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Pennsylvania minimum wage: $7.25/hour.

A pound of lean ground beef: $8+.

We've reached the point where one pound of ground beef can cost more than an entire hour of minimum-wage labor. 🥩

Not the meal.
Not the groceries.

One pound of beef = more than one hour of your life.

That's purchasing power collapsing in a language everyone understands.

The crime story that keeps coming out isn't "crime is out of control."

It's cops getting caught.

And if cops are getting caught misconducting themselves in significant numbers, that's not evidence the system is working. It's evidence of a massive supervision problem.

These are employees entrusted with detention powers, weapons and the legal authority to use deadly force against private citizens. Yet cities pour enormous amounts of payroll into policing while apparently failing at the most basic management function: supervising the people exercising those powers.

You wouldn't give an unsupervised employee authority to physically restrain customers.

We give cops guns, handcuffs and coercive state power.

Then we discover what they've been doing after the fact.

That's not public safety.

That's an extraordinarily expensive public-safety hazard.

CBC is complicit.

Before October 7, Canadians were already being shown pieces of the story. What CBC largely failed to give them was the operating manual.

Israel's strategy toward Gaza had been openly described for years by Israeli strategists as "mowing the grass": treat the conflict as intractable, periodically use overwhelming military force to degrade Palestinian armed groups, restore deterrence, obtain temporary "quiet", then repeat.

This wasn't secret intelligence.

Israeli strategists published it.
Western media explained it.
The UN documented the recurring strategy.
The casualty statistics were public.

By September 2023, Save the Children was already warning that 2023 was the deadliest year on record for Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, with 38 children killed and months remaining.

CBC had the pieces:

Gaza airstrikes.
Jenin raids.
Al-Aqsa.
Settler violence.
Palestinians killed.
Children killed.

But where was the sustained explanation of the SYSTEM?

Where was:

"Here's what 'mowing the grass' means."

Cast Lead → Pillar of Defense → Protective Edge → Guardian of the Walls → repeat.

CBC didn't need secret access to Gaza.

The doctrine was published.
The deaths were documented.
The history was available.
The UN reports were available.

And scale matters here.

CBC isn't simply another newsroom. It is Canada's publicly funded national broadcaster, operating across television, radio, digital and regional markets. Its institutional reach gives it enormous agenda-setting power in a country with a highly concentrated media system.

Even Canada's supposedly "private" news ecosystem isn't cleanly private. Public money flows into eligible commercial journalism through federal tax credits and programs such as the Local Journalism Initiative.

So CBC doesn't merely participate in the Canadian information environment.

It helps set its vocabulary, chronology and boundaries.

When CBC reports Gaza as a sequence of isolated "clashes", "raids", "responses" and "retaliations" without consistently explaining the architecture connecting them, Canadians don't receive history.

They receive episodes.

Then October 7 arrives and suddenly the clock starts:

DAY ONE.

Occupation disappears.
Blockade disappears.
"Mowing the grass" disappears.
The previous operations disappear.
The accelerating West Bank killings disappear.

And decades of structure collapse into:

"Israel responds."

Complicity doesn't require every CBC journalist sitting in a room agreeing to hide the story.

Institutional media can manufacture consent through selection, fragmentation and omission just as effectively as through repetition.

CBC had the information.

What Canadians didn't consistently get was the context connecting it.

And when Canada's national broadcaster determines where history begins, it doesn't merely report the national narrative.

It helps manufacture it.

Maybe this was the test all along.

There is a record.

It records who spoke up for Palestinians.

It records who defended them.

And it records everyone's silence too.

Silence leaves a footprint.

When Canada becomes the 51st state, does Saskatchewan become Alabama?

Or does it get demoted below Alabama? 😂

Canada becomes the state. Saskatchewan becomes an administrative subdivision.

From "the Alabama of Canada" to not even having Alabama's constitutional status. 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸

Welcome to The Colonies.

Prize be. 💰🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸

CBC/Radio-Canada is suddenly selling "resilience" through inspirational stories about disabled people overcoming adversity.

Interesting timing.

Austerity needs a cultural vocabulary:

Cut the support.
Download the risk.
Make people adapt.
Call their survival "resilience."

"Sorry we cut the rope. Your ability to climb without one is inspirational." 🇨🇦

Shaming is one of anarchism's cheapest enforcement tools. It works because most people value reputation, trust and belonging.

But what about psychopaths?

You don't shame harder. You switch mechanisms.

Withdraw trust. Withdraw access. Withdraw cooperation. Organize collective defense. Demand restitution. Exclude when necessary.

Anarchy isn't the absence of consequences.

It's the absence of a ruling class that owns the consequences. Ⓐ

Nobody voted for the Canada-China investment treaty. It was tabled in the Commons for twenty-one sitting days, no vote was ever required, the days ran out, and cabinet ratified it by order in council on a Friday. https://theinquiry.fyi/ratified-by-expiry.html

Not The Hague. And not Addis Ababa either. Port-au-Prince.

The Hague has had centuries at the centre of the European system that wrote the rules, built empires, extracted wealth, and later appointed itself custodian of "international justice."

Addis Ababa would certainly move that centre south. Ethiopia carries enormous anti-colonial significance, and Addis already hosts the African Union. But that's precisely why I wouldn't put it there.

Addis Ababa already gets selected whenever institutions want an African capital for diplomacy, continental governance and international legitimacy. It has become the almost automatic institutional answer.

Give someone else the microphone.

🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince.

Haiti didn't merely experience European colonialism. The Haitian Revolution destroyed the slave regime of Saint-Domingue and defeated Napoleon's attempt to restore French control and slavery. Haiti declared independence in 1804.

Then came the punishment for winning.

In 1825, France arrived with warships and demanded an enormous indemnity in exchange for recognizing Haitian independence. Haiti was forced to compensate former French slaveholders for the loss of the people they had claimed as property and the plantations those people had liberated.

Think about the inversion:

The formerly enslaved were made to compensate the former enslavers.

Haiti then spent generations servicing that extraction and the debts constructed around it.

So if we're imagining where an institution claiming universal international justice should sit, don't automatically send it from one established diplomatic capital to another.

Put it in Port-au-Prince.

Put the courthouse where enslaved people overthrew the colonial order and then discovered that empire could continue through debt, finance, recognition, intervention and international institutions after the chains themselves were broken.

⚖️ THE HAGUE → 🇭🇹 PORT-AU-PRINCE

If international justice is actually universal, decolonize its geography too.

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🇨🇦🇬🇧 They talk about embargoes and restrictions on settlement "goods."

Fine.

But where is the IT embargo?

Modern armament isn't just:

🍊 goods
🔫 rifles
💣 bombs
🚀 missiles

It is also:

☁️ cloud infrastructure
🧠 AI targeting
🗄️ databases
👁️ surveillance
📡 communications
💻 cybersecurity
📊 data analytics
🎯 algorithmic targeting

Gaza has made the point brutally clear: Lavender, "Where's Daddy?" and The Gospel/Habsora put software, databases and algorithmic systems directly into the machinery of war.

Yet where are the bans on technological cooperation?

Where are the restrictions aimed at the corporations supplying cloud, AI, database and surveillance infrastructure?

Where is the firewall between Israeli military/security technology and Western governments, corporations and police?

You cannot describe modern warfare as technologically sophisticated and then design an "embargo" as though warfare still begins and ends at the loading dock.

🍊 Ban the fruit.

☁️ Leave the cloud connected.

🧠 Leave the AI running.

🗄️ Leave the databases querying.

👁️ Leave the surveillance infrastructure operating.

💰 Leave the largest corporate relationships untouched.

That's the story.

The interesting part of an embargo isn't only what governments prohibit.

🔎 It's what they carefully leave outside the embargo.

Canada's courts have perfected a constitutional trick:

Affirm the right.
Praise the right.
Then build precedent explaining when the state can override it.

The Charter gets the treatment. First Nations rights get it relentlessly.

Recognition → interpretation → exceptions → erosion.

When the state claiming sovereignty also controls the courts defining the limits of Indigenous sovereignty, "rights" remain trapped inside the legal architecture of the power they were supposed to restrain.

W = Whiskey
P = Pete

Whiskey Pete.

When your nickname accidentally sounds like a Pentagon euphemism for white phosphorus, maybe the branding department has gone too far. 🫡🔥

I don't want Google to get better at "protecting" me. I don't want Google positioned as the authority responsible for my security in the first place.

We entrusted Big Tech with email, identity, browsers, passwords, devices, authentication and recovery. They converted technical dependency into institutional authority.

They didn't earn that trust. They inherited it from users, concentrated it, monetized it, and then appointed themselves its guardians.

"Don't be evil" aged beautifully. 🔐

▓▒░ THE MATRIX ░▒▓

👁️ Precision surveillance
🤖 Algorithmic control
💳 Programmable money
🧠 Artificial intelligence
📡 Everything connected

    ↓

🍩 THE SIMPSONS

🤡 "Excellent plan, sir."

We live with the precision of The Matrix and the logic of The Simpsons.

They have cameras in the tunnels too, so technically it's tunnel vision. 👁️📹🕳️

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