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Saturday, July 29, 2023

Individual Freedom and Security

Individual freedom and Security are not so much the objective security of a Country's Constitution, or even the justice system but rather a sense of confidence in our ability to take care of ourselves.

While constitutions and justice systems play crucial roles in safeguarding rights and maintaining order, as prescripted by governments and then interpreted by the courts, the true sense of confidence in one's ability to take care of oneself and feel secure often goes beyond legal frameworks alone.

The concept of individual freedom involves the absence of coercion or undue constraints on personal choices and actions. When people feel free to make decisions that align with their values and beliefs without fear of oppression or discrimination, they have and thus experience a greater sense of freedom.

On the other hand, security encompasses protection from harm, both physical and psychological. It is not just limited to protection from external threats, such as crime or invasion, but also extends to economic security, social security, and a sense of overall well-being.

The sense of confidence in taking care of oneself is a crucial aspect of freedom and security. It goes beyond relying solely on the formal institutions and systems established by the constitution or justice system of governments be they a Democracy, Monarchy, Oligarchy, Totalitarian, Theocracy, Aristocracy or Dictatorship.

All peoples of the world, as individuals, have lives, relationships, families, and the inherent right to reject or accept social trends and have that right and freedom to free speech and make choices without being bullied, coerced, intimidated, or cancelled or censored by either side of an issue?

Nor censored and silenced by social media or mainstream media outlets of any kind.

As a true democracy doesn’t need fact-blockers or politically biased fact-checkers, no matter if they are from the government, agencies of the government or private corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. We need more freedom to speak and discuss opinions on all sides of any issue, not less.

Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and Yahoo are the next few Teck corporations that require new owners who support open and free dialogue NOT censorship based on a particular political ideology.

Every individual has the right to define oneself and should others agree with your self-definition or not is another matter entirely.

Unfortunately, it seems obvious that the goal of the mainstream gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender community is to force its ideals onto all citizens in their attempt to reduce individual rights by creating a society that must conform to only one viewpoint?

And when one does not conform you are instantly labelled a homophobic or a Trans phobia person!

Also, we have permitted non-elected bureaucrats and technocrats to be appointed into positions of setting policy based on their reasons and speech, without any directly elected accountability or authority from the citizens at large.

Their policies have revolved around deciding for us the cradle-to-grave decisions that once were democratically reserved solely for families and individuals, NOT the ideologies of only one political party.

Throughout the world, we witness progressive liberal socialists deeply involved emotionally in attacks on truth, reality, free speech, banking, and property rights while ignoring the laws of the land, through the weaponization of the legal systems, the courts etc. in my opinion.

“Freedom” means the opportunity to go through life, with real goals not the artificial goals of surrogate activities, like the media, and without interference, manipulation, or supervision from anyone, especially from any large organization or government.

Freedom means being in control (either as an individual or as a member of a SMALL group) of the life-and-death issues of one’s existence; food, clothing, shelter, and defence against whatever threats, real or conceived there may be in one’s environment.

Freedom means having power; not the power to control, or mandate other people but the power to control the circumstances of one’s own life.

One does not have judicial freedom if anyone else (especially the government or a large organization or media) has power over one, no matter how benevolently, tolerantly, and permissively that power may be exercised.

It is important not to confuse freedom or justice with mere permissiveness and inducement by uncontrolled media reporters or journalists. Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, yet they do not serve to guarantee much more than what might be called the bourgeois conception of judicial freedom.

Freedom of the press is of very little use to the average citizen as an individual. The mass media are mostly under the control of large organizations that are integrated into the system. Anyone who has a little money can have something printed or can distribute it on the Internet or in some such way, but what he/she has to say will be swamped by the vast volume of material put out by the media or have it un-ceremonially cancelled by the social media Teck giants, hence it will have no practical effect.

To make an impression on society with words is therefore almost impossible for most individuals and small groups in today's so-called democracies worldwide.

Freedom without the individual being in a legal position to protect oneself, then there is no security for the individual or the security of a family.

Politicians say, "Public safety is our top priority.”

Yet, why is it that they do not enforce all the laws and bylaws currently on the books?

Further, why do they not demand that prosecutors, judges, the laws, and sentencing be used to protect public safety as a top priority and for the victims and innocent citizens who pay the price for crimes committed by criminal elements within society?

To solve the problem of crime the laws must be enforced, prosecutors must demand the maximum sentencing and judges must sentence all criminals, regardless of age, based on the laws for crimes of adults under the criminal code NOT under The Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Further, our laws must be updated relating to sentencing i.e., crimes committee on public transit of any kind must be considered as a domestic terrorist act and upon conviction of the first offence, with or without a weapon, the minimum sentence must be one of 15 years without parole of any kind and the first ten years of the sentence must be served in a jail NOT any other institution like a halfway house etc.

And prosecutors or judges all of whom are not elected officials who do not adhere to these new regulations must be FIRED and prohibited from ever holding or working for any government position or within any government agency for life. Plus receive a fine, a minimum fine of $1 MILLION for not protecting the victims and innocent citizens worldwide.

A great read @ https://www.mises.at/static/literatur/Buch/hayek-the-constitution-of-liberty.pdf

https://iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/Hayek%27s%20Constitution%20of%20Liberty.pdf

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Grassley Obtains & Releases FBI Record Alleging VP Biden Foreign Bribery Scheme

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. Grassley acquired the record, an FD-1023, via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.

“For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme. While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers. What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long? The Justice Department and FBI have failed to come clean, but Chairman Comer and I intend to find out,” Grassley said.

“The FBI’s Biden Bribery Record tracks closely with the evidence uncovered by the Oversight Committee’s Biden family influence-peddling investigation. In the FBI’s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn’t pay the ‘big guy’ directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said. “At our hearing with IRS whistleblowers, they testified that they had never seen or heard of this record during the Biden criminal investigation, despite having potentially corroborating evidence. Given the misconduct and politicization at the Department of Justice, the American people must be able to read this record for themselves. I thank Senator Grassley for providing much-needed transparency to the American people. We must hold the Department of Justice accountable for seeking to bury this record to protect the Bidens.”

Grassley first disclosed the FBI’s possession of significant and voluminous evidence of potential criminality involving the Biden family last year. He has since worked to unearth the FBI record, eventually partnering with Comer on a subpoena to compel its public disclosure. After delays, the FBI provided a highly redacted version of the document to select members of the House of Representatives, but it remained shielded from the public and omitted key details, including references to recordings. Following the FBI’s failure to fully comply with the congressional subpoena, Grassley received the legally protected disclosure with limited redactions to protect a trusted FBI source, handling agents, department whistleblowers and identifiers related to other ongoing investigations.

‘Poluchili’

According to the FBI’s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” At the time, Burisma was seeking to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Regarding that investigation’s impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, “Don't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.” Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as ‘poluchili,’ which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay,” according to the document.

“Back-up”

Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn’t send any funds directly to the “Big Guy,” a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the “Big Guy” surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.

Authorized for public release by Ranking Member Grassley/Chairman Com

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Unified Eastern Ontario Regional Homelessness Authority and Action Plan

The issue of homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse is a complex and ever-increasing problem affecting various regions of Ontario, including the cities within the Eastern Regions. While individual cities and regions have attempted to address the issue, they have not been successful in finding a long-lasting solution. In this regard, a collective effort under a unified Regional Homelessness Authority (RHA) and Plan is the way forward.

The RHA should be designed to unify and coordinate the existing funding, policies, and programs of the regions and cities within the Eastern Regions. It should combine the goals, funding, and resources of the existing networks for permanent housing, health care, child welfare, mental health, education, and employment through collaboration and sufficient resources from service providers, low-barrier shelters, shelter programs, and temporary housing services. By doing so, the RHA can effectively and economically solve these complex problems.

It is also important for the RHA to engage and collaborate with systems and partners outside of existing homelessness financing, plans, and systems response. This includes regional local industries, developers, and employers to assist in solving these complex problems and to show these communities that homelessness is solvable together as opposed to a fragmentation of the homeless, mental health, and substance abuse systems currently in place.

To accomplish such goals, the RHA must have accurate, reliable accounting data on the number of people experiencing homelessness in the regions and cities within the regions and what services and support might be most helpful for them. The RHA should be aware that statistics worldwide suggest that approximately 26% of homeless individuals have a severe mental illness, 34% have a substance use disorder, leaving perhaps 40% who have simply decided to drop out of society to live off the handouts from others by seeking this itinerant way of life at the direct expense of Cities and Municipal governments and their electorate.

The RHA should also understand the various types and scales of emergency, temporary, shelter/barrier-shelters, and permanent housing solutions necessary to meet the needs of people who are honestly and truly experiencing homelessness. Therefore, the RHA must resource and scale on evidence-based policies, programs, and practices that will increase the permanent capacity and effectiveness of the existing and non-existing overall service systems already in place or contemplated.

Once the RHA has accurate, reliable accounting data on the number of people experiencing homelessness, it should prioritize the individuals' most impactful needs and requirements first. The RHA should then connect these individuals to supportive services to address medical, mental health, substance use, employment, and education needs in an effort toward individualized self-sufficiency and reintegration into the community.

The RHA must be conscious of the fact that continued handouts from well-intended government programs and citizens that endlessly give handouts of tents, food, clothing etc. have proven over the past decade not to be the solution to solving this problem of homelessness for the numerous individuals seeking an itinerant way of life removed from society and its rules, regulations, and laws.

Finally, the jurisdiction of the RHA must not be limited to existing low-barrier shelters, shelter programs, temporary/permanent housing, or housing services. To dramatically reduce homelessness combined with drug addiction and mental illness low barrier shelters, shelter programs, and temporary housing services. The new RHA must work with and include a network of builders, developers, local industries, permanent housing, health care, child welfare, mental health, education, and employment through collaboration from and with federal and provincial governments and sufficient resources from, and for all such service providers by improving the behavioural health systems through restructuring the existing service systems to improve capacity, supports, and efficiencies on a factual evidence-based approach.

In conclusion, the formation of a Regional Homelessness Authority and Plan, with a unified regional approach that includes the cities within the Eastern Regions, is the best way to tackle the ever-increasing homelessness, mental health, and substance abuse problems affecting these regions. Through this unified approach, it will be possible to combine the resources and collaborate with the existing networks for permanent housing, health care, child welfare, mental health, education, and employment to solve these complex problems effectively and economically.

Monday, January 2, 2023

Socialism, World's Oldest Pyramid Scam

KEY TAKEAWAYS

· Socialist pyramid scams (Schemes) are a utopian fraud on voters promising easy money, forgiving loans, by less work or no work

· Socialist pyramid schemes (Scams) depend on other people’s money and then taxation, more taxation and plus more taxation

· Socialist pyramid schemes (SPS) represent a structure of price, labour, property, and corporate controls on society

· SPS offers easy money and income through the redistribution of wealth and nationalization of industry and corporations

· SPS funnels earnings, profits and property from the richest nonparticipants and corporations on the upper levels of society to governments to be transferred and distributed to the lower and lowest levels of participants and society.

· It is a felony in the U.S. to recruit participants into pyramid schemes, yet academia throughout the world preaches the theory of the socialist pyramid schemes (Scams) yet never the failures and disaster results of socialism are preached.

· Yet, SPS requires the buy-in and support through voter participation and propagandized by media, academia and the courts that remain unchallenged by politicians and their legal system

· All SPS rely on individuals' and corporations’ income for redistribution of wealth, property and profits from participants and nonparticipants alike.

· Like all socialist pyramid scams (SPS) once all corporations and industry have been confiscated and nationalized by the government the scams death by ecocide has been accomplished as detailed throughout history

History, it seems, once passed remains forgotten by the voters, that is until once again we are fooled by the liberal socialist progressive's rebranding of the socialist pyramid scams for political power purposes

The conception of many was that socialism in North America had been “vanquished” after the collapse of Soviet Communism 32 years ago in 1991.

We all must be reminded of the words of T. S. Eliot who stated, “There is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause.”

Socialism in whatever name or form that academia, politicians, and the media continue to support and propagandize for the masses and their comrades by such rebranding we all must continually be reminded that “There is no sense in which socialism can be made compatible with democracy anywhere in the world as socialism eat democracy and is swiftly transmuted into tyranny.”

At best, socialism “stamps out individualism, places civil society into a straitjacket of uniform size and turns representative government into an illusion.”

Throughout Canada; North and South America and indeed the world; after more than 6,000 years of civilization the rights to free speech, the rights to free conscience, and the rights to freedom of religion along with the right to bear arms and the right to a jury trial are continually under attack by liberal socialist progressive politicians

Monday, December 26, 2022

Divide, Diversify and Conquer

“The quickest way to control a population is to turn it against itself. Divide, Diversify and Conquer.” That’s how the British ruled India.

If you want to run a City or Country for the benefit of all the people who live in it, by contrast, you’d do the opposite of this.

You’d deemphasize racial and gender differences along with wokeness, and NOT highlight them for political purposes.

You’d understand that in a society and community of many different ethnic groups, tribalism (Neotribalism) is the greatest threat to unity and order. And you would resist using the existence of racism and gender as an excuse for failure.

You would never allow anyone gender or race to blame an entire racial group or one gender for the sins of its ancestors. As this would serve only to embitter and divide the population. It might make a politician's job easier in the short term, yet over time it would wreck the City; community and indeed the country itself.

Politicians and businesses once understood this.

Politicians, today no longer oppose segregation. They no longer insist on treating all genders and races equally. They now consider gender and race the centre of human identity.

They demand that individuals be exalted or punished because of their gender or skin colour. Human citizens must be judged on what they do, not on how they look or who their parents were or what their ancestors did or did not do.

Our elected politicians and political parties, at one time, stood for and said they did not believe in collective punishment or reward. They stood for and believed in the Individual. That’s why they opposed segregation.

Today activist protestors from numerous high schools, universities and colleges are demanding spaces entirely off-limits to WHITE people and are demanding segregated meeting areas within these publicly funded institutions of learnings, for Blacks ONLY.

And that is NOT what the honourable Reverend Martin Luther King stood for during his short life. And NO media, politicians, professors etc. have acknowledged the irony of banning people, WHITE people, or others based on skin colour.

Tell me, in the USA for example, when the Brown versus Board ruled that school segregation was ILLEGAL, then how are any of these today's efforts to divide people by race, colour, and gender legal???

For generations, it was an article of common sense and faith among politicians and businesses that integration was the key to racial and gender harmony. Bigotry grows from ignorance, was the assumption. The more personal exposure we all have to different groups, the more we’ll come to see that everyone’s basically the same. And that understanding is far less divisive than what we are now seeing today.

It’s sad that we no longer hear much from our so-called political leaders, academia, or business executives about the importance of racial and gender harmony. As the emphasis now is on our differences which is the essence of the diversity agenda, #IMHOPEOPLE.

And not surprisingly, this has led to an explosion of racial and gender hostility in North American life. It was once considered the greatest possible sin to criticize someone for his/her skin colour or gender. Yet today and now it is regarded as a sign of enlightenment. And it's everywhere, in academia, politics and business, but especially on campuses throughout Canada and the USA. and within the administration of cities, municipalities and towns.

The identity politics and policies of today may make a City, State, Province, or Country easier to govern, and it also makes them all much harder and unsafe to live in. Identity politics is based on the premise that everyone is a member of a subgroup, usually a racial or gender category.

The point of achieving political power is to divert resources to your group. Which is another word for tribalism!

And this my friends is the most divisive possible way to run a Country, City, Province, Municipality, State or Business. Because they are not about ideas, they are based on inborn characteristics, tribalism, wokeness and identity politics which are inherently unreasonable.

As there are no winning arguments of different opinions, or even having them. There is only victory or defeat for the groups. And this is NOT democracy its fascism at its worst.

In North America, virtually every non-white and or gender groups reap advantages from being racially and or gender-conscious and politically organized. So how long before someone asks the simple rational question: Why should the whites in North America not be allowed to think of themselves as a group and thus organize and agitate along racial and gender lines, too?

And when this happens and at this rate of identity politics it will, and when White people become another interest group politically fighting for the spoils, Democracy throughout North America as we’ve known it shall be over. In the sense that we’re all in this together, united by citizenship in a common endeavour of some kind, as Citizens of a Country, City, State or Province, that shall end forever along with democracy, free speech, diversity, and integration.

All thanks to politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, special interest groups and lobbyists have developed a whole series of institutional problems and the lack of political legitimacy because of how politicians, academia, judges, and businesses fail to behave morally; ethically and transparently in matters that are central to the lives of most people and treated such obligations as unimportant.

They ALL equally are responsible for encouraging today's permissiveness in the bedrooms that have found their way into the halls of Justice, Boardrooms, Political Parties and Governments. Diversity through wokeness is a new failure of society that is putting us all back into tribalism of Divide, Diversify and Conquer.

So-called self-proclaimed leaders, thanks to the media, in business, education and politics through their actions or non-actions have continued doing their utmost, NOT to create environments where people of all backgrounds, regardless of colour etc., can maximize their own potential.

Therefore, we need to work together democratically, to take power back from political parties, businesses, and academia, in my view.

PS Seeking wisdom based on facts then read Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson (Author, Narrator)

Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Motives of Scientists

Science and technology provide the most important examples of surrogate activities. Science is a surrogate activity because scientists work mainly for the fulfillment, they get out of the work itself.

Yet, of course, it’s not that simple. Other motives do play a role for many scientists. Some scientists claim that they are motivated by “curiosity” or by a desire to “benefit humanity.” But it is easy to see that neither of these can be the principal motive of most scientists.

As for “curiosity,” that notion is simply absurd. Most scientists work on highly specialized problems that are not the object of any normal curiosity. For example, is an astronomer, a mathematician, or an entomologist curious about the properties of isopropyl trimethyl methane? Of course not.

Only a chemist is curious about such a thing, and he/she is curious about it only because chemistry is his surrogate activity. Is the chemist curious about the appropriate classification of a new species of beetle? No. That question is of interest only to the entomologist, and he is interested in it only because entomology is his surrogate activity.

If the chemist and the entomologist had to exert themselves seriously to obtain the physical necessities, and if that effort exercised their abilities in an interesting way but in some non-scientific pursuit, then they wouldn’t care about isopropyl trimethyl methane or the classification of beetles.

Suppose that lack of funds for postgraduate education had led the chemist to become an insurance broker instead of a chemist. In that case, he would have been very interested in insurance matters but would have cared nothing about isopropyl trimethyl methane.

In any case, it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

The “curiosity” explanation for the scientists’ motive just doesn’t stand up.

The “benefit of humanity” explanation doesn’t work any better. Some scientific work has no conceivable relation to the welfare of humanity most archaeology or comparative linguistics for example. Some other areas of science present obviously dangerous possibilities.

Yet scientists in these areas are just as enthusiastic about their work as those who develop vaccines or study air pollution. Science and technology constitute a power mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement.

In my view then, conceivably, science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of humanity or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research and then profits from said research.