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“every human being is...equally unfree, that is, we...create out of freedom, a prison...” ― Otto Rank
North Vancouver Katılım Nisan 2020
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Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.
Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”
Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.
Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.
He suggested they use excavators instead.
Someone pushed back.
“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”
Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”
One sentence.
That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.
The teaspoon is not a punchline.
It is the actual policy.
Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.
Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.
Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.
Teaspoons.
The system doesn’t want excavators.
Excavators finish the job.
And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.
So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.
But this isn’t about laziness.
It’s about control.
A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.
Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.
Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.
Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.
That’s the point.
The economy doesn’t run on productivity.
It runs on the appearance of productivity.
Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.
They know it.
Their managers know it.
The people who sign their budgets know it.
But the teaspoon stays in their hand.
Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.
And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.
That’s the thing the system can’t survive.
Not unemployment.
Free time.
Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.
He described the longest con in modern governance.
Keep them digging.
Keep them busy.
Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.
Friedman told that story sixty years ago.
He meant it as a warning.
The system heard every word.
It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.
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The CBC "prank show" deception scandal is getting so much worse.
The producers (operating under fake identities/fake company names with fake websites) told a number of RCMP veterans - people who dedicated their lives to serving on the frontlines - that they were invited to film for a show called "Life After Service." A ceremony to thank them for their service would follow, and they were told dignitaries would be present. This would take place at the CBC Vancouver studio. They were told to come in uniform.
When the RCMP vets arrived at the CBC Vancouver studio on March 25th and 26th, the "pranksters" took their phones away, which they claimed was CBC Vancouver studio policy. The former RCMP officers were also placed in front of an audience of what they were told were about two dozen "journalists." And it was sprung on them that this was a "live broadcast", with "media availability" afterwards!
Then the producers switched up the whole session to be not about life after service, but the historical wrongs committed by the RCMP against indigenous peoples - to berate these vets for being part of the RCMP.
There is so much more but I am hoping the individuals targeted in this elaborate scheme will be able to share their stories themselves.
Seriously, what even sounds remotely funny or silly about this concept? It is just sick and cruel
@CBCNews and @APTNNews... what are you thinking?
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More than a little problematic. How many “how to” videos are out there instructing international students on how to abuse Canadian generosity?
Is it time that food banks start limiting to PR/citizens only?
Shazi@ShaziGoalie
This is really a problematic behaviour....
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Food for thought.
The Myth of Decline, Reversed
In 1945, the United States possessed power no empire had ever known. It alone had nuclear weapons, no peer competitor, and no constraint on converting victory into domination. Yet it chose construction over conquest, building Bretton Woods, a rules-based system, and the security architecture that became Pax Americana.
America rebuilt the nations it had just defeated. The Marshall Plan turned enemies into allies and devastation into industrial recovery. West Germany became Europe’s economic engine within a generation. Japan rose from surrender to the world’s third-largest economy.
American aircraft delivered supplies into Berlin, deep inside former enemy territory. At maximum leverage, the United States chose restraint. That became the moral foundation of the postwar order.
The decline narrative mistakes transition for collapse. From Spengler onward, observers have confused adaptation with exhaustion. But decline is not mood it is loss of capacity to act. By that measure, the United States is not declining.
American power endures. The U.S. accounts for a quarter of global GDP, dominates technological innovation, and fields, with allies, the majority of deployable military force. The dollar remains the reserve currency. American energy production leads the world. What has changed is not capacity, but sustainability.
For decades, Washington has played universal guarantor while expanding domestic commitments and pretending deficits carry no cost. That era is ending.
As Kissinger understood, no order survives on power without legitimacy or legitimacy without power. “Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength,” he wrote. “Legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.” The task is restoring equilibrium between commitments and capabilities.
The Gulf moment presents that opportunity. For half a century, the global economy has operated under the 1979 Iranian Revolution’s shadow: constrained supply, chronic instability, embedded risk premiums. A durable resolution, securing oil flow through Hormuz, constraining proxy warfare, reintegrating Iran into regional order, would dismantle decades of strategic dysfunction.
The implications extend beyond the region. China’s model depends on imported energy from unstable suppliers. Constrained supply and elevated prices subsidize geopolitical leverage. Abundant, diversified supply would compress rents, reduce risk, and expose Beijing’s vulnerabilities.
Add Venezuelan normalization, the world’s largest proven reserves, and the energy landscape transforms. Sanctioned supply returns, risk premiums compress, and sustained $60 oil becomes plausible.
Energy is the master variable. Lower, stable prices reduce inflation volatility, improve capital allocation, raise real growth. Combined with AI advances, the result could be transformative: a productivity cycle driven by cost compression, not debt expansion.
The Cold War’s end released a peace dividend financing globalization and the internet age. Resolving the Iran-centered energy order could produce a second dividend, restoring coherence to a strained system.
Churchill knew: safety in oil lies in variety. But control over energy is control over the strategic environment itself.
The United States is not declining. It is a dominant power confronting unsustainable posture and the opportunity to correct it. Resources remain. Power structure favors the West.
Under Trump, investors should assume the will exists and position accordingly. The actions thus far suggest they would be right.
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Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).
Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.
Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.
Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.
Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.
Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.
Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.
C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.
Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.
Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.
Alors pardon. Et au travail.
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Food for thought.
Canada’s Resource Superpower Moment.
Canada is not short of resources. It is short of permission to use them.
That may finally be changing. The Smith-Carney bargain is practical, overdue, and politically shrewd: a Pacific pipeline and Asian market access in exchange for carbon capture and emissions discipline. It is not a textbook first-best. It is something more useful: a way out of paralysis.
Voltaire warned that “the perfect is the enemy of the good”. Lipsey and Lancaster later gave that instinct an economic foundation with the theory of the second best: when the ideal outcome is unavailable, the best policy may require compromise. That is Canada’s energy problem in one sentence.
The first-best policy is obvious: build pipelines, move Alberta crude to global markets, and stop selling a world-class resource at a stranded-barrel discount. But Canada is not a first-best country. It is a federation of regional interests, regulatory bottlenecks, Indigenous consultation obligations, climate politics, and national-unity constraints. In that world, carbon capture is not the prize. Market access is the prize.
Carbon capture is the bridge.
Western Canada Select recently traded at a discount of about $15 per barrel to West Texas Intermediate. Some of that is quality. Much of it is captivity. Alberta sells too much oil into a North American system where U.S. refiners enjoy the power of being the dominant buyer.
A Pacific pipeline changes the game. It would not erase every discount, but it would create a new marginal bid from Asia and, eventually, perhaps Europe. Commodity markets price at the margin. Once Alberta has another customer, U.S. refiners lose part of the captive-supplier discount. Market access reprices the basin, not just the barrels on a ship.
The math is blunt. If the WCS discount narrows from $15 to $10, producers gain roughly $5 per barrel. If it narrows to $8, they gain roughly $7. Even if carbon capture costs producers $2 to $4 per barrel after subsidies and credits, the trade can still work. Captivity is more expensive than carbon capture.
That is why the Smith-Carney approach matters. It turns carbon capture from a symbolic climate exercise into a practical instrument of market access. Done right, with verified emissions reductions, Indigenous participation, private capital, and real pipeline milestones, it aligns climate credibility with national development. That is not capitulation. That is statecraft.
In a world where energy security is paramount, Canada is finally beginning to make industrial policy embrace its own competitive advantage. Yes, it is about time. But there is no time like the present. Democratic allies need secure energy. Asia needs reliable supply. Europe has learned the cost of dependence. Canada has what they need.
The alternative is not ideological purity. It is continued paralysis. Canada has spent years debating whether to be an energy power while others captured the investment, market share, and leverage. This bargain says something different: build, decarbonize where practical, and sell to the world.
The asymmetry is telling. A U.S.-bound project dubbed “Keystone Light” is not being treated like the Pacific pipeline. Existing southbound flows face facility-level emissions rules, but no barrel needs a carbon-capture passport at the border. The Pacific route is different because it is a national market-access bargain: Ottawa gets climate cover; Alberta gets tidewater; Canada gets leverage.
Carbon capture is not magic. It does not solve downstream emissions or justify blank cheques. But as a first step from paralysis to infrastructure, it is worth taking.
Resource superpowers are not built by wishing politics away. They are built by getting things done. Canada has tried paralysis. It is expensive. This bargain may be the beginning of something better.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Today’s agreement between Canada and Alberta will diversify our exports, reduce our emissions, and give investors the certainty they need to build. Together, we’re building a stronger, more prosperous, and more sustainable future for all.
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⚡️The real implication is this: The AI economy needs human labor displacement to validate its capex.
That is the uncomfortable truth.
The hyperscalers are not spending hundreds of billions because AI is a neat productivity toy. They are spending because they believe intelligence production becomes one of the dominant economic control points of the century. The payback comes from making cognition cheaper, faster, more scalable, and less dependent on human headcount.
That is why this is so politically explosive. The same buildout that markets celebrate as capex strength is also the physical construction of a pressure system against white-collar labor.
The macro layer is even dirtier. AI capex is inflationary before it becomes disinflationary. It demands power, copper, transformers, gas turbines, land, construction labor, water, chips, debt, and grid upgrades. That pushes costs up now. The productivity benefit arrives later. So the system gets an inflation impulse from building the machine before it gets the disinflation from using the machine.
This is why long rates matter so much. The AI supercycle wants cheap capital, but the inflation/fiscal regime is pushing capital costs higher. If the 30Y sits above 5%, the weak projects die first. The best projects still happen because Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, and sovereign-scale players can fund through the cycle. The marginal players get squeezed out.
Higher rates do not stop the AI buildout. They concentrate it.
That concentration is the deeper outcome.
AI will not produce a flat world where everyone has equal power. It produces a world where everyone can access intelligence interfaces, while a tiny number of actors control the core infrastructure that makes those interfaces possible. The user sees magic. The owner controls the factory.
The app layer becomes noisy and competitive.
The model layer becomes expensive and consolidated.
The infrastructure layer becomes strategic.
The power layer becomes geopolitical.
That is the actual stack.
The U.S. advantage is that it can financialize the future faster than anyone. It can turn belief into equity value, equity value into capex, capex into infrastructure, infrastructure into strategic position, and strategic position back into market valuation. That reflexive capital market loop is America’s weapon.
China’s advantage is that it can force mobilization without waiting for private-market proof. It can direct credit, power, land, permitting, and supply chains because it treats AI as national capacity. That can waste capital, but it can also keep building when normal ROI logic would hesitate.
Europe lacks both. It has talent and regulation, but not enough unified capital aggression or state mobilization speed. That is why it risks becoming a governed market for other people’s intelligence infrastructure.
The deepest answer is this:
AI is becoming a monetary-industrial arms race where the scarce asset is the ability to finance cognition at scale before the world knows exactly how to price it.
That is why the money wall appears before the power wall.
Money is the permission layer for power.
Capital decides who gets the land, transformers, turbines, chips, cooling, and grid access.
Power becomes the physical constraint, but capital decides who even reaches the constraint.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
Ex Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt: AI may hit a money wall before it hits a power wall. "The real limit to AI is not energy; it is actually cash. When you add up the cost of these things, if you take round numbers, say $50 billion per gigawatt, then 10 gigawatts is half a trillion dollars. How many companies, countries, and so forth can hand an industry a trillion dollars of capital? Very, very few. The Chinese could certainly do it. I do not know if they are doing it, but I am going to try to find out. In America, there are people who hope that is going to happen. It is interesting that you can finance these things because the brilliance of the American capital market allows us to borrow that kind of money. For example, the Europeans cannot do this, which they are sort of sore about." --- Full video from 'Special Competitive Studies Project' YT channel ( link in comment)
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This is why the "USA preparing indictment for Raul Castro" news yesterday was a signal to the hardliners. Like you said, they are signalling to them that they will get the Maduro treatment. The choice is between the former and live well with the stolen money minus the power you have today in Cuba. However, I do think that most that are willing to transition will stay in Cuba and probably corner most of the private industries that will boom in Cuba in 5-10 years. The old guard will lose direct political power but will gain business power and political power by proxy. All this is being negotiated right now.
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JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦@JayGenXer
🚨 Alberta oil sands CEO just absolutely torched the Liberal carbon tax scam live on stage. Jon McKenzie, boss of Cenovus — one of Canada’s largest oil sands producers — dropped the hammer: the $130-per-tonne carbon levy coming by 2040 does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to cut emissions . It’s pure punishment. A straight-up cost of doing business that destroys competitiveness and prices us out of global markets. We’re the ONLY one of the top 10 producers on Earth stupid enough to unilaterally kneecap our own industry like this. Everyone else is laughing while we bleed market share. This was NEVER about the environment. It’s deliberate economic sabotage — 11+ years of Liberals deliberately pricing Canada into poverty and decline. We already have one of the lowest carbon footprints on the planet, yet we’re taxing ourselves like we’re the filthiest polluters alive while crushing families at the pump, the grocery store, and every single day. The elites knew exactly what they were doing. They planned this economic self-mutilation. They wanted Canada weak, broke, and dependent. And some brainwashed sheep are still cheering as they get economically waterboarded by the same regime destroying their lives. How much more of this treason against working Canadians are we supposed to swallow? Watch the CEO destroy their entire lie here 👇 #cdnpoli #CarbonTaxScam #LiberalFailure #MarkCarney #AlbertaEnergy #EconomicSabotage
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But will the oil be decarbonized?
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
BREAKING: UAE discloses it’s building an additional second pipeline bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The new pipeline will be finished in 2027 and will double the country’s export capacity in Fujairah (the current pipeline has a capacity of 1.5-1.8m b/d)
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Reporter: Would the US defend Taiwan if it came to it?
Trump: I don't want to say that. I'm not going to say that.
That question was asked to me today by President Xi. I said, “I don't talk about those.”
Reporter: He asked you if you would send troops?
Trump: He asked me if I'd defend them. I said, “I don't talk about that.”
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Twitter/X is banned in China. So are VPN services unless you get a license from the government who will strictly monitor your use of it.
All “Chinese” accounts on this and other western social media platforms are active nodes in a relentless CCP propaganda weapon attacking you.
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Boomers: "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my children's time. I want to be comfortable and they are a bunch of ungrateful brats anyway."
The Conservative Alternative@OldeWorldOrder
THOMAS PAINE: "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
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The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.
The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.
But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else.
The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.
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@604RAW I didn't know National Geographic was filming in Surrey.
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At approximately 8:20 pm on May 12, 2026, Surrey Police Service (SPS) responded to a report of two groups of men fighting at a residence near 133 Street and 89 Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located six males with varying degrees of injuries.
All were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The SPS Major Crime Section has now taken over the lead on the investigation.
During the initial response, two men were arrested and taken into custody.
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@Tablesalt13 How do you like them banana republic apples Nate?!
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NEW: Nate Erskine-Smith, white Canadian politician who cosplayed as a Muslim, voted for 10 years to bring in millions of immigrants from Islamic republics
....loses to "cheating" Muslims, complains about it.
"they used amazon receipts and travel visas as voter ID"
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