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title: Have It All: External, Styleable, &amp; Scalable SVG
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<p>It has been a few years since I'd last tinkered with approaches for embedding SVG into webpages, but <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/blog/svg-triangle-of-compromise/">a nice post</a> making the rounds today prompted me to take a look back at where I'd last landed. While that post cites a few perfectly good ways to include SVG into a page, here I'll demonstrate a 4th approach that I think hits the center of the venn diagram for External, Styleable, and Scalable SVG.</p>
<h2>External, Styleable, and Scalable SVG</h2>
<p>First, a demo. The SVG below is external (so it's cacheable), styleable, and scalable. Its colors use the global CSS custom properties that are defined in this page below, which could either be shared across icons in the page, or set differently per SVG using CSS selectors.</p>


<div><use href="/sandbox/svgtopia/wrench.svg#icon"></use></div>
<p>For demo purposes, I've made the styles above editable (I put a <code>contenteditable</code> attribute on the style block and set it to <code>display: block</code> if you're curious), so you can edit those rules to see that they carry through not only this page but through to external SVGs. This little editable trick has nothing to do with the SVG embedding though, fwiw.</p>
<h2>How It Works</h2>
<p>Long story short, the <code>svg</code> <code>use</code> element now offers a nice means of referencing SVG symbols, whether they're in the same page or in an external file.</p>
<pre><code>&lt;svg width="100" height="100"&gt;
&lt;use href="/sandbox/svgtopia/wrench.svg#icon"&gt;&lt;/use&gt;
&lt;/svg&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>In this case, the SVG references the external <code>/sandbox/svgtopia/wrench.svg</code> file, plus a <code>#icon</code> hash that points to a <code>symbol</code> element inside the SVG file that contains our wrench icon, which has an ID attribute of that same name.</p>
<pre><code>&lt;symbol id="icon" viewBox="0 0 390 390"&gt;...
</code></pre>
<p>In order for the CSS color variables to do anything with the CSS, the SVG file needs to use those same CSS custom properties for its fills and strokes on its polygons and paths (or whatever else you'd like to be configurable). Note that I've used a style attribute that references the preferred CSS custom property first, followed by the fallback color again.</p>
<p>Here's an example:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;polygon points="145.69 300.383 257.48 300.383 257.48 257.422 145.69 257.422" style="fill: var(--svg-color-2,#64C5E5);"/&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Of course, this kind of prep is a little tedious, which is why I think some tooling can make it a little nicer. More on that in a sec.</p>
<p>Anyway, from here you can either style the custom properties across the page for a shared color scheme, or target a specific icon by giving the svg element a selector, eg:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code data-sanitized-class="language-html">&lt;svg class="my-icon" width="100" height="100"&gt;...
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code data-sanitized-class="language-css">.my-icon {
  --svg-color-1: red;
}
</code></pre>
<h3>Limitations</h3>
<p>While this satisfies most requirements for including SVG in a page, it doesn't work for SVG files that are on an external domain. So you'll need to self-host the SVG file for it to work.</p>
<p>Also, you won't be able to carry those CSS custom properties through to  CSS background images, or really most any other means of including SVG in your page. It's totally possible though, to reference the same svg from CSS, but you'll need to be happy with fallback colors in the SVG. (See the Iconoclash demo at the bottom for examples that are prepped to work with CSS backgrounds, as they require even more internal prep to do that.)</p>
<h2>Tooling Would Make It Nicer!</h2>
<p>When I'd originally started playing with this approach, I made a tool to handle the preparation. <a href="https://filamentgroup.github.io/iconoclash/demo/output/icons.html">It's called Iconoclash</a> and it's been a little while since I last worked with it, but perhaps it's due for an update?</p>
<p>If anyone's interested LMK!</p>
<h2>Thanks for reading!</h2>
<p>I hope you found this useful and thank you to <a href="https://me.micahrl.com/">Micah R Ledbetter</a> for writing the post that led me to get this up on the blog!</p>


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title: HTML Web Components Can Have a Little Shadow DOM, As A Treat
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<p>Well, I swore myself off blogging until I get <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">this course</a> launched and sure enough, here I am again. But a little idea about HTML Web Components has been squatting in my brain for a little while and I needed a place to put it.</p>
<p>There's been a lot of great writing about <a href="https://adactio.com/journal/20618">HTML Web Components</a> in the past year, and as an advocate of performant, resilient, progressive enhancement patterns, I'm a big fan of the whole ethos of it. That said, some of the discourse around HTML Web Components tends to conflate a couple of things that I have come to understand need not be conflated.</p>
<p>Those are, 1) wrapping already-useful HTML and augmenting it via custom element lifecycle features is a great pattern for websites, and 2) Shadow DOM is probably not a helpful part of that process.</p>
<p>Now to be fair, I've dunked on shadow DOM a bit in the past myself... such as when it's used as a container for piles of JavaScript-generated HTML that would be better off in the page from the start. But the more I've worked with web components, the more I've come to see that shadow DOM (and slots in particular) may still play an interesting role in the HTML Web Components story.</p>
<h2>Cascading before the light</h2>
<p>A post that led me to come around to this idea was <a href="https://knowler.dev/blog/a-mental-model-for-styling-the-shadow-dom">Nathan Knowler's late 2023 article about shadow DOM styles and the CSS cascade</a>. Did you know that shadow DOM styles cascade before the light DOM styles we typically write in our <em>site.css</em> files and the like? I'll admit that I didn't know that before I read Nathan's post about it. To put it a different way, the styles that sit inside a shadow DOM root are applied to the page's CSS cascade <em>after</em> the "user agent" styles (as in the ones that give you the default appearance of a <code>button</code> element) and after the "user styles" (as in, the ones you can optionally configure in browser settings)–but importantly, still <em>before</em> the global page-level styles that authors like us typically write (eg, your average site.css file).</p>
<p>It's due to this situation that a global, inheritable style like <code>* { color: red; }</code> will override a shadow DOM style <code>:host { color: green; }</code>. Even if that <code>*</code> style comes first in the HTML source, it will be added to the CSS cascade <em>after</em> the shadow DOM's styles in the overall cascade. (That said, if you really do want a shadow DOM style to "win", you can use <code>!important</code> in a shadow DOM rule to ensure it won't be overridden by styles that cascade over it from the light DOM authored CSS. And in that case, <code>!important</code> is considered good practice!)</p>
<h2>Making <em>realer</em> elements</h2>
<p>Anyway, more recently over on Mastodon, <a href="https://sunny.garden/@knowler/112887743077104732">Nathan noted</a> that we might do well to consider our shadow DOM styles and their order in the cascade as a sort of "user agent styles" for our custom elements: providing some default, low-specificity styles for our slotted light-dom HTML elements while allowing them to be easily overridden.</p>
<nice-quote>
    <blockquote cite="https://sunny.garden/@knowler/112887743077104732">
        <p>As we gain further abilities to extend the Web Platform, I think it’s helpful to consider how we might approach our custom elements less like authors and more like a user agent would.</p>
        <p><cite>Nathan Knowler</cite></p>
    </blockquote>
</nice-quote>
<p>I think this a pretty powerful idea. If we think of web components as our tool to create somewhat "real" elements for other authors to reuse, it's neat that we can follow some "real HTML element" patterns when it comes to styling them in ways that defer to the author's preference in the cascade. Light-DOM-only HTML web components can't really offer this in an equally reliable way, because their styles will compete in the same cascade as the other light DOM styles that the author adds, where specificity battles are everything. Depending on where and how those styles are added to the page, they could easily override author styles in ways that aren't as friendly as those that a built-in element would offer.</p>
<h3>Maybe slots make it okay?</h3>
<p>There's a lot of focus on the unique encapsulation aspects of shadow DOM, so it's easy to forget that <code>slot</code> elements flip that on its head: slots are just a window revealing our ordinary HTML elements that sit alongside the shadow root. They receive regular-old styles from site.css as you'd expect, they submit their data expectedly with forms, they don't have the accessibility issues that can occur with shadow DOM, because they're really just regular DOM!</p>
<p>A shadow root with a slot gives us a means to style slotted light DOM in a way that defers to the author, should they choose to do so. Just like a built-in element! This makes me think that there's a world of potential use cases for HTML Web Components that imperatively attach a shadow root and perhaps only use it to insert some styles and a slot, allowing the light DOM that is already there to do what it does well.</p>
<p>Let's try...</p>
<h2>An Example HTML Web Component with Shadow DOM</h2>
<p>I'm going to make a component called <code>nice-quote</code> that is designed to wrap a <code>blockquote</code> element and extend the default <code>blockquote</code> element's presentation a bit, in a light-handed way. It's a simple example, but it should get the idea across.</p>
<p>First, the HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;nice-quote&gt;
    &lt;blockquote&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Your HTML Web Component should be fine with a piece of shadow DOM sometimes, as a treat.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/nice-quote&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>As for the JavaScript, we'll start with a typical custom element definition:</p>
<pre><code>class NiceQuote extends HTMLElement {
...
}
customElements.define('nice-quote', NiceQuote);
</code></pre>
<p>Now, if I was building a typical HTML web component, I might add a <code>connectedCallback</code> handler next to manipulate or add behavior to the light DOM elements inside <code>nice-quote</code>. And again, that's typically the best lifecycle callback for doing those things, since it runs when the component is actually connected to the DOM (as opposed to say, an element created with <code>document.createElement</code> that is not yet appended), and so within <code>connectedCallback</code> we're able to query for elements inside it. <em>(Small caveat: there are situations when even <code>connectedCallback</code> will run before the element's light DOM children are available to it, and one way to avoid that is to have <code>type=module</code> on your script element, but that's another article).</em></p>
<p>Anyway, instead of <code>connectedCallback</code>, this time I'm going to use the <code>constructor</code> because all I need to do is attach and populate a shadow root, and that's one of those tasks the <code>constructor</code> is good for. So I'll use it to do just that, so I can add a slot and a stylesheet.</p>
<p>Here are those steps.</p>
<ol>
<li>Always call <code>super()</code> first because we're extending the <code>HTMLElement</code> class,</li>
<li>Attach a shadow root,</li>
<li>Insert some HTML in that root: I'll add a style element to contain my CSS, and install a window to see my light DOM elements shine through (that's the <code>slot</code> part).</li>
</ol>
<p>Here's how that looks:</p>
<pre><code>class NiceQuote extends HTMLElement {
    constructor(){
        super();
        this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
        this.shadowRoot.innerHTML = `
            &lt;style&gt;...&lt;/style&gt;
            &lt;slot&gt;&lt;/slot&gt;
        `;
    }
}
customElements.define('nice-quote', NiceQuote);
</code></pre>
<p>Okay, lastly, let's add those styles into the shadow DOM. For this, I'm going to use <code>:host</code> and <code>::slotted</code> to style the <code>nice-quote</code> and <code>blockquote</code> elements from inside the shadow DOM (these are some of the few ways shadow DOM styles can style light DOM elements).</p>
<p>Here's that final web component code:</p>
<pre><code>class NiceQuote extends HTMLElement {
    constructor(){
        super();
        this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
        this.shadowRoot.innerHTML = `
            &lt;slot&gt;&lt;/slot&gt;
            &lt;style&gt;
                :host {
                    display: block;
                    max-inline-size: 34em;
                }
                ::slotted(blockquote) {
                    margin: 2rem 0;
                    font-family: serif;
                    font-style: italic;
                    line-height: 1.2;
                    font-size: 2em;
                    padding: 1em 2rem;
                    line-height: 1.3;
                    background: #ebfffd;
                    border-inline-start: .5rem solid salmon;
                }
            &lt;/style&gt;
        `;
    }
}
customElements.define('nice-quote', NiceQuote);
</code></pre>
<p></p>
<p>I've added this JavaScript on the page here too so here's how that <code>nice-quote</code> component looks in HTML:</p>
<nice-quote>
    <blockquote>
        <p>Your HTML Web Component should be fine with a piece of shadow DOM sometimes, as a treat.</p>
    </blockquote>
</nice-quote>
<p>Looks nice I hope.</p>
<h2>The Cascade Benefits</h2>
<p>So yeah, perhaps the nicest part of this is that global styles can override the presentation of this nice quote if I'd like, because the component styles cascade before them in order. For example, if I didn't want the <code>nice-quote</code> to make my <code>blockquote</code> text italic, I can override it with a regular <code>blockquote</code> element selector, like this, and that style could come long before the component in source order without any worries.</p>
<pre><code>&lt;style&gt;
blockquote {
    font-style: normal;
}
&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;nice-quote&gt;
    &lt;blockquote&gt;
        &lt;p&gt;Your HTML Web Component should be fine with a piece of shadow DOM sometimes, as a treat.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/nice-quote&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>In fact, I didn't mention it but the first quote from Nathan in this post was using this shadowy component already, and wouldn't you know that several of my site's ordinary styles are overriding it in various ways in this page.</p>
<p>Embrace those priorities of constituencies!</p>
<h2>Looking Ahead</h2>
<p>Admittedly, the example in this post is purposefully simple as it's meant to show the pattern itself without involving too many other concerns. It's likely that an actual component that appropriately calls for this pattern would be a bit more complex, augmenting behavior in addition the styles, to say the least.</p>
<p>I'd love to hear about others experimenting with these sorts of patterns in their HTML Web Components.</p>
<p><strong>Some kind folks read early drafts of this post and offered feedback. I want to say thanks to <a href="https://knowler.dev/">Nathan Knowler</a> and <a href="https://www.mayank.co/">Mayank</a></strong></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="wcdnote">HEY! If the ideas in this article interest you, perhaps you'd also be interested in my course, <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Demystified</a>:</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/gSP6tjPtaFs" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Plato's Philebus (on the Purpose of Pleasure and Nature of the Good) Reading Session 02"></p>Reading #2 of The Philebus Dialogue.<br>Click here to access reading #1:<br>https://youtu.be/41_N-S952xc<br><br> the Philebus dialogue, Plato's teacher Socrates tackles these questions and more with a look to the quantized nature of the universe and all ponderable elements within it recognizing that a trifold relationship exists within all things that co-exist as a One, an Infinite and a Many<br><br>Download the Philebus by clicking here:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PHILEBUS-by-Plato.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSP6tjPtaFs

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/c0a4ffca5b7c06cc50d42c87099da6a7.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Camila Escalante on Venezuela's Presidential Election &amp; Opposition Violence"></p>I spoke with Latin America correspondent for Press TV, Camila Escalante, about what she saw and heard on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela, before, during and after the recent Presidential Election. <br><br>A well-travelled, longtime correspondent all over Latin America, Camila brings a deep understanding of the history of the country and region, and of the people. With ample experience in Venezuela in years prior, she speaks with first hand knowledge on the positive changes in the country, in spite of the brutal Western sanctions against the Venezuelan people. <br><br>Follow Camila at:<br><br>X: camilapress<br>Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CamilaPress<br><br>My Related Links:<br><br>-My Venezuela (2019) playlist: https://rumble.com/playlists/YCmDnKNOVWc<br><br>-The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ‘needed’ intervention<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/<br><br>

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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/ytdlp.jpg" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio"><p>You've probably searched Google for "download YouTube video" and arrived at a weird-looking website with a lot of annoying ads. The weird website does the job, but it might not have the specific quality or format options you want, and it will be gone in a few months when it gets a DMCA takedown. Such is the circle of life.</p><p>There is a better way to download videos and audio from YouTube, SoundCloud, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter/X, and hundreds of other websites. It's called yt-dlp.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-yt-dlp">What is yt-dlp?</h2><p><a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp" rel="noreferrer">Yt-dlp</a> is an application for downloading video and audio from hundreds of supported websites, based on the older (and possibly more well-known) <a href="https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl" rel="noreferrer">youtube-dl</a> project. It can download content from sites and convert them into different formats, using the <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/" rel="noreferrer">ffmpeg</a> conversion tool when needed. It can also read metadata from the original content source, allowing you to do cool tricks like saving YouTube video descriptions or captions as separate text files.</p><p>The original youtube-dl is still maintained, but it generally seems slower to adapt to breaking changes from YouTube and other sites than yt-dlp, and it has fewer features available. If you find guides or tutorials about youtube-dl, most of it applies to yt-dlp and other forks.</p><p>Youtube-dl, yt-dlp, and its various forks power most download tools for YouTube, TikTok, and other video and audio sites, as well as most third-party clients for YouTube. If you've ever watched or downloaded a YouTube video outside of the official website or apps, it was almost certainly using youtube-dl or one if its variants under the hood.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/07/dlp.jpg" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1125" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The one catch is that yt-dlp is a command-line tool, without an official graphical interface. There are some graphical front-ends, like <a href="https://stacher.io/" rel="noreferrer">Stacher</a>, but yt-dlp isn't very complicated.</p><p>The most annoying part of yt-dlp is installing it, especially on Windows and Mac, where you need to get a package manager first. I wrote <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/how-to-install-yt-dlp/" rel="noreferrer">a separate guide</a> for setting up yt-dlp and ffmpeg on any computer. It only takes a few minutes.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-yt-dlp-basics">The yt-dlp basics</h2><p>The basic usage for yt-dlp is running the command in your terminal application (or if you're on Windows, the PowerShell or Command Prompt) with a web address, ideally inside quotation marks to prevent parsing errors. The address can be any video, audio file, or playlist from the <a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md" rel="noreferrer">thousands of supported websites</a>. For this example, I'll use the excellent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRV0G6qWgw" rel="noreferrer">ReDoin remix video</a> by JerryTerry.</p><pre><code>yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRV0G6qWgw"
</code></pre><p>That command will download the video in the best quality available, and if necessary, combine multiple video and audio tracks from YouTube's servers. The result is an MP4 file in the current directory.</p><p>If you don't set the current directory before downloading, the default directory is  probably your home folder. You can run <code>xdg-open .</code> on Linux or <code>open .</code> on Mac to open the current directory in your file manager.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/image-4.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="1504" height="1078" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>That simple yt-dlp command downloads a YouTube video to your computer, without waiting for a website to load with a bunch of ads, or clicking buttons in a graphical application. You're not limited to just YouTube, though.</p><p>You can use a command like this to download the video attached to a post on Twitter/X:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp "https://x.com/madebygoogle/status/1814044122661204470"
</code></pre><p>The same works for videos posted to Reddit:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp "https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/comments/1bixtnb/my_kitty_was_stuck_in_reboot_loop_while/"
</code></pre><p>Yt-dlp also supports many audio platforms and sites, including ones that normally don't allow downloads. You can download a SoundCloud track like this:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp "https://soundcloud.com/kevin-manthei/egg-101-everything-is-going-wrong"
</code></pre><p>Yt-dlp can also usually understand links to playlists or other groups of content. For example, you can give it a link to a SoundCloud profile or a YouTube playlist, and it will start downloading everything in it.</p><p>Most of my yt-dlp usage is just using simple links, with the tool automatically downloading the best available versions. There are more advanced options, though, which are especially useful for bulk operations and converting file formats.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="converting-media-files">Converting media files</h2><p>Yt-dlp has many options for converting media formats after they are downloaded, as long as you have ffmpeg installed. Going back to that ReDoin video as an example, here's how to download the video and convert it to an MP3 audio file:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRV0G6qWgw"
</code></pre><p>That command downloads the video, then the <code>-x</code> option tells it to extract the audio track, and <code>-audio-format mp3</code> specifies the format as MP3. When it's done, I have an MP3 file ready to play or import into a music library.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/image-5.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="687" height="421" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>You might notice that yt-dlp sometimes downloads videos in MKV, WebM, or other formats that aren't playable on some devices. By default, it will download the best-available version, and combine video and/or audio tracks as needed, which sometimes results in a different file type.</p><p>You can use a command like this (<a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-download-mp4-youtube-every-time">shout-out to Jeff Gerling</a>) to make yt-dlp always give you an MP4 container file with MPEG video and audio:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjRV0G6qWgw"</code></pre><p>I recommend reading through <a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#post-processing-options" rel="noreferrer">all the post-processing options</a> in the documentation if you want to try other use cases. The ffmpeg utility can handle nearly any media format you can imagine, and yt-dlp can hook into it, so the possibilities are endless.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="how-i-use-yt-dlp-advanced-features">How I use yt-dlp advanced features</h2><p>I've ended up using yt-dlp (and youtube-dl for it) for many different tasks. The easiest way I've found for archiving the episodes of my <a href="https://techtalesshow.com/" rel="noreferrer">Tech Tales podcast</a> is to point yt-dlp to the show's RSS feed, like this:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp "https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:971533159/sounds.rss" --write-description --download-archive downloaded.txt
</code></pre><p>There are a few extra options I'm using here. First, the <code>--write-description</code> argument saves a text file alongside each file that contains the episode's full text description. The <code>--download-archive downloaded.txt</code> argument creates a text file called <code>download.txt</code> with a record of every file that has been downloaded, so when I run that same command in the same folder in the future, it won't try to download every episode again.</p><p>The result is a folder with the original audio file (as uploaded to my host, SoundCloud) and the full description for every podcast episode. I can keep that folder synchronized in my cloud storage. If you are a content creator using a platform supported by yt-dlp, this is a very easy way to back up your work.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/image-9.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="1313" height="695" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I plan on setting up an automation to run this automatically every once in a while, and set my local NAS drives as another backup location, but that's for another day.</p><p>I've also used yt-dlp many times for downloading music from YouTube or SoundCloud that isn't available on other platforms (not piracy), to keep in my local music library. For example, here's what I used to download all the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3i9BHIRvTES0rAWLTOImQE6T1Rix1b5P" rel="noreferrer">Eurobeat remixes</a> from YouTube creator <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQ4IVOuXa8M9htzbaSKlmg">Vikas Music</a>:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp -i -x --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --metadata-from-title "%(title)s" --parse-metadata "title:%(title)s" --parse-metadata "uploader:%(artist)s" --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3i9BHIRvTES0rAWLTOImQE6T1Rix1b5P"</code></pre><p>This command takes a YouTube playlist link as input, then uses the previously-mentioned <code>-x --audio-format mp3</code> option to convert each file to MP3 format. Then it sets the YouTube video's thumbnail image as the album artwork, the video title as the song title and filename, and the channel name as the artist. After it's done, I can import those songs into my music library, and all the metadata is already there.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/image-7.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="792" height="421" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p></p><p>Here's another cool trick I've used a few times. Many YouTube videos have captions, either provided by a person or automatically generated by Google's servers. You can download those captions as a text file with a command like this:</p><pre><code>yt-dlp --write-sub --convert-subs=srt --skip-download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fytVgsx-dlg"
</code></pre><p>If there are no manually-created captions available, you have to replace <code>--write-sub</code> with <code>--write-auto-sub</code>. Then you get a .srt file you can open in any text editor that looks like this:</p><pre><code>3
00:00:16,800 --&gt; 00:00:19,349
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hello and welcome to another DF retro

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hello and welcome to another DF retro
 

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hello and welcome to another DF retro
Let's Play video on the PC Time Capsule</code></pre><p>This is a great way to find when a certain word or topic is mentioned in a video, especially when combined with the Find text feature available in most text editors. No more scanning back and forth in a let's play or a conference video—as long as the auto-generated captions are reliable or manual captions are available, at least.</p><p>There's so much you can do with yt-dlp, as evidenced by the <a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#usage-and-options" rel="noreferrer">massive list of options</a> in the project's documentation. It supports countless websites and countless media formats through ffmpeg. Since it's a command-line tool, you can run it as part of a larger script, or automated it with tools like <a href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-cron-command" rel="noreferrer">crontab</a>.</p><p>This is one area where AI chatbots like <a href="https://chatgpt.com/" rel="noreferrer">ChatGPT</a> and <a href="https://copilot.microsoft.com/" rel="noreferrer">Microsoft Copilot</a> are incredibly useful. If you're not sure how to do something, tell one of the chatbots exactly what you want, and ask it to write the yt-dlp command for that task.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/08/image-8.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" loading="lazy" width="934" height="771" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>You should definitely read the command before running it, as you should with all terminal commands you get from the internet, but Copilot has helped me get the most out of yt-dlp and ffmpeg.</p><p>Yt-dlp is one of my favorite command-line tools, it's definitely the best way to save most video and audio media from the web. I highly recommend giving it a try the next time you want to download a YouTube video, podcast episode, or anything else without a built-in download method.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a href="https://www.spacebar.news/how-to-install-yt-dlp/" data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-container"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-content"><div data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-title">How to install yt-dlp (youtube-dl) on Windows, Mac, Linux</div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-description">The best way to get yt-dlp installed on your computer, including ffmpeg for media conversion.</div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/size/w256h256/2023/12/spacebar.png" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio" data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-icon"><span data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-author">The Spacebar</span><span data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-publisher">Corbin Davenport</span></div></div><div data-sanitized-class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/size/w1200/2024/07/2.jpg" alt="This is the best way to download videos and audio"></div></a></figure>

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<p>The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="bad-code">Bad code</h2>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>textinput<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>First name<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>text<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>textinput<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">aria-label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>First name<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">placeholder</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>First name<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">title</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>First name<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="issues-and-how-to-fix-them">Issues and how to fix them</h2>
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<li>The <code>aria-label</code>, <code>placeholder</code>, and <code>title</code> attributes all provide the same informaton ("First name"), leading to the screenreader reading the same text multiple times.</li>
<li>The <code>aria-label</code> is unnecessary since the input is already correctly labeled by the <code>&lt;label&gt;</code> element. <code>&lt;label&gt;</code> elements should be preferred to <code>aria-label</code> since they are also visible to sighted users.</li>
<li>The <code>title</code> attribute is not needed here, as the label and placeholder already convey the necessary information. Using title in this context adds unnecessary complexity.</li>
<li>The <code>placeholder</code> text should provide a hint / example to the user what kind of input is expected, it should not act as a label or contain the same content.</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="good-code">Good code</h2>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>textinput<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>First name<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>text<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>textinput<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="resources">Resources</h2>
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title: Now Released! The Web Components Demystified Online Course
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<p>Big news! My new online course, <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Demystified</a> has launched and is open for enrollment!</p>
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<h2>What's It About?</h2>
<p>There's a shift underway in front-end development. The largest companies in the world are transitioning away from the complicated, bloated frameworks that have dominated our practices in the last decade, and they're choosing to build on standard Web Components instead. Web Components Demystified aims to help designers and developers prepare themselves for this next phase of the web. Level up and learn all about Web Components today!</p>
<h2>What's Included?</h2>
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<li>12 Video Modules</li>
<li>8hrs of Closed-Captioned Video Instruction</li>
<li>In-Depth Technical Dives</li>
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<p>I'm happy to offer team discounts and Purchase Power Parity as well. <a href="https://scottjehl.com/#contact">So please reach out!</a></p>
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Miser sur l’esprit entrepreneurial du Canada pour éliminer le dioxyde de carbone présent dans l’atmosphère : sénateur Deacon

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/595f7a137abec2ccab08691bfdc083c3.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Coffee and a Mike: Eva Bartlett"></p>Michael Farris had me on his podcast recently for a conversation spanning many topics.<br><br>First published: https://rumble.com/v5cs0e5-coffee-and-a-mike-eva-bartlett-blissfully-unaware.html<br><br>Please visit his rumble to see where to follow him &amp; how to support his work.<br><br><br>My Related Links at this post: <br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/interview-on-coffee-and-a-mike/

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title: UpThinking Finance : Emerson J. Fersch &amp; Cynthia Chung | Energy Wars
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/FRTw599mFXY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="UpThinking Finance : Emerson J. Fersch &amp; Cynthia Chung | Energy Wars"></p>We’re being told that there isn’t enough energy to go around, and that we have to focus on green initiatives. But is that true? Dive deeper with us in this episode of UPThinking Finance™.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find Emerson J. Fersch’s work on:<br>YouTube: https://themelkshow.com<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1727191<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Cynthia &amp; Matt's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “Escaping Calypso’s Island” here:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/escaping-calypsos-island/<br><br>Watch the Docu-series “The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs” here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTw599mFXY

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title: These repairable phones still aren't built to last
author: ;Corbin Davenport
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/hmd.jpg" alt="These repairable phones still aren't built to last"><p>There's a growing trend of smartphones being sold as more easily repairable, with screens, batteries, or other components that can be swapped out with simple tools. The improved hardware is supposed to extend the life of the device, but many repairable phones still have a problem: the software probably won't last as long as the hardware.</p><p>You may not have heard of <a href="https://www.hmd.com/">HMD</a>, but you've probably seen its phones. After Microsoft purchased Nokia's mobile business, and then <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-shuts-down-last-major-piece-of-nokia-purchase-cuts-1850-jobs/" rel="noreferrer">promptly ran it into the ground</a>, some former Nokia executives formed the new HMD company. HMD took over manufacturing of Nokia-branded feature phones, and started selling Nokia-branded Android smartphones <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/hmds-first-nokia-android-phone-the-nokia-6-launches-as-a-china-exclusive/" rel="noreferrer">in 2017</a>. Every modern Nokia phone or tablet has been sold by (and usually designed by) HMD, and more recently, the company has started <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/press/mwc-2024-announcements-press-release">trying to making a name for itself</a> and shedding the Nokia brand.</p><p>The smartphone market is crowded, and one of HMD's strategies for differentiating itself has been creating phones with more user-repairable designs. Most modern smartphones are difficult and time-consuming to repair, with iPhones being <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/27/self-service-repair-iphone-massiive-kit/" rel="noreferrer">almost impossible for people to fix</a> without a trip to an Apple-authorized repair shop, so bucking that trend seems like an easy win.</p><p>HMD has now released several Android phones with self-repairs as a main selling point, including the <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/nokia-g-310?sku=610214678638" rel="noreferrer">Nokia G310 5G</a>, <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/hmd-skyline" rel="noreferrer">HMD Skyline</a>, and most recently, the <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/hmd-fusion" rel="noreferrer">HMD Fusion</a>. The back covers on those phones can be removed with a single screwdriver and a prying tool, with relatively easy access to the battery, charging board (in case the USB-C port needs to be replaced), screen, and other components. It's still not the easiest task in the world to do yourself, but <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/collaborations/hmd" rel="noreferrer">HMD has partnered with iFixit</a> to create repair manuals and sell replacement parts.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="hardware-isnt-everything">Hardware isn't everything</h2><p>It's great that HMD is trying to make more repairable smartphones, especially when the only competition has been devices like the <a href="https://www.fairphone.com/nl" rel="noreferrer">Fairphone 5</a>, which starts at €549 (down from its original €699 price) and is only sold in Europe. However, there's a big piece still missing before I would feel comfortable <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/sustainability" rel="noreferrer">calling them "sustainable" phones</a>: the software support.</p><p>The specifications pages for the <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/hmd-fusion/specs?sku=101SQ503H043" rel="noreferrer">HMD Fusion</a> and <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/hmd-skyline/specs?sku=HQ502000461Q0">HMD Skyline</a> explain the phones are only guaranteed to receive two major Android operating system updates and three years of Android OS security patches. There's no guarantee of a release schedule for security updates on the Skyline, while the Fusion will get two years of monthly updates and quarterly updates for the last year.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lehv58xdGUQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Unveiling HMD Skyline: Stunning Camera, Speed, and Repairable" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Those timelines started when the phones were released, so if you buy the Fusion on sale a year from now, you only get two years of security patches. HMD also doesn't provide any mechanism for unlocking the bootloader, <a href="https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/akita/install/">like Google does for its Pixel phones</a>, so you can't install a community-supported version of Android after official support ends.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.hmd.com/en_us/nokia-g-310/specs?sku=610214678638" rel="noreferrer">Nokia G310 5G</a> has <em>no guarantee at all</em> for OS updates and security patches. HMD is bold enough to say on the product page, "The easier it is to repair a device, the longer you can keep it." Why would I want to keep a phone for years that's a security risk?</p><p>Much of the press coverage around HMD's repairable phones has not mentioned the lackluster software support, and it seems like a showstopper for keeping these phones in the long term. If I buy an HMD Skyline for the $499.99 retail price, and then in two years I accidentally drop it and crack the screen, does it really make sense to <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/products/hmd-skyline-screen">pay $95 for a replacement screen</a>? By that point, it won't get any more major Android updates (unless HMD is late with that second OS update) and it will have a year left before it becomes a security risk. I might as well just save up and buy an entirely new phone, or trade it in to get a discount on a new phone.</p><p>I'm well aware most people don't think about security updates on their phones. It's clear that millions of people <a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/android-distribution-numbers-2021/">will keep using outdated and vulnerable Android phones</a> as long as they are still functioning, because phones are expensive to replace. That doesn't mean the short-term software support should be ignored, though, and what's what <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/new-hmd-phones-combine-low-price-with-diy-repair-and-battery-replacement/">many</a> <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/hmds-fusion-is-a-modular-repairable-phone-that-can-wear-outfits">news</a> <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/magsafe-compatible-qi2-wireless-charging-finally-comes-to-android/">outlets</a> are doing when covering these phones.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="this-is-a-solved-problem">This is a solved problem</h2><p>Fairphone is still the gold standard when it comes to sustainable and repairable smartphones. The company's latest Fairphone 5 <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/87664/fairphone-5-keeping-it-10-10" rel="noreferrer">earned a 10/10 score from iFixit</a> for its repairable design, and Fairphone has <a href="https://www.fairphone.com/en/story/">done a lot of work</a> on improving its supply chain for materials.</p><p>Fairphone's long-term software support is incredible, even when compared to major phone manufacturers like Samsung and Apple. The Fairphone 2 was released in 2015, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/23/22798512/fairphone-2-android-10-beta">received Android 10</a> as its final major OS update in 2021, and <a href="https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9979180437393-Fairphone-OS">continued receiving security updates</a> until March 2023. That was <em>eight years</em> of software support, and Fairphone allows the bootloaders on its devices to be unlocked, so you can install community-supported operating systems. The Fairphone 4 has <a href="https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp4/">a port of Ubuntu Touch</a>, for example.</p><p>Fairphone's products aren't cheap, and aren't available globally, but they show you <em>can</em> create truly repairable and long-lasting smartphones. The phones coming out of HMD and other companies are a step in the right direction, but they don't yet meet that threshold.</p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/-2ABT8rAPBY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="An Afternoon of Geopolitical Insights with Joaquin Flores"></p>The RTF presents an in depth geopolitical presentation by Joaquin Flores on Sept. 8, 2024<br><br>Follow Joaquin's channel on t.me/NewResistance<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=-2ABT8rAPBY

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title: The History of Web Performance
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(2019) Accused of Treason and Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts His Harrowing Time in a Ukrainian Prison

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/70bf607dcd5e6a4e03adbe22ea5cf04a.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="(2019) Accused of Treason and Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts His Harrowing Time in a Ukrainian Prison"></p>October 2019:<br><br>In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason. <br><br>Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster the declining popularity of [then] President [Petro] Poroshenko in this election year.” <br><br>Vyshinsky noted that his arrest was advancing the incessant anti-Russian hysteria now prevalent among Ukrainian authorities, as he holds dual Ukrainian and Russian citizenship. He noted that the charges against him, which pertain to a number of articles he published in 2014 (none of them authored by Vyshinsky), became of interest to Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services four years after they were published. To Vyshinsky, this supports the notion that neither the articles nor their editor were a security threat to Ukraine, instead, he says, they were a political card to be played. <br><br>In early 2019, I traveled to Kiev to interview Vyshinsky’s defense lawyer Andriy Domansky about the logistic obstacles of his client’s case. Domansky viewed the Vyshinsky case as politically motivated and expressed concern that he could himself become a target of Ukraine’s secret service for his role in defending his client, an innocent man. <br><br>Domansky told me at the time,<br><br>The Vyshinsky case is key in demonstrating the presence of political persecution of journalists in Ukraine. As a legal expert, I believe justice is still possible in Ukraine and I will do everything possible to prove Kirill Vyshinsky’s innocence.”<br><br>To the surprise of those following the case against Vyshinsky, in late August 2019 he was released with little fanfare after serving more than 400 days in a Ukrainian prison but still faces all of the charges brought against him by the Ukrainian government and is “obliged to appear in court or give testimony to investigators if they deemed it necessary.” <br><br>By early September, Kirill Vyshinsky was on a plane to Moscow. Despite never being tried or officially convicted, he found himself the subject of a prisoner exchange between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.<br><br>I interviewed Vyshinsky in Moscow in late September. He told me about his harrowing ordeal, the Ukrainian detention system, other persecuted journalists, and what lies ahead for him.<br><br>He also touched on the inhumane conditions he experienced in Ukrainian prisons. He noted that a pretrial detention center as we know it in Western nations is a very different entity in Ukraine and that Ukrainian prisons were so over-crowded that it was common for inmates to sleep in three shifts in order to allow enough standing room for inmates crammed into a cell.<br><br> ...SEE FULL description here: <br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

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title: Our values: killing pensioners to save money
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>Nothing says "our values" like reducing deficits by killing pensioners. Britain's new Prime Minister <strong>Sir Keir Starmer</strong> has recently announced his government's plan to cut winter fuel subsidies to 10 million pensioners in Britain. It's a tough decision, it will be unpopular and it'll hurt, but it just must be done. Namely, Sir Keir and his cabinet discovered, to their utter shock and consternation, that there was a £22 billion "black hole" in Britain's public finances! This is an emergency that must be rectified even if it causes some discomfort to a few pensioners.</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%2F8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.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%2F8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f405765-23df-46d9-bd91-b95111b39aab_1638x921.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2432696,"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></p><p>How much discomfort, and to how many pensioners? Back in 2017, when Tory Prime Minister <strong>Theresa May</strong> floated a similar proposal and Labour was in opposition, their own research determined that cutting winter fuel allowances would kill an estimated <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1946329/Labour-pensioners-dead-winter-fuel-thousands">3,850 pensioners that winter</a>. And that was five years ago - practically the good old days, before the "<a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9491/">typical household energy bills increased by 54% in April 2022 and 27% in October 2022</a>."</p><h2>Selective discernment and sizing of black holes</h2><p>Saving money by killing people may seem wrong, and Sir Keir himself had no trouble understanding this before he was Prime Minister: as recently as May of this year, he righteously lambasted the then PM <strong>Rishi Sunak</strong> about black holes and killing pensioners. He boldly confronted his predecessor: "So will [the Prime Minister] now rule out taking pensioners' winter fuel payments off them to help fund his £46 billion black hole?" </p><p>Yes, you read that correctly: Sir Keir already knew about the black hole and said it was £46 billion, not £22 billion. Well, let's not be too fastidious about these details: the black hole is there and it's size 22 or 46 or some other number, whatever. Who knows, maybe science had changed since May 2024. Whatever the case, Labour is now in government and, confronted with the 22B-size black hole, they no longer see what the big fuss with killing pensioners is all about.  And it’s not exactly like this is a new thing - here’s a Daily Mail headline from 12 years 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%2F0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.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%2F0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.png" width="919" height="487" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ef19c05-2416-44ec-9b02-495553610ae5_919x487.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":487,"width":919,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":92851,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>Losing power, regaining the moral compass </h2><p>Meanwhile the Tories, now that they're in opposition, suddenly regained their moral compass: on Sunday, 8 September Tory chairman <strong>Richard Fuller </strong>said that, "this week's vote on the Conservatives motion is a vote to protect millions of vulnerable pensioners. No MP from any party should run scared from stopping Labour's cruel plans... It's time for all Members of Parliament to put aside party politics and do the right thing." </p><p>Again, to avoid any confusion, by "the right thing" he meant continuing to pay out the pensioners' heating subsidies, not plugging the black hole with their corpses. Even the Tory establishment aristocrat <strong>Jacob Rees-Mogg</strong> rushed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mVh6CYJm4">seize moral high ground and pile in on Starmer</a>. Apparently, discerning right from wrong is only given to those who are in opposition, then cruelly taken away as soon as they're in power. This is such a wonderful, top-grade democracy, it must be exported everywhere around the world and by force if necessary, especially to dark tyrannical autocracies like Russia. </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%2F949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.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%2F949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.png" width="1092" height="607" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/949fd149-fe23-42f3-b6a2-d17aa907412f_1092x607.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":607,"width":1092,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1331884,"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><h2>Meanwhile, folks are cozy in Russia</h2><p>In spite of not enjoying our sterling liberal democracy, it would appear that ordinary Russians don’t fear winter, black holes or utility bills. </p><p>Just yesterday, Irish businessman <strong>Chay Bowes</strong> who now lives in Russia <a href="https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1833123151833616856?t=IVefxdyhb55Tvz3XOkrLrQ&amp;s=03">shared his own utility bill on X</a> and wrote as follows: "Dear Europeans. I've just paid my annual energy bill here in Moscow Russia. It covers all electricity, heating (on all through winter automatically from the city), and Water (hot and cold) and rubbish disposal. It cost me €146 for everything for the entire year." </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%2F7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.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%2F7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.png" width="888" height="650" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a2d1b62-0c84-48c3-bf5f-c875fcf3fe05_888x650.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":650,"width":888,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":600286,"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>How does that compare with the democratical UK? In Britain, the average energy bill is a bit higher: it’s <a href="https://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/property-news/average-uk-energy-bills-how-to-save-money/">it amounts to £176</a>, or in euros, it’s 209. But that’s <strong>per month</strong>, which works out to just over €2,500 per year - a whopping 17 times what Mr. Bowes pays in Moscow! Given that the average monthly retirement income in the UK is <a href="https://www.unbiased.co.uk/discover/pensions-retirement/planning-for-retirement/what-is-the-average-uk-retirement-income">only about £1,512</a>, these are very high rates, forcing many pensioners to choose between heating and eating.</p><p>The Russians do seem significantly more comfortable and less anxious about having such basic things as hot water, electricity and heating available to them. They are even free to use wood-burning stoves if they prefer - it’s a luxury that could result in <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700317/Woodburning-stove-leave-300-penalty-criminal-record-new-regulations.html">a £300 penalty or a criminal record</a> in democratic Britain.  </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>Russia’s social welfare state</h2><p>Enjoying certain comforts in Russia is not a fortuitous accident of chance: in its constitution, Russia is explicitly defined as a social welfare state. Welfare of its citizens is the government's core responsibility. In my book "<a href="https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-pdf/">Grand Deception</a>," I highlighted two well known examples of the way this works in reality. Here's one:</p><blockquote><p>During [<strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>'s] first winter as President [in 2000], entire towns and villages across the far east of the country counting as many as 400,000 inhabitants, lost heating for the lack of coal. A serious crisis emerged with mines shutting down, workers out in the streets and even hospitals ceasing to function because of the cold. But the coal for heating was available in Russia, only most of it was already allotted for export. Vladimir Putin didn’t think that Russian people should suffer freezing conditions all winter in order for that coal to be exchanged for American dollars. He decreed that export of coal be stopped immediately and that all available quantities be sent back to Siberia to fuel the boiler stations. ... in Putin’s world, well-being of the people takes precedence over financial profits of the investor class. This concept may seem exotic and alien to Westerners who for a generation had been brainwashed with neoliberal economics where profits trump any and every other concern, including health and well-being of the people. Nonetheless, I believe that beyond the brainwash, every normal person – even western-educated economists – would agree that in a crisis, the decent thing to do would be to take care of the people and let the oligarchs cope with one quarter or a year of impaired profitability of their enterprises.</p></blockquote><p>Unfortunately however, in western liberal democracies, this ability to discern right from wrong depends on being in opposition or, for most public officials, being in retirement. While in power, Western officials seem to lose this faculty. </p><h2>About economic theories and neoliberal ideology</h2><p>Thankfully however, we always have ideology and economic theories to fall back on. They provide a compelling case for why ours is the best economic system in history of creation, why ensuring people's welfare is socialism and therefore bad and evil, and why unscrupulous selfishness by the individual magically yields the best possible outcome for the collective. For decades now, we’d been sold the bill of goods that privatized, for profit, deregulated enterprise automagically result in the most reliable service, enhance consumer choice and lower the costs, and so utilities, trash disposal, postal services, roads, railroads, ports and most other infrastructure has been sold to private investors and turned into for profit enterprises. So far as utilities are concerned, the result is that in the UK, the mothership of neoliberal economics, people pay some of the most extortionate utility bills in the world.</p><p>Well, so far as our ruling establishment is concerned, the solution is that we first need to regime change Russia and get rid of the evil Mr. Putin. He is ruining our neat theories and the ideology they support. Once we can force our neoliberal order along with democracy and freedom onto Russia, everything else will fall neatly into place. It is therefore just and right for the British establishment to call on their nation to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/uk-must-be-ready-for-war-with-russia-says-armed-forces-chief">prepare to go to war against Russia</a>, no matter the cost in black holes, freezing pensioners, or any other such undignified trifle. For king and the country, by jingo!</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/our-values-killing-pensioners-to?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">Thank you for reading! 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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/1.jpg" alt="Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay"><p>Sony recently revealed the <a href="https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/" rel="noreferrer">PlayStation 5 Pro game console</a>, complete with advanced ray beams, AI something or other, 1.21 gigawatts, and a bunch of other stuff. There's something here that's more interesting than the hardware, or how much it costs, or if the console should even exist: consoles are now smartphones, and we need to treat them as such.</p><p>Historically, game consoles have been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles" rel="noreferrer">organized into generations</a>, with several years between each model in a series. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was a third-generation console, released in the United States in 1985. It took six years until its replacement, the fourth-gen SNES, arrived in the US in 1991. Then it was another five years to the Nintendo 64 in 1996, and five years after that in 2001, we got the GameCube.</p><p>There were a few reasons why game consoles went several years between upgrades. Many of them didn't offer backwards compatibility, so each new model was starting from scratch with its game library—doing that repeatedly in a short time span just means you end up with a bunch of consoles with very few games. SEGA learned this the hard way, as it released the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32X">32X</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn">Saturn</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast">Dreamcast</a> all within five years (in the US), and then exited the console market entirely.</p><p>Fewer models also makes game development, manufacturing, and sales distribution somewhat simple. If you've ever shopped at Costco or another warehouse club store, or ordered electronics from Alibaba, you know that things are cheaper when you buy them in bulk. Nintendo is getting a <em>fantastic</em> deal for those <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1">NVIDIA Tegra X1 chipsets</a> that have been in every Switch console sold since 2016. It's also pretty great for game developers to have a single device to test against that has surpassed <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/687059/nintendo-switch-unit-sales-worldwide/">over 140 million units</a>.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-mid-generation-upgrade">The mid-generation upgrade</h2><p>The eighth generation of home game consoles changed that long-running release cycle. Sony released the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4#PlayStation_4_Pro">PlayStation 4 Pro</a> in 2016 as an upgrade to the 2013 PlayStation 4, and Microsoft created the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_One#Xbox_One_X">Xbox One X</a> in 2017 as an upgrade to the 2013 Xbox One. These were the first modern "mid-generation" consoles, intended to be sold as more powerful alternatives to the base consoles, but not replacing them entirely.</p><p>This was a subtle but important change to the value proposition of game consoles. If you bought a console around the time of release, there could potentially be something better within 3 or 4 years, instead of the more typical 5-7 years. Microsoft and Sony made it clear these were optional upgrades, though, and game developers were barred from making games that were only compatible with the more powerful variant (and they still can't do that).</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-gp-Voq6MQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Xbox One X – E3 2017 – World Premiere 4K Trailer" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Sony and Microsoft both released new mainstream consoles in 2020: the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, respectively. Four years later, Sony has revealed its new mid-generation-upgrade, the PS5 Pro. Microsoft <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-next-gen-console-confirmed-business-update">previously said</a> it will reveal new hardware before the end of the year, which will likely be a similar mid-gen hardware refresh.</p><p>These mid-generation consoles have received many of the same responses over and over again, such as "why would I upgrade from the original model?" or "it's too expensive." The "just build a PC!" crowd also comes out of the woodwork each time a new console is announced, as if no one had ever considered that.</p><p>The decades-long tradition of generational game consoles has trained most people to evaluate every new console as a direct replacement for the previous model. If I have a PS3, I need to eventually get the PS4. If I have a Wii U, I need to get a Nintendo Switch. That's not true anymore, because mid-gen refreshes have ushered in the era of smartphone upgrade cycles for game consoles.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-new-upgrade-cycle">The new upgrade cycle</h2><p>The day before the PlayStation 5 Pro was revealed, Apple announced its new <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-introduces-iphone-16-and-iphone-16-plus/">iPhone 16 series</a> and <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/09/apple-debuts-iphone-16-pro-and-iphone-16-pro-max/">iPhone 16 Pro series</a>. Those are phones that are minimal upgrades over the previous models, with prices ranging from $799 for the base iPhone 16 all the way to $1,599 for the Pro Max with 1TB storage. If you have a recent iPhone, and it's still working well for you, there's no reason to run out and buy the new model.</p><p>I didn't see anywhere near the same number of "that's too expensive!" or "who is this for?" reactions for the new iPhones, but it's not because the value proposition is different. We're just used to companies releasing new smartphones every year, including high-end models aimed at people with more disposable income or more niche needs. Some people buy a new phone when the old one stops working, some upgrade each year, and some wait a few years. A <a href="https://www.assurant.com/newsroom-detail/2023/November/mobile-device-trade-in-programs-growth">2023 report from Assurant</a> said the average age for devices turned in for upgrade and trade-in programs was "just over 3.5 years."</p><p>That's how we should think about game consoles now. We're not getting a new Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo Switch every year, but the upgrades are frequent enough that many of the same principles apply. It does not make sense for most people with a PS5 to go out and buy a PS5 Pro, just as it does not make sense for most people with an iPhone 15 to upgrade to an iPhone 16. The functional lifespans for game consoles are getting longer, just as the lifespans for smartphones are getting longer. You can still play many modern games on an Xbox One or PS4 from 2013, just as an iPhone from 4 or 5 years ago will still handle most typical smartphone functions.</p><p>A more rapid upgrade cycle for home consoles <em>can</em> be a good thing. If someone wants to buy a PlayStation console, they now have an option with newer and more powerful hardware, instead of the one hardware configuration that is already four years old (yes, I know the PS5 Slim is slightly different). The same games are available across both models, so people who already bought or will buy the original model aren't negatively impacted. In theory, everyone wins... except the game developers who now have to test games across more hardware configurations.</p><p>There are certainly valid complaints about the PS5 Pro: the disc drive is a paid add-on, the vertical stand isn't included, and so on. The starting price of $700 makes it a questionable value, but I would also argue that $1,600 iPhone Pro Max is a questionable value for most people. Not every tech product is aimed at the same market, and that's okay—just buy what <em>you</em> need or want to buy.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="speed-it-up">Speed it up</h2><p>There is one remaining problem with these mid-generation upgrades: they don't last as long as the original models. The Xbox One X is an <em>extension</em> of the Xbox One software and hardware platform, not its own independent platform. Game developers are only allowed to create games for both devices, or ignore both of them. As game developers move on from the aging 2013 Xbox One, the 2017 Xbox One X is also left behind. The same is true of the PS4 and PS4 Pro.</p><p>This is also pretty close to how the smartphone industry works. In 2023, Samsung <a href="https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/samsung-galaxy-s10-updates-discontinued">ended software updates</a> for the Galaxy S10 series from 2019, from the $750 <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s10e">Galaxy S10e</a> to the $1,000 <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s10-plus">Galaxy S10 Plus</a>. It doesn't matter if you spent more money on the higher-end model, your device gets the same software support as the base model. However, there wasn't a multi-year gap between the Galaxy S10 Plus and the other models, like there currently is for these mid-generation upgrades.</p><p>If more frequent console generations are here to stay, and backwards compatibility isn't going anywhere, then it might make more sense to do full generational upgrades every few years. No more in-between models with more limited market adoption and shorter software support.</p><p>I know what you're thinking: "I'll have to buy a new console twice as often to play new games!" Game developers target different console generations based on the expected market and technical requirements, and I wouldn't expect that to change if console generations became more frequent. If only a tiny fraction of people own the latest Xbox or PlayStation console, most developers are going to continue making games that support previous generations. This already happened in recent history: adoption of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S were initially slow due to the COVID-19 pandemic and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1147157065/sony-playstation-5-shortage-over">supply shortages</a>, so many games continued to be released for the previous generation. That's still ongoing for games with lower hardware requirements, such as <em>Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth</em> or <em>WWE 2K24</em>, both of which were released this year.</p><p>Again, look at smartphones. There are remarkably few mobile apps and games that require a brand new phone, or only work on the latest versions of iOS or Android. For example, the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana" rel="noreferrer">Facebook app for Android</a> currently has Android 9.0 as a minimum requirement—that version was released in 2018, and it was rolled out as an update to some devices released before 2018.</p><p>I don't know if faster console generations will actually happen, or how Microsoft's upcoming Xbox hardware could change the market. I do know that consoles are now much more like smartphones. The hardware is lasting longer, you don't need to upgrade every time, and you can just ignore the overpriced models.</p>


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<p>This is the biggest update to WinUtil since its inception. It is now a full-fledged Windows utility suite. It has a lot of new features and improvements. It is now a must-have utility for Windows users.</p>
<p>The #1 Most Stared PowerShell project on GitHub!</p>
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<p>The 4 minute install ISO. It is a minimal Windows 10 ISO with WinUtil pre-installed. It is perfect for a fresh install.</p>
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title: Ukrainian drone terrorism in my southeastern Moscow district
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/25b931ac0b43fef932c14e77c8dd4608.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Ukrainian drone terrorism in my southeastern Moscow district"></p>Starting early Tuesday, September 10, Russian air defense shot down 144 Ukrainian drones in 9 regions, including 72 drones above Bryansk Region and 20 above Moscow Region, according to the Ministry of Defence. <br><br>Three drones managed to hit three different apartment buildings in the Ramenskoe district, one impact tragically killing a 46 year old woman and injuring at least three other civilians. These were completely civilian, residential, areas. Ukraine sending drones to strike there was pure terrorism. <br><br>Just over one week prior, on September 1, Russian air defense shot down or intercepted 158 drones, some of those again in the Ramenskoe region.<br><br>From my nearby district just after 2:15am Tuesday, I heard the first air defense blasts targeting drones, followed by several more until daylight. <br><br>On Wednesday, I went to the area within Ramenskoe district where the drones impacted. Irina Medvedeva, a friend's sister, was in an apartment next to one of the buildings struck. She witnessed the first explosion which killed Zinaida Akhmetovna.<br><br>While there, we met a man who had come from Kursk (which Ukraine started attacking last month) for a week of quiet. He said he would go back to Kursk, in spite of Ukraine's continued (failed) attacks on the city, spoke of how the people there support their army and said Russia would defeat the Ukrainian terrorism.<br><br>Related links here: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/20594

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/QI6uowqDxQQ" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="How Saudi Arabia Broke Free of the Empire"></p>On Sunday Sept 15 The Rising Tide Foundation hosted Gordon McCormick who unpacked some extremely important historic lessons of British Imperial manipulation of Southwest Asia and the battle of the two Saudi Arabias.<br><br>Follow Gordon's work on Badlands.substack.com<br>and https://x.com/GhostofBPH<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=QI6uowqDxQQ

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Rb2Ri29td88" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Schiller Workshop: Of the Sublime (Reading 01)"></p>The RTF weekly study group dives into the second Schiller philosophical study in the 1794 'Of the Sublime'<br><br>Download the original text here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Philosphical-and-Aesthetical-Writings-of-Friedrich-Schiller.docx<br><br>The previous Schiller reading session can be viewed here:<br>https://youtu.be/Fd6_sxBMP-M?si=sxprQ7jeOQ3Axu7P<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=Rb2Ri29td88

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/9b0d0553cb5fc9413ea4d7e58c8b4856.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Tarik Cyril Amar on Palestine, Zionism, and Ukraine's failed tactics"></p>Tarik is an author, a historian and an expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University.<br><br>Follow him at:<br><br>https://substack.com/@tarikcyrilamar<br>https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-icc-israel-and-the-gaza-genocide<br>https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/ <br>https://x.com/TarikCyrilAmar<br>

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/7897330d6cb535bfe20547dfa6718320.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="JACQUES BAUD: NATO ATTEMPTED TO DESTABILIZE &amp; THREATEN RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022"></p>This is a must-listen interview for those who think Russia “invaded Ukraine without reason”, and those who believe the West’s propaganda about Russia “failing” in its objectives, and many other lies put out by Washington and parroted by Western corporate media.<br><br>Former Swiss intelligence, Jacques Baud, on the Ukraine-NATO history that forced Russia to start its Special Military Operation in February 2022.<br><br>He is the author of numerous books, including: “The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat”and “Operation Z: The Hidden Truth of the War in Ukraine Revealed”.

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<p>Did we just have a palace coup in Washington?</p><p>The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain's new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West's proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn't be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.</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><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%2F46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.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%2F46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.png" width="1456" height="823" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46fa5015-eae6-4a08-86ac-816191c9a149_1742x985.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":823,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":739177,"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>The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new "Nuclear Employment Guidance" in preparation to fight and "win" a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State <strong>Antony Blinken</strong>, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under Prime Minister <strong>Rishi Sunak</strong> and under the new PM <strong>Keir Starmer</strong>.</p><h2>Starmer’s diplomatic charm offensive</h2><p>Since its inauguration on July 5, 2024, the new Labour government in Britain immediately engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activity and meetings with many government leaders across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, much of it a charm offensive to “reset” the previously strained or neglected relationships. Within the cabinet’s first ten days, their Defence Minister <strong>John Healey</strong> visited Ukraine, Foreign Minister Lammy called his Ukrainian and American counterparts on his first day on the job, then on July 6 flew straight to Germany to meet with the German FM <strong>Annalena Baerbock</strong>, then to Poland the next day to meet with FM <strong>Radek Sikorski</strong>, and after that, straight to Sweden to meet then FM <strong>Tobias Billstrom</strong>.</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%2F64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.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%2F64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.png" width="1080" height="1350" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64713010-22d3-4263-8cc2-729cdefc03db_1080x1350.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1350,"width":1080,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2504178,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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 July 9, his fifth day on the job, Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-strategic-defence-review">Strategic Defense Review</a>” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the <em>special relationship </em>itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.</p><h2>Trump-proofing the “special relationship”</h2><p>In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US%E2%80%93UK_Mutual_Defence_Agreement">Mutual Defense Agreement</a> (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-amendment-to-the-agreement-for-cooperation-on-the-uses-of-atomic-energy-for-mutual-defense-purposes-cs-usa-no12024">formulated by the British government in July of this year</a>: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.</p><p>Indeed, the nuclear saber-rattling does seem to emanate largely from out of London. For example, <strong>Malcolm Chalmers</strong>, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Britain's oldest and most prestigious think-tank, proposed already in 2022 that the West should resort to nuclear brinkmanship in order to destabilize Russia. It was this same Malcolm Chalmers who was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: "It is good news for the UK that it doesn't need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage." How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s wars of choice.</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%2F11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.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%2F11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.png" width="390" height="521" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11ccd2cc-ffea-40da-9475-c548299fc6c8_390x521.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":521,"width":390,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":267843,"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 episode once more reinforces the impression that the "special relationship" between the US and the UK is a Master-Blaster arrangement (for those old enough to remember Master-Blaster from the movie Mad Max 3). In this arrangement, Blaster is the powerful, muscular giant who is manipulated around by his Master, a vicious old dwarf riding on the giant's back. Once you start to pay attention to this dynamic, you’ll find more and more evidence that the drive and the ideas shaping the west's permanent wars, especially against Russia, originate from London.</p><h2>Parading the alliance</h2><p>All the diplomatic activity under the Starmer government also involved much public parading of the “special relationship” with the view of projecting the image of a powerful, rock-solid alliance that remains 100% committed to defending the international “rules-based order” and intimidating any uppity newcomer who would dare to challenge it. On 7 September we saw, for the first time ever, <strong>Sir Richard Moore,</strong> the head of Britain’s MI6, and <strong>William Burns</strong> the CIA chief, appear together and on stage!</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%2F696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.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%2F696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.png" width="1350" height="762" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/696a0750-057a-4437-89f2-d46359872bef_1350x762.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":762,"width":1350,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1320524,"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">The body language is interesting: CIA’s Burns’s body is turned away, legs crossed and arms folded, looking at Moore over his shoulder. Sir Richard’s open, facing Burns and the audience directly.</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>For anyone who missed the occasion, the talented Mr. Moore published <a href="https://x.com/ChiefMI6/status/1832414346229785075">a tweet about it</a>, linking to the video recording of the event. Two days later, the pair published <a href="https://t.co/zN2JpVFW2i">an OpEd in the Financial Times</a>, waxing eloquent about the threats to the rules based order and how to defend it. Most importantly, they expressed their iron-clad commitment to defending Ukraine for as long as it takes.</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%2F32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.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%2F32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.png" width="1319" height="1106" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/32c037fa-4469-4f5d-9c75-d2721a63f5f8_1319x1106.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1106,"width":1319,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2071940,"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>The following day, on 10 September, US State Secretary <strong>Antony Blinken</strong> came to London to <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1833469773218230486">meet with his British counterpart</a> <strong>David Lammy</strong> and the day after they both went to <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1834189981864132811">visit Kiev together</a>. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things.</p><h2>Something went wrong in Washington</h2><p>Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things. Their meeting would take place only at the point when the agreement could be signed and announced in a joint press conference: a public showing of their unity, shared objectives and determination. In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.</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%2F7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.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%2F7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.png" width="1456" height="399" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bdaac7c-26cc-4b6b-95e5-a42268e96477_3426x940.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":399,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":5363221,"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">The awkward meeting didn’t produce the ceremonial signing or the joint press conference.</figcaption></figure></div><p>It appears that the U.S. military leadership took <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>'s warning about this escalation seriously. His words are worth pondering carefully:</p><blockquote><p>“There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about authorizing or banning the Kiev regime from striking across the entire territory. They are already striking with the help of drones and other means. ... The Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern long-range precision systems of Western manufacture. It cannot do this. It can only do so using intelligence from satellites, which Ukraine does not have. This is data only from EU satellites or from the United States in general, from NATO satellites. … And so this is not about allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike. It is about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct participation. And this already, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the nature of the conflict. This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”</p></blockquote><p>According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined. This is why the US-UK agreement to escalate against Russia didn’t get the Blaster’s signature.</p><p>The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. <strong>General Michael E. Kurilla</strong>, the head of U.S. Central Command <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-centcom-chief-meets-idf-generals-presented-with-plans-for-lebanon-operation/">visited Israel</a> last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own. </p><p>The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments.</p><h2>When Hitler’s general staff mutinied in 1938</h2><p>The latest escalation, concocted with the British, would put the U.S. in severe jeopardy. The burden of coping with the resulting fallout would fall squarely on the military. At the same time, it remains unclear what, if anything, could be gained from Starmer's and Blinken's reckless adventurism. This is a textbook recipe for provoking a mutiny, and such mutinies do tend to happen at critical junctures throughout history. </p><p>For example, when, on 21 April 1938 <strong>Hitler</strong> ordered General <strong>Wilhelm Keitel</strong> to draft plans to invade Czechoslovakia, German military brass were deeply alarmed – so much so that a group of top commanders, clustered around Hitler’s Chief of the General Staff, <strong>General Ludwig Beck</strong>, hatched a three phase strategy to disrupt Hitler’s reckless pursuit: (1) they would try to dissuade Hitler from pursuing his plans; (2) they implored the British to stand firmly by Czechoslovakia and warn Hitler that Britain would oppose him; and (3) if Hitler persisted in his resolve to wage war, they would proceed to assassinate him. The date for this act was set for September 28, 1938. </p><p>Of course, General Beck and his General Staff had no idea that it was exactly the British who were maneuvering Germany to war (though not against Czechoslovakia but against the USSR), just as they are maneuvering the U.S. to war today. In fact, the most recent episode hopefully helped dispel the idea that the imperial adventures are all hatched in the U.S. and that the UK is only being dragged along reluctantly, their only fault being their unshakeable, steadfast loyalty. </p><p>Incidentally, that’s the same defence <strong>Prince Andrew</strong> used to explain his continuing friendship with the convicted sexual predator <strong>Jeffrey Epstein</strong> (the Prince’s only regret was being "too honourable"). The truth is that through channels unseen and unknown, London is often in the driver’s seat when it comes to fomenting dirty tricks and military misadventures in defence of the empire. Again, the more you pay attention to this, the more unmistakeable the relationship becomes.</p><p>Whatever the case may be, if there was indeed a mutiny at the Pentagon and a palace coup in the White House, the escalation to World War III might have been averted, and this would be the best news you'll read all day today. Meanwhile, on Thursday, 19 September European Parliament voted in favor of escalating the war, but that move might only serve to accelerate the disintegration of the European Union. The MEPs can vote whatever they like, but as Poland’s Foreign Ministery <strong>Radek Sikorski</strong> revealed to the Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus earlier this month, "there is no willingness to enter the war in Western Europe." From Europe, the moves are mostly about grandstanding and virtue-signalling.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white?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 TrendCompass! 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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/XHfwgoI3iu4" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02"></p>In this second roundtable hosted by the American University in Moscow and the Rising Tide Foundation, Matt Ehret, Dimitry Lascaris and Hall Gardner discuss the causes and solutions to the current world crisis.<br><br>The official website for Dimitry Lascaris is here:<br>https://dimitrilascaris.org/about/<br><br>Hall Gardner's website is: https://www.hallgardner.com/<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=XHfwgoI3iu4

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title: Alliance for Truth kickstarter campaign is on...
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<div data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs='{"mediaUploadId":"1ccc8f72-45d5-4fa2-b157-6a03aa6d04d5","duration":null}' data-sanitized-class="native-video-embed"></div><p>Kickstarter page is here: <strong><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646650391/alliance-for-truth-phase-one">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646650391/alliance-for-truth-phase-one</a></strong></p><p>In March last year I have introduced <strong>Admiral Davorin Domazet</strong> in my article, “Why hypersonic weapons change everything.” Admiral Domazet said that the conflict we are witnessing in the world today is the clash between Christ and Antichrist. He described it not as a world war but as a much bigger conflict, a “global total war” because it is affecting us all across the world and in nearly every aspect of life. The most powerful sword we can possibly wield to prevail in this struggle is the written and spoken word.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/alliance-for-truth-kickstarter-campaign?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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I’ve personally known Roman for about 35 years – from even before the 1990s war in the Balkans. His fearless war reporting ultimately marked him for death and he had to flee Croatia in 1996 to save his life. </p><p>Roman is also one of the very few people I know whose personal integrity is beyond reproach. Branko has devoted his life to investigative journalism and is the winner of multiple awards for his journalistic work. He’s also one of the few who had the the professional integrity and the backbone to raise his voice publicly and campaign for the release of <strong>Julian Assange</strong>. </p><p>As we all know however, uncovering and revealing the truth does not pay in today's free world. To the contrary, it has become a punishable offence. But truth is worth fighting for: it is the essential antidote to the chaos that's being fomented by our ruling establishments. </p><p>Truth is the key to humanity's emancipation and our ability to transcend the current state of oppression, censorship and endless wars. I have therefore decided myself to contribute to this project, both financially and as an author. </p><p>A truthful source of reporting from the Balkans could prove particularly important because this region has been designated as one of the flashpoints that could precipitate future European wars. Recall, the assassination of the Austrian archduke Ferdinand, which triggered the descent into the first world war, took place in Sarajevo in the heart of the balkan peninsula. </p><p>At the same time, journalism has been systematically eviscerated in most of the Balkan nations. We need to know what goes on there. If you can, and if you feel so inclined, please consider making a contribution to this initiative which launched on Kickstarter today.</p><p>Roman and Branko are looking to raise 14 thousand us dollars. It is a very modest sum needed to cover the bare essentials. The way crowdfunding algorithms work, even a contribution as small as 1 dollar can make a huge difference as it raises the project's profile and makes it more likely that it will reach its funding objectives.</p><p>This is an all or nothing fundraiser and no money will change hands unless the full sum is reached. Making a contribution (it’s the algorithms again) is particularly important during the next 8 hours. The link to the project's kickstarter page is above, below the video introduction.</p><p>For all who can contribute, I hank you in advance.</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%2Fde795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.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%2Fde795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.png" width="673" height="797" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/de795ecb-e4d6-4c97-9631-082d6d3ef7ed_673x797.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":797,"width":673,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":624090,"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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title: Histoires autochtones en pierre : les créatures surnaturelles du Parlement, 4e partie
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Des sénateurs adressent des messages aux jeunes Autochtones à l’occasion de la Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation

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title: Dr. Assal Rad on How Media Whitewash (and Enable) Israeli War Crimes
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/54dec49fc8613cf92cc2e9ff5e745865.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Dr. Assal Rad on How Media Whitewash (and Enable) Israeli War Crimes"></p>Dr. Assal Rad, Middle East Historian &amp; author, breaks down the manifold tactics media use to dehumanize Palestinians and Lebanese (among many others) and whitewash Israel when it bombs, starves and commits acts of terrorism against them.<br><br>Follow her on X: https://x.com/AssalRad<br>

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title: The Mozilla Graveyard
author: ;Corbin Davenport
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/IMG_8939.jpg" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard"><p>Some tech companies are more notable than others for shutting down products and services, with Google as perhaps the most recognizable example. Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox web browser, has also accumulated quite the collection of dead projects. I think it's about time we take a trip through the Mozilla Graveyard.</p><p>Mozilla has existed as an independent entity since 1998, when it was founded by members of Netscape to take over development of Netscape Communicator's engine code. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite">Mozilla Application Suite</a> was born shortly afterward, which eventually evolved into the standalone Firefox web browser, and the rest is history.</p><p>Mozilla has pulled off a few big successes over the past 26 years, but there were also a lot of projects that <em>didn't work out</em>. Some of them were small-scale experiments, while others were high-profile services and platforms with a lot of time and money involved. A few were being built as possible revenue streams for Mozilla, which could have helped the company rely less <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-firefox-search-engine-browser">on Google</a> (and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-deal-with-yahoo-and-makes-google-the-default-in-firefox-again/">previously Yahoo</a>) to cover the operating costs for Firefox. That's something Mozilla still hasn't quite figured out, though I really wish it would, because I like Firefox.</p><p>Some quick notes before we get started. This is not an exhaustive list—I stopped at 20 projects—and some of them were referenced as experiments that were not intended to be long-term efforts. There are also a few projects that died under Mozilla but found new life elsewhere, and I'm still going to count them as Mozilla Graveyard entries. Don't "well akshually" me.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="persona-2011-2014">Persona (2011-2014)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128201115/http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7616727542/introducing-browserid-a-better-way-to-sign-in">introduced BrowserID</a> as a unified sign-in experience for third-party websites, intended as an alternative to the login buttons for Google, Twitter, and Facebook that were common across the web. Mozilla <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2012/01/13/mozilla-to-offer-new-user-centric-services-in-2012/">planned</a> for it to be a core component of Firefox OS and the Firefox OS app store, and it was eventually rebranded as Persona. It was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/08/mozilla-stops-developing-its-persona-sign-in-system-because-of-low-adoption/">discontinued</a> in March 2014 due to low usage.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-marketplace-2012-2018">Firefox Marketplace (2012-2018)</h3><p>Mozilla created the <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace">Firefox Marketplace</a> in 2012 as an "app store" for installable web apps that worked across Firefox for Android, the desktop Firefox web browser, and phones running Firefox OS. It was similar to the original Chrome Web Store, back when it included installable web apps in addition to browser extensions.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/Firefox-Marketplace.png" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="500" height="505" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: Mozilla</span></figcaption></figure><p>After work on Firefox OS ended in 2015, there wasn't much of a point in it sticking around. Mozilla promised it would remain functional until at least January 2018, and it was eventually shut down in March of that year.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="thimble-2012-2019">Thimble (2012-2019)</h3><p>Thimble was an online code editor for teaching HTML, CSS, and JavaScript basics, initially <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/18/mozilla-launches-thimble-a-web-based-code-editor-for-teaching-html-and-css/">released</a> in 2012. Mozilla <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/mozilla-relaunches-its-thimble-online-code-editor-for-teaching-html-css-and-javascript/">reworked it</a> in 2015, based on Adobe's open-source Brackets project. It was <a href="https://medium.com/read-write-participate/a-note-about-thimble-b8ba0a51b8fd">shut down</a> in 2019, though Mozilla allowed Thimble projects to be migrated to Glitch, and the <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/thimble.mozilla.org">source code</a> is still available.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="shumway-2012-2016">Shumway (2012-2016)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://research.mozilla.org/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/">created Shumway</a> in 2012 as an open-source replacement for Adobe Flash Player. The goal was to allow Flash-based media and interactive content—which still dominated the web at the time—to be functional without the slow, proprietary, and bug-ridden Adobe Flash Player. It was eventually integrated into Firefox Nightly, but it was seemingly never enabled in the stable builds of Firefox.</p><p>Development on Shumway <a href="https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/23/flash-replacement-shumway-is-as-good-as-dead/">ended</a> in 2016, as more web pages were phasing out the use of Flash content in favor of HTML5, making Shumway and other similar projects only useful for archived web content. The <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/shumway">source code</a> is still on GitHub.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-metro-2012-2014">Firefox Metro (2012-2014)</h3><p>Firefox Metro was a web browser redesigned for Windows 8 and its 'Metro' application framework, first released as <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/04/firefox-metro-preview-launch/">a preview</a> in 2012. It could synchronize with the regular desktop Firefox application, and supported the charm bar, touch gestures, and data sharing built into Windows 8.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/metro-screenshot-big.png" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="1366" height="768" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/mozilla-cancels-firefox-for-metro-cites-fewer-than-1000-daily-active-users/" rel="noreferrer"><span>Mozilla / TechCrunch</span></a></figcaption></figure><p>Mozilla <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/14/mozilla-cancels-firefox-for-metro-cites-fewer-than-1000-daily-active-users/">gave up</a> on the Metro app in 2014, as the preview version never passed 1,000 daily active users. Windows 8's Metro design and connected app ecosystem were <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/five-reasons-why-windows-8-has-failed/">generally not well received</a>, and Microsoft ended up backtracking much of it with the arrival of Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, so the failure of Firefox's Metro port was hardly an anomaly. </p><h3 data-sanitized-id="mozillas-servo-2012-2020">Mozilla's Servo (2012-2020)</h3><p><a href="https://servo.org/">Servo</a> is an experimental browser engine, written in the Rust programming language for fast performance and safety. It started as a research project at Mozilla in 2012, and elements of it were integrated into Firefox's Gecko engine, starting with the release of <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-firefox-quantum/" rel="noreferrer">Firefox 57 "Quantum"</a> in 2017. The Servo-based code <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/firefox-quantum-developer-edition-fastest-firefox-ever/">made Firefox twice as fast</a> in web performance benchmarks, and generally helped the browser catch up with Chrome in general performance and usability.</p><p>Mozilla laid off 250 employees in August 2020, which included "many of the Servo folks," according to <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143819">a statement</a> by the Rust core team. The Servo project was <a href="https://servo.org/blog/2020/11/17/servo-home/">transferred</a> to the Linux Foundation later that year, and in 2023, <a href="https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/">new external funding</a> allowed development to kick off again. It's still under active development and has a promising future, but its existence as a Mozilla project ended in 2020.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-os-2013-2015">Firefox OS (2013-2015)</h3><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS">Firefox OS</a> was an open-source mobile operating system, originally intended for use on low-end smartphones. It was moderately successful, and had <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-os-expands-to-nearly-30-countries/">expanded</a> to 14 phones in 28 countries by the end of 2014. Unfortunately, later versions of Google Android with optimizations for low-end hardware sealed its fate.</p><p>I have some fond memories of Firefox OS. I bought a ZTE Open in the bright orange color, pictured above, and I published a few apps on the Firefox Marketplace, including the task planner app <a href="https://github.com/corbindavenport/planr" rel="noreferrer">Planr</a>. I also had Android, Firefox OS, and Ubuntu Touch triple-booting at one point on my Nexus 5.</p><p></p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/OpenII_FireE_SpiceFireOne-Large.jpeg" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="1276" height="1126" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: </span><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-os-expands-to-nearly-30-countries/" rel="noreferrer"><span>Mozilla</span></a></figcaption></figure><p>Development <a href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/418693/mozilla-nixes-firefox-os-bowing-out-of-mobile-race.html">ended in 2015</a>, and it was later forked to create <a href="https://www.kaiostech.com/" rel="noreferrer">KaiOS</a>, which is currently used on many feature phones from Nokia, HMD, Alcatel, Reliance, and other manufacturers.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-launcher-2014">Firefox Launcher (2014)</h3><p>The <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/firefox-launcher/">Firefox Launcher</a> was announced as a home screen launcher for Android phones, developed in collaboration with Israeli contextual computing startup <a href="https://github.com/EverythingMe">EverythingMe</a>. Mozilla and EverythingMe were already working on contextual features for Firefox OS, and the Android launcher had some of the same functionality.</p><p>It was supposed to recommend different apps on the home screen depending on your usage and location, and there were plans for sponsored app placements. Facebook was trying a similar project at the time, called <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/facebook-home-redesign/" rel="noreferrer">Facebook Home</a>.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/screenshot_2014-02-05-14-30-45.png" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="360" height="640" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/05/firefox-launcher/" rel="noreferrer"><span>TechCrunch</span></a></figcaption></figure><p>As far as I can tell, Firefox Launcher was never publicly released. It was similar to EverythingMe's own launcher app, which was real, but then <a href="https://tech.eu/2015/10/25/israeli-startup-everythingme-shuts-down/">shut down</a> in 2015 as the company ran out of money.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="mozilla-webthings-2017-2020">Mozilla WebThings (2017-2020)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/building-the-web-of-things/">announced</a> a software and hardware framework for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in 2017, called Project Things, which included a standardized data model and API for device communication over the web. Mozilla hoped it would be a "unifying horizontal application layer to bridge together multiple underlying IoT protocols," and it was being developed in collaboration with the W3C, IETF, and other industry groups.</p><p>Mozilla continued working on the project, and <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/announcing-project-things-open-framework-connecting-devices-web/">released a version of the Things Gateway software</a> in 2018 for the Raspberry Pi and other similar devices. It eventually evolved into Mozilla WebThings, and in 2020 it was <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthings/">spun off</a> as an independent open source project. Mozilla shut down its remote gateway services at the end of 2020, but <a href="https://webthings.io/">WebThings</a> still exists with relatively active development.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-for-echo-show-2018-2021">Firefox for Echo Show (2018-2021)</h3><p>Mozilla created <a href="https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-echo-show">a version of Firefox</a> for Amazon's Echo Show smart displays, primarily for watching YouTube videos, but also usable for general web browsing. It was <a href="https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-echo-show/releases/tag/v1.0">released</a> in August 2018, and <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices">discontinued</a> in April 2021.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-lite-2017-2021">Firefox Lite (2017-2021)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/09/mozilla-testing-another-new-browser-called-firefox-rocket-specifically-indonesia/">released Firefox Rocket</a> in 2017 as a lightweight Android web browser. The initial release had a smaller download size than the full-featured Firefox app, a 'turbo mode' for blocking ads and trackers to save mobile data, and the option to use an SD card for cache and downloads. The best part was the modified Firefox icon in the GitHub repository, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)">Doge</a> holding a rocket. Sadly, that didn't end up as the official icon.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/img_59dba1d3db109.png" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="435" height="435" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: Mozilla</span></figcaption></figure><p>It was later rebranded to Firefox Lite, and then was <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/05/mozilla-retires-its-firefox-lite-browser-probably-because-it-wasnt-actually-all-that-lite/">discontinued in 2021</a>, following performance improvements rolling out to the regular Firefox browser. It's pretty funny that Mozilla <a href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/02/25/firefox-lite-now-has-a-useless-travel-planning-feature/">added a travel planning feature</a> to Firefox Lite in February 2020—just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic to shut down international travel for months.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-for-fire-tv-2017-2021">Firefox for Fire TV (2017-2021)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-is-now-on-amazon-fire-tv-happy-holiday-watching/">released</a> Firefox for Amazon's Fire TV and Fire TV Stick in 2017, developed in collaboration with Amazon. It was primarily made for watching YouTube videos and other web media content that didn't have dedicated Fire TV applications.</p><p>When Amazon and Google <a href="https://www.androidcentral.com/youtube-app-finally-back-fire-tv-devices">ended a long-running dispute</a> in 2019, and the official YouTube app returned to Fire TV, the Firefox browser didn't have much of a reason to stick around. It was <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices">discontinued</a> in April 2021.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-advance-2018-2019">Firefox Advance (2018-2019)</h3><p><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2018/08/firefox-offers-recommendations-with-latest-test-pilot-experiment-advance/">Advance</a> was a Firefox extension that analyzed the user's web history and provided suggestions about what to read next. Mozilla explained in a blog post, "For example, you’re just browsing the internet, and come across a page with a list of the hottest restaurants. Advance starts to recommend similar content around the most popular restaurants so that you can start comparing without having to do all the research on your own." The Advance browser extension was <a href="https://venturebeat.com/business/mozilla-kills-its-experimental-firefox-test-pilot-program-3-years-after-launch/">shut down in 2019</a>, along with all other Firefox Test Pilot experiments.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="mozilla-hubs-2018-2024">Mozilla Hubs (2018-2024)</h3><p>Hubs was first shown off as <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/26/mozilla-hubs-is-a-super-simple-social-chat-room-for-robots/">a preview in April 2018</a>, as a basic web social platform where people could meet and talk in virtual 3D spaces on mobile, desktop, and virtual reality. Mozilla continued adding features like more environments and avatars, and in 2022 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/for-20-a-month-you-can-host-meetings-in-mozillas-mini-metaverse/">a subscription tier was introduced</a> for virtual classrooms, events, meetings, and other similar use cases. Mozilla even <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/01/mozilla-acquires-active-replica-to-build-on-its-metaverse-vision/" rel="noreferrer">acquired</a> Vancouver-based startup Active Replica in 2022 to help work on Hubs.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe width="200" height="113" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uXBDogyGXTQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Hello WebXR" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></figure><p>Mozilla <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/">said in 2024</a> that "demand has moved away from 3D virtual worlds," and work on it ended after a round of layoffs at Mozilla. The project was <a href="https://hubsfoundation.org/">transferred to the Hubs Foundation</a>, where development remains active.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-reality-2018-2024">Firefox Reality (2018-2024)</h3><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/mozillas-firefox-reality-web-browser-is-now-available/">Firefox Reality</a> was a modified version of Firefox designed to run on VR headsets, available on Viveport, Oculus, Pico, and HoloLens platforms. It could function as a regular 2D web browser application in virtual environments, but could also display 3D web content and VR web apps. Firefox Reality was <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/update-on-firefox-reality/">discontinued and removed from app stores</a> in 2022, with Mozilla pointing users to <a href="https://wolvic.com/en/">Igalia's Wolvic browser</a> as a direct successor (which used some Firefox Reality code).</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-notes-2017-2020">Firefox Notes (2017-2020)</h3><p>Notes was a Firefox extension, <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/notes/releases/tag/1.0">initially released in 2017</a>, that allowed users to save notes that would sync with encryption across all their devices. It was <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-firefoxs-first-mobile-test-pilot-experiments-lockbox-and-notes/">rolled out to the mobile Firefox browser</a> in 2018.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/09/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f6b4f75493275472e706e67.png" alt="The Mozilla Graveyard" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1234" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: Mozilla</span></figcaption></figure><p>Mozilla <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/mozilla-shutters-firefox-send-and-notes/">shut down</a> the Notes service in 2020, saying it was meant as an experiment for synchronizing encrypted data. The source code is <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/notes">still available on GitHub</a>.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-send-2019-2020">Firefox Send (2019-2020)</h3><p><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/" rel="noreferrer">Send</a> was a web service that allowed users to upload files with encryption, and share them as links for other people to download. Mozilla shut it down in mid-2020, as it was increasingly used to distribute malware, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/17/mozilla-shutters-firefox-send-and-notes/">decided in September 2020</a> not to bring it back.</p><p>Mozilla's Thunderbird team <a href="https://tilvids.com/w/adMtYkCjFQkzBYDoqgAe2R">announced in August 2023</a> that it was working on reviving the project, and it was <a href="https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-report-2023-2024/" rel="noreferrer">mentioned again</a> in Thunderbird's 2023-2204 annual report, but nothing has been released as of September 2024. The <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/send">source code for Firefox Send</a> is still available, and it's accessible through <a href="https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/">various independent instances</a>.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-private-network-2019-2023">Firefox Private Network (2019-2023)</h3><p>Firefox Private Network was a VPN built into the Firefox browser. Following <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-new-ways-to-keep-you-safe-online/">tests with ProtonVPN</a> and other third-party recommended services, Firefox's own VPN started as a <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefoxs-test-pilot-program-returns-with-firefox-private-network-beta/">beta test for US users</a> in 2019, and it was <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/06/09/next-steps-in-testing-our-firefox-private-network-browser-extension-beta/">reworked</a> as a $2.99/month subscription service in 2020. Firefox Private Network was <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-private-network-no-longer-available?utm_source=inproduct&amp;utm_medium=support">shut down in June 2023</a> and replaced by <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/">Mozilla VPN</a>, which is mostly a rebranded version of Mullvad VPN.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="firefox-ad-free-internet-2019-2020">Firefox Ad-free Internet (2019-2020)</h3><p>Scroll, the subscription service that removed ads from many sites (while still paying the sites) for one monthly subscription, partnered with Mozilla to create a Firefox-branded version of the service. The service was <a href="https://liliputing.com/mozilla-teases-firefox-ad-free-internet-for-5-per-month/">announced in 2019</a> as Firefox Ad-free Internet, a $4.99/month subscription. The website explained, "We share your payment directly with the sites you read. They make more money which means they can bring you great content without needing to distract you with ads just to keep the lights on."</p><p>Mozilla <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200308114441/https://firstlook.firefox.com/proxy/v4/">ended the experiment</a> by March 2020, and Scroll itself was purchased by Twitter in 2021. The independent Scroll service <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711233/scroll-shutting-down-twitter-blue-standalone-subscription-ad-free-article-service">shut down</a> later that year, and lived on for a while longer as the "Ad-Free Articles" feature in Twitter Blue subscriptions.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="mozillasocial-2023-2024">Mozilla.social (2023-2024)</h3><p>Mozilla <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/" rel="noreferrer">announced</a> its own Mastodon server in December 2022, aiming to "apply the lessons of the past to build a social experience for humanity that is healthy, sustainable, and sheltered from the centralized control of any one entity." Private beta testing started in May 2023, and it doesn't seem like it was ever fully open to the public, according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240829120957/https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq" rel="noreferrer">an archived version of the support page</a>.</p><p>Mozilla's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/">layoffs in early 2024</a> included the Mozilla.social team, and the shutdown was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozilla-exits-the-fediverse-and-will-shutter-its-mastodon-server-in-december/">confirmed in September 2024</a>. The archived site is expected to remain functional until December 2024.</p><p></p>

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<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%2F4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.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%2F4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.png" width="1456" height="556" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4d44e960-fc9e-46c2-be30-ef43cd66d2dc_1511x577.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":556,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":925296,"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>During the night of 2nd October 2024, Iran unleashed their operation "True Promise 2," launching between 200 and 400 ballistic missiles into Israel. As the video footage coming from Israel has shown, many of these missiles reached their targets inflicting substantial damage on the ground. Apparently, some offshore gas platforms were also struck. Claims and counterclaims are a bit all over the place at the moment: Israelis have claimed that the Iranian attack failed and that most of the missiles were intercepted. Netanyahu's aide <strong>Hananya Naftali</strong> even <a href="https://twitter.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1841202859481649297">tweeted a "BRAVO"</a> to Israel's aerial defence systems for intercepting "nearly all the missiles." </p><p>But the footage from last night gives a very different impression; it corroborates those who claimed that many missiles hit their targets. A few of the videos also confirm that the Iranians do indeed possess hypersonic missiles. We also know now that these have a long range and seem accurate enough. This lesson alone could be a game changer.</p><h2>Why hypersonic missiles are a game changer</h2><p>Hypersonic missiles can't be intercepted. The most advanced Western air defence systems can shoot down incoming projectiles flying at up to mach 3. So far as the Patriot Missiles are concerned, their success rate is very poor even at that. Nothing in Western powers' arsenal can defend against hypersonic missiles and this certainly got the Pentagon's attention. The implication is that all US Navy assets and military bases in the Middle East are defenceless, and that Iran has the capability to strike them. </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%2Fba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.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%2Fba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.png" width="1456" height="807" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba9422b6-cb06-43fa-8838-a5eb6c29a790_1576x873.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":807,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":3064292,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>During yesterday's attack, two U.S. destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean <a href="https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1841285332706394371">launched twelve SM-3 ballistic missile interceptor rockets</a>, their most advanced air defence system. The problem is that the <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-u-s-navys-missile-production-problem-looks-dire/">current production rate</a> of SM-3s is down to zero! Thus, even if SM-3s are effective, Western air defence systems are not for the long haul and will deplete rapidly in case of further escalation. </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%2F78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.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%2F78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.png" width="1080" height="1512" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78f4ec7a-e76e-43f7-a791-884ffa196692_1080x1512.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1512,"width":1080,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1230791,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" 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>At the same time, Iran has many thousands of missiles ready. <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/iran/">Here's what CSIS says</a> about Irans' arsenal: </p><blockquote><p>"Iran possesses the largest and most diverse missile arsenal in the Middle East, with thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles, some capable of striking as far as Israel and southeast Europe. For the past decade, Iran has invested significantly to improve these weapons' precision and lethality. Such developments have made Iran's missile forces... a credible threat to U.S. and partner military forces in the region.”</p></blockquote><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.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%2F0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.png" width="1456" height="996" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ed055c7-b394-4bd2-8c6f-22b8c31d306e_1496x1023.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":996,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1511544,"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><h2>Hezbollah can shoot 3,000 missiles a day?</h2><p>Then there's Hezbollah. According to a 130-page report titled, "The Most Deadly War of All," compiled by a group of six Israeli think-tanks and based on three years of research and the opinions of over 100 Israeli defence experts and IDF commanders, war on Hezbollah would be, as the report's title suggests, the most deadly war of all for Israel. According to the report, Hezbollah would be capable of launching 2,500 to 3,000 missiles per day, a combination of long-range precision guided and unguided rockets. </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>The barrages would be launched toward specific targets in Israel with the potential of destroying the Iron Dome air-defence capability. IDF's reserves of Iron Dome and David's Sling interceptor missiles would likely be depleted within a few days from the start of a full-scale war with Hezbollah, leaving Israel exposed to thousands of missiles and drones launched by Hezbollah. This all could result in thousands of casualties and widespread panic among the settlement populations (already an estimated 200,000 settlers have abandoned their settlements  in the north of Israel since the start of hostilities).</p><p>Not to mention, both Iran and Hezbollah have been preparing for this outbreak for over two decades now, and the Iranians now promised a much more painful strike if Israel decides to escalate further. Western powers won't be able to stem the tsunami that Netanyahu is working to unleash, any more than the Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea has been able to restrain the Ansarallah in Yemen.  But therein lies the good news, I think. </p><h2>The good news, inshallah!</h2><p>Certain political factions in Israel and in the West have been working overtime to provoke a major war and draw in both Iran and the United States. Some of the pro-Israel voices are utterly rapturous about the prospect; the things they say sound utterly deranged and surreal. It’s as though they convinced themselves that Israel is somehow endowed with superpowers and that it can instantly turn anyone they wish into a smoldering heap of ashes. They also seem to think that by killing <strong>Hassan Nasrallah</strong>, Israel eliminated Hezbollah. They ignore the fact that Hezbollah is a very extensive military and political <strong>organization</strong>. If the Israelis bombed the Vatican tomorrow and killed the pope, that wouldn't be the end of Catholic Church.</p><p>Indeed, very childish and dangerous delusions gripped the most fanatical cohort of Israel supporters and saner heads must by now be aware of the extremely reckless adventure they’re dragging us all into. If a wider war erupts, all of US, UK and NATO assets in the Middle East are sitting ducks and will be destroyed or expelled from the region. </p><p>Furthermore, an interruption of crude oil traffic from the Persian Gulf would inflict a devastating blow to G7 economies at a time when they least need it. In addition, all of this could be hitting the proverbial fan just ahead of the elections, and they haven't even managed to assassinate <strong>Trump </strong>yet! It is all reckless in the extreme; the odds of victory (which is yet to be defined) are slim to none, while a cataclysmic failure is nearly certain. </p><p>I may be succumbing to wishful thinking myself, but I believe that we will shortly see leaders in the West pull hard on the handbrake and effect the quickest 180 degree turn yet! In the end, perhaps they will arrive at the calculation that sacrificing <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> and allowing Israel a break so they can sober up and reassess their predicament is a much better deal than following the unhinged fanatics and committing a collective suicide. We'll know soon enough. Who knows, maybe we can avoid World War 3. </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/iran-missile-attack-what-we-learned?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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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/CUZr3JONq_o" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02"></p>In this third Roundtable co-sponsored by The American University in Moscow and Rising Tide Foundation, experts Alistair Scott, Martin Sieff and Anton Chaitkin deliver their analysis on the geopolitical landscape and the historic and philosophical undercurrents shaping today's crisis.<br><br>Martin Sieff's work can be accessed at: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002T3QW26<br><br>Anton Chaitkin's work can be accessed at: <br>https://www.amazon.com/stores/Anton-Chaitkin/author/B005VGWXXA?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&amp;qid=1728269374&amp;sr=1-2&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true<br><br>Alistair Scott's work: https://pravda-en.com/world/2024/08/28/710925.html<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=CUZr3JONq_o

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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span>A memorial of the October 7, 1944 revolt at the ruins of Birkenau’s Crematorium 4 Source:</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Revolt_in_Auschwitz#/media/File:Four4ruine.jpg" rel>Wikipedia</a></figcaption></figure></div>
<p>For more than a year, the Jewish prisoners of Birkenau, the largest extermination camp in the Auschwitz industrial murder complex, meticulously prepared for an uprising against their Nazi oppressors.</p>
<p>Their revolt, the only to ever take place at Auschwitz, would become a footnote in the vast history of World War 2 and the Nazi genocide in Europe, but today it holds an uncanny historical parallel.</p>
<p><span>They gathered materials, improvised weapons, and smuggled and stored explosives. Against all odds, they</span> <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau" rel>planned</a> <span>to cut the death camp’s power supply, cutting communications among the SS officers and disabling the electric fence, and then to break through it and lead an escape.</span></p>
<p><span>The attack would be initiated by 200 men of the</span> <em>Sonderkommando</em> <span>“special work unit", Jewish slaves who were forced by Nazis to escort other Jews arriving on trains, undress them, walk them to the gas chambers, and after their murders, shave hair from their corpses, remove gold teeth and crematoria, burn their bodies in crematoria, grind their bones to dust, and then scatter the ashes to cover up the crime. The Sonderkommando</span> <span>were forced to partake in the extermination of their own people, strangers and loved ones alike.</span></p>
<p>“I have wanted to live through it to take a revenge for the death of my father, my mother, my beloved sister Nella,” a Greek Jew working at Birkenau’s Crematorium II wrote in a letter discovered decades later.</p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"><span>Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944. Source:</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Revolt_in_Auschwitz#/media/File:Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg" rel>Wikipedia</a></figcaption></figure></div>
<p>Four women had smuggled small amounts of gunpowder from the explosives factory they worked in and delivered it to the Sonderkommando, which they planned to use to destroy the crematoria. </p>
<p>The revolt had been delayed by months, but as the gassing at Birkenau came to an end, the Sonderkommando understood that they were slated to be murdered.</p>
<p>On October 7, 1944, the moment arrived. </p>
<p>The camp’s SS ordered the senior Sonderkommando men at Crematorium IV to prepare lists for “evacuation” to another camp, which they suspected meant they would be killed.</p>
<p>One hour before the planned 2 p.m. attack, the SS Staff Sergeant began to announce roll call for the prisoners who would be “transported.” As the Sonderkommando ignored his orders and threats, a Jew named Chaim Neuhof stepped forward. As the SS man reached for his gun, Neuhof shouted the word “Hurrah” and struck the Nazi’s head with a hammer, collapsing him to the ground. The other prisoners began to attack SS troopers with stones, knives, iron poles, axes, picks and crowbars, wounding several more.</p>
<p>Amid the uprising, several Sonderkommando men rushed into Crematorium IV’s barracks and set the mattresses on fire. The smuggled explosives they had stashed in the walls ignited, burning the building down.</p>
<p>Some prisoners cut through the death camp’s fence and escaped into the surrounding forest after having killed three SS men and wounding several more.</p>
<p>The prisoners of Crematorium II saw the dark smoke from the flames of Crematorium IV billowing into the sky and launched their own attack. They threw Nazis into the ovens and killed two SS men, then they cut through the fence to the women’s camp. They all escaped, making their way to the Polish village of Rajsko, where they hid in a granary.</p>
<p>It didn’t take long for the SS to locate the escaped prisoners. The Nazis set fire to the granary, killing everyone inside. Those who escaped from Crematorium IV into the nearby forest fought until they were overcome. Some 250 Jews, including the Sonderkommando resistance leadership, were killed in the uprising.</p>
<p>An SS investigation discovered the names of the four women who had smuggled the explosives: Regina Safirsztajn, Estera Wajcblum, Ala Gertner, and Róża Robota. The women were tortured for weeks and hanged in front of Birkenau’s prisoners. As the Nazis placed a noose around Robota’s neck, she erupted with a final cry of defiance: “Sisters, revenge!” </p>
<p>Exactly 79 years later, the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, often referred to as an open-air concentration camp, carried out their own uprising against their oppressors.</p>
<p>Like Birkenau’s Jewish prisoners, the Palestinian resistance carefully planned the uprising, though over a period of at least 10 years. They too used basic weaponry, which they had developed through their own ingenuity.</p>
<p>Like their 1944 Jewish homologues, the Palestinians also tore through the enclosures of their concentration camp. Even the Israeli occupation’s layered system of hi-tech fences, sensors, and barriers could not contain the Palestinian resistance. With basic Ak-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, they attacked and laid siege to military bases and settlements with the goal of bringing as many captives back into Gaza as possible, to be used to win the release of their imprisoned comrades (and civilians) and extract concessions from Israel. </p>
<p><span>Israel, shocked by the Palestinians’ bold and well-planned assault, enacted the</span> <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216" rel>Hannibal Directive</a><span>, launching a frenzy of machine gun, helicopter, and tank attacks on its own settlements and vehicles heading to Gaza, killing untold hundreds of both Israeli captives and Palestinian militants.</span></p>
<p><span>At the same time, it began a military campaign of mass destruction and genocide against the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants – whom defense minister Yoav Gallant</span> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/" rel>called</a> <span>“human animals.” </span></p>
<p>Unlike the Nazi Holocaust, the Zionist genocide of Gaza has been documented and witnessed in real time by all of humanity via social media and smartphones. There remains no doubt across the world about the scale of the mass-murder and destruction that Israel has carried out.</p>
<p>With full backing from the Biden administration and consensus across the Israeli political spectrum, the Netanyahu government has expanded its war into Lebanon, where it has applied its strategy of complete annihilation and the targeting of civilians to both Beirut and the country’s south.</p>
<p>Yet unlike the Jewish uprising of October 7, 1944, which ultimately failed, the Palestinian attack of October 7, 2023 appears to have triggered an existential crisis in Israel, from which it cannot escape. The collapse of the State of Israel and its Zionist national ideology no longer appears to be a question of “if”, but a matter of “when.”</p>
<p>While some may shudder at the bloody images of the Hamas attack, there can be no doubt that, after 75 years of colonization, 56 years of occupation, 16 years of siege, and no diplomatic or political track to advance their cause, the Palestinians of Gaza were left with no choice but armed struggle. They, like the Jews of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, chose to fight for their lives and liberty, rather than to accept the fate that their oppressors had planned for them.</p>
<p>In due time, October 7, 2023 will come to be understood as the beginning of the Palestinian revolution and will be widely celebrated alongside the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Algerian, Cuban, and Haitian Revolutions, among others, as a morally justified liberation struggle against an oppressor.</p>
<p>The only question is how many more will die in that process.</p>

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title: Towards a World of Sovereign Republics: The Clash of Two Futures
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<p>Our current society has the choice of either collapsing into a long dark age, or renewing the great birth of mankind which expressed itself brilliantly with the establishment of its first Constitutional Republic via the American Revolution of 1776. As those foolish decisions shaping history would have it, the world of sovereign republics free of colonialism would not be carried into reality with the birth of America.</p><p>All developments leading up to the present crises have been shaped directly by the intrinsic tension between two inclinations. On the one side, we find the spirit of discovery and faith in the perfectibility of the universe and man embodied in the best traditions of the United States of America, while on the other do we find an inclination towards stasis and the pessimistic attitude that not only is the universe a cold, evil place, but so too is the humanity found within it. While history has been a struggle between representatives of these two outlooks, with the advent of thermonuclear capabilities, and the actual possibility of self extermination, no longer is mankind afforded the liberty to tolerate their co-existence. One must prevail.</p><p>Canada must locate its true character within this historical dynamic if it is to overcome the greatest obstacle to its evolution. This obstacle is to be found within the un-principled British imperial system which formed its historical and present behaviour.</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>It is the design of the present report to shed light several key fallacies embedded within the foundations of Canada’s paradoxical system in order to ensure that she does not remain a tool of those interests intent on subverting the best traditions of humanity during this time of economic crisis and war. Rather, the author intends that these existential crises provide an opportunity of honest self examination such that this great northern territory take up its vital role as a servant to the interests of humankind as a true sovereign nation.</p><p>To re-emphasize; this system has proven to be one of the greatest sources of confusion and evil in our nation’s history and if we are to overcome its intended limitations, we must take a moment and evaluate what underlies it.</p><h2><strong>What is a Sovereign Nation?</strong></h2><p>The very toleration of something as self contradictory as a Party System as a pillar of a nation state, could only occur to the extent that a fallacious idea of sovereignty were maintained. Contrary to popular belief, nations are not the effect of some “social contract” agreed upon to check the innate selfishness of mankind. Nor can it be assumed that empires are simply the natural outgrowth of nations, within a Hobbesian world of each against all.</p><p>Since modern international law and the sacred right to national sovereignty now being threatened by the Blair doctrine of R2P and the `World Government“, is rooted in the <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/12/24/15303/">1648 Treaty signed in Westphalia</a>, it would do well to look to that founding document to see first hand upon what basis a nation is to be considered sovereign. In this way, we may re-evaluate to what degree sovereignty has been destroyed under the monetarist system of Globalization… especially in those nations popularly perceived to be the most free and democratic of the world.</p><blockquote><p><em>`That there shall be a Christian and Universal Peace, and a perpetual, true and sincere Amity, between his Sacred Imperial Majesty and his most Christian Majesty as also between all and each of the Allies…That this Peace and Amity shall be observed and cultivated with such a Sincerity and Zeal, that each Party shall endeavour to procure the Benefit, Honour and Advantage of the other; that thus on all sides they may see this Peace and Friendship in the Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of France flourish by entertaining a good and faithful neighbourhood</em></p></blockquote><p>The preamble goes on to outline the need for mutual forgiveness of transgressions, and mutual cooperation of all parties. What is remarkable is that for the first time in history, was a legal framework crafted that not only put an end to war, but established the necessary ingredients foe a durable peace… not as a negation of war, or a list of `do nots`, but rather as a positive principle` of creative change.</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%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.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%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.jpeg" width="387" height="381" data-attrs='{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a082db4c-310e-4d1f-9cff-255f3564d5ed_387x381.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":381,"width":387,"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>One is also struck by the spirit of Grace, Forgiveness and Charity which shine forth in these words, especially the mandate of <em>`the benefit of the other`.</em> This spirit did not embody the vast majority of signers of the Treaty, but rather only a small minority of individuals working directly with its leading architect, Cardinal Mazarin of France. Yet, even so, the principled character of the individual personality, not some mob, was necessary to forge its success, and as an effect has had a durable effect upon the cultivation of personalities born and raised under the new framework shaped by Mazarin and his law. A handful of such personalities would go on to found the United States of America as a direct outgrowth of this revolution in statecraft.</p><p>What we find is that Sovereign nations have a<em> character</em> analogous to the character of what we would classify as the virtuous individual. Just as some individuals are weaker and stronger, some are foolish, and others wise, some are trapped by selfish impulses they themselves don’t fully understand and others by principled motives, so too do we discover nations are similarly defined. As the character of a human is also known as his or her <em>constitution</em>, so too are statesmen obliged not to act as careerists or pragmatists for present concerns as is too often the case today, but rather to ensure the foundation, defence and cultivation of good constitutions which will form the character of its people, in order for its people to reciprocally reinforce and develop their nation’s constitution.</p><p>This fact has been a matter of intense reflection by the most powerful minds and strategists for good and evil throughout history, so it would be wise for any reader to take such considerations as seriously as the founding fathers did when they chose to risk their lives for those universal ideals expressed in the words written on the founding documents of the U.S. republic. It must also be considered when evaluating the unprincipled founding documents of Canada, a nation which, though many believe to be a beacon of democracy and freedom in the world, is actually one of the most tightly controlled colonies of an unseen empire. This British empire advocates nothing less than the reduction of humanity both in quantity and quality as proposed by the likes of Prince Philip<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftn1">[1]</a>. This has been the legacy of the British Empire System of Empire, of which Canada is still an unacknowledged part, as juxtaposed against the empire’s mortal adversary, the American system of political economy embedded in the United States Constitution.</p><p><strong>We will continue this discussion in a few days with a comparative investigation of the Canadian vs American constitutions.</strong></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><h3>Footnote</h3><p><a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/Users/mattehret/Documents/CANADA/My%20Reports/Articles%20for%20Patriot%204/20120911-%20Towards%20a%20world%20of%20Republics.doc#_ftnref1">[1]</a> “Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed–not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.”<br>-Prince Philip, founder of the World Wildlife Fund</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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guid: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/have-they-weaponized-hurricanes
title: Have they weaponized hurricanes?
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>After hurricane Helene wreaked havoc through Southeast of the United States, <a href="https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2024/hurricane-milton">hurricane Milton</a> is about to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf coast, also with catastrophic potential. US Government’s inability or unwillingness to adequately respond to the resulting disasters has unleashed heated discussions on social media, including the speculation that they are somehow deliberately engineering these storms. </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%2F269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.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%2F269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/269de785-9957-4698-a04c-fca1b90db8b5_2880x1620.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":9501970,"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>The conspiracy theories can’t be dismissed; our government agencies as well as certain oligarchs like <strong>Bill Gates</strong> have been busy playing God with climate-engineering technologies like cloud-seeding, HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), AAI (atmospheric aerosol injections), carbon sequestration, sun dimming, and who knows what else. These technologies exist, and they can and do <em>influence</em> the weather. Here’s the former CIA director <strong>John Brennan</strong> talking about AAI in 2016: </p><div data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs='{"mediaUploadId":"6670d02c-759e-4821-817a-217d5f7f96c8","duration":null}' data-sanitized-class="native-video-embed"></div><p>Clearly, they’re busy messing with the climate. At the same time however, I very much doubt that they are capable of controlling anything much. In fact, tropical storms and hurricanes vividly expose the limitations of science and technology at understanding and forecasting the behavior of complex systems. Hurricane forecasts have greatly improved over the last few decades and the 24 and 48 hour forecasts of their <em>trajectories</em> tend to be fairly good. <em>Good</em> however isn’t the same as <em>accurate. </em>But our ability to predict a hurricane’s <em>intensity</em> isn’t even good. If we can’t predict something, how would we even begin to control it?</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>How hurricanes form</h2><p>Scientists’ ability to predict a hurricane’s trajectory has improved thanks to our greatly enhanced understanding of how hurricanes form and why they move the way they do. Here’s a condensed account of what we <em>do</em> know about hurricanes. They likely originate from the low and mid-level atmospheric winds blowing from the east across the Ethiopian highlands. As they blow over these high mountains, they form vortices that drift westward. When they reach the Atlantic Ocean, moist monsoon winds from the Gulf of Guinea inject humidity into the vortices. If enough humidity meets a sufficiently strong vortex, masses of clouds begin forming rapidly.</p><p>Out of the total of around a hundred such easterly waves, twenty to thirty will move each season across the Atlantic with the potential to turn into tropical depressions given the right conditions – primarily high humidity and heat. As water temperatures off the west coast of Africa warm to their late-summer peak, moist air begins to rise high into the atmosphere adding more energy to the system and providing humidity for continued cloud formation.</p><p>For a large storm to form, the following ingredients are required: the ocean’s surface temperature must rise above 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Farenheit); the pool of warm water must span at least a few hundred square miles and be at least 60 meters deep (196 feet); a large layer of warm, very humid air must also be present, extending from the ocean’s surface to an altitude of some 5,500 meters (18,000 feet). In such conditions, normally in place from June until December and peaking from August through October, the atmospheric disturbances caused by the easterly waves can trigger the formation of large storms.</p><p>One element however, must be absent for a hurricane to form: winds in the atmosphere over the large pool of warm ocean must be mild or consistent from the ocean surface to an altitude of at least 12,000 meters (40,000 feet) because strong and varied winds tend to tear cyclones apart. This is the key reason why hurricanes don’t form in the southern Atlantic.</p><p>The trajectory of hurricanes is determined in part by Earth’s rotation, so they predictably move from East to West rising gradually in latitude along the way. A large area of high atmospheric pressure usually present around the Bermudas (the Bermuda high) causes the hurricanes to swerve northwards and then continue to move toward the North-East following the Gulf currents. The regularity of these conditions gives hurricanes a somewhat predictable trajectory as the map below shows.</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%2F1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.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%2F1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.jpeg" width="1456" height="816" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1cd6ea1e-5eea-4462-bba9-1b9c9fe6f507_1920x1076.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":816,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"undefined","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Trajectories of all hurricanes and tropical storms from 1851 to 2019</figcaption></figure></div><p>What I presented above is only a very crude summary of a vast and detailed body of knowledge scientists have accumulated about the formation of hurricanes. But in spite of all that knowledge and a great deal of technology enabling storm monitoring in real time, we can never be sure about which disturbances will grow into hurricanes and which ones will dissipate or pass with only minor rainstorms. The structure of hurricanes is largely variable and can change from one day to the next leaving scientists unsure about how exactly all the factors in the atmosphere interact to cause hurricanes to gain or lose strength.</p><h2>Modelling the storms</h2><p>Mind numbing advances in computer modelling of the storms have enhanced meteorologists’ ability to work out probable outcomes, but not accurate prediction. Weather forecasting models used by meteorologists today fall in three distinct categories:</p><ul><li><p>statistical models,</p></li><li><p>dynamical models</p></li><li><p>hybrid statistical-dynamical models.</p></li></ul><p>Statistical models start with the information such as a storm’s location and the time of the year to make a prediction based on previous observed storms at the same location and at the same time of the year. Such models are based on the assumption that over the next 24 or 48 hours, the present storm will behave similarly to the previous ones. </p><p>Dynamical models analyze all the available information about the storm and its adjacent weather conditions and use the basic laws of fluid dynamics in the Earth’s atmosphere to forecast the future development of the storm. Concretely, scientists use six specific mathematical equations to describe the Earth’s atmosphere: three hydrodynamic equations that rely on Newton’s second law of motion to find horizontal and vertical motions of air caused by air pressure differences, gravity, friction, and the Earth’s rotation; two thermodynamic equations that calculate changes in temperature caused by water evaporation, vapor condensation and similar occurrences; and one continuity equation that accounts for the volume of air entering or leaving the area.</p><h2>Building up the monitoring grid</h2><p>With the rapid evolution of computer technology, scientists could handle increasing levels of complexity these equations entail. They have advanced by modelling the Earth’s atmosphere as a three-dimensional grid consisting of a number of horizontal data points stacked in a number of atmospheric layers. </p><p>One of the first such models was developed in the mid-1950s by the US Weather Bureau. Its grid was rather crude, consisting of a single level of the atmosphere at about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) and data points spaced 248 miles apart. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hurricane Center developed a much more complex model consisting of ten layers of atmosphere with grid points 37 miles apart. At the time, computers couldn’t handle this model’s complexity over a large area, so the grid had to move about with the storm, keeping it in the center of an area covering 1,860 miles on each side (it was called the Movable Fine Mesh model).</p><p>In the 1990s, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research center in Princeton, New Jersey developed a model that analyzed data at 18 levels of the atmosphere within three nested grids, the finest of which covered an area of 345 square miles with data points 11.5 miles apart. GFDL’s model thus consisted of some 16,200 points receiving data in time steps of 15 seconds. Even at such fine resolution, the model could only represent a hurricane with an idealized vortex structure based upon only a handful of parameters of the real storm (maximum winds and the distance of maximum winds from the storm center).</p><p>In parallel, the US Navy developed its own, somewhat less detailed model named Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS). NOGAPS consisted of a horizontal grid resolution of about 52 miles with 45 data points in each layer over an area covering 345 square miles. Running on the Cray C90 supercomputer, NOGAPS took about 20 minutes to produce a 24-hour forecast. If the NOGAPS model were run with the finer grid of the GFDL model, it would require about a week’s time to produce a 24-hour forecast. </p><p>Since the late 1990s, further advances have taken place both in increased model resolution,<a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/02/hurricane-science-for-investors-and-traders/#_ftn1">[1]</a> speed of computation and processing capacity. Nevertheless, the practical reality of the problem seems to be converging upon the theory (of computation): as computer models of storms have gone from cruder to finer grid resolution, their complexity has increased exponentially requiring exponentially greater computing power to produce timely forecasts. A <a href="https://blog.mapbox.com/3d-animated-hurricane-map-from-radar-data-affaed8a3d70">visualization below was generated</a> with data for the hurricane Doublas (July 2020) from NOAA’s Weather and Climate Toolkit:</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%2Fac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif" 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_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif" width="758" height="474" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac485761-4393-488d-ae18-04908d9b4907_758x474.gif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":474,"width":758,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":null,"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>The a mount of data that’s collected is impressive, but the resolution is still rather grainy. Nonetheless, the fatal flaw of computer modelling is not only in the resolution of models or in the processing speeds of computers.</p><h2>The brick wall of complexity</h2><p>An impossible problem also lies in the complex models’ sensitivity to input data. Namely, very small differences in the values of initial variables can lead to very large variations in outcomes. The seemingly insurmountable problem in modelling complex systems was discovered by MIT’s theoretical meteorologist <strong>Edward Lorenz</strong>. Lorenz developed a relatively straightforward computer model emulating the weather. </p><p>One day in 1961, Lorenz resolved to rerun the results of one particular simulation starting at the half-way point, using the results he had for that particular point in his print-outs. The new simulation quickly started diverging from the original results and soon bore no resemblance to it.</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%2Fa42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif" 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_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif" width="320" height="168.64864864864865" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a42eb6b1-9a7b-4ba5-8e17-6739263aba20_296x156.gif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":156,"width":296,"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></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Sensitive dependence on initial conditions</figcaption></figure></div><p>The ultimate explanation for this divergence had profound implications for science: while Lorenz’s program took its calculations to six decimal places, his print-outs only showed the values to three decimal places. The minute difference between say, 1.234567 and 1.235 applied in the second simulation led to very large differences in the final results. Lorenz termed this phenomenon, “sensitive dependence on initial conditions.” </p><p>We have every reason to expect that other complex systems will display a similar sensitivity, implying that the problem of accuracy of measurements poses another stumbling block in science’s attempt to get to the bottom of such systems. Indeed, accurate prediction will likely remain unattainable regardless of advances in all areas of research. As <strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3hsdv9A">Bob Sheets</a></strong>, the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami put it:</p><blockquote><p>“<em>The grid for the computer models does keep getting smaller and smaller, but we’re still taking in terms of miles, while the actual weather is taking place at the level of molecules.</em>” <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/2021/07/02/hurricane-science-for-investors-and-traders/#_ftn2">[2]</a></p></blockquote><p>Hurricanes, like all other complex systems will continue to defy prediction. Simply, our efforts to understand and predict a system’s behaviour are up against a brick wall of complexity. Beyond the very near-term, the whole business of forecasting amounts to educated guesswork. </p><h2>“They”: cruel, sadistic and stupid juveniles</h2><p>To suppose that anyone would actually be capable of controlling such systems and achieving desired outcomes is to credit them with omniscience and omnipotence that’s beyond the human grasp. It takes a particular mental disposition to venture and play God with our societies, economies, viruses, earthquakes or weather modification technologies. </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%2F9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.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%2F9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.png" width="948" height="643" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ff32669-49c2-4b81-8964-e264bc8a956a_948x643.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":643,"width":948,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1497377,"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">Masters of the universe or overgrown brats?</figcaption></figure></div><p>Based on what we’ve seen so far, the people who are inclined to do so have much more in common with cruel, sadistic and stupid juveniles than they do with learned, mature and responsible scientists. They can set things on fire and destroy life, but they wouldn’t know how to create or control something if their degenerate lives depended on it. They are good at one thing only: failing. </p><p>Recall, <a href="https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/23-07-2022-who-director-general-declares-the-ongoing-monkeypox-outbreak-a-public-health-event-of-international-concern">on 23 July this year, the World Health Organization declared the Mpox pandemic</a> a public health emergency of international concern. That should have snapped the world into another “new normal,” but the world shrugged, yawned and moved on. They are not omnipotent and they are light years away from being omniscient. They’re losing and we are winning for we have the truth on our side. Slowly but surely we are prevailing in the struggle for truth and we’re doing it every day.  </p><p>The above article was adapted from my 2016 book “<strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/masteringriskanduncertaintyincommoditiestrading_6x9printlayout.pdf">Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading</a></strong>” which was rated #1 book on <a href="https://www.financial-expert.co.uk/">FinancialExpert.co.uk</a> list of “<a href="https://www.financial-expert.co.uk/best-commodities-books-uk/">The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders</a>” for 2021 and 2022. You can download it for free at the link above. 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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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<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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<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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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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<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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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" 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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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<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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title: US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip
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<p>The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.</p>
<p>Starting with Al-Atatra, a village in the northwestern Gaza Strip, the plan calls to build what the Israeli daily Ynet calls “humanitarian bubbles” – turning the remains of villages and neighborhoods into tiny concentration camps cut off from their environs and surrounded and controlled by mercenaries.</p>
<p><span>This comes as Israel carries out daily massacres and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, enacting the proposal known as</span> <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/what-is-the-generals-plan-israels-ongoing-ethnic-cleansing-of-northern-gaza-explained/" rel>The Generals’ Plan</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sju3uabba" rel>originally</a> <span>crafted by former national security chief Giora Eiland to turn Gaza into “a place where no human being can exist.”</span></p>

<p>The plan, approved by White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, calls for the Israeli military to clear out pockets of Palestinian resistance, which it has failed to achieve, demonstrated by the recent killing of Israeli Colonel Ehasn Daksa, the highest ranking officer to lose his life in the year long war.</p>
<p><span>48 hours after stamping out resistance, they plan to erect separation walls around the neighborhood, forcing its residents, and no one else, to enter and exit using biometric identification under the CIA contractors’ control. Those who do not accept the biometric regime would be</span> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the-gaza-aid-plan-that-could-have-prevented-tragedy/" rel>refused</a> <span>humanitarian aid.</span></p>
<p><span>This plan, first</span> <a href="https://x.com/shlomieldar/status/1848358452122603809" rel>reported</a> <span>by Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar, allocates $90 million for the residents to rebuild their homes, and calls to appoint a “local sheikh” to the position of "head of the council.”</span></p>
<p><span>The plan is a 21st century reboot of Washington’s infamous, failed Strategic Hamlet Program during its war in Vietnam in the 1960s, updated with a modern biometric program the US military-industrial complex has</span> <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1194.html" rel>incorporated</a> <span>into its operations since, in particular, the beginning of the so-called “War or Terror.” (The U.S. has even created a little known agency called the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency to advance this).</span></p>

<p><strong>‘Uber for war zones’</strong></p>
<p><span>The company at the forefront of this plan is called Global Delivery Company, described in its</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/CmI87bZe4DU?si=7HTW_1vii4C6PTik" rel>promotional materials</a> <span>as a “Uber for war zones.” Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana owns it and employs several top Israeli and American military intelligence officials, including retired U.S. Navy Captain Michael Durnan, retired U.S. Special Forces captain Justin Sapp, former Israeli military intelligence division head Yossi Kuperwasser, and former Israeli military chief intelligence officer David Tzur.</span></p>

<p><span>Kahana has played a key role in the dirty war against Syria in the 2010s and</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/5sfIl1XWhYM?si=cxJXjn6-0tywk0Xq" rel>worked</a> <span>with the CIA-backed</span> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-war-israel-charity-amaliah-fsa-idf-syrian-civilians-women-children-medical-treatment-a7469421.html" rel>Free Syrian Army</a> <span>to provide food and medical care to militants and civilians alike. GDC has also been involved in Ukraine, where it</span> <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-749887" rel>collaborated</a> <span>with the Zionist organization, the American Joint Distribution Committee, to operate a refugee camp in Romania near its border with Ukraine. He has also been in negotiations to free the former Israeli military intelligence officer Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was</span> <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-we-know-about-elizabeth-tsurkov/38166" rel>detained</a> <span>in Iraq in 2023.</span></p>
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<p><span>Kahana’s Gaza plan has been in the works since at least February, 2024. He</span> <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-the-gaza-aid-plan-that-could-have-prevented-tragedy/" rel>presented</a> <span>the plan to establish these electronic cantons – what</span> <em>Jewish News</em> <span>referred to as “gated communities” – to the White House, State Department, and Defense Department, as well as Netanyahu. U.S. officials did not respond. While the Israeli military had agreed, the Israeli prime minister shot it down. “What’s the rush?” he quipped.</span></p>
<p><span>The Israeli military has also been in</span> <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/idf/privatize-israel-contacted-us-security-company-to-monitor-the-netzarim-corridor/2024/08/15/" rel>talks</a> <span>with Kahana to deploy its mercenaries to secure the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip.</span></p>
<p>The GDC’s CIA mercenaries would be in full control of humanitarian aid, thereby supplanting Hamas and ending its governance, they figure, achieving a long-term goal of the Israeli war.</p>
<p>“If the pilot goes through successfully, it will be the model for the rehabilitation of Gaza and will result in the suppression of Hamas's civilian control in the Strip,” notes Eldar.</p>
<p><span>The plan resembles a proposal published in the U.S. Department of Defense’s top journal, written by Likudnik think tanker Omer Dostri, who was</span> <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/08/omer-dostri-benjamin-netanyahu-spokesman-joe-biden/" rel>appointed</a> <span>as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson in August 2024. </span></p>

<p>As I reported at the time, Dostri’s plan laid out four options for Gaza's future: 1) an installed collaborator regime, 2) the renewal of Palestinian Authority administration, 3) an international or regional mandate in Gaza, or 4) a long-term direct Israeli military occupation, which he described as the optimal choice.</p>
<p>However, as Hamas has maintained its civil control throughout Gaza and Israel has failed to defeat armed resistance groups, the Netanyahu government is relying on the U.S. to do its bidding.</p>
<p>The latest plan appears to be a combination of various elements from Dostri’s paper, involving a long-term Israeli military occupation in combination with an international mandate. While the proposal called for the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, or Saudi Arabia to assume civilian control over the Gaza Strip, that has failed to materialize, prompting the United States to approve deployment of CIA contractors.</p>
<p>While Israel has forced thousands of Palestinian civilians to march south, Gaza’s still formidable armed resistance may stifle these plans.</p>

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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/HPNiUPaaLnM" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><span>Hey Dan,</span></p>
<p><span>I have seen you on Redacted and I think you are probably right about the training ground in this horrible warzone scenario and that the camps and zones coming on time to all of us…</span></p>
<p><span>Please watch and please check this if it’s true?</span></p>
<p><span>Foerster, Heinz von, ed. Conference on Cybernetics (8th: 1951: New York, N.Y.) Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems: Transactions of the Eighth Conference March 15-16, 1951. New York, N.Y. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1952.</span></p>
<p><span>• This is but one of a series.</span></p>
<p><span>McCulloch, Warren Sturgis. Collected works of Warren S. McCulloch. Edited by Rook McCul- loch; with a preface by Heinz von Foerster; and contributions by M.A. Arbib... [et al.]. Salinas, Calif., U.S.A.: Intersystems Publications, 1989.</span></p>
<p><span>• Master of thinking out of the box.</span></p>
<p><span>Meadows, Dennis L., Donella Meadows, and others. The Limits to Growth. A Report for the Club of Rome's “Project on the Predicament of Mankind”. New York: Universe Books, 1972.</span></p>
<p><span>• Brought SD into the headlines, tried to save the world.</span></p>
<p><span>Nicolis, Gregoire, and Ilya Prigogine. Exploring Complexity: an Introduction. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1989.</span></p>
<p><span>• Direct from the masters of self-organization.</span></p>
<p><span>Club of Rome's "Predicament Of Mankind" project at MIT (1970 - 1972)</span></p>
<p><span>Club of Rome is an organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe. It stimulated considerable public attention in 1972 with its report titled: The Limits to Growth.</span></p>
<p><span>Dennis Meadows was director of the Club of Rome's "Predicament Of Mankind" project at MIT, which constructed the world model The Limits to Growth publication was based on.</span></p>
<p><span>Dennis Meadows Interview (2017) co-author of Club of Rome's Limits To Growth</span></p>
<p><span>   • Dennis Meadows: Earth ..</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/VqDnUhoRAoM?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/VqDnUhoRAoM?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/one-earth-one-family-and-one-future-one-digital-public-infrastructure-" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/one-earth-one-family-and-one-future-one-digital-public-infrastructure-</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/01/27/state-of-fear-why-politicized-science-is-dangerous-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/01/27/state-of-fear-why-politicized-science-is-dangerous-2/</a></span></p>
<p><span>2/</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/covid-plans-include-family-separation-and-involuntary-quarantine-in-camps-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/covid-plans-include-family-separation-and-involuntary-quarantine-in-camps-2/</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/north-carolina-disaster-opens-door-for-lithium-land-grab/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/north-carolina-disaster-opens-door-for-lithium-land-grab/</a></span></p>
<p><span>Fema in north Carolina have camps being set up and moving to emergency centers they used in war time moments in locations across US</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://rumble.com/v5j3yb9-exposed-lady-in-nc-goes-to-fema-camp-and-this-happens-video.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://rumble.com/v5j3yb9-exposed-lady-in-nc-goes-to-fema-camp-and-this-happens-video.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://rumble.com/v5j3xm3-fema-exposed-activating-emergency-klls-event-in-us.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://rumble.com/v5j3xm3-fema-exposed-activating-emergency-klls-event-in-us.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/ZH_Skm-OkZs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/ZH_Skm-OkZs</a></span></p>
<p><span>U.N. Taking Over City Councils Across America</span></p>
<p><span>2009 <a href="https://youtu.be/BCpSQH6zhh0?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/BCpSQH6zhh0?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span>2011 Stacy Lynne educates „We Are Change Colorado“ about the International Council on LOCAL Environmental Initiatives(ICLEI). An arm of the United Nations Agenda 21 and how they are using "GREENWASHING" to take over America.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/_1q_YdTMVQg?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/_1q_YdTMVQg?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span>Wat happens to her after she goes viral with the information about agenda21?</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/hsyw3NtTFLE?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/hsyw3NtTFLE?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span>Common Core Expose by Stacy Lynne</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/AXWP0OpQtxw?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/AXWP0OpQtxw?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://youtu.be/TxYYXez7rsg?feature=shared" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://youtu.be/TxYYXez7rsg?feature=shared</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://rumble.com/v2olqwt-depopulationfema-camps-compiled-2015-documentary-agenda-21.html?e9s=rel_v2_pr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://rumble.com/v2olqwt-depopulationfema-camps-compiled-2015-documentary-agenda-21.html?e9s=rel_v2_pr</a></span></p>
<p><span>Have you ever see a burning tree from inside out?</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/burn-back-better/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/burn-back-better/</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://julimination.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/maui-and-the-lack-of-humanity-update/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://julimination.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/maui-and-the-lack-of-humanity-update/</a></span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://rumble.com/v3bp2u2-fema-caught-maui-fires-watch-this.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://rumble.com/v3bp2u2-fema-caught-maui-fires-watch-this.html</a></span></p>
<p><span>No lie in the world, even if it is told so nobly, has the right to be declared the only truth with a targeted PR campaign and by a million repetitions! And certainly not if it produces intentional collateral damage to these extents and abuses innocent children for political purposes!</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://rumble.com/v51hlsc-if-ever-there-was-a-time-for-humanity-to-wake-up-now-is-the-time-vandana-sh.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" data-sanitized-class="linkified">https://rumble.com/v51hlsc-if-ever-there-was-a-time-for-humanity-to-wake-up-now-is-the-time-vandana-sh.html</a></span></p>
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