Clip from BBC news report

A number of Western and Latin American countries, as well as international bodies including the UN, have called on the Venezuelan authorities to release voting records from individual polling stations.

Argentina is one country which has refused to recognise President Maduro's election victory, and in response Venezuela recalled diplomats from Buenos Aires.

Diplomats from six other Latin American countries - Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay - have also been withdrawn for what Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil described on social media as "interventionist actions and statements".

Meanwhile, US senior administration officials said that the announced result “does not track with data that we've received through quick count mechanisms and other sources, which suggests that the result that was announced may be at odds with how people voted”.

That was “the principal source of our concern”, they added.

“That is why we are asking the Venezuelan electoral authorities to release the underlying data that supports the numbers that they have publicly announced.”

However, the US has not yet been drawn on what the result means for their sanctions policy towards Venezuela. Officials have emphasised that while they have doubts about the result, President Maduro did call an election and allow an opposition candidate to be on the ballot paper - even if the opposition leader was banned from running.

The Organization of American States (OAS) announced late on Monday it will hold a meeting on Wednesday of its permanent council over the Venezuelan results.

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Does Nostr need to upgrade it's thought leadership?

I stumbled across Nostr 9 months ago and would describe myself as interested user. It has been facinating to listen to the original protocol & app builders and Nostr advocates and the experience has encouraged me, together with other reasons, to engage in social media for the first time and for this I acknowledge a debt to developers and entrepreneurs who have made this possible.

However, one aspect of the conversations I've followed has always struck a disonant chord, and it's the phrase 'we are winning'. Winning against who? Is this a zero sum game? And aside from the male orientation of the term, will the idea of winning as a motivating force carry any meaning in the long term, where deeper sources of energy will need to be found. Sources which include a feminine aspect.

I can accept the phrase as a motivating rallying cry in the first stage of attempting to build a new protocol, but now that has been achieved should 'surviving' be the next focus and is it possible to envisage a future of surviving without winning?

Is it worth remembering that revolutions tend to mimic the very things they overthrew before becoming even worse. So is Nostr about revolution or about building a protocol to survive a hundred years? The later takes a very different road to the former, not seeking glory or fame, not seeking to overthrow, but building from the ground up and slowly making a difference in a way which will allow users will experience something more than simply replicating their experience on other apps.

Stay humble and build slowly.

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This is how bbc in UK is reporting your election result. The article suggests a widespread concensus that your election was not an accurate result.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz5rj2mzgevo

Stay safe.

It is not cool to have other people simping to you. This is when you start to lose.

Chase these people at your peril. The Russell Brands of this world are about themselves, they serve only themselves. You, and Nostr, do not need them.

A sheep with attitude?

Regardless. Don't be a sheep.

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Modern Pentathlon is fun.

I should qualify that the rock itself is 430 million years old, but has only been living here for 12,000 years.

12,000 year old erratic

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Confiscation is already well underway via financial repression. This step is simply a further tightening of screw.

History tells us they, our respective Governments, will succeed in this endeavour.

Our task is to navigate through storm clinging to whatever we can find that floats.

You have had the benefit of being able to use a car for whatever purpose for six years.

Still water

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This made the UK news today but people are mostly oblivious or in denial as to the consequences of the worldly matters outside of sport, celebrity gossip, fashion and generally getting by. No one is prepared for change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c035d05je2jo

UK & Europe too. Stay small.

Thank you for npub.pro

The following passage is taken from Jung’s commentary in ‘The Trickster, A Study in American Indian Mythology’ by Paul Radin, first published in 1954. The passage is located at the mid-point of the

commentary and in it Jung connects, for the first time, the myth of the trickster to his theoretical concept of the shadow.

Reproduced in C.G. Jung’s, ‘On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure’, in Collected Works, volume 9i, para. 469.

‘Now if the myth were nothing but a historical remnant, one would have to ask why it has not long since vanished into the great rubbish-heap of the past, and why it continues to make its influence felt on the highest level of civilization, even where, on account of its stupidity and grotesque scurrility, the trickster no longer plays the role of the “delight-maker.” In many cultures his figure seems like an old river-bed in which the water still flows. One can see this best of all from the fact that the trickster motif does not crop up only in its mythical form but appears just as naıvely and authentically in the unsuspecting modern man—whenever, in fact, he feels himself at the mercy of annoying “accidents” which thwart his will and his actions with apparently malicious intent. He then speaks of “hoodoos” and “jinxes” or of the “mischievousness of the object.” Here the trickster is represented by counter- tendencies in the unconscious, and in certain cases by a sort of second personality, of a puerile and inferior character, not unlike the personalities who announce themselves at spiritualistic s´eances and cause all those ineffably childish phenomena so typical of poltergeists. I have, I think, found a suitable designation for this character-component when I called it the shadow. On the civilized level, it is regarded as a personal “gaffe,” “slip,” “faux pas,” etc., which are then chalked up as defects of the conscious personality. We are no longer aware that in carnival customs and the like there are remnants of a collective shadow figure which prove that the personal shadow is in part descended from a numinous collective figure. This collective figure gradually breaks up under the impact of civilization, leaving traces in folklore which are difficult to recognize. But the main part of him gets personalized and is made an object of personal responsibility.’

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Lancashire, Northern England. An area with a long mysterious past.

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Control of all money is the game and yes, they are the best at it.

Nostr is therefore potentially more important than bitcoin in the long term as a means of communication which cannot be controlled to the same extent as money.

Follow is lame for sure.

I would like clients to use a more assertive term.

Even 'add to feed'.