off the false impression of free choice, but none of the substance as those limited axioms and typically un-examined assumptions are preserved in all the apparently opposing sub-schools.  </p><p><em><strong>(For a fuller treatment of theorum-lattices, I highly encourage everyone to dive into the challenging yet rewarding 1995 essay by Lyndon LaRouche<a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1995/eirv22n32-19950811/eirv22n32-19950811_016-non_newtonian_mathematics_for_ec-lar.pdf"> ‘Non-Newtonian Mathematics for Economists’</a>)</strong></em></p><p>All infinite possible statements that emerge out of those limited sets of axioms– even the factually true statements– are thence contaminated by the fallacy of the rotten unexamined axiomatic roots. From this moment onward, controversy may be unleashed between rival sub-schools that appear to differ in various ways but which are, in fact united in their common adherence to that limited set of core assumptions that forms an invisible cage in which the infinite possible array of choices, and disagreements emerges.</p><p>Are you a follower of bottom up Austrian School thinking or are you a follower of the top down Keynesian school? Are you a Marxist collectivist or a free market individualist? Pick a side and fight.</p><p>Yet while this fighting is happening, the dupes in either camp (which may take on a republican/conservative vs democrat/liberal appearance) <em><strong>will not recognize</strong></em> how Keynes and von Hayek <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-keynes-vs-von-hayek-debate-a">both shared identical views of human nature</a> (expressed through their admiration of British hedonists like Jeremy Bentham and Bernard Mandeville), both believed equally in the intrinsic value of money due to people wanting it, and both equally admired world government (with Hayek devoting a chapter to its necessity at the end of Road to Serfdom).</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.jpeg" width="600" height="395" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a098671-2e8c-4680-bba4-20ca08083c0e_600x395.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":395,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Neocon perversion that has taken over major sections of America’s republican party over the past 60 years is another example of a false opposition group to their rival ‘liberal imperialists’ of a Fabian branding that took over the Democratic Party since the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945.</p><h1>Neocons vs Neolibs (aka: The Uniparty)</h1><p>One grouping portrays itself as ‘nationalist-brand imperialists projecting Pax America onto the world (while cultivating the support of Christian Zionists aching for end times prophecy) while the other group portrays itself as ‘internationalist-brand imperialists’ seeking to subdue the USA’s interests to technocratic high priests of Davos, NATO and the UN as arbiters of global order.</p><p>The Clinton Rhodes Scholars, and Blair-Obama Fabians who represent this ‘team blue’ share the exact same Nietzschean elitist worldview as their Nietzschean rivals among the neo-con elitists like Wolfowitz, Nuland, Kagan, Cheney, etc.</p><p>Perhaps, one group has a less overtly religious hue than the other, but both are shaped by doctrines of ‘will to power’ of ‘ubermenschen’ master-slave relations, and the belief in purgative violence requisite to subdue humanity under some form of Hobbesian Leviathan.</p><p>Both equally share an eschatological self-image of destiny with one version shaped by variations of Bible prophecy, and the other by transhumanist beliefs in a future ‘singularity’ where machines supposedly become self-conscious and a priesthood of social engineers take control of the levers of evolution.</p><p>While one group passes itself off as ‘religious’, and the other ‘scientific’- they are in truth simply different shades of evil.</p><p>Factions representing either group (with countless sub-groups in between) debate endlessly at seminars hosted by the World Economic Forum, or Council on Foreign Relations, and yell at each other in Congress— YET all apparent schools are united in the belief in a very sick universe.</p><p>Like polarized lenses that cut planes of light, these polarized<em><strong> intellectual lenses</strong></em> (with topography shaped by false axioms pertaining to the nature of humanity, space, time, matter, and other general articles of supposed reality) <strong>then block out unwanted spectrums of reality</strong> that would threaten the organizational structure of the oligarchy and bring humanity into greater voluntary accord with their own powers of true reason/true understanding (vs academic opinions wearing the costume of understanding) and the universal principles shaping both their mind, human history and the universe itself. </p><p>From a historian’s perspective, which should involve epistemology, and a sensitivity to political intelligence, you’ve gotta hold this in mind always when looking at history as a chimera of reality when filtered through acceptable “models” that are shaped by controlling agencies of the oligarchy.</p><h1>The Strange Case of Two Fighting Keynesians</h1><p>Keynesians like Jeffrey Sachs and pseudo-Keynesians like Isabella M Weber (editor of the Journal of Keynesian economics, Keynes prize winner and ‘critic of Jeffrey Sachs) are perfect examples of this phenomenon.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.jpeg" width="750" height="438" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4b1f0a83-24da-476b-9688-5c397e24069a_750x438.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":438,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Both figures are promoted by such think tanks as the Fabian Society’s London School of Economics, and Roundtable Movement’s Council on Foreign Relations… YET both figures dispute publicly with one another over a variety of details about pricing, mechanisms of capital controls, interest etc. Due to their common criticisms of the obvious failures of neoliberalism, both Sachs and Weber have led in charm offences targeting the Chinese intelligentsia from varying angles while simultaneously promoting “Green New Deal” programs across the west and east alike.</p><p>Both Sachs and Isabella M Weber are not only united in their adherence to Keynes’ general worldview, but they additionally share other common characteristics in regards to promoting the dual lie that:</p><ol><li><p>Plato’s philosophy was ‘advanced’ by Aristotle with both men equally founding the thing falsely labelled ‘western civilization’.</p></li></ol><p>and</p><ol start="2"><li><p>Asian philosophy exists in another universe completely separate and removed from western ‘logical’ civilization of the imagined Plato-Aristotle hybrid.</p></li></ol><p>While Isabella Weber developed this fallacious thesis in her best selling book ‘<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372836855_Isabella_M_Weber_How_China_Escaped_Shock_Therapy_The_Market_Reform_Debate">How China Escaped Shock Therapy</a>’, Jeffrey Sachs recently played the role of Aristotle in a terribly stage-managed debate with Ban Ki-Moon who played the role of an incompetent Confucius <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnRXZnAtF0">at a recent Athens Democracy Forum</a>.</p><p>The fact is that, the assumption that Plato’s philosophy is not opposed to Aristotle and the assumption that ‘western logical thinking’ exists in an opposing universe to eastern sensibilities are among two of the most virulent lies at the heart of imperial mental controls of humanity.</p><p>Plato’s Republic (on the organization of the soul and the state around a pursuit of Justice) and especially his Laws feature alot of material on the practical management of society around practical principles- very much in harmony with the principles of the Guanxi that have animated Chinese economic thinking for over four millenia.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"6AAESZHz6Ic","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-6AAESZHz6Ic" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6AAESZHz6Ic?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Additionally, the Confucian concepts of Tian Ming (aka: <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.substack.com/p/the-harmony-between-tianxia-and-westphalia">the Mandate of Heaven</a>) and the notions of Natural Law developed by Plato and Christian Platonists like St. Augustine and Thomas More represent identical universal principles expressed through western and eastern garbs in both theory and forms of practice.</p><p>Dr. Quan Le’s recent presentation on this topic provides a wonderful gateway to begin to think about this concept:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"PtFZXvWFmbA","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-PtFZXvWFmbA" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PtFZXvWFmbA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Throughout their many writings, Jeffrey Sachs and Isabella Weber are correct to identify Aristotle’s worldview as more prescriptive than Plato’s, but Aristotle’s system is also devoid of honesty, and presumes axioms like the blank slate in contrast to the presumption of a pre-existent harmony expressed in creation or the soul of Plato’s worldview. Aristotle’s system additionally presupposes an impotent God as “prime mover” while Plato’s system presumes an active living creator and Aristotle’s God found it reasonable to create a world of born masters and born slaves with different sets of “Justice” applied to each caste.</p><p>These are notions which both Plato and Confucius entirely reject.</p><p>Just to be clear: I don’t disagree that there are different points of emphasis from Chinese or Platonic/Christian western ideas, but <strong>the core universal principles </strong>are the same and the principle of<em><strong> striving </strong></em>to strike a balance between broad universal principles and practical action (tied intimately to the freedom-duty/ destiny-free will/change-no change paradox) is the same in both worlds.</p><p>The works of Confucius’ student Mencius provides an excellent gateway into this topic:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"1AP63IN7PYQ","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-1AP63IN7PYQ" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1AP63IN7PYQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Similarly the same<em><strong> defects of thinking</strong></em> that encourage unexamined assumptions, blind faith in mysticism and belief in irrationalist universes are also found with common attributes in both Western and Eastern worlds with trails of wars, depopulation, dark ages and occult priesthoods littering the historic experiences of both worlds.</p><p>EIR researcher Michael Billington’s work on this topic is of most profound interest. His work on <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_97-01/973_deconst_china.pdf">The Deconstructionist Assault on China’s Cultural Optimism</a> and <a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/943_tao.html">The Taoist Perversion of 20th Century Science</a> are two of the most potent treatments this author has seen on this issue.</p><p>Guiding prescriptions for philosopher kings (or even lower level managers who are not at that higher level) are expressed beautifully in ancient Chinese ethical texts like the Guanxi, Analects and Five Classics.</p><p>It is also found within the corpus of writings of all <em>true</em> Platonists of the western world.</p><p>I say “true Platonists” in order to differentiate from the infinitely divisible schools of neo-Platonist occultists and Aristotelians-acting-like Platonists which have carried out immense damage to humanity (and Plato’s name) for over 2300 years. These counterfeit Platonists are, in many ways, similar to the worst of China’s legalists who have portrayed themselves as Confucians- yet who merely justified tyranny instead of cultivating the love of humanity as Confucius espoused.</p><p>The priesthoods of mystery religions have always organized these false schools with their infinitely divisible controversies and creations of new innovative models that are not dissimilar to the modern incarnation of the occult mystery school techniques shaping Cambridge where ‘apostles’ like Lords John Maynard Keynes, and Bertrand Russell served as high priests of the Empire.</p><h3>How China is Reviving the American System</h3><p>A couple of years ago, I composed a presentation on the roots of the Westphalian system from Plato’s Republic to the American Revolution.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"R5cqHvGCuZo","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-R5cqHvGCuZo" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/R5cqHvGCuZo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p><a href="https://youtu.be/R5cqHvGCuZo?si=JyAXn83U8XLChciP">In this lecture </a>(which also makes up a chunk of my <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/04/28/now-available-volume-3-of-clash-of-the-two-americas-the-birth-of-a-eurasian-manifest-destiny/">Clash of the Two Americas volume 3</a>), I attempted to demonstrate the evolution of the American System of Political Economy from Solon and Plato through Cicero’s Commonwealth, St. Augustine, Charlemagne (who created a dynamic with Haroun Al Rashid and the Tang Dynasty), to the Cameralist school of Germany, and the Dirigiste school of France’s Jean-Baptiste Colbert.</p><p>I additionally sought to illustrate how these same Dirigistes emerged in England around Erasmus, Cardinal Thomas Morton and Thomas More (who’s book “Utopia” offers both practical and ideal lessons for rulers).</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"mRVlB7vHAA0","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-mRVlB7vHAA0" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mRVlB7vHAA0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>This school of political-economic theory had a powerful expression in Florence and Spain as well, and it flowed into the work of the great scientist Gottfried Leibniz (<a href="https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/1992/fidv01n03-1992Fa/fidv01n03-1992Fa_054-gottfried_leibniz_society_and_ec.pdf">On Society and Economy 1671</a>, and Emmerich de Vattel, James Logan, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton, etc.</p><p>In reviewing the writings of leading representatives of this school of political economy, I was struck that they are always authentic Platonists… without exception. These figures were proponents of both the theory (realm of ideals) and also the practical material application of national programs that gave rise to the American System of Political Economy. Despite the name ‘American System’, leading representatives of this school before and after the American revolution included German industrialists like Otto von Bismarck and Friedrich List as well as French, Russian and Asian nationalists like Sadi Carnot, Sergei Witte and President Sun Yatsen.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.jpeg" width="750" height="328" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71beb3ca-a649-4c05-abed-226048875fae_750x328.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":328,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>All of this is investigable <em><strong>as an unbroken continuity in both theory and practice </strong></em>within universal history.</p><p>This school’s very existence is entirely rejected by Marxist collectivists and Adam Smith Free Trading individualists… as well as Keynesians and Austrian School libertarians.</p><p>The reason for the rejection of this school’s unbroken existence from Solon and Confucius to our current age may have something to do with the fact that it is characterised by the rejection of any notion of value premised on the belief in either pleasure-pain principles or cold utilitarianism. The pleasure-pain principle and cold utilitarian principle of ‘what is useful is good’ serve as the basis of all functional false oppositions from ancient times to our present confused age, so it is no wonder that an entire school of thought built upon creative discovery, moral virtue and Natural Law would be seen as a grave threat to those puppet masters controlling the shadows on the cave wall entrapping most of humanity, for most of the time.</p><p>In the American system of political economy, theory (the transcendental realm of Ideas/Being) and practice (the material realm of Action/Becoming) are co-developed with a look to creating a society where all men and women could attain the qualifications of being truly aristocratic (ie: the best cultural expression of themselves as beings animated by the pursuit of knowledge, love of wisdom, devotion to humanity and playful exploration).</p><p>Geopolitical analysts Glenn Diesen and Pepe Escobar have both demonstrated a solid comprehension of this history and Glenn <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-War-Eurasian-World-Order/dp/1949762955/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EF6WSQ3MQTSF&amp;keywords=the+ukraine+war+and+the+eurasian+world+order&amp;qid=1706696353&amp;sprefix=The+Ukraine+War+and+%2Caps%2C312&amp;sr=8-1">even wrote a book on the topic </a>which was reviewed by Escobar in an article titled <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-will-hegemon-ever-accept-new-westphalian-world-order">Will The Hegemon Ever Accept A New Westphalian World Order?</a></p><p>In his review of Diesen’s book, Escobar writes:</p><p><em>“With a lovely on the road formulation, Diesen shows how<strong> ‘Russia can be considered the successor of the Mongolian nomads as the last custodian of the Eurasian land corridor’</strong>, while China revives the Ancient Silk Roads ‘with economic connectivity’. In consequence,<strong> ‘a powerful Eurasian gravitational pull is thus reorganizing the supercontinent and the wider world.’</strong></em></p><p><em>Providing context, Diesen needs to engage in an obligatory detour to the basics of the Great Game between the Russian and British empires. What stands out is how Moscow already was pivoting to Asia all the way to the late 19th century, when Russian Finance Minister Sergei Witte started to develop a groundbreaking road map for a Eurasia political economy, ‘borrowing from Alexander Hamilton and Friedrich List.’</em></p><p><em>Witte ‘wanted to end Russia’s role as an exporter of natural resources to Europe as it resembled ‘the relations of colonial countries with their metropolises’.”</em></p><h1>The Fatal Imbalance of Individualism vs Collectivism</h1><p>The problem in the west is tied, in my view to the volatility caused by the powerful (but also powerfully destructive) insight into the Promethean nature of humanity expressed in Christianity which resulted in the concept of the sacredness of the individual and associated notion that we are all equally made in the image of a living loving, reasonable Creator.</p><p>While the sacredness of the individual is found within Chinese, and Indian texts, it never emerged as explicitly and loudly as it had within the west- and like they say, with great power comes great responsibilities. In this case the freedom of the individual must accompany the maturation of reason and conscious of the individual such that each sovereign citizen becomes willfully obedient to discovered truths about moral laws- uniting the sense of individual liberty and happiness with the liberty and happiness of the whole nation.</p><p>If that doesn’t happen, then that power can cause the extreme damage in the hands of an oligarchical high priest class of Satanists.</p><p>This imbalance appears to be the cause of the Golden Renaissance’s decadence and the perversion of that beautiful potential for Goodness which decayed into the empiricist enlightenment, with accompanying wars, pride in the self, emergence of god-less perversions of science, and Hobbesian systems of empire to which both Keynes, von Hayek, Jeffrey Sachs and Isabella Weber have devoted themselves.</p><h3><em>Also watch for free our RTF Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/introducing-a-new-video-series-escaping">Escaping Calypso’s Island: A Journey Out of Our Green Delusion</a>” and our CP Docu-Series “<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/new-documentary-release-the-hidden">The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs</a>”.</em></h3><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc32e687e-e086-4c97-8ef2-e0d99ec8ccb4_750x391.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc32e687e-e086-4c97-8ef2-e0d99ec8ccb4_750x391.png" width="750" height="391" 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<p>Here are the steps and pros/cons of using a Home Theater PC (HTPC) for your home entertainment system.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-system">The System</h2>
<p>I’m using a Mini PC from Beelink (model SER8) with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845U processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. It has a built-in AMD 780M GPU and runs Windows 11 Pro.</p>
<p>No external GPU is needed for this system, as it’s powerful enough to handle 4K video playback and light gaming. For some this is sufficient as a main machine, but for me, I want to use this system for some couch gaming.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-setup">The Setup</h2>
<p>Out of the box these mini PC systems are configured in a balanced mode, which is fine for most users. However, I wanted to tweak the system to get the most out of it for my use case. I set the power plan to high performance, disabled the sleep mode, and set the display to never turn off. I also modified bios settings to always run at max power.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/bios.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<p>Other Tweaks:</p>
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<li>Chris Titus Tech’s Windows Utility - Standard Tweaks applied - <a href="https://github.com/christitustech/winutil">GitHub Guide</a></li>
<li>Tweaked resolution with <a href="https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU">Custom Resolution Utility</a></li>
<li>Resolution set to 1080p for gaming (Note: If you have performance issues, you can lower the resolution to 720p)</li>
<li>Installed <a href="https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software">Radeon Software</a> for GPU settings</li>
<li>Steam Installed and Set to Big Picture Mode on Startup (Controller used for all gaming)</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-performance">The Performance</h2>
<p>I tested this out on stream with various games and it performed well. I was able to match the advertised FPS per the manufacturer’s website.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/game-fps.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="livestream-benchmarks">Livestream Benchmarks</h3>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="io-ports-for-beelink-ser8">IO Ports for Beelink SER8</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/io.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="pros-and-cons">Pros and Cons</h2>
<p>The pros of this type of system is portability, speed, and power consumption. The cons are the lack of upgradability and the need for an external GPU for more demanding games. Also, Don’t expect above 60 FPS on modern AAA games.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 4]
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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-the-khazarian
title: What’s the Deal with the “Khazarian Mafia” Explanation of Everything?
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<p>Matt Ehret chats with Courtenay Turner about all things Khazaria with a look towards the origins and corrupting influence of the Kabbalah on Judaism, to the gnostic Christian cults that served as a cover for the ancient mystery religions that plagued the world for millennia.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v44u249-is-the-khazarian-mafia-a-conspiracy-theory-w-matthew-ehret-the-courtenay-tu.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ce0a7af-df6c-499a-a780-d9eab6501481_750x412.png" width="750" height="412" 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title: Mariupol 2024: construction, renovations, pulse of life
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/b512759d3e9f511c547c058dc21a331e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mariupol 2024: construction, renovations, pulse of life"></p>On my last visit to Mariupol, one morning I walked ~15 minutes (if I didn't keep stopping to film) from the centre to the site of newly constructed apartment buildings. While doing so, I kept stopping every 5 or so metres to film renovations on the street I was walking on, so prevalent are the ongoing renovations.<br><br>I would like to reiterate that rags like the Guardian which claim Mariupol was completely "destroyed" were/are lying through their teeth, as they did re Syria (where the Guardian rendered terrorists into fuzzy "rebels" and whitewashed al-Qaeda in Syria (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/)). They also do not mention the reason for what damage and destruction there was in Mariupol (In summary: Ukrainian troops, and Azov Nazis, occupying upper floors of apartment buildings and firing on Russian troops (and also on civilians).<br><br>I'll be writing an article which will address some of the dirty tricks the Guardian used in an article (2023) I only recently came across, wherein they grossly distorted satellite images to fit their lying narrative that Mariupol was completely destroyed (as in levelled like the US actually did to Raqqa, or as Israel actually has been doing all over the Gaza Strip). <br><br>For now, this clip, which includes some conversations I had with a woman who lived in Mariupol during 2022 (when Ukraine was severely bombarding Donetsk (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/), where she was from), and her notes on changes in Mariupol that surprised even her.

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title: Mariupol pulse of life, May 2024
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/8a485c63ac204efb07f1ada83339a71d.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mariupol pulse of life, May 2024 "></p>Following my re-visits to Crimea (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/18833) &amp; Donbass (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19036), 🇷🇺 I've finally found the time to stitch together some of my footage from Mariupol!<br><br>The city is brimming with life &amp; construction. This short clip is a taste of what I saw in my recent visit, with a couple of clips from visits last year &amp; late 2022.<br><br>I'll be putting together more videos from my last visit—there is so much construction that's happened since I visited last year. I was astonished. <br><br>For a city "destroyed" (as Western mouthpieces claim), Mariupol is pulsing with life.

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guid: https://odysee.com/rbn:da60b00912c57acc089704299f522e57686727cf
title: Interview with Revolutionary Blackout Network
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/1b62f5323f3e44704e4f5466e9e84ab6.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview with Revolutionary Blackout Network"></p>I spoke recently with Nick of Revolutionary Blackout Network on a variety of issues, including the on the ground community-building work he is involved in, supporting Palestine—especially Palestinian Resistance, and why average people have been conditioned to hate places like the DPRK (North Korea).<br><br>A very interesting conversation, I'm grateful to Nick for his time. <br><br>Follow him at:<br><br>https://www.youtube.com/@revolutionaryblackout7315<br>https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com/<br>https://x.com/SocialistMMA<br>https://www.patreon.com/RevolutionaryBlackout<br><br><br><br>Related Links:<br><br>-The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist. 22/06/2021, Louis Allday<br>https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist n<br><br><br><br>-Bilin &amp; nonviolent resistance<br><br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/protesters-take-rubber-bullets-to-head-and-stomach-at-bilin/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/good-ole-cnnenterprise/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/no-iof-love-for-bilin-non-violent-protesters/ <br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/<br><br><br>-Bassem Abu Rahme, killed by Israeli army in Bil’in protest against the Wall<br>https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/bassem-abu-rahme-killed-in-bilin-protest-against-the-wall-rest-peacefully/<br><br>-Great March of Return protests <br>https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return <br><br>-Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria (regarding “nonviolent” “rebels” in Syria )<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ <br><br>-My report from visit to the DPRK<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/  <br><br>-We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E <br>Interview With The Makers of “The Haircut (2017) A North Korean Adventure”<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/interview-with-the-makers-of-the-haircut-2017-a-north-korean-adventure/ <br><br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/<br><br><br><br><br>

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-americas-anti-fascist
title: What Happened to America’s Anti-Fascist Traditions?
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<p>By Matthew Ehret</p><p>Americans once took great pride in the defeat of the Nazi scourge that threatened to run roughshod over the 20<sup>th</sup> century and beyond. <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/11/10/how-to-crush-a-bankers-dictatorship-a-lesson-from-1933/">Under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt,</a> America mobilized not only to heal from the devastation of the Great Depression, but also became a global leader of industrial power supplying the Allies with the tools they needed to fight the war before entering the fight herself in 1941.</p><p>Coming out of that scarring experience, there was great hope that the world would finally be raised out of the fires of imperialism, poverty and war. The UN charter enshrined <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/01/08/fdrs-four-freedoms-indict-inspire-us-today/">Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms</a>, respect for sovereignty and a mandate for economic cooperation into law giving hope that a new age of brotherhood was upon us.</p><p>Despite certain pushbacks by US Statesmen to the Anglo-American special relationship, and military industrial complex that began to take on a life of its own, <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/02/06/fdrs-anti-colonial-vision-for-the-post-war-world-as-he-saw-it-revisited/">FDR’s vision for world peace</a> continued to die throughout the Cold War.</p><p>Perhaps it was allowing RAND Corp computer modellers to shape international policy, or perhaps it was the FBI-McCarthyite witch hunts and constant threat of global nuclear annihilation that caused once-courageous Americans to become gullible and fearful. Whatever the cause had been, the fact that major components of Hitler’s intelligence apparatus and unapologetic fascists were repurposed after the war to be used to combat Communism throughout the Cold War did not help.</p><p>Allen Dulles was quick to instal Hitler’s top intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen as the head of West German intelligence along with his entire network, and then before we knew it, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhRBxxyRqs">Operation Gladio was launched</a> by the CIA and NATO which utilized armadas of Nazi war criminals dubbed “stay behinds” throughout Europe. This operation ran terrorist attacks, and assassinations targeting civilian population and even troublesome statesmen like Enrico Mattei or Prime Minister Aldo Moro who didn’t wish to play ball with Cold War games. At least several of the 30 attempts on de Gaulle’s life were attributed to this network.</p><p>It was within this context that the plague of Ukrainian Nazism <a href="https://southfront.org/an-inside-look-at-how-us-funded-fascists-in-ukraine-mentor-us-white-supremacists/">running rampant in Ukraine today</a> and which has done so much damage during the past eight-year Civil War in Eastern Ukraine is to be found.</p><p>Stephan Bandera who was honored as an official national hero in Kiev was himself a Nazi-collaborator during WWII whose Organization for Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) exterminated over 100 thousand jews and poles between 1941-1944. After the CIA forgave the OUN for all crimes in 1951, Bandera was quickly installed into Gehlen’s networks and immediately went to work in Gladio terror operations and was killed by the KGB in 1959. Bandera’s colleague Mykola Lebed who also oversaw OUN-directed genocides fared better in the USA where he led a consulting company called Prolog Research Corporation alongside head of CIA directorate of plans Frank Wisner.</p><p>Is it any wonder that that it was in this atmosphere that, America lost touch with her constitutional traditions?</p><p>How could the great republic navigate through the world as a moral leader when she had so deeply compromised on her own anti-fascist principles? From the earliest days of the Truman Doctrine, unjust wars were launched abroad, and nationalist leaders of foreign countries not wishing to play Banana republic roles in the Great Game often found themselves assassinated or overthrown in CIA-run coups.</p><p>The practice of lying to Americans using false flags (such as Operation Northwoods and the Gulf of Tonkin non-incident that unleashed the Vietnam War) became common practice and the military industrial complex which Eisenhower warned of in 1960 only grew.</p><p>Under Zbigniew Brzezinski’s guidance, <a href="https://www.sott.net/article/352366-Grand-architect-of-modern-terrorism-The-true-horror-of-Zbigniew-Brzezinskis-policies">the CIA-funded emergence of Islamic terrorism</a> became just another chess piece on the Great Game. Like the use of Nazis stay-behinds earlier, this was of course justified by the belief that all evils were good if they stopped the supposedly expansionist Soviet Union.</p><p>Many hoped that the dissolution of the Soviet Union would finally put an end to this age of chaos, confusion and murky morality.</p><p>Sadly, it wasn’t long after Bush Sr’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/09/12/bush-out-of-these-troubled-times-a-new-world-order/b93b5cf1-e389-4e6a-84b0-85f71bf4c946/">1990 New World Order speech</a> and Desert Storm that the Wolfowitz doctrine was established calling for the prevention of “the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere”. <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Toward-a-Neo-Reaganite-Foreign-Policy-Kristol-Kagan/729df229a342db6c0e741a29231035e809569f75">In a bone chilling 1992 manifesto</a>, William Kristol and Robert Kagan (husband to Victoria F-the-EU Nuland) called for the USA to lead a “benevolent global hegemony”.</p><p>Rather than seeing a renaissance of US-Russian relations and an age of peace as hoped by many, the dream was again killed as it had been earlier in 1945. Instead of promised investments into Russian industrial growth, the USA oversaw the destruction of Russia under Perestroika, and the creation of a new parasitic oligarchical class. With the help of money from Soros, the NED and CIA, former Soviet states saw their economies torn to shreds and militaries enmeshed increasingly into NATO whose raison d’etre should have dissolved in 1992. A logic of full spectrum dominance encircling Russia became increasingly recognized as the driving intent behind NATO’s growth which always had the Ukraine and Georgia in its crosshairs.</p><p>The USA continued to advance into the 21<sup>st</sup> century under the religious like assumption that the New World Order must be shaped by unchallenged Anglo-American hegemony as outlined by the Wolfowitz doctrine earlier and restated by the authors of the Project for a New American Century who seized power in 2000.</p><p>Since the 2014 Maidan coup which saw fascist mercenaries under Azov, Svoboda and Right Sector banners overthrow the pro-Russian government of Yanukovych, thousands of civilians in East Ukraine have been killed. Openly brazen neo-Nazis like Dimitry Yarosh have been appointed as special advisor to the head of Ukraine’s military (in Nov. 2021) and it has become evident that the old Cold War practices have been tough habits to break.</p><p>We are being told by nearly all media outlets in true Cold War fashion that Putin has started a war with his 2022 special military operation. </p><p>I maintain that the NATO/neo-Nazi war against Russia began in 2014 and that in many ways WWII itself never truly ended. Taking those often-ignored facts of history into account, it appears Putin might be trying to finally end it.</p>

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/mindspace-psyops-and-cognitive-warfare
title: MindSpace, Psyops, and Cognitive Warfare: Winning the Battle for the Mind
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<h2>By David Gosselin</h2><p>The last few years have seen a culmination of a nearly century-long effort to perfect social engineering and psychological warfare techniques in the Western world. Some observers have remarked that a significant portion of the population appears to be under a spell. They may be closer to the truth than they think.</p><p>As previously reported by <em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/08/study-finds-growing-government-use-of-sensitive-data-to-nudge-behaviour">The Guardian</a></em> and <em><a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/brian-gerrishs-testimony-to-reiner-fullmich-our-oppressors-are-very-frightened-people">The UK Column</a></em>, governments across the Western world—especially among the Five Eyes—have been using “Nudge Theory” and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to effectively change people’s behaviors without their conscious knowledge.</p><p>The purpose of this article is to provide an in-depth look at precisely how these psychological techniques work, as well as the main nodes tasked with weaponizing them. We will then consider how a precise understanding of <em>how</em> the methods are used can essentially allow people to neutralize them, as well as <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537265-nato-cognitive-warfare-public-mind/">their future use</a>.</p><p>Notable among the array of techniques used in the covid-19 pandemic response is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP includes the idea of “re-framing” people’s perception of reality by changing the context in which various situations or realities are viewed by individuals. Interestingly, the first book on NLP, <em>The Structure of Magic</em>, includes such chapters as “Becoming a Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “The Final Incantation.”</p><p>Therapeutic techniques associated with NLP are often described as having magic-like qualities. While these techniques may be considered neutral and potentially very useful for clients wishing to resolve personal issues, they can by their very nature be weaponized and used to redefine people’s perception of reality. As we will see, by “re-framing” an individual’s perception and transforming their “linguistic model,” they may be convinced to make choices that they would not consciously make were a wider or alternative “context” presented.</p><p>Re-wind to the UK Institute for Government’s 2010 <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/mindspace">MindSpace</a></em> discussion document and we find something akin to a twenty-first century “<a href="https://www.thechainedmuse.com/post/the-sorcerer-s-apprentice">Sorcerer’s Apprentice</a>” handbook. Commissioned by the UK Cabinet Office, <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/MINDSPACE.pdf">MindSpace</a></em> is filled with techniques that could be used to target what its authors refer to as “automatic processes” i.e. unconscious processes. The document reads like a “how to” on changing people’s thoughts and behavior patterns without their conscious knowledge or consent. As we will see “re-framing” techniques feature prominently in the form of the document’s “context” model of behaviour change. Today, we observe their application in virtually every sector of public policy-making.</p><p>Ostensibly a discussion document, the “About this document” section of the report describes its purpose as “exploring the application of behavioural theory to public policy for senior public sector leaders and policy-makers.” Hailing from several of the UK’s “elite” institutions, including London Imperial College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, its authors are some of the leading experts in the fields of social psychology and behavioural science.</p><p>On page 14, the<em> MindSpace</em> authors outline the basic outlook and insights guiding their approach to “behaviour change” by making the distinction between “automatic processes” and “reflective processes”:</p><p>“The contrasting model of behaviour change focuses on the more automatic processes of judgment and influence – what Robert Cialdini calls “click, whirr” processes of mind. This shifts the focus of attention away from facts and information, and towards altering the context within which people act. We might call this the “context” model of behaviour change. The context model recognises that that people are sometimes seemingly irrational and inconsistent in their choices, often because they are influenced by surrounding factors. Therefore, it focuses more on “changing behaviour without changing minds.” This route has received rather less attention from researchers and policymakers.”</p><p>Page 14 of the “Introduction” section includes a chart outlining the characteristic differences between the two systems:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.png" width="517" height="279" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5b4b052b-0022-4473-a362-594ad5940286_517x279.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":279,"width":517,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>“Changing behaviour without changing minds” is in many ways similar to NLP “re-framing” techniques. Considering its significance and potential future use, a few words on the nature of NLP should be added.</p><h2><strong>The Structure of “Magic”</strong></h2><p>Since its foundations were laid in <em>The Structure of Magic</em> by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, NLP practitioners have described NLP as having magic-like qualities. NLP is usually framed as a question of expanding a client’s ability to deal with the real world by transforming the linguistic models through which they interface with the world. NLP practitioners point out that none of us directly interact with the real world, but rather do so in accordance with the models that we have ourselves developed to map the world. Said otherwise, our actual experience of the world and the models or maps that we create based on that experience are not identical. In <em>The Structure of Magic</em> the authors use the example of an actual map, which is not the actual territory, but only a representation of it. The map is useful to the degree that it resembles the actual territory, but it is not the territory. From there, the authors list three basic ways that people may misshape their own maps of reality: deletions, distortions, and generalizations.</p><p>By helping the client to change his/her map—formed linguistically—an NLP practitioner can help change how a person responds and behaves under various circumstances.</p><p>As an initial practical example of the potential effects, one can change the frame of reference in respect to time: someone told they have one hour to write a paper will likely have a significantly different response than if they are told they have one week to write the same paper. Time becomes a critical frame of reference.</p><p>John Grinder gives the example of a session with a client who complains: “My son makes me so angry when he comes home late.” The mother is always upset when her son arrives home late. There seems to be no option that doesn’t lead to some kind of distressed state. So the therapist may ask: “Is there a time when your son came home and you weren’t angry?” By asking the client to identify some time where they didn’t have the same reaction, they are being challenged to retrieve new information from their “deep structure” and integrate it into a new expanded model. The client is creating choice where it previously did not exist.</p><p>In NLP terms, the “surface structure” (My son makes me so angry when he comes home late) suggests that their son coming home late, regardless of any context, is the cause of their anger and distress. In that limited surface structure no alternative choice or response exists in the event their son arrives home late. However, using a series of questions the therapist can challenge the client to refine their own model in order to create a more adaptive one. So cases included in the client’s “deep structure” are brought to the surface i.e. perhaps coming home late was not the actual problem: maybe it was the fear of their child being out late after dark, or a feeling of disrespect, a refusal accept the maturation of their child, or a feeling of neglect? In a word: the client is challenged to create “well-formed” sentences which include the deletions or reject the generalizations, distortions. In a word: the NLP expert can help clients re-evaluate their linguistic map, allowing for a change in their potential response or choice in various situations.</p><p>With these basic NLP techniques or “incantations,” patients are provided with new opportunities to reframe their experience. However, this “reframing” of the world according to alternative linguistic models also means that their thoughts and behaviours may be altered either for better or for worse. The naturally neutral nature of “re-framing” techniques may be either more accurate or less accurate, or even completely false, depending on how one “re-frames” their perception of reality.</p><p>A relevant example would be recent covid-19 messaging slogans like “Stay Home. Save Lives.” While a seemingly simple and straight-forward message, upon further examination the seemingly simple surface structure “Stay home. Save lives” has a very specific “deep structure.” The statement includes what in NLP terms could be considered “deletions” or simply “generalizations.” For example, if one tries to invert or explore the statement “Stay Home. Save Lives” and all its possibilities, one finds the slogan has only one alternative: “leave your home and murder people.”</p><p>The linguistic model frames reality as a set of two choices: making the conscious decision to save lives or take lives. There is no nuance, no exceptions for young and healthy people, or specifications for people at higher risk of becoming ill. According to the “Stay Home. Save Lives” model, one can effectively murder people simply by choosing to leave their home.</p><p>The reframing of basic everyday scenarios in order to elicit the maximum fear response with almost scientific precision is not by chance. Social engineers understand that by framing questions in a certain manner such that they directly target “automatic motivations,” basic evolutionary mechanisms can be activated and weaponized.</p><p>In fact, as the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22032020.pdf">March 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 board meeting summary</a> documents, the perception of personal threat and danger in respect to covid-19 had to be increased in order to increase compliance with covid-19 social-distancing measures. Point 2, under the “Persuasion” option of the SAGE meeting minutes reads as follows:</p><p>Perceived threat: A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group (8), although levels of concern may be rising. Having a good understanding of the risk has been found to be positively associated with adoption of COVID-19 social distancing measures in Hong Kong (10). The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting Evaluation of options for increasing social distancing Page 2 emotional messaging. To be effective this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22032020.pdf">March 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2020 SAGE Meeting Minutes</a></p><p>While the SAGE board is a UK government organization, various other UK agencies and outlets turn out to be at the very center of the covid-19 messaging campaigns across the entire Five Eyes i.e. Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. Specifically, the <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/">Behavioural Insights Team</a> (BIT) appears to be one of the crucial and most effective nodes in this psychological warfare web, operating under the guise of crafting effective covid-19 messaging and using <em>MindSpace</em> “behavioural insights” to shape public policy.</p><h2><strong>Entering </strong><em><strong>MindSpace</strong></em></h2><p>With some background knowledge of how the latest research into social psychology and behavioural science is being applied, let us take a closer look at exactly how specific knowledge of <em>MindSpace </em>and its particular “behavioural insights” can vastly transform our own ability to not only defeat present psychological warfare operations, but may also prevent future ones.</p><p>As we have said, the main focus of <em>MindSpace</em> is centered on the crucial distinction between “reflective processes” and “automatic processes”:</p><p><em>The two s</em>ystems have different capabilities: the reflective mind has limited capacity, but offers more systematic and “deeper” analysis. The automatic mind processes many things separately, simultaneously, and often unconsciously, but is more “superficial”: it takes short-cuts and has ingrained biases. As one academic source explains,<em> “once triggered by environmental features, [these] preconscious automatic processes run to completion without any conscious monitoring.”</em></p><p><em>“Without any</em> <em>conscious monitoring” </em>means if certain messages are framed in such a manner <em>t</em>hat they bypass conscious processes and speak directly to the automatic processes, then by the nature of the evolutionary mechanisms built into us (for example, fight or flight responses), humans are hard-wired to respond without having to resort to self-conscious decision-making. An example of triggers for our automatic processes and motivations are the sudden appearance of existential danger, or someone threating our children: our bodies and minds are hard-wired to respond; our adrenaline spikes; fight or flight responses kick in whether we wish them to or not. Furthermore, regardless of whether the perceived threat is real or not, the perception of such a threat has essentially the same effect on our built-in mechanisms and<em> “automatic processes.”</em></p><p>In this light, consider the fact that<em> Mindspace</em> is essentially a document discussing the vast array of techniques to trigger and direct our automatic motivations with scientific precision and with the least amount of intervention by our “reflective processes.”</p><p>Page 18 in the “User’s Guide” section presents a checklist of influences on our behaviour:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.png" width="720" height="403" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c880c140-8574-4974-b41d-ec4a1abf7dc5_720x403.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":403,"width":720,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So today, it is believed that by “re-framing” reality and <a href="https://www.weforum.org/videos/the-great-narrative-the-great-narrative-a-call-to-action-english">the narratives</a> people live their lives by i.e. “the context model” and “nudging” people from the standpoint of various behavioural insights found in <em>MindSpace</em>, including natural “defaults,” “norms,” “cues,” “priming”—all of which target the automatic processes—it’s believed that people can be “nudged” into making choices they otherwise would not make. Morever, it’s believed that because behaviours and thoughts will be changed “below-board” i.e. using automatic motivations, even if people know their ideas have changed, they won’t necessarily be able to know how or why.</p><p>In a word: the whole art of “nudging” and “re-framing” lies in crafting messages that speak directly to our automatic processes with the limited intervention of our “reflective processes.” For, the latter instantly slows down the “click whirr” response of automatic processes and leads to more questions.</p><p>Of course,<em> MindSpace</em> uses benign examples to demonstrate how its “non-coercive” influences work, from putting a vegetable option first in school cafeterias in order to improve diet among children, to creating more smoke-free zones using distance. However, when looked at more closely, it is precisely the “automatic motivations” that can be triggered and weaponized within various contexts, especially in times of perceived crisis or threat.</p><p>Having discussed the basic outlines and intentions behind <em>MindSpace</em>, we can now fast-forward to the application of these techniques in the recent two years. Enter the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known as the “Nudge Unit.”</p><h2><strong>The BIT: </strong>“<strong>Nudging</strong>”<strong> Towards a Brave New World</strong></h2><p>According to its website, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is jointly owned by “the UK Cabinet Office, the innovation charity Nesta and BI employees.” Not surprisingly, the UK Cabinet Office is the same institution that commissioned <em>MindSpace</em> several years earlier.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/">Behavioural Insights Team</a> (BIT) appears to be one of the most effective nodes in this psychological warfare web. Its website states that they have <a href="https://www.bi.team/about-us/our-offices/">offices</a> across the entirety of the Five Eyes, as well as France.</p><p>Known as the “Nudge Unit,” it has pioneered “nudge theory” as a means of changing people’s behavior in order to implement economic, public, environmental, and health policies. As we have discussed, nudging includes recognizing certain “default” positions that people have and “re-framing” the context of perceived choices according to various specifications. By their nature, these techniques involve Neuro Linguistic Programming where “anchors” and “cues,” “priming” and “re-framing” are utilized. These techniques have all been honed after decades of research such that an unknowing citizenry bombarded with a panoply of techniques meant to trigger their automatic motivations should hardly be able to recognize how these operations are being deployed across vast parts of the world. And yet, this is exactly what teams like the BIT are involved in.</p><p>As reported by the <em><a href="https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/who-controls-british-government-response-covid19-part-one">UK Column</a></em>, two teams were identified as leading the covid-19 response in Britain:</p><p>The first is the team at Imperial College led by Neil Ferguson, which claims to be able to use its computer models to forecast the spread and impact of the disease. The second is the army of behavioural “scientists” who have been ‘nudging’ us at every opportunity into making decisions which favour the preferred options set by global policy makers.</p><p>While the role of London Imperial College (LCI) in producing the doomsday models to justify the complete lockdown of the Western world is beyond the scope of this essay, it should be pointed out that the LCI has played a role very similar to that of the UK’s <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/09/29/the-collision-of-two-opposing-green-destinies-cop26-and-east-anglias-fraud/">East Anglia University</a> managing the statistical data used to generate “climate change” doomsday models, which are then cited by the UN and other government bodies the world over. Of interest for this report is the latter team: the “army” of behavioural scientists (of which the BIT appears to be a top-tier division).</p><p>Take for instance the BIT’s study of “<a href="https://www.bi.team/blogs/four-messages-that-can-increase-uptake-of-the-covid-19-vaccines/">Four Messages that Can Increase the Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines</a>” published on March 15<sup>th</sup>, 2021. The most effective message for increasing vaccination uptake was “protecting loved ones”:</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.png" width="501" height="475" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/409349d4-b9e7-4627-80b6-c150b21b4c10_501x475.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":475,"width":501,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Having studied the <em>MindSpace</em> findings on “automatic motivations,” the top-ranked message should come as no surprise: if someone is faced with the choice of “protecting loved ones” from an existential threat—whether real or perceived—the decision is <em>automatic</em>. Additionally, from the standpoint of “defaults” (losses looms larger than gains), most empathetic human beings will not want to risk losing loved ones—a major loss—for the sake of say attending some social function—a minor gain. Moreover, they will be willing to make great sacrifices in order to avoid even larger losses, whether potentially real or simply perceived.</p><p>As readers look over each of the four messages they should consider the fact that none of the messages themselves essentially require any sort of serious reflective process or conscious evaluation. Even the use of phrasings like “according to most experts” or “research shows” are themselves <em>not</em> scientific statements, but appeals to group think.</p><p>In reality, no honest scientist argues over the validity of their work or research by saying “most scientists agree.” Scientific truth and fact are <em>never</em> the product of consensus. And yet we have seen a very steep rise in the use of group-think arguments for promoting public policy, from the idea that “97% of scientists agree on global warming” to “thousands of healthcare workers are getting vaccinated.” Virtually all covid-19 public messaging is crafted to appeal to precisely the human tendency for group think and adherence to “norms.”</p><p>Consider the next three most effective messages.</p><p>Number two was covid-19 vaccination programs have the “<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/17-000-health-care-workers-quebec-vaccination-suspended-1.6191433">approval</a>” of healthcare workers.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.jpeg" width="530" height="568" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/391b9a30-1987-4e7a-99a4-6e36aa5fd5d6_530x568.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":568,"width":530,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Number three lists “Getting Lives Back,” but specifically prescribes <em>not</em> making promises that life will ever go back to “normal.”</p><p>The fourth and final most effective message is a simple and outright appeal to group-think i.e. “social proof.”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.png" width="508" height="532" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d5082519-6051-436e-8daa-4df64330e119_508x532.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":532,"width":508,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>None of these messages require critical faculties. In fact, they discourage them. They are specifically crafted to bypass conscious processes and directly speak to “automatic processes.”</p><h2><em><strong>Conclusion</strong></em></h2><p>As we mentioned at the beginning of this report, these latest developments in psychological warfare represent a culmination of a century-long effort to perfect social engineering in the Western world. While we discussed the application of these techniques in respect to covid-19 messaging, these techniques can be seen in public-policy messaging across virtually every sector of society, especially concerning the environment and economic policy.</p><p>When considering the current and future use of these kinds of techniques for “behaviour change,” let us remember the words of an early social engineering enthusiast and descendent of one of England’s oldest imperial lines, Lord Bertrand Russell. Over a half a century ago, Russell remarked:</p><p>The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.</p><p>Concluding his optimistic musings on the future of social engineering techniques, Russell writes:</p><p>Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.</p><p>Bertrand Russell – <em>The Impact of Science on Society</em> (1951)</p><p>While much of the applied research in the fields of social psychology and behavioural science appears to have enabled social engineers to imbue their messages with an almost spell-like quality, as even the founders of NLP described in <em>The Structure of Magic</em>—these “incantations” and “nudges” have a very definite structure. They are formulaic and therefore easily identifiable once a name has been put on them.</p><p>Since the would-be sorcerer’s apprentices of today appear to have no <a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537265-nato-cognitive-warfare-public-mind/">plans of letting up</a> on the application of these techniques across virtually every sphere of thought and action, the simple act of putting a name on them may be the essential step to “breaking the spell.” For, the act itself essentially neutralizes the “nudges” by turning them into conscious objects. Suddenly, “the populace” is “allowed to know how its convictions were generated.”</p><p>As <em>MindSpace</em> authors mentioned, automatic processes can go on operating unimpeded and without any monitoring by the conscious self until completion. In the case of an ever-changing crisis-management response and the organization of society around “pandenomics,” those simply waiting for the spells to wear off may find themselves disappointed, and neck-deep in crises far beyond the control of a twenty-first century sorcerer’s apprentice. The key to breaking the spell is naming it. O<strong>nce a name is put on these “structures,” forcing them out of the automatic processes and into conscious processes, the programs essentially stop running at their automatic “click, whirr” speed. Unconscious thoughts—the “deep structures”—are brought into view of other analytical processes—essentially gumming up the works. Suddenly, the “magic” disappears. The smooth and well-oiled thoughtless automatic flight forward reaches a screeching halt.</strong></p><p><strong>The spell is broken.</strong></p><p><strong>David B. Gosselin</strong> is a poet, translator, and linguist based in Montreal. He is the founder of <em><a href="https://www.thechainedmuse.com/">The Chained Muse</a></em> poetry website and the founder of the <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsAdXbEm8o&amp;feature=emb_title">New Lyre Podcast</a></em>.  His new collection of poems is entitled <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Dreams-David-Gosselin/dp/B0915VD4KZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=modern+dreams+david+gosselin&amp;qid=1637386510&amp;qsid=145-4735233-3300616&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;sres=B0915VD4KZ&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK">Modern Dreams</a></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Dreams-David-Gosselin/dp/B0915VD4KZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=modern+dreams+david+gosselin&amp;qid=1637386510&amp;qsid=145-4735233-3300616&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;sres=B0915VD4KZ&amp;srpt=ABIS_BOOK">.</a></p><p><strong>Works Cited</strong></p><p>Bandler, Richard, and John Grinder. <em>The Structure of Magic</em>. Science and Behavior Book, Inc. 1975</p><p>Halpern, David, et al. <em><a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/mindspace">MindSpace</a></em>. Institute for Government. UK Cabinet Office (2010).</p><p>Russell, Bertrand. <em>The Impact of Science on Society</em>. Routledge; 1st edition (Jan. 1 1985)</p><h2>Author bio: <strong>David Gosselin</strong> is a poet, researcher, and translator in Montreal, Canada. He is the founding editor of <a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/">The Chained Muse</a>. His personal Substack is <a href="https://ageofmuses.substack.com/">Age of Muses</a>, where he publishes historical deep-dives, original poetry and a variety of writings for a new renaissance.</h2>

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<h2>By Gerald Therrien</h2><p><em>On July 1st, we celebrate Canada day, or as it used to be called Dominion day, to celebrate the original confederation of 4 separate colonies under the British monarchy, into 1 Dominion of Canada under the British monarchy, on July 1st 1867. This is the story of how Canada became a ‘Dominion’ of the British parliamentary monarchy – that it remains to this day.</em></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.jpeg" width="1456" height="780" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce9c9b79-8fd7-4ea8-9f9a-8ba9889c4601_1920x1029.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":780,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1584878,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><h1>The Dark Side of Canada’s Confederation (Or How Palmerston’s Zoo shaped Canada)</h1><p>It is estimated that during the American Civil War, up to 40,000 Canadians volunteered to join the Union Army (many of them already living in the United States, including Calixa Lavallee – who would later compose the music for <em>O Canada</em>), while maybe up to 4,000 fought for the southern confederacy. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.jpeg" width="279" height="585" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c583dcf0-a2a5-4327-a83d-55e73a9f5894_279x585.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":585,"width":279,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Calixa Lavallee in his Union uniform</em></p><p>[for more of the story of Calixa Lavalle, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/05/25/calixa-lavallee-father-of-canadas-national-anthem-and-lafayette-of-american-music/">Calixa Lavallee: Father of Canada’s National Anthem and Lafayette of American music</a>’, by Matthew Ehret]</p><p>While the majority of Canadians were pro-American, the British government of Canada, however, was in favour of the break-up of the United States.  While the British did provide support to the southern confederates – allowing the confederate secret service to freely operate out of the Canadian colonies during the civil war, the British also supported the annexation of the Canadian provinces with some of the northern American states.</p><p>However, the British policy of Lord Palmerston meant that those northern states would be annexed into the British North American colonies <em>– </em>but not the other way around – NOT annexing the Canadian provinces into the American union.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.jpeg" width="318" height="500" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8202f154-3e70-47ea-be00-dbaa7518850b_318x500.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":500,"width":318,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":"undefined","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Henry Temple, Lord Palmerston</em></p><blockquote><p><em>“the confederated States of British North America … would virtually hold the balance of power on the continent, and lead to the restoration of that influence which, more than eighty years ago, England was supposed to have lost”</em></p><p>[Excerpt from the Morning Post, ‘the recognized organ of the Palmerstonian government’ in <em>The Civil War and the American System</em>, by Alan Salisbury. Page 30-31]</p></blockquote><p>On July 2<sup>nd</sup> 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the<em> ‘Pacific Railroad Act’</em>, to build a trans-continental railway from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California and the Pacific coast of America (accomplishing the greatest engineering feat that had ever been attempted), the British Empire saw their possessions of their small colony on Vancouver Island and the huge land holdings of the Hudson Bay Company in northern Canada threatened by America’s Manifest Destiny.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.jpeg" width="750" height="295" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46892ddc-d257-4fbf-bb86-4782c8ac0450_750x295.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":295,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>With the Union army victories at Vicksburg and at Gettysburg in July 1863, the British plan of separation and annexation was doomed. Not only that, but a new possibility of America’s annexation of British American colonies into the republic became a great fear for the British Empire, and had to be stopped at all costs.</p><p>And so began the Empire’s plan for Canada.</p><p>In the fall of 1863, Arthur Gordon, Governor of New Brunswick (and the son of the former British Prime Minister George Hamilton-Gordon (1852-1855)), proposed a meeting with the governors of the other maritime provinces – with George Dundas, the Governor of Prince Edward Island, and with George Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave, the Governor of Nova Scotia (and the former Treasurer of the Royal Household under the current Prime Minister Palmerston). </p><p>When Phipps left Nova Scotia to return to Britain in September 1763, his successor, Sir Richard MacDonnell, was sent to Nova Scotia with instructions to support a union of the maritime colonies. </p><p>Confederation was a high-level Palmerston project – run through the supporters of the government in the Canadian colonies – not the (real) Canadian reformers which they are often confused with today.</p><p>Gordon’s proposal was for a meeting of the three governors, along with their three provincial premiers – only! </p><p>However, Charles Tupper, who became the new premier of Nova Scotia in May, stated that the government of Nova Scotia would not attend Gordon’s conference unless delegates from the opposition were also allowed to attend, and the provincial legislature approved a resolution for a five-man all-party delegation to participate.  The premiers of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island followed Tupper’s lead. It was agreed by the 3 provinces, that the conference would start on September 1<sup>st</sup> in Charlottetown.</p><p>Tupper saw this issue as potentially divisive, unpredictable and dangerous, and to go alone to the conference meant making a commitment – a commitment which might not be welcomed by his own party, or by the voters – where support for maritime union was barely an inch deep.</p><blockquote><p>“It would be better to share the credit than risk taking the entire blame.”</p><p>[from <em>‘1867 – How the Fathers Made a Deal’</em> by Christopher Moore, p. 42]</p></blockquote><p>Meanwhile in Canada [i.e. Ontario and Quebec], on June 14<sup>th</sup>, the Tache-Macdonald government suffered a vote of no-confidence, with the prospect of a dissolution of parliament and a new general election.  However, with the assistance of Charles Monck, the Governor-general of Canada, the free-trader George Brown was brought into negotiations to join the government, and on June 30<sup>th</sup> became the President of the Executive Council, replacing the now-ousted Isaac Buchanan. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.jpeg" width="217" height="301" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38e5176d-6894-411f-b440-7417252cee2b_217x301.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":301,"width":217,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>[for more of the story of Isaac Buchanan, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/24/the-american-system-in-canada/">The American System in Canada</a>’, by Alexandre Poisson]</p><p>And on that same day, Monck wrote to the governors of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, asking if a delegation from the new coalition government of Canada would be permitted to attend the Charlottetown conference.</p><p>At its first meeting on September 1<sup>st</sup> 1864, the Maritime delegates learned of the arrival of the Canadian delegates, and then decided that the discussion of Maritime union would be postponed until after the Canadians had presented their plan for federal union.  When the discussion of Maritime union was later held, the maritime delegates could not agree and decided that:</p><blockquote><p>“… confederation seemed possible, but maritime union would not help confederation and, given its difficulties, would probably delay it.  If we could get confederation now, we could easily unite the maritime provinces … afterwards.”</p><p>[from <em>‘1867 – How the Fathers Made a Deal’</em> by Christopher Moore, p. 56]</p></blockquote><p>This intervention by the delegates from Canada had temporarily derailed the plans for Maritime Union, and instead had put forward the plan for confederation with Canada.</p><p>After the Canadian delegates were re-admitted to the session, it was decided that a new conference to discuss a federal union for all of the British North America colonies would be held, and this conference was set to begin at Quebec in October 1864, and after 3 weeks of this Quebec conference, it would result in the signing of 72 resolutions – not a plan for union, but resolutions to be sent to the British government.</p><p>But something was still needed to be able to stampeded the Canadian and Maritime populations into agreeing to this confederation scheme.</p><p>The Confederate Secret Service, under the watchful and supportive eyes of British intelligence, would now organize and launch raids from British North America into the territory of the United States.  A confederate raid, organized out of Montreal, into St. Albans Vermont on October 19<sup>th</sup> 1864, robbed three banks of $208,000, and the raiders were able to escape back into Canada.</p><p>In response some Americans called for an invasion of Canada (as was the intention of the plan).  These reports caused a great concern among the Canadian population and were used to attack their pro-American outlook; and it would also be used to give a sense of urgency to those delegates who were in the middle of meetings at the confederation conference in Quebec City.</p><p>After the end of the Quebec confederation conference, the Morning Post in London (a Palmerston organ) printed that:</p><blockquote><p>“there is but one enemy which the new confederation can have cause to fear, namely, the Northern section of the late American republic; and it is in the possibility of an American invasion of Canada as soon as all the hopes of subjugating the Southern Confederacy are abandoned which has dictated the union which would now seem to be determined on.”</p></blockquote><p>But, Lincoln rescinded the orders from General Dix to send troops to St. Albans to find the raiders and, if necessary, to pursue them into Canada. Lincoln feared that a war with Britain would open up a two-front war and that this would only aid the southern confederates who were now facing defeat. </p><p>General Sherman had by this point occupied Atlanta on September 2<sup>nd</sup>, and the Confederate army was precariously sitting between Sherman’s ‘anvil’ and Grant’s ‘hammer’. Lincoln decided that he would wait until after the upcoming presidential election on November 8<sup>th</sup> to deal with the British.</p><p>Within 24 hours, the Canadian government had arrested 14 of the raiders and had recovered only $86,000 of the stolen funds – $120,000 had simply disappeared!  When the trial was finally held, Judge Charles Coursol (who was the son-in-law of the Canadian premier Tache) ruled that the court had no warrant from the Governor-general and therefore no jurisdiction over the case, and the prisoners were released – along with the $87,000!</p><p>The raiders had excellent legal counsel, including lawyer John Abbott (who would later become Prime Minister of Canada, on the death of John A. Macdonald in 1891).  Abbott showed the court that there was a flaw in the extradition treaty between the United States and British North America, and that the raiders could not be extradited to the United States, to stand trial there.</p><p>On December 6<sup>th</sup> 1864, the newly re-elected President Lincoln in his address to Congress said, that :</p><blockquote><p>“In view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and depredations committed by inimical and desperate persons, who are harbored there, it has been thought proper to give notice that after the expiration of six months, the period conditionally stipulated in the existing arrangement with Great Britain, the United States must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the lakes, if they shall find that proceeding necessary.  The condition of the border will necessarily come into consideration in connection with the question of continuing or modifying the rights of transit from Canada through the United States, as well as the regulation of imposts, which were temporarily established by the reciprocity treaty of the 5<sup>th</sup> June, 1854 ….”</p></blockquote><p>On December 13<sup>th</sup>, the same day that the St. Albans raiders were released, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution authorizing the President to give the requisite notice for terminating the treaty made with Great Britain on behalf of the British provinces in North America [i.e. Canada and the Maritimes], and to appoint commissioners to negotiate a new treaty with the British government, based upon the true principles of reciprocity.  After the resolution was also passed by the Senate, the resolution was approved by President Lincoln.</p><p>The reciprocity treaty of 1854 was to be for 10 years, after which either side could end the treaty.  The treaty was now set by the United States to expire in one year, on March 17<sup>th</sup> 1866.  Canadian vessels would no longer be able to sail freely in American waters, and Canadian goods would no longer pass freely across the border.  Lincoln was, in effect, sealing the border.</p><blockquote><p><strong>Some Words About the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854</strong></p><p>When Britain had repealed the corn laws in 1846 in favor of a free-trade policy, because of the adverse effects on the Canadian economy, an annexation movement was organized in 1850, in support of Canada joining the United States.  To defeat this movement, the Governor-general of Canada, Lord Elgin, negotiated a free-trade deal, the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, with William Macy, the Secretary of State under the treasonous President Franklin Pierce.</p><p>The treaty provided for free trade of natural resource and agricultural products between United States and the British colonies.  Previously, the British tariff on American goods into Canada had been a low 2 ½ %, while the US tariff on Canadian goods had been 21 %.  In exchange for the American generosity, the United States were given free fishing rights in Canadian waters, and the Canadians were given free fishing rights in American waters north of 36 degrees.</p><p>It was because of the inadequacy of this treaty regarding manufactures, that Isaac Buchanan organized for the passing of the Cayley-Galt tariffs of 1858 and 1859 – increasing the Canadian tariff to 25% on all manufactures that competed with Canada’s domestic industrial products.</p><p>Henry Carey had organized in the United States to defeat the attempt of a reciprocity treaty, but <em>“the election of Mr. Pierce, and consequent return of the proslavery party to power, brought about a change, however; it having then become to the South most clearly obvious that for preventing annexation of the British Possessions there was but a single remedy – that of granting to the Provinces all the advantages of being in the Union, while requiring of their people the performance of none of the duties, the bearing of none of the burdens, of American citizens.”</em>   </p><p>[from ‘The Civil War and the American System’ by W. Allen Salisbury (page 177 – ‘Open Letters to Henry Wilson”]</p><p>Carey would later provide advise for the drafting of the Morrill Tarriff, passed in 1861, that increased the duties on imported manufactures.</p><p>With the end of the free-trade policies in the United States, and the end of free-trade treaty with the United States, Britain was again worried about the threat of an annexation movement in Canada.  Remember – Palmerston favored the northern states being absorbed into British North American, but in no way, would allow the absorption of the British colonies into the United States!</p></blockquote><p>In December 1864, George Brown was sent to London to explain the plan of confederation to the British ministry.  He travelled with British Lt-Col Jervois, who had been sent to Canada by the Colonial Office to advise the Canadian government on measures of defence needed in Canada. </p><p>Brown would seek approval of the confederation scheme, and met with Cardwell, the Colonial secretary, with Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with Russell, the minister of Foreign Affairs, with members of the War Office, and would spend a weekend with Palmerston.</p><p>On March 10<sup>th</sup> 1865, after much debate, the majority of the Canadian legislature approved the Quebec resolutions – by a vote of 91 to 33.  But the resolutions could only get passed in the Canadian legislature, where Brown’s Grits and Macdonald’s Tories in Canada West were both in the grand coalition government with Cartier’s Bleues from Canada East – only Dorion’s Rouges in Canada East opposed the resolutions. </p><p>In the Maritime provinces, even though the leaders of the government parties and the opposition parties had attended and signed the resolutions at Quebec, they couldn’t get the resolutions passed in their legislatures! </p><p>On March 6<sup>th</sup>, the New Brunswick government of Tilley was defeated in an election, centered around the issue of confederation, with only 8 supporters of the union plan, with 28 opponents of confederation (and with 4 of doubtful opinion) elected to the new legislature. And Nova Scotia’s government was too afraid to even put the Quebec resolution to a vote.  </p><p>Confederation with the Maritime provinces at this time was a dead letter!!!</p><p>That same week, the Canadian government cabinet would send a new delegation (including Macdonald, Brown, Galt and Cartier) to London, to explain the new situation to the British imperial cabinet.  The delegation was presented to the Queen and <strong>were allowed to kiss her hand</strong>, and they were able to meet with the British cabinet. </p><p>Brown was to write to his wife that <em>“they are willing to do whatever we desire”,</em> because Confederation was the policy of the British Empire.</p><p>On April 15<sup>th</sup>, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, using the same Confederate Secret Service nest run out of Montreal.</p><p>[for more of the story of Canada and Lincoln’s assassination, please read ‘<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/11/03/understanding-the-tri-fold-nature-of-the-deep-state/">Understanding the Tri-fold Nature of the Deep State</a>’, by Matthew Ehret]</p><p>But by July 1865, the Union Pacific Railway had finally begun construction at Omaha, and the Central Pacific Railway had built almost 50 miles of track and had arrived at the Rockies.</p><p>In September, the British ministry convened a Confederate Council on Commercial Treaties in Quebec, under Governor-general Monck, (including Brown and Galt from Canada, and one representative each from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland), to adopt resolutions to try to seek a temporary continuation of the present reciprocity treaty with the United States.</p><p>This is important to keep in mind since the civil war was fought as much over slavery, as it was over economic policy. The monumental change in the United States began with the election of Abraham Lincoln and the return to the American System of Alexander Hamilton.</p><p>The fight continued, as the protectionist policies of the Henry Carey-wing of the Republican party defeated the sabotage of the free traders in the Republican party (like William Cullen Bryant of New York). The United States, led by Lincoln and Carey, had established the Morrill tariff, begun the trans-continental railroad, and created a national currency (greenbacks) with government bonds to finance industrial and economic expansion – in order to win the civil war.</p><p>In November, Brown was sent to the Maritimes, to try to revive the prospects for confederation. </p><p>The Maritime supporters of confederation were promising to build an Inter colonial Railway from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Canada East (to link up with the Grand Trunk rail-lines to the west, and the line from Montreal to Portland, Maine); while the Maritime opponents of confederation were promising to build a railway from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Maine – but this would require support from both the presently-indifferent American government and from the unsympathetic British government.</p><p>At that time, Nova Scotia had a 60-mile railway from Halifax to Truro, and New Brunswick had a 100-mile railway from St. John to Shediac – while the United States was engaged in building a trans-continental railway of over 1500 miles across the American desert and the Rocky Mountains!!!</p><p>In New Brunswick, Brown met with Governor Gordon, who after his visit to Britain that summer was now a firm supporter of confederation (and against a Maritime Union), and with Wilmot, who had been a delegate to September’s Confederate Council.  Wilmot, a Liberal, had previously been in Conservative governments, but had rejected confederation and had joined the new anti-confederation liberal government.  Wilmot would shortly resign from the government and proclaim himself pro-confederation!</p><p>At the same time, Galt had traveled to the United States and had been able to meet with Secretary of the Treasury, McCulloch, and with Secretary of State, Seward. </p><p>Seward said that a new reciprocity treaty was out of the question – the only option would be to have trade legislation enacted by both governments.  While the Canadian cabinet approved of these negotiations, Brown disagreed, because without a treaty and with legislation only, it meant that either side might repeal any legislation at a moment’s notice, and Brown then resigned from cabinet.</p><p>Although Lord Palmerston, the British prime minster, would suddenly die on October 18<sup>th</sup> 1865, his policies were to be continued uninterrupted by Lord Russell.</p><p>For 31 years, from 1835 to 1866, (except for 4 short intervals totalling about 8 years), Palmerston and/or Russell were either Prime Minister and/or Foreign Secretary – including the periods of the 1837 rebellions, the 1849 annexation movement, the 1854 reciprocity treaty, the American civil war, the Fenian raids and confederation.  From 1846 to 1866, all the governor-generals of Canada were appointed by a Russell or Palmerston Government!</p><p>But something was still needed (besides bribery and blackmail of the weak officials) for the stampede of the Maritime population into supporting the Confederation plan, and thus pulling along the last hold-outs in the Maritimes against Confederation.</p><p>And the Fenians, from ‘Palmerston’s Zoo’, would now be set loose to save the British Empire’s confederation plan.</p><p>[for more of the story of Palmerston’s Zoo, please read ‘<a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415_006-palmerstons_london_during_the_18.pdf">Palmerston’s London during the 1850s: a tour of the human, multicultural zoo</a>’ by Webster Tarpley.]</p><p>[ to be continued in part 2, The Fenian Vision]</p><h4><strong>*******</strong></h4><h5><em>For those who wish to support my continuing work on ‘The Unveiling of Canadian History’, you may purchase my books, that are available as PDFs and Paperback (on Amazon) at the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/09/23/two-new-canadian-patriot-books-forlorn-hope-and-the-coming-storm-by-gerald-therrien/">Canadian Patriot Review </a>:</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 1 – The Approaching Conflict, 1753 – 1774.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 2 – Forlorn Hope – Quebec and Nova Scotia, and the War for Independence, 1775 – 1785.</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>And hopefully,</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 3 – The Storming of Hell – The War for the Territory Northwest of Ohio, 1786 – 1796, and</em></p></li><li><p><em>Volume 4 – Ireland, Haiti, and Louisiana, and the Idea of a Continental Republic, 1797 – 1804,</em></p></li></ul><h5><em>may appear in print, in the near future, while I continue to work on :</em></h5><ul><li><p><em>Volume 5 – On the Trail of the Treasonous, 1804 – 1814.</em></p></li></ul>

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