That Maritime DISH hub in Halifax caught my eye. I pulled up the national defence committee evidence where the minister described the new pilot project at COVE. It sets up a secure space for private sector and university partners to work on Arctic maritime tech. Ties right into protecting our innovation like they recommend for sovereignty. See it here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/NDDN/meeting-17/evidence
what meaningful and value added work out there, can't throw more people at a debt problem it will just lead to more debt as you need more schools, infrastructure, energy demands, policing, justice, jails/prisons, health care etc... all of which eats up taxes. Has anyone seen the debt? the bar tab, debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had as flipping houses became as easy as flipping burgers everyone and grandma/pa was doing it as candy (money) was thrown at the firepit to no end (print/borrow money). We get what we deserve...
Me thinks its more related to oil, those that control oil (manipulate) control your every movement. Those that own the debt own your soul. Those that own the media manipulate the mindless sheep that question noting now. Critical thinking, what!
and perhaps a better measure of society is - how happy are the people? are they constantly pissed off at a reckless, negligent government of incompetency? (eg https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/comments/1rxycce/i_dont_quit_my_job_i_quit_my_bosss_boss/ )can they feed, cloth and defend themselves plus make something or at least fix stuff for a reasonable price?are they taxed to debt over pricing themselves out of and home?what is freedom really? dogs run wild or stuck in a cage all day trying to prove self worth through stuff which is really lack of self esteem/confidence when we use stuff to prove self worth.Do they live healthy or has processed junk ruined their world with giants running the roost? we saw some pretty large chicken farms here - hey, it smells like potato and chicken, again.
lose freedom and health you lose a lot in life. Lose happiness and joy, well you are merely a slave to addictions really (person/place/thing). Those that own the oil control your every movement (or manipulate the prices). Those that own the debt own your soul as debt trap diplomacy is alive and well - want another 100k with that fool? as money blinds we fools. Salaries keeping up with taxes, fees, inflation and housing costs? nice stuck together mcmansion as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. Nice house syndrome not much inside it though. As reckless ignorant spending occurs handing out money like candy, but have yah seen the debt? debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had. Any fool and print/borrow money and put a place into debt watch out for these people as they will destroy a society - financially/legally/physically/emotionally for more power/control/fame/fortune https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/ in God we trust? we stand on guard for thee? God save our land? hmmm... in denial of our issues https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial its a hard thing to overcome addictions (person/place/thing) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth wild times again https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
summary: can they feed, cloth and defend themselves and make stuff or at least fix stuff for reasonably cheap?health and freedom from a true sense? money is a man made thing, what its tied to who knows anymore... certainly not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries the planet will do what planet does to protect itself we humans will do as we so desire why do people do what they do who knows... nature vs nurture. As the good Lord looks down and says take that fools - throws a dictator in the mix to really fck things up.
so we just drove 1500km which I would never do again especially when flying cost around 250USD round trip as we met some folks from the USA that are doing that from sao paulo to https://iguazufalls.com/national-park/ yuk sao paulo one big concrete mess. Not much to do there but shop I suspect. Be a good mindless consumer... shop till yah drop.We drove through mountain ranges, the trucks were the traffic as they slow to a crawl getting up the hills. Then through tunnels to get through the massive mountains, that must have cost them a fortune to do. They do have a train system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Brazil especially in the rural towns. Did you know Brazil is one of the largest food manufacturers in the world https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100615/4-countries-produce-most-food.asp now they put these huge manufacturing plants in poor areas https://www.jbs.com.br/en/about/ I guess to keep labor costs down. Yet, in the horizon are the cities feasting off the poor? someone has to do the cheap labor someplace eh!(Guatemala as well as the huge giant corporations own most of the land thus squeezing the locals out of ever buying something of their own as I volunteered for construcasa.org, gotta try that once in your life to see real poverty - family of 6 living in a small wooden shack yet such hard workers, working the fields from dawn to dusk every day besides sunday-the day of rest).
The trip from rio went through the mountain ranges then sao paulo with the maze of highways 10 lanes wide and wider swinging every which way (santa cruz is worse though, what capacity planning just build and build and build what regulations and standards etc...a mess). Then it was Acai palms for miles and miles, Brazilians love their Acai drinks. Then sugar cane, used in ethanol to power their vehicles and everyone has a new car in the big cities where money is easy to get at I suspect as they print/borrow money to no end? ( https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/drex_enhttps://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en good luck paying with cash as many don't use cash anymore everything traces through a CPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPF_number does it curb crime who knows, but it probably means just adding a few more zeros to the central banking system...) It loves its giants too http://petrobras.com.br/en/ but yet there are many players in the oil industry. Talking to the locals it seems as though Brazil is in the same situation as Canada - dig oil yet refine it elsewhere then bring it back. Ethanol the locals hate it due to its poor performance characteristics, but its cheap like 4.50R in comparison to common gasoline at 6.50R liter. I rented an american car (chev) what a piece of junk this was in comparison to foreign made cars (fiat, renault, audis, bmw, etc...) I was getting passed big time esp on the mountain climbs as the car had no guts (gutless cutlass). Americans should be ashamed of themselves of the junk being produced, but throw more money at the mess hope for the best as bailouts/buyouts/handouts become the norm (ref https://www.gmichaelhopf.com/hard-timeshttps://deming.org/a-bad-system-will-beat-a-good-person-every-time/ ) can't throw money at a mess it will be milked silly! feasted upon producing garbage, what QA/QC its all about the profits now at all costs!
The food reasonable along the way around 10CAD to eat buffet (meat, potatoes, veggies etc...) and the highway stops have it all from honey to bread to full coarse meals. And, of course fried stuff brazilians love their deep fried foods. Yuk. Yet, luckily they like their suco natural drinkings from various juices etc... so yah can eat well along the way while the lower sphincter puckers up due to all the truck traffic and trying to pass on the curvy windy roads of shame (poor planning as jane's cousin designed the roads at just 10 years old!)
Then came the falls, vast https://iguazufalls.com/national-park/ not commercialized like niagra but Brazil is catching up as they just put a massive highway in. We stayed at a quaint little hotel with trails and rustic like. Don't dare dirty the white towels. Who the hell uses white towels when the land is surrounded by red dark soil which stains everything. The damn dog is now red no longer white and golden like... as it loves its waterfalls and playing in the soil etc... Brazilian side has vast mega motels american style which eat up the little players. Loves its giants. The Argentinian side more quaint like and lots of hikes around the vast array of waterfalls. Platforms for kms of trails that weave in and out of the network of falls. Go to Brazil for the bling go to Argentina for a little train ride then walk and walk for miles, but do bring water cause I guess they want you to buy stuff at the various little stores in the central spot. Be sure your cards are working well cause they don't take reals nor USD. We drove to https://turismoitaipu.com.br/en/blog/landmark-of-the-three-borders/ which was a sight to see up on the perch overlooking the river you can see the three landmarks. We didn't venture to paraguay as I heard they shut down your vehicle (rental company does) if you cross over. So we didn't dare try. But on the Brazilian side its all favelas coming close to the borders... I guess those that hopped over the border looking for greener pastures just lay their hat right there... and the favelas grow and grow it seems. Supposedly if you have a child in Brazil all the family members can apply for citizenship and why not health care is free so too is education. As the push is on for more engineers, medicine grads and dentists etc... the age of producing clothing in Brazil is long gone. As we talked to locals in that industry, labor costs are too high in comparison to china. Many are mad at china for coming in with such cheap labor costs under cutting them now they serve ice cream for a living which is hit and miss (but, https://investinginpassion.com/2025/11/04/how-chinas-automation-surge-is-redefining-global-manufacturing/https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/china/china-population-robots-intl-hnk-dst ) But, they can feed themselves as you can grow anything here with its vast diverse landscape and climates. Trying to predict the weather is tough here as the amazon has such a vast influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONmydfz5ls as you pass by the vast array of mountains the moisture coming off the vast jungle is so great to see. Can it defend itself, not certain... https://www.eb.mil.br/https://www.youtube.com/@exercitooficial but, we've seen the federal police on the highway with big guns pulled out during various car crashes. And, its had its share of coups plus dictatorships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOiXFw8mPGIhttps://www.cafehistoria.com.br/military-dictatorship-in-brazil-a-history/Does it make stuff - definitely a food production unit https://oec.world/en/profile/country/bra seems to be that way does it import stuff from cheaper labor countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Brazil it likes its cheap stuff too... much like north america as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. But, home prices seem reasonable here at around 150k-200k for a nice solid (made of thick concrete) apartment near the beach in rio. I seen one for 90k but not in a not so nice area.
It was a long trek that I would not do again, cheaper and easier to fly...
We did have it all at one time, not so much anymore...
when is the next buyouts, bailouts, handouts...
and its all about the housing - tubs, tubes and toilets.
As we bring in more people to wash toilets, clean bums and clean kitchens...
can we feed ourselves - nope dependent on others now mostly
can we cloth ourselves - nope over priced ourselves out of business there - maybe automation will help lower costs
can we defend ourselves - not a hope in hell we operate a money brothel as many milk the mess, history majors running major projects in defense - failure 101 is
do we make stuff anymore to export? don't think so aside from digging ditches and dirt.
its all about the housing now. Not about good governance, integrity, morals and ethics anymore. Milk the mess raise the ranks and money sharks are everywhere now.
we have become a money brothel for leeches feasting off the debt we mount what ROI/value? debt without ROI/value merely cash in the empties for the wild party had. Go talk to countries that have tried the equation we are running on...
We did have it all at one time, not so much anymore...
when is the next buyouts, bailouts, handouts...
and its all about the housing - tubs, tubes and toilets.
As we bring in more people to wash toilets, clean bums and clean kitchens...
can we feed ourselves - nope dependent on others now mostly
can we cloth ourselves - nope over priced ourselves out of business there - maybe automation will help lower costs
can we defend ourselves - not a hope in hell we operate a money brothel as many milk the mess, history majors running major projects in defense - failure 101 is
do we make stuff anymore to export? don't think so aside from digging ditches and dirt.
its all about the housing now. Not about good governance, integrity, morals and ethics anymore. Milk the mess raise the ranks and money sharks are everywhere now.
we have become a money brothel for leeches feasting off the debt we mount what ROI/value? debt without ROI/value merely cash in the empties for the wild party had. Go talk to countries that have tried the equation we are running on...
Kakistocracy is alive and well in many institutions now.
Machiavelli’s Observation: quality of a leader can be judged by the subordinates they choose. Incompetent leaders, seeking to protect their own position, deliberately hire or promote individuals who are less competent than themselves. ref https://shanechang.com/p/machiavellian-paradox-incompetence-power-games/
Dunning-Kruger Effect-incompetent people not only perform poorly, but they also lack the metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence, or the competence of others. As a result: They fail to recognize the high skills of others. They tend to surround themselves with people like them, rather than better, more capable people.
Characteristics of Incompetent Environments:
Vicious Cycle: Incompetent individuals do not want to hear criticism or advice to improve, which locks them into a cycle of poor performance. Fear of Threat: Weak leaders surround themselves with even weaker subordinates to ensure they never face challenges to their authority
Throwing money at a mess won't fix a mess it will be feasted upon. but, wisdom/experience/knowledge might help. Might... hopefully. Raped to debt. Who's got the bar tab? dat guy over der?
money blinds we fools... who's got the bar tab? (the debt we mount debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had - nice house not much inside it syndrome)
who's got the bar tab? (the debt we mount debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had - nice house not much inside it syndrome) as taxes, fees, inflation plus housing costs eats up income now. Throwing money at a mess won't fix a mess but experience/wisdom/knowledge may help. Same ol same ol playbooks or clean up fix up and rebuild something more resilient, robust, adaptable and scalable. Do we learn? probably not... Its hard to change old habits and in denial - denial is a hard thing to overcome https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truthhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial especially when the party was so wild yet the hang over so costly... money blinds we fools.
what do we need to build? and, cleanup fixup and rebuild or it will continue to be milked silly. Lots of loan sharks now in the murky water looking to suck any money pit dry.
to defend and protect our nation with the best technology that fits operational requirements to prove mission success and to bring the troops back home at any costs.
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office "
Machiavelli’s Observation: quality of a leader can be judged by the subordinates they choose. Incompetent leaders, seeking to protect their own position, deliberately hire or promote individuals who are less competent than themselves. ref https://shanechang.com/p/machiavellian-paradox-incompetence-power-games/
Dunning-Kruger Effect-incompetent people not only perform poorly, but they also lack the metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence, or the competence of others. As a result: They fail to recognize the high skills of others. They tend to surround themselves with people like them, rather than better, more capable people.
Characteristics of Incompetent Environments:
Vicious Cycle: Incompetent individuals do not want to hear criticism or advice to improve, which locks them into a cycle of poor performance. Fear of Threat: Weak leaders surround themselves with even weaker subordinates to ensure they never face challenges to their authority
drone mesh & swarm tech plus smallsat too... will Canada be there? or still thinking stuck in the mud? loan sharks too the money and ran?
why have humans in aircraft as wars are won on technology now... may the best technology and engineering win. Want to take down a ship merely hit it in all angles with drone swarm & mesh then a big one from the top these big boys which fly into orbit and beyond https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/
Most fraud doesn't start with a criminal. It starts with pressure.
A scientist staring at messy data late at night. A trader staring at a losing quarter. A researcher whose career depends on publishing something "important."
The incentives start whispering: Just clean up the data. Just this once.
The numbers are staggering. There are now 63,000 retractions in the scientific literature and the researchers who track this believe the real rate of fraudulent or irreparably flawed papers could be 5 to 10 percent of everything published.
The consequences aren't abstract. Fraudulent Alzheimer's research - papers cited thousands of times by other scientists - sent an entire field down false paths for years. The head of the NIH's neuroscience aging division was removed after 132 of his papers were found to contain falsified data. He controlled $2.6 billion in research funding.
And the article makes clear this isn't about bad apples. It's about a system that only publishes splashy results, where labs reward the people who produce favorable data and punish those who honestly report that an experiment didn't work. Postdocs know their careers depend on making a hypothesis look right, not on telling the truth when it doesn't.
That pattern hit close to home.
In finance, fraud destroys careers and trust. In science, the stakes are even higher. People are sick. Families are desperate. And when a researcher fakes data on Alzheimer's or cancer, it doesn't just end a career. It sends thousands of scientists down the wrong path for years, burning time and money while patients wait for treatments that never come.
The real risk, in any field, isn't one person who cheats.
It's when systems reward being impressive more than being honest.
ponzi scheme? maybe time will tell know when to pull out don't buy high sell low! ride the way of uncertainty - volatility makes some in underpants at home a lotta money riding the wave!
as well and trauma https://drgabormate.com/ curious to know how much trauma influences us (past trauma and generational trauma https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/amygdala-hijack) As they say trauma sits in the right side of the brain primarily (emotional side, left side logical as trauma sits in fragments in the brain)
I'm curious to know - those that grew up with traumatic events or in war etc... how much has their brain changed in accordance to the stress and anxiety they are put under? are they more right or left brain thinkers?
too much left brain too much over analysis paralysis where as too much right brain too much emotional reaction to events/triggers in life? could society be measured as such? especially with dictators at the helm of the ship putting doses of fear in the air https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/01/fear-a-dictators-tool/ living in constant fear under pressure. What impact https://thedividedbrain.com
impossible to tell a drunk to stop drinking till pain > fear then they *may* stop... dad the damn tractor is on top of you, but you managed to hang onto your beer, again!
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
that seems to be lacking today, its all about chasing the almighty buck. Lots of loan sharks in them dark murky waters as complexity hides the truth. Just know when to pull out, that's all.
follow the money, oil and weapons that's all. Deregulation, careful what you wish for. 3rd world countries have tried that and have failed horribly. I'm in a BRICs country now these are growing favelas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLY2uADt4pk as the deviation between rich and poor continues on and on...
As the world turns same cycles over and over again.
so what to do, how do we get off this dependency on housing as we keep bailing it out in the billions? https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/nhs how do we bring down the cost of production? as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. Nice cookie cutter stuck together mcmansion but not much inside it syndrome. How can we compete globally now? automation as china and others are doing perhaps https://investinginpassion.com/2025/11/04/how-chinas-automation-surge-is-redefining-global-manufacturing/ education has become a big business no longer for our strategic advantage. How do we better position ourselves on the world stage as not to become the world's superhero/power they die hard and fast in debt. Raped to debt. How do we market our product and protect our IP something we are horrible at, CSIS warns no one listens taboo subject I guess https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-csis-cautions-canadian-universities-to-be-on-alert-for-international/ spies are everywhere now ready to steal your IP. We had a spy in the office http://circ.jmellon.com/docs/view.asp?id=1065 what do we need to build to compete globally and really bring in dollars into our economy? more shoppers or more thinkers? what do we need to build?
they all used the media for their gains... Mussolini had his own media outlet and Hitler knew how to use the media too Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) established and controlled their own extensive media empire to propagate their ideology, control public opinion, and promote the "Führer myth"
Those that own the media manipulate the minds of the masses without question. Obey, conform question nothing is the norm now. And, its all giants now.... owned by who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership that's a dangerous place to be
now, canada better not be stupid about this,but it will. I would ask a pretty penny for that oil
But, its foolish co/dependent (wants to rescue the world without rescuing self first - what boundaries we are the world's superpower! they die hard and fast in debt)
That Maritime DISH hub in Halifax caught my eye. I pulled up the national defence committee evidence where the minister described the new pilot project at COVE. It sets up a secure space for private sector and university partners to work on Arctic maritime tech. Ties right into protecting our innovation like they recommend for sovereignty. See it here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/NDDN/meeting-17/evidence
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-oil-prices-iran-war-gulf-economy-middle-east/
this has been predicted now for a very long time see https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/economist-jeff-rubin-offers-a-map-of-the-new-normal/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NwC8vSSeE has everyone been sleeping? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24de9e97vno
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/ yah got oil hide it or the pirate will be after it soon! don't be foolish know your narc/pirate A drunk will do anything for its next drink, anything https://www.zdnet.com/article/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-oil/https://www.c-span.org/clip/call-in/user-clip-addicted-to-oil/4484705 denial is a hard thing to overcome though https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truthhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial
basic math folks! oil up inflation up interest rates up housing dies (huge false driver to GDP) can't print/borrow money nor sell the country off (bonds) now what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_warhttps://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asp those that manipulate/control oil control your every movement those that own the debt own your soul those that manipulate/own the media manipulate the mindless sheep
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-iran-ai-slop-war-propaganda-benjamin-netanyahu/
hmmm, what about the good ol USA propagada machine? its very good at manipulation and hollywood very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJ6M2XoFiMhttps://www.tvo.org/programs/deception-world-war-twohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war as they mingle in other affairs now https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-oil-prices/ very dependent on foreign oil/energy and that's a dangerous place to be... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asp
the manipulation machines and propaganda machines are alive and well - smoke and mirror black magic shows.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/
where is the aggressor we shall never know where evil hides as it hides itself very well in its blame/shame/guilt games https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-america-winning-much-185511858.html know your narc https://www.castanet.net/news/In-A-Pickle/499884/Spotting-the-games-narcissists-playhttps://readingraphics.com/book-summary-games-people-play/ to manipulate the masses without question so easy it is to do now... and that's a dangerous place to be.
what meaningful and value added work out there, can't throw more people at a debt problem it will just lead to more debt as you need more schools, infrastructure, energy demands, policing, justice, jails/prisons, health care etc... all of which eats up taxes. Has anyone seen the debt? the bar tab, debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had as flipping houses became as easy as flipping burgers everyone and grandma/pa was doing it as candy (money) was thrown at the firepit to no end (print/borrow money). We get what we deserve...
https://globalnews.ca/news/10604338/canada-indebtedness-debt-levels-desjardins-report/
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/canada/national-government-debthttps://ontariohousingmarket.com/2025/06/13/canadians-now-owe-1-85-for-every-1-they-earn/https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-unhinged-housing-market-captured-in-one-chart as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. Our labor and production costs are too high to produce anything now besides tubs, tubes and toilets. What is even made in america anymore come on boats move faster we need to tax those goods https://marinetraffic.com/ fools gold, money blinds we fools.
but, https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/https://explorenuclear.com/maps/world-map-of-nuclear-sites-facilities-and-more/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-defense-budgets-in-the-world/
Me thinks its more related to oil, those that control oil (manipulate) control your every movement. Those that own the debt own your soul. Those that own the media manipulate the mindless sheep that question noting now. Critical thinking, what!
same ol same ol playbook over and over again - how to over throw government planet oil https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_George_W._Bush_administrationhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/29/iran-and-us-president-donald-trump-a-timeline-of-key-events
Who controls the oil prices anyhow? https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asphttps://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-oil-prices/ oil up inflation up interest rates up housing can't print/borrow money nor sell the country off (bonds) now what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war
manipulate the masses much like everything else today... as the mindless sheep question nothing https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-clarity/202306/the-decline-of-critical-thinking-skills and this too https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-in-the-intersection/201804/is-narcissism-the-cost-being-americanhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202402/why-narcissism-is-rising narcs never admit fault yet they are so broken inside in denial and denial is a hard thing to overcome (like drunks - addicts) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truthhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial america is great at manipulation and selling hollywood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJ6M2XoFiM
and perhaps a better measure of society is - how happy are the people? are they constantly pissed off at a reckless, negligent government of incompetency? (eg https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/comments/1rxycce/i_dont_quit_my_job_i_quit_my_bosss_boss/ )can they feed, cloth and defend themselves plus make something or at least fix stuff for a reasonable price?are they taxed to debt over pricing themselves out of and home?what is freedom really? dogs run wild or stuck in a cage all day trying to prove self worth through stuff which is really lack of self esteem/confidence when we use stuff to prove self worth.Do they live healthy or has processed junk ruined their world with giants running the roost? we saw some pretty large chicken farms here - hey, it smells like potato and chicken, again.
lose freedom and health you lose a lot in life. Lose happiness and joy, well you are merely a slave to addictions really (person/place/thing). Those that own the oil control your every movement (or manipulate the prices). Those that own the debt own your soul as debt trap diplomacy is alive and well - want another 100k with that fool? as money blinds we fools. Salaries keeping up with taxes, fees, inflation and housing costs? nice stuck together mcmansion as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. Nice house syndrome not much inside it though. As reckless ignorant spending occurs handing out money like candy, but have yah seen the debt? debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had. Any fool and print/borrow money and put a place into debt watch out for these people as they will destroy a society - financially/legally/physically/emotionally for more power/control/fame/fortune https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/ in God we trust? we stand on guard for thee? God save our land? hmmm... in denial of our issues https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial its a hard thing to overcome addictions (person/place/thing) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth wild times again https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
summary: can they feed, cloth and defend themselves and make stuff or at least fix stuff for reasonably cheap?health and freedom from a true sense? money is a man made thing, what its tied to who knows anymore... certainly not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries the planet will do what planet does to protect itself we humans will do as we so desire why do people do what they do who knows... nature vs nurture. As the good Lord looks down and says take that fools - throws a dictator in the mix to really fck things up.
more baby trump videos, get them while you can before you know who takes them down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3uqLj1m3Q
trip of trips...
so we just drove 1500km which I would never do again especially when flying cost around 250USD round trip as we met some folks from the USA that are doing that from sao paulo to https://iguazufalls.com/national-park/ yuk sao paulo one big concrete mess. Not much to do there but shop I suspect. Be a good mindless consumer... shop till yah drop.We drove through mountain ranges, the trucks were the traffic as they slow to a crawl getting up the hills. Then through tunnels to get through the massive mountains, that must have cost them a fortune to do. They do have a train system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Brazil especially in the rural towns. Did you know Brazil is one of the largest food manufacturers in the world https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100615/4-countries-produce-most-food.asp now they put these huge manufacturing plants in poor areas https://www.jbs.com.br/en/about/ I guess to keep labor costs down. Yet, in the horizon are the cities feasting off the poor? someone has to do the cheap labor someplace eh!(Guatemala as well as the huge giant corporations own most of the land thus squeezing the locals out of ever buying something of their own as I volunteered for construcasa.org, gotta try that once in your life to see real poverty - family of 6 living in a small wooden shack yet such hard workers, working the fields from dawn to dusk every day besides sunday-the day of rest).
The trip from rio went through the mountain ranges then sao paulo with the maze of highways 10 lanes wide and wider swinging every which way (santa cruz is worse though, what capacity planning just build and build and build what regulations and standards etc...a mess). Then it was Acai palms for miles and miles, Brazilians love their Acai drinks. Then sugar cane, used in ethanol to power their vehicles and everyone has a new car in the big cities where money is easy to get at I suspect as they print/borrow money to no end? ( https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/drex_enhttps://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en good luck paying with cash as many don't use cash anymore everything traces through a CPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPF_number does it curb crime who knows, but it probably means just adding a few more zeros to the central banking system...) It loves its giants too http://petrobras.com.br/en/ but yet there are many players in the oil industry. Talking to the locals it seems as though Brazil is in the same situation as Canada - dig oil yet refine it elsewhere then bring it back. Ethanol the locals hate it due to its poor performance characteristics, but its cheap like 4.50R in comparison to common gasoline at 6.50R liter. I rented an american car (chev) what a piece of junk this was in comparison to foreign made cars (fiat, renault, audis, bmw, etc...) I was getting passed big time esp on the mountain climbs as the car had no guts (gutless cutlass). Americans should be ashamed of themselves of the junk being produced, but throw more money at the mess hope for the best as bailouts/buyouts/handouts become the norm (ref https://www.gmichaelhopf.com/hard-timeshttps://deming.org/a-bad-system-will-beat-a-good-person-every-time/ ) can't throw money at a mess it will be milked silly! feasted upon producing garbage, what QA/QC its all about the profits now at all costs!
Then it was the vast fields of corn that went on and on as the rolly red soil vast landscape hosted corn for miles and miles. The trucks are the traffic with such poor planning as large cities sit plopped in from prosperity? Joe/Jans cousin designed that road some years back he got the job through a friend of a friend of a friend he designed it with a crayon as he was only 10 years old at the time... keep it in the family the motto. Anyhow, they are starting to widen the roads as you get caught up behind a rig that can barely make it through the rolly polly landscape. It must be costing them a fortune to do such a thing now as land prices must have gone up (buying the land off the farmers to expand) and labor costs plus equipment costs as well (its all mostly foreign made tractors etcs yet there are manufacturing plants here such as toyota, volvo, hershey chocolate yum... and it does make aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer not cars though it seems, much like us https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/bombardier-once-the-crown-jewel-of-canadian-industry-sells-its-train-divisionhttps://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/ yuk boeing has some QA/QC issues it seems I try not to step foot into a boeing aircraft https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/07/08/the-story-of-boeings-failed-corporate-culture-2/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/boeing-quality-problems-speed.htmlhttps://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/summary-of-boeing-problems.html too big too fail as bailouts/buyouts/handouts become the norm? we try to make cars though https://www.projectarrow.ca/ good at innovation, horrible at marketing, oblivious to protecting IP, hey who stole our IP..)
The food reasonable along the way around 10CAD to eat buffet (meat, potatoes, veggies etc...) and the highway stops have it all from honey to bread to full coarse meals. And, of course fried stuff brazilians love their deep fried foods. Yuk. Yet, luckily they like their suco natural drinkings from various juices etc... so yah can eat well along the way while the lower sphincter puckers up due to all the truck traffic and trying to pass on the curvy windy roads of shame (poor planning as jane's cousin designed the roads at just 10 years old!)
Then came the falls, vast https://iguazufalls.com/national-park/ not commercialized like niagra but Brazil is catching up as they just put a massive highway in. We stayed at a quaint little hotel with trails and rustic like. Don't dare dirty the white towels. Who the hell uses white towels when the land is surrounded by red dark soil which stains everything. The damn dog is now red no longer white and golden like... as it loves its waterfalls and playing in the soil etc... Brazilian side has vast mega motels american style which eat up the little players. Loves its giants. The Argentinian side more quaint like and lots of hikes around the vast array of waterfalls. Platforms for kms of trails that weave in and out of the network of falls. Go to Brazil for the bling go to Argentina for a little train ride then walk and walk for miles, but do bring water cause I guess they want you to buy stuff at the various little stores in the central spot. Be sure your cards are working well cause they don't take reals nor USD. We drove to https://turismoitaipu.com.br/en/blog/landmark-of-the-three-borders/ which was a sight to see up on the perch overlooking the river you can see the three landmarks. We didn't venture to paraguay as I heard they shut down your vehicle (rental company does) if you cross over. So we didn't dare try. But on the Brazilian side its all favelas coming close to the borders... I guess those that hopped over the border looking for greener pastures just lay their hat right there... and the favelas grow and grow it seems. Supposedly if you have a child in Brazil all the family members can apply for citizenship and why not health care is free so too is education. As the push is on for more engineers, medicine grads and dentists etc... the age of producing clothing in Brazil is long gone. As we talked to locals in that industry, labor costs are too high in comparison to china. Many are mad at china for coming in with such cheap labor costs under cutting them now they serve ice cream for a living which is hit and miss (but, https://investinginpassion.com/2025/11/04/how-chinas-automation-surge-is-redefining-global-manufacturing/https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/13/china/china-population-robots-intl-hnk-dst ) But, they can feed themselves as you can grow anything here with its vast diverse landscape and climates. Trying to predict the weather is tough here as the amazon has such a vast influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONmydfz5ls as you pass by the vast array of mountains the moisture coming off the vast jungle is so great to see. Can it defend itself, not certain... https://www.eb.mil.br/https://www.youtube.com/@exercitooficial but, we've seen the federal police on the highway with big guns pulled out during various car crashes. And, its had its share of coups plus dictatorships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOiXFw8mPGIhttps://www.cafehistoria.com.br/military-dictatorship-in-brazil-a-history/Does it make stuff - definitely a food production unit https://oec.world/en/profile/country/bra seems to be that way does it import stuff from cheaper labor countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Brazil it likes its cheap stuff too... much like north america as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. But, home prices seem reasonable here at around 150k-200k for a nice solid (made of thick concrete) apartment near the beach in rio. I seen one for 90k but not in a not so nice area.
It was a long trek that I would not do again, cheaper and easier to fly...
I have seen this a thousand times now https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPublicServants/comments/1rxycce/i_dont_quit_my_job_i_quit_my_bosss_boss/
this https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/
cuts happen every 10 years or so - oil/energy costs etc.. https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-oil-prices/
https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/workforce/workforce-adjustment/workforce-reductions-federal-public-service.html . https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/planned-government-spending/government-expenditure-plan-main-estimates/2026-27-estimates.html its all about the housing now.
We did have it all at one time, not so much anymore...
when is the next buyouts, bailouts, handouts...
and its all about the housing - tubs, tubes and toilets.
As we bring in more people to wash toilets, clean bums and clean kitchens...
can we feed ourselves - nope dependent on others now mostly
can we cloth ourselves - nope over priced ourselves out of business there - maybe automation will help lower costs
can we defend ourselves - not a hope in hell we operate a money brothel as many milk the mess, history majors running major projects in defense - failure 101 is
do we make stuff anymore to export? don't think so aside from digging ditches and dirt.
its all about the housing now. Not about good governance, integrity, morals and ethics anymore. Milk the mess raise the ranks and money sharks are everywhere now.
we have become a money brothel for leeches feasting off the debt we mount what ROI/value? debt without ROI/value merely cash in the empties for the wild party had. Go talk to countries that have tried the equation we are running on...
We did have it all at one time, not so much anymore...
when is the next buyouts, bailouts, handouts...
and its all about the housing - tubs, tubes and toilets.
As we bring in more people to wash toilets, clean bums and clean kitchens...
can we feed ourselves - nope dependent on others now mostly
can we cloth ourselves - nope over priced ourselves out of business there - maybe automation will help lower costs
can we defend ourselves - not a hope in hell we operate a money brothel as many milk the mess, history majors running major projects in defense - failure 101 is
do we make stuff anymore to export? don't think so aside from digging ditches and dirt.
its all about the housing now. Not about good governance, integrity, morals and ethics anymore. Milk the mess raise the ranks and money sharks are everywhere now.
we have become a money brothel for leeches feasting off the debt we mount what ROI/value? debt without ROI/value merely cash in the empties for the wild party had. Go talk to countries that have tried the equation we are running on...
Kakistocracy is alive and well in many institutions now.
Machiavelli’s Observation: quality of a leader can be judged by the subordinates they choose. Incompetent leaders, seeking to protect their own position, deliberately hire or promote individuals who are less competent than themselves. ref https://shanechang.com/p/machiavellian-paradox-incompetence-power-games/
Dunning-Kruger Effect-incompetent people not only perform poorly, but they also lack the metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence, or the competence of others. As a result: They fail to recognize the high skills of others. They tend to surround themselves with people like them, rather than better, more capable people.
Characteristics of Incompetent Environments:
Vicious Cycle: Incompetent individuals do not want to hear criticism or advice to improve, which locks them into a cycle of poor performance. Fear of Threat: Weak leaders surround themselves with even weaker subordinates to ensure they never face challenges to their authority
Throwing money at a mess won't fix a mess it will be feasted upon. but, wisdom/experience/knowledge might help. Might... hopefully. Raped to debt. Who's got the bar tab? dat guy over der?
We did have it all and somehow we lost most of it as flipping homes became as easy as flipping burgers as near free money was handed out recklessly and foolishly with ignorance for -who's got the bar tab? debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party and the party was wild. Sooner or later yah have to pay the piper as good times lead to hard times eventually as taxes, fees, inflation and housing costs now eats up income https://www.gmichaelhopf.com/hard-times there is a cost to printing/borrowing money and selling the country off to no end (bonds). Oil up inflation up interest rates up housing dies (a huge driver to GDP https://www.statista.com/statistics/594293/gross-domestic-product-of-canada-by-industry-monthly/https://mises.org/mises-wire/gdp-poor-measure-economic-health ) can't print/borrow money nor sell the country off (bonds) now what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_warhttps://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-oil-prices/ trump got his goods heavy oil though costly to get at https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/venezuela-oil-trump how to over throw government https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4 same ol playbook over and over...
We used to build a lot-telco https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-when-we-were-kings-the-rise-and-fall-of-nortel/ (but look ma no boundaries https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-military-attack-on-nortel/ ) https://www.zdnet.com/article/blackberry-a-postmortem-of-the-former-smartphone-king/ (but, foolishly lost it https://www.vice.com/en/article/rcmp-blackberry-project-clemenza-global-encryption-key-canada/ ) and https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/bombardier-once-the-crown-jewel-of-canadian-industry-sells-its-train-division (but, proof is in the puddling path of least resistance/work in government it loves the giants https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/ it has QA/QC issues it seems I guess someone didn't get the memo? https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/07/08/the-story-of-boeings-failed-corporate-culture-2/ I used to work big defense worked on this mess milk the mess raise the ranks the motto what operational requirements bid low make up the loss maintaining the junk the games played https://globalnews.ca/news/9526233/military-helicopter-crash-cyclone-software-bill/ ) Good luck changing the mindset...toxic
money blinds we fools... who's got the bar tab? (the debt we mount debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had - nice house not much inside it syndrome)
who's got the bar tab? (the debt we mount debt without ROI/value cash in the empties for the wild party had - nice house not much inside it syndrome) as taxes, fees, inflation plus housing costs eats up income now. Throwing money at a mess won't fix a mess but experience/wisdom/knowledge may help. Same ol same ol playbooks or clean up fix up and rebuild something more resilient, robust, adaptable and scalable. Do we learn? probably not... Its hard to change old habits and in denial - denial is a hard thing to overcome https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truthhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial especially when the party was so wild yet the hang over so costly... money blinds we fools.
ref https://fee.org/articles/30-priceless-quotes-from-the-great-thomas-sowell/
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/peter-drucker-quotes
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ayn-rand-quotes
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/friedrich-nietzsche-quotes
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_109026
https://deming.org/a-bad-system-will-beat-a-good-person-every-time/
Delicate balance and moderation it all is... you eventually pay the price for the wild party had
As the cycles continue...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-canada-economy-federal-government-spending-resilience-adaptability/
we should be building resiliency, robustness and adaptability plus scalability what we have now is a lotta throwing money around and accountability & responsibility schemes are being torn down so it will be raped to debt again by loan sharks etc... there better some ROI/value to all this debt mounted or cash in the empties when the piper comes calling for return on investment https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/canada/national-government-debt sorry, we spent it all on a wild party as flipping homes became as easy as flipping burgers. We just gave up a huge investment to build aircraft for canada the CP140 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/construction-underway-u-s-on-canadian-surveillance-aircraft to this organization which seems to have some QA/QC problems why reward a biting dog with more treats for failure? anyone not get the memo? https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/07/08/the-story-of-boeings-failed-corporate-culture-2/ . https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/boeing-quality-problems-speed.html . https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/summary-of-boeing-problems.html DnD plagued with failure (bid low make up the loss maintaining the junk and what operational requirements as scope/costs/quality are all over the spectrum milk the mess raise the ranks the motto now)
When I worked big defense evolved the initial ship spec, CP140 and MHP such a disaster of a project what operational requirements as it was milked for years I left as I have integrity and morals but others not so much so throw money in the air and loan sharks will appear. https://globalnews.ca/news/9526233/military-helicopter-crash-cyclone-software-bill/ RIP those that lost their lives may there not be anymore lives lost on negligence https://skiesmag.com/news/sikorsky-settles-with-canadian-families-after-ch-148-cyclone-crash/ it was warned no one listened https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-auditor-generals-report/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/auditor-general-fraser-slams-chopper-buys-1.897142https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dnd-warned-in-2004-about-cyclone-helicopters-performance-issues-files-show/article15237328/ now stuck with a lemon https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/lack-of-working-cyclones-frustrates-canadas-top-sailor-the-helicopter-has-been-letting-us-downhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cyclone-helicopter-sikorsky-debonding-1.7101677 do we listen do we learn? I think not. Need a change in leadership in those organizations and mindset as it loves its giants path of least resistance/work.
what do we need to build? and, cleanup fixup and rebuild or it will continue to be milked silly. Lots of loan sharks now in the murky water looking to suck any money pit dry.
Should we be building planes, trains and automobiles - it depends but we lost a lot over the past decade as the sell off continues https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/bombardier-once-the-crown-jewel-of-canadian-industry-sells-its-train-division
Do we have the knowledge/experience/wisdom to build anymore? ottawa can't seem to get it right https://www.tvo.org/article/the-ottawa-lrt-fiasco-shows-theres-no-political-accountabilityhttps://nationalpost.com/opinion/ottawas-latest-it-project-ballooning-by-billionshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-phoenix-system-federal-government-alex-benay-51-billion/ history majors run those shows not hardcore engineering types they've hung up their hats now pushing paper as engineering is pretty dead in this country ref: https://deming.org/a-bad-system-will-beat-a-good-person-every-time/https://www.gmichaelhopf.com/hard-times the lost decade did a number on this country we have to redevelop and redefine ourselves now which takes years to create innovation, entrepreneurs and value added risk takers
the amount of work to build an aircraft is enormous EUROPE JET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQgGvVOQdYg and defense too takes years and years to perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eh7uKgaFpg
We seemed to have lost ourselves along the way someplace unfortunately. But, we did have it all at one point from telco https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-when-we-were-kings-the-rise-and-fall-of-nortel/ (but https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-military-attack-on-nortel/ we are horrible at protecting our IP, oblivious ) https://www.zdnet.com/article/blackberry-a-postmortem-of-the-former-smartphone-king/ (but https://www.vice.com/en/article/rcmp-blackberry-project-clemenza-global-encryption-key-canada/ ) and https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/bombardier-once-the-crown-jewel-of-canadian-industry-sells-its-train-division (but https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/ ) Great at innovation horrible at market on a global scale and oblivious to protecting IP. Failure 101 is? don't make the same mistakes over and over again expecting different results - insanity is... what do we need to build? what are we good at, not so good at, threats and opportunities simple SWOT analysis a must. How can we fit on the world stage? merely throw money around like a money brothel with loan sharks in the waters or actually build something that is sustainable with spin offs (remember the nortel/bnr and newbridge/mitel days with so many spin offs and innovation everywhere) just before the dot con bust - I used to work for SHL great company then it got bought up by giants EDS/MCI then the giant that could not fail did https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/worldcom.asphttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/ we lost a lot during those years unfortunately but we did have it all...
maybe we get what we deserve if https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-of-the-self/201210/greed-the-ultimate-addiction and tax payers don't seem to care. Open up the money brothel and dive in! let the loan sharks rape us to debt.
(ref https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/trump-orders-defense-companies-to-stop-stock-buybacks-dividends-00714621https://globalnews.ca/news/11603249/donald-trump-military-equipment-production-threats/ .
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-defense-contractor-stock-buyback-ban-b2896412.html )
https://globalnews.ca/video/11678548/ottawas-defence-plan-to-buy-and-build-in-canada-has-to-turn-into-action
space race is on will we be there? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/LHX/pressreleases/664845/why-defense-contractors-are-suddenly-racing-to-orbit/
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/canadians-want-to-be-able-to-defend-canada-our-government-should-provide-a-way-alex-wilner-in-the-globe-and-mail/
to defend and protect our nation with the best technology that fits operational requirements to prove mission success and to bring the troops back home at any costs.
(mission success is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_Co_myqYA . https://www.omg.org/events/2024Q1/special-events/UAF-presentations/1330-DMA-Architecture-Based-Decision-Making-for-Mission-Engineering-and-Integration.pdf )
its not to become a money brothel or to appease the loan sharks, that's for sure. Raped to debt.
And avoid becoming a military industrial complex https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html
trillions gets dumped into the economy https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office "
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes . https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23920.Dwight_D_Eisenhowerhttps://www.brainyquote.com/authors/dwight-d-eisenhower-quotes
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-lets-stop-giving-billions-in-research-funding-to-foreign-firms/
why can't we build it here? or are we not capable of building much anymore https://www.tvo.org/article/the-ottawa-lrt-fiasco-shows-theres-no-political-accountability . https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-phoenix-system-federal-government-alex-benay-51-billion/ . https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ottawas-latest-it-project-ballooning-by-billions . https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/construction-underway-u-s-on-canadian-surveillance-aircraft
too many history majors running the show?
Kakistocracy
Machiavelli’s Observation: quality of a leader can be judged by the subordinates they choose. Incompetent leaders, seeking to protect their own position, deliberately hire or promote individuals who are less competent than themselves. ref https://shanechang.com/p/machiavellian-paradox-incompetence-power-games/
Dunning-Kruger Effect-incompetent people not only perform poorly, but they also lack the metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence, or the competence of others. As a result: They fail to recognize the high skills of others. They tend to surround themselves with people like them, rather than better, more capable people.
Characteristics of Incompetent Environments:
Vicious Cycle: Incompetent individuals do not want to hear criticism or advice to improve, which locks them into a cycle of poor performance. Fear of Threat: Weak leaders surround themselves with even weaker subordinates to ensure they never face challenges to their authority
https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/incompetence.html
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. -Woodward
denial is a hard thing to overcome - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denial . https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth and https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-clarity/202306/the-decline-of-critical-thinking-skills plus unable to admit and see the truth as lies/deceit/deception become the norm https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202402/why-narcissism-is-rising fault what, not us! humbleness and humility no way! as good codependents https://enough-foundation.com/you-werent-born-codependent/
drone mesh & swarm tech plus smallsat too... will Canada be there? or still thinking stuck in the mud? loan sharks too the money and ran?
why have humans in aircraft as wars are won on technology now... may the best technology and engineering win. Want to take down a ship merely hit it in all angles with drone swarm & mesh then a big one from the top these big boys which fly into orbit and beyond https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eh7uKgaFpg how to compete against that?
EUROPE JET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQgGvVOQdYg takes years and years to perfect a jet yet we just gave a big contract up worth millions CP140 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/construction-underway-u-s-on-canadian-surveillance-aircraft CP140 was a great aircraft for its time but its old and crusty now. Will we evolve our own aircraft, questionable now as the sell off continues https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/bombardier-once-the-crown-jewel-of-canadian-industry-sells-its-train-division
wondering what the development is in mesh and swarm technologies and BMI/BCI ? https://www.engineering.com/darpas-building-a-noninvasive-neural-interface-for-soldiers/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQB9mwsWB_c and if more of these are evolving - massive launch of mesh & swarm drone from aircraft or ships etc... https://www.newsweek.com/china-military-drone-carrier-mothership-future-warfare-2074494https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/inside-russias-plan-to-build-autonomous-drone-swarms/ curious to know what RF freq and modulation scheme they are using to avoid jamming and detection etc...
up next smallsat swarm & mesh and drone technologies - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/autonomous-satellite-swarm-systems-revolutionizing-andre-9rawe/ as not to cover the entire planet just segments as required (disasters, during war times, etc..)
canada would be smart to invest in such instead of covering the entire planet as elon is doing with starlink that's so costly and https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/02/10/elon-musks-space-data-centre-plans-could-see-spacex-monopoly-on-ai-and-computing-experts-w hugely costly that is.
plus https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/3d-printing-saving-weight-and-space-at-launch/https://pentoz.com/self-healing-satellites/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3303761/china-bid-challenge-giant-spacex-deploying-maglev-rocket-launch-pad-2028
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/self-assembling-data-centers-in-space-are-becoming-reality-as-rendezvous-robotics-partners-with-starcloud-elon-musk-chimes-in-that-spacex-will-be-doing-this
the space race is on will canada be there? https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/23/8117
ref: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neural-mesh-networks-unleashing-power-decentralized-ai-ripla-pgcert-parme/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/next-cloud-shift-ai-fabric-connecting-data-apps-andre-ovjse/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/architecting-tech-resilient-organizational-structures-andre-naxve/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disaster-prediction-detection-response-using-ai-andre-zkmve/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-deciding-what-technology-should-exist-andre-gqfqe/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/self-auditing-infrastructure-transforming-enterprise-andre-tpzte/
china and the USA rise of Xi PBS timeline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ew0cbG1IU
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/china-the-u-s-the-rise-of-xi-jinping/
then watch rise and fall of Mussolini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE8XCmV5pVM
why do they cheat? ref https://www.thefp.com/p/science-has-a-major-fraud-problem
Most fraud doesn't start with a criminal. It starts with pressure.
A scientist staring at messy data late at night. A trader staring at a losing quarter. A researcher whose career depends on publishing something "important."
The incentives start whispering: Just clean up the data. Just this once.
The numbers are staggering. There are now 63,000 retractions in the scientific literature and the researchers who track this believe the real rate of fraudulent or irreparably flawed papers could be 5 to 10 percent of everything published.
The consequences aren't abstract. Fraudulent Alzheimer's research - papers cited thousands of times by other scientists - sent an entire field down false paths for years. The head of the NIH's neuroscience aging division was removed after 132 of his papers were found to contain falsified data. He controlled $2.6 billion in research funding.
And the article makes clear this isn't about bad apples. It's about a system that only publishes splashy results, where labs reward the people who produce favorable data and punish those who honestly report that an experiment didn't work. Postdocs know their careers depend on making a hypothesis look right, not on telling the truth when it doesn't.
That pattern hit close to home.
In finance, fraud destroys careers and trust. In science, the stakes are even higher. People are sick. Families are desperate. And when a researcher fakes data on Alzheimer's or cancer, it doesn't just end a career. It sends thousands of scientists down the wrong path for years, burning time and money while patients wait for treatments that never come.
The real risk, in any field, isn't one person who cheats.
It's when systems reward being impressive more than being honest.
wrote: having worked for many companies and organizations where this became the norm. From Spar Aerospace where supposedly someone fudged the numbers for a satellite and got sued. Its no more. To a large police force where lies, deceit and deception became the norm above the law as collusion/contempt/complacency and corruption set in https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-horribly-broken/article17997461/ sat near this guy lets just say honesty was not his best policy https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rcmp-surveilled-thousands-of-innocent-canadians-for-a-decade/ our boss at the time with real estate deals gone bad https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/covert-rcmp-unit-hardly-a-secret-witness-tells-disciplinary-hearing to having two bosses die in a year no one listened to the complaints why is that? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-training-centre-kemptville-rcmp-asbestos-mould-1.5378334 etc... I could go on and on...
and one day I should write a book about it all :)
used to work for https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/worldcom.asp during the https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/ I've seen good companies go to bad EDS/MCI to absolutely horrible over night as greed turned to rampage all about chasing the almighty buck at any costs. I left as I have integrity, morals, values and standards... damn parents, my dad used to go up against huge corporations in mining and construction as a health and safety inspector put his job on the line fighting for the little 'guy/gal' not many would do that now a days as its so toxic now as lies, deceit and deception become the norm. How did we get to this state? Then the next should be how the hell do dictators get in power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfa4kpyMbshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini how do they gain so much power over others and why don't people question it all is the scary part https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-clarity/202306/the-decline-of-critical-thinking-skills as we have become a perfect incubator for dictators now and that is not a good place to be. I'm in a BRICs country they don't trust government, policing nor military anymore..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaw1_ihrlk and ethics and integrity problem it seems? what drives people to do what they do? environment, situation, upbringing (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2708328/) , genetics (https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2024/04/05/does-the-human-warrior-gene-make-violent-criminals-and-what-should-society-do/ )? I've been in plenty of situations and work places where I could have milked the mess as requirements were fudged by top execs as the stock was tanking https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/13/business/why-lockheed-is-under-siege.html Why can't we go to operations to get real requirements as we were told to cut and paste a 1980 spec no time for that we need to make money now as the CEO just left but then 911 came along and the stock shot up like a hermit in a brothel! Everyone knew the project was in trouble for years no one said boo yet many milked the mess for years raising the ranks as more money was thrown at the mess https://globalnews.ca/news/9526233/military-helicopter-crash-cyclone-software-bill/https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/lack-of-working-cyclones-frustrates-canadas-top-sailor-the-helicopter-has-been-letting-us-down
RIP those that died https://skiesmag.com/news/sikorsky-settles-with-canadian-families-after-ch-148-cyclone-crash/ it was audited no one listened https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-auditor-generals-report/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/auditor-general-fraser-slams-chopper-buys-1.897142https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/dnd-warned-in-2004-about-cyclone-helicopters-performance-issues-files-show/article15237328/ I suspect its happening everywhere now as its profit over people goodbye QA/QC https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/07/08/the-story-of-boeings-failed-corporate-culture-2/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/boeing-quality-problems-speed.htmlhttps://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/summary-of-boeing-problems.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw0KGwFyc8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybC0008N7i4 should we trust them anymore? worked for auditing firm https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/ottawa-canada-employee-survey-00527036
so broken and rusted out, CIO held the place hostage asking for more money to fix stuff but it went to salary dollars everyone knows its happening but you can't complain this is broken too https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/public-service-integrity-watchdog-investigations
what drives a person to cheat 0 integrity empathy compassion just self serving https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-of-the-self/201210/greed-the-ultimate-addiction 2008 housing crash inside job covers it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk and casino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8 then watch jeffrey epstein so conning and convincing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIEYmflX090https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc6b3UN_agY why do we fall for them https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorderhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201702/why-do-people-follow-tyrantshttps://hbr.org/2014/01/why-we-love-narcissists yet they are so destructive in their search for more power/control/fame/fortune and will to anything for it (physical/financial/legal/emotional control) know your narc https://www.castanet.net/news/In-A-Pickle/499884/Spotting-the-games-narcissists-playhttps://readingraphics.com/book-summary-games-people-play/ as they know how to manipulate the games played to win. Avoid these at all costs they are your serial killers, mass murders https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/ how many dead bodies are in the hudson river? from bad real estate deals gone bad (ref https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/21/teflon-don-trump-mafia-boss-mueller-report-tony-sopranohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cannes-film-donald-trump-the-apprenctice-b2527299.htmlhttps://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2019/09/trumps-mob-connections/176871/ like father like son? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBuIwxKrSO0https://globalnews.ca/news/11079849/the-trump-family-fortune-hotel-brothel/ know your narc!)
why do people do what they do - the true question - nature vs nurture
know when to pull out - ponzi scheme?
lots of hype and hysteria we've been here before as I used to work for https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/worldcom.asp during the https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dotcon/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/wallstreet/ all all smells the same to me just a different taint of brown. Same playbook lots of https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/01/fear-a-dictators-tool/ you're going to lose your job etc... lots of hype - it will do magical things etc...
now look at us today there are more jobs than ever in computers than ever before.
When there is so much hype and hysteria I question it cause who owns the media now - giants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership who is pushing the hype/hysteria https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/
america is great at hollywood hype/hysteria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJ6M2XoFiMhttps://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html
trillions gets dumped into the economy https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever
ponzi scheme? maybe time will tell know when to pull out don't buy high sell low! ride the way of uncertainty - volatility makes some in underpants at home a lotta money riding the wave!
what's the mind gotta do with it? ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaw1_ihrlk what is intelligence what is integrity? this too? https://www.thefp.com/p/science-has-a-major-fraud-problem
https://moleculeofmore.com/https://hbr.org/2010/10/dopes-and-dopamine-the-problem does trauma change that? should be the question...
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2016/mar/uncertainty-can-cause-more-stress-inevitable-pain left brain vs right brain thinkers https://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/resources/neuromyth-or-neurofact/left-brain-versus-right-brain-thinkers/
as well and trauma https://drgabormate.com/ curious to know how much trauma influences us (past trauma and generational trauma https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/amygdala-hijack) As they say trauma sits in the right side of the brain primarily (emotional side, left side logical as trauma sits in fragments in the brain)
I'm curious to know - those that grew up with traumatic events or in war etc... how much has their brain changed in accordance to the stress and anxiety they are put under? are they more right or left brain thinkers?
too much left brain too much over analysis paralysis where as too much right brain too much emotional reaction to events/triggers in life? could society be measured as such? especially with dictators at the helm of the ship putting doses of fear in the air https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/01/fear-a-dictators-tool/ living in constant fear under pressure. What impact https://thedividedbrain.com
this - https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html inside job (2008 housing bust) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk and the casino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8 avoid these at all costs they are your mass murders and serial killers https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/ we love them so why is that? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201702/why-do-people-follow-tyrantshttps://hbr.org/2014/01/why-we-love-narcissists will they love us back as they seek more power/control/fame/fortune at any costs (financial/legal/physical/emotional) know your narc https://www.castanet.net/news/In-A-Pickle/499884/Spotting-the-games-narcissists-playhttps://readingraphics.com/book-summary-games-people-play/https://raybwilliams.medium.com/how-narcissistic-leaders-make-their-organizations-unethical-17c4d90c46dbhttps://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/how-malignant-narcissist-bosses-destroy-companies-1.3101532 and most of all https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-of-the-self/201210/greed-the-ultimate-addiction as addictions mask the pain? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29528716-becoming-the-narcissist-s-nightmare
https://moleculeofmore.com/https://hbr.org/2010/10/dopes-and-dopamine-the-problem does trauma change that? should be the question... what makes some people strive for that dopamine rush and others are just fine doing the same routine over and over again? empathy and compassion - integrity.
https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorder
https://enough-foundation.com/you-werent-born-codependent/
as the two dance flawlessly together (ie Canada vs the USA) https://humanmagnetsyndrome.com/hmsblog/the-codependentnarcissist-dance-the-perfect-partnership/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-in-the-intersection/201804/is-narcissism-the-cost-being-american
https://narcissisms.com/the-behaviours-of-narcissist-governments/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202402/why-narcissism-is-rising
yet, https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-clarity/202306/the-decline-of-critical-thinking-skills
a dangerous place to be as a society as dictators rule now?
how did these people come into power so easily in so little time? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfa4kpyMbs and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini economic times? https://www.gmichaelhopf.com/hard-timeshttps://deming.org/a-bad-system-will-beat-a-good-person-every-time/
and what makes those monsters-genetics, upbringing, environment, situation etc..
do we need more shoppers - buy by emotion (right brain) or thinkers (logic over thinking sometimes).
As a consumer nation - buy by emotion
As a producer nation - build by logic.
those with integrity need not apply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaw1_ihrlk 0 empathy, compassion, morals, standards etc... these folks welcome by all means and all costs no matter what the devastation may be to gain more power/control/fame/fortune https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorder why do people do what they do? nature vs nurture who knows.
We have an opportunity to change direction/sails but we blew it we have been here before though https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ as the debt started to mount back then to no end https://www.statista.com/chart/1505/americas-debt-ceiling-dilemma/ who's got the bar tab? the debt, better be some roi/value to all this spending or cash in the empties for the wild party had as flipping homes becomes as easy as flipping burgers, again https://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/
inside job 2008 housing bust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk and the casino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8 plus planet oil how to overthrow government https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4
same ol playbook over and over again https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_George_W._Bush_administrationhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/29/iran-and-us-president-donald-trump-a-timeline-of-key-events
https://www.zdnet.com/article/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-oil/https://www.c-span.org/clip/call-in/user-clip-addicted-to-oil/4484705
impossible to tell a drunk to stop drinking till pain > fear then they *may* stop... dad the damn tractor is on top of you, but you managed to hang onto your beer, again!
denial is a hard thing to overcome https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/denialhttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth
step 1 - admit there is a problem... step 2...
why do people do what they do its all human behaviour
ref: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html
trillions gets dumped into the economy https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever
6.6Trillion dollars https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warsh-return-revives-tensions-over-210035928.htmlhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/us-treasury-buys-back-another-2-billion-in-debt-bringing-this-weeks-total-to-6-billion-what-does-it-signal/articleshow/127991795.cmspbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemichttps://fortune.com/2026/01/22/how-big-national-debt-when-recession-financial-crisis-could-hit/https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/07/sell-america-market-trade-fixed-income-international-bonds.htmlhttps://www.barrons.com/articles/a-storm-blew-through-the-bond-market-what-could-keep-the-sell-off-going-59e923bb
https://fortune.com/2025/10/23/national-debt-38-trillion-gold-visas-budget-warning/ debt expect to increase to 50T https://www.idnfinancials.com/news/60165/the-fed-injects-massive-liquidity-is-us-quantitative-tightening-over
https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever
yikes the debt, the bar tab... someone has a drinking problem eh!
All this Iran conflict brings me back to the 1990s the bush era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_George_W._Bush_administration
(same playbook see planet oil https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/29/iran-and-us-president-donald-trump-a-timeline-of-key-events perhaps the CIA should change its playbook? https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/23/venezuela-a-not-so-covert-cia-disaster-in-the-making this too: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/americas/trump-sheinbaum-us-mexico-cartel.html )
bush era - https://thereitis.org/bush-pr-team-covers-china-stamp-with-made-in-usa/ shop till yah drop https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-bush-shopping-quote/4552776https://www.c-span.org/clip/call-in/user-clip-addicted-to-oil/4484705 he probably meant to do some good but the puppet show is much to massive to constrain. used to work for this https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/13/business/why-lockheed-is-under-siege.html I've seen some pretty scuzzy stuff in my days as we were forced to cut corners on some critical projects which ended up being a complete disaster https://globalnews.ca/news/9526233/military-helicopter-crash-cyclone-software-bill/ RIP those that lost their lives https://skiesmag.com/news/sikorsky-settles-with-canadian-families-after-ch-148-cyclone-crash/https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/lack-of-working-cyclones-frustrates-canadas-top-sailor-the-helicopter-has-been-letting-us-down someone should really be going to jail for negligence yet I kept saying we need operational requirements from the field, no time for that we need to make money now. As the CEO quit as the stock tanked then 911 hit it shot up like a hermit in a brothel. We were handed money like no tomorrow I refused it-integrity.
this is alive and well it seems: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/president-trump-tech-leaders-unite-american-ai-dominance/https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-and-the-us-digital-military-industrial-complex.html
as trillions gets dumped into the economy https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/state-our-union-more-indebted-ever
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_109026
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes
that seems to be lacking today, its all about chasing the almighty buck. Lots of loan sharks in them dark murky waters as complexity hides the truth. Just know when to pull out, that's all.
When it all falls it may fall hard and all empires fall eventually on corruption/collusion/contempt/complacency and most of all https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/evolution-of-the-self/201210/greed-the-ultimate-addiction ie Rome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuOcnGAv4oo
Trump got his goods as well https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/venezuela-oil-trump and those that control the oil (prices) control your every movement https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asp
Ah housing watch inside job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk and the casino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8https://hbr.org/2010/10/dopes-and-dopamine-the-problem and greed of course.
follow the money, oil and weapons that's all. Deregulation, careful what you wish for. 3rd world countries have tried that and have failed horribly. I'm in a BRICs country now these are growing favelas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLY2uADt4pk as the deviation between rich and poor continues on and on...
As the world turns same cycles over and over again.
As some higher power looks down, take this fools https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/ to really mess up a hell of a party and it was a great party as flipping homes became as easy as flipping burgers - candy thrown about, near free money. Debt trap diplomacy is alive and well - sure you don't want another 100k with that loan as they grab the rope to hang themselves. Its all debt velocity of money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8etB_ft35gU and keep an eye on the rig volumetrics https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-oil-gas-extraction-tracker/tracker-map/ I suspect we will see some of those go black during our lifetime https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
dictatorships are everywhere now. https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/ was watching this last night from homeless to monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfa4kpyMbshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ew0cbG1IUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE8XCmV5pVM
same situation ? worse? https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ who would pull the trigger on the big one?
same ol playbook https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2lwbv4 how to overthrow government https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_George_W._Bush_administrationhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/29/iran-and-us-president-donald-trump-a-timeline-of-key-events
trump got https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/could-trumps-deals-in-the-middle-east-secure-us-influence-against-chinahttps://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/04/congress/trump-debt-limit-big-beautiful-bill-00385941
and heavy oil https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/venezuela-oil-trump those that control the oil control your every movement
who controls the oil prices anyhow? https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asp
know your narc know the games they play https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-games-people-play/https://www.castanet.net/news/In-A-Pickle/499884/Spotting-the-games-narcissists-play blame/shame/guilt games are number 1 number 2 gaslighting 3 cognitive dissonance and 4 is https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2018/01/love-bombing-is-crack-cocaine-the-addictive-cycle-of-narcissistic-abuse/ toxic shithouses.. yuk. America wtf! https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/life-in-the-intersection/201804/is-narcissism-the-cost-being-americanhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201702/why-do-people-follow-tyrants hot toxic mess it all is now.
https://raybwilliams.medium.com/how-narcissistic-leaders-make-their-organizations-unethical-17c4d90c46dbhttps://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-narcissistic-leaders-destroy-withinhttps://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/
now lets see if this money is spent in canada or not https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/03/09/ctv-national-news-ottawa-announces-new-900m-defence-innovation-for-canada/
strike one - https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/construction-underway-u-s-on-canadian-surveillance-aircraft . https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/bombardier-wont-contest-ottawas-sole-source-deal-on-new-boeing-military-planes/I worked on that way back when I worked big defense - CP140 - its worth a fortune that contract is esp maintaining it all and upgrades etc..
I know plenty of very skilled experienced and wise engineers out of work and/or pushing paper not using their degree at all. I know plenty at DnD as well modelling printers and file servers for over a year now wasting their degree. Poor leadership rules the roost now and toxicity. Was at the OAG, https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/ottawa-canada-employee-survey-00527036 it has some serious toxicity issues as the CIO is handed money but it goes towards building empires of nothingness cause nothing gets done. Everyone knows it is happening but this is broken as well https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/public-service-integrity-watchdog-investigations And, debt load as we use housing to falsely prop up GDP https://www.statista.com/statistics/594293/gross-domestic-product-of-canada-by-industry-monthly/ yet https://mises.org/mises-wire/gdp-poor-measure-economic-health the debt load enormous now https://globalnews.ca/news/10604338/canada-indebtedness-debt-levels-desjardins-report/https://ontariohousingmarket.com/2025/06/13/canadians-now-owe-1-85-for-every-1-they-earn/ serious issues in this country as taxes, fees, inflation and housing costs eats up income and debt trap diplomacy is alive and well, want another 100k?
so what to do, how do we get off this dependency on housing as we keep bailing it out in the billions? https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/nhs how do we bring down the cost of production? as we over price ourselves out of a house and home. Nice cookie cutter stuck together mcmansion but not much inside it syndrome. How can we compete globally now? automation as china and others are doing perhaps https://investinginpassion.com/2025/11/04/how-chinas-automation-surge-is-redefining-global-manufacturing/ education has become a big business no longer for our strategic advantage. How do we better position ourselves on the world stage as not to become the world's superhero/power they die hard and fast in debt. Raped to debt. How do we market our product and protect our IP something we are horrible at, CSIS warns no one listens taboo subject I guess https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-csis-cautions-canadian-universities-to-be-on-alert-for-international/ spies are everywhere now ready to steal your IP. We had a spy in the office http://circ.jmellon.com/docs/view.asp?id=1065 what do we need to build to compete globally and really bring in dollars into our economy? more shoppers or more thinkers? what do we need to build?
new wars are won on technology not boots to the ground anymore, does DnD have the engineering talent, not certain I know highly qualified engineers who are modelling printers and file servers at DnD wasting their time its been in failure mode now for some time. I used to work big defense worked on this mess https://globalnews.ca/news/9526233/military-helicopter-crash-cyclone-software-bill/ what operational requirements DnD is horrible at operational requirements and everyone knows it thus it gets milked silly as scope/costs/quality are all over the spectrum bid low make up the loss maintaining the mess the motto and its not going to get better. China has advanced tremendously https://www.newsweek.com/china-military-drone-carrier-mothership-future-warfare-2074494https://jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/2025/07/22/chinas-growing-emp-arsenal-and-its-threat-to-taiwan/ and https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/inside-russias-plan-to-build-autonomous-drone-swarms/ plus space cloud https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-of-2800-satellites-for-ai-space-computing-constellation/ and https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-takes-big-step-towards-104713939.html
We can barely get this project moving as its run by history majors https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/pan-domain-command-control.html let alone building mesh and swarm networks up north of UAS. Up north has its challenges as we built this https://www.inuvik.ca/doing-business/inuvik-satellite-station-facility-issf/ hey who cut into the datalink and permafrost melting https://natural-resources.canada.ca/stories/simply-science/permafrost-thaw-brings-major-problems-canada-s-northern-arctic-communities its a whole different world up there with a whole set of challenges. Good luck using solar as its dark 6 months of the year... work with the locals they know best. https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/specials/arctic-blue-with-peter-mansbridge-1.6364437 We need some hardcore engineering types not history majors DnD has been in failure mode for many years now. It needs solid leadership as well. And, direction with a strategy not wing it anymore hope for the best. And, operational requirements what is mission success? https://www.omg.org/events/2024Q1/special-events/UAF-presentations/1330-DMA-Architecture-Based-Decision-Making-for-Mission-Engineering-and-Integration.pdf
they all used the media for their gains... Mussolini had his own media outlet and Hitler knew how to use the media too Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) established and controlled their own extensive media empire to propagate their ideology, control public opinion, and promote the "Führer myth"
Those that own the media manipulate the minds of the masses without question. Obey, conform question nothing is the norm now. And, its all giants now.... owned by who? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership that's a dangerous place to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfa4kpyMbs Hitler from homeless to monster
just watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE8XCmV5pVM now watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ew0cbG1IU
avoid these at all costs as they are your serial killers and mass murders https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/dictator-psychology/https://www.pbs.org/video/dictators-playbook-series-preview-3uj8e4/
pure evil resides in their soul most likely https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorder
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/indices/JX/pressreleases/642414/oil-explodes-above-100-as-strait-of-hormuz-shutdown-shocks-markets/
as the USA comes calling? should we answer the call? hmmmmm... slapped in the face again? will we take the abuse, of course we will as good codependents https://humanmagnetsyndrome.com/hmsblog/the-codependentnarcissist-dance-the-perfect-partnership/https://enough-foundation.com/you-werent-born-codependent/
now, canada better not be stupid about this,but it will. I would ask a pretty penny for that oil
But, its foolish co/dependent (wants to rescue the world without rescuing self first - what boundaries we are the world's superpower! they die hard and fast in debt)
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/why-canadian-oil-is-sold-at-a-discount
Will we see these rigs go black in our lifetime, maybe https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-oil-gas-extraction-tracker/tracker-map/
let it not https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/09/a-wealth-of-sorrow-why-nigerias-abundant-oil-reserves-are-really-a-curse
what will china do it needs cheap oil as well, it blows though 15M barrels a day USA 20M https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709https://www.worldometers.info/oil/ oil war? oil up inflation up interest rates up housing dies (huge driver to falsely prop up GDP) can't print borrow money nor sell the country off (bonds) now what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_warhttps://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-oil-prices/
Canada likes getting slapped in the face https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2018/01/love-bombing-is-crack-cocaine-the-addictive-cycle-of-narcissistic-abuse/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/life-in-the-intersection/201804/is-narcissism-the-cost-being-american
as the two dance wildly into debt we trust eh!
https://www.statista.com/chart/1505/americas-debt-ceiling-dilemma/https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/canada/national-government-debt
What the USA does canada tends to copy, time to put the big boy pants on now wisdom/experience/knowledge a must now.
all about oil and housing now at any costs.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
Trump got his heavy oil https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/02/business/venezuela-oil-trump now to get control of pricing it https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081315/opec-vs-us-who-controls-oil-prices.asp those that control the oil control your every movement those that control the debt own your soul. Those that own the media control the minds of the masses. Those that govern the education system mold the minds next generation of sheep - obey, conform, question nothing is the norm. Follow the oil, money and weapons.
government is a self serving entity now, no longer serves the public good.
Boundaries what!