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

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title: 3CX Version 20 Update
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<p>3CX just released version 20 of its PBX telephone system. 3CX has been my favorite phone system that I’ve setup at multiple businesses. Let’s explore version 20!</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="new-admin-console">New Admin Console</h2>
<p>All-in-One Admin/Client URL. Version 20 also uses a condensed URL to make it easier to remember. The entire system moves on-prem Debian 10 to 12 and is a huge change.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="changes-in-administration">Changes in Administration</h2>
<ul>
<li>SIP Trunk location moved</li>
<li>Department Hours added no longer global</li>
<li>DID routing is now done at the destination (Extension, Ring Group, Digital Receptionist, etc.)</li>
<li>Queues, Ring Groups, and Digital Receptionists can all be assigned independent holidays and hours of operation.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="new-features">New Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Windows Softphone (Microsoft Store)</li>
<li>Google Transcription Update (New API)</li>
<li>Split DNS (Enhanced security and faster on-prem phones) - Hairpin NAT Support Required</li>
<li>Improved Reporting (Call logs are improved)</li>
<li>2FA Added</li>
<li>Ability to monitor quality of calls</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="call-processing-scripts">Call Processing Scripts</h3>
<p>You can now create custom scripts that route calls based on time, caller id, and a lot more variables. I’ll leave a link below if you want to explore this, but programming specific phone numbers, or numbers with a certain country code and area codes to groups of agents can be huge for businesses.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/call-processing-script/">https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/call-processing-script/</a></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="new-apis">New APIs</h3>
<p>The update also brings new API access for both the system configuration and client configuration. Each has a new set of calls they will take and you can extract user information to your app or even website.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="before-you-move">Before You Move</h2>
<ul>
<li>Check Phone Compatibility <a href="https://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/">https://www.3cx.com/sip-phones/</a></li>
<li>Allocate Downtime (Debian 10 -&gt; 11 -&gt; 12) will take time.</li>
<li>Check off the official checklist <a href="https://www.3cx.com/blog/releases/v20-upgrade-checklist-faq/">https://www.3cx.com/blog/releases/v20-upgrade-checklist-faq/</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="3cx-setup-videos">3CX Setup Videos</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7dXvFDhoaI?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P6CS5_CHy8s?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JS0voPjdZMM?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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title: Cursor Editor
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<p>Cursor AI Editor is revolutionizing the way developers write code, offering an AI-powered environment that accelerates the software development process. With features like Ctrl+K, Copilot++, and AI chat, Cursor provides an unparalleled coding experience that’s both efficient and intuitive.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ctrl+K</strong>: This feature allows you to edit and write code seamlessly with AI assistance. Whether you’re tweaking existing code or generating new code from scratch, Ctrl+K simplifies the process.</li>
<li><strong>Copilot++</strong>: Enhance your coding with Copilot++, a native autocomplete feature that suggests mid-line completions and entire diffs, making your coding session smoother.</li>
<li><strong>AI Chat</strong>: Engage in a conversation with an AI that understands your codebase. This feature is perfect for debugging or when you need insights about your project.</li>
<li><strong>Ctrl+L</strong>: This feature allows you to edit and write code seamlessly with AI assistance. Whether you’re tweaking existing code or generating new code from scratch, Ctrl+ L simplifies the process.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="tips-and-tricks">Tips and Tricks:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Utilize @ Symbols</strong>: Quickly reference files or code symbols within your project by using the “@” symbol. This can significantly speed up your coding process by allowing you to generate code with specific dependencies or ask about certain files.</li>
<li><strong>Fix Lints with Ease</strong>: Cursor’s AI can help you fix lint errors instantly. Just hover over any lint error and click the “Fix” button for an AI-generated solution.</li>
<li><strong>Terminal Ctrl+K</strong>: Write terminal commands in plain English. This feature is incredibly useful for writing SQL commands, filling in arg parse arguments, or parsing JSONs with jq.</li>
<li><strong>Vision</strong>: Use images to prompt the AI. This is especially helpful for web UI development, allowing for rapid iteration based on visual inputs.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started:</h2>
<p>To experience the full potential of Cursor AI Editor, start by exploring the Ctrl+K feature. It’s the gateway to understanding how AI can assist in your coding tasks. Remember, the more you interact with the AI, the better it becomes at predicting and assisting with your coding needs.</p>
<p>Cursor AI Editor is not just a tool; it’s a new way of approaching software development. By integrating AI into the coding process, Cursor ensures that developers are equipped with the best resources to build software faster and more efficiently.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tjFnifSEEjQ?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>


guid: https://scottjehl.com/posts/wordleish/
title: How would you build Wordle with just HTML &amp; CSS?
author: ;Scott Jehl
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<p>I’ve been thinking about the questions folks are typically asked in front-end interviews these days, and how well those questions assess a candidate's depth of understanding of web standard technologies, and not just their ability to employ JavaScript algorithms and third-party frameworks. It made me think about the sort of questions I would like to hear or ask in an interview myself.</p>
<p>I think this sort of question would be a useful one:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"How would you attempt to build <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html"><em>Wordle</em></a> (<em>...or some other complex app</em>) if you could only use HTML and CSS? Which features of that app would make more sense to build with JavaScript than with other technologies? And, can you imagine a change or addition to the HTML or CSS standard that could make any of those features more straight-forward to build?"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Now, to be clear, this is meant to be a contrived exercise. I don't actually think a game app like Wordle <em>should</em> be built without using any JavaScript, <em>(though I do think the app could be better if it functioned at all without it!)</em>. In reality, I feel there are many user experience enhancements to an app like Wordle that <em>only</em> JavaScript is capable of providing.</p>
<p>Still, I like this question as an exercise. Discussing any approaches to this challenge will reveal the candidate's broad knowledge of web standards–including new and emerging HTML and CSS features–and as a huge benefit, it would help select for the type of folks who are best suited to lead us out of the JavaScript over-reliance problems that are <a href="https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-2024/">holding back the web today</a>.</p>
<p>Interview questions aside though, I also thought this would be a fun little experiment to explore myself! So I took a few hours yesterday to do just that, and in the rest of this post I'll cover how I approached it.</p>
<h2>A Quick Attempt</h2>
<p><strong>Here's a CodePen link with the demo and code for my first attempt:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/scottjehl/details/LYvQxqa">Wordle, just HTML &amp; CSS</a></p>
<p>By the way, if you aren't here to play games (or you want to save some time), you can find the answer to the puzzle in this little disclosure:</p>
<details><summary>Reveal Answer</summary>PROUD</details>
<p>The approach I took for this example leans hard on HTML form validation for the game logic. I'm using a text <code>input</code> for each letter of the word, with <code>pattern</code> attributes describing the correct letter. The browser can natively use a pattern attribute to determine whether the input's value is "valid," which in the case of this contrived example can mean that a letter is correct.</p>
<p>To give an example, if the correct word was "TIGER" then the first letter's <code>input</code> could have a pattern attribute like this: <code>pattern="[tT]"</code> which would match lowercase and uppercase T. Additionally, the inputs have a <code>maxlength</code> attribute to limit their content length to 1 character.</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tT]"&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>Through these two attributes alone, we can already write a CSS selector to visually display whether a typed letter is correct or not, using a gray or green background similar to Wordle itself, like this:</p>
<pre><code>input[type="text"]:invalid {
    background-color: lightgray;
}
input[type="text"]:valid {
    background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Neat! But there are some problems.</p>
<h3>Delaying Validation</h3>
<p>As written above, the validation styles will show immediately as you are writing the letters, rather than after you type the entire word, which makes it too easy to change your answer as you see whether each letter is correct or not. That's not how Wordle works!</p>
<p>Instead, we want the validation to kick in <em>only</em> after a word is entered and complete. You could try to do this in a number of ways. I decided to use the <code>:not()</code> and <code>:has()</code> CSS selectors to qualify the validation styles to only apply when the user is done entering a whole word. The game board grid uses an HTML <code>table</code> element and each "word" row sits in a <code>tr</code> element. The following styles will apply to <code>tr</code> elements that do not contain focused or empty inputs, meaning every input has a character in it and the user is no longer typing in any of the inputs.</p>
<p>To gauge whether the inputs are empty, I added a <code>placeholder</code> attribute to the HTML <code>input</code>, which conveniently pairs with the <code>:placeholder-shown</code> selector that matches empty inputs. Here's the HTML and CSS:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tT]" placeholder=" "&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
    background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
    background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Nice. Now the form validation happens after a complete guess for each row. <em>Small note: iOS Safari seems to only allow this selector to work with placeholder attributes that have at least some sort of string, so I added a blank space to its value, but there's probably a better character that I could use (maybe "A"?).</em></p>
<h3>Disabling Future and Completed Rows</h3>
<p>Another thing I wanted to do to match the game's behavior is to only allow interaction with the inputs in the active row. Admittedly, I didn't fully pull this one off for restricting keyboard focus, but I was at least able to disable touch and click-focus on those inputs by using a similar selector to the prior ones, and disabling pointer events.</p>
<pre><code>/* disallow next row until row is populated */
tr:has(input:placeholder-shown) ~ tr input,
/* disallow revisiting populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input {
    pointer-events: none;
}
</code></pre>
<p>Good enough, moving on.</p>
<h3>Announcing a Win</h3>
<p>When the correct word is typed, it would be nice to hide the rows after the correct guess and display a message that the game is over. To do this, I used a rule similar to the ones above, with some additional generated content to announce the win.</p>
<pre><code>tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:invalid, input:focus)) ~ tr {
    display: none;
}
table tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:invalid, input:focus)):after {
  content: "You Win!";
  /* ...some additional less critical styles here */
}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Improvement to test:</strong> This winning announcement should be accessible, and I'm not sure that CSS generated content will be announced in assistive tech, even if I use an aria-live region. Perhaps it'd be better to toggle the CSS display of a status message that follows the table, or have a status column on the right with messages that can be revealed as needed. I'm thinking on this.</p>
<h3>So What About Tan?</h3>
<p>Now, admittedly, so far the game only offers the gray and green states of Wordle, which represent letters that are either not in the word at all (gray), or are entirely correct and in the right place (green). Unlike the real Wordle, it's missing the "tan" state that tells you a letter is in the word, yet in the wrong place. This means that the game is playable, but it's pretty hard!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, HTML validation only offers a binary answer, and what we really want here is a sort of in-between state that's valid but not super-valid.</p>
<h4>Validating for Tan</h4>
<p>So pattern validation only allows us to match for one type of pattern, but that pattern could refer to the whole word if we wanted to use it for the tan state instead of the green state. For example, the following pattern would match every letter in TIGER, both lowercase and uppercase: <code>pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]"</code>.</p>
<p>Once again, our familiar CSS could target that valid pattern to color an input tan if it contains a letter that is in the word at all:</p>
<pre><code>/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
</code></pre>
<p>So now our problem is tan works, but green doesn't. We need a little help showing the green state for letters that are not ONLY in the word, but in the right place as well.</p>
<h3>Extending with JavaScript</h3>
<p>Okay. Let's add some JavaScript to get 3 states instead of 2.</p>
<p>The following 10 lines add an <code>input</code> event handler (which fires whenever the user changes the input's value) to all of the inputs in the page. It will grab a regular expression pattern in that input's custom <code>data-correct-pattern</code> attribute and add a <code>data-incorrect</code> attribute to the input when the pattern doesn't match the input's current value:</p>
<pre><code>document.querySelectorAll("input").forEach(inpt =&gt; {
  inpt.addEventListener("input", function(e) {
    const correct = this.value.match(new RegExp(this.getAttribute("data-correct-pattern")));
    if (correct) {
      this.removeAttribute("data-incorrect");
    } else {
      this.setAttribute("data-incorrect", true);
    }
  });
});
</code></pre>
<p>With that attribute toggle, I can write some CSS to add the green state! Here are my 3 states, the third of which using that new data-incorrect attribute:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
  background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:not([data-incorrect]) {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p><strong>You can view the demo of this version here:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://codepen.io/scottjehl/details/JjVpNEb">Wordle, almost just HTML &amp; CSS</a></p>
<h2>Caveats and Implementation Ideas</h2>
<p>Needless to say, these examples don't do everything that the real Wordle does, so I won't attempt to itemize the differences here. Perhaps the most important difference to note is that there's no validation of real words, so you can enter any old letters you please.</p>
<p>I also want to explore how to make the state of the app persistently make sense to assistive technology, which might mean having an additional table column with cells containing the result of each validation (toggling the display of various possible messages so that they are accessible. Maybe that'll be a followup post (and if you're interested, <a href="https://blog.mayank.co/how-i-built-an-accessible-version-of-wordle">here's a more practical article about improving actual-Wordle's accessibility</a>).</p>
<p>Also, um, the puzzle is always the same answer? True! The real Wordle has a different word every day. A fuller implementation of an approach like this would need some dynamic handling on the server side to deliver different HTML patterns for the word of the day.</p>
<p>Having said all of that, I find it pretty awesome that HTML and CSS alone can get us so far today, and it's totally possible that there are different HTML patterns that could pull off all 3 colors without JS already, as well (perhaps if we built a large QUERTY keyboard out of radio inputs...)</p>
<h2>What if :valid was a function?</h2>
<p>Okay, as for the the last part of my original question. What could be added to HTML or CSS to make that last example possible without JavaScript? One thing comes to mind for me: an ability to validate multiple patterns on one input.</p>
<p>For example, let's revisit that <code>pattern</code> attribute value. The existing <code>pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]"</code> will match for all of the letters in the word Tiger, uppercase or lowercase. From that, you get a simple yes or no match for whether the letter is in the word at all, again like this:</p>
<pre><code>input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
</code></pre>
<p>That gives us the tan color, but again we still have the green pattern to worry about. What if that <code>:valid</code> pseudo-class allowed for arguments, though? If it did, then I could pass a string to it, like <code>:valid("[gG]")</code> to specifically match for a g or G. Even better, maybe the value could accept the standard CSS <code>attr()</code> function too, which would allow the HTML to define additional patterns for the CSS to validate. In my second demo, I used a <code>data-correct-pattern</code> attribute to define that second pattern.</p>
<p>Here's how the markup and CSS might look for that dreamed-up feature, which could allow the second demo to work without JS:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;input type="text" id="input1" name="input1" maxlength="1" pattern="[tTiIgGeErR]" data-correct-pattern="[tT]" placeholder=" "&gt;
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code>/* invalidate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:invalid {
  background-color: lightgray;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid {
  background-color: tan;
}
/* validate only non-focused populated row */
tr:not(:has(input:placeholder-shown, input:focus)) input[type="text"]:valid(attr(data-correct-pattern)) {
  background-color: lightgreen;
}
</code></pre>
<p>JavaScript:</p>
<pre><code>...none needed.
</code></pre>
<p>Maybe I'll file an issue in the CSS standard asking for <code>:valid(attr(...))</code>! :)</p>
<h2>Thanks!</h2>
<p>I hope you enjoyed this post. Please feel free to reach out with ideas or questions or improvements on <a href="https://mstdn.social/@scottjehl">Mastodon</a>. Thanks for reading!</p>


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<p>In the vast ecosystem of Windows, managing device drivers can be a complex task, especially when dealing with third-party drivers. Tools like <strong>Driver Store Explorer</strong> (also known as <strong>RAPR</strong>), <a href="https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer">hosted on GitHub</a>, offer a streamlined approach to handling drivers in the Windows driver store.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-driver-store-explorer">What is Driver Store Explorer?</h2>
<p><strong>Driver Store Explorer [RAPR]</strong> is a user-friendly application designed to simplify interactions with the Windows driver store. It supports a range of operations including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Listing</li>
<li>Adding</li>
<li>Installing</li>
<li>Deleting third-party driver packages</li>
</ul>
<p>This tool is invaluable for both casual users looking to clean up their driver store and professionals managing multiple systems.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Driver Enumeration:</strong> Lists all third-party driver packages stored in the driver store, along with the devices associated with each driver. It also allows exporting this list as a CSV file for further analysis.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Management:</strong> Facilitates adding new driver packages to the store and deleting old or unused ones, helping in maintaining an optimal system performance.</li>
<li><strong>Offline and Online Store Management:</strong> Works with both online (local machine) and offline driver stores, providing flexibility in various scenarios.</li>
<li><strong>Efficiency:</strong> Identifies old and potentially unused drivers for deletion, making it easier to free up space and keep the driver store tidy.</li>
<li><strong>User Interface:</strong> Features a full-fledged GUI that supports grouping, sorting, and selecting specific columns for a customized view.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started</h3>
<p>To start using Driver Store Explorer, download the latest version from the <a href="https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer/releases">releases page on GitHub</a>. Once downloaded, the application does not require installation and can be run directly, making it a portable tool for various uses.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="practical-applications">Practical Applications</h2>
<p>Driver Store Explorer is particularly useful in scenarios such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>System Cleanup:</strong> Removing old and unused drivers to free up disk space.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Updates:</strong> Adding new driver packages to the store before installation.</li>
<li><strong>Troubleshooting:</strong> Identifying and managing drivers associated with problematic devices.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="alternative-driver-management-tools">Alternative Driver Management Tools</h2>
<p>I personally do NOT recommend any tools if you have internet access and download the OFFICIAL drivers from your manufactures website. I use DriverStoreExplorer to export my drivers and import them into my windows image. However, if you don’t have the drivers or can’t find them all for your system, use the tools below.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>SDIO - Snappy Driver Installer</strong> (<a href="https://www.snappy-driver-installer.org/">visit website</a>) is a freeware tool that simplifies the process of installing drivers from the Windows driver store. Its user-friendly interface supports both online and offline driver stores, offering an efficient solution for managing drivers on Windows systems.</li>
<li><strong>3DP Chip Net Downloader</strong> (<a href="https://www.3dpchip.com/3dpchip/3dp/net_down_en.php">visit website</a>) use an ad-blocker and ONLY grab the NET download to get network driver bundle. <strong>This should only be used as a LAST RESORT!</strong></li>
<li><strong>DriverPack Solution</strong> (<a href="https://driverpack.io/en/foradmin">visit website</a>) This is a popular tool that was made in Russia. <strong>I do not trust it</strong>, but in a pinch it can also do network driver installs. Only use the DriverPack Offline Network Driver Installer.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>Driver Store Explorer is a powerful and user-friendly tool that simplifies the management of Windows drivers. Its ability to handle both online and offline driver stores, coupled with a comprehensive set of features, makes it an essential utility for anyone looking to manage drivers on Windows systems efficiently.</p>
<p>Whether you’re a professional IT administrator or a casual user wanting to keep your system lean, Driver Store Explorer offers the functionality needed to manage your drivers effectively.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R5RAgqB6YxM?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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<p>GlazeWM is a powerful tiling window manager for Windows, designed to enhance productivity by allowing users to efficiently manage their windows and workspaces through keyboard-driven commands. This guide will walk you through the installation process and introduce you to some of the most commonly used hotkeys in GlazeWM.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="installation">Installation</h2>
<p>There are several methods to install GlazeWM, ensuring flexibility depending on your preferences or requirements.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="direct-download">Direct Download</h3>
<p>The simplest way to get GlazeWM up and running is by downloading the latest executable from the <a href="https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm/releases">releases page</a>. No installation is necessary; just run the <code>.exe</code> file.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="winget">Winget</h3>
<p>For those who prefer package managers, GlazeWM can be installed via Winget with the following command:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">winget install glazewm
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="hotkeys">Hotkeys</h2>
<p>GlazeWM offers a variety of hotkeys to streamline your workflow. Here are some of the most essential ones:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Alt + Arrow Keys</strong>: Move focus between windows</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Shift + Arrow Keys</strong>: Move the focused window in the direction of the arrow keys</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Number</strong>: Switch to a specific workspace (e.g., Alt + 1 for workspace 1)</li>
<li><strong>Alt + Shift + Number</strong>: Move the focused window to a specific workspace</li>
</ul>
<p>These hotkeys are customizable, and users are encouraged to tailor them to their specific needs through the GlazeWM settings.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="official-hotkey-maps">Official Hotkey Maps</h3>
<p>Alt Hotkeys</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/34844898/194635035-152ed4a6-e5a1-4878-8863-f62391e7d703.webp" alt="GlazeWM Hotkey Maps" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<p>Alt+Shift Hotkeys</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/34844898/194635089-d5ed152b-1527-43e8-a69c-4e154b97a207.webp" alt="GlazeWM Hotkey Maps2" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="custom-hotkeys">Custom Hotkeys</h3>
<p>I made some modifications based on the programs that I use all the time. Here are the ones I use the most:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">keybindings:
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec 'C:\\Program Files\\Thorium\\Application\\thorium.exe'"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+B"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec wt"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+X"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec explorer"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+E"]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> - command: "exec '%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Programs\\cursor\\Cursor.exe'"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> bindings: ["Alt+W"]
</span></span></code></pre></div><h3 data-sanitized-id="personal-config">Personal Config</h3>
<p>My doesn’t change that much from the default but I do have a few changes to the workspace layout. Mainly I hate the massive gaps by default. Here is a link to my config file:</p>
<p><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/glazewm/main/config.yaml">Raw Config File</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="livestream-using-glazewm">Livestream using GlazeWM</h2>
<p>GlazeWM work starts at <a href="https://youtu.be/mJqNBBSViDU?si=3hZKYYp3kOJ3ZILG&amp;t=2015">33:35</a></p>
<div>
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</div>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
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<p>Here is a list of all the features in Windows 24H2.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="windows-24h2-update-highlights">Windows 24H2 Update Highlights</h2>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="microsoft-copilot-enhancements">Microsoft Copilot Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Positioning:</strong> Copilot button moved to the far right corner of the Taskbar for easier access.</li>
<li><strong>New Commands:</strong> Users can now ask Copilot for:
<ul>
<li>Wireless networks, system/device/battery information</li>
<li>Storage cleaning, emptying recycle bin, toggling battery saver</li>
<li>Startup apps, IP address, turning on accessibility features (narrator, voice access, magnifier, high-contrast, voice typing, live captions)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Animations:</strong> New animations indicate Copilot assistance for copied text or images.</li>
<li><strong>Settings:</strong> A dedicated “Copilot in Windows” setting for UI customization and plugin configuration.</li>
<li><strong>Interface:</strong> Copilot interface can now be undocked and resized.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="file-explorer-improvements">File Explorer Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Archiving:</strong> Support for creating 7zip and TAR files.</li>
<li><strong>PNG Metadata:</strong> Enhanced viewing and editing capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="quick-settings-panel-updates">Quick Settings Panel Updates</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pagination:</strong> Scroll through all quick settings.</li>
<li><strong>Wi-Fi &amp; VPN:</strong> Refresh button for Wi-Fi list and improved VPN UI.</li>
<li><strong>Live Captions:</strong> Easier access with a single click.</li>
<li><strong>Performance:</strong> Faster opening times.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="phone-link-enhancements">Phone Link Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manage Mobile Devices App:</strong> New app for basic phone-PC linking functionalities.</li>
<li><strong>Phone Link App:</strong> Remains for syncing text messages and notifications.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="energy-saver-mode">Energy Saver Mode</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Efficiency:</strong> Reduces energy consumption and system performance.</li>
<li><strong>Desktop Icon:</strong> Energy-saver indicator for desktop PCs.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="sudo-for-windows">Sudo for Windows</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command Line:</strong> Elevated process execution with various configuration options.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="microsoft-teams-integration">Microsoft Teams Integration</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unified Client:</strong> Merges Teams for work, school, and personal use.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="general-improvements">General Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Installation Interface:</strong> Modernized offline installation interface.</li>
<li><strong>Driver Installation:</strong> New button during Wi-Fi setup for driver installation.</li>
<li><strong>App Removals:</strong> Cortana, Mail, Calendar, Maps, People, Movies &amp; TV, and WordPad removed from default installation.</li>
<li><strong>Taskbar and Printing Enhancements:</strong> Wi-Fi icon animation, new Task Manager icon, and Windows protected print mode.</li>
<li><strong>USB80Gbps Support:</strong> For new hardware with the updated USB4 standard.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="gsudo">GSudo</h2>
<p>Here is the best alternative for ANY version of Windows right now. While Sudo is nice in the future, updating to 24H2 is NOT RECOMMENDED! Use this instead:</p>
<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo">https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo</a></p>
<p>Direct Install:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">winget install gerardog.gsudo
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="24h2-livestream">24H2 Livestream</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ynmLm5_K_1E?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
</div>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/00wdDITpfXU?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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<p>Did you know most VPNs are owned by only a few companies? Those companies can even sell your data on top of charging you a subscription fee.</p>
<p>In this post, we’ll be looking at the best VPNs for 2024.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-use-a-vpn">Why Use a VPN?</h2>
<p>If you are looking for <strong>privacy</strong> or an <strong>encrypted connection on the go</strong>, setting up a wireguard or openvpn server is a great way to do that. This established a secure connection to your home network and helps block attacks that could happen on the host network providing you internet in a hotel, coffee shop, or other public setting. Setting these up are free and the best way to protect your privacy while helping your maintain a secure connection.</p>
<p>The next use case for a VPN is torrenting or streaming media from another country (geo-unlock). All VPNs generally are advertised as being able to do this, but make sure the VPN does not LOG any user activities and has servers in the country you want to watch streaming from.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="corporate-vpns-and-the-big-tech-companies">Corporate VPNs and the Big Tech Companies</h2>
<p>Kape Technology</p>
<ul>
<li>ExpressVPN</li>
<li>CyberGhost</li>
<li>Private Internet Access</li>
<li>Intego Privacy Protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Ziff Davis</p>
<ul>
<li>IPVanish</li>
<li>StrongVPN</li>
<li>Encrypt.me</li>
<li>SaferVPN</li>
<li>Perimeter 81</li>
<li>FastVPN</li>
<li>Internet Shield VPN by VIPRE</li>
<li>SpeedtestVPN</li>
<li>netDNA</li>
</ul>
<p>Nord Security</p>
<ul>
<li>NordVPN</li>
<li>NordLayer</li>
<li>Surfshark VPN</li>
</ul>
<p>I could go on, but these are the heavy hitters in the market. Most other VPN conglomerates own 5-10 different VPN brands each.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-best-vpns">The Best VPNs</h2>
<p>These are independent VPNs that are owned by a single company and outside the 14-eyes countries. Mullvad is hosted in Sweden which doesn’t have laws to intercept traffic. Likewise, ProtonVPN is hosted in Switzerland which also doesn’t have these laws.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="final-tier-list">Final Tier List</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/vpn-tier-list-2024/vpns.webp" alt="vpn-tier-list-2024" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
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<p><strong>Zoxide</strong> is an enhanced version of the traditional <code>cd</code> command, drawing inspiration from tools like <code>z</code> and <code>autojump</code>. It’s designed to make navigating your filesystem faster and more intuitive by learning your habits. The more you use it, the smarter it gets, allowing you to “jump” to your most frequently used directories with minimal input.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Smart Directory Jumping:</strong> Navigate to your most used directories with just a few keystrokes.</li>
<li><strong>Cross-Shell Compatibility:</strong> Works seamlessly across all major shells.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive Selection:</strong> Use <code>zi</code> for interactive directory selection with <code>fzf</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Easy Installation:</strong> Simple setup process across various platforms.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started">Getting Started</h2>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="basic-commands">Basic Commands</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>z foo</code>: Jump to the highest-ranked directory matching <code>foo</code>.</li>
<li><code>z ~/foo</code>: Works just like <code>cd</code>, allowing navigation to absolute paths.</li>
<li><code>z ..</code>: Move up one directory level.</li>
<li><code>z -</code>: Return to the previous directory.</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="installation-steps">Installation Steps</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install Zoxide:</strong> Available for Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, and Android.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>All operating systems have zoxide in default repositories and can be installed by using the <code>zoxide</code> package</li>
</ul>
<ol start="2">
<li><strong>Shell Integration:</strong> Easily integrate zoxide into your preferred shell (Bash, Fish, Zsh, and more).</li>
<li><strong>Optional fzf Integration:</strong> For enhanced interactive selection, install <code>fzf</code> (v0.33.0+).</li>
</ol>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="configuration">Configuration</h3>
<p>Customize zoxide with various flags and environment variables:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command Prefix:</strong> Change the default <code>z</code> and <code>zi</code> commands with <code>--cmd</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Hooks:</strong> Adjust the frequency of directory score updates with <code>--hook</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Data Directory:</strong> Specify the database location with <code>_ZO_DATA_DIR</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Exclude Directories:</strong> Use <code>_ZO_EXCLUDE_DIRS</code> to exclude directories from zoxide’s database.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="integrations">Integrations</h2>
<p>Zoxide integrates with a wide range of applications, from file managers like <code>lf</code> and <code>ranger</code> to text editors like <code>vim</code> and <code>emacs</code>, enhancing your workflow across tools.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="links">Links</h2>
<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide">https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
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title: Comment on Invitation to Webinar: Europeans for the Belt and Road Initiative by Shoaib Kahut
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content: <p>I would love to attend this seminar</p>
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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/_TnjUNiyM8k" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 2]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnjUNiyM8k

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title: Windows Utility Improved
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<p>The Chris Titus Tech WinUtil is now the #2 Most Popular Powershell utility in the World on GitHub.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-does-it-do">What does it do?</h2>
<p>It has 5 main tabs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Program Installation - Check all the programs you want and click install in one go.</li>
<li>Tweaks - Disable Telemetry and cut down on running background services.</li>
<li>Config - Configure your system and launch legacy Win7 Control Panels.</li>
<li>Updates - Change Windows Update to only use Security Updates or Disable them altogether.</li>
<li>MicroWin - Create a minimal ISO to Install Windows.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-run-it">How to Run it?</h2>
<p>Launch Terminal(Admin) by right clicking Start Button</p>
<p>Type this command in to launch the toolbox</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">irm christitus.com/win | iex
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Want an EXE? Help fund the project:</p>
<p><a href="https://cttstore.com/">https://cttstore.com</a></p>
<p><em>NOTE: This exe is a wrapper for the command above. No purchase is needed to run the script!</em></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="improvements-in-2024">Improvements in 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Import and Export Commands
<ul>
<li><code>iex "&amp; { $(irm christitus.com/win) } -Config [path-to-your-config] -Run"</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Improved UI</li>
<li>Winget Installer uses 3 methods to install apps, System Scope, User Scope, and Unelevated.</li>
<li>Get Classic Right-Click Menu</li>
<li>Edge Removal</li>
<li>Co-Pilot Removal</li>
</ul>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="development-enhancements">Development Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed Unit Tests</li>
<li>Modular
<ul>
<li>Config Folder (All tweaks are in JSON format in their own file. <code>applications.json, tweaks.json, feature.json, etc.</code>)</li>
<li>Function Folder (All functions are independent: private functions are not in GUI and public functions are in GUI)</li>
<li>lint, logs, pester, releases are all github related actions and for debugging.</li>
<li>scripts Folder is for the main section setting up runspaces and launching GUI.</li>
<li>xaml folder is for the GUI.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5_AaHXrelTE?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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title: The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/the-lost-confucian-philosopher-gu-2:bd7750b4f6dd6dc3e0141d2e4e6f063cacb7f883
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/dbbIUn65ReY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 3]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbIUn65ReY

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title: The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
link: https://odysee.com/the-importance-of-embracing-historical:3bf77aca930e39de1c1b44116d9e017349ce3d8a
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/t2L9WQG9WjE" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Importance of Embracing Historical Truth (A Dialogue with Fehmi Krasniqi)"></p>In this presentation, film maker, researcher and philosopher Fehmi Krasniqi provides a concise demonstration of the origins of the metric system using water droplets- a lost discovery known to the ancient Egyptians and demonstrated in his film K19: The Great Pyramid. The importance of embracing the truth of the vast contributions to human civilization and the growth of ancient Egyptian science by black Africans is discussed at length as well as the existential importance of choosing the more difficult of the two paths ahead of humanity going into a very precarious future. Additionally, Fehmi's new documentary "The 10th Hieroglyph: Mother" is also discussed at the end of the presentation.<br><br>To Watch part one of this two part presentation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4LmigzNek<br><br>Watch the trailer for Fehmi's new film "The 10th Hieroglyph: The Mother" (en francais) here: https://youtu.be/hANujYTe1v0?si=eJjcxoaMgBsDL6uM<br><br>Watch K19: The Great Pyramid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAtkjy_YK4<br><br>Support Fehmi's work here:<br>https://www.gofundme.com/f/book-great-pyramid-k-2019<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2L9WQG9WjE

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

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

link:
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title: The Ultimate Powershell Experience
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<p>This PowerShell profile script introduces a comprehensive set of functions and aliases aimed at enhancing the PowerShell experience. It includes everything from module management and profile updates to utility functions and quality of life improvements.</p>
<p>GitHub Project: <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/powershell-profile">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/powershell-profile</a></p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="key-features">Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Module Management</strong>: Automatically installs the <code>Terminal-Icons</code> module if not present and imports it along with the Chocolatey profile if available.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Profile Updates</strong>: Includes a function <code>Update-Profile</code> to check for and apply updates to the PowerShell profile script from a specified URL.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PowerShell Updates</strong>: A function <code>Update-PowerShell</code> checks for and installs the latest PowerShell version using <code>winget</code>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Admin Check and Prompt Customization</strong>: Adjusts the prompt based on whether the user has administrator privileges and customizes the window title accordingly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Utility Functions</strong>: A collection of utility functions such as <code>Test-CommandExists</code>, <code>Edit-Profile</code>, <code>Get-PubIP</code>, <code>uptime</code>, <code>reload-profile</code>, <code>unzip</code>, <code>hb</code> (for uploading documents), <code>grep</code>, <code>df</code>, <code>sed</code>, <code>which</code>, <code>export</code>, <code>pkill</code>, <code>pgrep</code>, <code>head</code>, and <code>tail</code>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Quick File and Directory Management</strong>: Functions for creating new files (<code>nf</code>), and making and changing directories (<code>mkcd</code>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Quality of Life Aliases</strong>: Includes shortcuts for navigation (<code>docs</code>, <code>dtop</code>), editing the profile (<code>ep</code>), process management (<code>k9</code>), enhanced listing (<code>la</code>, <code>ll</code>), Git shortcuts (<code>gs</code>, <code>ga</code>, <code>gc</code>, <code>gp</code>, <code>g</code>, <code>gcom</code>, <code>lazyg</code>), system information (<code>sysinfo</code>), networking utilities (<code>flushdns</code>), and clipboard utilities (<code>cpy</code>, <code>pst</code>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Enhanced PowerShell Experience</strong>: Sets <code>PSReadLine</code> options for color coding and initializes <code>oh-my-posh</code> with a specified theme for a better visual experience.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>This PowerShell profile script is designed to streamline and enhance the PowerShell user experience, incorporating a wide range of functions and aliases that cater to various needs from system administration to development tasks.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lePxtkrblRE?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" title="YouTube video" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
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title: Hastebin
link: https://christitus.com/hastebin/
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<p>Hastebin is a simple and efficient tool for sharing code snippets and text online. It’s particularly useful for developers and content creators who need to quickly share pieces of code or logs without the hassle of setting up a more complex environment. Here’s a quick guide on how to use Hastebin:</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="getting-started-with-hastebin">Getting Started with Hastebin</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Access Hastebin</strong>: Open your web browser and go to <a href="http://bin.christitus.com/">http://bin.christitus.com</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Create a New Paste</strong>: Simply start typing in the large text area on the Hastebin homepage. Once you begin typing, Hastebin automatically creates a new paste.</li>
</ol>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="saving-and-sharing">Saving and Sharing</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Save Your Paste</strong>: To save your paste, press <code>Ctrl+S</code> or click on the ‘Save’ icon in the top right corner. Hastebin will then generate a unique URL for your paste.</li>
<li><strong>Share Your Paste</strong>: Share the URL with anyone you want to have access to your text. They can view it directly in their browser without needing to log in or create an account.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="additional-features">Additional Features</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Duplicate</strong>: You can create a new paste based on the current one by clicking the ‘Duplicate’ button. This is useful for making modifications without altering the original paste.</li>
<li><strong>Raw View</strong>: For a plain text version of your paste, click on the ‘Raw’ button. This is particularly useful for embedding the text in other applications.</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="powershell-function">PowerShell Function</h2>
<p>Quickly upload a file via this function</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="gdscript3" data-sanitized-class="language-gdscript3"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="n">function</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hb</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">args</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">.</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Length</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">eq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"No file path specified."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">args</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span><span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Test</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="ne">Path</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Get</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">FilePath</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Raw</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span> <span data-sanitized-class="k">else</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"File path does not exist."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/documents"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">try</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Invoke</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">RestMethod</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Method</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Post</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Body</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Content</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">ErrorAction</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Stop</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">hasteKey</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">.</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">key</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">url</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/$hasteKey"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Output</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">url</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">catch</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">Write</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">Error</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Failed to upload the document. Error: $_"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="bash-function">Bash Function</h2>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="gdscript3" data-sanitized-class="language-gdscript3"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="n">function</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hb</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">{</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="c1"># -eq 0 ]; then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"No file path specified."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">elif</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">!</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">f</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$1"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">];</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"File path does not exist."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">return</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">uri</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/documents"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=$</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">curl</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">s</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">X</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">POST</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">d</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$(cat "</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="mi">1</span><span data-sanitized-class="s2">")"</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"$uri"</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">if</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">[</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="err">?</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">eq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="mi">0</span> <span data-sanitized-class="p">];</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">then</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">hasteKey</span><span data-sanitized-class="o">=$</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">$</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">response</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">|</span> <span data-sanitized-class="n">jq</span> <span data-sanitized-class="o">-</span><span data-sanitized-class="n">r</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s1">'.key'</span><span data-sanitized-class="p">)</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"http://bin.christitus.com/$hasteKey"</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="k">else</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">echo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="s2">"Failed to upload the document."</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> <span data-sanitized-class="n">fi</span>
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"><span data-sanitized-class="p">}</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="syntax-highlighting">Syntax Highlighting</h2>
<p>Hastebin supports syntax highlighting for multiple programming languages, which makes it easier to read code snippets. The site automatically detects the language based on the syntax, but you can also manually specify the language by using the appropriate file extension in the URL (e.g., <code>http://bin.christitus.com/example.py</code>).</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h3>
<p>Hastebin is a handy tool for anyone looking to share text or code snippets quickly and efficiently. Its ease of use and no-nonsense approach make it a favorite among many in the tech community.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
<div>
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<p><strong>I have some exciting news!</strong> I just launched <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified">a crowdfunding campaign</a> for a new online course I plan to produce. It's called <strong>Web Components Demystified</strong>, and it aims to explore web components holistically, covering not only the details of the collective standards behind web components, but also how they're being used across the web today and what's ahead as well. <strong>The time for learning web components is now</strong> and I intend to help teams get up to speed with all they can do.</p>
<iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified/widget/video.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"> </iframe>
<p>You can find out more about the project, and secure access to the course materials over one Kickstarter, where you'll find various reward tiers for individual and discounted team access, all at an early bird rate.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified" data-sanitized-class="wcd-ksbutton">Help this project succeed on <img src="https://scottjehl.com/assets/wcd-kickstarter.png" alt="Web Components Demystified on Kickstarter"></a></p>
<p>I've set up a <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">project site</a> as well.</p>
<h2>Back the Project Now and Save!</h2>
<p>The campaign will run through June 8, and it needs to meet its goal in order to be funded at all. Of course, my hope is to exceed its goal so that I can consider ways to increase the scope and quality of the course, and perhaps offer in-person and online team training for the material in the fall.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether it has already met its goal, <strong>it's advantageous to back the project now</strong> as you'll save with early bird pricing that will increase after the campaign finishes. Thank you so much for your support. Here's hoping <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified">the campaign</a> succeeds!</p>


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


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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/J7-7NxjVy0A" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="TRAILER: Calypso's Island Energy Wars (1 min)"></p>Watch the full episode here<br>https://youtu.be/-pX1Hf3U2tM<br><br>And watch episode 1 here <br>https://youtu.be/eH9qaTawttE<br><br>and episode 2 here<br>https://youtu.be/gv97LL4LUNw<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation's work by any of the following ways:<br><br>1) Sponsor these videos by making a donation on Paypal, Patreon or Wordpress<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substacks at<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-7NxjVy0A

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

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

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


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

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

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


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<p>There is a video called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nY_cy8zcO4">Don’t Contribute to Open Source</a> by Theo t3 and most people don’t understand its purpose or didn’t watch the entire video.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-video-problem">The Video Problem</h2>
<p>The problem wasn’t the video itself but the title. Only 30-40% of people watch a video all the way through AND an even higher percentage of those people do NOT understand GitHub.</p>
<p>So the takeaway most took from the video is NOT to contribute to open source projects. When the intent of the video was to NOT make needless Pull Requests to projects and bog down Open Source Maintainers.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-contribute-to-open-source">How to contribute to Open Source</h2>
<ol>
<li>Start with Issues and capturing bugs in software. This helps you understand the issues with using the given project.</li>
<li>Develop a fix for the issue and submit a pull request</li>
<li>Wait for the project maintainer to approve and merge your PR.</li>
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<h3 data-sanitized-id="pull-request-etiquette">Pull Request Etiquette</h3>
<ul>
<li>Do NOT make massive changes. Batching tons of fixes into one PR is a BAD idea. Fix one thing and submit it for the feature you are working on. Multiple features = Multiple Pull Requests.</li>
<li>Do NOT make massive formatting changes. Using an extension like prettier and changing every line in a code is a good way to get banned from the project.</li>
<li>If it is a complex feature pull request. Consider making multiple commits in your PR. Example: Fixing error checking commit, new function commit, etc. The idea is to make it easier to read what is happening in the Pull request. Breaking it up in to multiple commits helps the maintainer understand what your LARGE PR is doing. Again, if it starts effecting multiple features… Consider breaking it in to two or more pull requests.</li>
<li>Check project documentation for branch submissions. Some projects do not want you to commit to main. They might have a beta or test branch they want submissions to go to. Be careful on which branch you are using.</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-if-you-are-not-a-developer">What if you are NOT a Developer</h2>
<p>Learning to submit issues properly on Github is a tremendous help. As someone that maintains one of the biggest powershell scripts in the world, most issues are poorly presented or documented. Instead of making an issue that says “It don’t work!”, do the following:</p>
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<li>Document the Steps you take.</li>
<li>Screenshot the error.</li>
<li>Establish what you EXPECT it to do.</li>
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<p>Do not do a massive text dump! Instead use the attach button if you are uploading a large log file. As a general rule of thumb, if it more than 15-20 lines long… It should be an attachment so it doesn’t clutter up the issue thread.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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<p>Here are the steps and pros/cons of using a Home Theater PC (HTPC) for your home entertainment system.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-system">The System</h2>
<p>I’m using a Mini PC from Beelink (model SER8) with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845U processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. It has a built-in AMD 780M GPU and runs Windows 11 Pro.</p>
<p>No external GPU is needed for this system, as it’s powerful enough to handle 4K video playback and light gaming. For some this is sufficient as a main machine, but for me, I want to use this system for some couch gaming.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-setup">The Setup</h2>
<p>Out of the box these mini PC systems are configured in a balanced mode, which is fine for most users. However, I wanted to tweak the system to get the most out of it for my use case. I set the power plan to high performance, disabled the sleep mode, and set the display to never turn off. I also modified bios settings to always run at max power.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/bios.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<p>Other Tweaks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chris Titus Tech’s Windows Utility - Standard Tweaks applied - <a href="https://github.com/christitustech/winutil">GitHub Guide</a></li>
<li>Tweaked resolution with <a href="https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU">Custom Resolution Utility</a></li>
<li>Resolution set to 1080p for gaming (Note: If you have performance issues, you can lower the resolution to 720p)</li>
<li>Installed <a href="https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software">Radeon Software</a> for GPU settings</li>
<li>Steam Installed and Set to Big Picture Mode on Startup (Controller used for all gaming)</li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-performance">The Performance</h2>
<p>I tested this out on stream with various games and it performed well. I was able to match the advertised FPS per the manufacturer’s website.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/game-fps.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="livestream-benchmarks">Livestream Benchmarks</h3>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="io-ports-for-beelink-ser8">IO Ports for Beelink SER8</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/home-theater-pc/io.webp" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="pros-and-cons">Pros and Cons</h2>
<p>The pros of this type of system is portability, speed, and power consumption. The cons are the lack of upgradability and the need for an external GPU for more demanding games. Also, Don’t expect above 60 FPS on modern AAA games.</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/jruQplClvfM" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Lost Confucian Philosopher Gu Hongming and the Chinese Religion of Good Citizenship [part 4]"></p>The Rising Tide Foundation reading group continues studying the introductory text to confucian philosopher and educational reformer Gu Hongming (download the essay here: https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gu_Hongming_and_Chinese_Religion_of_Good.docx<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruQplClvfM

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/b512759d3e9f511c547c058dc21a331e.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Mariupol 2024: construction, renovations, pulse of life"></p>On my last visit to Mariupol, one morning I walked ~15 minutes (if I didn't keep stopping to film) from the centre to the site of newly constructed apartment buildings. While doing so, I kept stopping every 5 or so metres to film renovations on the street I was walking on, so prevalent are the ongoing renovations.<br><br>I would like to reiterate that rags like the Guardian which claim Mariupol was completely "destroyed" were/are lying through their teeth, as they did re Syria (where the Guardian rendered terrorists into fuzzy "rebels" and whitewashed al-Qaeda in Syria (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/)). They also do not mention the reason for what damage and destruction there was in Mariupol (In summary: Ukrainian troops, and Azov Nazis, occupying upper floors of apartment buildings and firing on Russian troops (and also on civilians).<br><br>I'll be writing an article which will address some of the dirty tricks the Guardian used in an article (2023) I only recently came across, wherein they grossly distorted satellite images to fit their lying narrative that Mariupol was completely destroyed (as in levelled like the US actually did to Raqqa, or as Israel actually has been doing all over the Gaza Strip). <br><br>For now, this clip, which includes some conversations I had with a woman who lived in Mariupol during 2022 (when Ukraine was severely bombarding Donetsk (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/), where she was from), and her notes on changes in Mariupol that surprised even her.

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

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title: The dubious legend: Jim Simons and RenTec Medallion Fund
author: ;Alex Krainer
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<p>The legendary investor behind Renaissance Technologies (RenTec), <strong>Jim Simons</strong> passed away on Friday, 10 May 2024. May he rest in peace. Having said that, I have to address all the fawning commentary that burst forth all over the internet over the weekend. Example: an admirer posted <a href="https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1788972147567661394">a Tweet stating in all caps that</a>, “IF YOU INVESTED JUST $1,000 IN JIM SIMONS MEDALLION FUND IN 1988 YOU WOULD HAVE OVER $42 MILLION DOLLARS, [BLA, BLA, BLA…]”</p>



<p>There’s a number of reasons why I don’t buy <em>the legend</em> of the RenTec Medallion fund or their performance figures, and neither should you. Over the last 25 years, I’ve devoted a good deal of time and effort into researching the performance of active investment managers and found that while there are some outliers, over the long term the best among the best tend to perform in the mid to high <em>teens</em>: around 16-17%. The outliers may go to low 20s, but almost invariably, such outperformance (like <strong>Peter Lynch</strong>) overlaps a major boom cycle, or like <strong>Buffett</strong>, they systematically follow the momentum strategy (even while they sell it as ‘value investing’). In that context, it is very extraordinary to encounter a fund that managed to outperform even <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong>, delivering a 62% performance for over three decades wit zero negative years. According to themselves, that is.</p>



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<h2 data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>The strategy: mostly mumbo jumbo</strong></h2>



<p>The company is very secretive, and for the longest time Simons has been reluctant to discuss the fund’s performance. But he has given some interviews, and here’s how he explained the fund’s strategies: “Our trading models tend to be contrarian, buying stocks recently out of favor and selling those recently in favor.” Having spent over 25 years researching markets and price fluctuations, I would award Simons zero credibility points for that particular statement. It is extremely unlikely that the fund earned 62% <em>buying stocks out of favor and selling those in favor</em>. Not. A. Chance!!!</p>



<p>In a November 2000 interview with <em>Institutional Investor</em>, Simons offered a different, but slightly more detailed explanation of Medallion’s strategy: “We look at anomalies that may be small in size and brief in time. We make our forecast. Then, shortly thereafter, we reevaluate the situation and revise our forecast and our portfolio. We do this all day long. We’re always in and out and in. So we’re dependent on activity to make money.” Err… that sounds like high-frequency trading – why hasn’t anyone else thought of that?</p>



<p>I’ve come across another few statements from Simons, including crediting his success to luck (what, for 3 decades straight and without a single ‘unlucky’ year in between?). In all, I never found anything that felt even half-way authentic; it’s all <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-07/worlds-most-successful-hedge-fund-manager-ever-reveals-some-medallions-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mostly mumbo-jumbo</a> about “a great computing system, good scientists and low turnover,” at the core of the company and about never stopping improving the models to stay a step ahead of competition, bla, bla, bla…</p>



<p>According to Simons, Renaissance was basically doing what all other active hedge fund managers do. Yet somehow they outperformed the best of the best by a factor of 3 – and over a 33-year period!! Why would anyone believe such a story without independent verification (there is no independent verification) is a mystery all in itself.</p>



<p><strong>Believe us… because we say so!</strong></p>



<p>Medallion is open only to company insiders, so there’s no independent administrators, independent accounting nor external auditing of its performance: they can report whatever figures they like and I can think of a few reasons why they might like to spike those figures. Would you be surprised that <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-14/irs-claiming-hedge-fund-owes-it-68-billion-dollars-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a dispute arose</a> when the IRS wanted to collect its due share of those famed profits. It appeared that RenTec short-changed the IRS by a whopping $6.8 billion over a 15-year period. Was it because the firm’s profits weren’t quite as rich as advertised? We don’t know because RenTec settled quitely with the IRS. But wait, there’s more…</p>



<p>In 2005, RenTec launched the Renaissance Institutional Equities Fund (RIEF). Unlike their insider-only Medallion fund, RIEF was open to outside investors and Simons expressed the hope that it could grow to $100 billion under management. Well, who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to invest in such a stellar outfit? But somehow, in spite of the very same “good scientists, good computing systems, and low turnover,” RIEF turned out to be a disappointing flop. From launch in July 2005 to its closing in 2009, the fund lost 4.42%.</p>



<p>These figures were reported in a 17 Feb. 2010 Financial Times article by hedge funds correspondent <strong>Sam Jones</strong>. Interestingly however, all traces of that article have subsequently been removed from the internet. That’s a sure sign of power public relations agency work. Another of RenTec’s funds open to outside investors, the Renaissance Institutional Futures Fund (RIFF) performed even worse than RIEF and had a short shelf-life. But wait, there’s more…</p>



<p>Like many famed, high-flying outfits, RenTec has strong deep-state and political connections. Before setting up his investment management firm, Jim Simons worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses under the auspices of the National Security Agency. RenTec’s long-time CEO, <strong>Robert Mercer</strong> (1993-2017) was also recruited from the defense industry (before joining the firm he worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base) and became a huge political donor with very extensive involvement in politics. In 2015, <em>The Washington Post</em> called Mercer one of the ten most influential billionaires in politics.</p>



<p>There’s more still, but as fascinating as the case of Renaissance Technologies may be, my point is simple: the legend of RenTec doesn’t pass the smell test and its stellar reputation is almost entirely based on what RenTec and their paid PR agents have to say about RenTec. </p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/f1733259b8805d5e14c0e6e4b6e5d6b2.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" eva bartlett joins rbn live. zionists push censorship regime. truth about north korea></p>Conversation on RBN yesterday on matters occupied Palestine &amp; a bit about my DPRK visit (2017) &amp; impressions. <br><br>First pubished here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ACBnHZmxeBw<br><br>My Related:<br><br>-My entries from occupied Palestine, April-December 2007 (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/)<br><br>-Overview of time in West Bank (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/)<br><br>-Huwara lines: one of Israel’s degrading &amp; deadly military checkpoints (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/huwara-lines-one-of-israels-degrading-deadly-military-checkpoints/)<br><br>-We were arrested for protesting Israel’s illegal roadblock cutting Sarra village off from Nablus (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/ )<br><br>-Illegal Israeli colonists assault Palestinian farmers &amp; me (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/ )<br><br>-Bil'in entries (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/bilin/)<br><br>-Susiya entries (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/susiya/)<br><br>-Nablus After the Israeli Military Invasion (https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/nablus-invasion-aftermath/ )<br><br>-Israeli massacre of Gaza December2008-January 2009 (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/)<br><br>-Israeli massacre of Gaza November 2012 (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/)<br><br>-Gaza overview (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/)<br><br>-Gaza videos playlist (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Gaza-Strip%2C-from-Nov-2008-March-2013:c?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6)<br><br>-DPRK overview (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/)<br><br>-DPRK videos playlist (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/DPRKorea%2C-a-visit-to-the-north%2C-2017:e?lid=e2e1e1158cfb7640c4e42a3d212b189d7c941c7d) <br><br>[Excuse the blurred background, couldn't figure out how to unblur.]<br><br>

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title: Bill Burch RTF science
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/AkM37Af7SRA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Bill Burch RTF science"></p>Since the start of 2008, there's been a quiet monster growing in the USA oil fields of how to dispose of the radioactive isotope laden, toxic heavy metal contaminated waters that come with the oil and gas production. As the number of wells drilled increased, so did the size and extent of the problem - and nowhere is it more evident than the Zombie Wells phenomena happening in the Permian Basin. Three of the five biggest Earthquakes in Texas' history have occured in the last 18 months and the regulators still haven't addressed the issues surrounding the proven groundwater pollution that's already occured.<br><br>Join the Canadian Patriot Review for a special live presentation and Q and A where special guest Bill Burch<br><br>Speaker Bio: William “Bill” Burch is an oilwell firefighter and drilling engineer based out of Houston, Texas. He’s worked in 60+ countries and holds patents in water treatment and hydrogen production. Bill recently ran for executive office in the State of Texas for the Texas Railroad Commission which is one of the most powerful Energy positions in the United States.<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>4) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkM37Af7SRA

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/6c3bf420c0f039aa3aa8471b09cf6a05.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Canadian journalist &amp; author, Yves Engler, on Canada's complity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza"></p>I spoke with prolific Canadian journalist and author Yves Engler about Canada's unconditional support to Israel, even, or especially, as Israel has slaughtered up to nearly 200, 000 Palestinians in Gaza (Lancet), or potentially double that number (Gilbert). <br><br>Yves lays out Canada's long history of support to Israel, including during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza, and including over 7 decades ago with Canadian pilots participating in the Zionists'  ethnic cleansing of Palestine. <br><br>He talks about Canada's arms to Israel, and providing components to the fighter planes which bomb Gaza now, and about the Canadians fighting in the Israeli army, and those being recruited by various charities and organizations in Canada.<br><br>Important information you won't hear on legacy media.<br><br>Yves is author of 13 books, and publishes at yvesengler.com &amp; https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/articles?author=57f2952659cc6814c896c9fa   <br><br>He tweets at https://x.com/EnglerYves <br><br>Some of his books:<br>https://www.barakabooks.com/?post_type=dd-product&amp;s=yves+engler <br><br><br>My blog post with related links:<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/canadian-journalist-author-yves-enger-on-canadas-complity-in-israels-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/<br>

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title: RTF Montreal Symposium part 1: Matthew Ehret on Science of History and global dynamics of 1776
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/vPDeDNHuRRg" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Montreal Symposium part 1: Matthew Ehret on Science of History and global dynamics of 1776"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part one: On the Tragedy and Hope of the American Revolution<br><br>In this first of three presentations delivered to a live audience in Montreal Canada, Matthew Ehret introduces the study of history as a function of science and a study of potential (both actualized and aborted) using the case study of the American revolution and the failure of the people of Canada and France to recognize the proper principles of the universe at play during the pregnant moments that pressed upon either nation...<br><br>Watch part 2 here: https://youtu.be/f2z89mzVwFs<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>4) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDeDNHuRRg

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/f2z89mzVwFs" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Symposium pt 2: Cynthia Chung on the Tragedy of the French Revolution &amp; Jacobin Birth of Fascism"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part two: How the French Revolution was subverted, by British Masonic and Dominican psyops, and the 18th century origins of fascism: from the Jacobin Terror to Giuseppe Mazzini and Pan Europa by Cynthia Chung<br><br>Watch part 1 by Matthew Ehret here: https://youtu.be/vPDeDNHuRRg<br><br>Watch part 3 by David Gosselin here: https://youtu.be/L5l3LwqkGMY<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>4) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2z89mzVwFs

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/L5l3LwqkGMY" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RTF Symposium pt 3: David Gosselin on Breaking out of Tragedy with Friedrich Schiller"></p>Universal History as a Function of Science and Art Montreal Canada July 6, 2024<br><br>Part 3: Schiller vs the Savages and the Barbarians (or 'The Art of the Republics) by David Gosselin<br><br>Watch part 1 by Matthew Ehret here: https://youtu.be/vPDeDNHuRRg<br><br>Watch part 2 by Cynthia Chung here: https://youtu.be/f2z89mzVwFs<br><br>Subscribe to David Gosslin's work here:<br>https://ageofmuses.substack.com/ and thechainedmuse.com<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Buy some RTF Merchandise:<br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/merchandise/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5l3LwqkGMY

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<p>With Crowdstrike proving that it should NOT be used, here are some alternatives for MSPs and Enterprise users.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="why-move-from-crowdstrike">Why move from Crowdstrike</h2>
<ul>
<li>Kernel Panics on RHEL systems June 2024 <a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083">https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083</a></li>
<li>Global Outage on Windows Systems July 2024</li>
<li>Failure to follow client staging options. (Many MSPs reported that Crowdstrike failed to honor N-1 update policy and pushed updates anyways)</li>
<li>Crowdstrike June 2024 update caused 100% CPU spikes on single core. <a href="https://www.thestack.technology/crowdstrike-bug-maxes-out-100-of-cpu-requires-windows-reboots/">https://www.thestack.technology/crowdstrike-bug-maxes-out-100-of-cpu-requires-windows-reboots/</a></li>
<li>CEO used to be McAfee CTO during global outage in 2010 McAfee update that deleted svchost file and caused BSODs. <a href="https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/defective-mcafee-once-caused-worldwide-meltdown-of-windows-xp-pcs/story">https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/defective-mcafee-once-caused-worldwide-meltdown-of-windows-xp-pcs/story</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="residential-users">Residential Users</h2>
<p>In 2024, just use Windows Defender at this point. There is no reason to pay for an antivirus or security software for a home user in a non-managed scenario.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="msp--enterprise-users">MSP / Enterprise Users</h2>
<p>The list of Crowdstrike Alternatives</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="1-huntress">1. Huntress</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.huntress.com/">https://www.huntress.com/</a></p>
<p>Huntress is a unique managed security software in that it does NOT use its own antivirus. They use Windows Defender and have a robust reporting system. Most MSPs and technicians I talk to this is the pick for them. Pricing on this starts around $5 a seat per month and drops to about $2-3 a seat per month with 500+ users.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="2-blackpoint-security">2. Blackpoint Security</h3>
<p><a href="https://blackpointcyber.com/">https://blackpointcyber.com/</a></p>
<p>Blackpoint is the runner-up but also has a good track record in the MSP space. I personally have never dealt with them, but heard good things.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="3-sentinelone-security">3. SentinelOne Security</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.sentinelone.com/">https://www.sentinelone.com/</a></p>
<p>Probably the cheapest on this list, but also has a decent track record. I personally don’t like the client because it is heavy and the reporting is too noisy. However, it does give good protection.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-others">The Others</h3>
<p>BitDefender, Webroot, and other popular AV name brands are NOT suitable in my opinion for use in a large environment.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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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://thumbnails.lbry.com/IE6DtxyuOjk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Unravelling the World-Historic Achievement Called the American Revolution with Nancy Spannaus"></p>As the world careens into a storm of epoch-shifting proportions, it is incumbant on citizens and leaders to keep their heads on their shoulders and move with the greatest poise and understanding of those historical dynamics shaping our world. And so, it is my greatest pleasure to host the historian and author Nancy Spannaus (author of Hamilton vs Wall Street and Defeating Slavery) during this Sunday’s RTF weekly lecture.<br><br>The real nature of the American Revolution has always been controversial, and today is no exception. Was it, as Abraham Lincoln said, a nation dedicated to the principle that "all men are created equal" and dedicated to using the power of government to achieve that goal?  Or was it a complex power struggle, which enshrined the libertarian principle that rejects the idea of the general welfare, and pits the individual against the any exercise of power?<br><br>In her talk today on Sunday Aug. 4 at 2pm Eastern Time, Nancy will introduce this topic with a discussion of the Declaration of Independence, and then delve into a historical review of the "Causes of the American Revolution," and an analysis of "How Revolutionary was the American Revolution." For reference, much of the material in her talks have been introduced in her 2023 book, Defeating Slavery: Hamilton's American System Showed the Way, available from Amazon in ebook and soft cover.<br><br>Buy Nancy's books here:<br>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNP5RY3N?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4EV8QVEABBGNWJK0FJRK<br><br>and here:<br>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNP5RY3N?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4EV8QVEABBGNWJK0FJRK<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=IE6DtxyuOjk

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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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title: The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/DncisMFT_BQ" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation?"></p>In this new film, the Arctic is presented as you've never imagined it: Both as a strategic battleground over the future of the human species today, and as pivot of world history shaping the Russia-USA partnership that saved the Union during the Civil War.<br><br>This film showcases how the Arctic represents either a domain of total warfare, or represents the basis of a new era of rail development and friendship among world civilizations characterizing the end of the 19th century. If you didn't know why Russia sold Alaska to the USA in 1867, or why the two transcontinental railways (Russian and American) completed by 1905 werre meant to extend through the Bering Strait (as was planned by Lincoln and Czar Alexander II) then this film is for you.<br><br>The Arctic: Theater of War or Global Cooperation' introduces this sweeping history and thereby helps the viewer understand the real reasons Canada remained loyal to the British Empire in 1867, and how the age of assassinations and war overturned that paradigm of cooperation ushering in a war-ravaged 20th century. <br><br>We also introduce the attempted revival of this positive vision in the form of the FDR-Wallace plans to build rail and roads across the Bering Strait during WW2, and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's plans to adopt a northern vision during the 1950s-1960s, leading all the way up to Donald Trump's plans for an Alaska-Canada railway in 2020 and the Russia-China Polar Silk Road today.<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DncisMFT_BQ

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title: Venezuela &amp; The Resistance Fight Against Yankee Imperialism with Eva Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/9086a55a775c6310e51fbc394f2614cb.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Venezuela &amp; The Resistance Fight Against Yankee Imperialism with Eva Bartlett"></p>Wednesday, August 7, 2024<br>[ https://rumble.com/v5a1xeb-venezuela-and-the-resistance-fight-against-yankee-imperialism.html] <br><br>Eva Bartlett, independent journalist who goes to the places she talks about. Based in Russia with extensive, ground-based knowledge in West Asia including Gaza, Syria and Donbass. But Eva has also been to Venezuela which is why she's here today to talk about the similarities the country faces today as well as connections that operation could have in the Middle East.<br><br>"Fi" Fiorella Isabel:<br>===============<br>Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM<br>Fiorella Isabel on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-5021915<br>Fiorella In Moscow YT: https://www.youtube.com/@FiorellaInMoscow<br><br>**<br><br>My Related Links:<br><br>My Venezuela (2019) playlist:<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Venezuela:1e?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&amp;lid=1e213e88fef5948f7c2faafebe20bf423242a37b<br><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>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/

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Crimean Tatar &amp; Interethnic and Interfaith Relations Chair, Ibraim Shirin, Counters Western Lies on Crimea

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/85ab680cf4f354c2c233d6ad4409b733.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Crimean Tatar &amp; Interethnic and Interfaith Relations Chair, Ibraim Shirin, Counters Western Lies on Crimea"></p>This interview was conducted in Simferopol, Crimea, May 2024.  <br><br>Mr. Shirin Ibraim Reshatovich, Chairman of the Commission on Interethnic and Interfaith Relations and Public Diplomacy in the Public Chamber of the Republic of Crimea—is himself Tatar. The West has for years tried to claim Tatars are oppressed in Crimea &amp; didn't support the 2014 referendum to (rejoin) join Russia. Listen to this delightful man to hear the truth on how life improved dramatically for Tatars in Crimea, and for Crimeans as a whole! <br><br>—My related 2019 article after visiting Crimea then: Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/)

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title: #33 make me one (input) with everything
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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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<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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<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>
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<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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<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/label"><code>&lt;label&gt;</code> on MDN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label"><code>aria-label</code> on MDN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/placeholder"><code>placeholder</code> on MDN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/title"><code>title</code> on MDN</a></li>
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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>
<li>Resilient Reusable Patterns</li>
<li>Practice Prompts</li>
<li>Framework &amp; Library Tours</li>
<li>Certificate of Completion</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>
<p><a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Find out a lot more on the course website and enroll today!</a></p>


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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: Schiller's On the Beautiful (RTF Reading)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/Fd6_sxBMP-M" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Schiller's On the Beautiful (RTF Reading)"></p>Click here to download the reading (translated by William Wertz)<br><br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Philosphical-and-Aesthetical-Writings-of-Friedrich-Schiller.docx<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd6_sxBMP-M

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title: An Afternoon of Geopolitical Insights with Joaquin Flores
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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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(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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<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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author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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Maria Butina, Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee member, discusses her politicized incarceration in the United States and describes the horrific conditions in US prisons

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/00041b1ef719473b808175f9c07d3421.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Maria Butina, Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee member, discusses her politicized incarceration in the United States and describes the horrific conditions in US prisons"></p>Maria Butina was a student of foreign affairs at the School of International Services (Washington, D.C.) in 2018 when she was convicted as acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and was imprisoned for 18 months—including 4 torturous months in solitary confinement.<br><br>In this conversation, Maria describes her incarceration and the harsh, inhumane and filthy conditions she experienced in various US prisons. She was subjected to psychological torture via sleep deprivation and prolonged isolation.<br><br>She now advocates for people facing political persecution. <br><br>“Now I help people who want to come to Russia, looking for asylum here, they fear their own state.”<br><br><br>Excerpts from her memoir, Prison diary, can be read here:  <br>https://www.rt.com/russia/507910-maria-butina-prison-book-journal/<br><br><br>[Regarding my reference to the likewise horrible conditions journalist and editor Kirill Vyshinsky endured, imprisoned without trial for nearly 1.5 years in Ukraine, see my 2019 interview with Kirill.]<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: The Most Popular Windows Utility
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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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<li>Use standard tweaks to improve Windows performance.</li>
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<li>I still recommend Security Updates policy. It delays security updates 4 days and feature updates up to 2 years. This ensures stability and reliability.</li>
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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>
<p>No customizations or removals of official Microsoft products… but no added bloatware or apps. Its just like Microsoft used to Package windows during the Windows 7 era.</p>
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<li>GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil</a></li>
<li>Download - <a href="https://christitus.com/downloads">https://christitus.com/downloads</a></li>
<li>Documentation - <a href="https://christitustech.github.io/winutil/">https://christitustech.github.io/winutil/</a></li>
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guid: https://odysee.com/rmskoe:1aa4c6b03e643b34ec5b35217fd68759c35e96a6
title: Ukrainian drone terrorism in my southeastern Moscow district
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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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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title: Hyprland Rices and COSMIC First Look
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title: How Saudi Arabia Broke Free of the Empire
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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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guid: https://odysee.com/TarikCyrilAmarPalestineZionismUkraine:aeb5604abd4a27e2eca6d69730e4d7f202ad2288
title: Tarik Cyril Amar on Palestine, Zionism, and Ukraine's failed tactics
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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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title: JACQUES BAUD: NATO ATTEMPTED TO DESTABILIZE &amp; THREATEN RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022
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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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' 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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title: Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 02
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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! Sharing this post would be very helpful and highly appreciated!</p></div><p 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="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/alliance-for-truth-kickstarter-campaign?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><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%2F8f7a9fa6-a228-4984-900d-bcc2752a8f26_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%2F8f7a9fa6-a228-4984-900d-bcc2752a8f26_1742x985.png" width="1456" height="823" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f7a9fa6-a228-4984-900d-bcc2752a8f26_1742x985.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":823,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2056107,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Two veteran Croatian journalists, <strong>Roman Latković</strong> and <strong>Branko Mijić</strong> have joined forces to launch an independent investigative news publishing outfit. 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,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>

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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: Iran missile attack: what we learned last night
author: ;Alex Krainer
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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,"align":null}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' alt="" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/b3eb93abd78f33b4f23a5be11ba78591.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="JACQUES BAUD: US MEDIA SHIFT NARRATIVE ON UKRAINE BEFORE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS"></p>Former Swiss intelligence, Jacques Baud, is author to numerous books, and offers critical commentary--while bringing needed historical context--on current issues.<br><br>In this conversation, Jacques speaks on the media's shift regarding reports on Ukraine, noting it aligns with the Biden administration needing some sort of perceived success before election (eg: peace talks).<br><br>He notes that Ukrainian media is more critical (than at first) of Zelensky, with even a recent Kiev Post article stating that the war is between the West &amp; Russia, on Ukrainian territory.<br><br><br>See our previous conversation: JACQUES BAUD: NATO THREATENED RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022

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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,"align":null}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' alt="undefined" title="undefined" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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,"align":null}' 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,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></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. A more recent title which covers much of the same curriculum is “<strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/alexkrainerstrendfollowingbible_pdf.pdf">Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible</a></strong>.” It has not won any awards, but I do believe that it is a better text nevertheless.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/have-they-weaponized-hurricanes?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/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><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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<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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<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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title: Ask me Anything with Matt Ehret (Occultism, Deep Politics, BRICS, Trump, and more)
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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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<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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<p>In “小人同而不和”,  the term 小人 in this context can be translated differently and better than villain. 小人 literally means the small minded men.</p>


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title: Cutting through Gordian Knots with Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/2DRqcNay6mo" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Cutting through Gordian Knots with Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret"></p>In this comprehensive roundtable, Mathew Crawford, Cynthia Chung and Matt Ehret share notes and discoveries pertaining to the subtle forces shaping our world.<br><br>Subscribe to Rounding the Earth here: https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DRqcNay6mo

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guid: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/eu-living-in-the-bankstas-paradise
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<p>European Union’s eventual collapse is a certainty - it has been for a very long time. It’s been rigged for demolition through its financial architecture which institutionalizes a system of governance that’s typical of all historical eras where moneylending oligarchies gained control of the political system. The predictable result of all this is that European economies are floundering: their entrepreneurial dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically suffocated and slowly consumed by the parasitic leech hidden behind the EU bureaucratic institutions. For the ordinary people and businesses, this system is driving a steady, inexorable descent into poverty.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png" width="1456" height="929" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0a91f8a-20e6-46a9-ac17-7972dca441c2_1777x1134.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":929,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":4977612,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>European Stability Mechanism</h2><p>One of the main components of Europe’s pathological financial architecture is the European Stability Mechanism (ESM): Eurozone’s permanent bailout fund. The ESM is not exactly a household name, but you can really think of it as a monstrous vampire leech attached to Europe’s economy. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/system/files/document/2023-10/05-TESM2-HR1.en12.pdf">treaty establishing the ESM</a> is an astonishing legal concoction which established a limitless, institutional conveyor belt of bailout funds from the European taxpayer, ultimately to the banking cartel. ESM’s capital was supposedly limited to €500 million (in some documents it says €700 million), but the Treaty sets no limits on the obligations imposed on European taxpayers, no room for negotiation, no legal recourse.</p><p>As drafted, the ESM Treaty was a violation of the EU Treaty (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) as well as constitutions and/or laws of EU member states as it restricts each member nation’s fiscal sovereignty. Ratifying it necessitated a dismayingly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_the_European_Stability_Mechanism">convoluted process</a> of amending the EU treaty and circumventing member states’ domestic laws. </p><p>It came to an initial vote in January 2012 when it was passed with barely a mention in the press. The ESM became operational in October 2012 even though it was never fully ratified by all member states. Here are some of the Treaty's provisions:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Article 8:</strong> the Treaty does not limit the fund capital to its authorized capital (€500 or €700 billion), but to its issue value which is up to the ESM’s board of governors to decide.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 9</strong>: "ESM members hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertake to pay on demand any capital call made on them... within seven days of receipt."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 19</strong>: ESM governors may extend the scope of the ESM’s operations. ESM may borrow funds to bail out insolvent Eurozone banks in capital markets, without approval by national parliaments.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 21</strong>: ESM can borrow funds from banks or other persons or institutions without any limits. ESM member nations shall guarantee and be liable for the repayment of these sums.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 25</strong>: if one or more ESM members fail to meet their obligations, the other members are liable for the shortfall in proportion to their share of the fund capital.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 30</strong>: "<strong>Governors, ... and staff members shall be immune from legal proceedings</strong> with respect to acts performed by them in their official capacity and shall enjoy inviolability in respect of their official papers and documents."</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 32</strong>: The ESM, its property, funding, and assets... shall enjoy <strong>immunity from every form of judicial process</strong> ... the ESM shall... be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation, or any form of seizure... by executive, judicial, administrative or legislative action." This article further stipulates that <strong>ESM shall be exempted from the legal requirement in any of the ESM member nations’ legal requirement to be authorized or licensed as a credit institution</strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 34</strong>: all ESM officials, governors and directors are to observe absolute professional secrecy in relation to any matter relating to the ESM.</p></li><li><p><strong>Article 35:</strong> directors and governors will enjoy full legal immunity beyond their time in office and in both international law and that of the EU member states.</p></li></ul><p>If we boil down the legal language of the ESM Treaty, we have an unelected, supra-national body that can allocate unlimited bailout funds, ultimately to the benefit of Eurozone’s failing banks, at their discretion and in perpetuity.</p><h2>A different social contract</h2><p>ESM officers may not be held accountable at law, nor can their decisions be challenged. Member nations must guarantee such funds, but they can’t challenge ESM’s decisions. Article 9 may well be titled, "Stand and deliver," and articles 30 and 32 amount to what <strong>Nicholas Rockefeller</strong> arrogantly called the bankers' KMA card (KMA = kiss my ass): we can do what we want and there is no agency of government that can limit our power, investigate our actions or hold us to account in any way whatsoever. If we gamble and win, the gains are ours. If we lose, all you debt serfs and tax donkeys must make us whole.</p><p>This is truly a different kind of social contract. It effectively reverses one of the 19<sup>th</sup> century’s key political achievements: the transfer of fiscal sovereignty from unaccountable monarchical bureaucracies to democratically accountable parliaments. It thereby nullifies any notion of democratic governance of the people, by the people and for the people. </p><p></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>This legislation is clearly of the bankers, by the bankers and for the bankers. The <a href="https://www.esm.europa.eu/legal-documents/esm-treaty">ESM treaty</a> was spearheaded by <strong>Mario Monti</strong>, former Goldman Sachs banker, one of the leaders of the Bilderberg group and a prominent member of the Trilateral Commission. He was enabled by another Goldman Sachs banker, <strong>Mario Draghi</strong> who had taken the helm of the ECB just in time for this heist, in November 2011.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg" width="1200" height="630" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b38fdc70-a8bc-41d6-a725-ffc04f73dfe9_1200x630.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":630,"width":1200,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Picture background","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="Picture background" title="Picture background" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Bankster gangsta: Mr. Mario Draghi</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Crushing the resistance</h2><p>For a few days in October 2011, a group of Slovakia's MPs actually looked into the contents of the treaty. They held out and refused to approve the ESM bailout funds arguing that it was wrong, punishing prudent nations (their banks, actually) and rewarding the profligate ones. <strong>Richard Sulik</strong>, the leader of Slovakia's liberals conveyed the scale of the heist when he said that, "Since we joined the EU, our net receipts from the Brussels budget have come to just over 1 billion EUR. Under ESM, we are liable for 13 billion!" </p><p>The EU and ECB came down hard and fast against Slovakia. Within 5 days the government fell and the parliament quickly ratified ESM funds. The ESM became the industrial-sized conveyor belt, transferring wealth from those who created it to the gamblers in financial markets. In doing so, the ESM removed all accountability and constraints on the gamblers to act responsibly. </p><p>Twelve years after the ESM was established, the ordinary Europeans have seen their standard of living collapse even if they can’t tell how or why that happened. According to Eurostat, in 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie/status/1848657092128727146">more than 45% of European people struggled to make ends meet</a>. In some nations, like Slovakia, more than 65% struggle. This is not exactly the prosperity we'd been promised.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png" width="968" height="1146" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcc1c785-2a48-484b-951c-ba094ab0fc2e_968x1146.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1146,"width":968,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":789164,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Of course, rather than fixing the system, the bankers will blame the Russians and demand war. Throughout history, when failure became undeniable and social pressures built up, the oligarchies always cried, “barbarians at the gates!” Then the military-aged men could be sent to fight and die in far off lands, safely away from the vampire leech’s seat of power.</p><p>As Mario Monti's BFF and fellow Trilateral Commission alumnus <strong>Zbigniew Brzezinski</strong> wrote in The Grand Chessboard, you get away with such schemes only "in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.<em>" </em>Therefore, that perception is being constantly manufactured for us: <strong>Putin </strong>evil, Russia bad. If you're disenfranchised and broke, blame the Russians who, by the way, are coming to get you! Real men go to war! </p><p>In spite of all that, socialism for the bankers will end as all socialist experiments have done through history: with stagflation (we're there already), hyperinflation (give it time), wars and civil wars (let us do all we can to avoid that outcome). It is time for the plebs to realize who the real enemy is.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/eu-living-in-the-bankstas-paradise?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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title: Google Chrome and Manifest V3 Testing
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<p>The Microsoft Recall situation is a serious issue as the feature has been spotted in all systems that are updated in 24H2. Let’s go over what this feature is and how it is implemented depending on your system.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-recall">What is Recall</h2>
<p>Microsoft Recall is a feature that takes screenshots every 5 seconds and OCR’s what is on your screen so it can “recall” anything you have done on your PC. This feature is a serious privacy concern as it can capture sensitive information. Microsoft has promised that it only stores this data locally and does not send it to their servers.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-on-24h2">Recall on 24H2</h2>
<p>This feature was initially said to only work with ARM-based CPUs with a Copilot+ chip or NPU chip. However, it has been spotted on all systems that have been updated to 24H2. What is it doing and is it active on all these x86 systems?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-check-or-disable-recall-feature">How to Check or Disable Recall Feature</h2>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">DISM /Online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Disable Recall</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p><em>Note: removing recall feature from an offline image breaks the new file explorer reverting its look to the old one.</em></p>
<p>Source files referenced in Feature located in <code>C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.AIX_cw5n1h2txyewy</code></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/microsoft-recall-situation/recall-aix-files.png" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-requirements">Recall Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>A Copilot+ PC
<ul>
<li>Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors</li>
<li>Intel’s Core Ultra processors</li>
<li>AMD’s AI 300 Series processors</li>
<li>Besides the Copilot+ Certification, it maybe possible with any CPU with a NPU chip.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Windows 24H2</li>
<li>16 GB RAM</li>
<li>8 logical processors</li>
<li>256 GB storage capacity
<ul>
<li>To enable Recall, you need at least 50 GB of space free</li>
<li>Snapshot capture automatically pauses once the device has less than 25 GB of disk space available</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="explorer-recall-problems">Explorer Recall Problems</h2>
<p>If you remove Recall from an offline image, the new file explorer will break and revert to the old one. This is was originally thought to be from the removal of the Recall feature, but it is actually due to the removal of the AIX package which in turn removes the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package.</p>
<p>This CBS package is a library responsible for the new file explorer and removing it will revert the file explorer to the old one.</p>
<p>So why did this happen? The AIX package (AKA Recall) manifest references the CBS package, so when you remove the AIX package, it removes the CBS package as well. MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy (File Explorer) is dependent on the Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy package but it is not referenced in the File Explorer manifest.</p>
<p>This would cause the new file explorer to break and revert to the old one because that package is a library that gives the new look to explorer with tabs.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-explorer-fix-in-offline-images">The Explorer Fix in Offline Images</h3>
<p>To fix the new file explorer in offline images, you need to add the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package back to the image. This can be done by adding the package back to the image using the following command:</p>
<p>This was done in pull request #2947 Source: <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files</a></p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # Detect Windows 11 24H2 and add dependency to FileExp to prevent Explorer look from going back - thanks @WitherOrNot and @thecatontheceiling
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if ((Test-CompatibleImage $imgVersion $([System.Version]::new(10,0,26100,1))) -eq $true)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> try
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if (Test-Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -PathType Leaf)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # Found the culprit. Do the following:
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 1. Take ownership of the file, from TrustedInstaller to Administrators
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> takeown /F "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /A
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 2. Set ACLs so that we can write to it
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> icacls "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /grant "$(Get-LocalizedUsers -admins $true):(M)" | Out-Host
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 3. Open the file and do the modification
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest = Get-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $originalLine = $appxManifest[13]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $dependency = "`n &lt;PackageDependency Name=`"Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS`" MinVersion=`"1.0.0.0`" Publisher=`"CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US`" /&gt;"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest[13] = "$originalLine$dependency"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> Set-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -Value $appxManifest -Force -Encoding utf8
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>Big shoutout to WitherorNot, CodingWonders, fish bazooka, and thecatontheceiling for figuring out the fix for the new file explorer in offline images and tracking down this information.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: Equality vs. Equity: The crisis of race-based admissions in Canadian universities
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Patrick Keeney | The Epoch Times</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Summary</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Toronto Metropolitan University’s recent decision to reserve seats in its new medical school<a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others" target="_blank"><span> based on race and identity</span></a> is far from an isolated instance, and represents a broader shift in Canadian universities. The movement from equality of opportunity to equity has redefined how institutions approach admissions, hiring, and advancement, but this explicit form of race-based discrimination directly contradicts the values that have long shaped Canadian society—the principle that discrimination based on race is wrong and has no place in a civilized world.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The legal framework in Canada allows for such policies, but critics warn that prioritizing proportional representation based on race, gender, and identity could compromise the pursuit of excellence in academia.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">As Queen’s University law professor <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Bruce Pardy aptly notes</a>, “In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups—and in particular against straight white men.” </p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/equality-vs-equity-the-crisis-of-race-based-admissions-in-canadian-universities-5746391" target="_blank">Continue reading at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>

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https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/equality-vs-equity-the-crisis-of-race-based-admissions-in-canadian-universities

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





















  
  



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

link:
https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/ford-demands-tmus-new-med-school-educate-qualified-students-regardless-of-their-race

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





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/for-students-not-being-disabled-is-the-new-disability-3210194" target="_blank">For Students, Not Being Disabled Is the New Disability</a> [Bruce Pardy, 2020]</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://download.ssrn.com/16/08/23/ssrn_id2828420_code81936.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAMaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCZkl7GYzZZpYASuZ7EdY7GE8sdyTxmgx647Tys8CUzSAIgTD%2BJ9u0Ad5S22fdvscist4yCkyWr45Io%2BVWkdYRSh4IqvgUIfBAEGgwzMDg0NzUzMDEyNTciDEkWTXe6zuFSCnp8NiqbBWHQpEOdOyGS0a8iNc8hLWuj4fI%2BRfnXOLeIXVyjrG8bO6Q1%2BLGkHkSaqEYqilfAGcF%2BuPWFLASETgESQnRar99GDGWlTTa3O6tmavFVy%2FVKqGw9ix9ufc8%2B4qxIsVVxv%2FjfoQ%2B%2F768mnrd6rZuTRtxXnu5%2BpUTXPouCkhRZOsBnbk8PHSMf1DTGQSu9ROOfiONXsJijXQZych8fI%2BG091cYDGurHbQPGtHsxuBT6hLuR5bvafme5zltUB9v%2FVciowU8vILM1jeDG9aMBoH5rNb9mtuhAVQbjr6xgJRfFqj%2B0W6TofAdAMBXKt4NwUzwr7F00zSJKS0ZHhVEzdooqfBfLYyN6Wp%2BqvZg6G66lmhTcqGIaexISngViU%2FGEMI4M1yg8tqi1EE%2BvOyWC9F1xUPWC1T%2BD1%2BM4JmNiXiKH9fOCMYUqjOw9FjCCWxwgCT9mLXchvoC4onmnTMKDsoIfK6sBjzkEwHvZsMs3C%2F3qDnvb0QrIXf62hldjSQP4JZRk1zLhEmXJ%2BmbK0OS0%2FPf5HEECpSMRprkUKhy%2Fco8Wna7ONg9jNaZDX81nblWBPQ%2FgAy9P1N40HiO4FAJjS3KnZOduCte9fANKyXaOHuRsio0lbNp%2F0KY2nwnvPm4KtmUJtaPKIA%2BhXwjf%2B4pYiqNKZ73t5U2upgMCBYJmc2IKDsAm%2Fk%2Fif2SxZkW%2FZVpZcN%2Fhwtou1rtwNgcRIXc%2FP9y0i0t89keyplN%2FoI1fjt0kbMvA23Wht9bHTK6%2B95tCoXc4AQkUW67Y%2Bd7l9QJhkdMJvGtTYgsk6Jr9Lcd5S9HWbOlsg%2BL45fMXTogfPqakB6YHmGSb1Qs9YgsCkfcHHMZcfMO%2By%2B6ikZrdYrr5fPTdbANzk3Dq2h1qFtUo9cwkPmJuQY6sQG6QOZratT1zA%2F%2FkvN5EYb8gv3QFXlTll0rFTc5yr4xq%2BfCQzETJZ%2FrXwk1hM2jRSk5vRne6jIFFxuZXTwIZeLosuGl2rtPZLVFJTrFpTCi71BK9xqybsiye5FLqiol2sQj1sVA2KnHU8QIBko58%2Fx%2BhxAtF2U44zLyQKO9lfs%2FogrN9kE2FO9OGUCTc%2FG0E2xVfCcTJy%2BQtRZMg4bP7EXXafcIvWpw96YZR2Hj1RW1y%2BY%3D&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20241030T191659Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=300&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWE5HUFIXK4%2F20241030%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=ac0bca1fda19cdcfbb00552dfd99ca7ca5e9a55b105df4e3814833bc9b59d966&amp;abstractId=2828420" target="_blank">Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Students with Cognitive and Mental Disabilities</a> [Bruce Pardy, 2016]</p>

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





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Bruce Pardy is executive director of </em><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/" target="_blank"><span><em>Rights Probe</em></span></a><em> and a professor of law at Queen’s University.</em></p>

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/tQN79fUjAyk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)"></p>In this first of two Rising Tide Foundation presentations delivered by Africa expert Lawrence Freeman, the truth of China's intentions, methods and philosophy for development are laid out with a focus on Africa and putting out fires of war. <br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN79fUjAyk

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

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