https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/canada-usmca-1.4845494
Trudeau and Freeland have to smile at the U.S. free trade deal. To be honest and admit that they were bullied into it would cost the Liberals the next election.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitimat-lng-canada-1.4845831
Brilliant. Just what we need, more greenhouse gasses. And our taxes will be subsidizing this.
_____________________________________________________________
This hasn't made most of our news media.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/02/trump-administration-planet-boil-refugee-camps
_______________________________________________________________
Israel will soon demolish another Palestinian village. (But the story will never make New Brunswick's irving press.)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/30/could-this-be-the-last-day-of-school-west-bank-khan-al-ahmar
_______________________________________________________________
And in a related story....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/29/two-children-among-seven-people-shot-dead-by-israel-say-officials
________________________________________________________________
When Trudeau and Trump are seated together - and smiling - beware. Somebody just got shafted.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/10/canada-capitulates-trump-trade-renegotiated-nafta
______________________________________________________________
What is now called Canada had slaves. New France had aboriginal slaves - though this didn't work well since it was too easy for them to escape into the wilderness. So it also had Black slaves. Funny how few history books mention that. At a former convent in Montreal that overlooks a busy intersection, there is a statue in remembrance of a Black woman, a slave in New France, who was torn apart by horses.
Black slavery was common in Canada until just decades before the American civil war. And what continued was gross discrimination against Blacks. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were notorious for that. But the rest of Canada was no slacker.
Until very recently, Canadian Blacks were commonly forced to live in ghettos. They were denied all but the cheapest paying jobs. They could not even be clerks in stores. For the men, the major employer was the railway system at low, low pay. Canadian universities commonly would not accept them either as students or faculty. Churches were often segregated. I was advisor to a Canadian Film Board production - Show Girls. It was about Black women of the 1940s and 50s who worked as singers and dancers in night clubs because there was no other work for them. (On Sundays, they sang in the choir of Montreal's Black church.)
Black men were not permitted to serve on most Canadian police forces.
Famously, and well into the 1960s and later, Black men could not get haircuts in White barbershops. The is famously told in a poem about Fredericton, New Brunswick - 'Oh city so white you will not cut a Black man's hair...."
And, though things have improved, there is lots of bigotry that remains.
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2018/10/histories-anti-blackness-canada-and-todays-social
______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/pharmaceuticals-drugs-taxes-healthcare/
Well, why not? The very rich, in general, don't pay taxes anywhere in the western world. Indeed, they constantly have their hands out to governments for more free money. That's why we have increasing poverty of the many accompanied by increasing wealth for the few. That's why Canadians will pick up part of the tab for a hugely expensive liquid gas operation in B.C.
And that's a system that is going to crash. Don't worry, though.
The very rich have their money safely hidden in special banks. They'll do just fine, just as they did fine in the last, great depression. I saw that as a child. And I have never forgotten the humiliation of being poor. Neither will you....
____________________________________________________________
....largely ignored in the irving press....
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/02/everyone-washes-their-hands-as-gazas-economy-goes-into-freefall/
___________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/02/the-biggest-prison-on-earth-a-history-of-the-occupied-territories/
____________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/02/regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/01/battle-for-the-ages-priciest-us-weapon-the-f-35-just-attacked-one-of-worlds-most-primitive-fighters-the-taliban/
The US, led by its capitalists, has locked itself into an economy of throwing money at very expensive (and often unnecessary) weapons. That's why Americans can't have medicare or decent salaries for teachers or free universities....
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-military-industrial-complexs-worst-nightmare-the-deployment-of-russias-s-300-air-defense-system-in-syria-may-destroy-and-expose-the-f-35/5655682
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50349.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50355.htm
____________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181002-report-israel-killed-26-palestinians-wounded-2300-in-september/
____________________________________________________________
https://www.mintpressnews.com/global-de-dollarization-spells-jolts-and-crises-for-us-economy/250111/
But don't worry. I'm sure all our wealthy masters have long since converted most of their money to gold and other safe investments.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
________________________________________________________
As the U.S. and parts of Canada dry up due to climate change and commercial purposes thrust on the Great Lakes, we could soon be facing tremendous pressure to dry up the Great Lakes.
https://truthout.org/articles/can-the-great-lakes-continue-to-fend-off-an-increasingly-thirsty-world/https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
_____________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/01/video-a-short-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections/
______________________________________________________________
Then there's New Brunswick and, for our sins, the Brunswick News which is all the daily papers of New Brunswick, all owned by one man. And the big stories of Canada and the whole world are????
Okinawa has had a gubernatorial election won by man who is opposed to having a U.S. military base there. There's also a big story about changing place names in a local county. And one about hunters bagging a really big moose.
Everything YOU need to know.
Important local news? "Man injured by cow." In other local news YOU need to know, a couple got married in a bowling alley, and an man in jail for a shooting was denied parole. Wow! Hold me back.
Oh, Chris Morris, who now seems to be the analyst on politics, has a large column on the election saying nothing that everybody didn't already know. And that's putting it kindly. And, course, she made a reference to the provincial deficit, again without mentioning that we have a deficit because the wealthy of this province don't pay taxes - and because we are always shovelling more of our tax money into the pockets of the very rich - who must by now be bloated.
Chris Morris was, briefly, visiting chair of journalism at a local university. These positions are usually paid for by outside money. I wonder who paid for this one.
The people of this province don't have a clue what's going on in the world - or even on their own doorsteps. This is a newspaper designed, quite deliberately, to keep them in ignorance.
She mentions the possibility of one of the two (or both) smaller parties creating a government to join either the Liberals or the Conservatives. Come off it!
One of those parties, the People's Alliance, had, as a major stance, campaigned on eliminating French as an official language, though it is the language of a very large part of the population.
I have seen this process up close in Quebec. It is highly destructive of communities, of families, of lives. It is emotionally shattering. And, let's call it what it is. It is racist. As well, the party has no other planks that anybody could call intelligent. Any Liberal or Conservative who would court its support is beneath contempt.
So it's quite possible that both of them will court its support.
And the Greens party? I don't see how the Greens could possibly support such an environmentally destructive (and brainless) party as the Conservatives. If they did, I would lump them with the People's Alliance.
The Greens and the Liberals? Maybe. If they got some real guarantees from the Liberals. But even that wouldn't help because the Liberals - with either the Greens or the People's Alliance would still be a minority government.
This province has a powerful class of the greedy wealthy, and it is served by a wretched press. It needs an NDP and a Greens with a much broader and stronger view than they now have. And it needs to spend far, far more time arousing the people of this province.
It also needs real newspapers.
Trudeau and Freeland have to smile at the U.S. free trade deal. To be honest and admit that they were bullied into it would cost the Liberals the next election.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitimat-lng-canada-1.4845831
Brilliant. Just what we need, more greenhouse gasses. And our taxes will be subsidizing this.
_____________________________________________________________
This hasn't made most of our news media.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/02/trump-administration-planet-boil-refugee-camps
_______________________________________________________________
Israel will soon demolish another Palestinian village. (But the story will never make New Brunswick's irving press.)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/sep/30/could-this-be-the-last-day-of-school-west-bank-khan-al-ahmar
_______________________________________________________________
And in a related story....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/29/two-children-among-seven-people-shot-dead-by-israel-say-officials
________________________________________________________________
When Trudeau and Trump are seated together - and smiling - beware. Somebody just got shafted.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/10/canada-capitulates-trump-trade-renegotiated-nafta
______________________________________________________________
What is now called Canada had slaves. New France had aboriginal slaves - though this didn't work well since it was too easy for them to escape into the wilderness. So it also had Black slaves. Funny how few history books mention that. At a former convent in Montreal that overlooks a busy intersection, there is a statue in remembrance of a Black woman, a slave in New France, who was torn apart by horses.
Black slavery was common in Canada until just decades before the American civil war. And what continued was gross discrimination against Blacks. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were notorious for that. But the rest of Canada was no slacker.
Until very recently, Canadian Blacks were commonly forced to live in ghettos. They were denied all but the cheapest paying jobs. They could not even be clerks in stores. For the men, the major employer was the railway system at low, low pay. Canadian universities commonly would not accept them either as students or faculty. Churches were often segregated. I was advisor to a Canadian Film Board production - Show Girls. It was about Black women of the 1940s and 50s who worked as singers and dancers in night clubs because there was no other work for them. (On Sundays, they sang in the choir of Montreal's Black church.)
Black men were not permitted to serve on most Canadian police forces.
Famously, and well into the 1960s and later, Black men could not get haircuts in White barbershops. The is famously told in a poem about Fredericton, New Brunswick - 'Oh city so white you will not cut a Black man's hair...."
And, though things have improved, there is lots of bigotry that remains.
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2018/10/histories-anti-blackness-canada-and-todays-social
______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/pharmaceuticals-drugs-taxes-healthcare/
Well, why not? The very rich, in general, don't pay taxes anywhere in the western world. Indeed, they constantly have their hands out to governments for more free money. That's why we have increasing poverty of the many accompanied by increasing wealth for the few. That's why Canadians will pick up part of the tab for a hugely expensive liquid gas operation in B.C.
And that's a system that is going to crash. Don't worry, though.
The very rich have their money safely hidden in special banks. They'll do just fine, just as they did fine in the last, great depression. I saw that as a child. And I have never forgotten the humiliation of being poor. Neither will you....
____________________________________________________________
....largely ignored in the irving press....
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/02/everyone-washes-their-hands-as-gazas-economy-goes-into-freefall/
___________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/02/the-biggest-prison-on-earth-a-history-of-the-occupied-territories/
____________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/02/regime-change-2-0-is-venezuela-next/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/01/battle-for-the-ages-priciest-us-weapon-the-f-35-just-attacked-one-of-worlds-most-primitive-fighters-the-taliban/
The US, led by its capitalists, has locked itself into an economy of throwing money at very expensive (and often unnecessary) weapons. That's why Americans can't have medicare or decent salaries for teachers or free universities....
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-military-industrial-complexs-worst-nightmare-the-deployment-of-russias-s-300-air-defense-system-in-syria-may-destroy-and-expose-the-f-35/5655682
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50349.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50355.htm
____________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181002-report-israel-killed-26-palestinians-wounded-2300-in-september/
____________________________________________________________
https://www.mintpressnews.com/global-de-dollarization-spells-jolts-and-crises-for-us-economy/250111/
But don't worry. I'm sure all our wealthy masters have long since converted most of their money to gold and other safe investments.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
________________________________________________________
As the U.S. and parts of Canada dry up due to climate change and commercial purposes thrust on the Great Lakes, we could soon be facing tremendous pressure to dry up the Great Lakes.
https://truthout.org/articles/can-the-great-lakes-continue-to-fend-off-an-increasingly-thirsty-world/https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
_____________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/01/video-a-short-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections/
______________________________________________________________
Then there's New Brunswick and, for our sins, the Brunswick News which is all the daily papers of New Brunswick, all owned by one man. And the big stories of Canada and the whole world are????
Okinawa has had a gubernatorial election won by man who is opposed to having a U.S. military base there. There's also a big story about changing place names in a local county. And one about hunters bagging a really big moose.
Everything YOU need to know.
Important local news? "Man injured by cow." In other local news YOU need to know, a couple got married in a bowling alley, and an man in jail for a shooting was denied parole. Wow! Hold me back.
Oh, Chris Morris, who now seems to be the analyst on politics, has a large column on the election saying nothing that everybody didn't already know. And that's putting it kindly. And, course, she made a reference to the provincial deficit, again without mentioning that we have a deficit because the wealthy of this province don't pay taxes - and because we are always shovelling more of our tax money into the pockets of the very rich - who must by now be bloated.
Chris Morris was, briefly, visiting chair of journalism at a local university. These positions are usually paid for by outside money. I wonder who paid for this one.
The people of this province don't have a clue what's going on in the world - or even on their own doorsteps. This is a newspaper designed, quite deliberately, to keep them in ignorance.
She mentions the possibility of one of the two (or both) smaller parties creating a government to join either the Liberals or the Conservatives. Come off it!
One of those parties, the People's Alliance, had, as a major stance, campaigned on eliminating French as an official language, though it is the language of a very large part of the population.
I have seen this process up close in Quebec. It is highly destructive of communities, of families, of lives. It is emotionally shattering. And, let's call it what it is. It is racist. As well, the party has no other planks that anybody could call intelligent. Any Liberal or Conservative who would court its support is beneath contempt.
So it's quite possible that both of them will court its support.
And the Greens party? I don't see how the Greens could possibly support such an environmentally destructive (and brainless) party as the Conservatives. If they did, I would lump them with the People's Alliance.
The Greens and the Liberals? Maybe. If they got some real guarantees from the Liberals. But even that wouldn't help because the Liberals - with either the Greens or the People's Alliance would still be a minority government.
This province has a powerful class of the greedy wealthy, and it is served by a wretched press. It needs an NDP and a Greens with a much broader and stronger view than they now have. And it needs to spend far, far more time arousing the people of this province.
It also needs real newspapers.
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