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...the Strange Maps blog has a few remarks on the fall of Nazi Germany. Apparently, this is going to be the 75th anniversary of the end of that moral dumpster fire of a regime in the next few days. That anniversary landing as it has in the middle of other dumpster fires in progress right now...that timing is not something I'm happy about, but here we are anyway.

We got the beginnings of the European Union out of it, and out of the First Cold War that followed. So there's that bit of not only salvage work, but rehabilitation. Ditto, the United Nations, flaws and all. A real systematization of international law, human rights advances, and on it goes. The people who started that war would have preferred that such consequences had never come to pass, so may they still rot in whatever afterlives might host them now.

More on other topics later in the day...
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So glad that I didn't watch his speech. I'd have been screaming like a damn banshee.
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...by the New Conservatives in the next year or so and if DT-45 doesn't get away with going Full Reich Mk. IV on the USA's population and Constitution, I suspect we'll be able to handle a lot of what COVID-19 (AKA SARS 2.0?) throws at Canada.

I'd really like to see Canada take on full EU membership, sign onto the Schengen Agreement and so on, though. I think that might make us a bit safer geo-politically, even in a pandemic scenario.

Yes, the "pipe dream" argument against EU membership's been deployed before.

Anyway, back to reading Charlie Stross' curated debate on COVID-19. Which may end up disabusing me of a few hopeful and nightmarish fantasies.

Further useful reading over at ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/i-lived-through-sars-and-reported-on-ebola-these-are-the-questions-we-should-be-asking-about-coronavirus
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Genocide-whisperer(1) Aleksandr Dugin got a few words in edgewise in this article, I noticed, comparing Putin to a force called the Katechon.

If there's anyone I'd consider closest to a human anti-christ in this day and age, it's Dugin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html

(1) Yes, I am going to call him that. It fits.
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I understand that elections are underway today?

I am admittedly less than clear on the time zone differences.
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If I said that I consider Jo Cox and Paweł Adamowicz as martyrs...?
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I believe this to be true. I suspect the same goes for most of my friendlist here. Which is why I'm going to leave this linkage out in the open where other users can see it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu
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Max Boot on the "gilets jaunes" mess now underway in France, and the alleged connections to Putinists:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/08/france-online-extremists-put-centrism-torch/

Meanwhile, in Alberta:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-yellow-vest-protests-1.4938333

Is it such a stretch to think there's a direct link between these particular events in France and Alberta this week?

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Dec. 2nd, 2018 04:50 pm
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Poland's one of those places where "illiberals" have managed to install themselves, but resistance continues. And then there's this coming to Katowice...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/climate-change-talks-katowice-poland-paris-accord-1.4929385
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Go read this:

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1051461820542869506

Apparently, our Parliament is still actively investigating the local connections to the Brexit vote shenanigans. I am tempted to take some degree of comfort in this news.
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As I contemplate, rather than celebrate, Canada Day 151:

Three different visions of the EU in play? I suspect that there's a few more besides. However, Merkel and Macron might be able to get something genuinely helpful to most Europeans built despite their disagreements with each other.

Orban, on the other hand, is being Just Plain Toxic, not much better than Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Dugin. Who are the absolute worst.

What parts of the picture am I missing here?
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https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1003334446697902082

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1003360879721828352

And yes, I'm adding another new tag. Let's start calling this unholy global mess what it is. I'm already on their "Canadian enemies" list for other reasons anyway, I suspect. Probably far down the list, but still...
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If this helps: apparently, if you've dealt with any EU member state-based company, you've got specific rights. Ideally, no matter where on or off Earth you call home, those rights attach to you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/opinion/gdpr-eu-digital-privacy-law-data-subject-europe.html

This is probably the kind of thing that Messrs. Putin, Xi and DT-45 - among others - intend to make problematic to enforce if/whenever they can. So getting the word out as far and as fast as possible is likely a good thing.
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Working my way through reading this now. Noting some intellectual pitfalls I may be at risk of stumbling into along the way of defending my own vision of what human civilization is and could become if it survives and prospers.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/03/will-conservatism-end-in-nihilism/

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