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You've discovered the emergency exit into the curious, a little chaotic, and sometimes interesting inner workings of my brain, you haven't just stumbled upon a blog! Think of this space as a garden, except instead of sensible plants like tomatoes and arugula, I'm growing a bumper crop of atomic essays, mini-essays, and a disorganized collection of varied ideas where, after a long night of marking papers and late-night writing, the distinction between reality and fiction is as blurry as my morning coffee or green tea with ginseng. It may sound strange, but I have a genuinely unhealthy obsession with reading and writing essays, the glorious, structured, idea-packed things! So wash your feet, get a piece of cake, and let's use a stick to poke some ideas! What's Inside This Mental Breakdown of Writing? Here, you'll find my wandering thoughts on economics and politics, and to the stuff that makes the world move, like culture and technology. Plus, I'll be dropping little peeks behind the curtain on my novel and nonfiction projects. My Secret (Open-Source) Writing Arsenal For the tech-curious among you, I confess my love for the open-source life! My words are forged with ZorinOS Linux, nestled in a cozy user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing design of the Gnome desktop, surprisingly, more pleasing then the Mac OS. My sidekicks include Standard Notes, the ever-secure Signal for chats, and the glorious Manuskript app. Yes, I'm a bit of a digital hippie, and I wouldn't have it any other way! Disclaimer – All content on this site represents my personal views only. It is created in my personal capacity, is unrelated to my employment, and does not reflect the views of any current, past, or future employer, organization, or client. The content is for informational and creative purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice. No Liability – While I make reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, I make no warranties or representations about its completeness, reliability, or suitability for any purpose. I am not liable for any losses, damages, or consequences arising from the use of, or reliance on, any content on this site. Readers use all information at their own discretion and risk. My perspectives may change over time. Posts are a snapshot of my thinking at the time of writing, and older content may no longer reflect my current views or knowledge. - - -

Venezuela - USA - Russia

American military continuity bombed two man boats, over 12 and counting. Ok, these two man boats are a threat to America. Trump's administration says they are not fishers, but drug runners. There are multiple nuclear submarines with 100s of nuclear warheads off the three coast of America, 5mins to 10mins of total annihilation of America. President Trump does not understand this whatsoever. In this situation, one country is being economically stifled while another has the ability to completely...
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Reaching Toward Heaven While Dying: The Terrible Truth About Taking a Life

Orwell's essay "Shooting An Elephant" contains a wealth of timeless ideas about the reality of violence against both humans and animals.  Taking a life only causes suffering, terror, and trauma; it is not heroic. It's not a clean, dramatic moment when Orwell shoots the elephant. It's terrible. Without any of the Hollywood bullshit, he shows us what violence actually looks like. The animal is not killed by the first bullet. Instead, a terrible thing occurs, the elephant appears diminished, defe...
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When Empire Warps the Mind: From Orwell’s Burma to Gaza Today

Considered one of the most powerful essays ever written, George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" is timeless and reflects on the present genocidal imperialistic tendencies of the present era. George Orwell rejects comfort of a straightforward story about a good man who is ensnared by circumstances beyond his control. Rather, he reveals how imperialism corrupts the colonizer from the inside out. Despite his awareness of the injustice and the humanity of the Burmese people, he is resentful o...
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China and Russia’s Deepening Ties in a World Unraveling Under Trumpian Provocation

The world is returning to the fragile order of great power rivalry, as shown by the growing ties between China and Russia, particularly against the backdrop of Trump's renewed imperialist rhetoric, threats, and arrogance. Established in a pre-Trump era and extending through 2026, their 2001 treaty is presented as a promise of consultation rather than bloodshed, enabling two powerful authoritarians to quickly coordinate in the event of an external threat without being bound by the same kind of...
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India & USA Defense Alliance October 2025

India’s decision to renew the USA—India defense pact emerges from a calculation of power, a nation maneuvering through a world tilting toward confrontation and scarcity, where every alliance is a shield. New Delhi seeks tools of power from, U.S. intelligence and technology that promise to show an increasingly treacherous landscape. Will India become another Ukraine, an American proxy war? India faces the gnawing instability of Pakistan, Israel and Iran and with Trump's tariffs biting and Russi...
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2025 - UCP's Power Play Against Teachers and Unions

The province itself served as the backdrop for a morality play about knowledge, power, and the enduring mistrust of educators in the late summer of 2025. In a dramatic and ruthlessly calculated move, the UCP planned a media frenzy in August and September that portrayed the Alberta Teachers' Association as a group of political operatives rather than a professional organization advocating for reasonable class sizes and fundamental assistance. The vote, which rejected the government's offer by a re...
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In 2023-2024, Austerity, Vanishing Transparency, and the Quiet Push Toward Privatizing Alberta’s Public Education System

The UCP carried out policies that put a strain on public education resources and gave preference to private alternatives, building on previous cuts to public education. The ATA had relied on this data source to support its advocacy for improved student-teacher ratios and assistance for high-needs students, but in 2023, the government stopped provincial tracking of class sizes and complexity statistics. With classes in some districts having more than 30 to 40 students in all the larger Alberta c...
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2022, Austerity as Ideology: How Alberta’s UCP Engineered a MAGA-Style Assault on Public Education

“When a government shreds its own schools, it is not practicing efficiency, it is committing cultural amnesia. Civilizations do not collapse from barbarians at the gates but from bureaucrats with budget sheets.” - Camille Paglia “A society that fears its teachers fears its own mind. The assault on education is always an assault on imagination, the one force that cannot be legislated or domesticated.” - Camille Paglia “Ideological austerity is the new Puritanism: joyless, punitive, and obsesse...
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In 2021, Right-Wing Americanized Educational Austerity Measures

“The corporatization of education seeks to produce human beings who serve the system, obedient workers, consumers who do not question, and citizens who remain passive.” - Chris Hedges “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves.” - Noam Chomsky “In the conservative imagination, the world is always being ruined by liberal elites and their contempt for the common man, and th...
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Educational Funding Freeze and Government Restrictions on ATA in 2020

Legislative limitations and funding freezes combined to change the public education landscape in 2020, resulting in one of the most difficult eras for Alberta's educational system. Bill 32, Restoring Balance in Alberta's Workplaces Act, was introduced by the provincial government and placed new restrictions on unions that represent teachers and other public sector employees. These regulations limited political spending, prohibited some forms of picketing without permission, and mandated mediati...
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Education Budget Cuts and Legislative Restrictions in 2019

"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." - PM, Pierre Trudeau The "twitch and grunt" represents the impact of the U.S. (Trump's) actions on Canada, regardless of whether they are intentional, unintentional, or friendly. From the onset of Donald Trump being in office from 2017 to 2021, such extreme conservatism has affected Alberta politics tremen...
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Zelenskyy Encouraging Trump and Putin Testing Nuclear Missiles, Pure Lunacy From All 3 Individuals

"Zelensky urged Trump to go beyond sanctions, saying Putin won’t yield without US long-range missiles for Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov called Trump’s comments on a US sub near Russia “important,” while Trump criticized Russia’s Burevestnik test as “inappropriate,” urging Putin to end the war." - Crux via Youtube As though it were a test of strength, we are seeing two leaders of the most potent nuclear-armed nations in the world show off their arsenals. Clearly, both leaders have no clue that nuclea...
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Ukraine and the American Tomahawk Missiles, Target MOSCOW

To put this in perspective, the United States has sold NATO some of its Tomahawk missiles. Only nuclear submarines and destroyer battleships are equipped with Tomahawk missiles. So, from where and how will these tomahawks be fired? It would be a direct conflict with Russia if they were launched from a submarine or a European destroyer ship, either from the United States or another European nation. What plans do NATO and the German military-industrial complex have for these Tomahawk missiles? Si...
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Trump's Malignant Narcissism and Deep-Seated Narcissistic Wounds

Dr. Harry Segal, a clinical psychologist, warns that President Donald Trump’s pattern of malignant narcissism and deep-seated narcissistic wounds, that produce rage and disorganized thinking, has shown up repeatedly on his public social media feed, where emotional outbursts and punitive threats appear as American government policy dictated by him. The whole world is watching this odd and bizarre behavior from a political leader of a country. Thank goodness there is only one on the world stage ac...
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Trump... Canada trade talks ‘terminated’ We are Brothers and Sisters

I hope Trump understands our peoples, the intertwined history of Canada and the United States of America. For more than 300 years, we have grown together on North America, sharing not just a border but a story, a story of survival, of cooperation and love for one another, of nations built with Indigenous peoples and immigrates. Our histories are somewhat separate peoples and cultural threads; but they are bound by rivers, trade routes, migrations, protecting each other during migrations, wars, a...
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A World Led by the Illiterate: Nuclear War, a Scenario, Is A Book No One in Power Has Read, a Brutal Truth About Ignorance, Arrogance, and the Sleepwalk Toward Annihilation

“The greatest enemy of the moral life is not evil but indifference. It is the inability to see beyond the self, to recognize that the world is not a stage for our ambitions and appetites.” - Chris Hedges “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” - Carl Sagan “War does not determine who is right, only who is left.” - Bertrand Russell The tragedy of our age is not that we lack information, but that those in ...
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Democracy in Disguise: The Sinister Reality Behind NATO’s Political Rhetoric

While reading Annie Jacobsen's book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, she mentioned NATO's protocol of promoting peace and stability and encouraging democracy, cooperation and dialogue. According to Dr. John Mearsheimer, Dr. Jeffrey Sacks, and numerous other geopolitical and economic experts, NATO is founded on peaceful dispute resolution; however, beneath this rhetoric lies a complex and sinister reality of historical political egotism in North America and Europe. Furthermore, it is not helpful for ...
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Handmaidens of the Apocalypse

Prior to reading Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen, I didn't truly understand the significance and dangers that nuclear submarines really had such apocalyptic, nuclear suicidal power. Beneath the calm, oceans move the Handmaidens of the Apocalypse. These submarines cradle within their steel hearts the quiet possibility of our extinction. These Quiet ocean killers glide unseen, anonymous, held together by discipline and chain of command. Nations speak of them as instruments of peace, emb...
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Russian Unchanged Core Terms and Their Sphere of Influence

A Great Power, obeys no moral laws. It follows its own logic, spheres of influence, zones of control, and the invisible boundaries that great empires draw around their perceived security and access to wealth. Imagine for a moment if Russia or China were to build military bases on Canadian or Mexican soil. Washington would not respond with diplomacy or reason. It would respond with force. American troops would move north and south, and the CIA would weave its dark art of regime change, as it has...
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China Declares “Ironclad Evidence” of NSA Cyberattack… Such Action Is Not a Surprise

On October 19, 2025, China’s Ministry of State Security declared that it possesses “ironclad evidence” of a NSA cyberattack, allegedly, and likely involving members of the Five Eyes alliance, against the National Time Service Centre in Xi’an, China. As Edward Snowden had mentioned in 2013, the NSA has been spying on, not only its own citizens in America, but has infiltrated its adversaries around the world through digital means for at least two decades! According to Chinese officials, the digi...
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Nuclear Genocide

A fascinating, yet terrifying read. Sadly, as author Annie Jacobsen in her book, we are extremely close to a Nuclear War. What makes her account even more unsettling is the growing presence of generative artificial intelligence within the command structures of the world’s most powerful militaries. Many of the leading minds in AI and defense now concede a grim truth: the next great conflict may not be decided by human judgment or diplomacy, but by the cold, unblinking logic of the Ai machines w...
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My Teacher Strike, Government Lockout Readings

This is my solus... I read at least 5 hours and continue to write sporadically 2 hours throughout the day, everyday of the Government/School board/district lockout of teachers. ...
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Signal's Power - Elegant Simplicity and Strategic

In the game of modern communication, Signal has mastered a fundamental law, appear simple and effortless but rock solid communication privacy. The application moves fluidly across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mobile and desktop environments. The interface is clean, resembling the mainstream messaging applications people already trust, yet stripped of the parasitic infrastructure: no subscription fees gnawing at your wallet, no advertisements fragmenting your attention, no selling y...
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Oct 15, Trump Declares 100% Tariffs Against China

President Trump’s latest tariffs mark a dangerous escalation in what is, in effect, a new trade war with China. This isn’t simply an argument over taxes on goods, it’s a symptom of America’s deeper economic insecurity and political dysfunction. Instead of building cooperative trade rules with supply chain management and logistics to address shared challenges like technology standards, rare resource scarcity, and generative artificial intelligence, the U.S. is reaching again for economic nation...
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We Will Choose Misery Over a Happiness We Didn't Choose

“Suffering is the origin of consciousness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” - Nikolai Gogol “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy “The superfluous man is a strange being, gifted with intelligence and sensitivity, yet paralyzed by his own awareness.” - Ivan Turgenev “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky I am r...
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The Pedagogy of Violence: Netanyahu, the IDF, and the Ongoing Erasure of Palestinians

“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics, one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference.” - Michael Ignatieff “The importance of the term ‘genocide’ for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination …” - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz When the cameras fin...
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Jumping Through Hoops

“The meritocratic ideal has become not a remedy for inequality but a justification of it. The more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility.” - Michael J. Sandel “The system is rigged not by conspiracy but by design. Its hoops are meant to be jumped through, its forms meant to weary. Those who remain are not always the best, just the most willing to stay.” - James Baldwin “Tests of endurance, when mistaken for tests of excellence...
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Hamas Was Never the Real Obstacle To Peace

“Israel’s occupation is not a conflict between two equal sides; it is the subjugation of one people by another. The refusal to recognize this truth is the moral failing of our time.” - Ilan Pappé “The denial of Palestinian nationhood is not a policy failure — it is the policy itself.” - Edward Said “The great crime of the powerful is not only the violence they commit, but the lies they tell to make that violence appear virtuous.” - Chris Hedges “Those who control the narrative of violence al...
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America's Bulldog: Israel, The Slaughterer

Resistance, radicalization, and the breakdown of social order are the tragically predictable results of generations of beatings, massacres, and oppression of any people, whether they are Muslim, Christian, or any other group. Due to severe intergenerational trauma and the memory of suffering, people who have experienced decades of injustice frequently react with insurgency, terrorism, or revolt. Violence breeds retaliation. A legacy of distrust and resentment is left behind as entire populations...
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It's All About Intent - Was The Slaughter of Innocent Gazan Lives A Genocide or A War?

“The worst crime is not to commit murder, but to see it and do nothing.” - Jean-Paul Sartre “The law is often powerless against power. It can name crimes, but it cannot always stop them. In that sense, legality becomes a mask that hides moral catastrophe.” - Hannah Arendt “War is organized murder, and nothing else.” - Harry Patch “The difference between war and genocide is not the body count, but the purpose behind it. One seeks victory, the other annihilation.” - Samantha Power In order t...
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