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title: Towards a World of Sovereign Republics: A Necessary investigation of two constitutions
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<h2><strong><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/towards-a-world-of-sovereign-republics">Part one is here</a></strong></h2><p>Before embarking upon a comparative study of these two systems, it must first be noted that Canada has no explicit single constitution. It has a list of “founding documents” which include the Quebec Act of 1774 included among the intolerable acts of the 13 colonies<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn2">[2]</a>, the Act of 1791 that established Upper and Lower Canada, the failed Act of Union of 1840 and the British North American Act of 1867. The later was established as a response by a bankrupt British oligarchy to keep Canada from developing a real constitution modelled on that of Lincoln’s USA after the British-run Confederacy operation failed in its attempted dissolution of the Union with Lincoln’s victory in 1865<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn3">[3]</a>. While this Act lasted another century, a final Canada Act passed by an order in council in the British and Canadian Parliaments in 1982, now called The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was added to the mix of legal documents. Many believe (falsely) that this document is now the sole Canadian Constitution.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>In the case of the United States, two founding documents exist, amended over time, but unchanged in principle. These are the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1787). Just as Abraham Lincoln argued that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were to be viewed as one doubly connected document, so too will we here.</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%2Fcd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.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%2Fcd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.jpeg" width="894" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd165c2c-982f-4f20-9b08-09d4ca6a47d2_894x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":894,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":172665,"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><p>The American Declaration of Independence begins with the words:</p><blockquote><p><em>“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”</em></p></blockquote><p>In the midst of a laundry list of rights granted by order of the Queen, we find article 7 of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 that reads<em>;</em></p><blockquote><p><em>“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”</em> And then a little later, in article 15: <em>“Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability”</em>.</p></blockquote><p>After a comparative reading, a nominalist would conclude that both systems are almost equivalent. The right to life, and liberty are to be found in both, as well as the acknowledgement of individual equality. So why is the Canadian Constitution vastly inferior to its American counterpart? To answer this, it is useful to pose another question, namely, what is the <em>source </em>from which these rights are derived in both cases? In the case of the American system, such rights are deemed self-evident and inherent in the soul and as such to be given or taken by no mortal as one would treat a physical object. In the Canadian Constitution, a very different beast rears its head. These rights are granted to the people, as a form of legal contract! While souls cannot be made null and void based on whim and circumstance of a dictator, a contract always can. If the source of Canada’s true director is still ambiguous to the reader, let them merely refer to the last article (62) of the act; <em>“This Act may be cited as the CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982, and the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1975”</em></p><p>It is here that the cat is let out of the bag. The Constitution Act of 1982 did not replace the longstanding British North American Act of 1867 as most Canadians have been led to believe. Rather, the Act of 1867 was merely amended, and renamed, though its principles and intent never repealed. Thus, let us see what the 1867 constitution establishes clearly in its preamble, as the true purpose of Canada:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom: And whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the Interests of the British Empire”</em></p></blockquote><p>There it is. The rights of people in Canada are presumed to be derived from the <em>“fount of all honours”</em> otherwise known as the monarchy, while Canada’s stated purpose is nothing more than to <em>“promote the interests of the British Empire</em>”! Looking towards the geopolitical dynamics of Canada’s history, one is struck that not one ounce of blood was ever dropped for liberty in establishing our founding documents, and for that reason, no honest liberty was ever won. Only a cheap counterfeit for liberty prances around the Canadian soul calling herself “comfort”, or the freedom to ”go along to get along”.</p><p>Let us compare this with the “mission statement” of America by looking at the preamble of its Constitution:</p><blockquote><p><em>“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#DOMTRAN">domestic Tranquillity</a>, provide for the common <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/constmiss.html">defence</a>, promote the general <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#WELFARE">Welfare</a>, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#POSTERITY">Posterity</a>, do <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#ORDAIN">ordain</a> and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”</em></p></blockquote><p>The liberty derived from this idea is a far different matter than the thing roaming around with the same name in Canada. The fact is that nowhere in the U.S. founding documents do we find that the republic is at all a party system, nor even a democracy, but rather a democratic republic, designed explicitly around the principle of the <em>General Welfare</em>, not only for present generations, but into <em>infinite posterity</em>. That is an idea of freedom worth fighting for.</p><p>Canada’s founding documents were modelled explicitly on the British geopolitical doctrine known as <em>balance of power</em>, derived from the bestial social program of <em>each against all</em>. The absolute power of a monarch using her appendages of the Privy Council and Governor General must “counter balance” the power of an unelected House of Lords representing the aristocracy and nobility (in Canada known as “The Senate”) who in turn “balance” the power of the those elected by “the commoners” known as the House of Commons. The Commoners must not be allowed to decide their destiny on principle, but only according to a perverted form of group think known as “party politics”.</p><h2><strong>Siamese Twins: The Party System and Free Trade</strong></h2><p>In observing the root evil of the Party system, we must come to recognize that its foundation hinges upon the total destruction of individual conscience. Not only that, but any standard of truth and justice upon which competent deliberation about national policy should be based is reduced to a “hedonistic calculus” of pleasure versus pain. This same “pleasure-pain” fallacy can be clearly seen when evaluating the unprincipled structure of the bastard sibling to the Party System known as British Free Trade. It is impossible to evaluate one child of the British System while ignoring its ugly twin. A useful excerpt from the official architect of Free Trade Adam Smith in his 1759 <em>Theory of Moral Sentiments</em> will suffice to communicate the issue at hand:</p><blockquote><p><em> “Hunger, thirst, and the passion which unites the two sexes, the love of pleasure, and the dread of pain, prompt us to apply those means for their own sake, and without any consideration of their tendency to those beneficent ends which the great Director of nature intended to produce by them.”</em></p></blockquote><p>Just as the Party system is designed around the negation of truth and its replacement by popular opinion, so too is British Free Trade designed around the pre-eminence of hedonistic personal desires, and popular opinion before the well being of the nation as a whole. Why plan for the future, when the “hidden hand” of the market guides our personal vice to those mysterious “beneficent ends” which only “the gods” may know… but not lowly man.</p><p>With that said, we may ask: how could it be possible that the superior reason and morality of an exceptional individual be permitted to win over adherents to his or her policy initiative, when that individual’s views and opinions must a-priori conform to the desires of “the party”? How can a place exist in a civilized society for such a function as a party “whip” whose function is to ensure that all party members are kept in line with “the party”? How can the general welfare ever be assured when the Party’s primary mandate is to be maintain power by being popular with “the right demographics”? Where do we find a place for “truth” in such a world?</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p>Similarly, in the case of Free Trade let us ask: <em>How can the wise understanding of a nation builder favour the debt incurred to build a hydroelectric dam, relative to a network of whorehouses, when the monetary sums associated with both of them may be equal, and in fact promise a far greater return when invested in a whorehouse (or a hedge fund)? </em>In the logic of free trade, a nation must allow both its infrastructure, and productive powers to rot in favour of the types of “investments” that bring ever more obscene rates of momentary pleasure (aka monetary profit) by the gods of “the market”, even at the expense of the future survival of society. How else could one explain the recent explosion of derivatives to the scale of 10-20 times the world GDP? How about the satanic case of 40% of a nation’s corn production transformed into ethanol for gas tanks and speculation in a world that suffers the deaths of 30 000 children by starvation every day?</p><p>While the British system has been sometimes adopted and sometimes resisted by America (seen in hindsight as times of alternating growth and collapse), it has almost  perpetually held the Dominion of Canada in its clutches, with very few respites from the corruption, confusion and impoverishment which are its children. As one American economist observed the sad case of Canada in the early 1850s:</p><blockquote><p><em>“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 all as poor as they were half a century since. They have enjoyed the blessings of free trade all of the time, we only a part of the time. Whenever we have attempted to supply ourselves by our own industry, with the comforts and necessities 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 the ups and downs of prosperity and bankruptcy in succession”<strong><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn4">[4]</a></strong>.</em></p></blockquote><p>A leading American political economist of the Hamiltonian school named Henry C. Carey not only led Abraham Lincoln’s national economic program that turned the USA into the preeminent force for progress by the end of the 19th Century but explicitly laid bare the methods of the Union’s true enemy in his many books, speeches and pamphlets, one of which is called <em>The Harmony of Interest</em>s in 1858:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Two systems are before the world; the one looks to increasing the proportion of persons and of capital engaged in trade and transportation, and therefore to diminishing the proportion engaged in producing commodities with which to trade, with necessarily diminished return to the labour of all; while the other looks to increasing the proportion engaged in the work of production, and diminishing that engaged in trade and transportation, with increased return to all, giving to the labourer good wages, and to the owner of capital good profits… One looks to underworking the Hindoo, and sinking the rest of the world to his level; the other to raising the standard of man throughout the world to our level. One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other in increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other we may be proud to call the American system, for it is the only one ever devised the tendency of which was that of elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world.</em></p></blockquote><h4><strong>This story will continue in a few days with an investigation into the principle of progress</strong></h4><h3>Footnotes</h3><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref2">[2]</a> The Quebec Act was designed to bribe French Canada with superficial rights… mostly religious as long as loyalty to the Crown were maintained, and thereby subverting Quebec`s near entry into the revolution as a 14th colony and blocking the western expansion policy of America by bringing the Quebec possessions down into Ohio. See Pierre Beaudry`s <em>The Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act of 1774</em>, published in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-Canada-Consequences-Challenge/dp/179273123X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QINNJZ27QPZH&amp;keywords=untold+history+of+canada+pierre+beaudry&amp;qid=1640589566&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=untold+history+of+canada+pierre+beaudry%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C64&amp;sr=1-1">The Untold History of Canada vol. 1</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref3">[3]</a> See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYKyWnfbNs">1932: Speak Not of Parties</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref4">[4]</a> Ezra Champion Seaman, Essays on the Progress of Nations (1853)</p>

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title: The 2024 Elections: What are the Stakes, and will they happen? (Global Research Radio)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/GnFVm_tTjws" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The 2024 Elections: What are the Stakes, and will they happen? (Global Research Radio)"></p>In this episode of Global Research Radio, Matt Ehret discusses the historical dynamics shaping the 2024 presidential elections, and the various scenarios for good, bad and ugly outcomes (with a special focus on the lessons of 1934 and the aborted bankers coup against FDR). To watch the full episode of Global Research Radio click here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/life-beyond-the-duopoly-a-peoples-analysis-of-election-2024/5869976<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Canadian Patriot Film “The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?”<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFVm_tTjws

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title: Towards a World of Sovereign Republics: The Idea of Progress
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<p>While the principles of republicanism embodied in the American System demand a protective tariff, and productive credit, while the British System demands the inverse, it is worth asking; <em>“do the upper quotes mean to infer that Free Trade is intrinsically an evil?”</em> Not at all. In fact, guided by a principled intention towards progress and development among all sovereign participants, freedom of trade has had the effect of uniting and empowering all involved. </p><p>Among the clearest cases, we need only look to the newly liberated colonies themselves just after the Declaration of Independence. These former colonies, left to their own personal self interest, local currency controls, and fragmented tariff policies on imports, were so divided that a re-conquering was all but inevitable. However, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s bold program to federalize legitimate debts opened up an ability to pay off the debt occurred during the war, and trade freely amongst themselves under a federal government acting for the general welfare which ensured great unity and national power. </p><p>A similar case can be viewed in the formation of the German Zollverein led by the follower of Alexander Hamilton, German economist Friederick List, or the attempted Reciprocity Treaties arranged between America and Canada of the late 19th century by the Canadian followers of Abraham Lincoln such as the statesmen Isaac Buchanan and Wilfrid Laurier.</p><p>The key that united these case studies is 1) their common blocking, via protective tariffs, of Monopolized private interests controlled by the financier oligarchy centred in London, 2) the abolishment of usury and wild speculation and 3) the instituting of visionary programs which were designed to promote the general welfare. These long-term projects would not only be fuelled by 4) national credit issued via national banking procedures, but would ensure that 5) investments and private industry would be tied to physically productive enterprises. Profit is good… as long as it is tied to something truly useful to the success of humanity, as well as the entrepreneur.</p><p>However, when no guiding principle is actively moving the participant states towards common aims of all, and only the mindless unruly beast known as “the Market” is left to rule freely over the many, then no durable good has ever, will ever or could ever occur. A society that tolerates a system which severs human intention and principle so absolutely from its behaviour, in favour of popular opinion and pleasure worshipping, has lost all moral fitness to survive, and the oligarchy which will run free to monopolize all commodities under such a “laissez-faire” logic of enslaved nations shall, by its very nature, not stop until the society which it has trapped in its ideological web has consumed itself into oblivion.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h2><strong>Case Study: Changing Nature</strong></h2><p>The final test of any system will not occur in a class room, or academic high tower, but in applied reality. In this way, by acting on our concepts, and observing how the universe responds to our ideas may we competently judge whether to keep or discard a hypothesis. </p><p>This is no less true for political economy as it is for the so-called “hard” sciences. If someone were to confront us and assert: Isn’t the notion of the superiority of the American System over the British System merely a matter of opinion? We may with self-assurance warmly reply that they are mistaken. Just as universal gravitation was not discovered by a mystical fraud like Isaac Newton<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn5">[5]</a>, or by a consensus, but by the genius of a Kepler, so too can we assert that the universal validity of the American System is discoverable to <em>self conscious reason</em>. As mankind has become more aware of nature’s secrets, keys have been discovered unlocking doors to her bounty, and the unruly chaos which is her “natural” state has yielded in increased tameness to the gentle hand of the plough, the sail, and the dam.</p><p>Where wilderness of the West had kept civilization at bay, Lincoln’s Transcontinental Railway program opened new corridors to development and the blossoming of new cities. Where deserts have made way to valleys and farms such as California’s Imperial Valley, so too have swamps been tamed as under the Tennessee Valley Authority, both programs effected under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Where unruly rapids and shallow waters prevented shipping, has the St. Laurence Seaway opened up rivers to humanity’s field of activity, and where the earth had determined the limit of man’s existence for all of human history, did JFK’s dream extend our field of activity to other planetary bodies.</p><h2><strong>The Anti-Entropic Science of Physical Economy</strong></h2><p>In refuting British Imperial thinkers Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin by name in his book <em>The Unity of Law</em>, Henry C. Carey (advisor to Lincoln and leading American System economist) observed that the only reasonable metric to determine a nation’s success is the increase of the productive powers of labour, manifest in 1) the unbounded increase of powers of association of producer and consumer, 2) the unbounded increase of the ratio of Mind’s dominance to Matter. In refuting the British notion that returns on production MUST always diminish and decay over time, leading inevitably towards overpopulation, starvation and war, Carey makes his case for the higher unity of law which is apparent with the acknowledgement of creative reason:</p><blockquote><p><em>“Here was further proof of the universality of natural laws- the course of man, in reference to the earth at large, being thus shown to have been the same that we see it now to be in reference to all the instruments into which he fashions parts of the great machine itself. Always commencing with the poorest axes, he proceeds onward to those of steel; always commencing with the poorer soils, he proceeds onward toward those capable of yielding larger returns to labor; increase of numbers being thus proved to be essential to increase in the supply of food. Here was a unity of law leading to perfect harmony of all real and permanent human interests, and directly opposed to the discords taught by Mr. Malthus… Reflecting upon this, he (Carey) was soon brought to expression of the belief, that closer examination would lead to development of the great fact, that there existed but a single system of laws; those instituted for the government of inorganic matter proving to be the same by which that matter was governed when it took the form of man, or of communities of men.”</em></p></blockquote><p>In the 20th Century, Lyndon LaRouche, having independently come to Carey’s conclusion and without any foreknowledge of the American System of Political Economy, established in his science of physical economy the metric of the unbounded increase of mankind’s Relative Potential Population Density, measured as an increase of the productive powers of labour measured per capita and per square kilometre. Redefining notions of Work, Energy and Power behind notions of Leibnizian Dynamics rather than Newtonian statistical notions prevalent in academic circles<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn6">[6]</a>, LaRouche explained his discovery in various texts, not the least among them is the <em>Science of Christian Economy </em>where LaRouche writes:</p><blockquote><p><em>“The science of political economy is premised upon conclusive, empirical evidence of a fundamental difference which sets the human species absolutely apart from and above, all of the animal species, as Moses specifies in Genesis 1:26. This crucial difference is mankind’s power to increase the potential population density of the human species as a whole by means of the voluntary generation, transmission, and efficient assimilation of scientific and technological progress. Mankind is capable of increasing, intentionally, the maximum size of the human population which could be self-sustained by its own labor, per average square kilometre of land area, while also raising the average physical standard of living. No animal species can accomplish this.”</em></p></blockquote><p>The scientific formulation of a system usually taught as a mere social theory is not only a crucial breakthrough in human history, but has given leading world citizens around the world the necessary tools, the “objective” metrics of value, for them to successfully develop their national economies which serving the inalienable Rights of Man. The current mental block to an open recognition of the validity of this new thought in practice, especially among leading Western governments, has been mankind’s inability to break free from the imperial conditioning called “the second law of thermodynamics” or simply “entropy”.</p><p>The cultish religious belief that the universe as a whole is not only a closed (bounded) system, but also a system which is moving constantly towards increasing states of disorder and towards a reduced potential for change, can only be adhered to via a total disregard for the evidence found in the directed change in evolution since the Cambrian epoch<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn8">[8]</a>, Kepler’s proof of the harmonic ordering of Solar Systems, as well as mankind’s powers of creative reason that have permitted him, over millennium, to constantly leap beyond his supposedly fixed spiritual and material limits. All evidence that creative thought has intrinsic active existence within the universe must be totally ignored for any such belief as Entropy, Darwinian biology, or even monetarism to hold any influence in society.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h2><strong>Manifest Destiny as Anti-Entropy</strong></h2><p>In contrast to the entropic view of the British System stands the American System mandate of constant anti-entropic development which has been expressed both theologically in the form of Genesis 1: 28 <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn9">[9]</a>, politically in the form of Cusa’s New World Project taken up by Columbus in 1480, and economically as John Quincy Adams’ policy of Manifest Destiny<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn10">[10]</a>.</p><p>It is vital for citizens everywhere, but Canadians especially, to comprehend that with the ironic possession of greater land potential and one tenth the population of the USA, whatever progress achieved throughout Canada’s history has occurred in spite of and never because of our adherence to Britain’s system of Party Politics and Free Trade. </p><p>Inversely the only reason why America has not progressed MORE than it has, is because of the British Policy of Party of Politics and Free Trade subverting its own constitutional traditions introduced under such populist anglophiles such as Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn11">[11]</a>.</p><p>Were we as a nation, and humanity as a whole, to continue to hold onto the foolish doctrines endorsed by the British Empire, and not overcome our corrupt habits of “lazy reason” which have permitted us to tolerate the self- destructive British System for so long, our self- extermination by war, disease, and starvation are all but assured. Were we <em>not</em> to recognize the solid foundation of reason that the American System of Republic has provided humanity in 1776, then the double edged sword of democracy and tyranny outlined in Plato’s Republic would perpetually take turns draining the blood of our children until no more blood could be drawn from the body of humankind.</p><p>But as the Founding Fathers recognized that the time had been made ripe to pluck the seeds planted by Plato in his challenge to future generations in the Republic 2000 years earlier, so too must we now ensure that the ripeness of this time of great peril is not missed by a sleeping, cowardly society. The policies of Russia and China are echoing a future time that today exists naught but as a potential for something better<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn12">[12]</a>. </p><p>Connecting the old and new worlds via rail through the Bering Strait, greening those wounds known as deserts via great water projects such as the <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/john-f-kennedy-nawapa-and-chinas">North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) </a>and Africa’s Transaqua exist as pillars on earth around which a new financial system may be created. Pillars beyond the earth include Russia’s bold program for Asteroid Defence, China’s lunar mining initiative and international Mars colonization projects echoed by the successful landing of the Curiosity Rover in August 2012. </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%2F2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.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%2F2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.jpeg" width="697" height="554" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2080d419-4a37-4ab9-89b5-f048d8808713_697x554.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":554,"width":697,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":303798,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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></p><p>All of these endeavours shall accelerate and be accelerated by the advent of man’s long overdue harnessing of fusion energy for civilian use, followed soon thereafter by controlled Matter-Antimatter processes. All will have the effect of increasing those key parameters laid out by Henry C. Carey over a century ago. All will demonstrate the anti-entropic nature of mind.</p><p>With this potential and necessary future looking upon us and demanding that the American Revolution finally be completed the world over, may we not safely ask; Is it not time that Canada becomes a republic?</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref5">[5]</a> For a full expose of the the political agenda behind the creation of the Isaac Newton myth and an introduction to Kepler, Leibniz and Huygens’ real discoveries of gravitation, the infinitesimal calculus and optics (attributed wrongly to Newton), see the<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2014/03/18/venice-and-leibniz-the-battle-for-a-science-of-economy/"> Venice vs Leibniz </a>by Michael Kirsch (published on the Canadian Patriot Review in 2014)</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref6">[6]</a> The most extensive treatment of LaRouche’s discovery can be found in his 1984 textbook “So you wish to Learn about Economics” <a href="http://www.wlym.com/archive/pdf/iclc/soyouwish.pdf">downloadable as a free PDF here.</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref8">[8]</a> See the 2010 film by Cody Jones <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFER48yT3M">“To Be or Not To Be: A Galactic Question”</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref9">[9]</a> “And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref10">[10]</a> Adams insisted that the westward expansion of the United States not result in the expansion of slavery, or conquests of other lands, but rather the extension of republicanism as expressed in the Declaration of Independence… And Adams was clear he did not see expansion by conquest, even of Canada (Nancy Spannaus, John Quincy Adams and teh Community of Principle, Executive Intelligence Review, January 28 2000). The clash of various “versions” of manifest destiny was taken up in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Manifest-Destiny-New-Expanded/dp/1700595016/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=untold+history+of+canada+matthew+ehret&amp;qid=1603824259&amp;sr=8-1">volume two of the Untold History of Canada: In Defense of Manifest Destiny.</a></p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref11">[11]</a> The majority of American presidents have been treasonous puppets who were deployed to destroy the American system. These three men stand out for their treachery as men who were united by common tendencies of democratic populism, and as such ushered in waves of speculation, free trade, and imperialism at times when the influence of the American System based on Sovereign republics were on the verge of overtaking the British Empire and their colonies.</p><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref12">[12]</a> For an overview of the development programs so threatening to the British Empire arising out of Russia and China’s current commitment to survival, I advise you to check out<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/clash-of-the-two-americas-vol-2-1890-the-future/"> Clash of the Two Americas vol. 2</a></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | Published by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy</p><h4>Introduction</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Many Canadians believe that they have similar constitutional rights as Americans. In some cases, they do. People in both countries, for instance, have a right against self-incrimination.1 But Americans have constitutional rights that Canadians do not. They have the right to bear arms.2 They have more robust freedom of speech. They have the right to be compensated if the government takes their property.3 And they have the right to equal protection under the law.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In June 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States declared race-based admissions at universities to be unconstitutional. Harvard University and the University of North Carolina had been admitting students of some races over others to achieve “diversity.” In <em>Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard</em>,4 the Court found those admissions processes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The <em>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</em> says that Canadians have a right to equal protection too. But the Supreme Court of Canada has said otherwise. Over time, the Court has made the Canadian right to legal equality not merely a shadow of the American version, but its opposite. Advantaging some groups and disqualifying others has become ubiquitous. Job openings, university admissions, and government programs openly favour specific races and genders. In some cases, those not favoured are declared ineligible to apply. In Canada, legal equality means equity. The law can treat people differently in the name of equal or comparable group outcomes.</p><h4>Two constitutions, two kinds of equality</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">In the US Constitution, the right to equality comes in two parts: one in the Fifth Amendment, enforceable against the federal government, and the other in the Fourteenth, enforceable against the states. The text is sparse. The Fifth Amendment says only that “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law….” The Fourteenth says the same, and adds, “… nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” In its <em>Harvard </em>decision, the US Supreme Court said that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied “without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality” and is “universal in [its] application.”5 The right to equal protection “cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.”6 Different standards for different people “because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.”7 It is wrong to conclude “that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This Nation’s constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”8</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The text of the guarantee to equality in the Canadian <em>Charter</em> is more extensive than in the US Constitution. Section 15(1) of the <em>Charter </em>states:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">The section appears to describe a right to equal protection (also known as “equal treatment” or “equal application”). The right belongs to individuals, not to groups. The guarantee in 15(1) applies to everyone, without regard to whatever group affiliations they might claim: gay or straight, black or white, male or female, Jewish or Christian. The words of 15(1) describe a universal right for people to be treated equally without regard to who they are.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But the Supreme Court has insisted that section 15 requires not equal treatment but equity. Equity, also known as “substantive equality” or “equality of outcome,” does not mean treating people the same but requires treating them differently. It means that justice should not be blind but instead should inquire into identities, capacities, and practices. The law should make distinctions based upon group affiliation and treat people in proportion to their group’s advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and weaknesses. Equity is a right granted not to individuals as individuals, but to members of groups.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Equal treatment and equity are opposites. The law cannot simultaneously apply the same laws and standards to everyone and also adjust them depending upon the group. Equal treatment and equity are mutually exclusive and cannot co-exist. As Friedrich Hayek put it, “From the fact that people are very different, it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time.”9</p><h4>How equality became equity in Canada</h4><h4>The Common Law</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Equal treatment lies at the heart of Western legal culture, embedded in common law norms and legal structures. Courts are bound by precedent, meaning that like cases are to be decided alike without regard to the identities of the parties involved. All accused have the right to the same due process protections, presumption of innocence, and penalty regimes. The rule of law meant, in part, that laws applied in the same manner to everyone.  </p><h4>The Canadian Bill of Rights</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">However, legislatures can change or override the common law unless the constitution or legislation specifically says they cannot. The right to equal protection in the US Constitution limits what legislatures can do. For most of its history, Canada did not have an equivalent. Parliament and provincial legislatures could enact unequal laws if they were explicit about doing so.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The <em>Canadian Bill of Rights</em>, a federal statute, was enacted in 1960. Section 1(b) included a right to equality:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">1. It is hereby recognized and declared in Canada there have existed and shall continue to exist without discrimination by reason of race, national origin, colour, religion or sex, the following human rights and fundamental freedoms, namely,</p><p data-sanitized-class="">…</p><p data-sanitized-class="">(b) the right of the individual to equality before the law and the protection of the law…</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">In 1974, the Supreme Court said that this section did not create a right to equal protection like the one in the US Constitution. “[T]his phrase is not effective to invoke the egalitarian concept exemplified by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the courts of that country,” wrote Mr. Justice Ritchie for the majority of the Court in <em>Attorney General of Canada v. Lavell</em>.10 Instead, the Court held that the provision meant only that courts must apply the law in a neutral way.11 “[T]he phrase “equally before the law” as employed in section 1(b) of the <em>Bill of Rights” </em>wrote Ritchie, “is to be treated as meaning equality in the administration or application of the law by the law enforcement authorities and the ordinary courts of the land…”12 This kind of equality meant only that courts applied laws as written, even if those laws treated people differently.   </p><h4>The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Unlike the <em>Bill of Rights</em>, the <em>Charter</em> is part of the Constitution. The <em>Charter</em> contains an equality provision, section 15. The <em>Charter</em> was adopted in 1982 but section 15 did not come into force until April 1985. The Supreme Court of Canada did not decide its first case under section 15, <em>Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia</em>, until 1989. In the interim, another development would have a significant impact on the path of equality law in Canada.  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">In 1984, the federal government established the <em>Royal Commission on Equality in Employment</em>,13 also known as the Abella Commission after its commissioner Rosalie Abella, later a judge of the Supreme Court (now retired). The commission was to enquire into employment discrimination in Canada, particularly against women and visible minorities. Its report, released in October 1984, recommended employment equity policies in the federal government and in federally regulated companies. Its recommendations led to the passage of the federal <em>Employment Equity Act</em> in 1986, which required federal employers to “ensure that persons in designated groups achieve a degree of representation in each occupational group in the employer’s workforce,”14 that reflected their representation in the Canadian workforce at large. In other words, it required federally regulated employers to adopt affirmative action programs that gave preference to candidates from some groups over others. It mandated equity, or unequal treatment. The work of the Abella Commission would prove to be influential in the development of Canada’s equality jurisprudence.</p><h4>The Supreme Court goes down the wrong path: <em>Andrews v.</em> <em>Law Society of British Columbia</em>  </h4><p data-sanitized-class="">As a mere statute, not part of the Constitution, the <em>Employment Equity Act</em> did not bind the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the <em>Charter’s</em> equality provision. But the Act was newly in place when the Supreme Court heard the case of David Mark Andrews. Andrews was a British citizen and permanent resident of Canada, and a qualified lawyer. However, British Columbia required lawyers to be Canadian citizens. Andrews challenged the requirement.  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">The British Columbia Court of Appeal concluded that the requirement violated Andrews’ right to equality.15 The decision was the closest Canada would get to judicial endorsement of equal protection as a constitutional right. “The essential meaning of the constitutional requirement of equal protection and equal benefit,” wrote Justice Beverley McLachlin, later the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, “is that persons who are similarly situated be similarly treated” and conversely, that persons who are “differently situated be differently treated.”16  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">The case was appealed to the Supreme Court. In 1989, <em>Andrews v.</em> <em>Law Society of British Columbia</em>17 became the Court’s first decision under s. 15. It upheld the Court of Appeal’s conclusion but rejected its analysis. Instead, the Court found that section 15(1) required “substantive equality.” In a passage that still influences equality jurisprudence to this day, Justice McIntyre wrote:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“… a law which treats all identically and which provides equality of treatment between “A” and “B” might well cause inequality for “C”, depending on differences in personal characteristics and situations. To approach the ideal of full equality before and under the law… the main consideration must be the impact of the law on the individual or the group concerned.… the admittedly unattainable ideal should be that a law expressed to bind all should not because of irrelevant personal differences have a more burdensome or less beneficial impact on one than another.”18</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Andrews</em> launched the Supreme Court on its journey towards equity, not equal treatment, as a constitutional right. The Supreme Court has decided numerous cases under section 15 since <em>Andrews</em>, and it has not left the path. As the Court itself noted in a later case, “<em>Andrews</em> set the template for the [Supreme] Court’s commitment to substantive equality – a template which subsequent decisions have enriched but never abandoned.”19</p><h4>Undermining equal treatment: The exception in section 15(2)</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Again, the words of Section 15(1):</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">These words were intended to guarantee a right to equal treatment, and not equity. We know that in part because Section 15 has an exception. Section 15(2) states:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Section 15(2) allows for programs of affirmative action that discriminate against members of some groups to promote the fortunes of others. Affirmative action is equity, and anathema to equal treatment. Part (2) is worded as an exception to (1). The opening words of 15(2) say “Subsection (1) does not preclude…” Those words mean that (2) is inconsistent with (1). If it was not inconsistent with (1), there would be no need to specify that (1) does not preclude the permission granted in (2). Indeed, there would be no need for (2) at all. Part (2) was written as the exception, and (1) as the general rule: equal treatment.</p><h4>The exception becomes the general rule: <em>Kapp</em></h4><p data-sanitized-class="">In <em>R. v. Kapp,</em>20 the federal government had developed an Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy to increase Aboriginal participation in commercial fishing. It issued fishing licences to three Aboriginal bands that authorized them to fish for salmon in the mouth of the Fraser River for a period of 24 hours and to sell their catch. Non-Aboriginal fishermen were ineligible for the licences and were excluded from the fishery during the 24-hour period. To protest their exclusion, several of them fished anyway and were ticketed. They argued that the licencing strategy violated their equality rights under section 15.  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">The Supreme Court found that the Strategy was a program that fell within the ambit of s. 15(2). Therefore, a claim under section 15(1) was precluded. However, the Court went further. The majority21 wrote:  </p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“Section 15(1) and (2) work together to promote the vision of substantive equality that underlies s. 15 as a whole. Section 15(1) is aimed at preventing discriminatory distinctions that impact adversely on members of groups identified by the grounds enumerated in s. 15 and analogous grounds.… Thus s. 15(1) and s. 15(2) work together to confirm s. 15’s purpose of furthering substantive equality.”22</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">This passage fails to explain why 15(2) exists. Section 15(2), the majority said, “preserves the right of governments to implement such programs, without fear of challenge under s. 15(1).”23 If (2) is an exception to (1), this explanation is correct. But if 15(1) requires substantive equality as the Court insists, the explanation does not make sense. If 15(1) requires substantive equality, affirmative action programs would be consistent with (1). No successful challenge could be made, whether 15(2) exists or not. If 15(1) and 15(2) both protect substantive equality, 15(2) is redundant.  </p><h4>Equal rules are unconstitutional: <em>Fraser</em></h4><p data-sanitized-class="">It is one thing to excuse affirmative action as an exception. It is another to declare it a constitutional requirement.  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">In 1997, the RCMP introduced a job-sharing program. Members in twos or threes could choose to split the duties of one full-time position. Those who worked at least 12 hours per week contributed a percentage of their earnings to a statutory pension plan. Upon retirement, they received a pension benefit that was proportional to their hours of work. The job-sharing program was open to men and women. In <em>Fraser v Canada</em>,24 released in 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada found the program violated section 15(1) and declared it to be unconstitutional.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Most participants who chose to enrol in the program were women with children. Having elected to work part-time, those women received lower pensions benefits than men who worked full-time. Therefore, the majority said, the voluntary program had a disproportionate impact and perpetuated “a long-standing source of economic disadvantage for women.”25  </p><p data-sanitized-class="">The program did not discriminate against women directly, the majority wrote, but was an instance of “adverse impact discrimination,” which occurs “when a seemingly neutral law has a disproportionate impact on members of groups protected on the basis of an enumerated or analogous ground [listed at the end of s. 15(1)].”26</p><p data-sanitized-class="">To prove a violation of s. 15(1), the majority reasoned, a claimant must show that the law or policy “creates a distinction based on enumerated or analogous grounds and imposes burdens or denies a benefit in a manner that has the effect of reinforcing, perpetuating, or exacerbating disadvantage.”27 Section 15(1), it said, reflects a commitment not to prevent discrimination generally, but specifically “against disadvantaged groups.”28 The Court, and the country’s leading legal authorities, perceive no conflict between equality and preferential treatment. In his constitutional law text, for instance, Peter Hogg wrote, “different treatment in the service of equity for disadvantaged groups is an expression of equality, not an exception to it.”29</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In <em>Fraser</em>, the Supreme Court found that a voluntary program available to everyone on the same terms violated the equality guarantee. In the name of equity, section 15(1) does not now merely allow discrimination but may require it.</p><h4>Human Rights codes, too</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Section 15 of the <em>Charter</em> is part of the Canadian Constitution. It applies only to governments. But human rights codes, which are statutes, not constitutions, create equality rights that are enforceable against private businesses and individuals. Like section 15(1) of the <em>Charter</em>, human rights codes describe a right to equal treatment. Section 1 of the Ontario <em>Human Rights Code</em>, for example, states:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“Every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to services, goods and facilities, without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status or disability.”  </p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Like s. 15(2) of the <em>Charter</em>, some human rights codes provide an exception. Section 14(1) of the Ontario code, for instance, states:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“A right under Part I is not infringed by the implementation of a special program designed to relieve hardship or economic disadvantage or to assist disadvantaged persons or groups…”</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">This section, like s. 15(2) of the <em>Charter</em>, is an “equity” exception to equal treatment. It allows affirmative action programs that discriminate against some individuals and give preference to others who are members of the right groups. A government, company, or organization can apply to designate a discriminatory program as a special program under s. 14(1).</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Like under section 15 of the <em>Charter</em>, in some provinces the equity exception has become the general rule. In June 2021, an Ontario high school student tried to sign up for a summer program. He was rejected because he was white. The “SummerUp” program, sponsored by the Ontario government, was open only to black students. His father filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal alleging racial discrimination. The Tribunal dismissed the complaint.30 White people, wrote the Tribunal, cannot claim discrimination. “An allegation of racial discrimination or discrimination on the grounds of colour is not one that can be or has been successfully claimed by persons who are white and non-racialized.”31</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The SummerUp program had not been designated as a special program under s. 14(1). But the Tribunal determined it met the requirements anyway, which the Code empowers it to do. Section 14(10) of the Code reads:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">“For the purposes of a proceeding before the Tribunal, the Tribunal may make a finding that a program meets the requirements of a special program under subsection (1), even though the program has not been designated as a special program…”</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">If a program discriminates against the “correct” groups, it will fit within the exemption as a matter of course. The statute that purports to prohibit discrimination authorizes it instead.</p><h4>Conclusion</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">In Canada, legal equality has come to mean equity, not equal treatment. Equity means that different rules and standards will be applied to members of different groups. Equality rights have become weapons wielded by preferred groups to demand advantageous outcomes. Lady Justice’s blindfold has been ripped off and her thumb is on the scales. In Canada, some people are more equal than others.</p><h4>Endnotes</h4><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AF-Reality-Check-A-Right-to-Unequal-Treatment-Oct-16-2024.pdf">Please see references in PDF</a></p><h4>About the author</h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Bruce Pardy is a Senior Fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, Executive Director of Rights Probe, and Professor of Law at Queen’s University. Pardy has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, and served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. One of his many accomplishments was spearheading the resistance to and ultimate repeal of the Law Society of Ontario’s statement of principles (SOP) policy that required Ontario lawyers to attest to their ideological purity to maintain their licence to practice.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/a-right-to-unequal-treatment-in-canada-some-people-are-more-equal-than-others/" target="_blank">For the original version of this report, see the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>

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title: John Carmack on Functional Programming
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<p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170116040923/http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_programming_in_C.php">John Carmack on Functional Programming</a></strong></p>
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<p>A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. In a multithreaded environment, the lack of understanding and the resulting problems are greatly amplified, almost to the point of panic if you are paying attention. Programming in a functional style makes the state presented to your code explicit, which makes it much easier to reason about, and, in a completely pure system, makes thread race conditions impossible.</p>
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<p>A significant part of John Carmack’s intelligence is his ability to recognize the importance of having principles while not shunning pragmatic tradeoffs.

    </p><p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785930">HN</a></p>


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Carmack">Carmack</a>, <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/language-design">language-design</a></p>


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title: The Ugly Truth Of US Biowarfare in the Ukraine and Beyond (CP Podcast with Jeff J. Brown)
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<p>In light of the recent biolab fire in Georgia, I highly recommend people review this discussion on the ugly truth about US biowarfare.  </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/" 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%2Fb6aed6e3-cf7d-4bc9-a523-936072f862ff_636x333.jpeg" width="636" height="333" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b6aed6e3-cf7d-4bc9-a523-936072f862ff_636x333.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":333,"width":636,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":"https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/","belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In this <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/SINUEP0MLadg/">Canadian Patriot Podcast</a>, Matt and Cynthia talk to Jeff J. Brown, author, co-founder of the Bioweapon Truth Commission and the curator of the Global Online Library (BWTC-GOL). During this interview Jeff provides an overview of biowarfare in the 20th century from the dark days of WWI to the Pentagon’s acquisition of Unit 731 Japanese biological warfare specialists in the wake of WWII. Examples of US/UK abuses of biological warfare in defiance of international laws is also discussed leading us into the heated topic of today’s 13+ Pentagon-managed biolabs in Ukraine which have been a cause of major concern for Russian leadership for years. Jeff additionally takes us through China’s similar concerns with US biolabs littered throughout Asia and much of Africa.</p><p>Since this discussion Jeff Brown has recently published on his substack <strong><a href="https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/p/breaking-nato-chemical-false-flag">BREAKING! NATO chemical false flag attack uncovered in Ukraine to blame Russia. JB West and JB East present: See You In The Hague! #51. Transcript and podcasts.</a></strong></p><h4><strong><a href="https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2023/03/05/breaking-nato-chemical-false-flag-attack-uncovered-in-ukraine-to-blame-russia-jb-west-and-jb-east-present-see-you-in-the-hague-51-transcript-and-podcasts/">The transcript to the NATO chemical false flag discussion can be found here.</a></strong></h4><p>Visit Jeff’s primary website where you can see his research, listen to his podcasts and buy his books: <a href="https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2022/02/28/is-russia-in-ukraine-because-of-the-usas-13-plus-exclusive-use-wmd-germ-warfare-laboratories-there-not-to-mention-ukie-nazis-killing-10000s-of-their-own-citizens-for-the-last-eight-years-c/">https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2022/02/28/is-russia-in-ukraine-because-of-the-usas-13-plus-exclusive-use-wmd-germ-warfare-laboratories-there-not-to-mention-ukie-nazis-killing-10000s-of-their-own-citizens-for-the-last-eight-years-c/</a></p><p>Subscribe to Jeff’s Substack here:</p><p><a href="https://jeffjbrown.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=publication_embed&amp;utm_medium=web">China Rising Radio Sinoland</a></p>

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title: Microsoft Recall &quot;Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wifi&quot;
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title: Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 04
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/EWi0vdX-R9E" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 04"></p>In this fourth Roundtable co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow and Rising Tide Foundation, experts Alex Krainer, Glenn Diesen and Come Carpentier deliver their analysis on the geopolitical landscape and the historic and philosophical undercurrents shaping today's crisis.<br><br>To register for future round tables (which will be held every two weeks), contact Ed Lozansky or register online here:<br>https://russiahouse.org/american-university-in-moscow/<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWi0vdX-R9E

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/the-strategic-importance-of-the-alaska
title: The Strategic Importance of the Alaska-Canada Railway
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<h3>Will Trump revive it?</h3><h2>By Matthew Ehret</h2><p>In my recent film ‘The Arctic: Platform for War or Global Cooperation’, I outlined the fact that in the early hours of September 26, 2020, President Trump <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7361339/alberta-alaska-rail-trump-approval-a2a/">sent out the announcement</a> that a gigantic continental project long thought dead and buried will be revived: The 2570 km Alaska Canada Rail connection, which will move freight, oil, grains and other goods from Anchorage to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Northern Alberta.</p><p>In his tweet, Trump stated:</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%2F1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.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%2F1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.jpeg" width="733" height="425" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cb859e7-df6d-4238-a98f-884db635cb0b_733x425.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":425,"width":733,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","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>For those who are not aware, anyone wishing to take rail from the USA north, will only make it as far as British Columbia, as a 1000 km gap separates any rail from Alaska.</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%2F55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.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%2F55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.jpeg" width="750" height="581" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55ca0309-8704-4040-b603-5e30bb2260c6_750x581.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":581,"width":750,"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>When looking at the post-WWII battles for continental development, it is somewhat incredible that this gap has remained in place for decades, with the northernmost rail line extending as far as Dease Lake BC, built over 50 years ago by the great pro-development Premier W.A.C. Bennett.</p><p>For decades the Dease Lake line was called “the railway to nowhere,” and featured a price tag of only one dollar, which in fact is today only a relic of a sabotaged northern vision, which was always designed to connect Canada and the USA, while opening up the north for development.</p><h3><strong>Premier W.A.C. Bennett’s Fight to Open the North</strong></h3><p>From 1952- 1972, <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/06/14/forgotten-battles-against-the-deep-state-part-3-w-a-c-bennett-vs-the-malthusians/">British Columbia’s great Premier W.A.C. Bennett</a> fought a hard fought battle to ensure that British Columbia would finally become more than a colonial underdeveloped region, as its British rulers had long condemned of her. Bennett was convinced that the opening up of the arctic and the industrial boom of British Columbia were possible if a policy of state directed investment into capital intensive infrastructure, social programs, and industrialization were made the focus of the national purpose.</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%2Ff926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.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%2Ff926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.jpeg" width="564" height="423" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f926884f-29e7-4601-af04-bcf780300607_564x423.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":423,"width":564,"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">Premier W.A.C. Bennett at an event celebrating the Peace River Power Dam in July 1964. PHOTO BY DENI EAGLAND /Vancouver Sun files</figcaption></figure></div><p>Bennett’s clashes with the technocrats in Ottawa, beginning with the <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/06/14/forgotten-battles-against-the-deep-state-part-3-w-a-c-bennett-vs-the-malthusians/">sabotage operation </a>against the Columbia River Treaty and continuing beyond the<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/"> ouster of Diefenbaker in 1963 </a>instilled Bennett’s resolve to use the vast powers of the Province over its economy to nationalize BC Power Corporation and create new BC-run institutions such as the Bank of British Columbia to execute his grand design. Bennett’s struggle to develop BC was also made possible through his association with John F. Kennedy, who sided with Bennett over Ottawa’s civil service in regards to the Columbia River Treaty.</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%2F45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.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%2F45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.jpeg" width="430" height="328" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/45ee821a-d628-4d37-8bbc-be6190291069_430x328.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":328,"width":430,"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>Using revenues generated from the Columbia River treaty, Bennett was able to invest in a vast rail expansion process that continued through the 1960s, which opened up development corridors in previously inhospitable regions of the great north. While these projects were begun based upon the exploitation of fossil fuel, lumber and other raw materials, the creation of manufacturing industries had soon begun to appear, with permanent cities in the Peace River region.</p><p>Alaska-British Columbia-Yukon conferences through this period were instrumental in advancing Bennett’s vision for an eventual connection between BC’s rail system and that of Alaska. Due to the sabotage of the rail system by W.A.C. Bennett’s son Bill Bennett, the great Canada-Alaska rail connection became forever known as the “rail to nowhere,” ending in Dease Lake.</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%2Fde254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.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%2Fde254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.jpeg" width="624" height="410" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/de254ba1-323b-4da8-9d2a-c11498584922_624x410.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":410,"width":624,"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>Completing Bennett’s rail vision in the 21st century is a necessary component to the Bering Strait Rail Corridor program proposed by the governments of Russia and China, which will advance transportation corridors all the way from the Eurasian New Silk Road through the Siberian development belt and into the Americas, connecting down into the west coast and New York. The Alaska-Canada rail connection is one of the greatest projects in the Americas, and involves the 1800 Km construction of rail between Dease Lake and into the Yukon and Alaska.</p><p>Bennett astutely observed Canada’s destiny with Asia, when he said in 1971, “there are great mountains separating B.C. from Ottawa, but between us and Japan, there’s only the Peaceful Sea (Pacific Ocean).”</p><h3><strong>The Arctic Science Cities: Diefenbaker’s Sabotaged Vision</strong></h3><p>Ultimately, the opening up of the Arctic as the new frontier of human development requires that Canada learn from Russia’s plans to build a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/umka-russia-arctic-2011-10">nuclear powered domed city of Umka on the island of Kotelny</a>, only 1000 km from the North Pole.</p><p>More recently former Defense Minister Sergey Glazyev’s program to construct <a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2021/09/sergei-shoigu-has-grand-masterplan-siberia-it-will-move-russia-towards">five advanced cities in Russia’s arctic</a> express this forward thinking paradigm that the west lost many decades ago.</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%2F13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.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%2F13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.jpeg" width="275" height="183" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13113357-2519-431b-8094-f349d5aaf4fc_275x183.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":183,"width":275,"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><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Putin and Shoigu</figcaption></figure></div><p>In order to meet the challenge of housing over 5,000 workers and their families in the harsh arctic climate, which requires internal climate control, waste evaporation, internal agricultural capacities and reliable energy, Russian designers have used the International Space as their model. This ISS design is important, since the Arctic will play a vital role in the investigation of cosmic radiation, a galactic (and intergalactic) phenomenon driving both the evolution of the living and non-living material on the earth.</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%2F043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.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%2F043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.jpeg" width="308" height="426" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/043ff0bc-ac0b-4453-b4e4-308f3187679b_308x426.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":426,"width":308,"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>This model “city of the future” echoes back to the planned <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/under-the-dome-1958-plan-for-iqaluit-was-town-under-concrete-shell-1.2763922">domed city of Frobisher Bay</a>, Nunavut, which Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had committed to build as an integral component of his <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/">1958 “Northern Vision” campaign</a>.</p><p>Frobisher Bay’s design as produced by the Department of Public Works announced a domed city, encircled by 12 large towers housing 4,500 workers and families connected by an underground network of tunnels. In order to ensure that this city was truly one of the future, recreation facilities, shopping centers and other amenities were included to ensure that the comfort of Toronto would be something accessible even in the Arctic.</p><p>Diefenbaker laid out this program for opening up the arctic frontier by saying:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>“<em>This national development policy will create a new sense of national purpose and national destiny.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>One Canada. One Canada, wherein Canadians will have preserved to them the control of their own economic and political destiny.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>Sir John A. Macdonald gave his life to this party. He opened the West. He saw Canada from East to West. I see a new Canada—a Canada of the North. What are these new principles? What are our objectives? What do we propose?</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>We propose to assist the provinces, with their cooperation, in the financing and construction of job-creating projects necessary for the new development, where such projects are beyond the resources of the provinces. We will assist the provinces with their cooperation in the conservation of the renewable natural resources. We will aid in projects which are self-liquidating. We will aid in projects which, while not self-liquidating will lead to the development of the national resources for the opening of Canada’s north land. We will open that north land for development by improving transportation and communication and by the development of power, by the building of access roads. We will make an inventory of our hydroelectric potential.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>Ultimately, Diefenbaker`s Northern Vision, which incorporated a bold “Roads to Resources”, and frontier science program was to be funded by a re-chartered Bank of Canada. Diefenbaker’s brilliant financing approach took a page from <a href="https://rumble.com/v3e07e0-mel-k-and-matt-ehret-is-lincolns-greenback-movement-a-viable-economic-solut.html">Alexander Hamilton and Lincoln’s Greenback system</a>, which involved public bonds issued by Canada’s National Bank in order to connect both old, maturing WW2 Victory Bonds as well as new bonds directed towards Canada’s development.</p><p>Diefenbaker’s vision for a true national credit system was encapsulated in his 1958 radio announcement:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p>“<em><strong>This, the largest financial project in our history, offers an opportunity to all holders of victory bonds which were purchased as an act of patriotic faith during the war years, to re-invest them for the greater development of greater Canada. These monies that were advanced during the days of war, and which contributed to the victory, we now ask to be made available to speed the pace of peaceful progress and the program of national development… The action we are taking will make it possible for our nation to embark on a new era of peacetime prosperity far and beyond anything we have ever known.”</strong></em></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>While this National Credit and Northern Vision program <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2015/01/12/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/">was sabotaged by a Rhodes Scholar coup coordinated from London</a>, Diefenbaker’s strategy is just as applicable today as it was in 1958.</p><p>Today, Frobisher Bay plan remains the paragon of northern development, and complements the multi trillion dollar development policy of the Trans Eurasian Belt Development, which former Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin described on March 23 2015, must be an <em><strong>“inter-state, inter-civilization, project. It should be an alternative to the current (neo-liberal) model, which has caused a systemic crisis. The project should be turned into a world ‘future zone’, and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies.”</strong></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%2F4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.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%2F4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.jpeg" width="614" height="443" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c53cee1-5ad8-4656-bcd3-832789aeebfb_614x443.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":443,"width":614,"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">Yakunin and Putin</figcaption></figure></div><p>Since Yakunin’s 2015 remarks, President Putin’s <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/7460">Far East development</a> has been unveiled as a “21st century national priority” for Russia.</p><p>The development of new cities, mining, transport corridors and oil and natural gas of Russia’s Far East represent one of the greatest boons for economic investment during the coming century, and already features an array of partners from China, Japan, South Korea, India and other APEC nations.</p><p>Putin’s 2018 proposal that the USA join in this project of win-win cooperation is important not only because it would build trust, create business opportunities and re-establish the lost art of long-term thinking, but would also help link up western businesses into partnership with the Asia Pacific development process now being shaped by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and especially the Polar Silk Road.</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%2Fe916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.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%2Fe916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.jpeg" width="750" height="500" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e916ac86-d53e-46c8-b14e-e106551bdacc_750x500.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":500,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Polar Silk Road","title":"Polar Silk Road","type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Polar Silk Road" title="Polar Silk Road" 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>Although tensions have been enflamed to schism China and India from cooperating directly on the BRI, <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/15/art-of-flank-india-and-other-asian-nations-join-polar-silk-road/">India’s embrace of Russian Far East development</a> investments has created a non-linear flank which can help bring these two Asian giants into harmony.</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%2F0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.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%2F0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.jpeg" width="480" height="360" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0db9fc4f-27f4-4560-b25e-f55c07f4ea3e_480x360.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":360,"width":480,"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 Arctic as Platform for War or Peace</strong></h3><p>When compared to the robust development of Russia’s Arctic and the new emerging Polar Silk Road paradigm, which have united China and Russia ever closer into a long term Arctic growth program, the North American Arctic remains an underdeveloped, barren tundra. Despite the bountiful resources in the Arctic, no roads, rail or other development have been permitted to extend northward for decades.</p><p>Other than President Trump’s 2020 announcement of Federal support for this new project, the only North American Arctic discussions of note in recent decades have centered on anti-Russian <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2016/05/26/new-silk-road-or-new-world-war-for-nato-colonies/">militarization and Anti-ballistic missiles.</a></p><p>This has amplified to nuclear hysterics in recent months, as Canada unveiled a new Arctic Defense doctrine in April 2024, embracing long range ballistic missiles in the Arctic in Canada’s Arctic, and participation (with Japan and New Zealand) into the US-UK-Australia AUKUS nuclear submarine military program.</p><p>Instead of that hoped-for era of prosperity and win-win development envisioned by Bennett, John F. Kennedy or Canada’s John Diefenbaker, who all envisioned pro-industrial growth visions for the North American continent, what arose in the wake of the 1971 floating of the U.S. dollar was a 45 year slide into consumerism, speculation, and zero-technological growth at home and abroad, which saw all of the frontier projects led by great statesmen during the post-WW2 decades increasingly grind to a halt.</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%2F77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.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%2F77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.png" width="749" height="628" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77fbd038-6096-46e0-ae78-0b5116e72f4f_749x628.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":628,"width":749,"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 the Albertan and Alaskan governments have made several small efforts to encourage the plan over the years—very little headway occurred due to the monetarist-rules underpinning Globalization, which place supposedly “free markets” on the throne, and nation states in the dungeon of economics. Ignoring the fact that top down national planning has driven all of the greatest bursts of prosperity in history including the periods of rail expansion in the 19th century and post-war period, Globalization’s architects have ensured that nations are to play no role whatsoever, while “live in the moment” hedonism runs amok.</p><p>In the year 2000 the Alaskan government spent $6 million on a feasibility study followed in 2015 by a similar study funded by the Province of Alberta, desperately sitting upon the edge of total economic despair under the weight of decarbonization initiatives being pushed into law by Ottawa technocrats. It was here in 2015 that A2A was created as a private initiative to advance the plan, which the federal government had committed to blocking for far too long.</p><p>Standing for the Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corporation, A2A’s CEO Sean McCoshen has stated:</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><em>“This is a world-class infrastructure project that will generate more than 18,000 jobs for Canadian workers at a time when they are most needed, provide a new, more efficient route for trans-Pacific shipping and thereby link Alberta to world markets.”</em></p></blockquote></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%2F06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.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%2F06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.jpeg" width="750" height="475" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/06e7cdb6-8b0b-49b4-b101-87521e435cad_750x475.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":475,"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>This last concept of linking North America into the Pacific now being increasingly shaped by the Belt and Road Initiative and Multipolar Alliance is vital.</p><p>Any chance the west has to avoid a total meltdown under an emerging total economic blowout of the system and civil war is premised upon tying our economic destiny to the pro-growth, win-win model of the east. The opportunities for war-avoidance both in the Arctic and in the Pacific <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/16/polar-silk-road-comes-to-life-as-new-epoch-history-begins/">should be obvious to all</a>.</p><p>The Bering Strait Rail Tunnel, and Alaska-Canada Railway not only gives us the opportunity break out of this process of British geopolitics, but also allows us to re-build former industrial cities that have been ravaged by decades of globalized outsourcing, while building new permanent cities in turn.</p><p>The unfulfilled dream of such visionaries as <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/502">W.A.C. Bennett</a>, who fought to connect Canada with Alaska by rail, and John Diefenbaker who attempted to build the <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/505">Northern Vision</a> will be finally permitted to blossom once again, and our true heritage as a pioneering people allied in a common destiny with our neighbours can be re-awoken.</p><h3><strong>National Banking and Glass-Steagall</strong></h3><p>The greatest benefit of building the Bering Strait and its associated policy of nation building is that Canada and the USA will need to return to a sane system of economic value based on <em>future productivity</em>, not “market-driven” ventures into derivatives (the USA’s derivatives time bomb is now marked at approximately $1.2 quadrillion of nominal assets ready to explode at any moment).</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%2Ff3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.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%2Ff3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.jpeg" width="750" height="298" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3f3c57f-c996-47bb-b246-e8f4ef17e28b_750x298.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":298,"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>Similarly, the colonial “resource exploitation” policy dominant in Canada and the USA since NAFTA was imposed must now come to an end. <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2018/06/11/the-death-of-nafta-is-a-blessing-not-a-curse-for-all-countries/">Donald Trump’s flushing of NAFTA </a>was a vital pre-condition to giving power to sovereign nation states over private corporations, but much more still needs to be done.</p><p>Indeed, the only way that such a systemic change could occur, would be for the two fold restoration of</p><p>1) Glass-Steagall (known in Canada as the “<a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/archives/615">Four Pillars</a>“) to separate commercial banking assets fully from high risk banking assets such as derivatives, and</p><p>2) the revival of a genuine national banking system (as opposed to a private central banking system) as an issuer of productive credit for the sovereign needs of the people.</p><h3><strong>A New Economy</strong></h3><p>A third complementary policy must be also considered, which relates to an international nature as well.</p><p>This 3rd element is most vital, and is known as the New Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, which the governments of Russia and China have already expressed much interest in revisiting in the face of the current collapse. While gold may or may not be a reserve for a new Bretton Woods system, it is necessary that the discoveries in economic science of “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNXsLvJlwP0">increasing energy flux density</a>” be understood as the new metric of determining value.</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%2F344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.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%2F344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.jpeg" width="749" height="691" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/344d6439-5f89-42af-b67f-32da0f6d7564_749x691.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":691,"width":749,"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>The science of Physical Economy was first developed by <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/some-considerations-of-the-life-and">American statesman Lyndon LaRouche,</a> and is distinct from all monetarist-statistical economic theories, in that LaRouche’s system does not assume that all monetary claims within a system are equally valuable, as the monetarist foolishly does who does not care whether said claims are tied to nation-destroying hedge fund gambling, whore houses or productive steel mills. Reality is far different from the world which Wall Street and Bay Street speculators believe they live in.</p><p>Real economics is based neither on “monetary values” or “carbon footprints” but rather on the <em>successful reproduction of society into the deepest future possible</em>. It is only in this pursuit of true progress that increases in prosperity of every nation and every individual can occur. Such increases are measured in terms of increasing rates of productive powers of labour per capita and per square kilometer, requiring ever greater densities of scientific creative breakthroughs in time.</p><p>This is a pre-requirement for survival, which empires have yearned to crush since ancient Rome, because such a society would not tolerate the fixed system of zero change demanded by empire, and expressed most venomously by Prince Philip’s Green agenda for depopulation and war.</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%2Feb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.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%2Feb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.jpeg" width="750" height="491" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb82606e-d5a7-4623-9b25-6181a8d3ca26_750x491.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":491,"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>Only the Bering Strait offers all of the preconditions for war avoidance, green suicide and nation building, with the necessary effect of increasing the energy flux density of the society as a whole.</p><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media <a href="https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-strategic-importance-of-the-alaska">where this essay was first published.</a></strong></p>

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title: At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | Published by the National Post</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The school, which opens next fall at Toronto Metropolitan University, will <a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/school-of-medicine/programs/md/selection-process/#!accordion-1725045634886-selection-ranking" target="_blank"><span>reserve 75 per cent</span></a> of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of <a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/school-of-medicine/programs/md/application-requirements/#!accordion-1725387950818-gpa-requirement" target="_blank"><span>only 3.3</span></a> on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted <a href="https://applymd.utoronto.ca/admission-stats" target="_blank"><span>GPA is 3.95</span></a>. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court brought race-based admissions at American universities to an end. Harvard University, among others, preferred Black and brown students to Asian and white ones in the name of “diversity.” That practice, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf" target="_blank"><span>the court declared</span></a>, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Equal protection “cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.” In the United States, equal treatment under the law is a constitutional requirement.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But not in Canada. “Every individual is equal before and under the law,” <a href="https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-12.html" target="_blank"><span>says</span></a> the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, “and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination …” But the Supreme Court of Canada has long insisted that the clause does not mean equal treatment but equity.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Equity, also known as “substantive equality” or “equality of outcome,” means treating different groups differently. It means applying standards and granting rights to compensate for perceived advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and weaknesses. Equity is a right granted not to individuals as individuals, but to members of groups.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Equal treatment and equity are opposites. The law cannot apply the same laws and standards to everyone and also adjust them depending upon the group. As Friedrich Hayek <a href="https://www.woldww.net/classes/General_Philosophy/Hayek-equality.htm" target="_blank"><span>put it</span></a>, “From the fact that people are very different, it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time.”</p><p data-sanitized-class="">So what happened? The Supreme Court of Canada did not decide its first case under the equality provision, section 15(1), until 1989. In the interim, the federal government established a Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, also known as the Abella Commission after its commissioner Rosalie Abella. Abella, now retired, would later become the most activist judge on the court. The <a href="https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/471737/publication.html" target="_blank"><span>commission’s report</span></a>, released in 1984, recommended employment equity policies in the federal government and in federally regulated companies, and led to the passage of the federal <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-5.401/FullText.html" target="_blank"><span>Employment Equity Act</span></a> in 1986, which required affirmative action programs that gave preference to candidates from some groups over others.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The Act did not bind the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Charter, but it was newly in place when the Supreme Court heard the case of David Mark Andrews, a British citizen and permanent resident of Canada, and a qualified lawyer, who challenged a British Columbia requirement that lawyers be Canadian citizens. In <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1989/1989canlii2/1989canlii2.html" target="_blank"><span>its 1989 decision</span></a>, the court struck down the requirement. Justice William McIntyre wrote, “… a law which treats all identically and which provides equality of treatment between “A” and “B” might well cause inequality for “C,” depending on differences in personal characteristics and situations. To approach the ideal of full equality before and under the law… the main consideration must be the impact of the law on the individual or the group concerned…”</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The court has been doubling down on equity ever since. Unlike the American Constitution, the Charter contains an exception to its equality guarantee. <a href="https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-12.html" target="_blank"><span>Section 15(2)</span></a> allows for programs of affirmative action that discriminate against members of some groups to promote the fortunes of others. It was meant to be an exception, but the Supreme Court has made it <a href="https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/5696/index.do" target="_blank"><span>the general rule</span></a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In Canada, the Charter may not even apply to university admission policies (because universities are not governments), but human rights codes do. Like section 15(1) of the Charter, human rights codes promise a right <a href="https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h19" target="_blank"><span>to equal treatment</span></a>. But in accordance with the Supreme Court’s equality jurisprudence, human rights have come to mean equity too. In 2022, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onhrt/doc/2022/2022hrto1345/2022hrto1345.html?resultId=1cf6f6b34a174bd4ab0b8c65a30cb81c&amp;searchId=2024-10-15T16:17:50:490/b0675bd4b20b4ab0b2bb1eaad9b7d92e" target="_blank"><span>said</span></a> that white people cannot claim discrimination. “An allegation of racial discrimination or discrimination on the grounds of colour,” it wrote, “is not one that can be or has been successfully claimed by persons who are white and non-racialized.”</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Thanks to the Supreme Court, equality rights have become weapons wielded by preferred groups to demand more lenient standards and advantageous outcomes. In Canada, some people are more equal than others. Remember that next time you’re waiting to see your newly minted doctor.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others#comments-area" target="_blank">For the original version of this commentary, see the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Bruce Pardy is executive director of </em><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/" target="_blank"><span><em>Rights Probe</em></span></a><em>, professor of law at Queen’s University, senior fellow with the </em><a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span><em>Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy</em></span></a><em>, and author of the new report “</em><a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/a-right-to-unequal-treatment-in-canada-some-people-are-more-equal-than-others/" target="_blank"><em>A Right to Unequal Treatment</em></a><em>”.</em></p>

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title: Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By David Blaff | Published by the National Post</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Summary</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In Canada, equity, not equality, is constitutionally protected, allowing for lawful discrimination against certain groups, particularly straight white men, argues Bruce Pardy in a new report for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy asserts that equal treatment and equity are mutually exclusive. The law cannot apply the same standards to everyone while adjusting them according to group identity. He contrasts this with the U.S. Constitution, which enshrines equality for all.</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">This issue should be particularly concerning to young Canadians who could be “squeezed out of opportunities because of their identity,” Pardy told the Post. Front of mind for him was the recent announcement by Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) new medical school that three-quarters of its seats would be allotted to “<a href="https://www.torontomu.ca/school-of-medicine/programs/md/admissions-pathways/"><span>equity-deserving groups</span></a>.”</p><p data-sanitized-class="">“This kind of thing has become widespread, with job openings and government programs excluding people who are not the preferred race or gender,” Pardy said.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Read the full commentary by David Blaff at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The report by Bruce Pardy, <em>“A Right to Unequal Treatment,”</em> for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy is <a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/a-right-to-unequal-treatment-in-canada-some-people-are-more-equal-than-others/" target="_blank">available to read at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Further Reading: <a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others" target="_blank">At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others</a>.</p>

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title: At Toronto Metropolitan University medical school, some students are more equal than others
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<p data-sanitized-class="">Published by Todayville</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Summary</p><p data-sanitized-class="">New analysis by Bruce Pardy highlights how Canadian courts have redefined the equality clause in the Constitution to prioritize "equity" over individual equality. This shift is evident in the new Toronto Metropolitan University medical school, which reserves 75% of its seats for specific identity groups, lowering admission standards significantly. Unlike the U.S., where equal treatment is constitutionally mandated, Canada's Supreme Court has favoured equity, allowing for discrimination against certain groups.</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">In Canada, the Charter may not even apply to university admission policies (because universities are not governments), but human rights codes do. Like section 15(1) of the Charter, human rights codes promise a right <a href="https://tgrtjsgbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2Dvb2z0qvuhwZIEq_z0u0ywSkR5LgAUsPFPtY2yByVgKOWaxPTMsyVc_ZG79DCtHaPQmhQlTYOzGYL1Q80lUKGq-jH-o1PYlFqnddDlfXz6rlBrw0Bt9myJynVT6M-PoWgdBg8r122i7H8G6G8fSIJQOzkokdjDdJUAioC_BSmPSl4AxrYN7Q==&amp;c=Khl4ZgGm5oXSXZDXe8fXus27k2er-zzx88R3qrQHuIEkt3QCFTe3JA==&amp;ch=MC45aRw2wL4pKuOX8Ck8VWah9AsDFPZ2GxJWd0ExR60SyMHWXXGF3w==" target="_blank">to equal treatment</a>. But in accordance with the Supreme Court’s equality jurisprudence, human rights have come to mean equity too. In 2022, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal <a href="https://tgrtjsgbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001i2Dvb2z0qvuhwZIEq_z0u0ywSkR5LgAUsPFPtY2yByVgKOWaxPTMsyVc_ZG79DCt6oYdj9nDNAl1uv-YjLRyaK7gaar_OvbMJro4XqTdH3Nm3mDIdn4zJBLhQm6f0Xe0oVnFCklKwS0xN528eWJ43nooHT7VTHOfiXulRidw9_Fcsu4gAXEnVqmXh59a3X71NdryKHJ5Wc9ig2QHq5EHp-SumRHAHsYaZX6iNNKz9S1LIZNw-_1p-C6UTYuTv_CarbGb-YFKnnapB8CbieCo4NZLWe9VujLw0F_SSRC9RjMHS94icpNJ_wXPwiLUC5rVw5_vLBx1JWHSjOKYL5eXldo3RUeLbNVV1dam4aIe69bsbUO8PED1HvCTn_kWlg4JbkhXVRWegFGqiE6eF94P2w==&amp;c=Khl4ZgGm5oXSXZDXe8fXus27k2er-zzx88R3qrQHuIEkt3QCFTe3JA==&amp;ch=MC45aRw2wL4pKuOX8Ck8VWah9AsDFPZ2GxJWd0ExR60SyMHWXXGF3w==" target="_blank">said</a> that white people cannot claim discrimination. “An allegation of racial discrimination or discrimination on the grounds of colour,” it wrote, “is not one that can be or has been successfully claimed by persons who are white and non-racialized.”</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.todayville.com/at-toronto-metropolitan-university-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others/" target="_blank">Read the full article at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/column-new-med-school-selecting-students-not-for-their-ability-but-their-identity-9712829" target="_blank">This article was also reprinted by Midland Today</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The report by Bruce Pardy, <em>“A Right to Unequal Treatment,”</em> for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy is <a href="https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/a-right-to-unequal-treatment-in-canada-some-people-are-more-equal-than-others/" target="_blank">available to read at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Further Reading: </p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others" target="_blank">At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others</a></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues</a></p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/jsndLxCC6E4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ask me Anything with Matt Ehret (Occultism, Deep Politics, BRICS, Trump, and more)"></p>This video features an open dialogue with paid subscribers after a formal presentation on 'The Occult Roots of Fascism'. <br><br>Watch the main lecture The Occult Roots of Fascism here:<br>https://youtu.be/1gXTfDgcwzM<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsndLxCC6E4

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title: The Occult Roots of Fascism: What you weren't taught in school (Matt Ehret lecture)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/1gXTfDgcwzM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Occult Roots of Fascism: What you weren't taught in school (Matt Ehret lecture)"></p>In this presentation, Matt Ehret sheds light on the origins of fascism as the 'miracle solution to the great depression' and the occult proclivities of leading occult agencies that didn't disappear after WW2 but simply rebranded themselves under a new strategy to undo the system of sovereign nation states, normalize eugenics (in the form of Transhumanism) and revive a global techno-feudal dictatorship under a post-human New Age.<br><br>To watch the 'Q and A after the main presentation, click here:<br>https://youtu.be/jsndLxCC6E4<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXTfDgcwzM

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Les changements apportés au programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires ne s’attaquent pas au fond du problème : sénatrice Omidvar

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title: New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
author: ;Corbin Davenport
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/slop.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI"><p>OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, DALL-E image generator, and GPT large language models (LLM), just released another showcase of its AI video generator Sora. It's shockingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, awful.</p><p>OpenAI announced Sora <a href="https://mashable.com/article/openai-sora-ai-text-to-video-model-announcement">back in February</a> as a text-to-video diffusion model. It's supposed to be able to create videos from simple text prompts, much in the same way DALL-E, Microsoft Creator, Midjourney, and other similar tools can already create images from text prompts. The company said at the time, "Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt."</p><p>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK6y8DAPN_0">initial demonstration clips</a> of Sora were eerie and low-resolution, with bizarre movement and physics. The video generation model was <a href="https://futurism.com/video-openai-cto-sora-training-data">almost certainly trained on mountains of stolen content</a> and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-26/tech-firms-conceal-water-and-power-demands-of-ai-computing">sucked up excessive amounts of power and water</a>. The most impressive sequences were nature shots, but that was probably because they were close to the model's training material. It was an initial demonstration, though, so maybe OpenAI just needed more time to work on it.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-23-22h23m28s068.jpeg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>Fast forward to October 2024. OpenAI is now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html">valued at $157 billion</a>: more than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)">national GDP</a> of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, or Indonesia. ChatGPT has "more than a hundred million" <a href="https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free/">weekly active users</a>, and the underlying GPT language model is used by many other services, such as Microsoft Copilot and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/heres-how-chatgpt-integration-works-for-apple-intelligence/">some answers in Apple's revamped Siri</a>. Sora is still not publicly available, but OpenAI is giving a few people access to the in-development version.</p><p>OpenAI just published a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnXfZ_cQgEU">new 'Dreams' short film</a> on its YouTube channel. It's a reading of a poem written by <a href="https://www.in-q.com/" rel="noreferrer">IN-Q</a> on top of a sequence of Sora-generated video clips, produced in collaboration with filmmaker <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1872366/">Wayne Price</a>.</p><p>The video is awful. It's one of the best representations of "AI slop" I have seen, except it's not coming from <a href="https://futurism.com/facebook-ai-generated-images-viral">a weird Facebook page</a>. It's live right now on the YouTube channel of OpenAI, one of the biggest companies in the AI space.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="a-fever-dream">A fever dream</h2><p>The 'Dream' video is nearly two minutes long, showing back-to-back clips of a bird flying around airplanes, while a recording of a poem plays in the background about the bird wishing to be an airplane. OpenAI does have a text-to-speech technology—one of the voices sounded suspiciously like Scarlet Johansson, after the actor <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/technology/scarlett-johannson-openai-voice.html">denied requests to license her voice</a>—but the poem recording seems to be a human voice. It's identical to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV4Y69hSc2I">the track in the artist's album release</a> from earlier this year.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qnXfZ_cQgEU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Dreams · Made by Wayne Price and IN-Q with Sora" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Nearly every shot in the film has a significant flaw in the background, objects, and physics. The bird that appears in most scenes is also changing colors, even though I think it's supposed to be the same bird throughout the runtime, as the poem is told from its perspective. Wayne Price explains in the video description that the film is supposedly representative of "hyper reality with a small dose of the fantastical, and that "it took many attempts to get the gold."</p><p>The video starts with some shots of the bird flying near an airport, then it cuts to the bird high up in the air next to a plane. The plane's wing is parallel to the main body for some reason, instead of connected to the side.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h08m20s995.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>A few seconds later, the bird is flying next to another plane. It passes one wing, then passes... another wing on the same side. Having some trouble there.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/Image.jpeg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="563" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>The very next cut shows the bird next to a (seemingly) landed airplane, with the side door and staircase open. The entire plane behind the front section is missing, replaced with a wing and jet engine. Maybe this was just a plane built by Boeing?</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h15m26s682.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>There are a few cuts of the bird flying around the cockpit, then a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail. This plane has wings with tips that are tilted upwards for some reason.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h18m27s251.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>A few scenes later, there's a close-up view of the bird flying with a plane barely visible in the background. This plane has a third wing.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h21m12s733.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>There are a few more shots of the bird flying around that are <em>mostly</em> decent, then one where it's sitting on a pile of toy planes in a marketplace. The planes are all morphed into each other, and the bird now has a completely red face.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h27m23s214.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>A while later, the bird is once again flying near an airport runway. This time, the plane appears to have a normal number of wings, but one of the wings has an extra jet engine.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/vlcsnap-2024-10-24-01h29m53s302.jpg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>The last shot shows the bird turning into a plane, <em>Animorphs</em>-style. Price described this as the "key moment" of the short film to "coincide with the final line of IN-Q’s brilliant poem." It's a neat effect.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/Image-2.jpeg" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="563" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: OpenAI</span></figcaption></figure><p>It's not entirely clear how many of the errors here were intended as "a small dose of the fantastical." That could have just as easily been an artistic choice as it could have been Price giving up after typing "orange bird" in the video generator prompt for the 50th time and still getting a red bird.</p><p>What <em>is</em> clear is that this video serves no purpose. It fails at its mission at being a technical demonstration of Sora video generation, because even the elements that are (probably) supposed to look realistic don't look real or move realistically. It's not really interesting as a creative work, because it's just jump cut after jump cut of a bird flying around misshapen airplanes.</p><p>If the goal was to showcase the poem in a visual medium, then simple stock footage of birds and airplanes would have been less distracting. Instead, it degrades the entire work to the point where some at least some viewers thought the entire thing was AI-generated.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/10/image-1.png" alt="New slop just dropped, from OpenAI" loading="lazy" width="1852" height="232" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>Art is subjective, but this isn't really art, it's just AI slop. It’s incredible to me that this is what OpenAI thinks we should be excited about.</p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/2DRqcNay6mo" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Cutting through Gordian Knots with Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret"></p>In this comprehensive roundtable, Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret share notes and discoveries pertaining to the subtle forces shaping our world.<br><br>Subscribe to Rounding the Earth here: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/<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=2DRqcNay6mo

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<p>Fill in this sentence.</p>
<p>"I believe one of the biggest problems in the world is _ _ _ _ <em>, which is why I'm _ _ _ _ </em>."</p>
<p>Are you happy with your answer? ... Once you've found your sentence, you’ve then found a molten core for a thriving career. And not just your career, but maybe your life as well.</p>
<p>Everything builds off of how you are useful to the world.</p>
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<p>This is a really great essentialization. I think his sentences has an incorrect bias against the arts so I'd reword the sentence to, "I believe one of the most important things in the world is _ _ _ _ <em>, why is why I'm _ _ _ _ </em>."</p>
<p>Notably, I'm deep in the process of revisiting my own answer to this question.</p></blockquote>
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<p>European Union’s eventual collapse is a certainty - it has been for a very long time. It’s been rigged for demolition through its financial architecture which institutionalizes a system of governance that’s typical of all historical eras where moneylending oligarchies gained control of the political system. The predictable result of all this is that European economies are floundering: their entrepreneurial dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically suffocated and slowly consumed by the parasitic leech hidden behind the EU bureaucratic institutions. For the ordinary people and businesses, this system is driving a steady, inexorable descent into poverty.</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%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.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%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png" width="1456" height="929" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":929,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":4977612,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","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><h2>European Stability Mechanism</h2><p>One of the main components of Europe’s pathological financial architecture is the European Stability Mechanism (ESM): Eurozone’s permanent bailout fund. The ESM is not exactly a household name, but you can really think of it as a monstrous vampire leech attached to Europe’s economy. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/system/files/document/2023-10/05-TESM2-HR1.en12.pdf">treaty establishing the ESM</a> is an astonishing legal concoction which established a limitless, institutional conveyor belt of bailout funds from the European taxpayer, ultimately to the banking cartel. ESM’s capital was supposedly limited to €500 million (in some documents it says €700 million), but the Treaty sets no limits on the obligations imposed on European taxpayers, no room for negotiation, no legal recourse.</p><p>As drafted, the ESM Treaty was a violation of the EU Treaty (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) as well as constitutions and/or laws of EU member states as it restricts each member nation’s fiscal sovereignty. Ratifying it necessitated a dismayingly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_the_European_Stability_Mechanism">convoluted process</a> of amending the EU treaty and circumventing member states’ domestic laws. </p><p>It came to an initial vote in January 2012 when it was passed with barely a mention in the press. The ESM became operational in October 2012 even though it was never fully ratified by all member states. Here are some of the Treaty's provisions:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Article 8:</strong> the Treaty does not limit the fund capital to its authorized capital (€500 or €700 billion), but to its issue value which is up to the ESM’s board of governors to decide.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 9</strong>: "ESM members hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertake to pay on demand any capital call made on them... within seven days of receipt."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 19</strong>: ESM governors may extend the scope of the ESM’s operations. ESM may borrow funds to bail out insolvent Eurozone banks in capital markets, without approval by national parliaments.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 21</strong>: ESM can borrow funds from banks or other persons or institutions without any limits. ESM member nations shall guarantee and be liable for the repayment of these sums.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 25</strong>: if one or more ESM members fail to meet their obligations, the other members are liable for the shortfall in proportion to their share of the fund capital.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 30</strong>: "<strong>Governors, ... and staff members shall be immune from legal proceedings</strong> with respect to acts performed by them in their official capacity and shall enjoy inviolability in respect of their official papers and documents."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 32</strong>: The ESM, its property, funding, and assets... shall enjoy <strong>immunity from every form of judicial process</strong> ... the ESM shall... be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation, or any form of seizure... by executive, judicial, administrative or legislative action." This article further stipulates that <strong>ESM shall be exempted from the legal requirement in any of the ESM member nations’ legal requirement to be authorized or licensed as a credit institution</strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 34</strong>: all ESM officials, governors and directors are to observe absolute professional secrecy in relation to any matter relating to the ESM.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 35:</strong> directors and governors will enjoy full legal immunity beyond their time in office and in both international law and that of the EU member states.</p></li></ul><p>If we boil down the legal language of the ESM Treaty, we have an unelected, supra-national body that can allocate unlimited bailout funds, ultimately to the benefit of Eurozone’s failing banks, at their discretion and in perpetuity.</p><h2>A different social contract</h2><p>ESM officers may not be held accountable at law, nor can their decisions be challenged. Member nations must guarantee such funds, but they can’t challenge ESM’s decisions. Article 9 may well be titled, "Stand and deliver," and articles 30 and 32 amount to what <strong>Nicholas Rockefeller</strong> arrogantly called the bankers' KMA card (KMA = kiss my ass): we can do what we want and there is no agency of government that can limit our power, investigate our actions or hold us to account in any way whatsoever. If we gamble and win, the gains are ours. If we lose, all you debt serfs and tax donkeys must make us whole.</p><p>This is truly a different kind of social contract. It effectively reverses one of the 19<sup>th</sup> century’s key political achievements: the transfer of fiscal sovereignty from unaccountable monarchical bureaucracies to democratically accountable parliaments. It thereby nullifies any notion of democratic governance of the people, by the people and for the people. </p><p></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>This legislation is clearly of the bankers, by the bankers and for the bankers. The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/legal-documents/esm-treaty">ESM treaty</a> was spearheaded by <strong>Mario Monti</strong>, former Goldman Sachs banker, one of the leaders of the Bilderberg group and a prominent member of the Trilateral Commission. He was enabled by another Goldman Sachs banker, <strong>Mario Draghi</strong> who had taken the helm of the ECB just in time for this heist, in November 2011.</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%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.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%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg" width="1200" height="630" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":630,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Picture background","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Picture background" title="Picture background" 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">Bankster gangsta: Mr. Mario Draghi</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Crushing the resistance</h2><p>For a few days in October 2011, a group of Slovakia's MPs actually looked into the contents of the treaty. They held out and refused to approve the ESM bailout funds arguing that it was wrong, punishing prudent nations (their banks, actually) and rewarding the profligate ones. <strong>Richard Sulik</strong>, the leader of Slovakia's liberals conveyed the scale of the heist when he said that, "Since we joined the EU, our net receipts from the Brussels budget have come to just over 1 billion EUR. Under ESM, we are liable for 13 billion!" </p><p>The EU and ECB came down hard and fast against Slovakia. Within 5 days the government fell and the parliament quickly ratified ESM funds. The ESM became the industrial-sized conveyor belt, transferring wealth from those who created it to the gamblers in financial markets. In doing so, the ESM removed all accountability and constraints on the gamblers to act responsibly. </p><p>Twelve years after the ESM was established, the ordinary Europeans have seen their standard of living collapse even if they can’t tell how or why that happened. According to Eurostat, in 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie/status/1848657092128727146">more than 45% of European people struggled to make ends meet</a>. In some nations, like Slovakia, more than 65% struggle. This is not exactly the prosperity we'd been promised.</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%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.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%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png" width="968" height="1146" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1146,"width":968,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":789164,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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></p><p>Of course, rather than fixing the system, the bankers will blame the Russians and demand war. Throughout history, when failure became undeniable and social pressures built up, the oligarchies always cried, “barbarians at the gates!” Then the military-aged men could be sent to fight and die in far off lands, safely away from the vampire leech’s seat of power.</p><p>As Mario Monti's BFF and fellow Trilateral Commission alumnus <strong>Zbigniew Brzezinski</strong> wrote in The Grand Chessboard, you get away with such schemes only "in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.<em>" </em>Therefore, that perception is being constantly manufactured for us: <strong>Putin </strong>evil, Russia bad. If you're disenfranchised and broke, blame the Russians who, by the way, are coming to get you! Real men go to war! </p><p>In spite of all that, socialism for the bankers will end as all socialist experiments have done through history: with stagflation (we're there already), hyperinflation (give it time), wars and civil wars (let us do all we can to avoid that outcome). It is time for the plebs to realize who the real enemy is.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/eu-living-in-the-bankstas-paradise?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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Further information is at <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">link</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%2Fa3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.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%2Fa3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.png" width="1456" height="785" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3c69459-312b-4e98-ba06-aa46095b665d_1940x1046.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":785,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1745626,"alt":"","title":"","type":"image/png","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>

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<p>The Microsoft Recall situation is a serious issue as the feature has been spotted in all systems that are updated in 24H2. Let’s go over what this feature is and how it is implemented depending on your system.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-recall">What is Recall</h2>
<p>Microsoft Recall is a feature that takes screenshots every 5 seconds and OCR’s what is on your screen so it can “recall” anything you have done on your PC. This feature is a serious privacy concern as it can capture sensitive information. Microsoft has promised that it only stores this data locally and does not send it to their servers.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-on-24h2">Recall on 24H2</h2>
<p>This feature was initially said to only work with ARM-based CPUs with a Copilot+ chip or NPU chip. However, it has been spotted on all systems that have been updated to 24H2. What is it doing and is it active on all these x86 systems?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-check-or-disable-recall-feature">How to Check or Disable Recall Feature</h2>
<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">DISM /Online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Disable Recall</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">DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p><em>Note: removing recall feature from an offline image breaks the new file explorer reverting its look to the old one.</em></p>
<p>Source files referenced in Feature located in <code>C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.AIX_cw5n1h2txyewy</code></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/microsoft-recall-situation/recall-aix-files.png" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-requirements">Recall Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>A Copilot+ PC
<ul>
<li>Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors</li>
<li>Intel’s Core Ultra processors</li>
<li>AMD’s AI 300 Series processors</li>
<li>Besides the Copilot+ Certification, it maybe possible with any CPU with a NPU chip.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Windows 24H2</li>
<li>16 GB RAM</li>
<li>8 logical processors</li>
<li>256 GB storage capacity
<ul>
<li>To enable Recall, you need at least 50 GB of space free</li>
<li>Snapshot capture automatically pauses once the device has less than 25 GB of disk space available</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="explorer-recall-problems">Explorer Recall Problems</h2>
<p>If you remove Recall from an offline image, the new file explorer will break and revert to the old one. This is was originally thought to be from the removal of the Recall feature, but it is actually due to the removal of the AIX package which in turn removes the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package.</p>
<p>This CBS package is a library responsible for the new file explorer and removing it will revert the file explorer to the old one.</p>
<p>So why did this happen? The AIX package (AKA Recall) manifest references the CBS package, so when you remove the AIX package, it removes the CBS package as well. MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy (File Explorer) is dependent on the Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy package but it is not referenced in the File Explorer manifest.</p>
<p>This would cause the new file explorer to break and revert to the old one because that package is a library that gives the new look to explorer with tabs.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-explorer-fix-in-offline-images">The Explorer Fix in Offline Images</h3>
<p>To fix the new file explorer in offline images, you need to add the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package back to the image. This can be done by adding the package back to the image using the following command:</p>
<p>This was done in pull request #2947 Source: <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files</a></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"> # Detect Windows 11 24H2 and add dependency to FileExp to prevent Explorer look from going back - thanks @WitherOrNot and @thecatontheceiling
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if ((Test-CompatibleImage $imgVersion $([System.Version]::new(10,0,26100,1))) -eq $true)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> try
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if (Test-Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -PathType Leaf)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # Found the culprit. Do the following:
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</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 1. Take ownership of the file, from TrustedInstaller to Administrators
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> takeown /F "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /A
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</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 2. Set ACLs so that we can write to it
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> icacls "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /grant "$(Get-LocalizedUsers -admins $true):(M)" | Out-Host
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</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 3. Open the file and do the modification
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest = Get-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $originalLine = $appxManifest[13]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $dependency = "`n &lt;PackageDependency Name=`"Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS`" MinVersion=`"1.0.0.0`" Publisher=`"CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US`" /&gt;"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest[13] = "$originalLine$dependency"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> Set-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -Value $appxManifest -Force -Encoding utf8
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<p>Big shoutout to WitherorNot, CodingWonders, fish bazooka, and thecatontheceiling for figuring out the fix for the new file explorer in offline images and tracking down this information.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: Equality vs. Equity: The crisis of race-based admissions in Canadian universities
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Patrick Keeney | The Epoch Times</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Summary</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Toronto Metropolitan University’s recent decision to reserve seats in its new medical school<a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others" target="_blank"><span> based on race and identity</span></a> is far from an isolated instance, and represents a broader shift in Canadian universities. The movement from equality of opportunity to equity has redefined how institutions approach admissions, hiring, and advancement, but this explicit form of race-based discrimination directly contradicts the values that have long shaped Canadian society—the principle that discrimination based on race is wrong and has no place in a civilized world.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The legal framework in Canada allows for such policies, but critics warn that prioritizing proportional representation based on race, gender, and identity could compromise the pursuit of excellence in academia.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">As Queen’s University law professor <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Bruce Pardy aptly notes</a>, “In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups—and in particular against straight white men.” </p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/equality-vs-equity-the-crisis-of-race-based-admissions-in-canadian-universities-5746391" target="_blank">Continue reading at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/peter-nygard-transhumanism-perversion
title: Peter Nygård: Transhumanism, Perversion, Eugenics &amp; Human Cattle
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<h2>By Andrew Laverdiere</h2><h2><em>Preface.</em></h2><p><em>This investigation parallels the Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile cases in certain similarities, particularly the mass abuse of young females. To put him in context, I present this brief snippet of Jeffrey Epstein. After years at financial brokerage Bear Stearns, Epstein was picked up by Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, owner of Limited Brands, more widely known for its Victoria’s Secret chain of women’s scanty lingerie emporia, and pornographic catalogues and TV ads.</em></p><p><em>Through Wexner’s sponsorship, Epstein became the money manager of choice for the Mega Group, a secretive network of pro-Israel billionaires, implicated in a series of Israeli espionage probes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Wexner has been linked to organized crime families in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These ties may resurface, as the FBI digs deeper into the allegations that Epstein shuttled under-aged girls around the United States and the British Commonwealth, to service his friends and clients, including Prince Andrew which ties him in with revelations about a pedophile ring operating in high society, including within Buckingham Palace.</em></p><p><em>At the same time, Catherine Mayer’s biography has drawn attention to the status Prince Charles accorded the late Jimmy Savile—a TV personality and notorious pedophile (exposed as such only after his death in 2011)—as friend, confidant, adviser, and even “key aide,” as one newspaper account put it.</em></p><p><em>A 2013 Scotland Yard report cited abuse by Savile “on an unprecedented scale,” shown in complaints by 450 people, covering the period 1955-2009 and victims aged 8 to 47, particularly at the Kincora Boys Home in Ireland. To a lesser extent is the Harvey Weinstein case and his abuse of the Hollywood system in order to prey on women.</em></p><h2><strong>Nygård, Epstein and the Picture of Dorian Grey</strong></h2><p>I was alerted to Nygård by the offhand account of a co-host of a Kim Dotcom Twitter podcast discussing the Bitcoin crisis, who recalled the time that he was working for a Billionaire who would travel around the world in order to receive injections that would make him live forever. When hearing that, the Oscar Wilde story “Picture Of Dorian Grey” came to mind.</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%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.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%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg" width="723" height="547" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":547,"width":723,"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>After I sent him a private message, he informed me that he had worked for Peter Nygård and that he fully believed that someday they would be able to make us live forever. Seeing that his entire twitter feed was solely focused on the masturbatory fantasy of virtual money, it wasn’t a stretch to think that he would fall for the snake oil of transhumanism.</p><p>When researching the background of transhumanism, I was amused by a comment by Lyndon LaRouche in his April 13 2000 article “Information Society: A Doomed Empire Of Evil” that references Wilde:</p><blockquote><p>“<em>For as far back into pre-history as our present knowledge can reach, the most efficient way to destroy a human culture, is the sneaky way, to induce it to doom itself. Writer Oscar Wilde describes such a process of corruption in his allegorical The Picture Of Dorian Grey.” See appendix below for a synopsis of the story.</em></p></blockquote><p>To recap the story, Wilde tells which is similar to the Faust story and the search for knowledge of everything at the cost of his soul, it revolves around three people; Dorian Gray, an innocent youth of 20, an aristocratic upper crust figure whose life revolves around music and the social scene of the Victorian era, the painter Basil Hallward who treats Gray as a muse for his paintings, and Lord Henry Wotton, the worldly cynic who corrupts Gray.</p><p>The book opens with Hallward painting a perfect likeness of Dorian. Lord Wotton pays a visit and impresses Dorian with the fact that as of now, his youth and beauty were going to vanish and he would eventually wind up old and ugly which sparked a crisis in Dorian. When the painting is finished, Dorian breaks down in tears and wishes to remain young forever and the painting to grow old instead which causes Hallward to accuse Lord Wotton of corrupting Dorian and then threatens to destroy the painting.</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%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.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%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg" width="630" height="673" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":673,"width":630,"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>In a reference to the myth of Narcissus, Dorian stops Hallward because he has fallen in love with the painting.</p><p>In a poignant quip, Wilde says through Lord Wotton <em>“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others, that is what the world calls romance.</em>” Dorian first notices a change in the painting when he spurns the attention of a young actress which results in her suicide.</p><p>In a foreshadowing of his growing paranoia, he moves the painting up to an unused childrens play room in the attic and locks and bars the room.</p><p>His life after becomes a transit of various intellectual fads popular during that time but hints at Grays tendency to haunt the more unsavory localities in London without saying anything explicitly. This is punctuated by Gray occasionally visiting the painting in order to gape at the increasing horrible visage appearing on the canvas. Wilde then describes the dilettantes of his day by his description of the various “intellectual” activities of the upper crust British aristocrats, <em>“Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.”</em></p><p>After this course of events has gone on for a decade, Gray is paid a visit by Basil Hallward who was heading to France for an extended visit. He hasn’t seen Dorian for some time but has heard the most awful rumors about Dorian being involved in fights and other unsavory behavior that is becoming the talk of the town. After recounting an extensive list of scandals, he demands to know if they are true or not, although he admits that its none of his business in any case, but feels the need to defend his friend if only he would confirm or deny.</p><p>In response, Dorian leads Basil up to the attic where he throws the cover off and displays the grotesque scene now displayed. At first Hallward is totally stunned and shocked that it could be his painting, but after examining his signature and special touches, comes to the horrible realization of the events that transpired when the painting was finished and of what Dorian has become.</p><p>In a scene reminiscent of the Commendatore scene in Mozarts opera Don Giovanni, Hallward urges Gray to reform himself. Dorian responds by murdering Hallward with a knife. Stuck with a corpse in his attic, it requires bringing the figure of chemist Alan Campbell to the scene and blackmailing him to dispose of the body by chemical dissolution. Dorian thinks that he’s accomplished the perfect murder, but, like the <em>Tell Tale Heart </em>in Edgar Allen Poes story, the blood calls out.</p><p>Even after months have passed, Alan Campbell has committed suicide and the rumors about Hallwards disappearance are raging about the city. In order to satisfy his morbid curiosity, Dorian checks the painting and is shocked to see blood stains covering his legs. In a fit of rage, he then tries to destroy the painting with the knife used to kill Basil. The screams resulting wake everyone, and by means of climbing through the roof, discover a wizened and decrepit body with a knife stuck through its chest and a painting that has returned to its original state of Dorian Gray in his youthful 20 years of age.</p><p>By examining the rings on his fingers, its determined that the body is Dorian. A proper comment about this situation is commented on by Wilde, <em>“Society, civilized society at least, is never ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and charming. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value in its opinion than the possession of a good chef.”</em></p><h1>The Strange Case of Peter Nygård</h1><p>Peter Nygård was born Pekka Juhani Nygård in Helsinki, Finland, on July 24, 1941. His parents emigrated to Deloraine, Manitoba, Canada, in 1952, when Nygård was around eleven years old.</p><p>In 1964, Nygård graduated from the University of North Dakota with a business degree. Nygård established Nygård Apparel Manufacturing Company, later re-branded “Nygård International”, in Winnipeg in 1967. The company’s Canadian headquarters were located on King Street in Toronto, Ontario, while its world headquarters were located in Times Square, New York, New York, United States. As of 2020, the companies are currently in receivership following his arrangement in Toronto over sex trafficking charges. Wikipedia currently lists a large number of legal cases Nygård has been involved in regarding shady business dealings, tax evasion, and an extensive list of sexual abuse allegations. He has 10 children by 8 different women.</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%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.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%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg" width="750" height="563" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":563,"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>Beginning in 1984, Nygård purchased a beach bungalow at Lyford Cay, Nassau Bahamas, an exclusive gated community populated by folks involved in offshore banking for $1.7 Million. In 1987 Nygård built a 14,000-square-meter (150,000 sq ft) compound. Around 2010, he announced a $50 million expansion of Nygård Cay which eventually landed him in trouble with the Bahama government over dredging and beach expansion. After seizure by the government, the facility is currently abandoned and in disrepair. The facility has been covered on numerous television programs like “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” and his “pamper parties” brought famous personalities such as George H. W. Bush, Prince Andrew, Robert DeNiro, Oprah Winfrey, Shawn Connery, Michael Jackson, Lee Iacocca, Jessica Alba, and Sylvester Stallone.</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%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.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%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg" width="750" height="450" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":450,"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>To put its location in context however, Nassau Bahamas was the original headquarters of Dope Inc. when Meyer Lansky set up Resorts International in 1961 after fleeing Cuba. 75% of drugs coming to the United States go through the Bahamas and Canadian Banks exclusively launder drug money at banks in Nassau.</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%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.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%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg" width="750" height="419" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":419,"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>Most of the alleged sex abuse cases occurred at the Bahamas location but incidents in the United States and Canada are listed going back to 1968. Around 2005, after building a concrete pad for extra parking on his neighbors property, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and his neighbor, hedge fund Billionaire Louis Bacon, in which both sides claimed damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan. Bacons hiring of private investigator Chris Hanson in 2005 began the process that eventually led to Nygårds arrest.</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%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.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%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg" width="750" height="426" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":426,"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>This happened despite decades of  Nygård liberally bribing local Bahama politicians and police to look the other way, most especially, the former Prime Minister <em>Perry Gladstone Christie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Counsellor_(United_Kingdom)">PC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament">MP</a></em> who served as PM from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017 on his dime. PM Philip “Brave” Davis is quoted at a press conference defending Nygård “I’m appalled at these extremely serious charges.” His trial in Toronto is ongoing and he is facing extradition to New York for trafficking charges.</p><h2>2020 sex trafficking arrest and lawsuits</h2><p>On November 24, 2019, Bahamian police began investigating six allegations of rape made against Nygård. All the alleged victims were under 16. On January 27, 2020, Nygård faced two separate lawsuits after being accused of sexual assault.</p><p>On February 13, 2020, 10 women filed a class-action lawsuit against Nygård in New York, alleging that he had raped them at his Bahamas residence. The alleged attacks took place between 2008 and 2015. The women also alleged that he maintained a sex-trafficking ring, and that seven of the women were under 18 when the attacks took place.</p><p>On February 14, 2020, it was reported that the Bahamian police were investigating the allegations made by four of the women in the class-action suit. On February 25, 2020, the New York headquarters of Nygård International were raided by the FBI and the New York City Police Department in connection with sex trafficking claims. After these, Nygård announced that he would step down from the company and divest his ownership interest. In March 2020, a judge said that there was no evidence Nygård had actually resigned, and that he still owned 100% of the shares of the Nygård group of companies.</p><p>On April 20, 2020, 36 new women joined the class-action suit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs in the sexual assault case to 46. On June 17, 2020, it was reported that 11 more women had joined the class-action lawsuit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 57. On July 9, 2020, Nygard filed a motion to dismiss the claims of 52 of the plaintiffs, stating that “numerous deficiencies” barred their claims, and in particular that the claims of 50 of the plaintiffs lacked any connection to New York. He also argued that the statute of limitations had expired for 38 of the plaintiffs.</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%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.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%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg" width="750" height="421" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":421,"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>On August 17, 2020, Nygård was sued by two of his sons on accusations of directing a known sex worker said to be “his girlfriend” to rape them. On August 22, 2020, it was reported that the class-action suit had been placed on hold, the US government having requested a stay of proceedings while the criminal investigation was ongoing.</p><p>On December 15, 2020, it was reported that Nygård had been arrested in Winnipeg for extradition to the US to face charges of sex trafficking by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan. On February 5, 2021, Nygård was denied bail and faced extradition to the US.</p><p>On February 18, 2021, it was reported that a new lawsuit had been filed by one of the class-action plaintiffs, which named Peter Nygård’s niece, Angela Dyborn, as an alleged co-conspirator in the alleged sex-trafficking scheme. On March 26, 2021, Nygård was denied bail for a second time. In April 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face an extradition hearing in November 2021.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Peter Nygard agreed to be extradited to the US, to face the charges against him that were filed there. The same day Nygard was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 17, 2020, two days after Nygård’s arrest, it was reported that Discovery+ was releasing a series about Peter Nygård’s life entitled Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård. The documentary aired in February 2021, and included interviews with family members and former Nygård employees.</p><p>On January 25, 2021, CBC Podcasts released the first episode of their podcast, Evil by Design, about the allegations against Nygård. The podcast includes interviews with alleged victims. It was later adopted into a documentary series that appeared on CBC Gem. An episode of Dateline about the Nygard case also aired in December 2021.</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%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" 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%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" width="780" height="439" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":780,"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><h2>Sexual abuse allegations</h2><p>In addition to his alleged sex trafficking ring, over the years Nygard has been accused numerous times of sexual abuse including rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment.</p><p>In 1968 Winnipeg police charged Nygard with a sexual offence, charges that were later dropped after his alleged victim refused to testify.</p><p>In 1980, the Free Press wrote that Winnipeg police charged Nygård with the rape of an 18-year-old girl. Later those charges were stayed because the girl refused to testify. It was later claimed in a lawsuit that Nygård used funds from his companies to pay her off.</p><p>In the 1990s Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba.</p><p>In 2015 and 2017, Nygård was looked at by FBI over claims of sex trafficking. He was also investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security for 9 months in 2016.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Nygård was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 2, 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face charges by Winnipeg police following a ten month investigation into allegations of sexual assault from eight women against him.</p><h2><em>Lawsuits</em></h2><p>Nygård has been involved in numerous lawsuits before his arrest in 2020, including suits involving alleged abusive labour practices, tax evasion, and conspiring to murder.</p><p>In 1978, Nygård’s takeover of a sportswear designer’s business in New York City led to a 12-year legal battle in New York federal court.</p><p>Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba in the 1990s.</p><p>In 1999, Nygård sued Linda Lampenius for defamation concerning her comments about Nygård’s parties with naked women. The case continued until 2001 when Lampenius states she ran out of funds and had to settle, which consisted of publishing an apology in the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.</p><p>In 2003, Nygård was sued in Florida by an American couple who claimed he deceived them into accepting jobs as managers of his Bahamas estate. The case was settled in 2007.</p><p>In 2005, after Finnish newspaper Iltalehti published an article about sex parties at Nygård’s mansion, even featuring a short interview with Jessica Alba where she had to leave a party at the Nygård Cay mansion (she was there filming Into the Blue) because of the debauchery with young girls going on. Nygård sued the parent company of the paper Alma Media for slander in Los Angeles. Nygård lost the case.</p><p>In 2006, Canadian tax authorities claimed Nygård underreported $15 million in taxes. Nygård argued that he severed residential ties with Canada in 1975; he was ultimately subject to taxes on an unreported $2 million.</p><p>In 2007, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and Louis Bacon and their associates, in which both sides claim damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan.</p><p>In 2008, Nygård was sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former girlfriend for slamming a door on her hand. Nygård quickly settled the lawsuit.</p><p>In 2012, Nygård launched a lawsuit against the CBC regarding copyright issues about private videos taken at his residence, which were then used in an April 2010 documentary. He had also launched a copyright complaint with the US District Court in New York and a lawsuit in Manitoba to prevent the piece from airing. He had previously sued two former employees for releasing confidential information and his lawyer claimed CBC harassed many of the employees. Nygård launched a civil suit against his neighbour and the Lyford Cay Property Owners Association alleging they conspired with the CBC to damage his reputation; he also filed a private criminal prosecution against three CBC journalists accusing them of conspiring to discredit him and his clothing empire.</p><p>In 2018, Nygård Cay was seized by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas as part of a legal battle surrounding Nygård’s efforts to dredge the sea floor around the estate.</p><p>In 2019, a warrant was issued after Nygård failed to appear in court multiple times for a sentencing hearing related to two contempt-of-court convictions in the Bahamas.</p><p>In September 2019, the New York Times was caught up in the feud between Nygård and Louis Bacon. The suit claims that the reporters for the paper “tried to steer the individuals to provide information to fit a story” and that reporters wanted to “bring down” Nygård.</p><p>On November 15, 2019, a judge in the Bahamas sentenced Nygård to 90 days in prison and fined him $150,000 after finding he breached a court order prohibiting the disclosure of emails that were stolen from a non-profit group. Nygård subsequently paid the fine, but appealed against the contempt order, and obtained a stay of execution of the prison sentence until his appeal was heard. On February 1, 2021, Nygård’s appeal against the contempt order was dismissed by the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas. On February 4, 2021, Nygård filed a motion requesting leave to appeal to the Privy Council, but the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas refused to grant this. The judge who delivered the refusal stated that Nygård could still apply directly to the Privy Council for leave to appeal.</p><p>According to Chris Hanson during an interview on VladTV <em><a href="https://youtu.be/vKjDl2tayUo">LINK</a></em> “He actually would impregnate underage girls, have them get abortions, then harvest the stem cells from the fetus’, to inject in himself under the belief that it would be more beneficial then random stem cells from another source. He would go to China &amp; other countries to learn how to do this and have it done, and the underage aspect of this is a big part of the investigation but that’s how fare this would allegedly go, to extend his life and his lifestyle.” “…Is being investigated for sexual assault going back five decades involving thousands of women. In Canada, In Los Angeles, in the Bahamas where he had a compound where he would routinely take underage girls, drug them get them drunk, seduce them, and rape them in a most vile &amp; vicious fashion.” Victims would have their passports confiscated and extortion sex with Nygård was required in order to get it back. When victims aged out, they would become recruiters similar to Ghislane Maxwell (Epstein) to bring lots of underage locals to his pamper parties to be drugged and raped.</p><p>At his property in Marina del Rey (a marina community south of Santa Monica) California, his accomplice Daniel Fitzgerald, a builder and renter of exclusive mansions for Hollywood parties would routinely trade female victims and Fitzgerald supplied women for his lavish parties. Fitzgerald is noted for renting mansions to various YouTube stars such as his sale of a $30 million mansion to the Faze Clan online gaming channel. <em><a href="https://youtu.be/-PZQqZ6n25k">Faze Clan</a></em></p><p>When one investigates his involvement in transhumanism, and the various interviews he gives expressing the lofty goals of stem cell research that he was proud to finance through his company Nygård Biotech in the Bahamas in 2009 and the International Stem Cell Society.  Nygård formed a partnership with the Chinese company BGI a leader in genome sequencing in Shenzhen “October 27, 2017 BGI announced a joint effort with George Church and launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis, located in the China National GeneBank in Shenzhen, China. Church reportedly accepted the appointment as the chief scientist of the Institute.” Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church helped develop genome sequencing as well as CRISPR genome editing, and founded or advised dozens of biotech companies. Martin Nowak’s Institute.” (Nowak, a Harvard biologist/mathematician, is also a Brockman client and <em><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/martin_nowak">Edge participant</a></em>.) He also met with Epstein “several times” Jefferey Epstein were with Nowak, to whose then-fledgling Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Epstein contributed $6.5 million in 2003, five years before his guilty plea. Church and Nowak have worked together on, among other things, the evolution of CRISPR-based <em><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1601964">gene drives</a>.</em></p><p>Many influential scientists met Epstein through New York literary agent John Brockman, who, starting in 1999, hosted an annual “<em><a href="https://www.edge.org/the-billionaires-dinner">billionaires dinner</a></em>” where some of his authors mingled with moguls. Epstein attended several of the dinners from 2000 to 2011, and Brockman described him on his online salon Edge.org as a “science philanthropist.”</p><p>Church, whose 2012 book “Regenesis” Brockman shepherded, said he met Epstein in 2006, either through Brockman or through the then-chairman of the Harvard psychology department, Stephen Kosslyn, a member of Edge.org. Church has gained some notoriety for a company that is building a dating app based on ideal DNA pairings.</p><p>The goal is to screen out sexual partnerships that could create a child with genetic diseases. In other words, Eugenics, the infamous breeding fad of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century that spawned the hideous “sciences” of sterilization and euthanasia as solutions to the problem of poor, insane, and inferior races of people. Harvard in particular was a center of Eugenics research through wealthy families such as the Harrimans in addition to the Eugenics Records Office at Cold Spring Harbor NY and Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena CA.</p><p>What better way then but to see what he thinks. This is an interview with Cheryl Martin, president of Gardens Wellness July 29, 2016 on the Aging Reversed YouTube channel. This is a straight transcript of his stream of consciousness style of answering.</p><p>“<em>Martin: You’ve been involved in research in you’re a pioneer in stem cell therapy now and injecting your own stem cells and this is to extend your life. How long do you expect to live, what is your goal, and do you have a fear of death?</em></p><p>“<em>Nygard: Of course we all have a fear of death. And, and, and how we overcome fear of death is that we invent this word called heaven. You know, heaven is everybody’s way of living forever. So mankind, man has always had this will to live forever, ah, the the Pharaohs you know mummified themselves you know and took all their belongings with him and went into this heaven right then and and and every one of us have been taught that that’s that’s the good place to go to you know.</em></p><p>“<em>I think instinctively we’re all instinctively almost by design by necessity, we’re designed that desire not to fear it because there is a better place you know? I think we all would like to live in this world as long as we possibly can and and and and not just go blindly into this this heaven area.</em></p><p>“<em>So it’s a roundabout way of answering your question, you know the we have now the capability with modern-day science and it’s a wonderful era were living in right now, we have now to to to live considerably longer, 20, 30, 40 years longer they have now good quote past, huh our magical age is 120. 120 is when your cells actually finally die you know. If you haven’t died from other diseases you know at a partly breakdown diseases then you’re gonna die just from losing your cells, and and if we can keep ourselves alive and and, and who knows how long that will take us so, so people’s common words today in a field that I mean you know it’s 20 to 40 more years you know that we can we can live to 150 for example.</em></p><p><em>And it’s a goal and good call I think it’s really meaningful for younger people like yourself, well if you especially if you start taking care of yourself early in the life you know and prevent yourself from getting old and, and avoid doing stop practicing all the things that are available out there that the Times Magazine came up with a picture of a child face and said that this person can live to the 180 years old you know you know. A person born now you know we have enough science now that by the time they become all that they couldn’t be able to live them as long with all of modern-day knowledge that we have right now you know and and then there’s a there’s a lot a lot of people in there besides myself who are now trying to make that a reality you know, and of course ultimately ultimately for ourselves you know but the byproduct of that is that if it’s not for self service is for a next generation of people you know so we really are we really gotta take this seriously.</em></p><p><em>I think there’s a first time in history that we really could see us being able to extend our life like big time, not just year or two you know but have a leapfrog and and and an interesting parallel to that we’re also seeing the world self-destructing. There’s a big element in here in the world today, that says that the next generation is not even going to live as much as our generation because we’re just killing yourself from eating, you know kill yourself and diabetes, you know what self-indulgent in a point so while we have the opportunity to live 40 is longer what we’re gonna do is blow it and leave less and this is all about the education process now, you know how people really want to approach this thing you know because because the opportunities are so immense and, and, and the more people learn about the world of stem cells and learn about the whole medical field the more and thrilled they become with it, so you got this to these two sides going at you all the time you know those people who just don’t care you know and just gonna eat themselves to death you know and get full of diabetes and die younger and then there’s going to be a whole new generation of people who are in my camp you know who sees the opportunities and and seeing it early you know so I talked to some my girlfriends and young people around me and to start taking care of it that stop aging age of 25 because you had at 25 it’s all downhill from there, so you want to stay at 25 start doing it right now because you can’t and you can yeah and so so so so I, I think it’s hard to say how long you know you know the word immortality’s is too far-fetched but I must tell you five years ago when I started this it was like Frankenstein, you know you’re talking about anti-aging was a strange word talking about reverse aging was even stranger. You know you’re kidding that you just come into this industry five years ago. Now it’s most popular topic out there everybody’s lips is talking about reverse aging rejuvenation you know and he’s so popular today so it’s really got a hole right now and this is growing exponentially.”</em></p><p>On the Aging Reversed youtube channel, Nygård is featured in interviews along with luminaries such as Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Yuval Harari, Liz Parrish, Aubrey de Grey, Bill Faloon, David Sinclair, Max Hodak, Adam Alonzi &amp; Philip Sabes. A further examination of Transhumanism and its parallel cult beliefs in Information Theory and Game Theory connected with the increasing push for a scientific dictatorship by the gurus of the financial system when you read the speech of Ray Kurzweil at the July 12-13, 2000, New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in  Manhattan, entitled “The Next Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control and Impact.” <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/2000/2729_cfr.html">LINK</a></em> at which the most chilling anti-human view was expressed by Game-theorist Peter Shwarz of the need of letting AIDS patients in Africa die as “quickly as possible. They should not be kept alive.”</p><p>After running through a Shwarz designed scenario of financial meltdown and a coup against the president, Kurzweil wrapped up the conference to promote virtual reality and promotion of virtual reality eyeglasses by 2010 and the ability of “non-biological intelligence” to match human intelligence by 2030. <em>“There will be no clear distinction between the two.”</em></p><p>When one discusses their perverted notion of extending human life and for what purpose it is helpful to put biological life and humanity in context.</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%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.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%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg" width="649" height="400" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":400,"width":649,"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>In the animal kingdom, a species population size and carrying capacity per square meter/mile is limited by environmental factors like adequate food, shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population will decrease until the resource rebounds. This is due to an animal’s instincts which is the ability to know without thinking, the capability to automatically know how to behave or respond in certain circumstances. This “knowing” ability occurs naturally or instinctively to an animal, and is inherited from birth.</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%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.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%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg" width="546" height="416" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":416,"width":546,"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>In addition, some 80 years ago, biologists stumbled on the empirical “quarter power scaling rule,” which states that a mammal’s heartbeat is proportional to the creature’s mass taken to the minus one-quarter power (m-1/4). The rule says that a cat, for instance, weighing roughly 100 times more than a mouse, has a pulse rate 100-1/4 (about one third) that of a mouse; it’s actually 150 versus 500 beats per minute (bpm).</p><p>It’s not just that as animals get bigger their pulses slow in accordance with the quarter power rule, but that their life spans lengthen accordingly: A mouse lives about one third of a cat’s lifespan, five years versus 15 years. The quarter power rule holds across a vast range of sizes, from tiny shrew to huge elephant, leading to the astonishing “heartbeat hypothesis:” Humans aside, <em>at birth, mammals are all granted the same lifetime supply of heartbeats. </em>How many? About a billion.</p><p>Unlike nearly all animal species, humans are not governed by the whims of nature, the carrying capacity of the planet, nor of the biological constraints that are fixed upon birth despite the best efforts of the Oligarchies of the Venetian and British Empires to enforce their un-natural forms of political economy on humanity in the last 600 years</p><p>Abraham Lincoln summed up the the difference between humans and animals with his lecture on Discoveries and Inventions in various Illinois locations around 1858 – 1859:</p><blockquote><p>“All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself, in his physical, moral, and intellectual nature, and his susceptibilities, are the infinitely various “leads” from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny. In the beginning, the mine was unopened, and the miner stood naked, and knowledgeless, upon it.</p><p>Fishes, birds, beasts, and creeping things, are not miners, but feeders and lodgers, merely. Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. This improvement, he effects by Discoveries, and Inventions.”</p></blockquote><p>In discussing his discovery of relative potential population density the economist Lyndon LaRouche emphasized the Promethean character of humanity in its use of fire at increasing densities and discoveries of universal principles that when utilized in the economic process via the machine tool principle, increase our power over nature per capita and the increase of the density of people per square-meter/mile and at improved standard of living. This was accomplished through the development of various forms of infrastructure such as reservoirs, water mains, water purification, sewage processing and disposal which eliminated most of the sources of diseases and parasites that typically afflict people in lesser developed countries combined with the availability of hospital facilities and the breakthroughs in medical technologies, medicines and vaccines.</p><p>In addition, as LaRouche has pointed out, man is the only being able to invent new resources. When Dmitrii Mendeleev perfected his periodic table in 1869, only 69 elements were then known with 49 more having been discovered since then.</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%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.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%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg" width="595" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":595,"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><h2><em><strong>Information Society: A Doomed Empire of Evil by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr</strong></em>. <a href="https://larouchepub.com/lar/2020/4710-information_society_a_doomed_e.html#footnote-036">LINK</a></h2><h2>Appendix: Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels</h2><p>Chapter 26 (X) <em>[The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.]</em></p><p>After this preface, he gave me a particular account of the STRULDBRUGS among them. He said, “they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.</p><p>“If a STRULDBRUG happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.</p><p>“As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.</p><p>“At ninety, they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.</p><p>The language of this country being always upon the flux, the STRULDBRUGS of one age do not understand those of another; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.”</p><p>This was the account given me of the STRULDBRUGS, as near as I can remember. I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought to me at several times by some of my friends; but although they were told, “that I was a great traveller, and had seen all the world,” they had not the least curiosity to ask me a question; only desired “I would give them SLUMSKUDASK,” or a token of remembrance; which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the law, that strictly forbids it, because they are provided for by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.</p><p>They are despised and hated by all sorts of people. When one of them is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand years past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were four-score years old.</p><p>They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men. Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon distinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.</p><p>The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life. The king heard of all that had passed between me and my friends upon this occasion, and rallied me very pleasantly; wishing I could send a couple of STRULDBRUGS to my own country, to arm our people against the fear of death; but this, it seems, is forbidden by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, or else I should have been well content with the trouble and expense of transporting them.</p><p>I could not but agree, that the laws of this kingdom relative to the STRULDBRUGS were founded upon the strongest reasons, and such as any other country would be under the necessity of enacting, in the like circumstances. Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.</p><p>Nygard Biotech: Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Winnipeg City Councilor Kevin Klein worked there former CEO of Sun Media Manitoba and publisher of the Sun This is how it happened that he went to work (as had dozens of other Winnipeggers in the past) for Peter Nygard, who offered him the position as vice president of Nygard’s biotech medical research company. Kevin accepted the job, but it took only four months for him to learn that this was not a person he wanted to be associated with let alone work for. “I learned quickly I could not work with Peter Nygard. I strongly, very strongly, disagreed with how he treated his employees,” said Kevin. Nevertheless, he met a lot of people during that short time, and he ended up working for some of them. He has worked for and learned from many of the country’s top business leaders as part of the executive team at Post Media, Sun Media, MTS and New Cap.</p><h2>Leads</h2><p><a href="https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875">https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875</a></p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"dkyo1rDSPqQ","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-dkyo1rDSPqQ" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dkyo1rDSPqQ?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>  video about Nygard and Stem Cell research</p><p><a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/">https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/</a> CIA Dr. Charles Morgan resarcher on PTSD and trauma</p><p>https://adamandevewordresearch.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3kmie9z059rSfeChukr1Cj1FEo4OGYy6qrXtojSK-5JqNI8G9W8TjcvlE</p><p> link to many other transhumanist “scientists”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed">https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed</a>  transhumanist channel</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"o18PUHrBhN8","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-o18PUHrBhN8" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/o18PUHrBhN8?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> Nygard on Fighting Aging</p><p><a href="http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html">http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html</a>  Ray Kurzweil website</p><p><a href="https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement">https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement</a> vaccine development connected to eugenic</p><h1> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/">https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/</a>Oxford Society of Ageing and Longevity</h1><p><a href="https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute">https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute</a></p>

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I just learned that ruby supports re-writing this:
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total = plus_shipping(with_taxes(subtotal(items)))
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subtotal(items).then { |subtotal| with_taxes(subtotal) }.then { |total| plus_shipping(total) } =&gt; total
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title: Rails migrations can include an up_only part
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When writing a migration in Rails and you need to do one thing which can't be automatically reversed, I always convert a <b>def change</b> to up and down. It turns out you can slip in an <b>up_only</b> block:

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class AddFieldsToUsers &lt; ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
  def change
    add_column :users, :first_name, :string
    add_column :users, :last_name, :string

    up_only do
      User.delete_all
    end
  end
end
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Awhile back when I was ramping up on Typescript, I was leaning into the benefits of types. In the Ruby world, Sorbet is the most common way to add types so I gave that a shot. In the end, I ripped it out. I spent more time wrangling type checking then the time it spent catching bugs, and one of the issues was the verbose syntax. But recently I came up with a novel solution to this problem. First, here is the verbose syntax — you end up declaring all your arguments twice:
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sig { params(name: T.untyped, nickname: String).returns(Integer) }
def greet(name, nickname)
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
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<p>It may not seem like a big deal, but every time you change the name of an argument or change the order, you have to do it in two places. Recently I had an idea: could we do it in one line if we used Ruby to redefine how methods are defined? I got this syntax working and threw it up on a gist:
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<p></p><pre>
# Two positional arguments. The first, name, is untyped.
# The second, nickname, must be a String

df :greet,  :name, nickname: [String], returns: Integer do
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
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<a href="https://gist.github.com/krschacht/67d4c0bd523bff067ca20140b8172cbf">Here is a gist</a>. It supports positional and named arguments. I got it working with runtime and static analysis. I don't plan to take this experiment any further right now, but maybe it's useful to someone.
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        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Ruby">Ruby</a></p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Chris Lambie | National Post</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Summary</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Premier Doug Ford is demanding Ontario’s newest medical school educate qualified individuals “regardless of their race or background,” amid backlash over the school’s plan to loosen academic qualifications and screen out prospective students by race or status.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school in Brampton has reserved three-quarters of its 94 spots to prioritize admissions for Black, Indigenous, and other "equity-deserving" groups, including those who are LGBTQ, disabled, poor, or "racialized." groups. Ford's office has intervened, emphasizing the need for qualified individuals to fill medical school seats in Ontario.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Dr. Dominick Shelton, the TMU med school's dean of admissions, defended the school's approach, highlighting the underrepresentation of certain groups in medicine and the need to bridge this gap. He has also addressed concerns about the school's decision to forgo the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and lower the GPA requirement, arguing that these changes are aimed at increasing access and that the school is committed to maintaining high standards. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">In the U.S., the Supreme Court effectively halted race-conscious admissions last year by invalidating programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Chief Justice John Roberts stated that universities have incorrectly prioritized skin color over challenges overcome, skills acquired, and lessons learned as the defining characteristic of an individual's identity, and that this approach is not supported by the country's constitutional history. However, Canada operates under a different legal framework, according to Professor Bruce Pardy, a law professor at Queen's University.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy explained that in Canada, preferential admission policies are common because laws permit affirmative action and reverse discrimination. For instance, Ontario's human rights code allows for "special programs" that provide preferential treatment. While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may not directly apply to university admissions (since universities are not government entities), it still supports such policies.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy further clarified that discrimination occurs when race is a factor in decisions. He used the example of the NBA, where the proportion of white players does not reflect the percentage of white people in the population, yet no one claims racial discrimination. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy criticized admission policies like TMU’s as unfair on multiple fronts: they disadvantage those excluded because of their race and also harm those who would qualify on their own merits. He argued that such policies unfairly label Black medical students as needing special treatment, even if they did not require it. When asked about the need for more Black and Indigenous doctors in Canada, Pardy emphasized the importance of having excellent doctors, regardless of their race.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ford-demands-tmus-new-med-school-educate-qualified-students-regardless-of-their-race" target="_blank">Read the original, full-text version of this article at the publisher’s website here</a>.<br></p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others#comments-area" target="_blank">At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others</a></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues</a></p>

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<p data-sanitized-class="">Bruce Pardy, a professor of law at Queen's University, has argued recurrently on the topic of academic accommodations for students. In a 2017 piece for the <em>National Post</em> he writes:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Academic accommodations, such as “extra time for mental disabilities” are “as unjust to other students as a head start would be to other runners.” The aim of examinations, he contends, is to differentiate among students based on “how well they can think, learn, analyze, remember, communicate, plan, prepare, organize, focus and perform under pressure. Discrimination is one of the purposes of the exam. That discrimination is not illegal or inappropriate. No accommodation need be made.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">“Other kinds of disabilities can be accommodated,” he continues, “because they are not what the exam is testing. Blind students, for example, may need to access exam questions with a text reader. Unlike extra time for mental disabilities, such accommodations create no undue hardships for other students in the class.” [See: <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-mental-disabilities-shouldnt-be-accommodated-with-extra-time-on-exams" target="_blank">Mental Disabilities Shouldn’t Be Accommodated With Extra Time on Exams</a>].</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">This article is referenced in a recent commentary for the U.K.-based magazine, <em>Times Higher Education</em>, by Justin Noia, a visiting assistant professor of humanities at Providence College. [See: <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">Giving Students Accommodations Is a Disservice To Employers</a>].</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Noia cites a number of examples that describe why accommodations compromise the objective of academic assessment, and appears to reinforce Prof. Pardy's argument. For example, pre-written memory-aid notecards, contends Noia, undermine the purpose of evaluation to test a student's ability to recall class content.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Noia <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">notes</a>, however, that the perception of fairness for some of his students contrasts with Prof. Pardy's: </p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">It implies that students should be judged based on how they might have fared had they not had disabilities—which, after all, are beyond their control. As the editorial board of The Queen’s Journal, a student-operated newspaper at Queen’s University, stated in <a href="https://www.queensjournal.ca/academic-accommodations-arent-academic-advantages/" target="_blank">reply to Pardy</a>: “Instead of ensuring a higher grade, [accommodations] provide students the opportunity to achieve a result that truly reflects what they can do with their academic capability.”  </p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Both Noia and Pardy emphasize the fundamental benefit of credentialing that assessment provides. The former makes a <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">compelling case</a>, albeit as he advocates for evaluations conducted under the same conditions:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">At a certain point, we all have to accept that life is just irremediably unfair. To be generally useful, performance evaluations must provide <em>comparative</em> assessment of ability. This requires comparative fairness, the measuring of like against like, which is why evaluations must be conducted under the <em>same conditions</em> – under which some people will perform better than others because of factors they could not control.<br><br>For instance, to determine which scientist should be entrusted with important research, we need to know who performs better (and worse) than peers under real-world conditions, which include distractions, time pressure and team-working. The same goes for surgeons, lawyers, electricians, civil engineers and a whole host of other professions in which underperformance can have dire consequences for patients or clients. A university’s credentialing, involving grading, degree conferral and its own reputation, is vital for assessing relative merit.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy narrows the focus:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">The proper purpose of accommodation is to facilitate participation, not to compensate for lack of ability that the test is about. Students who claim extra time for mental disabilities are already able to participate within the normally allotted period. They simply wish to increase their prospects for success at the expense of their peers.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">One overlap of prescient interest is a reference to Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Noia and Pardy each draw on Vonnegut's rendering of a fixation on fairness taken to an absurd extension, where the intelligent are mentally handicapped by signals that interrupt their thoughts, the beautiful are masked, the athletic are rendered not so by deranged means, and so it goes. Set in 2081, Vonnegut's blend of satire and science fiction is another point of view on this theme worth revisiting: <a href="https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html" target="_blank">see here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | The Epoch Times</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, but House of Commons staff must be fingerprinted. Serious threats to the country are hidden away, while innocent people are subjected to state surveillance. If you want to see how the managerial state (dys)functions, Canada is the place to be.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In June, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) tabled its <a href="https://www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2024-06-03/special-report-foreign-interference.pdf" target="_blank"><span>redacted report</span></a> that suggested at least 11 sitting MPs may have benefitted from foreign election interference. RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10580452/rcmp-commissioner-nsicop-report-foreign-interference/" target="_blank"><span>cautioned against</span></a> releasing their identities. Canadians remained in the dark until Oct. 28 when Kevin Vuong, a former Liberal MP now sitting as an Independent, <a href="https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/mp-kevin-vuong-discusses-foreign-interference--october-28-2024?id=5dadac51-71e7-4259-9501-dadf69b6682b" target="_blank"><span>hosted a news conference</span></a> to suggest who some of the parliamentarians may be. Like the RCMP, most of the country’s media didn’t seem interested.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But the RCMP are very interested in certain other things. For years, they have pushed for the federal civil service to be <a href="https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/empreintes-obligatoire-mandatory-fingerprints-eng.html#s3" target="_blank"><span>fingerprinted</span></a>. Not just high security clearance for top-secret stuff, but across government departments. The Treasury Board adopted <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2015/2015fc1101/2015fc1101.html?resultId=ef3346e97a8043c1af6f83b92ca09d61&amp;searchId=2024-10-27T22:13:28:216/858de8644a5d4332a82239e342c56709" target="_blank"><span>the standard in 2014</span></a> and the House of Commons currently <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliamentary-press-gallery-security-1.3998327" target="_blank"><span>requires fingerprinting</span></a> for staff hired since 2017. The Senate implemented fingerprinting this year. The RCMP have claimed that the old policy of doing criminal background checks by name is obsolete and too expensive.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But stated rationales are rarely the real ones. Name-based background checks are not obsolete or expensive. Numerous police departments continue to use them. They do so, in part, because name checks do not compromise biometric privacy. Fingerprints are a form of biometric data, as unique as your DNA. Under the federal <a href="https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-1/page-1.html#h-257607" target="_blank"><span>Identification of Criminals Act</span></a>, you must be in custody charged with a serious offence before law enforcement can take your prints. Canadians shouldn’t have information about their wayward MPs, but the RCMP can’t have too much biometric information about regular people. It’s always a good time for a little fishing. Let’s run those prints, shall we?</p><p data-sanitized-class="">It’s designed to seem like a small deal. If House of Commons staff must give their fingerprints, that’s just a requirement of the job. Managerial bureaucracies prefer not to coerce directly but to create requirements that are “choices.” Fingerprints aren’t mandatory. You can choose to provide them or choose not to work on the Hill. Sound familiar? That’s the way COVID vaccine mandates worked too. Vaccines were never mandatory. There were no fines or prison terms. But the alternative was to lose your job, social life, or ability to visit a dying parent. When the state controls everything, it doesn’t always need to dictate. Instead, it provides unpalatable choices and raises the stakes so that people choose correctly.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Government intrudes incrementally. Digital ID, for instance, will be offered as a convenient choice. You can, if you wish, carry your papers in the form of a QR code on your phone. Voluntary, of course. But later there will be extra hoops to jump through to apply for a driver’s licence or health card in the old form. Eventually analogue ID will cost more, because after all, digital ID is more automated and cheaper to run. Some outlets will not recognize plastic identification. Eventually, the government will offer only digital ID. The old way will be discarded as antiquated and too expensive to maintain. The new regime will provide the capacity to keep tabs on people like never before. Privacy will be compromised without debate. The bureaucracy will change the landscape in the guise of practicality, convenience, and cost.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Each new round of procedures and requirements are only slightly more invasive than the last. But turn around and find you have travelled a long way from where you began. Eventually people will need digital ID, fingerprints, DNA, vaccine records, and social credit scores to be employed. It’s not coercive, just required for the job.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Occasionally the curtain is pulled back. The federal government unleashed the Emergencies Act on the truckers and their supporters in February 2022. Jackboots in riot gear took down peaceful protesters for objecting to government policy. Authorities revealed their contempt for law-abiding but argumentative citizens. For an honest moment, the government was not incremental and insidious, but enraged and direct. When they come after you in the streets with batons, at least you can see what’s happening.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">We still don’t know who colluded with China. But we can be confident that House of Commons staffers aren’t wanted for murder. The RCMP has fingerprints to prove it. Controlling the people and shielding the powerful are mandates of the modern managerial state.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state-5752027" target="_blank">Read the original version of this commentary at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/1_ZB7O_9hlQ?si=g3GZ33j4z3RXPWN5">Andressen and Horowitz on AI Robots</a></strong></p>
In this discussion between Andreessen and Horowitz, they pointed out that we are on the verge of embodied AI being a generally useful too. My key takeaway was this:

<p>General purpose robots could do everything from be assistants in your home, build houses, fight wars, etc. This is being made possible by all the software advances in AI in addition to the hardware advances in actuators, batteries, and vision systems.</p>

<p>The U.S. currently leads on the software side of AI, but China has a significant lead on the hardware side. The U.S. has basically made manufacturing illegal in the U.S. through environmental regulation, minimum wage requirements, and unions so U.S. companies have outsourced more advanced hardware to China. Now more than ever, with our strained relationship with China, we need to build these capabilities in the U.S. and at the same time U.S. regulators have their eyes on regulating the software AI capabilities.


    </p><p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://fav.farm/">Emoji Favicon</a></strong></p>
When building a new site, populating the favicon is more annoying than it should be. It’s something I often put off. But this site will serve you any emoji as a favicon.


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<p><strong><a href="https://fair.io/about/">Fair Source</a></strong></p>
I’ve been keeping an eye on this initiative started by Sentry. One of the most common ways I see product companies utilizing open source is to release their software via open source and then make money by running a paid version of the service for people who don’t want to self-host.
<p>With this approach, it can undermine your business strategy if someone else decides to run a competing version of your hosted service using your open source software. I believe this was <a href="https://blog.sentry.io/relicensing-sentry">Sentry’s primary motivation</a>. I’ve also seen talk of Business Source License (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License">BSL</a>) but am unsure of the difference between this and Fair Source. Some day I may dig into this.</p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects/">SQLite now runs on Cloudflare edge</a></strong></p>
There is so much innovation happening with SQLite these days and now it appears that Cloudflare lets you run it at edge nodes. I don’t quite understand the significance of this, but now I don’t have to think of Cloudflare as a way to help handle large spikes in traffic to static pages. Simon Willison <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/zero-latency-sqlite-storage-in-every-durable-object/">elaborates</a> on this development.


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title: Automating app development with LLM
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-tdd-loop-script/">Automating app development with LLM</a></strong></p>
I keep automating more of my day-to-day programming using various tools, and this guy did a clever wrap around LLM. He writes a unit test in python, passes it to LLM, and it writes the code necessary to get the test to pass. This technique could prove useful for what I want to do with rails development.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Using LLM to process video
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<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.substack.com/p/video-scraping-using-google-gemini?open=false#%C2%A7video-scraping-extracting-json-data-from-a-second-screen-capture-for-less-than-th-of-a-cent">Using LLM to process video</a></strong></p>
I have done a lot of experimenting with passing screenshots into an LLM to give it additional context, but I really want to try passing video directly into the LLM. I believe Gemini is the only one that supports it. This is a summary of Simon Willison’s recent experiment with Gemini for video.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://jina.ai/reader">Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages</a></strong></p>
This is a really handy tool for simplify a webpage before passing it into an LLM. It turns HTML into semi-structured markdown.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/tQN79fUjAyk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)"></p>In this first of two Rising Tide Foundation presentations delivered by Africa expert Lawrence Freeman, the truth of China's intentions, methods and philosophy for development are laid out with a focus on Africa and putting out fires of war. <br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<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=tQN79fUjAyk

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/MZmroGODK2s" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 05 (ELECTION SPECIAL)"></p>In this fifth AUM/RTF Peace Roundtable, SIX expert analysts are brought together to share their assessment of the dynamics shaping the USA going into the 2024 election and the global dynamics (economic meltdown, emergence of new multipolar security/economic architecture), civil war danger etc. Is Trump a fascist who will launch WW3 or a pragmatic patriot who will stop the forever wars? What about his entourage? Is Kamala a preferable candidate or is there something else being missed?<br><br>Garland Nixon, Peter Kuznick, Tom Luongo, Alex Krainer, Joaquin Flores and Martin Sieff hammer out these questions and more in this heated roundtable.<br><br>Websites to follow the work of the guest speakers:<br>Garland Nixon: rokfin.com/garlandnixon<br>Joaquin Flores: t.me/NewResistance<br>Tom Luongo: https://tomluongo.me/<br>Alex Krainer: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/<br>Peter Kuznick: https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick.cfm<br>Martin Sieff: https://pluralia.forumverona.com/en/authors/martin-sieff/<br><br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmroGODK2s

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title: Understanding China with Lawrence Freeman (and dialogue with audience)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/LrSlGPUheR0" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Understanding China with Lawrence Freeman (and dialogue with audience)"></p>Lawrence Freeman delivers a presentation featuring his recent trip to China.<br><br>Watch Larry's main presentation here: https://youtu.be/tQN79fUjAyk<br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Supplementary reading from Lawrence Freeman<br><br>Chinese Amb Xie Feng Rejects “zero-sum” Mentality of the West at 75th Anniversary<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/13/chinese-amb-xie-feng-rejects-zero-sum-mentality-of-the-west-at-75th-anniversary/<br><br>Replace Menacing Talk of War in The Horn of Africa With Designs for Economic Growth<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/05/replace-menacing-talk-of-war-in-the-horn-of-africa-with-designs-for-economic-growth/<br><br>“Rules-Based Order” Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/11/03/rules-based-order-complicit-in-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza/<br><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=LrSlGPUheR0

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title: New Lyre Podcast #27: Poetry Fireside Chat - Autumn 2024
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<div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p><em>The Chained Muse</em> is happy to announce the return of the weekly podcast for our flagship journal, <em>New Lyre Magazine </em>(old school episodes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@newlyremagazine/videos">here</a>).</p></div><p>In the latest discussion, we begin by reflecting on the current state of culture and poetry. We explore some of the timeless poetical gems featured in <em>New Lyre’s</em> autumn issue, happily putting to rest any fears of …</p>
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title: A new dawn
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<p>On Wednesday, 6 November the world awoke to extraordinary news: against all odds, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> won the 2024 presidential elections to become the 47nd president of the United States. Heartfelt congratulations to the American people are in order. It was their victory: the ordinary deplorables rallied to the defense of whatever is left of their democracy and prevailed, seemingly against all odds over the powers that be. </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%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.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%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png" width="1411" height="798" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":798,"width":1411,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2277769,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","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>They had the choice, essentially between two candidates. In electing Trump, they rejected the incumbent government’s brazen assault on civil liberties, the wokeism, the forever wars and the creeping Sovietization of the United States. To see the reactions to Wednesday morning’s news in social media, the uplifted spirits and, dare I say, joy, was beautiful and heartwarming. But after the celebrations, it will be time to roll up the collective sleeves and get to work.</p><h2>Now comes the hard part</h2><p>This victory was proof positive that when the people make a stand decisively, they can not be defeated. Now, that full court press must continue. Trump and his administration don’t have a magic wand to fix everything and make all the problems go away: it will be a massive labor. As the people supported them through the elections, so they must continue to back them through the coming challenges. With the people behind them, the magic will happen.</p><p>Before us is the struggle for truth, struggle to rebuild prosperity and to end the forever wars. The strength and power of people’s support, and the direction of that support will determine how successful the new administration can be. For his part, Trump and his team can do much to galvanize and turbo-charge this support and keep the people engaged in making America great again and making the American people healthy again.</p><p>Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my friend <strong>Mel K</strong> for a post-election discussion. It was published a few hours later, titled "<a href="https://twitter.com/MelKShow/status/1854675927604576305">Nuremberg 2.0: Global Tsunami of Truth, Justice and Liberty Commences...</a>" The title draws from the part where I opined that the new administration must take advantage of its massive popular mandate by going on the offensive, without hesitation, hedging or equivocation, which could muddle its message and leave the administration open to renewed attempts at sabotage and lawfare attacks by its opponents.</p><h2>Nuremberg 2.0</h2><p>As I put it during our interview, if I were Trump, I would drum up a Nuremberg-like process in a very public and explicit way and begin an open season on a number of unsolved mysteries of the last six decades beginning with the following:</p><ul><li><p><strong>JFK</strong>, <strong>RFK</strong> and <strong>MLK</strong> assassinations </p></li><li><p>9/11</p></li><li><p>Global War on Terror</p></li><li><p>Russiagate</p></li><li><p>C19 pandemic</p></li><li><p>Ukraine war</p></li><li><p>2020 elections</p></li><li><p>WEF agenda</p></li><li><p>Epstein and P Diddy lists</p></li><li><p>Lahaina</p></li><li><p>North Carolina, etc.</p></li></ul><p>At the very minimum, some of these issues must come under public Truth and Reconciliation inquiries. These should distill the truth with such clarity that it can become part of America’s and the world’s history curriculum for generations to come. They should also shine the sunlight at the epicenter of corruption and uncover its ultimate beneficiaries with names and mugshots. </p><p>Such a process would not only have full support of the majority of American people: it would captivate the attention and support of the whole world. Only, there should be no reconciliation for premeditated crimes against humanity: no walking away with the colossal proceeds of  crime, only to regroup and revert to predatory conduct. </p><p>The main conspirators should be sentenced to life in prison and a total, 100% expropriation of all of their earthly assets: personal, family, trusts, foundations and endowments – all of it. These funds should then be recycled in favor of those who lost their homes, businesses and livelihoods in consequence of these conspiracies.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.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%2F3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png" width="900" height="506" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":506,"width":900,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":530902,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Link to the podcast on Rumble: <a href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html">https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html</a></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><h2>Trump means business, it seems!</h2><p>Only hours after this interview was published I came across a recorded statement by Trump, indicating that he does indeed intend to go on the offensive. The statement (video clip is in <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1854659468765626764">this tweet</a>)</strong> is a glove thrown in the face of the deep state swamp:</p><blockquote><p><strong>First</strong>, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively. <strong>Second</strong>, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible. <strong>Third</strong>, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it, they're lied to. <strong>Fourth</strong>, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them. <strong>Fifth</strong>, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges. <strong>Sixth</strong>, we will make every Inspector General's Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State. <strong>Seventh</strong>, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign. <strong>Eighth</strong>, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp. Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out. And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America. <strong>Ninth</strong>, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. Doesn't work that way—such a public display cannot go on and it's taking place all the time, like with Big Pharma. <strong>Finally</strong>, I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people. Thank you very much.</p></blockquote><p>This is music - symphony - to my ears. But wait, it gets better. Mel and I also spoke about the critical importance of free speech and the media.</p><h2>Taming the corporate media</h2><p>Anti-Trump hysteria induced by the <s>enemies of the people</s> media could be one way the new administration could be sabotaged. To avoid this, they should break up the media monopoly by making it easier for journalists and media entrepreneurs to set up independent operations and compete for viewership/readership by creating compelling, quality content. Again, it’s clear that Trump and his team have been thinking along the same lines. Trump issued the following statement (the 6-min. video clip is at <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1854949449518514593">this link</a></strong>):</p><blockquote><p>If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one - they’ll go down. That’s why today I’m announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. And “reclaim” si a very important word in this case, because they’ve taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Ssilicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything, from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately and here’s my plan. <strong>First</strong>, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any Federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban Federal money from being used to label domestic speech as miss-, or dis-information. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. <strong>Second</strong>, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of Federal Civil Rights law, Campaign Finance laws, Federal Election law, Securities law and Anti-Trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential civil, criminal, regulatory and constitutional offences. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, the Biden Campaign and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship. <strong>Third</strong>, upon my inauguration as president I will ask Congress to send the Bill to my desk, revising Section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful contents such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech. <strong>Fourth</strong>, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called myths and disinformation. The Federal Government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. universities are discovered to have engaged in censorship activities, or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data. <strong>Fifth</strong>, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, Government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information request such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and a right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I’m president, this this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.</p></blockquote><p>This is a very strong, important and enormously encouraging statement. It is in stark contrast with <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305">John Kerry’s</a></strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305"> authoritarian musings</a> about doing away with the First Amendment. Kerry laments that the Amendment is a major roadblock to <em>their</em> ability to build a consensus around any issue: “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern… and implement change…” </p><h2>The economy, stupid…</h2><p>The toughest struggle however, will be the fight to rebuild the American economy in a way that stimulates investment and creates favorable conditions for small and medium size businesses to flourish. This will require breaking the stranglehold of the too-big-to-fail banks over the US economy and transferring the credit allocation function from large banks to smaller local and regional financial institutions that can support local businesses. Very substantial investment capital could be accumulated in a number of ways: radically reducing government waste, improving tax collection from big corporations, expropriating the criminal class as discussed above, ending the forever wars and shutting down hundreds of foreign military bases.</p><p>Let’s see whether Trump and his team will issue any statements on economic reforms. My feeling is that they will. The question that remains is whether they will be able to carry all these reforms out. I believe that if they are continually and consistently backed by the people in the same way that they were supported through the presidential election cycle, they will almost inevitably be successful. In effect, the people of the United States will make America great again with Donald Trump as the administrator in charge.</p><h2>Cultivate optimism!</h2><p>As I wrote above, now comes the hard part and the struggles will be real. In this sense, cultivating optimism should be regarded as our sacred duty toward the future generations. Many people are warning that Trump is a billionaire, that he’s one of <em>them, </em>that he’s surrounded himself with other billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, etc, etc. That may be so, but it does not necessarily mean that they are all loyal to the occult oligarchy that we are opposed to. Recall, Robert and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were both part of the American aristocracy and political class, but they both paid with their lives for opposing the oligarchy.</p><p>Throughout history, many reform movements were led by members of the privileged classes who recognized that without reforms, a system under an unrestrained rule of oligarchs is on the road to perdition. Even in ancient Rome, many of the most determined reformers like Catiline, the Gracchi brothers and Julius Caesar were wealthy aristocrats. Like the Kennedy brothers, they all paid for their efforts with their lives. </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%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.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%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg" width="600" height="300" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":300,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet.","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." title="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." 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>This is our struggle</h2><p>Dismissing the Trump team solely on account of their station in life and sitting out the struggle that is before us would truly be a tragic waste of a hard won chance to make the world a better place. Ultimately it is a people’s struggle: OUR STRUGGLE!! Even if you had zero faith in the new leadership, cultivating optimism and doing your part must still be a sacred duty. I elaborated this in the article “<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-case-for-optimism?utm_source=publication-search">The Case for Optimism.</a>” </p><p>Remember, it will be the coming generations who’ll collect the fruits of our actions today. We have it in our power to gift them a better future and we should use that power to the best of our abilities. The floodgates are now open and we’ve no excuse not to give it our all.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/a-new-dawn?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/DSC04407.jpg" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac"><p>I grew up using Mac computers, and for a long time, I've wanted something that would allow me to use all those old applications and games in a more convenient setup. I now have the perfect 'retro' Mac, at least for me: an upgraded Mid-2010 Mac Mini. </p><p>This compact low-power computer can run most Mac software from roughly 2001 to 2015 with excellent performance, older apps and games through unofficial emulation, and more modern software at slower speeds with a hacked macOS Sonoma installation. I couldn't be happier with it.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-hardware-and-upgrades">The hardware and upgrades</h2><p>I bought this Mac Mini on eBay for a grand total of $85, complete with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 320GB hard drive, and 8GB RAM upgraded from the base 2GB. There were a few minor scuffs on the case, but the computer was in perfect working order.</p><p>The <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/112588" rel="noreferrer">mid-2010 Mac Mini</a> still looks surprisingly modern, and it's using the same aluminum unibody design that Apple continued to use until the <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-is-more-mighty-more-mini-and-built-for-apple-intelligence/" rel="noreferrer">2024 M4 Mac Mini</a>. This older model has a slot-loading DVD drive in the front, while later unibody models have no optical drive. I was surprised to find out it still worked, as the disc drives in Mac computers are well known for failing after a few years.</p><p>The connectivity on this Mac Mini is a fun mix of old and new technology. There are four USB Type-A ports, but all of them are USB 2.0. There's Mini DisplayPort and HDMI for connecting a display, and the built-in NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics is powerful enough to support two displays at once. It supports resolutions of up to 1920x1200 on HDMI, and up to 2560x1600 on DisplayPort, but I haven't tested that. For wireless connectivity, there's Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 2.1, and Gigabit Ethernet is another option for networking.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/DSC04409.jpg" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1278" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The most interesting port here might be the FireWire 800 connector, which serves as the fastest data connection on the Mac Mini. It has blazing speeds of up to 800 Mbps and backwards compatibility with the original FireWire 400. It's <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/comments/kwe8dp/ipod_1st_and_2nd_gen_the_expensive_leads_to_make/" rel="noreferrer">difficult and expensive</a> to connect legacy FireWire devices to more modern Macs, so even though I'll probably never use that port, I appreciate that it's there. I did try it out once by connecting <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/original-ipod-hands-on-2024/" rel="noreferrer">my original iPod</a>, and it showed up in iTunes as expected.</p><p>The <a href="https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35568/intel-core-2-duo-processor-p8600-3m-cache-2-40-ghz-1066-mhz-fsb.html" rel="noreferrer">Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor</a> in this computer was intended for laptops, with just two cores, no hyperthreading, and a 25W TDP. My <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8753376" rel="noreferrer">Geekbench 6 test</a> came back with a single-core score of 312 and a multi-core score of 541. That's about 8% as fast as the <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8753376?baseline=8750514">latest base model M4 Mac Mini</a> in single-core performance, and 4.1% as fast in multi-core performance.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/image.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1640" height="612" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>The "Mac 16,10" is the base M4 Mac Mini.</span></figcaption></figure><p>After buying the Mac, I opened it up and replaced the 320GB hard drive with a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD. Unlike modern Mac Minis, this has a standard SATA connection for storage, so you can easily put any 2.5" HDD or SSD in there. Thanks to Garage Maxed Out for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqn2xGt3sos" rel="noreferrer">the excellent video tutorial</a>.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-software-is-the-key">The software is the key</h2><p>Apple handles backwards compatibility much differently than Microsoft and the PC ecosystem. While you can run many legacy applications and games on the latest version of Windows 11, going back to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jSfIroiFdA" rel="noreferrer">software from the 1990s</a>, the same is not true on Mac.</p><p>Since the first Macintosh in 1984, Apple has gone through three major hardware architecture transitions (68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel, and Intel to Apple Silicon) and one major software transition (classic Mac OS to Mac OS X/macOS). Each of those migrations included some level of backwards compatibility, but only for a few years. For example, Mac OS X was released in 2001, and included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_built-in_macOS_apps#Classic" rel="noreferrer">Classic environment</a> for running older Mac OS 9 software. The Classic environment was ripped out with the release of Mac OS X 10.5 in 2007, and it was never ported to Intel Macs, which started shipping in 2006.</p><p>I chose this specific Mac Mini model because this is the last model that supported the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system—the next <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/112007" rel="noreferrer">2011 Mac Mini</a> shipped with OS X 10.7 Lion and cannot be downgraded. Snow Leopard was the last version of Mac OS X to support the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta" rel="noreferrer">Rosetta compatibility layer</a>, which allowed PowerPC Mac OS X applications and games to run on Intel Macs through an invisible emulation layer.</p><p>With Mac OS X Snow Leopard installed, this Mac Mini can run most Mac apps and games released from around 2001 to roughly the mid-2010s, when most software started <a href="https://lowendmac.com/2016/last-version-of-firefox-for-os-x-10-6-to-10-8-available-now/" rel="noreferrer">dropping support for Snow Leopard</a>. The earliest software runs in the Rosetta compatibility layer, and later Intel-based Mac software runs natively. <strong>That's roughly 15 years of Mac software accessible in one shared environment.</strong> No copying files back and forth between virtual hard drives required.</p><p>I can also use <a href="https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/" rel="noreferrer">SheepShaver or Basilisk II</a> to emulate the classic Mac operating system, but there's not much software exclusive to the classic Mac OS that I want to run, and those emulators run just as well on a modern PC or Mac. Installing a newer version of Mac OS X/macOS on another partition or drive would also allow the Mini to run newer software—more on that later.</p><p>It's worth noting that a Hackintosh running Mac OS X Snow Leopard would have the same application support, but I didn't have a spare PC with the right hardware for that. Turning a PC into a Hackintosh means finding the hardware drivers, which is even harder with older macOS versions. It didn't make sense for me to buy a PC that <em>might </em>be compatible when I could just get an officially-supported Mac Mini for under $100.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="hello-snow-leopard">Hello, Snow Leopard</h2><p>This Mac Mini arrived with a newer version of macOS installed, so I had to downgrade it to Snow Leopard. This would normally require the recovery discs that shipped with the Mac Mini, but I don't have those. I couldn't use the standard Snow Leopard DVD either, because that was 10.6.0, and support for this model was only added in 10.6.4. Intel Macs have an internet-based recovery, but the earliest available version from Apple's servers was 10.7 Lion.</p><p>Thankfully, Internet Archive came to the rescue. I downloaded a <a href="https://archive.org/details/691-6732-A2ZiMac._Mac_OS_X_Install_DVD._Mac_OS_v10.6.4._Disc_v4.0_DVD_DL" rel="noreferrer">Mac OS X 10.6.4 Install DVD</a> intended for a different iMac model, and wrote it to a USB drive. The Mac Mini had no complaints booting from the USB drive and going through the installation process. The built-in Software Update brought me up to 10.6.8 and updated some system components.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.26.43-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I used Snow Leopard a lot back when it was new, and it's been a lot of fun to revisit. It still feels remarkably modern, with many of the same core applications and system features that you'd find in modern Mac computers today: the Finder, Spotlight search, TextEdit, Preview, and so on. One notable exception is that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(macOS)" rel="noreferrer">Dashboard</a> with its customizable widgets is still present—Apple ripped that out in macOS 10.15. Also, this still has the System Preferences instead of the later System Settings app.</p><p>I'm still a big fan of Snow Leopard's design, where Apple had started to phase out the "Aqua" design language of early Mac OS X with a more gray-and-white aesthetic. For the most part, this predated Apple's skeuomorphism era, though elements of that philosophy are visible in applications like GarageBand. It might be the nostalgia talking, but I think Snow Leopard looks better visually than modern versions of macOS, with more distinctive and visible UI elements that don't blend into window backgrounds.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.27.03-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>Snow Leopard is <em>lightning fast</em> on this computer. It only takes nine seconds to get from the OpenCore bootloader to the desktop, and most apps open in under a few seconds.</p><p>Finally, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is still somewhat compatible with modern technology. I can connect to my regular home network with the Mini's integrated Wi-Fi 4 chip, and use pretty much any flash drive or USB device (as long as it supports USB 2.0). I can turn on File Sharing and connect to it from a modern Mac over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol" rel="noreferrer">AFP</a>. However, it can't connect to my NAS with SMB, because Snow Leopard doesn't have SMB 2.0 support.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="living-the-ilife">Living the iLife</h2><p>Apple used to bundle iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, and other creative apps together in the 'iLife' software bundle, which was pre-installed on new Macs and available as paid packages. I don't remember exactly what versions I used back in the day, so I just downloaded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110608070535/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/26ilife.html" rel="noreferrer">iLife '09</a>. It's a Universal binary, so it runs natively on this Intel Mac with excellent performance.</p><p>I probably won't be making any home movies in iMovie or managing my photo library through iPhoto, but I do plan on making a website with iWeb and hosting it somewhere with GitHub Pages. I missed out on the Geocities era of the early internet, but I did make a few sites with iWeb when it was new, before I switched to Adobe GoLive and Dreamweaver.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.17.36-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1264" height="929" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>My next nostalgia trip was installing Microsoft Office 2004 and 2011, with Office 2004 running in emulation under Rosetta, and Office 2011 being an Intel-native package. I made a <em>lot</em> of school papers and presentations with these versions. The <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/nkear5/art/Office-2011-ICNS-PNG-and-ICO-166159609" rel="noreferrer">icons for Office 2011</a> were also the best Office icons of all time.</p><p>All the apps seem to run well, and Office 2004 also included a Mac version of Windows Media Player. Finally, I can watch all my .WMV movies.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.36.46-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1107" height="914" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I have installed a few more apps and games, but nothing I've spent more than a few hours with so far. I have Civilization III, the last-supported version of Firefox for Snow Leopard (v48.0.2), Quake III, and some I SPY puzzle games.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="bonus-objective-macos-sonoma">Bonus objective: macOS Sonoma</h2><p>I occasionally need an Intel-based Mac for testing software, so I wanted to see if I could dual-boot a more modern macOS on the 2010 Mini, alongside the existing Snow Leopard installation. I have a mid-2014 Mini that I've been using for that purpose, but the hard drive is dying and it doesn't have much RAM.</p><p>The mid-2010 Mac Mini can officially run up to macOS High Sierra 10.13, but that's still seven years out of date. Thankfully, the <a href="https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/" rel="noreferrer">OpenCore Legacy Patcher</a> project allows newer versions to be installed on old Macs. It can create a bootable USB image for the macOS installer, then install patches and additional drivers as needed for a given model. As Gene Kranz <a href="https://youtu.be/XLMDSjCzEx8?t=94" rel="noreferrer">would say</a>, "I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do."</p><p>The mid-2010 Mac Mini is supported, but keyboards and mice have to <a href="https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/1021" rel="noreferrer">go through a USB 2.0 hub</a>, and graphics acceleration <a href="https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/108" rel="noreferrer">uses a custom driver</a> that might have some issues. I decided to try installing macOS Sonoma, which was the newest version supported at the time—the latest version can do macOS Sequoia.</p><p>I could not get OpenCore Legacy Patcher to work from my modern M1 Mac, even when making the initial USB drive manually and only using Legacy Patcher to install drivers. I'm not sure if it was because I was using a computer on a different architecture than the install target, or some other issue. I finally pulled my 2014 Mini out of my closet, and set up OpenCore Legacy Patcher on there—thankfully, the app can run on OS X Yosemite 10.10 and later. It worked on the first try.</p><p>I finally had my USB drive with patched macOS Sonoma ready for the Mac Mini. I booted it up, and... more problems. The installer didn't detect my Mini's internal drive at all. A forum thread suggested <a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/224955/how-to-reset-a-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html">resetting the Mac's PRAM</a>, and that worked. The installer could finally start, but it stopped on "one minute remaining." Another PRAM reset and reboot fixed that, and I finally got to the post-install setup screen. It stopped again at the language selection.</p><p>I continued through the setup process, rebooting and resetting the PRAM each time something got stuck. Every reboot brought me one step closer, until at long last, my epic journey was complete: I reached the desktop. I now had two versions of macOS released 14 years apart running on the same 14 year-old Mac.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screenshot_2024-07-03_at_12.48.26_PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The macOS Sonoma experience isn't great on this ancient hardware, but the modern SSD and maxed-out 8GB of RAM is helping. Safari takes around three seconds to open, and browsing the web is slow but usable, as long as I stick to one or two tabs. I have no problems chatting in the native Discord application, outside of the short delay when switching channels, and web apps like Spotify and Google Maps work fine through Safari.</p><p>The Activity Monitor confirms the ancient Intel CPU is the main bottleneck here: it's close to 100% utilization as soon as I try do any multitasking or load a complex web app. I wouldn't want to use this for everyday work, but it's enough to test Intel builds of my <a href="https://github.com/corbindavenport/nexus-tools" rel="noreferrer">Nexus Tools installer</a> without digging out another computer.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-09-at-10.13.38-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>There are some interesting side effects to dual-booting Mac OS X Snow Leopard and macOS Sonoma. The Snow Leopard partition uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus">HFS+ file system</a>, while Sonoma partition uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System">Apple File System</a> (APFS), which wasn't added to Mac computers until macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I can see Snow Leopard's files in Sonoma, but I can't see Sonoma's files in Snow Leopard. I also have to reset the PRAM once or twice when switching from Snow Leopard to Sonoma, otherwise I get a startup error.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-perfect-retro-mac">The perfect retro Mac</h2><p>I now have a computer that can run just about all the old Mac software I could want, from early 2000s games and productivity software to mid-2010s creative apps. It's nearly silent, incredibly power-efficient, and super fast. I can connect new and old accessories, and moving files back and forth is as simple as clicking the Mac in my network devices list. Even better, it can be a modern Mac when needed—just a very slow one.</p><p>I know some people see spinning hard disk noises, translucent plastic, CRT monitors, and era-appropriate accessories as required components for retro computing. All that stuff can be fun, but for this project, I wanted a fast and accessible way to revisit my computing past in a way emulators or <a href="https://blog.corbin.io/post/706475452492087296/restoring-my-powermac-g3" rel="noreferrer">my older PowerMac G3</a> can't handle well.</p><p>I hope some of this may be useful to other people creating their own 'retro' Mac setups. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to finish the last puzzles in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmUl04IbVC4" rel="noreferrer">I SPY Spooky Mansion Deluxe</a>.</p>

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title: New Lyre Podcast #28: From Bukowski to Insta Poets - Sacred Cows in Poetry
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<p>From John Dryden to Billy Collins, the cult of Charles Bukowski to Instagram poetry, professor Johnny Payne joins us to discuss his latest polemics and re-examine some of the sacred cows of literature.</p><p>After discussing Johnny’s latest polemics, we have an extended dialogue on the nature of timeless verse and today’s golden age in poetry.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Read Johnny’s latest essays on <em><a href="https://merionwest.com/author/johnnypayne/">Merion West</a></em></p></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"c9f2cb42-9b48-440e-90a7-0daf90053e7b","caption":"Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Our Fall Magazine Is Published!","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-10-16T21:48:50.444Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec8d2a8-38ef-480d-81e4-a5e05d9e6e78_702x915.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/our-fall-magazine-is-published","section_name":null,"id":150038311,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":6,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"8a1a4fbd-3ca0-4e85-a51e-d60d37324ecc","caption":"One might think we have Wordsworth’s theory of poetic art to blame for the creep of Instagram and “street” poetry and the subsequent disfiguration of lyric into meme. 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title: Up ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy
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<p>Last week I had the pleasure of joining <strong>Jesse Day</strong>, the host of the Vancouver Resource Investment channel (VRIC), and <strong>Martin Armstrong</strong> of Armstrong Economics to discuss the "EU collapse and the slow decay of western supremacy." The core subject of the otherwise broad-ranging discussion is captured in its title. However, if I could boil down the gist of it, it would be that in the West, the powers that be are still scrambling, trying to induce people into compliance with increasingly authoritarian ways of governance through fear and ever closer control. </p><p>Part of that agenda includes doing away with physical cash and introducing central bank issued digital currencies (CBDCs). The overreach includes geopolitics, with attempts to tighten central control over all the world's regions and nations. So far however, this has never worked in history, as it pushes larger and larger sectors of the society to opt out of the matrix and transact their business (and personal spending) in black markets. </p><p>While the authorities can discourage small numbers from doing so, but if a significant percentage of people opt out, the situation spins out of control, and this is a real risk: in many nations like Venezuela and Argentina, a very substantial portion of economic activity is conducted in the black markets (in both cases close to half). </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>Herding cats</h2><p>Once they take root, black markets are extremely difficult to stamp out. They become true magnets for entrepreneurs and for consumers. For entrepreneurs they offer wide open field for profitable activity without red tape or taxes. For consumers they offer a wide variety of goods and services at much more affordable prices. Friends who are familiar with Argentina tell me that you can find anything you want in the black market there.</p><p>The problem for governments is that they collect zero taxes from such transactions, so the whole business of tightening the control over the people amounts to herding cats. Ultimately it fails. The same is happening in global, geopolitical terms. BRICS integrations are a reaction of many nations who wish to assert their sovereignty to explore other ways of doing business with the rest of the world, and it is an organically growing trend. </p><p>The dedollarization process won't happen overnight and the US dollar won't wither in the short run, but it will no longer be able to remain unchallenged either as a reserve currency or a trade settlement currency. Our full discussion is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"mQ4vYliTQJk","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-mQ4vYliTQJk" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mQ4vYliTQJk?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><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4vYliTQJk">CHAOS Up Ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy</a></strong></p><h2>CBDCs: the impossible pipe-dream</h2><p>During our discussion I mentioned Nigeria’s experience with introducing a CBDC in 2023. In spite of all the efforts, all the preparations including best western technologies and top level consultants that contributed to it, the experiment entirely collapsed in only 108 days. You can find out more about this in the article I posted last October: </p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;201a7725-c108-43c4-ba23-bbdca951720a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Will the dreaded Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) become a thing? Will they be as awful as the ruling parasite class is planning? Will they be able to enforce our compliance with whatever rule they choose to impose, oppressing us under a draconian system of arbitrary restrictions and prohibitions? 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We are not termites: humans are hardwired with an indelible desire for liberty, which is part of our nature and our birthright.</p><p>We can be lulled to slumber through consumption, games and entertainment, and hypnotized to obedience through fear, but that state of stupor dissipates when we sense danger. Ultimately our nature will not allow us to be obedient serfs and to surrender our children to that fate. There’s a reason why throughout history rulers feared the people. If you push us past a certain point, we push back.</p><p>This is exactly what we saw last week as the American people rejected the steady erosions of their liberties and elected <strong>Donald Trump</strong> as their President. What his second term will bring remains to be seen, but the important and encouraging point is that it was the people's victory over the entrenched powers of the oligarchy. </p><p>More encouraging still is the fact that similar pushback happened in every single one of the ten major nations that held elections this year: in all of them, the incumbent governments lost support. It seems that all of humanity has now come together to reject the slide into the Orwellian globalist dystopia. In his 1915 novel, "The Golem," author <strong>Gustav Meyrink </strong>wrote,</p><blockquote><p>"Once in every generation, a spiritual epidemic spreads like lighting... attacking the souls of the living for some purpose which is hidden from us and causing a kind of mirage in the shape of some being characteristic of the place that, perhaps, lived here hundreds of years ago and still yearn for physical form... You can't hear the note from a vibrating tuning fork until it touches wood and sets it resonating. Perhaps it is simply a spiritual growth without any inherent consciousness, a structure that develops like a crystal out of formless chaos according to a constant law." </p></blockquote><p>Today something along these lines appears to be happening and unlike past generations humanity is now endowed with the internet which connects us in ways that was never before possible. The superorganism has grown its own nervous system, and now it is much more intelligent, faster and more agile than it’s ever been. Now it can move deliberately and purposely in the direction of its choosing!</p><p>In that sense, the internet adds a brand new variable to the social development equation, which has never before existed. This further implies that any prediction based on historical precedents is out of the question. As to the outcomes of current developments, all we can do is watch the pageant and see where it goes. Better still, we should do all we can to contribute towards desired outcomes.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. 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title: Taking a break from Livestreams
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<p><strong><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder">The first state-of-the-art coding LLM that runs locally</a></strong></p>
This Qwen2.5-Coder-32B should run locally in about 20-30 gb of ram and assessments show it to be better than 4o at coding but not quite as good as Claude 3.5.


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<h4>It is a new day in America. Could it be in Alberta as well? </h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta has initiated the creation of an amended Alberta Bill of Rights through Bill 24. Here are the key points regarding the proposed amendments:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The Alberta Bill of Rights is a statute and not part of the constitution like the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This means future Alberta legislatures can amend or repeal it, undermining the idea of "ironclad" rights.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The current draft includes a version of Section 1 from the Charter, the "Reasonable Limits Clause," which allows the government to infringe on rights deemed reasonable. This raises concerns about potential rights violations.</p></li></ul><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent"><em>In my opinion, the Bill contains some flaws and is missing some opportunities. I have drafted what I believe the Bill should say.</em></span> [<a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/s/Pardy-Proposed-ALBERTA-BILL-OF-RIGHTS-7gdf.pdf" target="_blank">Read Prof. Pardy’s proposed amendment to the Alberta Bill of Rights here</a>].</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Proposed Additions</strong></p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The suggested amendments by Prof. Pardy include:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Right to Separation of Powers</strong>: Individuals should be protected from substantive rules made by the executive branch, ensuring that only the legislature can create laws and policies.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Amateur Governance</strong>: Introduce term limits for all state employees (four years total) to prevent the establishment of a permanent professional ruling class, fostering true public service.</p></li></ul></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Exclusion of the Charter</strong>:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The proposed Bill of Rights would apply notwithstanding the Canadian Charter. This approach aims to redefine rights that have been distorted by the Charter's interpretations, focusing on:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Equality Provision</strong>: Shift from the Charter's interpretation of equity to a model emphasizing equal treatment for all individuals, regardless of group characteristics.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Freedom of Speech</strong>: Strengthen protections for freedom of expression, including hate speech, which is currently subject to restrictions under the Charter.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" data-sanitized-class=""></p></li></ul></li></ul><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://brucepardy.substack.com/p/a-new-bill-of-rights" target="_blank">A video overview of Prof. Pardy’s proposed amendment to the Alberta Bill of Rights is available here</a>.</p></li></ul>

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« Un travail éprouvant, mais combien enrichissant » : La sénatrice Cordy fait le bilan de ses 24 années au Sénat

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Xkf7ID_acVU" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Strategic Value of the Arctic in the 21st Century (Matt Ehret lectures)"></p>Matt Ehret delivers a short lecture to a Citizens' Symposium in Wakefield Ontario on the topic of the Arctic as a platform for cooperation or world war. <br>Check out the full Canadian Patriot program for the Arctic as the basis for a new renaissance here: https://canadianpatriot.org/2022/06/16/visionforcanada2060/<br><br> and the new film referenced by Matt here: <br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKwyquIkbs&amp;sttick=0<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkf7ID_acVU

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title: Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/e9c5659cf65890618433f984746f1607.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)"></p>At the Castello Road humanitarian crossing, the large green buses which were said to be evacuating militants from areas of eastern Aleppo in recent weeks were there again, waiting to ferry away more. Ten ambulances, three buses, and 14 minivans were lined up in anticipation of any civilians or militants trying to leave terrorist-occupied areas, whether for safe passage elsewhere or to settle in government-secured areas of Aleppo. At around 1:30 p.m. the first shell struck, hitting near Castello Road. About 10 minutes later, while I was being interviewed, a second hit, this time considerably closer, within 100 meters — close enough, in fact, to create a cloud of dark smoke over the road. It prompted security to usher me away from the road and move our delegation away from the crossing.<br><br>I later learned that another five shells targeted the crossing, injuring a Syrian journalist and two Russian soldiers.<br><br>No one passed through this or any of the other seven humanitarian corridors that day.<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/aleppo-how-us-saudi-backed-rebels-target-every-syrian-war-diary-by-western-journalist-eva-bartlett-on-the-truth-about-aleppo/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/

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title: International Peace Roundtable #6: Pros and Cons of the Post-Election USA
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/rmqMtu3kmUk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="International Peace Roundtable #6: Pros and Cons of the Post-Election USA"></p>Dr Edward Lozansky hosts the 6th Peace Roundtable featuring presentations by Caleb Maupin, Professor Lowell Gustafson, Tony Papart, Martin Sieff, and Come Carpentier<br><br>Follow Caleb's work here: https://x.com/realcalebmaupin?lang=en<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqMtu3kmUk

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title: Syntax.fm Podcast: Web Components Can't Save Us
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<p>I had the great opportunity to <a href="https://syntax.fm/show/848/web-components-can-t-save-us-with-scott-jehl">go on the Syntax podcast</a> and talk about web performance, web components, the Boston Globe project, JavaScript over reliance, Squarespace, my <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Course</a>, and a lot more. It was fun to jump on a show I listen to regularly. That episode is live with an utterly linkbait title wherever you get your podcasts!</p>
<p><a href="https://syntax.fm/show/848/web-components-can-t-save-us-with-scott-jehl"><img src="https://scottjehl.com/assets/syntax.jpg" alt="poster image for the episode. title: web components can't save us with scott jehl"></a></p>
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author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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Whither Post-Unipolar West? – Discussion w/ Arnaud Bertrand, Glenn Diesen, Matt Ehret &amp; Stefan Heeb

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/QYbpOLQKEA4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Whither Post-Unipolar West? – Discussion w/ Arnaud Bertrand, Glenn Diesen, Matt Ehret &amp; Stefan Heeb"></p>November 20, 2024Today, I had the privilege of joining up with Arnaud Bertrand, Glenn Diesen and host Stefan Heeb for a discussion on the topic “Whither Post-Unipolar West?”.We discussed what “the West” is, analysed the current moment and the West’s place in it, and brainstormed regarding the absence of awareness and imagination within the West regarding the inevitable transition to a multipolar and “post-unipolar” world, as well as possible ways to tackle this challenge.**********************************************You can find more about Stefan Heeb's work at his Substack:https://stefanjheeb.substack.com/**********************************************Get Science Unshackled herehttps://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-pressMatt and Cynthia's books:https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Docu-series here:https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriothttps://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriothttps://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substackhttps://matthewehret.substack.com/https://cynthiachung.substack.com/3) Buy some books!https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channelshttps://t.me/CanadianPatriotPressSince it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:On Rumblehttps://rumble.com/user/MattEhretOn Bitchute:https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/On Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYbpOLQKEA4

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Un comité du Sénat exhorte Ottawa à surveiller les effets du plafond imposé aux étudiants étrangers sur les établissements postsecondaires francophones à l’extérieur du Québec

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<p>[Originally published at <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in">I-System TrendCompass</a>] If you went to university you may have learned that corporations are persons, that they have shareholders, boards of directors and an executive suite consisting of the CEO, CFO, COO, etc. It was only yesterday (20 Nov. 2024) that I learned that corporations also had "protectors," or at least some of them do. </p><h2>Meet Jack, the Protector</h2><p>I learned this from <strong>Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky</strong> (MK), former member of "Sembankirshchina," the gang of seven bankers who ruled Russia during the 1990s and controlled most of its wealth (estimated at around 60% of Russia's GDP at the time). </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%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.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%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png" width="1152" height="768" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":768,"width":1152,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1176748,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","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><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">A miracle: from Komsomol, the Communist youth organization to Russia’s wealthiest oligarch.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mr. Khodorkovsky recently gave <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1858522646805143902">an interview</a></strong> and explained the concept of "protector," the detail which they forgot to teach to us in school:</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: "We made the decision to have a [company] "Protector" in the Trust, this is a person that watches everything that is happening [with the company]. … He must be completely independent and absolutely trusted, because he only has one function. In the moment he sees that the person holding a controlling stake in the company … acts under pressure, then he should open an envelope and hand over this control package to another person who will be written in that package. Our second person was [<strong>Leonid</strong>] <strong>Nevzlin </strong>but we never discussed it because no one should know who is second, who is third, who is fourth, who is fifth." </p><p>Q: This is in case you get killed?</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: No, in case they kill it's simpler. It's for example, if they take someone from the family hostage and start blackmailing with something related to the company. Since the company cannot be jeopardized, in this case the "Protector" must notice that I act under pressure and take away my powers. And that happened when they put me in prison. So they put me in prison, the protector made the decision that from there I can make decisions [only] under pressure and he passed the package to the next person.</p><p>Q: Can you name who the Protector was?</p><p>MK: Yes, of course. This is just a figure of great character whose role in the company everyone discussed differently, but no one knew the reality. [It was] the recently deceased <strong>Lord Jack Rothschild</strong>. He had the function of Protector. </p><p>Of course, by “Jack,” Khodorkovsky meant, Jacob. Exactly how legal transfer of ownership can pass from one individual to another, just like that, at the discretion of some absentee "protector" residing in London, is a bit of a mystery, but it did indeed work this way. I explained this relationship in part in my 2017 book "<a href="https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/">Grand Deception</a>," about the events in Russia, but the book was banned only 5 weeks after I published it. </p><p>Also, the sources I used in describing this particular relationship between MK and Lord Jacob Rothschild had been scrubbed clean from the internet. As a rule, the role of the London money lender oligarchy has always been scrupulously concealed from the public, which is probably why such details are not taught in universities either. </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%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.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%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png" width="1456" height="712" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":712,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2720403,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" 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><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">In the portrait on the left, Jack shows us some sort of triangle or pyramid sign with his thumbs. Maybe that’s just how his hands fall at rest and feel most comfortable.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>No, it wasn’t just Russia….</h2><p>At this point, someone will object: that happened in Russia, which is deficient in democracy and the rule of law, duh - we all know that!. In the West, the rule of law is just awesome, and we have democracy, and human rights, etc. However, I would object right back: are we quite sure about all that? We know for a fact that not even members of U.S. Congress may know the identities of the shareholders of certain large corporations like GE, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil, etc. They are secret even from the nation's lawmakers. It is then appropriate to ask, what else might be secret about the ownership and control of corporations?</p><h2>Visible oligarchs are merely trustees of the London Money Power</h2><p>When <strong>John Pierport Morgan</strong> died, everyone believed that he was the world's wealthiest man. But then it turned out that he only owned about 9% of his bank and was acting merely as the trustee of the bank's real owners who were (and perhaps still are) in the City of London. </p><p>Another example, recounted in the 1890 book by <strong>L. B. Woolfolk </strong>titled "The Great Red Dragon," was <strong>A. T. Stewart</strong>, the man who supposedly revolutionized (and nearly monopolized) the American retail industry back in the late 19th century. Just like Mr. Khodorkovsky, A. T. Stewart sprang from nowhere to great fortune overnight. The Scotsman owned a small shop on Broadway, only a few feet wide, where he sold needles, thread and tape.</p><p>Then somehow he came to control a massive retail business in palatial buildings, employing hundreds of clerks. He also had such stores in Glasgow, Belfast, Paris and in Germany. His wealth was estimated at about $100 million. However, when he died, he left his widow only a paltry $1 million. The rest of his fortune was transferred to a certain <strong>Judge Hilton</strong>, who was seemingly his handler and “number two” in line of substitute trustees: it was well known that Mr. Stewart met with the judge weekly and dined together every Sunday. </p><p>The media at the time concluded that the crafty judge had cheated poor <strong>Ms. Stewart </strong>out of her rightful inheritance and a court battle ensued where it was established that her husband in fact owned no interest in A.T. Stewart &amp; Co. but only collected commissions on sales. Judge Hilton himself was also only an agent of some power that remained hidden. However, the company he inherited was soon run out of business by three new retail establishments. With good quality merchandise and low prices they drove A. T. Stewart &amp; Co. and another 1,000 retail merchants in New York to bankruptcy.</p><h2>Hey, look over there - it’s them Jews!!!</h2><p>The new business model soon spread throughout the U.S. and much of the developed world. It was understood at the time that it was "the money power" exercising control from the shadows. As one merchant said at the time, "If things go on as they are, in a few years more, the Money Power will have monopolized the retail traffic, as it has monopolized and is now monopolizing all the other branches of business in the country." </p><p>To deflect people's attention away from the Money Power, the anger was directed at the Jews and the new retail establishments were commonly referred to as "the Jew stores." In fact, Judge Hilton himself blamed the Jews for A. T. Stewart &amp; Co's failure. Mr. Stewart's rise to power wasn't an isolated case: most of the oligarchs of that era were trustees of London Money Power.</p><p>The same was true for the Russian oligarchs that emerged from the Soviet Communist party after the USSR's 1991 collapse. Someone might object again: all that happened a long time ago, or it was in Russia. Today, in this day and age, we surely have transparency, rule of law, sanctity of contract, property rights, democracy and freedom, independent media, equity and inclusivity, etc.!?! But what if all those wonderful things are only the facade props, subtle means of persuasion, convincing us (including through our universities) that the system is wonderful and equitable so that we wouldn't suspect that there really <em>was</em> a sinister oligarchy exercising power from behind the shadows? What if this whole liberal democratic order was a sham?</p><h2>What of today’s exalted “oligarchs”?</h2><p>Such secret arrangements would be very difficult to prove, but if they did exist, they would help explain the rise to power of today's oligarchs like <strong>Jeff Bezos</strong>, <strong>Bill Gates</strong>, <strong>George Soros</strong>, <strong>Larry Ellison</strong>, <strong>Warren Buffett</strong> (oh, yes, him too), <strong>Eric Schmitt</strong>, <strong>Peter Thiel</strong>, <strong>Robert Mercer</strong> and many others. It would also explain why in one way or another they all end up in bed with the Deep State, the CIA, the Pentagon and with political parties. We're all encouraged to admire these people for their genius and entrepreneurial spirit, but what if that's the product of the PR machinery which nudges us to think of Bill Gates as the great benefactor and of Warren Buffett as the kindly old grandfather who just happens to be a brilliant stock picker? Really, when was the last time any journalist asked Bill Gates or Warren Buffett a tough question? </p><p>All this was true about Russia's oligarchs in the 1990s; they were always presented as young maverick businessmen reforming the economy and breaking new grounds, bringing capitalist free markets to Russia, etc, etc.  Then there was also the case of Elizabeth Holmes, who likewise came out of nowhere to become the youngest female self-made billionaire and was widely promoted in the media.</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%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.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%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png" width="967" height="545" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":545,"width":967,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":814862,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>This all worked as per the Money Power playbook until her company, Theranos collapsed in disgrace and it turned out that she invented nothing and controlled nothing.</p><h2>Theranos was the great revealer</h2><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%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.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%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png" width="1456" height="376" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":376,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1302033,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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">Theranos Board of Directors: Who’s who of the Deep State and the “defense” establishment</figcaption></figure></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Alex Krainer's Substack! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p>The disintegration of that business model showed for the whole world to see, that Ms. Holmes was a stand-in, controlled by her board of directors (every last member was a veteran of the Deep State and US defence establishment) and the people who funded the whole fraud. I dissected that fraud in the article titled, “<a href="https://thenakedhedgie.com/2021/10/02/the-theranos-scandal-the-real-story-1-3/">Theranos Scandal: the real story</a>.” Video version of that report is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"qk0_Y_FZN2k","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-qk0_Y_FZN2k" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qk0_Y_FZN2k?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><h2>Today, the Money Power demands World War III</h2><p>Returning to Mr. Khodorkovsky's recent revelations, they may also suggest the ultimate reasons why today we find ourselves at the precipice of a nuclear war: Lord Rothschild stole Yukos fair and square and then came the evil <strong>Mr. Putin</strong> and took Yukos back, which accounted for 20% of Russian oil production. 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Further information is at <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">link</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%2Fe19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.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%2Fe19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.png" width="1027" height="553" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":553,"width":1027,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1140235,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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></p>

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