On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

If you're American, go have a look, if you haven't already done so. There might be something constructive for you to act on.

https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1690981.html

If you're eligible to vote in this one, please do.

Also, when you do, please vote as best you can to specifically frustrate the ambitions of the local branches of the new fascist international in your respective home ridings. (Yes, I do think Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg, etc. qualify for the ranks of that gang.)

Or should that be "merde-ling"?

Read this before it goes behind a paywall or before you vote, whichever is first:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-manning-centre-wont-disclose-source-of-donations-to-third-parties-for/

This is "dirty tricks" ad-spending, as far as I'm concerned.

I still remember where I was on that horrible day: I was in my parents' living room, listening to the radio when the news broke about the first plane. So, I turned on the TV. The rest of the day was bouncing between watching the news as it kept breaking, and checking in with my online friends via the Internet. We - the human race - are still coping with consequences and complications from that day, even as we're coping with choices made decades and centuries earlier that led to that day.

Today, the writ is expected to drop, officially launching a Canadian federal election that's already been underway unofficially since the previous one in 2015. If any of several wrong sides wins this one, a lot of work in repairing damage done over the decade prior to 2015 is going to start being thrown out with worse to follow. That much, I'm absolutely certain of and terrified about. So, no Conservatives or "People's Party" or "Nationalists" or "National Citizens' Alliance" for me.

There are people here in Canada, and across the world depending upon us making informed decisions and making them rightly. We are not a Great Power, but what we do as a country still has consequences outside our settler-nation's borders. The same applies for our Indigenous relations, who've not given up their claims to their own nationhood. Their peoples have the right to share in our decisions and their consequences now.

And I cannot help but think there is a linkage between the events of this date in 2001 and of today.

Noting also...another horrific "9/11" event that happened before I ever knew of it, in Chile.

https://www.sbs.com.au/theother911/

Jon Klein notes a new Conservative strategy for defeating the purpose of Canadian federal elections law. He doesn't call it that, but I will.

(Also, he pointed out a new satirical account on Twitter: the Alberta War Room.)

Daniel Oberhaus at WIRED notes a new aviation/spacecraft fuel that has several advantages over hydrazine.

Mainland China continues to insist upon Canadian surrender in the matter of Meng Wanzhou.

I understand that elections are underway today?

I am admittedly less than clear on the time zone differences.

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1082105442820595713

Making sure I read this.

Wondering how applicable the advice might be to Canada's federal elections this year.

If you're eligible to vote in those, you might want to look at this particular collection of links:

http://ottawastart.com/a-roundup-of-municipal-election-candidate-qas-and-debates/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/school-board-election-1.4869785

The writ dropped yesterday in Ontario.

One thing I'm certain of: Ford's "Progressive Conservatives" fall into line with the larger International Democrat Union doctrine and goals. Which makes them Problematic to Ontarians in particular and humanity in general.

So this is growing ever more horrific. I say again: we should not have to endure living in a world where Global Evil Conspiracy Theories are actual facts proven/provable by credible journalists.

And there's a Canadian connection, in Victoria, BC. AggregateIQ by corporate name.

The people who try to organize such conspiracies ought to be serving time. Though, for what and under whose jail system...?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

A further note: I would count the Guardian's people uncovering this info as a good thing. It's now out in the public realm, where we can figure out what useful things can be done about it.