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"Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you." - Karen Salmansohn "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." - Christian Nestell Bovee "People will often forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if your success highlights their failure." - Morgan Housel "The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves." - William Penn "Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." - Harold…

"You can't be a resource colony forever. Sooner or later, you have to invest in your own sovereignty." - Gordon Laxer "Relying on one market makes you a price taker, not a price maker. Diversification isn't optional, it's survival." - Jeff Rubin "Canada must rethink its role in the global energy market. LNG exports to Asia are not just an economic opportunity, they are a geopolitical necessity." - David Keith "Our future depends not on clinging to old partnerships, but on building new ones with integrity, especially with Indigenous communities." - Judith Sayers Diversifying Pacific…

“There is no technological sovereignty without collaboration. In a connected world, semi-sovereignty may be the most strategic form of independence.” - Carlos Afonso “The shift toward a multipolar world will be determined not just by military or economic might, but by who writes the rules of the digital order.” - Parag Khanna “Technology is not neutral. It reflects the values, interests, and power structures of those who create it.” - Ruha Benjamin “The internet is becoming less of a global commons and more a battlefield of national sovereignty and strategic interest.” - Fareed…

“The most effective way to limit the scope of political debate is to confine it to a narrow spectrum and then allow lively debate within that spectrum.” - Gore Vidal “Inverted totalitarianism reverses classical totalitarianism. Instead of the state dominating economic actors, corporate power now dominates the state.” - Sheldon S. Wolin “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” - Noam Chomsky Interesting podcast take on democracies and oligarchs and plutocracies... The…

"Democracy dies in darkness." - The Washington Post “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” - Often attributed to Thomas Jefferson Just thinking out loud... Technically, a U.S. president can file lawsuits, but trying to sue journalists or media figures for criticism is not just a legal long shot, it’s politically dangerous. Guaranteed, the owner of the Dow Jones and the Wall Street journal will have all his lawyers and the most elite lawyers in America to double check everything before he would have published such a scathing piece. He is out to destroy Trump, President…

"The descent into war is a numbing journey. It is a collective spell, a shared hallucination. And once the spell is cast, it has a perverse beauty, a seduction, a cleansing of the chaos of daily life. But it is also a lie." - Chris Hedges "Appeals to patriotism, to national greatness, and to the glories of past empires are used to justify war and conquest today. But the realities are exploitation, suffering, and silence imposed on the subjugated." - Edward Said "You are already in the early stages of World War III. You just don’t know it yet because it doesn’t look like the last one. It’s…

"The descent into despotism always begins with language. The purveyors of war and genocide wrap their crimes in the words of liberation, security, and democracy." - Chris Hedges "Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons. And the language of war has become a performance—its victims reduced to collateral damage and its critics to traitors." - Arundhati Roy "Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires—that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." - Edward Said "The ethnic…

"Hard work with my sons pays off in more ways than I can count." "The hard work I put in with my sons comes back tenfold—in pride, in love, and in the men they're becoming." "Every drop of effort with my sons builds a future we can all be proud of." The best gift I have ever received in my life is being a father. Nothing makes me feel more thankful than working with my sons, lifting weights with them, going for a run, a swim, or helping my son build his backyard fences at his new house, and then relaxing with in-depth discussions about politics, economics, history, and the books that…

“The truth is that envy is simply the tax we pay for the success of others.” - Robert Greene “To rejoice in the good fortune of others is to show a generous soul.” - Aristotle “Schadenfreude is the emotional byproduct of insecurity in a status-obsessed society.” - Alain de Botton “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” - François de La Rochefoucauld “Mudita means that you can be happy about other people’s happiness. That’s a great gift.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh When someone you secretly envy makes a mistake or fails, you've probably experienced that brief moment…

"The international system is no longer unipolar, but multipolar, and the era of Western dominance is ending." ― Fareed Zakaria "In a multipolar world, regional powers will increasingly define the shape of global order." ― Parag Khanna "Economic power is diffusing faster than political or military power." ― Zbigniew Brzezinski We may find our societies no longer at the mercy of a single towering empire dictating the drum beat of global life. The age of unipolar dominance, the United States wielding unchecked power since the Cold War, is receding and isolating itself. In its place rises a…

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." – Lord Acton "The ends justify the means." – Niccolò Machiavelli "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." – George Orwell "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – Martin Luther King Jr. Truman's "The buck stops here" leadership tenet has been completely reversed in our day and age. Donald Trump is a leader who has perfected the brutal art of power, where blame is currency and perception is more important than…

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." ~ George Orwell "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky "The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." ~ Malcolm X There are so much lies from politicians... Do you feel like the truth is getting harder to pin down? Every time a real scandal brews or a crisis begins to surface,…

“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.” ~ Frantz Fanon “The West has never been interested in Africa except to exploit it.” ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” ~ W.E.B. Du Bois At the African summit, it became apparent almost immediately that this gathering was not about mutual respect or collaboration, it was Trump and his…

Students of Gaza This isn’t just an attack, it’s erasure. You’re not witnessing a war, you’re witnessing ethnic cleansing, masked in the language of security and self-defense. More than 17,000 students are dead. Over 26,000 children have been maimed or left deeply traumatized, many before they could even comprehend what violence truly means. And as you look at the footage, you see that over 90% of Gaza’s schools are gone, reduced to rubble. These aren’t just numbers to you anymore. They are futures buried in concrete, a generation silenced before your very eyes. And it doesn’t stop there.…

“If code is law, then open source is democracy.” ~ Lawrence Lessig “Relying on proprietary software is like renting a house you can never own. You’re always paying, but you never truly control the space.” ~ Cory Doctorow “Governments have a moral obligation to use public funds to support software that the public can use, modify, and share.” ~ Richard Stallman “Open source is not just about saving money, it’s about preserving national autonomy in a digital world.” ~ Evgeny Morozov I came across this blog post from the LibreOffice website, and it's such an outstanding idea for most…