A big story tells us that provincial health minister, Mr Boudreau has
revealed more on his health plan. Actually, he doesn't reveal
anything that we haven't already heard. And he offers no evidence
whatever that his plan will save money and make service more
efficient. This isn't a front page story. In fact, it isn't a story
at all.
There is an
important story on A4 in which doctors at the Dumont Hospital say
they have heard or seen nothing to suggest that government changes in
the health system are anything but destructive. (So I can understand
why this didn't make page 1.)
The reality is that
the people who own the government want to clock to be turned back to
1939 or earlier, the good, old days when when hospitals were
privately-run for profit. And those who couldn't afford it – tough
luck. (This could be New Brunswick's answer to the population boom of
post-world war two which is giving us a surplus of elderly people.)
Ace reporter Brent Mazerolle has another big story on A7. “Dog lost
after car crash reunited with family.” The news YOU need to know.
And it even has a big photo of a dog so we'll know what a dog looks
like.
The editorial takes
on a burning question of the day. Should there be just one zoo for
the whole, maritime region? It's probably a good idea. It's not one
of the burning questions of the day. But it's a bold stride for an
editorial writer who has never before acknowledged there is a world
outside New Brunswick. It must be tough to write an editorial every
day when you have nothing to talk about – and are scared so say
anything that might annoy the boss.
Good column by
Norbert on the need for better gun control in New Brunswick. There
are guns for sale in this city that are designed only for mass
murder. I could wish Norbert had thought of this column way back when
three police in this city were killed by such a gun. (And I have seen
full page ads for such guns in the Irving press.)
Cole Hobson's
commentary is a useful one on a scam that's going around. But it's
not a commentary. It's a news story – and, as a news story, it
could have been told in a few paragraphs. Really, somebody should
explain to the editors of this paper what a commentary is.
Murphy's Law is,
like the sermonettes on the faith page, designed to show Mr. Murphy
as everybody's friend, and to say nothing that would offend man or
beast. Today, I t tells us we should always be kind to people, say
'hello', and never hog the shared armrest on an airplane. Oh, this
would be a better world if people didn't hog armrests.
Alec Bruce is
doubtful about the new, Liberal budget. I quite agree. But it's all
that can be done in an economic system controlled by the very rich,
and a society that let's the very rich get away with it. Alec Bruce
does not examine the alternatives. Of course not. Mr. Irving wouldn't
like that.
Canada and world?
Sigh.
A big story is that
the New Brunswick Liberals dishonestly inflated the deficit so they
could justify increasing taxes. This comes from a Conservative party
which has been a partner in running up deficits to satisfy the rich
and other friends of two, thoroughly corrupt and lying political
parties.
The one story worth
reading is on A7 “Drug exec takes the Fifth on Capitol Hill, angers
lawmakers”.
The drug industry is one of this world's most corrupt and greedy
industries. And big business in general is a tough category in which
to earn the title of “most corrupt and greedy”. I have a further
story on this case further down.
Here is the further
story on the Shkreli case. You will also see below the story, as well
as other leads that relate to fraud charges against him. His case is
not unusual in the pharmaceutical business. In the U.S., such
companies get huge contracts from the American government to supply
aid to countries struck by disaster. They ship it by the ton. And
they charge full price that each box or bottle would be in an
American pharmacy.
Sometimes, it's
possible to disagree with an editorial in The Guardian. Currently, it
is running an editorial saying that Julian Assange, the man who
released the Wikkileaks papers, should surrender himself to British
police, and be turned over to the Swedish justice system. I thought
the editorial pompous, arrogant – and lying. See what you think.
For openers, the
question of rape has nothing to do with it. The instant Assange steps
out of the Ecuador embassy in London, he will be arrested by British
police, and delivered to Sweden to answer to a charge of rape. But
there will never be a Swedish trial. That's because an American jet
is waiting in Sweden to take him to the US to be charged with
Wikkileaks. (If you look at the right side of the editorial, you will
see a list of stories. One of them is the story about the American
jet.) The U.S. government wants him – but not for rape.
Though, in
Wikkileaks, Assange revealed the names of leading American figures in
mass torture, mass murder, illegal wars and many, many other abuses,
not a single person has ever been charged. And not one ever will be.
For that matter, Obama and Bush and Tony Blair have all been guilty
of mass murder and mass torture. But I don't see any of them facing
charges (Canadians were involved, too. And not one of them has been
charged – including Stephen Harper.) But a young woman who helped
in releasing Wikkileaks is now serving some 40 years in prison. Clap
hands for her, Mr. Editor.
Assange, says the
editorial, has broken the law. And, if he truly believes the law
should be upheld, writes the editor, then he should surrender to it.
Damn right, Mr. Editor. And the people who disobeyed Joseph Stalin
should have surrendered themselves to him to face his courts. And all
of those Jews who illegally fled Germany to face Hitler's laws should
have been jailed. And all those middle easterners who are illegally
landing their sinking boats on European shores should be towed back
out to sea. (Actually this is already happening.)
This would also mean
a historical re-evaluation of law-breakers like George Washington and
Benjamin Franklin – not to mention the men who forced poor King
John to sign Magna Carta.
I thought this was a
remarkably arrogant, self-righteous and illogical editorial. For a
minute, I thought I was reading the Irving press.
Well, anyway, what
does a UN court know about the law? It's just a bunch of ignorant
foreigners.
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And here's an
important notice for all New Brunswickers. (It might not make the
Irving press.)
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MEDIA
ADVISORY
Wolastoq
Grand Council will release Statement on Non-Ceded Territory
and Statement on Energy East Pipeline
Press
Conference – Crown Plaza Fredericton Monday, February 8,
2016 at 10:30am
Grand
Chief Ron Tremblay, Clanmothers, and other members of the
Wolastoq Grand Council will issue a statement to confirm
their responsibility to protect their non-ceded homeland.
The Wolastoq Grand Council will also issue a statement on
their position on the Energy East pipeline.
We
invite you to our press conference on Monday, February 8th at
10:30am at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Fredericton.
MEDIA
CONTACT:
Ron
Tremblay, Wolastoq Grand Chief
Fredericton
New Brunswick
Phone:
506-455-1577
E-mail:
ron.tremblay2@ |
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The following post
was sent to me by a reader.
Last night, Bernie
Sanders hurt Hilary Clinton's feelings by suggesting she had close
contact with Goldman Sachs, the company most responsible for the
economic meltdown created by the bailing out of crooked companies.
Bernie's quite right. Hillary is, speaking metaphorically, very much
in bed with Goldman Sachs.
American politics, business, and even the courts have reached
stunning levels of corruption. And this, says the editor of The
Guardian, is the kind of law Julian Assange should obey.
We are in very big
trouble. We usually have been in trouble throughout history – but
this phase is worse.
This phase began
with a document prepared in the 1990s by the most right wing – no-
that's not fair – they aren't really right wing – they are, like
Jeb Bush, just people of immense greed and indifferent to the needs
of anybody but themselves, and they have nothing but utter contempt
for anybody who isn't rich. I once met a young woman of that type.
She's now Senator Frum. Her brother has been a speech writer for
George Bush and others of his type.
The document was
'Project for the New American Century'. It is a blueprint for the
economic conquest of the world by American big business. That led
directly to the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – and the
support for an army of terrorists and hired killers whom it pleased
the American press to call 'rebels' against the Syrian government.
The failure of the 'rebels' is why the U.S. and Saudi Arabia
encouraged ISIS in its attack on Syria. And that explains why the
U.S. allowed ISIS to finance its invasion of Syria by stealing oil,
and selling it through Turkey. And that's why Canadians have bombed
Syrians, but have never attempted to bomb those oil convoys.
That madness for
money and power is what has driven Arabic people out of their
homelands to risk their lives in reaching Europe.
Europe cannot handle
this influx of refugees. That's why we are watching the beginnings of
the political breakdown of Europe, and also a renewed rise of
Naziism.
The U.S. is an
imperialist nation. It has been imperialist since its earliest days.
But it has become worse, much worse, over the past 15 years. The
invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and now Syria were based on
lies. And U.S. foreign policy under both Bush and Obama has been
hopelessly ineffective and well as murderous. (Yes, Obama is every
bit the miserable wretch that Bush was.)
So far, this phase
has killed at least three million – but the real number will never
be known. It has destabilized the whole world, and has created such
hatred of the U.S. that the hatred has opened doors for ISIS, the
Taliban, al Quaeda and others on at least two continents. It has also
created the millions of refugees that no country or combination of
countries can or will even consider helping.
A corrupt government
and a corrupt war industry have stolen so much money that the U.S.
can no longer afford to feed its own people.
And lying news media
have convinced the American people that THEY are the victims. (In a
way, they are. But they aren't victims of Muslims. They're victims of
very wealthy Americans who have whipped them into a frenzy that
resembles insanity.)
That's why Americans
have so unquestioningly accepted the destruction of their freedom,
and have accepted the police state while still believing they are a
democracy.
It's all quite
insane.
And that insanity
explains the low quality of the people running for leadership in the
U.S., and the low quality of their debates.
The world must have
been like this when a man called Moses heard a voice that told him to
build an ark.
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