Nigel Protter 🇨🇦

Low carbon energy/construction techie making bets. Tech pubco director, low-cost efficient beautiful building designer/modeller/builder

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

I am a Zionist. Many people out there don’t seem to understand what a Zionist is - and what it isn’t - so here you go.

I believe in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel, in the land of Judea, where it currently is.

As a Zionist, I do not automatically agree with or support everything the country does, nor do I automatically agree with every government, every politician, every decision.

As a Zionist, I am free to criticize policies and governments of Israel, just the same as I am to criticize the Canadian government or the American government or any other government.

I can believe that the Israelis who spit on Christians should be charged, and I do.

I can believe that the violence in Judea and Samaria needs to be stopped, and I do.

I can believe that every single Israeli, regardless of religion, who commits rape, should be tried and should face the harshest punishments, and I do.

I can believe that every single war crime committed by an Israeli should be prosecuted, and I do.

I can believe that Israel should be held to the same standards of every other nation, and I do.

The only things I don’t do, because I’m a Zionist?

Call for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world.

Hold them to a far higher standard than everyone else, just because they’re Jewish.

Spread false propaganda about them, just because they’re Jewish.

Because even though you pretend that’s “antizionism”, it’s just masking your true motives.

Jew hatred.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 4, 1967

Israel stood completely alone — betrayed by its allies and facing annihilation.

France — Israel’s main arms supplier — imposed a total weapons embargo on Israel at the direct order of President Charles de Gaulle.

Already, every major Western power, including the United States, had Israel under a weapons embargo.

The Israeli Cabinet met in emergency session as massive Arab armies gathered on its borders. Egypt alone had nearly 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks in Sinai, with Jordan, Syria, and Iraq adding more forces. Arab leaders were openly calling for Israel’s destruction.

A cable from U.S. President Lyndon Johnson made the situation brutally clear:

“Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go it alone.”

Israel got the message.

With no strategic depth, vastly outnumbered, and abandoned by its supposed friends, the Cabinet voted 12–2 to launch a preemptive strike on the largest Arab military, Egypt (which had already committed an act of war by closing the Straits of Tiran). The war would begin the next morning.

The mood across Israel was somber and resolute. Parks were dug up for mass graves. Schools became bomb shelters. Teenagers filled sandbags. The entire nation understood it faced an existential threat — a potential second Holocaust.

Yet on June 5, Israel acted.

This was the moment a small, isolated nation chose survival over waiting for the mercy of others.

Never forget how alone Israel truly was on the eve of the Six Day War.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Draven1683 I fucking love Canada.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Tom Hess ⚡️ @TomHess_]

Bruce Power Unit 3 reconnected to the grid just after 1:00 EDT today following refurbishment, ready to operate for another 30-45 years.

Its first grid connection occurred in 1977.

#CANDU 🍁 #NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦

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@MykhailoRohoza This is the optimistic dreams account, nothing’s true, but we wish it were.

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@duncancampbell Your first-stage turbine, if you will.

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@duncancampbell Because the entire ocean surface area defines your Betz limit.

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@MykhailoRohoza Nobody’s forcing anybody, and the ostensible reasons are suspect.

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@prieurdp Well, police are taught to do it for the same reason everyone should.

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@LionsOfZion_ORG Alone (but always on my mind)

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@Mike_Eckel MOUs are typically fluff ‘n stuff

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@VancouverSun BC Hydro and the Province screwed with independent power procurement which would’ve been mostly funded by CDN pension/insurance funds, publicly overseen, met environmental and FN obligations, been price-regulated, a distributed gen model, and this debacle is the predicted result.

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@yohaniddawela That IS air conditioning.

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@JackWhitlock Moving too slow to matter at that point.

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@MykhailoRohoza @JohnCleese As much as we all want this, this sounds like BS.

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@CDNPolicyHawk Thank you for the review.

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@mzjacobson This is great but by no means is it the first. Many all electric planes are currently flying.

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@iamkennethchan @oldcanadaseries Go 🇨🇦

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@ChrisVanHollen How is it possible that students from the USA own homes in the West Bank? Obviously there’s more to the story.