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Modi/India is committed to blindfolded-and-earplugged "strategy".

Russia is now financially-functioning ONLY because of its debt to China: China is using that to gain unofficial owning of Russia.

Russia is going to be China's vassal-state, shortly, with its oligarchs/dictator ( if he survives ) doing only what China allows them to do.

India is betting the entire survival of India on Russia provisioning it with weapons in any war against China, which is inevitable...

India is going to be gutted in the inevitable war with China, and China is going to do to India what it did to Tibet, only worse.

Churchill: "Never argue with drunks or fanatics."

Modi's only-Yes-men government, including the pseudo-journalism he allows ( or considering the actual-journalism he doesn't tolerate ), has strategic consequences, that are going to cost hundreds of millions of Indian lives, in the coming decade.

WHEN a junkie won't "get off the tracks", and you can feel the rumbling, through the rails, of the oncoming freight-train, accept that you cannot make them know other-than what they want to know .. and get away from the impending violent-destruction, so only-the-deranged get obliterated.

I'm part east Indian, and seeing the home of the Dharmic religions about to be butchered isn't good, but .. karma is karma: you earn viability, or you don't retain viability.

Krshna was right, in the Gita: uprightness is REQUIRED.

Politicians generally reject that, but ones who only allow yes-men inferiors & "journalism" .. can take entire-countries, if not regions, down with their won't-knowing devotion.

India is nearly finished as a real country.

I don't expect it to be independent-of-china in 2033.

it shows one hell of alot more than just failure of police-services/enforcement:

it shows failure of parenting, of education, of community, of journalism, of acceptance-within-Canada, and much more...

How do you manufacture violent-crime in a community/city?

Increase the young-male unemployment, and the young males will assault whomever they can take it out on.

That automatic function has been known for decades, ttbomk.

What's apparently happening is the same: males taking some internally-felt-harm & multiplying it, enforcing it onto others, who are unable to defend themselves.

I wish male-culture valued integrity anywhere near as much as it values bulling successfully, not just in this, or that, race/culture, but across all of 'em.

Thank you for highlighting the point you did, Hoomin...

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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Differentiate between bike-lanes-in-streets vs recreational-paths:

Recreational-paths share single-moms with babies in strollers & toddlers running around them, inline-skates, bikes, unicycles, joggers, dreamy-eyed-lovers, etc...

The speed-limit should be low-enough that NO accidental cyclist-killing-surprise-toddler happens, which is probably 15km/h?

Depends on how closed/open the local terrain is, right?

And the crowding on that day/night, too.

Bike-lanes-in-streets, however, should be up around 25km/h limit, because crash-injury goes up with the SQUARE of the speed, and keeping cyclists from becoming nursing-home-inmates ( seen a couple of lives that earned that result, you don't want to: it's depressing ).

Ebikes, etc, should be limited, on parkways/roads/rural to 40km/h, because the distances are sooo much greater outside of core-city-streets...

This would both enable & protect, balancedly...

As a former winter-bike-courier, bike-lanes save lives, without any question.

Some lobbyists don't understand that having 3 collisions per week on a bike-lane-street that has 1000 cyclists through it per week is better, statistically, than having 1 collision per week on a street with no bike-lane and 10 cyclists through it per week.

They are adamant that 1 collision-per-week is better than 3, no matter what percentage of the cyclists-using-that-pavement that is.

The collisions per cyclist/mile statistic is what those activists don't understand/accept, and it they make it more-dangerous for us all, unfortunately.

Anyways, I hope the best-for-the-place solution is chosen, and the lives there benefit from the wonderful health available through cycling!

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IF corporate-profits are soaring as a result of jacking margins, & therefore prices, THEN all other factors are machiavellian misdirection.

Always look at the bottom-line, to understand what's going-on with for-profit psychopaths

( for-profit-corporations are psychopaths, as are the "charities" which really exist for the wallowing-wealth of the executives/administrators, in the "poverty industry". IF a person says they're running west, but you discover they're actually moving east, then their claim is false as the evidence declares. ).

Then, once you've seen the bottom-line, and how it contradicts the false-speech, then begin looking at where the money's going...

For anybody looking into accounting, please get the "Financial Shenanigans" book, current edition, as it'll help break the disinformation that criminals put into financial-statements.

It is beyond me, but I don't need to understand accounting, yet.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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WHEN a project-cost increases TO A FACTOR-OF-5-TIMES the budgeted cost,

THEN criminal-convictions should be happening.

Just as normal commercial-contracts have a "kill this contract" point, for noncompliance, so too must public-taxpayer-payed projects, at 1.4x or 2x hard-max.

Extortion isn't acceptable, "just because it is government".

Take that extra-billion out of elected-authorities' pensions & pay!

Make the ones who mismanage pay.

Accountability, right?

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