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The state of Minnesota formed an important part of my life. The memories remain close to my heart. I recall an orderly, clean, well-kept place, a charmed land indeed. The summer is quite mild, quite unlike Utah’s typical scorching conditions. (more…)
Vanessa Kurpiewska, above, was stabbed to death on the Toronto subway just before Christmas for no apparent reason; the perpetrator injured another woman as well.
Vanessa Kurpiewska, above, was stabbed to death on the Toronto subway just before Christmas for no apparent reason; the perpetrator injured another woman as well.
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Public transit construction, maintenance, and operation in Canada, like in so many countries, typically involves massive public expenditures, graft, incompetence, and cost overruns for any number of dubious reasons. And once the system is up and running there are equipment breakdowns and retroactive inquiries into procurement corruption, not to mention criminal activity as thugs target a captive commuter population. Sometimes it does work, but at other times, it fails spectacularly. When it does function, it is maintained by men and women with some sort of real, technical expertise. (more…)
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“War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.” — Heraclitus
Compliance measures and social trust are two key elements in any society, the ratio of which is a good indicator of how productive the people in it are and what the level of the general welfare looks like. Compliance measures usually come with threats to motivate compliant responses.
As compliance measures multiply, so do the threats that back them up. (more…)
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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. (more…)