I am having a terrible time on today's blog. Twice I have erased all I had written. And I don't even know how it happened. I also lost a very lengthy piece I had written about the greatest danger we face - the crushing of democracy by big business such as oil. These are the new aristocracy - a privileged and monstrously greedy group whose only purpose - like the old aristocracy - is wealth and power.
It's a pattern that has run throughout recorded history - a group whose only concern is itself, it's sense of privilege and superiority, and it's contempt for all the rest of humanity.
The U.S. is now governed entirely by that group with the result that American poverty, now at 40% and rising is the highest in the developed world. And basic services - like education and health - are being destroyed. Canada, alas, is run by much the same breed.
Alas - it also happens on the day when I have to go the shore for my annual family reunion. So today's may be a short blog. (I wrote the part about our new aristocracy last night, and got up early to add the part that, with the part about our news aristocracy, was meant to be today's blog. - Yes. I am crying.)
So today's blog may be short.
Damn!
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/07/khan-al-ahmar-west-bank-bedouin-village-facing-destruction
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/canada-heatwave-montreal-deaths
The death count for Quebec is actually 52. And this heat wave is happening all over the U.S. and around much of the world. But, hey! Not to worry. If this were any sort of danger our church-going oil bosses would certainly deal with it. Yes. Trust our new aristocracy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/06/britain-heatwave-worse-to-come-water-climate-chan
Wow! If we didn't have the leadership of our oil bosses and of the politicians in the Conservative and Liberal parties that they own, I'd be worried.
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http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/what-misogyny-looks-when-you-wear-hijab
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http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/trumps-family-separation-policy-inflicts-pain-and-fuels-hate
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The Israeli lobby is a very, very powerful force in Canadian and American politics. Though Jews in North America are becoming increasingly critical of Israel, the Israeli lobby makes sure we hear nothing about it.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/trudeau-hesitates-funding-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals
And if Palestinians have to die for lack of hospital facilities - though luck.
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Despite the promise, Latin American children are being held apart from their parents and in prison condition - and this will go on for a long time. This is what is called, among other things, racism. Hitler would have understood it perfectly.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/07/trauma-continues-for-immigrant-children-in-us-detention/
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/07/mediterranean-sea-the-largest-graveyard-in-modern-history/
Well, it's their own fault. If they'd had the wit to be born western billionaires, the seas would be covered in yachts to save them.
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/26/incompatibility-of-capitalism-and-life/
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The U.S. puts trade bans on countries like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela - and country that displeases American capitalists. The purpose is to impoverish them. It's also illegal - just like all the wars the U.S. fights. How do American governments justify this illegal behaviour? By the deep-rooted belief that America has the right to rule the world, the only nation in the world to have that right. This goes way back to a concept of America as God's favourite nation with a right to rule the world. It's called Manifest Destiny - and it's the justification for constant wars since 1945. Warning to Canadians - Canada is a part of America's Manifest Destiny.
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/07/06/iran-wants-world-powers-to-fully-compensate-them-for-us-sanctions/
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Russia is setting the terms for peace in Syria! This is one tremendous blow at American influence in the Middle East.
http://theantimedia.com/syrian-rebels-deal-russia/
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https://medium.com/@inkind/costa-rica-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-fossil-fuels-a180691daae4
Costa Rica is the first nation in the world to ban fossil fuels? That can't be. We all know America leads the world in everything.
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We are living through the age of the big grab.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/05/global-1-seize-economys-gains-unprecedented-wage-stagnation-everyone-else
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It's a time of manifest destiny for the greedy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/05/pruitt-gone-no-happy-ending-planet-coal-lobbyist-andrew-wheeler-takes-over-epa
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The American debt that will never be paid.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49782.htm
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-the-largest-cheap-labor-factory-in-the-world/5431349
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https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/04/america-celebrates-lateral-move-from-monarchy-to-corporate-rule/
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Capitalism moved into Congo about 150 years ago. Since then it has known nothing but mass murder, torture, starvation, slave labour, child labour, and utter indifference to human needs. It began as a Belgian horror which has since been joined by British, American and Canadian capitalists.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/06/congos-imposter-president-and-the-moral-depravity-of-the-west/
Think of that while you listen to the word of God (as explained by the most expensive clergy) at the irving chapel this Sunday.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/07/dupont-carneys-point-chambers-works-chemours/
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Sorry this has been such a hurried edition. In fact, I don't even have time to proof read it as my lift is here.
And I've just had a flash of thinking about Jesus as a member of the Trump cabinet or, in Canada, as a leader of the Conservatives or the Liberals. Yes, I can see it all now.......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/07/khan-al-ahmar-west-bank-bedouin-village-facing-destruction
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/canada-heatwave-montreal-deaths
The death count for Quebec is actually 52. And this heat wave is happening all over the U.S. and around much of the world. But, hey! Not to worry. If this were any sort of danger our church-going oil bosses would certainly deal with it. Yes. Trust our new aristocracy.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/06/britain-heatwave-worse-to-come-water-climate-chan
Wow! If we didn't have the leadership of our oil bosses and of the politicians in the Conservative and Liberal parties that they own, I'd be worried.
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/what-misogyny-looks-when-you-wear-hijab
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/trumps-family-separation-policy-inflicts-pain-and-fuels-hate
_______________________________________________________________
The Israeli lobby is a very, very powerful force in Canadian and American politics. Though Jews in North America are becoming increasingly critical of Israel, the Israeli lobby makes sure we hear nothing about it.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/trudeau-hesitates-funding-solar-panels-gaza-hospitals
And if Palestinians have to die for lack of hospital facilities - though luck.
________________________________________________________________
Despite the promise, Latin American children are being held apart from their parents and in prison condition - and this will go on for a long time. This is what is called, among other things, racism. Hitler would have understood it perfectly.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/07/trauma-continues-for-immigrant-children-in-us-detention/
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/07/mediterranean-sea-the-largest-graveyard-in-modern-history/
Well, it's their own fault. If they'd had the wit to be born western billionaires, the seas would be covered in yachts to save them.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/26/incompatibility-of-capitalism-and-life/
_________________________________________________________________
The U.S. puts trade bans on countries like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela - and country that displeases American capitalists. The purpose is to impoverish them. It's also illegal - just like all the wars the U.S. fights. How do American governments justify this illegal behaviour? By the deep-rooted belief that America has the right to rule the world, the only nation in the world to have that right. This goes way back to a concept of America as God's favourite nation with a right to rule the world. It's called Manifest Destiny - and it's the justification for constant wars since 1945. Warning to Canadians - Canada is a part of America's Manifest Destiny.
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/07/06/iran-wants-world-powers-to-fully-compensate-them-for-us-sanctions/
___________________________________________________________
Russia is setting the terms for peace in Syria! This is one tremendous blow at American influence in the Middle East.
http://theantimedia.com/syrian-rebels-deal-russia/
_______________________________________________________________
https://medium.com/@inkind/costa-rica-becomes-the-first-nation-to-ban-fossil-fuels-a180691daae4
Costa Rica is the first nation in the world to ban fossil fuels? That can't be. We all know America leads the world in everything.
_________________________________________________________________
We are living through the age of the big grab.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/05/global-1-seize-economys-gains-unprecedented-wage-stagnation-everyone-else
____________________________________________________________
It's a time of manifest destiny for the greedy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/05/pruitt-gone-no-happy-ending-planet-coal-lobbyist-andrew-wheeler-takes-over-epa
________________________________________________________________
The American debt that will never be paid.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49782.htm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-the-largest-cheap-labor-factory-in-the-world/5431349
____________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/04/america-celebrates-lateral-move-from-monarchy-to-corporate-rule/
______________________________________________________________
Capitalism moved into Congo about 150 years ago. Since then it has known nothing but mass murder, torture, starvation, slave labour, child labour, and utter indifference to human needs. It began as a Belgian horror which has since been joined by British, American and Canadian capitalists.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/06/congos-imposter-president-and-the-moral-depravity-of-the-west/
Think of that while you listen to the word of God (as explained by the most expensive clergy) at the irving chapel this Sunday.
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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/07/dupont-carneys-point-chambers-works-chemours/
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Sorry this has been such a hurried edition. In fact, I don't even have time to proof read it as my lift is here.
And I've just had a flash of thinking about Jesus as a member of the Trump cabinet or, in Canada, as a leader of the Conservatives or the Liberals. Yes, I can see it all now.......
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