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Citoyen retweeted
11 novembre 1918. Souvenir de vaillance.
La Première Guerre mondiale, boucherie évitable, aura coûté la vie à des millions de soldats et à toute une génération de jeunes Européens. Contraints de défendre l’Empire britannique par la conscription de 1917, alors qu’ils refusaient, pour une large part, de faire couler leur sang pour un drapeau colonial, les Canadiens français ont connu le feu et la mort sur les champs de bataille d’Europe. Leurs hauts faits auront traversé les générations. En leur mémoire, nous portons aujourd’hui le coquelicot du Souvenir.
Nous nous souvenons de leur bravoure.
Nous honorons leur courage.
Nous réaffirmons les valeurs positives qui fondent la vie militaire et qui demeurent, à travers les siècles, au fondement de notre civilisation : le sacrifice, l’esprit de corps, la force de caractère, le dépassement, la vaillance.
Ne les oublions pas.
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Nous sommes morts
Nous qui songions la veille encor'
À nos parents, à nos amis,
C’est nous qui reposons ici
Au champ d’honneur.
À vous jeunes désabusés
À vous de porter l’oriflamme
Et de garder au fond de l’âme
Le goût de vivre en liberté.
Acceptez le défi, sinon
Les coquelicots se faneront
Au champ d’honneur
— John McCrae, In Flanders Field
[Tableau : La deuxième bataille d’Ypres, Richard Jack, 1917]
Citoyen retweeted
This is what a 10MW single geothermal borehole looks like.
This is the energy equivalent of ~200 football fields worth of solar panels located on the sunniest desert on earth. Plus another 5 football fields worth of battery storage to stabilize the load.
It is capable of delivering consistent baseload energy for over 100 years if well maintained. Feasibly much longer.
@syntholene’s architecture is designed to convert geothermal wells like this one into low cost oil wells that never run dry.
As long as the earths mantle is hot, we can produce clean synthetic hydrocarbon fuels to power human civilization long after the economic limitations of crude oil have been exhausted.
This is how we make unlimited fuel. Forever.
Citoyen retweeted
NEW: Dominican president says he is backing Bukele and Salvadoran troops in Haiti
apnews.com/article/dominican…
The philosopher king @nayibbukele and the humanitarian condottiere @realErikDPrince are cleaning up Ayiti. Meanwhile, @amnistia is wailing that the rights of the cannibalistic criminals aren’t being respected. Shameful.
pilulerouge.ca/condottieri-d…
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Les Kilts back in style
【現代の"草摺（くさずり）"】戦場の進化がたどり着いた答えは、まさかの「戦国甲冑」だった！？
見た目はまるでスカートや古代ローマの防具、あるいは日本の鎧の「草摺（くさずり）」。
実はこれ、ウクライナのアーマーメーカー（Balistyka社など）が最前線のリアルな戦訓から開発した「バリスティック・キルト（腰回り用防弾アーマー）」です。
■ なぜ今、スカート型アーマーなのか？
これまでの対テロ戦争（非対称戦）では、機動力重視の「軽量なプレートキャリア」が主流でした。
しかし、現在のウクライナ戦線のような大規模な砲撃戦・ドローン戦では状況が一変。最大の脅威は小銃弾よりも「砲弾やFPVドローンの破片（フラグメンテーション）」になりました。
■ 守るべきは「大腿動脈」と「骨盤」
破片が下半身、特に太ももの付け根（大腿動脈）や骨盤・鼠径部に直撃すると、止血帯（ターニケット）すら巻けず数分で致命傷になります。
かといってガチガチの重装甲にすると歩兵が動けない……。
「機動力（歩幅・しゃがみ動作）を殺さず、腰回りと大腿動脈を360度破片から守る」
この矛盾を解決するために導き出されたのが、パネルを分割して重ねる「スカート構造」でした。
人間の急所（動脈や関節）は数千年前から変わらないため、防御と機動性を突き詰めた結果、最先端の超高分子量ポリエチレン（UHMWPE）装甲が「日本の大鎧」や「ローマ軍団のプテリゲス」と同じ形に先祖返りしたのです。
最先端テクノロジーが導き出した"機能美の極致"。ロマンが詰まりすぎていませんか……？
#ミリタリー #タクティカルギア #ボディーアーマー #ウクライナ #現代戦 #サバゲー #軍事
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Citoyen retweeted
If you prefer Eastern Orthodoxy over other forms of Christianity due to it's heavy appropriation of Neoplatonism, then consider that what you actually like is Neoplatonism not Christianity
Consider why you're drawn to the most Pagan form of Christianity and not the most Jewish
Why I converted to Orthodox Christianity
Theosis: the process of union with God through active participation in the Uncreated Energies
Essence energies distinction: God is utterly transcendent in His essence, but knowable through His energies, both essence and energies are fully God, distinction without division
Synergeia: free will is synergy of individual effort and divine grace, cooperation or resistance
Physical/spiritual interdependence: the essence energies distinction and synergy allows for a radical affirmation of both immanence and transcendence, Orthodoxy is a both/and of holistic harmony
The nous: the eye of the soul or mind of the heart, the faculty by which we know and experience God, when the nous is pure it sees God and experiences the Uncreated Energies of God intuitively
Monarchical Trinitarianism: God is both one and many; one essence, three persons; Father as sole cause, Son begotten, Spirit proceeds, whatever is not common in the divine is unique to the person (against subordination in God, polytheism, or modalism)
Apophaticism: asserting through negation ex. “God is unknowable”, preserves divine mystery as life giving, carving away
Logos theology: aligning with God as the ordering principle and source of life, Jesus Christ as the Logos of the Greeks and Dao of Lao Tzu (the way, the truth, the life, the vine, the bridegroom, etc.), movement towards God as theosis, sin (stagnation) separates us from God, sin/evil as privation “It is only the misuse of things that is evil, and such misuse occurs when the intellect fails to cultivate its natural powers.” -St. Maximus the Confessor
“God became man so that man might become God.” -St. Athanasius
“What is unassumed is unhealed.” -St. Gregory of Nyssa
Everything else flows from here
Any worldview presupposes answers to the philosophical problem of the one (unity/changlessness/being) and the many (plurality/change/becoming), the question of how one and many fundamentally relate, which applies to its affirmation or denial of life and its coherence as a position. I believe Orthodox Christianity is the most coherent/universal worldview (I have yet to see good argument addressing philosophically/practically).
Here and now is how you experience God/eternity, “the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), you are what you do, theosis is eternal progress (epektasis), already but not yet.
Man’s goal is to metabolize, God is the fire that does not consume you, the flow of energy and transcendent. Theosis is purification, illumination, deification. Jesus accepts if we accept Him. Forgiveness is love neutralizing the enemy.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53) “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (John 6:56) Holy Communion as the act of assimilating God as He assimilates us, nutrition as our most intimate interaction with the world.
Ancient Greek understanding of the Bible: ex. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) is present active imperative (ongoing process).
Historical continuity: apostolic succession/faith and decentralized church structure.
“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of truth.” -Fr. Seraphim Rose
“Come and see.” (John 1:39)
The greatest mysteries are within the Divine Liturgy.
If I’m presenting anything wrong, I welcome correction.
Direct talks between Quebec and US States is EXACTLY what I voted for.
Time to build.
Carney is MAD for getting bypassed!
Quebec’s new Premier, PSPP, sent out 59 letters to American Senators and State Governors to promote economic ties between Quebec and their respective States.
When Carney found out, he WARNED PSPP that trade was of federal jurisdiction.
This is what PSPP had to say about it:
PSPP: “Mr. Carney would like us to stay off the ice and never set foot on the rink because he wants the entire rink to himself.
But we, in Quebec, have always claimed our rightful place. That’s what I’m doing with these letters, and that’s what previous governments have done.
And he’s being a little contradictory because he says that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
So, I don’t know which Mr. Carney to actually believes…”
JOURNALIST: So your intention is not to go around him, if that’s what you’re suggesting.
PSPP: “What I’m saying is that I will do what I believe is in the best interests of Quebec and Quebecers, because I am the Premier of Quebec, and Mr. Carney is not my boss. He cannot stop me from doing what we have always done.
That means having an international presence that allows us to represent our interests.
So, expect to see, over the coming months, a Quebec that takes its rightful place on the world stage.
I said it during the election campaign.”
Citoyen retweeted
So do I. I realize that to some people, this may sound like a pie-in-the-sky idea. But the truth is that many of the structures needed to foster greater integration and cooperation across the Northeast already exist.
I've explored some opportunities in my articles, including one on how Québec's refining capacity could help meet New England's energy needs, another on the potential synergies between IBM's semiconductor packaging facility in Bromont and the broader semiconductor ecosystem in Vermont and New York.
There's a lot of work to be done, but I think that if enough people start pulling in the same direction, particularly by engaging policymakers at the state and provincial levels, or writing opeds for VTDigger, we can make progress.
Citoyen retweeted
Nous avons pris connaissance du plan en immigration contenu dans le budget 2026 fédéral.
D'entrée de jeu, il faut être honnête envers la population : il s’agit du plus grand contingent migratoire de l’histoire du Canada, et de loin. En plus du seuil de 370 000 résidents temporaires, 662 000 résidents permanents seront ajoutés, dont 200 000 sur une voie accélérée et 82 000 restants de l’an dernier. Quand une mesure dite « ponctuelle » est reconduite et élargie année après année, elle cesse de l’être.
Cette hausse cachée n’est ni expliquée ni justifiée. Nous nous attendons à plus de transparence du gouvernement fédéral, puisque les conséquences pourraient se faire ressentir ici. Rappelons que les résidents permanents admis, peu importe l’endroit où ils se trouvent, peuvent se déplacer et ainsi contourner les seuils établis par le Québec.
En renouant avec des seuils insoutenables, non seulement le gouvernement fédéral maintient la pression sur nos services publics et sur le logement, il nuit à la productivité et condamne le Québec à un effritement de son poids démographique.
Le gouvernement du Québec aura l’occasion de présenter son plan d’immigration permanente dans les prochaines semaines, de manière transparente, et nous maintiendrons le cap quant à nos engagements électoraux.
On peut être gossé par le nom qu'il donne à cette entité, mais au final, plusieurs commencent à croire qu'il a raison.
Le Nord Est peut presque vivre de façon autarcique.
The future of North America could take many forms. There could emerge an American Empire or perhaps the continent will transform into a number of new sovereign countries and city states. Yet regardless of the formal structure of the outcome there must be at least one sovereign state / territory for those of us with European heritage, especially for those with colonial roots. This is not negotiable.
This movement should be occupied with nation building as its fundamental objective. I see no way around this.
Are we ready for this conversation yet?
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Citoyen retweeted
Pour donner un ordre d'idée, le Canada affiche désormais un fort déséquilibre entre hommes et femmes parmis les 20-29 ans, il est encore plus marqué que celui observé en Chine, en Inde ou au Pakistan.
Là où certains pays ont créé ce déséquilibre par les avortement sélectifs, le Canada l'aura accentué à coups d'immigration principalement masculine venant du tiers monde.
L'Inde présente un surplus masculin astronomique, de près de 40 millions d'hommes. La majeure partie de ce déficit féminin se concentre au Pendjab, dans le nord du pays, l'un des pires endroits au monde où naître femme. La Chine connaît également un déséquilibre, quoique dans une moindre mesure.
Je soupçonne par ailleurs que ces chiffres soient sous-estimés. Le problème, c'est que l'Inde peut (et a tout intérêt pour calmer la situation intérieure) ensuite exporter ce surplus masculin à l'étranger, ce qui contribue aussi à déséquilibrer le ratio hommes-femmes dans les pays d'accueil (Canada, etc.).
Citoyen retweeted
Quand je dis qu’Arendt est hostile à la civilisation faustienne, je parle de l’effet de sa pensée sur le rapport des Européens à leur propre histoire. Nietzsche appelle « histoire critique » la façon de juger le passé pour se libérer de ce qui, en lui, nous empêche de vivre. Il en voit aussi le danger. Jusqu’où peut-on condamner un passé dont on est soi-même issu ?
Mon reproche à Arendt, c’est que son œuvre est une contribution à une culture de la critique où cette mise en jugement devient la manière habituelle de regarder l’héritage européen.
Or, pour un peuple, vivre historiquement, c’est pouvoir reconnaître dans les œuvres et les ambitions de ceux qui l’ont précédé quelque chose qu’il peut hériter et transmettre. À force de déconstruire cet héritage, on finit par rendre les vivants étrangers à leur propre histoire.
Les Origines du totalitarisme n’est pas juste exercice de compréhension historique. Cest une généalogie qui fait remonter le totalitarisme à des éléments constitutifs de l’histoire européenne moderne (l’impérialisme, le racisme comme doctrine, etc. comme si ces choses n'existaient pas ailleurs).
C’est dans ce sens que je les dis « apatrides dans le présent ». Ils habitent encore leur pays, mais peinent à se reconnaître dans l’histoire qui devtait en faire leur patrie.
Citoyen retweeted
Paul LePage defied the blue tsunami to be the only Republican in the country to flip a seat currently held by Dems. His early childhood is like a Franco-American Dickens novel:
Citoyen retweeted
“In Canada, we take care of each other”
By bringing in 950,000 non-Canadians in the country to compete against Canadians while we are:
- 500,000 homes short
- Down 53,000 jobs this year
- Facing 6.7% unemployment rate
- 13.8% youth unemployment rate
- 26.8 weeks treatment time
- 2.35 Million/M food bank use
The Prime Minister’s idea of taking care of eachother is very deceptive
Citoyen retweeted
We all have a pretty good idea who was behind this. Nearly $50,000 worth of lobster taken from the ocean out of season, yet no name released. Apparently, accountability in Canada depends on who you are. Don’t expect much from this investigation.
FISHERY OFFICERS SEIZE 3,806 LOBSTERS IN NOVA SCOTIA ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
MARGARETSVILLE, N.S. — Fishery officers arrested one individual and seized 57 crates containing 3,806 lobsters during an enforcement operation at a storage facility in Margaretsville, Nova Scotia, on October 18.
The individual was arrested for allegedly making a false or misleading statement to a fishery officer.
During an inspection of the seized crates, officers determined that some of the lobsters originated from Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 29 in Cape Breton, where the commercial lobster fishery is currently closed.
Authorities confirmed that the crates contained 3,311 live lobsters and 495 dead lobsters.
The surviving lobsters were transported back to LFA 29 and released into the ocean.
The seizure raises concerns about the possession and movement of lobster originating from fishing areas outside their authorized commercial seasons.
An investigation remains ongoing, and fisheries officials have indicated that no further details will be released at this time.
No charges or court outcomes have been announced in the information provided.
