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MUST READ FOR ALL CANADIANS: Canada Awards $20 to $30 Billion Submarine Contract to German Company TKMS
FACT: It has been over 60-years since Canada purchased a submarine. FACT: Canada has never built one. FACT: Currently the Canadian military have ONE operable submarine out of a fleet of four used ones previously purchased. FACT: Canada recently proclaimed themselves as the North American defender of the Arctic.
Now, put all those facts in the overlay of the December 2024 meeting in Mar-a-Lago between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President Trump was demanding that Trudeau increase their NATO spending and develop a working Canadian military.
Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors. Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser. They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.
Today, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that German industrial shipbuilder TKMS will be awarded a contract for “up to 12 submarines” valued between $20 and $30 billion {source link}. Now, let’s not pretend.
First, the submarine contract is intended to get Canada back into reasonable position on their NATO obligations.
In reality, it is quite remarkable to think about the Canadian nation with only one currently functional submarine. “Canada hasn’t purchased unused submarines since the 1960s, during the Cold War, and has never ordered anywhere near 12 at once. Canada currently owns four subs, all of which were purchased second-hand, and only one of which is typically operational.” {citation} Now, think about that Mar-a-Lago conversation again.
Second, Canada can’t build their own submarines?
Wait, I’ve been told my statements about the absence of Canadian industrial capacity were mistaken. I’ve been told that Canada can produce heavy industrial equipment, and my statements about their heavy industry as functionally obsolescent were overstated. I’ve been criticized for saying that Canada has deindustrialized their economy in the past 30+ years because they have worshipped the altar of “global warming” or “climate change.”
Those two points above are directly connected, and those are the exact points that President Trump was talking to Justin Trudeau about very strongly.
Trudeau said there was no possibility of correcting this industrial lack of ability, and the U.S would just have to accept Canada’s high-horse pontificating position. That’s the core of the 51st state counterpoint.
[NOTE: You cannot have an industrial economy without the ability to create iron, steel, aluminum and various compounds of molten metal. You cannot make metal with windmills, solar or nuclear energy. You must generate massive amounts of heat. That heat is measured in joules because joules are the measurable unit for energy, and they provide a universal, precise way to quantify the energy transferred as heat. Industrial manufacturing takes joules, which creates carbon emission in the process.]
Keep in mind, the USMCA (CUSMA) is going to get terminated. As a consequence, it is easy to see the U.K and EU trying to provide the financial backstop to protect Canada (a commonwealth action). What Carney is doing with this submarine contract is offshoring $30 billion CAD to Germany at current rates, so that Germany can (a) offset their own industrial economic implosion; and (b) position to return a financial favor in the near future.
GERMANY – […] As panic spreads among German manufacturers, layoffs are rolling through formerly prosperous towns and villages with no living memory of a downturn. The moment could become a political turning point for a country whose wealth was largely created by the Mittelstand, or “middle-class”—shorthand for the inner core of Europe’s largest economy.
For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Manufacturers are suddenly on the defensive, not just in China and elsewhere, but also at home. (more)
Remember the “coalition of the willing” that Mark Carney injected himself into? The U.K, Germany, France and now Canada. They swim together or sink alone.
Oh, things are going to get really ugly. We underestimate when we say, “there are trillions at stake.”
GERMANY – According to Reuters, Volkswagen’s supervisory board is expected to discuss a sweeping restructuring proposal at a July 9 meeting. People familiar with the matter say the plan could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany, adding to roughly 50,000 workforce reductions already planned. If approved, it would become the largest restructuring in Volkswagen’s history and one of the biggest workforce overhauls the global auto industry has ever seen. (more)
Now, is the Mark Carney contract to Friedrich Merz making more sense?
Canada claims they are going to lead the protection of the Arctic and defend Greenland from horrible Trump’s entreaties.
Canada has one submarine, a carbon exchange system to block industrial production/capacity, and a functionally obsolescent military severely behind in meeting NATO obligations.
But President Trump’s expressed frustration and anger at their sanctimonious pontificating have hurt the feelings of Canadians, or something equally pretentious.
Think about it.
Reprinted in full with permission from the author. ABN
#BigGovt #communism #economics #elite #gameTheory #geopolitics #history #incompetence #moralityEthics #politics -
MUST READ FOR ALL CANADIANS: Canada Awards $20 to $30 Billion Submarine Contract to German Company TKMS
FACT: It has been over 60-years since Canada purchased a submarine. FACT: Canada has never built one. FACT: Currently the Canadian military have ONE operable submarine out of a fleet of four used ones previously purchased. FACT: Canada recently proclaimed themselves as the North American defender of the Arctic.
Now, put all those facts in the overlay of the December 2024 meeting in Mar-a-Lago between President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President Trump was demanding that Trudeau increase their NATO spending and develop a working Canadian military.
Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors. Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser. They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.
Today, the government of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announce that German industrial shipbuilder TKMS will be awarded a contract for “up to 12 submarines” valued between $20 and $30 billion {source link}. Now, let’s not pretend.
First, the submarine contract is intended to get Canada back into reasonable position on their NATO obligations.
In reality, it is quite remarkable to think about the Canadian nation with only one currently functional submarine. “Canada hasn’t purchased unused submarines since the 1960s, during the Cold War, and has never ordered anywhere near 12 at once. Canada currently owns four subs, all of which were purchased second-hand, and only one of which is typically operational.” {citation} Now, think about that Mar-a-Lago conversation again.
Second, Canada can’t build their own submarines?
Wait, I’ve been told my statements about the absence of Canadian industrial capacity were mistaken. I’ve been told that Canada can produce heavy industrial equipment, and my statements about their heavy industry as functionally obsolescent were overstated. I’ve been criticized for saying that Canada has deindustrialized their economy in the past 30+ years because they have worshipped the altar of “global warming” or “climate change.”
Those two points above are directly connected, and those are the exact points that President Trump was talking to Justin Trudeau about very strongly.
Trudeau said there was no possibility of correcting this industrial lack of ability, and the U.S would just have to accept Canada’s high-horse pontificating position. That’s the core of the 51st state counterpoint.
[NOTE: You cannot have an industrial economy without the ability to create iron, steel, aluminum and various compounds of molten metal. You cannot make metal with windmills, solar or nuclear energy. You must generate massive amounts of heat. That heat is measured in joules because joules are the measurable unit for energy, and they provide a universal, precise way to quantify the energy transferred as heat. Industrial manufacturing takes joules, which creates carbon emission in the process.]
Keep in mind, the USMCA (CUSMA) is going to get terminated. As a consequence, it is easy to see the U.K and EU trying to provide the financial backstop to protect Canada (a commonwealth action). What Carney is doing with this submarine contract is offshoring $30 billion CAD to Germany at current rates, so that Germany can (a) offset their own industrial economic implosion; and (b) position to return a financial favor in the near future.
GERMANY – […] As panic spreads among German manufacturers, layoffs are rolling through formerly prosperous towns and villages with no living memory of a downturn. The moment could become a political turning point for a country whose wealth was largely created by the Mittelstand, or “middle-class”—shorthand for the inner core of Europe’s largest economy.
For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there. Manufacturers are suddenly on the defensive, not just in China and elsewhere, but also at home. (more)
Remember the “coalition of the willing” that Mark Carney injected himself into? The U.K, Germany, France and now Canada. They swim together or sink alone.
Oh, things are going to get really ugly. We underestimate when we say, “there are trillions at stake.”
GERMANY – According to Reuters, Volkswagen’s supervisory board is expected to discuss a sweeping restructuring proposal at a July 9 meeting. People familiar with the matter say the plan could eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany, adding to roughly 50,000 workforce reductions already planned. If approved, it would become the largest restructuring in Volkswagen’s history and one of the biggest workforce overhauls the global auto industry has ever seen. (more)
Now, is the Mark Carney contract to Friedrich Merz making more sense?
Canada claims they are going to lead the protection of the Arctic and defend Greenland from horrible Trump’s entreaties.
Canada has one submarine, a carbon exchange system to block industrial production/capacity, and a functionally obsolescent military severely behind in meeting NATO obligations.
But President Trump’s expressed frustration and anger at their sanctimonious pontificating have hurt the feelings of Canadians, or something equally pretentious.
Think about it.
Reprinted in full with permission from the author. ABN
#BigGovt #communism #economics #elite #gameTheory #geopolitics #history #incompetence #moralityEthics #politics -
Racism is common in nonwhite countries. Fighting racism is a trait only among Whites, rooted in the unexamined notion that White values should be the universal standard for the human race, which is itself a racist presumption
Extremely well-said! This is a statement all Whites should read as many times as needed for it to sink in. Those of us who have spent many years abroad in non-White countries eventually learn this truth, but it takes years for it to fully sink in. Not understanding this simple truth is a very deep moral blind-spot among Whites. It is a deeply harmful conceit because it leaves Whites with no defenses against anti-White parasites and invaders. It also causes both brain-drain in non-White countries and savages-drain (all of whom we get and pay for dearly). ABN
#abn #culturalNorms #history #mindControl #moralityEthics #psycholinguistics #psychology #terrorism #unrestrictedWar -
Racism is common in nonwhite countries. Fighting racism is a trait only among Whites, rooted in the unexamined notion that White values should be the universal standard for the human race, which is itself a racist presumption
Extremely well-said! This is a statement all Whites should read as many times as needed for it to sink in. Those of us who have spent many years abroad in non-White countries eventually learn this truth, but it takes years for it to fully sink in. Not understanding this simple truth is a very deep moral blind-spot among Whites. It is a deeply harmful conceit because it leaves Whites with no defenses against anti-White parasites and invaders. It also causes both brain-drain in non-White countries and savages-drain (all of whom we get and pay for dearly). ABN
#abn #culturalNorms #history #mindControl #moralityEthics #psycholinguistics #psychology #terrorism #unrestrictedWar -
Feral teens filmed beating up female police officer at July 4 event… as conservative star Ann Coulter says ‘putting a small blonde woman in uniform’ was not a good idea
#anthropology #crime #law #moralityEthicsA group of feral [black] teenagers were caught on camera assaulting a female police officer at a Fourth of July event.
The horrific footage of the brutal assault emerged following a block party in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday night.
The officer was seen being punched in the face by a female while a young man held her down, before another woman attacked her with what looked like a baton.
Another officer managed to intervene as the officer is dragged away, by pushing the woman with the baton to the ground and grabbing another of the teens.
He then resorted to using his taser which caused the horde of teens assaulting the officer to flee.
The officer was seen being punched in the face by a female while a young man held her down, before another woman attacked her with what looked like a baton
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Feral teens filmed beating up female police officer at July 4 event… as conservative star Ann Coulter says ‘putting a small blonde woman in uniform’ was not a good idea
#anthropology #crime #law #moralityEthicsA group of feral [black] teenagers were caught on camera assaulting a female police officer at a Fourth of July event.
The horrific footage of the brutal assault emerged following a block party in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday night.
The officer was seen being punched in the face by a female while a young man held her down, before another woman attacked her with what looked like a baton.
Another officer managed to intervene as the officer is dragged away, by pushing the woman with the baton to the ground and grabbing another of the teens.
He then resorted to using his taser which caused the horde of teens assaulting the officer to flee.
The officer was seen being punched in the face by a female while a young man held her down, before another woman attacked her with what looked like a baton
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Law Firms Funneled Millions to Robert’s Wife. He Followed the Rules. That is the Scandal
…Mark Jungers, a former Major Lindsey managing partner, told Politico that the firm hired Mrs. Roberts because it hoped to benefit from her being married to the Chief Justice, observing that her network was his network and vice versa.
He later assured Business Insider that he never saw her use the connection inappropriately, and of course he did. He is a recruiting executive protecting the industry’s most famous hire, and his denial is precisely what a denial would sound like whether or not it were true. The admission that matters is the first one. The market priced her marriage. Sophisticated law firms understood that hiring through the Chief Justice’s wife purchased something, and whether that something was influence or merely the appearance of access is beside the point, because federal ethics rules exist precisely to police the appearance. They captured none of it.
…John Roberts has done almost nothing wrong, and that is the problem. The rules let the money in, kept the names out, kept the amounts secret, and asked nothing when the forms proved incomplete. A system that a careful man can satisfy while the public learns nothing is not an ethics regime. It is camouflage, and it is a legal architecture for buying proximity to a lifetime appointee. Congress should change the rules, and conservatives should hold the pen.
One would think a member of SCOTUS wouldn’t do this… Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom ~ Benjamin Franklin. ABN
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Law Firms Funneled Millions to Robert’s Wife. He Followed the Rules. That is the Scandal
…Mark Jungers, a former Major Lindsey managing partner, told Politico that the firm hired Mrs. Roberts because it hoped to benefit from her being married to the Chief Justice, observing that her network was his network and vice versa.
He later assured Business Insider that he never saw her use the connection inappropriately, and of course he did. He is a recruiting executive protecting the industry’s most famous hire, and his denial is precisely what a denial would sound like whether or not it were true. The admission that matters is the first one. The market priced her marriage. Sophisticated law firms understood that hiring through the Chief Justice’s wife purchased something, and whether that something was influence or merely the appearance of access is beside the point, because federal ethics rules exist precisely to police the appearance. They captured none of it.
…John Roberts has done almost nothing wrong, and that is the problem. The rules let the money in, kept the names out, kept the amounts secret, and asked nothing when the forms proved incomplete. A system that a careful man can satisfy while the public learns nothing is not an ethics regime. It is camouflage, and it is a legal architecture for buying proximity to a lifetime appointee. Congress should change the rules, and conservatives should hold the pen.
One would think a member of SCOTUS wouldn’t do this… Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom ~ Benjamin Franklin. ABN
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She is a fraud. She lied through the process… Or she did not want the left to come and kill her family — Mike Davis on AC Barrett
She must be a fraud. If she feels threatened that much, she should report it and resign. Instead, she bows down and hands yet more power to the left she presumably fears. It is also possible she is stupid. My understanding is Davis recommended her and was crucial to her appointment. ABN
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She is a fraud. She lied through the process… Or she did not want the left to come and kill her family — Mike Davis on AC Barrett
She must be a fraud. If she feels threatened that much, she should report it and resign. Instead, she bows down and hands yet more power to the left she presumably fears. It is also possible she is stupid. My understanding is Davis recommended her and was crucial to her appointment. ABN
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Brazilian biker
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Awesome skills, but dangerous to self and others plus zero protective gear. Still, great skills. The stoppie (back wheel off the ground) right turn is especially impressive. ABN
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‘Cat Bin Lady’ Mary Bale was reviled around the globe when she threw Lola the moggie in a wheelie bin
In the dawning days of social media it was one of the first clips of its kind to go globally viral – and has since been viewed many millions of times.
A very ordinary woman is seen walking down a very ordinary street when she comes upon a cat. The cat, apparently friendly and seeking attention, jumps up from the pavement to a garden wall to get closer.
The woman strokes the cat a couple of times while glancing around then suddenly grabs it by the scruff of the neck and then, with surprising dexterity, flips open the lid of an adjacent wheelie bin, throws the cat inside, shuts the bin, and continues walking as if nothing has happened….Initially, she was unrepentant, saying she did ‘not deserve to be hated’ for her moment of madness and claimed people were overreacting.
‘I really don’t see what everyone is getting so excited about. It’s just a cat,’ she said. ‘I was walking home from work and saw this cat wander out in front of me. I was playing with it, stroking it and listening to it purr as it stood on a garden wall. It was very friendly.
‘I don’t know what came over me, but I suddenly thought it would be funny to put it in the wheelie bin, which was right beside me. I did it as a joke because I thought it would be funny. I never thought it would be trapped. I expected it to wriggle out of the bin.’
Bale added: ‘People are reading too much into things. I’ve no feelings about cats one way or the other. I don’t keep pets myself, but I have no problem with people who do.
‘To think this video is being seen around the world is unbelievable. I’m a very private person and don’t want to upset any members of my family. I don’t know what my relatives will think, but to be honest I think everyone’s overreacting a bit.
‘OK, I shouldn’t have done it, but it’s just a cat at the end of the day. I don’t think I deserve to be hated by people all over the world, it was just a split second of madness.’
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When life turns on a dime and the punishment don’t fit the crime. Compare to Epstein files ABN
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‘Cat Bin Lady’ Mary Bale was reviled around the globe when she threw Lola the moggie in a wheelie bin
In the dawning days of social media it was one of the first clips of its kind to go globally viral – and has since been viewed many millions of times.
A very ordinary woman is seen walking down a very ordinary street when she comes upon a cat. The cat, apparently friendly and seeking attention, jumps up from the pavement to a garden wall to get closer.
The woman strokes the cat a couple of times while glancing around then suddenly grabs it by the scruff of the neck and then, with surprising dexterity, flips open the lid of an adjacent wheelie bin, throws the cat inside, shuts the bin, and continues walking as if nothing has happened….Initially, she was unrepentant, saying she did ‘not deserve to be hated’ for her moment of madness and claimed people were overreacting.
‘I really don’t see what everyone is getting so excited about. It’s just a cat,’ she said. ‘I was walking home from work and saw this cat wander out in front of me. I was playing with it, stroking it and listening to it purr as it stood on a garden wall. It was very friendly.
‘I don’t know what came over me, but I suddenly thought it would be funny to put it in the wheelie bin, which was right beside me. I did it as a joke because I thought it would be funny. I never thought it would be trapped. I expected it to wriggle out of the bin.’
Bale added: ‘People are reading too much into things. I’ve no feelings about cats one way or the other. I don’t keep pets myself, but I have no problem with people who do.
‘To think this video is being seen around the world is unbelievable. I’m a very private person and don’t want to upset any members of my family. I don’t know what my relatives will think, but to be honest I think everyone’s overreacting a bit.
‘OK, I shouldn’t have done it, but it’s just a cat at the end of the day. I don’t think I deserve to be hated by people all over the world, it was just a split second of madness.’
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When life turns on a dime and the punishment don’t fit the crime. Compare to Epstein files ABN
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Legacy media still hasn’t covered this covid vax DECEPTION scandal
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One of the most disgusting aspects of the apparent covid and covid-vax bioweapons paired-assault on USA and the world. War by deception is an act of war. ABN
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Predation Wearing the Mask of Civilization
Institutions reveal their true character in two places: in the gray zones where rules are incomplete, ambiguous, or unenforceable, and even more nakedly in broad daylight when those in authority openly violate the clearest rules without shame. In a living civilization, power is restrained by the office it occupies. In a hollowed-out order, the office becomes a license to violate. Authority exists not to uphold rules but to prove exemption from them. That is why law, bureaucracy, and policing expose the moral substrate of a society with merciless clarity.
India is the textbook case.
Even in the most civilized nations, courts decide only the tiniest sliver of human reality. The vast majority of civilization—trust, restraint, honesty, the silent agreements that make daily life possible—exists below the threshold of formal law. Verbal promises and everyday decency were never meant for judges. They rest on an internalized moral order.
In India, that moral order does not exist.
Indian bureaucracy does not administer rules. It prices access, punishes resistance, and extracts submission. Reformers claimed bureaucrats were corrupt only because their salaries were too low. This was a rationalization. When government salaries rose dramatically, the scale of bribes increased accordingly. The higher they climbed, the more entitled they became. Honesty is not a compensation problem. It is a value. A society either supplies that value to its institutions or it does not.
I cannot remember a single visit to an Indian government office that did not entail a demand for a bribe. Citizens grovel, prostrate, genuflect, and abase themselves for the most basic services. The bureaucrat does not merely want money. He wants submission. He wants to feel superior. The bribe is only part of the transaction; humiliation is the rest.
…Societies do not wake up one morning and choose virtue. They reach it—if they ever do—through centuries of accumulated wisdom and painful internalization of restraint. Or they never reach it at all.
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Important to understand that India is not the world’s only society like this. ABN
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Predation Wearing the Mask of Civilization
Institutions reveal their true character in two places: in the gray zones where rules are incomplete, ambiguous, or unenforceable, and even more nakedly in broad daylight when those in authority openly violate the clearest rules without shame. In a living civilization, power is restrained by the office it occupies. In a hollowed-out order, the office becomes a license to violate. Authority exists not to uphold rules but to prove exemption from them. That is why law, bureaucracy, and policing expose the moral substrate of a society with merciless clarity.
India is the textbook case.
Even in the most civilized nations, courts decide only the tiniest sliver of human reality. The vast majority of civilization—trust, restraint, honesty, the silent agreements that make daily life possible—exists below the threshold of formal law. Verbal promises and everyday decency were never meant for judges. They rest on an internalized moral order.
In India, that moral order does not exist.
Indian bureaucracy does not administer rules. It prices access, punishes resistance, and extracts submission. Reformers claimed bureaucrats were corrupt only because their salaries were too low. This was a rationalization. When government salaries rose dramatically, the scale of bribes increased accordingly. The higher they climbed, the more entitled they became. Honesty is not a compensation problem. It is a value. A society either supplies that value to its institutions or it does not.
I cannot remember a single visit to an Indian government office that did not entail a demand for a bribe. Citizens grovel, prostrate, genuflect, and abase themselves for the most basic services. The bureaucrat does not merely want money. He wants submission. He wants to feel superior. The bribe is only part of the transaction; humiliation is the rest.
…Societies do not wake up one morning and choose virtue. They reach it—if they ever do—through centuries of accumulated wisdom and painful internalization of restraint. Or they never reach it at all.
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Important to understand that India is not the world’s only society like this. ABN
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Tragedy as man, 75, dies after being sucker-punched by DoorDash driver he asked to drive more slowly through his leafy neighborhood
…What happened was captured on a neighbor’s security camera.
Shaw said her father stepped from his porch in an attempt to get the vehicle’s license plate number when Turner suddenly stopped his car and got out.
The two men exchanged words for several moments before the driver is alleged to have suddenly attacked.
‘Then out of nowhere, the guy punches my father on the side of the head,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t even try to defend himself. I don’t think he saw it coming.’
Poole crashed to the pavement after being hit, suffering a devastating head injury.
‘He fell, and the guy got back in his car and drove away,’ Shaw said. ‘He just left him lying in the road.’
Police later said Turner admitted to striking Poole and leaving the scene.
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Not long ago, a sucker-punch was the sign of a coward and a knave, a worthless POS. A 40 year-old man sucker punching a 74 year-old man (he died aged 75), by standards some of us still hold, is a savage crime, as bad as it gets. That’s murder with a deadly weapon. Seems the interwebs have accustomed people to seeing sucker punches, and hearing some fool go oooh, oooh in approval off camera. There may be no way to go back to the old days when men valued honor, but that the single punch given without warning and killing the victim is the fundamental reason sucker-punches have traditionally always been anathema among civilized men. Same goes for men hitting women. I saw a vid just last night of some woman slapping and punching her husband in the head many times. At some point, he belted her hard several times in the head, knocking her senseless to the ground. Guys, it’s a rare woman who can throw a punch that even hurts, and this woman was not that type. She was angry, she was being stupid, but all she did was land a flurry of very weak blows on her much stronger husband. A strong man can kill a woman, or an elderly man, with one punch. That’s why men hitting women—or old men without warning—has also always been looked down on in Western societies. Yes, there are times when a woman can and should be hit by a man, but they are rare and almost never warrant a deadly punch, full-force to her head. The dude in the video landed several hard punches to her head before she crashed into the pavement. Most of the comments on his behavior were approving. ABN
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Tragedy as man, 75, dies after being sucker-punched by DoorDash driver he asked to drive more slowly through his leafy neighborhood
…What happened was captured on a neighbor’s security camera.
Shaw said her father stepped from his porch in an attempt to get the vehicle’s license plate number when Turner suddenly stopped his car and got out.
The two men exchanged words for several moments before the driver is alleged to have suddenly attacked.
‘Then out of nowhere, the guy punches my father on the side of the head,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t even try to defend himself. I don’t think he saw it coming.’
Poole crashed to the pavement after being hit, suffering a devastating head injury.
‘He fell, and the guy got back in his car and drove away,’ Shaw said. ‘He just left him lying in the road.’
Police later said Turner admitted to striking Poole and leaving the scene.
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Not long ago, a sucker-punch was the sign of a coward and a knave, a worthless POS. A 40 year-old man sucker punching a 74 year-old man (he died aged 75), by standards some of us still hold, is a savage crime, as bad as it gets. That’s murder with a deadly weapon. Seems the interwebs have accustomed people to seeing sucker punches, and hearing some fool go oooh, oooh in approval off camera. There may be no way to go back to the old days when men valued honor, but that the single punch given without warning and killing the victim is the fundamental reason sucker-punches have traditionally always been anathema among civilized men. Same goes for men hitting women. I saw a vid just last night of some woman slapping and punching her husband in the head many times. At some point, he belted her hard several times in the head, knocking her senseless to the ground. Guys, it’s a rare woman who can throw a punch that even hurts, and this woman was not that type. She was angry, she was being stupid, but all she did was land a flurry of very weak blows on her much stronger husband. A strong man can kill a woman, or an elderly man, with one punch. That’s why men hitting women—or old men without warning—has also always been looked down on in Western societies. Yes, there are times when a woman can and should be hit by a man, but they are rare and almost never warrant a deadly punch, full-force to her head. The dude in the video landed several hard punches to her head before she crashed into the pavement. Most of the comments on his behavior were approving. ABN
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NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover ‘because she didn’t want to put another black man in jail’… weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station
A young woman in New York City said she declined pressing charges against a violent suspect because she didn’t want to put ‘another black man in jail,’ weeks before he allegedly killed a 76-year-old retired teacher.
The 23-year-old woman anonymously detailed how she and a friend narrowly escaped Rhamell Burke, 32, after he allegedly attacked them while riding the subway on April 2.
The straphanger told the New York Post she now completely regrets her decision not to work with prosecutors after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs to his death at a subway station Thursday night.
‘Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy,’ the unidentified woman told the outlet.
Police say Rhamell Burke was released from Bellevue Hospital roughly five hours before the deadly subway attack on Ross Falzone (Pictured) on Thursday
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Unwise compassion — Buddhism warns against this. The highest virtue in Buddhism is wisdom, not unwise anything. ABN
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NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover ‘because she didn’t want to put another black man in jail’… weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station
A young woman in New York City said she declined pressing charges against a violent suspect because she didn’t want to put ‘another black man in jail,’ weeks before he allegedly killed a 76-year-old retired teacher.
The 23-year-old woman anonymously detailed how she and a friend narrowly escaped Rhamell Burke, 32, after he allegedly attacked them while riding the subway on April 2.
The straphanger told the New York Post she now completely regrets her decision not to work with prosecutors after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs to his death at a subway station Thursday night.
‘Maybe a part of me was just like, I don’t want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you’re a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy,’ the unidentified woman told the outlet.
Police say Rhamell Burke was released from Bellevue Hospital roughly five hours before the deadly subway attack on Ross Falzone (Pictured) on Thursday
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Unwise compassion — Buddhism warns against this. The highest virtue in Buddhism is wisdom, not unwise anything. ABN
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Pyrrho’s thought and practice was a form of Early Buddhism which he learned during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra
The conclusion to be drawn from the evidence about Pyrrho’s thought and practice is that he adopted a form of Early Buddhism during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra, including its philosophical-religious and pragmatic elements, but he stripped it of its alien garb and reconstituted it as a new ‘Greek Buddhism’ for the Hellenistic world, which he presented in his own words to Timon and his other students.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 54-55). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
The earliest attested philosophical-religious system that is both historically datable and clearly recognizable as a form of Buddhism is Early Pyrrhonism, the teachings and practices of Pyrrho of Elis and Timon of Phlius, as shown in Chapter One. Its central features correspond exactly to some of the central features of the traditional putatively “early” form of Buddhism presented in Pali canonical texts.
However, the latter tradition of Buddhism also contains many elements—beliefs, institutions, devotional practices, and so on—which developed at the earliest in the Saka-Kushan period, three centuries after Pyrrho. They spread throughout the ancestors of the attested forms of Buddhism, creating Normative Buddhism. The elements that are attested only from approximately the Saka-Kushan period on—the exact time remains to be established—are far from trivial. They include the Saṃgha, the community of monks; the idea of the bhikṣu ‘monk’ per se, as well as of the bhikṣunī ‘nun’; the vihāra or monastery; the Vinaya, or Buddhist monastic code; worship of the Buddha;4 development of the idea of reincarnations of the Buddha, both human and godlike; abhidharma or “Buddhist scholasticism”; and many others. They are now considered to be essential elements of traditional Buddhism, yet there is no historically sound evidence that they existed at all5 (and some evidence that they did not yet exist) until long after the visit of Pyrrho in 330–325 BC and that of Megasthenes in 305–304 BC. The lateness of the development of devotion for the Buddha and Buddha incarnations, as well as reverence for the Buddha’s teachings (the Dharma) and the community of monks (the Saṃgha), means that the invention of the Triratna (‘Three Jewels’) formula is even later (perhaps as a “popular” substitute for the difficult Trilakṣaṇa1 ‘Three Characteristics’ formula, which is phonetically similar.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 61-62). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
- The Buddha says, “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.”
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- The Buddha says, “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.”
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Pyrrho’s thought and practice was a form of Early Buddhism which he learned during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra
The conclusion to be drawn from the evidence about Pyrrho’s thought and practice is that he adopted a form of Early Buddhism during his years in Bactria and Gandhāra, including its philosophical-religious and pragmatic elements, but he stripped it of its alien garb and reconstituted it as a new ‘Greek Buddhism’ for the Hellenistic world, which he presented in his own words to Timon and his other students.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 54-55). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
The earliest attested philosophical-religious system that is both historically datable and clearly recognizable as a form of Buddhism is Early Pyrrhonism, the teachings and practices of Pyrrho of Elis and Timon of Phlius, as shown in Chapter One. Its central features correspond exactly to some of the central features of the traditional putatively “early” form of Buddhism presented in Pali canonical texts.
However, the latter tradition of Buddhism also contains many elements—beliefs, institutions, devotional practices, and so on—which developed at the earliest in the Saka-Kushan period, three centuries after Pyrrho. They spread throughout the ancestors of the attested forms of Buddhism, creating Normative Buddhism. The elements that are attested only from approximately the Saka-Kushan period on—the exact time remains to be established—are far from trivial. They include the Saṃgha, the community of monks; the idea of the bhikṣu ‘monk’ per se, as well as of the bhikṣunī ‘nun’; the vihāra or monastery; the Vinaya, or Buddhist monastic code; worship of the Buddha;4 development of the idea of reincarnations of the Buddha, both human and godlike; abhidharma or “Buddhist scholasticism”; and many others. They are now considered to be essential elements of traditional Buddhism, yet there is no historically sound evidence that they existed at all5 (and some evidence that they did not yet exist) until long after the visit of Pyrrho in 330–325 BC and that of Megasthenes in 305–304 BC. The lateness of the development of devotion for the Buddha and Buddha incarnations, as well as reverence for the Buddha’s teachings (the Dharma) and the community of monks (the Saṃgha), means that the invention of the Triratna (‘Three Jewels’) formula is even later (perhaps as a “popular” substitute for the difficult Trilakṣaṇa1 ‘Three Characteristics’ formula, which is phonetically similar.
Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 61-62). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
- The Buddha says, “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.”
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- The Buddha says, “All dharmas are anitya ‘impermanent’…. All dharmas are duḥkha ‘unsatisfactory, imperfect, unstable’…. All dharmas are anātman ‘without an innate self-identity’.”
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The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit group founded in 1990 by Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, and John Perry Barlow to defend civil liberties in the digital world.
Status: Headquartered in San Francisco, the EFF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a staff of approximately 125 (as of 2025) and over 40,000 members, often described as the “online equivalent of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Mission: The EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.
Key Activities: The organization fights illegal surveillance, defends free speech online, challenges restrictive copyright laws, and develops privacy-enhancing tools like Privacy Badger and Certbot.
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Looks like classic infiltrate–takeover–invert the org 180 degrees. Virtually every institution in USA and the West has met this fate. It is ideological asymmetric warfare, parasitism, and political ponerology all rolled into one. ABN
#abn #censorship #freedom #infiltration #moralityEthics #ponerology #propaganda #supremacy #usurpation -
The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit group founded in 1990 by Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, and John Perry Barlow to defend civil liberties in the digital world.
Status: Headquartered in San Francisco, the EFF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a staff of approximately 125 (as of 2025) and over 40,000 members, often described as the “online equivalent of the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Mission: The EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development.
Key Activities: The organization fights illegal surveillance, defends free speech online, challenges restrictive copyright laws, and develops privacy-enhancing tools like Privacy Badger and Certbot.
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Looks like classic infiltrate–takeover–invert the org 180 degrees. Virtually every institution in USA and the West has met this fate. It is ideological asymmetric warfare, parasitism, and political ponerology all rolled into one. ABN
#abn #censorship #freedom #infiltration #moralityEthics #ponerology #propaganda #supremacy #usurpation -
a native internet protocol for social media ~ Jack Dorsey
[All of the below is Dorsey’s blog on how he thinks Twitter and social media should be operated. I have bolded some sections in addition to the few places he bolded. I completely agree with what Dorsey is saying and hope all readers of ABN and in the world read what he has written. I have taken the liberty of posting his entire blog post here to ensure we have a copy of it. ABN]
There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.
I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:
1) Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2) Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3) Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.
The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here:jack@jackI do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?12:16 AM – 14 Jan 2021I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.
Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.
I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.
Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.
The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.
I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.
Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.
I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.
As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, Mastodon another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.
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To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.link to original #analysis #BigTech #freedom #moralityEthics #technology #thought