the name palestine derives from an ethnic group that occupied the gaza strip during the iron age and leading into the classical period and that is referenced in the bible as the philistines. this ethnic group is also referenced in egyptian hieroglyphs as having migrated into the region during a period called the bronze age collapse, c 1500 bce. cross-disciplinary historical investigations, including genetic studies, have identified the philistines as a greek ethnic group that moved into the gaza area as a part of a large migration southwards that the egyptians referred to as 'sea peoples' and would appear to have been a mix of indo-european groups, including halstatt period celts. these sea peoples conquered the eastern mediterranean region and dismantled most of the urban centres, replacing them with a seafaraing civilization that became what we call the classical civilization of greeks and phonecians, as told to us in the homeric epics. my own opinion after having looked into it is that they were essentially early vikings. 

during the period that the philistines lived in gaza, west semitic speaking tribes inhabited the region between syria and egypt. these people are known to history variously as phoenicians (the greek name for them) or canaanites (apparently their name for themselves), and what we call israel and jewish identity broke off from the canaanites some time during the iron age, but it actually remains unclear how due to the obscuring and enduring influence of the bible, which is a useless source of actual history. there is essentially no evidence that anything in the bible before the captivity is anything more than a late founding myth, but it is relatively clear that a semitic speaking people migrated into the area with the persians and re-occupied the phoenecian coast, after it had been devastated by the barbaric assyrians. these are the people we today call the jews. outside of a linguistic continuity, it's not clear what relationship these jews actually had to the canaanites and phoenecians, the remnants of which fled assyrian barbarism by migrating to north africa. however, these jews then remained put in the levant through most of antiquity, while living in close proximity to the greek  philistines, who, quite oddly, were actually there first.

what eventually happened was that the romans conquered the entire area, made the area then called judea into several different provinces and, many centuries later, eventually renamed the area from judea to philistinia in a conscious attempt to redefine the space ethnically, and in an act that we would today label clearly as genocide. before it was persia,  the mortal, perpetual enemy of rome was carthage, until it was destroyed. the historical sources are not there to back me up, but i strongly suspect that the destruction of judaea was the last stage in the destruction of carthage and that most of the tropes we today label as anti-semitic (like the baby-eating thing) are actually roman propaganda against the carthaginians (although the carthaginians actually do appear to have practiced a type of child sacrifice relatively late into antiquity). this decision by rome to change the name of the province was eventually adopted by conquering arabs, who inherited the name of the province as philistinia, which in arab is falasteen and in english is palestine.

in depth genetic studies on the current inhabitants of gaza and the west bank, as well as what we call israeli arabs, indicate that they are overwhelmingly hebrew in ancestry. that's right - the palestinians are actually converted jews. however, if we could find some actually philistines in gaza today, and we no doubt could if we looked hard enough, we would learn that they are of r1* indo-european greek ancestry. these philistines could perhaps migrate back to europe; i'd propose their quality of life would dramatically increase, if they did. 

while the question of eastern european jewry's origins is a valid scientific question, it has at this point been extensively studied and determined that there was a genetic bottleneck that took place and that a small number of middle eastern men moved into eastern europe with a smaller number of women and did eventually marry some of the slavic speaking women that were indigenous to the region but overall retained an almost gross level of inbreeding. as such, it has been thoroughly scientifically proven that eastern european jews do in fact have overwhelming middle eastern ancestry. the claim otherwise is intuitive and based on skin colour, but skin colour is not exactly a fixed characteristic, and people that are not of subsaharan african ancestry will vary their skin tones wildly depending on their exposure to sunlight. pigmentation is a variable trait and an adaptation. my own skin colour has varied dramatically from swedish white to sicilian brown, and my picture archive demonstrates it clearly.

while the actual truth is that both jews and palestinians are actually hebrews, they are just hebrews with different religions, it nonetheless follows that philistines are a european tribe and ethnic group, while the jews are clearly of west semitic ancestry (despite having very curious iranian cultural overtones). if anybody should go back to europe, it should be the philistines, if we insist on having a witch hunt to actually find them.

i'd really rather boycott metro or sobeys if i was concerned about high costs, as loblaws is actually relatively competitive. the cheapest grocery store here is walmart, as it is everywhere else, but loblaws is frequently a close second.

the boycott appears to be lowering prices, though, which is predictable.

justin trudeau still doesn't know what the rule of law is, and at this point he should be embarrassed because he simply comes off as horribly ignorant, like a pretentious child using words he doesn't understand. the irony is that his government has repeatedly skirted or even suspended the rule of law, such as with the illegal police crackdown on the bodily autonomy rights protesters that shut down ottawa a few years ago.

there has been no government in canada's history with less respect for the rule of law, or which has suspended it with such disregard.

i think this is a fitting and appropriate way to dismantle these sites. i mean, the sites needed to be dismantled in some way. how to do it? this is the most appropriate and most correct way to do it. i would like to see this tactic applied to the other sites across the country. let's make these idiot protesters feel the same way the victims of the hamas attack did, up to a difference of scale; it's worthwhile to point out that nobody was killed and i hope nobody was actually raped. 

i want to point out that it is obvious that the counter-protesters were police officers from the anecdotes in the times article, and that shouldn't surprise anybody. i like the cops' sense of humour, snark, irony and justice here, which is rare. i don't normally applaud the cops, but this is awesome. they even sent firecrackers into the camp, like palestinian terrorists routinely send into israel, in an apparent tongue-in-cheek nod to norman finkelstein.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

the irony of pro-hamas supporters complaining about their party being ransacked by masked vigilantes should not be lost on anyone.

but, this is fundamentally about muslims complaining about being colonized, which is hilarious.

those "kids", who are apparently mostly actually middle aged men without university educations, should be happy that nobody raped them, killed them, or tossed their severed body parts around like soccer balls n the street.

the bbc is claiming that netanyahu's decision to close al jazeera will not help the peace negotiations. i actually disagree.

in principle, the israeli state should not be shutting down any media organizations. the unquestionable factual reality that al jazeera is a horribly biased, openly anti-israel source that spews factually inaccurate, skewed, brutally anti-jewish propaganda out to the west, and that their warped framing of the conflict as "israel's war" is actually having some effect on a subset of the population, is a reason to not shut al jazeera down.

however, al jazeera is state media run by the qatari sheikhs. it's a mouthpiece for the qatari government, who has played a major role in representing hamas. where does the head tyrant of qatar actually live? in a cushy villa in qatar, where he's bankrolled by iranian nazis. qatar is also an iranian beachhead on the arabian peninsula. when one of the primary news sources, as poor and propagandistic as it is, is also a lead negotiator, that creates a conflict of interest. eliminating that conflict of interest should help focus the qataris more on the plot.

that doesn't mean it's something that should be supported, exactly, but the bbc is wrong in it's analysis, at the least.

of course the capitalist pro-drug vampires will mumble something about "removing the stigma around drug use". right. what does that mean, exactly? because it's an objective fact that drug use is disgusting, unsanitary, unhealthy and not something that normal people want to be around, for the reason that it attracts criminals and that drugs make people crazy. drug use is a vector for disease transmission. there is a stigma around drug use because it's disgusting, and that stigma should absolutely remain in place.

should we try to remove the stigma around scatology while we're at it? mmmm. yummy.

rather, what these people are saying is that they want to normalize drug use, and anybody telling you that should get punched in the face. 

the stigma around drug use is a good thing and should remain in place. addicts should not be brought out of the shadows, they should be locked in closets and brushed under the rug.

bc is recriminalizing drug consumption in public spaces. the truth is that they didn't understand the idea around legalizing it in the first place, because the idea was being pushed by capitalist opportunists rather than actual health experts. the same thing, or more, is on the brink of happening in washington and oregon. these are blue states that might be handing the republicans a gift in the upcoming election cycle. i'd keep an eye out for some surprise upsets in the pacific northwest, due to public bafflement that the state won't do anything about dangerous drug users, which is what the actual policy was and not what the policy is supposed to be.

in portugal, which is supposed to be the model, the state continues to run the kind of mental health institutions that are considered to be arcane in north america and that is what the actual policy is in that country. portugal does not have a libertarian drug policy that lets the free market deal with drug use, it has a socialist model that rounds up drug addicts and puts them in mental health institutions, where they are forced to undergo intense rehab in a manner that would be considered unconstitutional in both canada and the united states. this is not some kind of secret; it's easily found in a basic google search. unfortunately, it would appear that neither the political activists nor the politicians nor the minority of health workers that have supported this approach have ever actually read up on what the portugese model actually is, but have instead relied on second or third hand word of mouth descriptions that no doubt originated in social media posts. the idea that the portugese model is a free market model is a purplemonkeydishwasher interpretation of what the portugese model actually is, and this is an actual example of a real life failure in policy brought on by poorly sourced information sharing over social media (and yet is not the kind of 'disinformation' we hear about by pro-government scare mongerers).

it's worthwhile to point out that when useful and correct information that contradicted bad policy by the state was shared over social media, it was attacked as 'disinformation' but the same state bodies were equally eager to write bad policy based on actual poorly sourced information that came to them via the same vector of social media. this proves that the problem is not the technology itself, but the people using it; we should not fear computers or social media, we should fear state institutions run by ignorant people and we should approach the problem by launching education campaigns for government workers, to ensure that the state is better at processing information it receives from questionable sources. we should fear ignorant public servants, not the tools they use to poorly gather information with.

it takes little to no foresight to predict that a free market drug policy divorced from the socialist portugese model of aggressive, enforced rehabilitation would simply lead to chaos, carnage and death. we in truth were not following the portugese model of recent years, but the chinese model of the nineteenth century, when british gun ships introduced opium to the chinese masses in order to weaken the population, and the chinese state didn't take the threat seriously. china certainly takes the threat of mass drug addiction seriously, nowadays. yet, the governments on this continent see the populace as a threat and an enemy to contain, which is fundamentally different from the cultural communitarianism that exists in china. you have to understand that the state is killing people on purpose and that it isn't some coincidence that it targeted portland, oregon, which is the most socialist city in the country.

what's happening, however, is a moral panic rather than a carefully thought out change in policy. while predictable, moral panics are not helpful and don't create good policy, either. we're moving from one failed policy to another, which is reflective of the systemic failure underlying all of the failure in the first place.

i'm typing this as i'm yelling at a smoker that lives upstairs that i thought had moved out and apparently hasn't. this person signed a non-smoking lease and then ignored it. she knows i have asthma, she knows the property is non-smoking and she's listened to me yell at her to go smoke somewhere else for months but she just keeps smoking anyways. this person doesn't care about the well-being of the people around her in the remotest bit; she's simply a worthless, self-centered piece of shit. is there some mental illness underlying her selfish and narcissistic behaviour? my guess is that it's mostly bad parenting, and a culture of hedonism. she's a reflection of the capitalist society she exists within. yet, what i'm experiencing is a clear example of why a policy that forces drug users into residential areas is exactly what nobody wants. this woman chain smokes nicotine and occasionally smokes marijuana; i've smelled some heavy substances that i think might be meth, but she doesn't seem to smoke meth every day. if you're annoyed by the crackhead at the park because you don't want your kids around her, imagine having your kids forced to breath the shit in twenty times a day from your neighbour because the government tells her she's only allowed to smoke crack inside her apartment. this is not a better outcome, this is the worst policy possible. public health experts have been trying to rid the world of second hand smoke for decades, and then the stupid government shows up and tells addicts (who are almost always renters) that they're only allowed to smoke drugs inside their rented units, thereby creating a government policy to maximize the consequences of second-hand smoke. what a disaster.

rather, what we need is something like bars for drug users. bars were the ideal compromise to deal with moral panics around alcohol use, as it kept the drunks inside while keeping them out of residential areas. i don't understand why we haven't had marijuana bars pop up, as it would get the potheads out of residential spaces, where they pollute the lungs of non-smokers. likewise, we should have bars for crackheads and junkies, places where the cops can also keep an eye on what's going on.

i support the actual portugese model of aggressive treatment, to a point. i actually think that most of these people are hopeless and that trying to help them is just a waste of public resources that could be spent on more worthy social assistance recipients, like disabled people. i would rather continue to criminalize hard drug use and force people into treatment when they're in jail (which is the only way we could implement the actual portugese model in north america, because we have bills of rights), and i think there should be hefty $1000+ fines for smoking anything (marijuana, cigarettes, fire pits, bbqs) in residential spaces. nobody should ever have to deal with any kind of drifting or second-hand smoke from their neighbours, ever, at all. yet, if we're to treat the issue like a mental health issue then we need to actually take that idea seriously and generate the resources to do so, not wave our hands and leave it up to the market to figure it out. that is the lesson from the failed free market drug policy in the pacific northwest: free market approaches just don't work.

the comments are reprehensible and i condemn them in the strongest terms possible, but this is exactly the situation that free speech advocates seek to avoid in criminalizing clearly despicable speech. by arresting this woman and charging her with hate crimes, the state is creating a martyr, who will generate supporters. now, she can claim she is the one being persecuted, when she should be being criticized as an aggressor and a nazi. this is a gift to what is in truth the far-right, even if it labels itself as left-wing.

a better idea is to let her speak freely, and call her an idiot when she's done.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hate-investigation-demonstration-comments-1.7190914

is killing your dog not illegal in south dakota?

am i missing something?

kristi noem should be charged, clearly.

we were supposed to support voting for joe biden because donald trump was going to start a world war. how did that work out for us? i didn't endorse either of these shitfaces last time and i'm not going to endorse either of them this time, either. this is in truth the least consequential election of my lifetime, as the outcome will clearly have no discernible effect on any kind of policy anywhere. it truly doesn't matter who wins.

however, i think that something sobering needs to be seriously considered: both of these men are very likely going to be dead by the year 2028. donald trump's running mate should consequently be the deciding factor in whether you should vote against him or vote for a third party. i found mike pence to be infinitely more frightening than donald trump, and trump may very well present another absolutely frightening running mate, which might make voting for kamala harris necessary, if undesirable.

it seems as though the disgusting, abject total losers that lived upstairs and have been harassing me for the last year have finally left. i'm struggling now to convince myself that they're actually gone. 

there was a woman upstairs for the last year that never ever left the house and it absolutely freaked me out. i'm having difficulty accepting that she's finally gone, that she's finally going to leave me alone.

i have ptsd as a consequence of childhood abuse. i don't have a history of hearing voices but i do have a history of flashbacks; i am fully confident that i heard everything i heard and that it was real in the sense that it was physically stated, that it was enunciated from an actual human's lips, but now the actual struggle with my actual mental health concern is about to begin, which is trying to convince myself that the flashbacks are actually flashbacks. i am absolutely expecting months worth of trauma, and the fact that i can't leave the house until the tenancy issue is resolved is simply going to add to the process.

are they really gone? really? or did i just hear a door close? did i hear a voice in the distance, or is it trauma?

it's going to take a while for me to process this, and i'm going to need space and patience to do it in. i know the tenants were drugging me, but i don't know if they were acting independently or on the order of the landlords or on the order of somebody else they were working for. i consequently don't know yet if this nightmare is actually really over or not.

i was waiting for them to leave to set up my new network and i hope that i can get back to working on something substantive soon.

the bds protests at the universities are unfortunate. the reality is that the best way to understand them are as a reflection of the demographic changes taking place in the west, and i think it should cause a moment of pause: do we want this outcome? it is not inevitable, it is easy to understand the causes and it is reversible with changes in policy.

the kids are wrong, but they're more confused than evil. this particular attack by hamas could not be justified and it demonstrates why hamas, as a brutal fascist organization, needs to be destroyed. the idea that hamas is fighting against israeli colonialism is idiotic; hamas is a brutal fascist dictatorship that wants to convert everybody to islam and kill all the fags. hamas is more ideologically in line with colonialism than netanyahu is. the correct position is to support the imminent and permanent and thorough destruction of hamas, and have subtleties about it if you insist.

however, there used to be marxist groups in palestine and they used to be a part of what they interpreted as a colonial struggle (i don't agree with the perspective, as the jews were there first, but i understand the argument. i actually support a one-state solution where all citizens have equal rights, regardless of ethnicity or religion.). what's happening is that the kids are basically reading out of date literature and then making the mistake of applying it to the current moment, and then having that mistake reinforced by their professors and elders, who are the ones that need to be denounced, not the kids. the kids learn what they're taught. it's truly the profs that are the ones making a serious mistake, here.

we can talk about root causes all day, and we should, but what i want to type briefly in this space is that it is clearly the israelis (and the egyptians, who i am pleased to see are finally taking some initiative on the matter, which is long overdue) that need to take the initiative in redesigning a post-hamas gaza strip because the palestinians don't currently have the prerequisites to maintain a functioning democracy. this point is being lost. you can't just take any tribe out of the jungle and give them democracy, there has to be pre-conditions met, and they cannot be met at the moment in gaza. if they repeat the same mistakes, they'll get the same outcome. i've been calling the israeli policy genocide since before everybody else was calling it apartheid (i may be the author of this shift in direction), but this is a genocide that is required to get out of the status quo, which is not desirable and is not sustainable. gaza cannot be a democracy and the people that live there need to be deprogrammed in a way that is not realistic; it is easier and safer to just wipe them out. somebody else then needs to take over and focus on infrastructure and education and development. eventually, one day, they can start talking about a democratic state again.

the lesson from this process needs to be that you can't just build a fence around a city and expect the people that live there to adjust to it. i've read some things recently that suggest the israelis understand this and that there's a broad consensus developing that the root cause of palestinian terrorism is the tactics deployed by ariel sharon, which were in fact not favoured by the israeli civil service, military or intelligence apparatus, who wanted a mini marshall plan rather than a neo-auschwitz. unfortunately, sharon won the argument and we now have the consequences of a neo-auschwitz, and it is going to create terrorist headaches for decades. that mistake needs to not be repeated.

what the kids ought to be saying is that there needs to be serious shifts in the israeli's approach to a post-hamas gaza, that there needs to be a focus on infrastructure and development and that egypt needs to be taking a primary role in the process. they should not be arguing against dismantling hamas, but they've been confused and misled by simplistic and warped ideologies that are difficult to apply to a post-industrial world. they're just kids, and they're just trying to be cool.

it is ultimately of little consequence what the kids think, but i am concerned about the violent nature of the crackdowns, which would appear to be unnecessary. the admins and higher ups are embarrassed by the riff raff and want to mow the lawn of the protest presence. well, again, we need to ask: do we want this outcome? if not, we need to change our immigration policies, and we need to pay more attention to who we hire to teach our kids.

when these people talk about the culture of northern europe, they use terms like colonialism and draw attention to the crimes of the past. however, they expect everybody to follow the rules of their culture, and complain that they're being oppressed when other people don't obey their dictates; not following their rules is oppression, but expecting people to follow our rules is colonialism. it's a double standard.

worse, it's a historical half-truth, at best. in reality, arabs invented colonialism as we understand it today (i mean, the greeks had colonies, but...) and islam is in fact the most brutally colonizing force in human history, worse than christianity by several degrees. besides, what we call "european colonialism" was carried out by the largely middle eastern in origin cultures of southern europe, orchestrated by the egyptian-origin religion of christianity and carried out primarily by olive-skinned and sometimes outright brown spanish, portugese and italians, many of whom even had some arab ancestry. when the various wars of the age of enlightenment came to an end, and the north of europe triumphed over the south, the result was that the northern europeans abolished the arab-originating slave institutions and undid the olive-skinned christian colonial projects, rather than continue or advance them. the result of white people taking over the world was the end of slavery, not the enforcement of it.

this double standard needs to be addressed and the hypocrisy needs to be deconstructed. we're long overdue for this backlash. as mentioned, quebec is ahead of the curve; this is a process that needs to happen. we need to protect our european, liberal, secular and atheist institutions and we need to make doing so a serious priority, lest we wake up in saudi arabia and not understand what happened.

sarah jama's disgusting outburst in the ontario legislature last week was a despicable act of disrespect for the cultural norms and values of the culture she is currently living in, and which has made an attempt to include her and encouraged her to thrive. it is long past the time that the historically pagan and white cultures of northern europe stood up for themselves in asserting the expectation that the cultural values of secularism and atheism be respected by foreigners that are visiting here and that our institutions be respected and our laws be followed.  such disrespectful outbursts need to be condemned in the strongest terms possible, and i would call on her to immediately resign. 

perhaps she could go to gaza and run for office there. i expect there will be some kind of elections there soon. i'd advise she pack a lunch.

i want to explicitly clarify that i have no affiliation with cevin key or skinny puppy whatsoever because there is apparently somebody upstairs that thinks my jjjjjjjjjj^2 record is going to be a new tear garden record. i'm going to try to contact ka-spel, artefact records and a few others. 

cevin key is a thief. he's a drug addict loser that steals everybody else's music. i've somehow been targeted. i think. 

i saw somebody in my garage about a year ago that looked startling like him, and i thought he was just a wannabe.

i've been struggling to understand what is going on here. i think it's beginning to become clear. i'm not letting this washed up old loser steal my music.

when pierre polievre claims that the problem with trudeau is not that he's too liberal but that he's actually deeply illiberal, he is correct. unfortunately, all evidence suggests that polievre is even less liberal than trudeau is. 

canada is a country with a deep history of liberal institutions and that has liberalism so thoroughly embedded in it's laws that it has lost the requirement of liberal political representation. it is not the case that canada has been overrun by "woke liberalism", it is the case that there is no longer anything remotely approximating liberalism in the political spectrum at all, because liberalism was so triumphant here in the 20th century that it lost it's political prerogative and faded away into cultural norms.

the result is that we have three parties, and they are all deeply illiberal, because you essentially have to react against the liberal institutions here to have any purpose in existing at all. polievre remains a figurehead for the radical right; a true conservative movement in canada would be about maintaining our liberal institutions. the ndp are a bourgeois socialist party and the liberals themselves are increasingly driven by culturally conservative critiques of the liberal status quo. 

taken as a whole, as illiberal as trudeau is, he remains the least illiberal of the three, and that is a problem that canadians are going to need to grapple with, lest they wake up one day in a different culture, without realizing it ever happened.

i would strongly suspect that the test incursion into iran by israel yesterday was a data gathering exercise rather than a retaliatory strike. it would be rational to expect the israelis to test iran's defenses as a preliminary step rather than just start shooting missiles.

that said, did i say 100 missiles for tit-for-tat? i meant 350 missiles. those 350 missiles need not all land in iran; indeed, israel's self-interest would suggest most of them should be targeted at hezbollah. that is a large balance for israeli payback still to come, nonetheless.

it's not clear that there are 350 targets in iran worth hitting. it is clear there are 350 targets in lebanon worth hitting.

i am also disappointed by the disability tax credit's $200/month, which it does not appear as though i will qualify for because i don't have a disability tax credit. somebody needs to explain to ms. freeland that she missed the point of the legislation; i would not consider this to be a response to the legislation, and would expect further steps from the government, perhaps after a change in finance minister.

however, i've been trying to get the idea across for quite a long time that the primary issue facing disabled people in this country is not a lack of income but a lack of subsidized housing. it is not a good idea to just give us more money and tell us to go spend it in the market. there is  a distinct lack of infrastructure in this country regarding housing for those with disabilities.

if you give me more money, some rentier (like my landlord) will find a way to take it from me and, in the end, it's just another corporate handout to the rentier class. state aid should be structural and not in the form of bursaries.

so, yes, i agree that it's not what i was hoping for, but energy is better spent getting more subsidized housing built, anyways. this is a problem the society needs to build it's way out of, not one it should throw money at.

i remember when the united states published it's missile defense plans and showed everybody that the wreckage would fall harmlessly, outside of america's borders. somebody had to explain to dubya that the map showed a direct hit on the canadian city of edmonton, as collateral damage.

the kingdom of jordan has been very clear regarding it's motive in shooting down iranian missiles: it was to protect it's airspace. this ought to be read literally, as the jordanians had the choice of shooting these projectiles down outside of jordan or watching the united states and israel shoot them down inside jordan, with jordanian citizens as collateral damage.

the speaker of the ontario legislature is correct to ban the keffiyeh during debates. it is customary in british-canadian culture that political symbols not be worn during debates. i applaud the speaker for enforcing british canadian cultural values within british canadian political institutions. foreigners should be expected to follow our rules and conform to our culture, not the other way around.

that said, i also understand that this decision is being made within the context of certain laws being passed in quebec, which, as is so often the case, is ahead of the rest of the country. i have been making the argument for many years that the hijab is a political symbol and should be banned from the public sector workforce for that precise, exact reason. while it would not exactly by a ballot issue for me, i would like to see ontario adopt some of the laws that quebec has recently adopted regarding religious symbols in the workplace. perhaps this is a first step towards that desired and inevitable (and correct, in a secular society) end point.

the iranian strike on israel, as unsuccessful as it appears to have been, is a major escalation that requires a proportionate response. a proportionate response would certainly be a tit-for-tat retaliation, which i might propose as a dominant strategy. the israeli military knows it's game theory. iran does not have anything remotely similar to the same defence capabilities, and a strike of this size would consequently do severe damage to the islamo-fascist "republic" of iran. israel now essentially has an excuse to send 100 or so missiles into iran, at targets that are at it's discretion. i might suggest taking out the fucking ayatollah.

i think the biden administration is making a pr error in taking a step away from israel's response. there is a loud and vocal and well-financed and powerful arab-american lobby in the united states that tends to get what it wants, but it does not represent popular opinion. the biden administration may find the polling shocking, but it's a reflection of it's own incompetence. i would expect massive popular support for an american strike on iran, and for it to cross into both parties. i'd guess 80-85% of americans would support nato bombing in retaliation.

i was exceedingly vocally opposed to the attack on iraq in 2003, but i've tended to be cautiously in favour of military-backed regime change in iran. this is going to come up. the situations are not only not comparable, they are diametrically opposite; iraq was a secular society (run by an asshole dictator, but secular nonetheless) and the only opposition on the ground was religious, whereas iran is a fascist theocracy with a secular opposition movement that could use some air support. i'd be happy to provide a secular and liberal movement on the ground in iran with air support, and i think they can win if we give them it.

however, i expect biden and his cronies to avoid such things with a ten foot pole. the 2003 iraq war remains formative in the post-bush years; biden was a part of the obama administration. obama then thoroughly screwed up iran and nobody wants to deal with it. regime change in iran will require generational change.

as it is, i don't expect israel will require american backing to carry out a vicious tit-for-tat strike, and that should be it's immediate focus. if iran wants to get uppity, israel is going to need to smack it down and show it it's place.

take note of this fact: the russians don't even try to retaliate against israel in syria, because they know they're beat before it starts. iran has russian missile defense systems that are essentially the same as the ones in syria. israel can do what it will in iranian airspace, at will.

for this particular issue, throwing money at government bureaucracy is precisely what is required to solve the problem, as the root cause is a collapse of government bureaucracy in the first place.

that said, the language from the minister makes it clear that this is an election promise and that it probably won't go anywhere.

i'm going to suggest something else: we need ndp governments across the country at the provincial level to deal with housing. it's imperative.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberals-release-plan-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-branding-it-as-a-call-to-action-1.6844545

we're trained to act as though all life is sacred and every second matters, and some of us want to bring silly ideas like god into it, but perhaps what we're learning from asking people with poor qualities of life what they actually want is that this value system is in truth deeply flawed.

conservatives are focused on quantity of life and freaking out about people choosing death over life, but the constant in these deaths is extremely poor quality of life. 

maybe the fundamentalists should stop speaking and start listening.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/assisted-death-quadriplegic-quebec-man-er-bed-sore-1.7171209

there's a fair amount of evidence in front of us, and i think ms. qualtrough would make a far better prime minister than ms. freeland.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/overwhelming-support-for-disability-benefit-complicated-by-slow-implementation-survey-finds-1.6837126

we legitimately need a zombie-vampire flick about jesus, ala life of brian, that uses the new testament as the primary script, complete with gore-filled depictions of the crucifixion. in the end, zombie-vampire jesus should come back to have his revenge on the common soldiery.

i also want a scene where he's having gay group sex with his disciples and makes a bad pun about the second cumming.

i actually don't want to come down on a side in this debate about fourplexes. it seems like a good idea to enforce fourplexes as a right until you stop to do the actual math and realize that it wouldn't even actually help.

we don't need fourplexes, we need massive skyscrapers. we need to be building up; way up.

if the government wants us to be as populated as megacities like london and new york, we're going to have to build like london and new york, and (with the single exception of the very downtown core of toronto), we just don't. we think it's not canadian to have that kind of urban density.

well, the population is growing very fast and nobody wants to live in permafrost, alberta. the state made the choice to overpopulate us. now, we have to start building skyscrapers, not fourplexes.

there's a weird narrative that the issue in rafah has to do with the saudis protecting the palestinians. that's odd, as the saudis have never tried to protect the palestinians before.

this guy sisi, however, is a puppet of the saudis, and they would be interested in maintaining stability in egypt, which may be where the arab revolution to overthrow islam eventually happens, one day. egypt is a brutal dictatorship but it's a relatively secular society, and it has to be by popular demand. this shadow caliphate in riyadh wants to keep egypt under control.

but, in fact, the primary concern of the saudis would not be in protecting palestine from israel but rather in ejecting the iranian proxy that is hamas from the mediterranean. the saudis would need to obscure it a little, but their primary rival and enemy is iran, not israel. the saudis and israelis would actually be expected to have common cause in wiping out hamas, but the saudis don't want to destabilize egypt.

i would consequently be skeptical about this idea that the october attack was about trying to undo the saudi-israeli detente, as hamas is a common enemy of the saudis and israel, and the alliance against iran was what the detente was supposed to be about. if anything, what's happening might be better described as the first step of the aforementioned detente, which is something the americans would seek to prevent (as it would upset the balance of power and complicate their strategy of divide and conquer).

the absolute last thing in the world that the americans would want is an alliance between israel and saudi arabia.

jesus was a zombie and a vampire.

that's next level. no wonder people worshiped him.

it's that time of the year, but i was busy and didn't notice it.

it's relatively obvious that the united states orchestrated the recent bombing in moscow. when the united states pulled out of afghanistan, i pondered whether the intent was to use afghanistan as a front to destabilize the russians (and chinese) and that seems to have been the correct analysis in the end. these are operations that the cia wants to keep a distance from, and an afghan terror group is the perfect cover for it. this is unlikely to be the last isis attack on russia, and i'd expect some inside china in the near future.

basically, the united states is trying to draw russia back into afghanistan, which actually indicates somewhat of an intelligence failure because putin isn't the godless communist his predecessors were but actually somewhat of a conservative that actually agrees with the harsh brutality of religious fundamentalism. he doesn't want to pick a fight with the muslims at all. hence putin's attempt to blame it on ukrainians.

the russians need to figure out how to counterattack. they're starting to look like chumps.

i strongly support suicide rights and think this is the right legal decision.

however, the situation is a little bit fishy to me. if the woman is as capable as suggested, she ought to just kill herself, if she really wants to. it's a diagnosis from a distance, but it actually strikes me as a call for help, or perhaps for attention.

maybe this woman is of sound mind, but some other person in the same context might not be and the situation does suggest some deeper level of oversight is required. the doctors should be able to explain their decision to somebody on request.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-maid-father-daughter-court-injunction-judicial-review-decision-1.7154794

this demand for 700 prisoners by hamas indicates that they have no understanding of what they're facing. it truly is delusional.

not only will there not be 700 prisoners released, but all remaining hamas fighters in rafah will either be captured and imprisoned or killed.

there's not going to be a hamas after this.

like, they're calling for a ceasefire. they don't get it. a ceasefire suggests a continuation of the war later on. that is delusional. this is the end; they've lost, the war is over.

israel should be explicit in calling for hamas to surrender.

i can guess hamas' response:

(and, of course, hamas are exactly the kind of fucking creeps that wear their sunglasses at night, too)

egypt should have taken on a greater level of responsibility in dealing with gaza decades ago and if it finds itself overwhelmed or destabilized it should acknowledge that it's the result of decades worth of negligent policy, take ownership of it's mistakes and seek to adjust for the future.

i would welcome the ability to use rent payments on credit reports.

however, i don't see what relevance that policy has to any of the substantive affordable housing supply concerns people are facing across the country.

there needs to be a clear understanding that we don't need more corporate childcare services but rather need to adjust the education system so that it eliminates the after school gap, which shouldn't exist. this is a systemic social problem and throwing money at babysitters is a bandaid solution, not a lasting one.

depending on age and jurisdiction, kids get out of school between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm, whereas most people get off work between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm, creating a gap of potentially up to four hours that needs to be filled in. there's no comprehensible reason this exists at all.

first, kids should be kept in classes until 4:30 pm, minimum, giving them up to a half hour to get home on the bus before 17:00. second, the schools themselves should offer seamless child care services for kids that have parents that work later than 17:00 or that need to call in on special occasions. 

ken dryden had a great plan to address this, and it's extremely disappointing that the liberals have caved to market pressure in adopting a private sector plan instead. i supported the dryden plan, but this $10/day childcare scheme just seems like a foolish non-solution. there's no reason to have separate childcare and education systems, they should be integrated seamlessly, and it should be run by the provinces.

i don't generally have fiscally conservative instincts, but wasting taxpayer money on babysitters strikes me as an exceedingly poor use of public funds that should be starkly criticized. this is an expensive and foolish approach to a problem that is being caused by school days that are simply too short.

listen, if you really hate what israel is doing, the answer is simple: boycott middle eastern oil.

if it wasn't for the oil wealth in the arab states, which is obscene, the united states wouldn't need to maintain a military base in the region. it's not exactly that simple, granted, but israel is not going to hold the sway in washington that it does now, once the world moves off of oil.

what i think is that gaza needs to be dismantled and hamas (along with all other like-thinking groups) needs to be obliterated and the israelis are actually doing the world a favour in getting their hands dirty actually doing it.

we're supposed to be concerned about palestinian civilians. hamas only kills jews every once in a while, they spend most of their time oppressing and slaughtering arabs for not being muslim enough. further, there hasn't been an election in gaza in almost 20 years and the area that the supposed civilians are being sequestered into voted for what i believe was a democratic socialist candidate, rather than the fascist hamas. it is true that hamas seized power in the region, never controlled substantive popular support and has been viciously oppressive against it's own population.

but, that's just the point. twenty years is enough time to get out, and it's enough time to radicalize those that don't. this division between hamas and the population is not so clear cut. if you're still there 20 years later, there's a reason for it, and the fiasco around unrwa demonstrates the point: hamas is a major employer in economically hopeless gaza. i believe that something like 30% of the population is employed by hamas, and roughly half is unemployed altogether and reliant on state aid provided by hamas. i've even heard hamas referred to as a religious charity. that's not a minority of bad apples, it's 70% of the trees in the fucking orchard.

it's harsh, but it's real, and the world will be better off for it, in the end. i'm more concerned about what happens after they level the place, and what plans are being put in place to repopulate and rebuild.

i'm sorry this is taking so long, but i'm trying to redesign a massive site while fighting off hackers and reconstructing a complex network with roughly 15 computers on it and dealing with some fucking losers that are drugging me with male hormones, for reasons i don't entirely understand.

i'm not having a good time, as of late. this is a shitty scenario and it could linger for quite some time before i'm able to get these pieces of shit thrown in jail.

america is nobody's friend - not canada's, not ukraine's and not israel's, either.

friendship cannot exist within capitalism; it's an impossibility.

what if the israelis decide this american protectorate thing isn't working for them anymore and decide to cozy up to the chinese, instead?

oops.

this symbolic statement wasn't worth it. it was foolish. heads need to roll.

are dhimmi joe and his binkie really so concerned about the lives of palestinians as to reverse decades of american policy?

the easy answer is that it's for domestic consumption, but the polls don't really support that analysis. while there is a vocal and well-funded pro-palestinian minority that has very right-wing politics and masquerades as liberals on the fake left, the overwhelming majority of americans remain dominantly pro-israel and in support of a ground operation in rafah. dhimmi joe and his binkie are acting against popular opinion in the united states, and not with it.

rather, there are clear geo-political reasons why the united states would oppose the elimination of gaza as a buffer state between israel and egypt, as it could lead to instability in the region. there is a peace treaty between egypt and israel but it's more like a mutual non-intervention agreement. the israelis don't bomb egypt the way they bomb syria or lebanon. further, the murderous dictatorial regime in egypt (which biden did and does back) is not very stable, and some instability could lead to internal revolts. much has been made of the broken saudi-israeli detente, but the saudis are more likely to be concerned about losing their client in egypt to a rival, like the russians.

the americans are so frequently pro-israel that it masks the reality that the actual middle eastern policy is barbarian management via divide and conquer. america seeks to maintain a series of perpetual conflicts in the region, to prevent any single actor from becoming dominant. america's shifting allegiances have to do with ensuring that the fighting never ends and nobody ever wins. a final victory by israel over hamas would consequently be a red line for american geostrategic interests, as it ends a conflict that is supposed to bog down israel into perpetuity and prevent them from expanding outwards.

i think, however, that binkie is misreading the israelis. binkie needs to remember that the jewish state is not what it used to be; today, israel is a fundamentalist theocracy, like all of the other states in the region. while it remains a democracy, it may not be one for much longer and it no longer has the characteristics of a western democracy, which include axioms like the paramount nature of free speech. israel is on a course to become the mirror-reflection of iran.

as bizarre and naive as it sounds, what israel wants is really limited to the promised land. a normal country may want to take advantage of the situation and move settlers into their conquered territories, but israel has been clear about the point for a long time: biblical gaza is where the philistines lived, and was neither in the heretic/hedonistic kingdom of israel nor the divinely protected (until it wasn't) kingdom of judea. the attack on rafah may be vicious, and the israelis may decide to leave troops on the ground (who would argue they shouldn't, after the october attacks?), but there is no imminent threat to the balance of power because the israelis will actually draw their own boundaries as minimal rather than maximal. 

the jews are weird. they always have been.

i'm consequently going to call for the resignation of linda thomas-greenfield, as allowing this resolution to pass was a substantive mistake and i'm going to call for binkie to resign as well, in an exercise of ministerial accountability.

lyin' brian is now a double entendre with a different meaning than it had previously.

hey, i waited until they buried the son of a bitch. 

the man was a horrific crook.

i hope the last words to him were something like "you died? dammit, brian. you had a choice! you had an option!".

i think that kate middleton had an abortion and has a new boyfriend, hence the abortion.

it's going to be an unpopular view right now, but history may decide differently; i think the israelis have no choice but to go into rafah to send the arab world a message that it can't do what hamas did. there can be no mercy. there can be no tolerance. israel has to be ruthless and has to be vicious in order to send a clear message and create a clear disincentive.

if you've seen the videos, they demonstrate....this was an extreme expression of the most brutal type of religious fundamentalism. i don't agree with islam's basic rules, but this was a step beyond. this made 7th century islam look moderate in comparison.

we didn't pause and ask whether isis deserved some level of mercy, we just finished them off, and we had to do that. we had to kill the women. we had to kill the children. the ideology is too perverse, too barbaric.

there's a broad disconnect between the propaganda coming from sources like al jazeera and how they want to frame the situation and the actual reality on the ground. this is an ideology that needs to be exterminated.

i don't generally find myself in agreement with netanyahu, but he's doing the world a favour in being a stubborn old fucking prick about this. it happens sometimes that the fucking rigid old men get it right.

the liberals should really flip the issue over on the conservatives and start running ads against them that accuse them of wanting to take away the carbon rebate.

i want this to be a reality check.

i'm a low income canadian; i live on odsp, and while i wish i sold more of my art, my sole source of actual income is a $1300/month odsp check.

every four months, i get a $100+ check as a carbon rebate. last year it was $122. it should be ~$20 more than that this year. i don't have a car (i couldn't afford one, but i actually don't want one), and i'm smart enough to know that the inflation we're experiencing is not substantively due to the carbon tax.

those $100+ checks have actually dramatically improved my quality of life and have actually helped me deal with inflation. $500-600/year is very helpful when your income is very low.

now, we can debate whether this policy is actually effective, and i would actually argue it hasn't been and won't be. that's not the point right now.

right now, we're dealing with a demagogue in parliament trying to argue that the carbon tax is harming low-income canadians, and the reality check needs to be that the exact opposite is true, that this $500/yr top-up on my disability is actually exceedingly helpful to me and that i'm actually overwhelmingly in favour of increasing the carbon tax as much as possible.

now, i understand that this might be bothersome to middle-income canadians that make enough money that they can spend a lot on gas, but that's the point. the policy is intended to penalize polluters and incentivize them to change. what the demagogue is demonstrating is that the policy isn't working; it is exactly those middle-income canadians that most need to change that are organizing to resist it and polls suggest, at the moment, that they would have a good chance of winning.

however, the policy is in truth very beneficial to actual low-income canadians, who generally don't have cars because they can't actually afford it. don't listen to this guy try to tell you otherwise.

the liberals think they lost the last two elections because they were too left wing, which is a false analysis. i'm actually skeptical of the election results; i think there was massive fraud. yet, to the extent that the conservatives did swing some votes in the last two elections, it had to do with (1) doug ford being popular amongst immigrant communities because immigrant voters tend to like aggressive male politicians, which is the antithesis of the liberal party at almost every level of government and (2) the liberals not being left-wing enough, and bleeding both working class and over-educated voters to the ndp, who offered a more convincing left of centre vision.

i think this is all very frustrating because i actually supported the mcguinty-wynne government as they passed a lot of very good bills. i have not supported the trudeau government because they keep passing horrible legislation. yet, the quality of legislation being debated is not a primary election issue for a large percentage of voters.

i couldn't vote for the last guy; i thought he was awful, and he didn't even win his seat, which is something i predicted the day he was elected leader of the party.  mimicking stephen harper is not going to win the liberal party of ontario any votes.

the liberals are going to have to acknowledge that the demographic changes in ontario over the last 20 years have placed them as the least favoured party amongst a large plurality of new voters who want charismatic and dominant male leaders and are going to have to adjust to that. bonnie crombie's angle is that she can dominate the ndp and the liberals are going to have to understand that they are fighting an election against the left, where there are voters they can swing, and not against the populist middle, which is currently out of their reach.

the rule in the west is that the kids of the immigrants conform, and the liberals may have better luck with second-generation canadians than first-generation canadians, as soon as they exist and can vote. however, they type of migrants moving to canada in recent decades is dramatically different than the type that came here decades ago, and that might be a false projection. we'll have to see.

for right now, the liberals need to be focused on trying to swing new democrats and if they don't realize that then they're going to get squeezed and scrunched and may in the end just end up merging with the conservatives.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-liberals-propose-tax-credit-for-childrens-sports-after-school-activities/article_1746162a-e640-11ee-9044-ef20edb861c2.html

there is an utterly pathetic woman at 1227 curry in windsor that is obsessed with me because she thinks i'm a "hot guy" and is drugging me because she wants to have sex with me. she's a delusional idiot; i'm a transgendered woman with no interest in using my penis with women or with men. i am getting srs done soon.

in fact, i'm extremely likely to beat the shit out of her if she doesn't leave very soon. i am not attracted to women, and all the drugs she is giving me are doing is making me angry and making me want to react violently.

i've tried everything and she won't stop, but she's going to get killed before she gets laid.

if you are also a pathetic loser that needs a girlfriend, please come and fuck her. she needs it. she's obsessive, she'll love you. then take her away from here.

i want to call on hamas to release all hostages immediately, or take full responsibility for what happens.

as the overwhelmingly superior military (beyond any question), israel had no choice but to annihilate them for their insolence when they decided to take hostages and demanded terms. this was utter stupidity by utterly stupid people. hamas is an inferior actor and they need to learn and accept their place.

they have a few days left to release the hostages before they're wiped off the planet, which is the correct outcome if they refuse to.

i'm still struggling with securing my network, and the long promised complete overhaul of this site is imminent, but i want to stop for a second to talk about this "online harms" bill, as i would be a potential primary target of the government.

there's been some expected analysis from your typical free-speech conservatives, like margaret atwood (who americans don't seem to understand is a right-winger in canada) who are mostly concerned that the government is trying to attack christians, which is largely paranoid nonsense that comes through a conservative party propaganda filter. the idea that speech restriction laws are an attack on christians is something that right-wing politicians promote in order to raise money from their base. there's absolutely no empirical basis for the claim, no history of the government attacking christians and no evidence that this is what trudeau cares about doing. in fact, trudeau is the most pro-religion liberal prime minister since the 1800s and has a distinctly social conservative streak. unlike his father, he's been vocal about his belief in "religious rights". on this issue, he sounds more like his father's opponents than he does like his father.

in response, the government has tried to suggest that the law will be moderate and the judges will react proportionally. if the response is alarmist because it promotes potential for abuse, and perhaps it is, and it certainly does, the government is trying to calm people down by essentially arguing that the judges won't actually enforce the law anyways, and there consequently isn't anything to worry about.

i'm concerned about the nature of the discourse, because this is in fact a scary law and it does in fact threaten to infringe on your rights and freedoms but the narrative being framed - that it's an attack on christianity, and christians don't need to worry - has no basis in reality and threatens to merely obfuscate the issue. in fact, most people would be perfectly happy to pass laws telling christians to shut up and fuck off because most people despise christians and are annoyed by the constant attempts of christians to interfere in their personal decisions. this framing is likely to generate support for the law, not opposition to it. this issue needs to be reclaimed by real liberals and actual speech activists and reframed in terms of actually real and actually realistic concerns. 

anybody living in reality should be able to instantly see that this law, which is being written and advanced by a muslim, is intended primarily to "protect" muslims from criticism. this isn't an attack on christianity, it's the first step in a back door imposition of sharia law.

the reality is that i detest islam. i detest islamic values, i detest islamic beliefs, i detest islamic behaviours and i detest islamic culture. i don't like them, i don't like what they believe and i don't like how they act. what is the government trying to tell me in passing this law, ordering me that i'm not allowed to detest somebody?

am i supposed to just pretend that i like them?

am i supposed to just be quiet, as more and more of these sorts of law pass, and my rights and freedoms are slowly chipped away at?

i'm going to be naive. i'm going to pretend that there isn't some plan here, and that this isn't the start of the islamic colonization of canada. remember: muslims are not a victim of colonization, muslims invented colonialism. islam is a racist colonial system of hierarchical dominance and violent control, which is exactly what our leaders in the west wish they had. 

when somebody tells you they detest and dislike you, it seems to me that you have two potential reactions. you might decide you don't care, which is what i would do; if somebody told me they detested me, i'd tell them to fuck off and go kill themselves. the other choice is that you might decide that you do care, listen to the reasons you're detested and try to change yourself so that you're no longer detested. the reasons that islam is detested by some, including myself, are absolutely valid. islam is a horrible system of thought and it needs to drastically alter itself to avoid being detested.

ordering me not to detest you is just providing evidence as to why i detest you in the first place.

i expect in the end that the courts will uphold my right to detest people, but the bill needs to be challenged, and not by the christian right and not via the framing of their delusions of oppression. let's understand what the bill actually is and challenge it's actual goals on actual face value. if we let margaret atwood and jordan peterson do this, we're going to lose.

atwood has repeatedly rejected and denounced any interpretation of the handmaid's tale that attempts to tie it to an attempt at islamic colonization of america, despite it being an obvious satire of the iranian revolution. i'm not sure if she's commented on that point, but what the novel is is an attempt to imagine what would happen if an iranian revolution happened in the united states, which was not a crazy idea in the early 1980s, in the context of the rise of the moral majority and the political dominance of reaganism. the parallels are too heavy-handed; it's not debatable. she doesn't like these comparisons, though, and insists it's strictly a canadian fantasy, from an evolved loyalist perspective. ok.

but, she's missing the point of her own text, because she's old. i semi-recently saw a debate between chomsky and right-wing israeli, where he utterly failed to draw the connection to manufacturing consent, because he's been half there for 20 years, and might only be a quarter there nowadays.

hitchens died too young, and it was his own fucking fault, but this speech should be the starting point in opposing the online harms bill, as he nails it fifteen years before it happened.

here's a distraction we can all appreciate:

it seems like sean is reforming rabit is wolf, and is trying to steal my studio and take credit for my music in the process. what a pathetic loser.

as stated repeatedly over many fora, sean's contribution to my discography is strictly limited to a handful of guest vocal tracks on a small number of demos. sean barely deserves co-writing credits for even the rabit is wolf material, and had no influence at all on the inri material or the trivial group material. sean did not write or perform a single section on a single instrument, and in fact doesn't know how to play any instrument. in fact, he can't even sing; he's horribly tone deaf, which is why i auto-tuned and pitch-shifted and digitally altered his vocals and then ran them through effects. he couldn't hit a middle c if you put a gun to his head.

sean is very good at video games, but he's not good at music. he's simply not a musician.

jon wanted sean to sing because he thought he looked like a singer, but then he bailed and left me to deal with him. we did a few demos and went our separate ways. i finished the material years later by myself (and i wrote it and performed it by myself). this is consequently really jon's fault. i wouldn't have these demos with sean singing on them, otherwise.

as it is, those demos are currently not streaming at my bandcamp site and i may have to take them down altogether. nor am i going to give sean permission to host music with me performing on it, if he's going to act like he's acting. right now, it looks like the demos are going to get permanently unpublished and the finished instrumental versions will be the only thing available; right now, it seems like sean is just going to get completely canceled, and that i'm going to remove all references to him altogether.

i would consequently invite sean to consider covering the following foofighters track as the first new rabit is wolf song.

ugh.

things are changing.

i'm working on it.

i just bought an entry-level hardware firewall with no wireless.

 

my network is designed for use, not to keep out loser gamer boys that want to set up servers for bitcoins. eww. my routers have no firewalls at all.

i don't know if it will work or not. i set up a security camera, and they just walk in and turn it off.

i'll have to experiment. at the least, it should help me better understand what they're doing and help me actually catch them.

ugh.

they just somehow managed to kill the mft on an sd card i had pictures on. everything's recovered. that's not the point.

i had essentially all of my pictures from last year disappear, and i felt like they were stolen but wasn't sure. it might have been a system error. it's more clear now what is going on.

my neighbours are trying to steal my pictures, and succeeded in stealing a lot of them last year. i don't quite know why yet, but it seems like they want to present them as picture of themselves. they may be trying to sell them, and there may be some prostitution involved.

this is utterly pathetic, but it's the reality i'm living through, as my landlord systematically attempts to steal my identity.

some new pictures, where i'm finally starting to look a little more like myself. it should be a strawbery blondish and i expect chinnish or longer by early to mid may.

i shoud have cleaned the mirror, but i'm still experimenting with things like exposure levels on a couple of new devices. these pictures are taken on the music device. there's a few coming up that were taken on the new vlog camera, which have greater exposure. 

video:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RkGEZFNDoLqw7hsy9

the download is still going.

i'm not a hacker. i have an entry level programming degree, which means i can write basic applications in c and java and have been introduced to different approaches to programming, like that found in scheme or lisp. i have no experience with modern languages like python or ruby and would not be able to keep up in a conversation about new programming languages. i have minimal experience with non-windows operating systems. the programming degree was degree #2, and was taken in a cynical move to find employment, which i realized was a mistake precisely because i'm not a computer nerd in that sense. i'm an artist, author, musician, etc that uses computers to construct their art, but i'm not into gaming or scripting or anything of the sort.

i get the impression that my small internet following thinks something different, and all i can say is that i'm aware that i have this audience in the dark web that thinks i'm some kind of next-level guru but that the truth is that i'm a human being that can only absorb so much knowledge and can only know so much about so many things. hacking is not my thing, i would consider it tedious and boring. it follows that i'm actually an easy target in a lot of ways, because i have no interest in or experience with this kind of thing but am rather strictly interested in creating and distributing art. i don't want to fight over property on a network, that's fucking boring.

however, the fact that i spend so much time in front of a computer and that i do have some background in programming means i'm likely to learn and adjust much faster than most people. i might be an easy target to begin with, but i'm going to put up a fight, too, with the intent ultimately to catch the fuckers and throw them in jail rather than win some kind of turf war. if i catch you hacking me and can prove who you are, i'm not going to post P4NED!!! on a message board somewhere, i'm going to call the cops and have you thrown in jail as long as i can get you thrown in jail for. i have no tolerance for this kind of harassment, as there is no place for it in a free society.

i'm pretty sure that the attack vector that the hacker (who lives upstairs, i'm certain) is using is a cr-lf injection attack:

https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/CRLF_Injection

what they've been doing is managing to steal my passwords as i'm updating them by writing to my passwords file via the cr-lf attack, which they know i have because they have a camera in my apartment and are watching me all of the time. the attack they're using is buggy, as i've found it by pulling binary symbols out of my passwords list that must have been inserted via the injection attack itself, but what they're trying to do is keep my passwords list static while they get the new, updated versions. 

so, let's say i go to update my amazon password. if they manage to "get me", what happens is that my passwords list reverts to the previous password, while they steal the new one. then, they have my new password, and i only have the previous one.

i've been able to recover everything except one gmail account because i've had previous passwords and recovery options. but, this has been a frustrating pain in the ass for weeks, now, and i don't know what to do except avoid it.

the solution, from my end, is to make sure that i don't past any cr-lf characters anywhere. ever. at all. i'm bouncing back and forth between windows and linux machines recently, so this is a real concern.

i also need to put a call out to major servers like google and bandcamp to update their servers to stop this from happening. i can only do so much, as a user, in the face of an overwhelming assault. the problem is ultimately on their end and not mine.

i'm trying to get the cops involved, but i need to get them evidence, and i'm in a catch-22 around it.

yeah, it ran out of space on a 30 gb partition.

let me try an 80 gb external drive.

this website is apparently over 10 gb of text. as i'm using an old computer to mirror it, i had to retry the mirror by moving it to a secondary drive and i may have to use an external drive for a third attempt. this is unexpected, to say the least.

a while back, i posted that i wanted a way to upload a pdf file to a website to mail it and i found it:

www.postgrid.com

i just received my first letter mailed to myself, which is a packing label for a sendle pickup (as the price of fedex was crazy and canada post wouldn't let me sign in). this is how i'll mail my taxes this year, as well.

i want to be clear about this point when this is over.

i don't want to live with young people. i don't want to live in a party house. i don't want to live with drug addicts, drunks or smokers. i don't like there to be loud music or drug or alcohol use in my living space. i want the place that i live to be very clean and very boring, because the place that i live is the place that i learn, read and work. i do not party in the place that i live and very explicitly do not want to, i need that separation space.

i need to live alone. i do not want to have a partner. at all. ever.

please do not go looking for me in real life, as if i am not out and about it's because i don't want to be. i am a deep introvert that needs alone time away from human beings. i am not outgoing. i don't like to hang out. i am standoffiish and cold and rude. i need to be completey by myself for 19 out of 20 days of the month in order to enjoy being social for the one day, and if i can't have the time to recharge by myself then i won't want to spend time with people at all.

i'm a reclusve artist that needs to be alone.

i don't want you to come find me.

fuck off. go away.

i've published posts like this before.

the way the internet works right now is such that you can't trust anything or anybody. what was once seen as a means to perpetuate radical democracy, and perhaps was for a time, has become a tool of oppression and control. a blog like this cannot exist.

i don't know who is upstairs trying to control me. it suspect it could be the mob. it might be the russians. it might be an arab group, like the saudis. it might be the liberal party of canada. i have targeted a lot of people and organizations and made a lot of enemies, but it's always been in the name of open free speech. i'm reasonable and analytical, but that's the problem.

don't post political writing on the internet anymore.

type offline and distribute pamphlets.

i'm temporarily reposting what is left of this blog to mirror it locally. i will eventually need to remove this blog entirely, as it's been targeted by fraudsters, thieves, liars and scam artists.

the writing coming back up has been heavily vandalized; i cannot post here, the site is not secure. some combination of people i used to know thinks they have same authority to vandalize my art and nothing is apparently going to stop them. they have made it clear to me over the last few months that they delusionally believe that they own me and can do what they want with me.

any posts that don't come back up have already been removed and have been archived. i will need to unvandalize them as best as i can as i recombine them into a forward-flowing, readable document and they will be republished in a different format when i'm done. clearly, i don't have the time or interest to blog the way i used to, and it's largely because i'm being constantly hacked and vandalized by these fucking losers from my past that won't go away.

what is being temporarily republished here will be unpublished again as soon as i can pull it down.

there's a reason that israel is clearing out rafah, and it's hard to argue with it.

an evacuation route needs to be created and those evacuating need to comprehend that they will likely never be allowed to come back.

israel needed a heavy-handed response to get the point across that it won't ignore what happened. let this be a lesson to whatever remains of palestine when this is over with.

life's been awful, as i've been stuck with a full time job protecting my internet presence from being stolen by thieves upstairs that are ghosts from a past life. this is a nightmare scenario.

i'm currently downloading everything i can in the case that i have to rebuild, and i might.

i've been talking about the need to redesign everything from scratch for quite a while anyways and have been spending all of my time strategizing how to do so. i may actually lose access to everything very soon, which may force me to radically reapproach how i present my art.

i don't know if this is a serious attempt at theft or some kind of stupid game. i don't know if it's the unwanted editor appearing in real life, but i think that it is. i don't know if these people want to actually steal things from me or if they're trying to control me or if they're some kind of psychotic lurker.

i consequently don't know if this is going to require a hefty legal response from me or if the issue goes away over time.

i know that i need to take everything down and put it away somewhere safe and i know that when it comes back up it's going to be in a radically different format.

that is what i'm doing right now, i'm biting and clawing to protect my internet presence from being stolen in an aggressive and illegal takeover that is being orchestrated by my new landlord, in collusion with a lot of people i used to know.

it's becoming increasingly clear that the person trying to steal my internet presence is sean hansel and that it may be the case that he's been impersonating me online for years. he may have misled a lot of people. he seems to need some help.

this blog is written by myself, who has:

1) legal name: jessica parent

2) screen name: jessica murray (mother's maiden name, murray) or jessica amber murray

3) birth name: jason parent.

i am a post-op transfemale that has been on chemical hormones non-stop since 2008.

i run all of the blogs on the side.

i own all of the youtube accounts on the side and am the director and subject of all of the vlogs.

i run all of the bandcamp sites linked from:

inrirecords.bandcamp.com

i was and still am the owner of the jessica amber murray facebook page before i stopped using it.

i am inri, i am dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja, i am deathtokoalas and i am all the other usernames on the side and linked out to from the site.

all of the pictures in the photo archive are of me.

sean did some guest vocals on some demo tracks on five or six songs in 2002 that were finished as instrumentals years later. he did not write these songs, and had minimal contributions to them besides the guest vocals. 

i haven't spoken to sean since roughly 2010. i have tried to send him business emails related to the music and he has not responded. it's not clear to me whether he's maliciously lying to people or has lost his mind and actually believes he wrote my music and is otherwise the author of my various art.