https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/haiti-quebec-canada-stranded-1.5019136
Haiti, after years of American-approved dictators, established a democracy. But it didn't last long. The U.S. invaded, setting up a new dictatorship. (Canada, as usual, helped the U.S. along by sending 'peacekeepers' to make it all look respectable.)
American and Canadian capitalists see Latin America as simply a place of cheap, cheap labour, cheap resources, very limited education, and virtually no social services. And they intend to keep it that way.
Are power to delude ourselves surpasses understanding. The U.S. (sometimes with Canadian help) has murdered millions since 1950. It has specialized in killing civilians and children. We have specialized in some of the worst greed this world has known.
But we are good. And God is our commander-in-chief in all our murders.
Now, that Maduro ---he's just evil.
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http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/02/canada-talks-democracy-while-us-eyes-venezuelas-oil
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-hard-to-fathom-why-allies-support-u-s-on-venezuela
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/14/unhinged-mike-pence-warns-new-holocaust-team-trump-tries-rally-eu-leaders-war-iran
Wow! If Iran is a military threat to the world, what is the U.S. record?
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We are daily being robbed of huge sums by our very wealthy. Canada has lost uncountable billions, the U.S. perhaps as much as a trillion. In addition, we have to pay the immense
cost of fighting their wars. Why are our news media not telling us this?
And those same people find in a horrible cost to them to pay minimum wage of $15 or so an hour.
This is greed gone wild, and it's happening with the full cooperation of our governments. What nations of wimps we must be!
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/13/fix-system-let-trump-stop-paying-social-security-taxes-40-minutes-2016-sanders-says
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/14/thwarting-trumps-climate-change-denial/
And who are the climate change deniers? The most influential and important ones are the billionaire ownders of oil fields. Since climate change will kill them, too, what does this tell us about their intelligence?
The world has seen major wars constantly since 1950. Our side are heroes. The other side is invariably referred to as terrorists. What does this tell about our human thinking processes? More on this at the end of this post.
________________________________________________________________
Ontario's prime minister, Doug Ford, would make a great republican senator - and possible even a great U.S. president.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/13/news/public-outrage-growing-after-doug-fords-claims-he-can-stamp-out-crazy-marxist
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https://theantimedia.com/media-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt/
_________________________________________________________________
Remember - after decades of British dictatorship and plundering of its oil, Iran got rid of the British - and created a quite respectable democracy.
That democracy was overthrown by the U.S. and Britain in favour of a dictatorship. Eventually, the Iranians managed to get rid of the dictator and to attempt a democracy again. But, in American and British eyes, there is nothing worse than democracy.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-suffering-of-the-iranian-people-has-made-in-usa-stamped-on-it/
________________________________________________________________
In U.S. upper class circles, the purpose of medecine is to make the rich richer. In Mexico, the purpose of medecine is to heal. I don't think we begin to realize what a backward nation the U.S. is in ignoring the needs of its people.
https://truthout.org/audio/americans-cross-border-into-mexico-to-buy-insulin-at-a-fraction-of-us-cost/
_________________________________________________________________
Today's Ukraine is really a creation of the U.S. (Perhaps that explains why it supports such a large nazi movement. (And no, that's not calling it names. This is Nazi - including a worship of swastikas and of Hitler.)
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205172.html
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We human types have been around for a very long time - some for hundreds of thousands of years. The earliest ones looked more like apes than humans - but they were in our direct line of descent. And, perhaps 70,000 years ago, we evolved into a very human type called Neanderthal, a type that looked very much like us today.
Neanderthals, at their peak, numbered perhaps a million. They lived as hunters and gatherers, nothing more. There was nothing more they could do because neanderthals, much as they looked like us, lacked our intelligence.
Then, some tens of thousands of years later, we (homo sapiens) appeared. Seemingly, homo sapiens looked much like Neanderthals. But there was a big difference. Homo sapiens have a much more highly developed brain than anything that had ever lived before.
They had brains that could plan strategies. That made it possible for homo sapiens to wipe out all forms of previous human life - to steal their land, etc. Those brains also made it possible to develop agriculture and,relatively recently, industry ----and war.
But having the biggest brains of our time is not necessarily a good sign for the future. The future may very well be one that calls for even bigger brains than homo sapiens has ever developed.
For several centuries now, we have been creating a world of almost constant war. We have done so despite all the evidence that our power to control war has long since disappeared. Yet Donald Trump recently announced a return to preparing for a world nuclear war that would destroy all of us.
In world war 2, we thought we were preparing for a better world. In the song by Vera Lynn,
There'll be blue birds over
The white cliffs of dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow when the world is free.
In fact, war began again right after World War Two ended. And it began again in an even more dangerous form than ever before.
That's what made me think of the superior brains of homo sapiens. They have certainly given us enormmous powers to destroy, to plunder... But in ten thousand years, they have not seriously addressed poverty. In fact, we are major causes of poverty all over the world. We have not stopped killing. In fact, it has continued at full war levels.
Ihe passage of time has not made us smarter - but has infected some of us with a stunning arrogance. Some of us have an astonishing record of greed and plunder - how else can we describe policies that kill by starvation and murder all over the world? The rest of us actually pay for this with our taxes and with low salaries. The very wealthy get rich. And in getting rich put all of us into dreadful danger.
They also plunder much of the world - like Africa and Latin America - to enrich a wealthy leadership. And it's made worse by climate change crashing into refugees in much of the world.
And where will all this take us? Where it has already taken much of the world, including large parts of wealthy countries - into poverty and hunger. With a lack of brains, we are repeating the Homo sapiens slaughter of neanderthals; but doing it to ourselves.
The leaders in all of this are the super-wealthy who, despite their obvious intellecual and moral weaknesses, see themselves as leaders when they are really our symbols of intellectual decline and decay. The super-wealthy and their political hacks are taking us - and themselves - to destruction. Soon.
We got bigger brains from homo sapiens some tens of thousands of years ago. But they obviously are not yet big enough. (No intelligent population would vote for Liberals or Conservatives or Republicans or Democrats.
Our capitalists are not just evil. They are remarkably stupid - more along the lines of neanderthals. And our time is very, very short.
___________________________________________________________
Canada has a Donald Trump.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/16/news/scientist-who-resisted-censorship-climate-report-lost-her-job
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Haiti, after years of American-approved dictators, established a democracy. But it didn't last long. The U.S. invaded, setting up a new dictatorship. (Canada, as usual, helped the U.S. along by sending 'peacekeepers' to make it all look respectable.)
American and Canadian capitalists see Latin America as simply a place of cheap, cheap labour, cheap resources, very limited education, and virtually no social services. And they intend to keep it that way.
Are power to delude ourselves surpasses understanding. The U.S. (sometimes with Canadian help) has murdered millions since 1950. It has specialized in killing civilians and children. We have specialized in some of the worst greed this world has known.
But we are good. And God is our commander-in-chief in all our murders.
Now, that Maduro ---he's just evil.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/02/canada-talks-democracy-while-us-eyes-venezuelas-oil
______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-hard-to-fathom-why-allies-support-u-s-on-venezuela
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/14/unhinged-mike-pence-warns-new-holocaust-team-trump-tries-rally-eu-leaders-war-iran
Wow! If Iran is a military threat to the world, what is the U.S. record?
________________________________________________________________
We are daily being robbed of huge sums by our very wealthy. Canada has lost uncountable billions, the U.S. perhaps as much as a trillion. In addition, we have to pay the immense
cost of fighting their wars. Why are our news media not telling us this?
And those same people find in a horrible cost to them to pay minimum wage of $15 or so an hour.
This is greed gone wild, and it's happening with the full cooperation of our governments. What nations of wimps we must be!
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/13/fix-system-let-trump-stop-paying-social-security-taxes-40-minutes-2016-sanders-says
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/14/thwarting-trumps-climate-change-denial/
And who are the climate change deniers? The most influential and important ones are the billionaire ownders of oil fields. Since climate change will kill them, too, what does this tell us about their intelligence?
The world has seen major wars constantly since 1950. Our side are heroes. The other side is invariably referred to as terrorists. What does this tell about our human thinking processes? More on this at the end of this post.
________________________________________________________________
Ontario's prime minister, Doug Ford, would make a great republican senator - and possible even a great U.S. president.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/13/news/public-outrage-growing-after-doug-fords-claims-he-can-stamp-out-crazy-marxist
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://theantimedia.com/media-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt/
_________________________________________________________________
Remember - after decades of British dictatorship and plundering of its oil, Iran got rid of the British - and created a quite respectable democracy.
That democracy was overthrown by the U.S. and Britain in favour of a dictatorship. Eventually, the Iranians managed to get rid of the dictator and to attempt a democracy again. But, in American and British eyes, there is nothing worse than democracy.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-suffering-of-the-iranian-people-has-made-in-usa-stamped-on-it/
________________________________________________________________
In U.S. upper class circles, the purpose of medecine is to make the rich richer. In Mexico, the purpose of medecine is to heal. I don't think we begin to realize what a backward nation the U.S. is in ignoring the needs of its people.
https://truthout.org/audio/americans-cross-border-into-mexico-to-buy-insulin-at-a-fraction-of-us-cost/
_________________________________________________________________
Today's Ukraine is really a creation of the U.S. (Perhaps that explains why it supports such a large nazi movement. (And no, that's not calling it names. This is Nazi - including a worship of swastikas and of Hitler.)
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205172.html
_______________________________________________________________
We human types have been around for a very long time - some for hundreds of thousands of years. The earliest ones looked more like apes than humans - but they were in our direct line of descent. And, perhaps 70,000 years ago, we evolved into a very human type called Neanderthal, a type that looked very much like us today.
Neanderthals, at their peak, numbered perhaps a million. They lived as hunters and gatherers, nothing more. There was nothing more they could do because neanderthals, much as they looked like us, lacked our intelligence.
Then, some tens of thousands of years later, we (homo sapiens) appeared. Seemingly, homo sapiens looked much like Neanderthals. But there was a big difference. Homo sapiens have a much more highly developed brain than anything that had ever lived before.
They had brains that could plan strategies. That made it possible for homo sapiens to wipe out all forms of previous human life - to steal their land, etc. Those brains also made it possible to develop agriculture and,relatively recently, industry ----and war.
But having the biggest brains of our time is not necessarily a good sign for the future. The future may very well be one that calls for even bigger brains than homo sapiens has ever developed.
For several centuries now, we have been creating a world of almost constant war. We have done so despite all the evidence that our power to control war has long since disappeared. Yet Donald Trump recently announced a return to preparing for a world nuclear war that would destroy all of us.
In world war 2, we thought we were preparing for a better world. In the song by Vera Lynn,
There'll be blue birds over
The white cliffs of dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow when the world is free.
In fact, war began again right after World War Two ended. And it began again in an even more dangerous form than ever before.
That's what made me think of the superior brains of homo sapiens. They have certainly given us enormmous powers to destroy, to plunder... But in ten thousand years, they have not seriously addressed poverty. In fact, we are major causes of poverty all over the world. We have not stopped killing. In fact, it has continued at full war levels.
Ihe passage of time has not made us smarter - but has infected some of us with a stunning arrogance. Some of us have an astonishing record of greed and plunder - how else can we describe policies that kill by starvation and murder all over the world? The rest of us actually pay for this with our taxes and with low salaries. The very wealthy get rich. And in getting rich put all of us into dreadful danger.
They also plunder much of the world - like Africa and Latin America - to enrich a wealthy leadership. And it's made worse by climate change crashing into refugees in much of the world.
And where will all this take us? Where it has already taken much of the world, including large parts of wealthy countries - into poverty and hunger. With a lack of brains, we are repeating the Homo sapiens slaughter of neanderthals; but doing it to ourselves.
The leaders in all of this are the super-wealthy who, despite their obvious intellecual and moral weaknesses, see themselves as leaders when they are really our symbols of intellectual decline and decay. The super-wealthy and their political hacks are taking us - and themselves - to destruction. Soon.
We got bigger brains from homo sapiens some tens of thousands of years ago. But they obviously are not yet big enough. (No intelligent population would vote for Liberals or Conservatives or Republicans or Democrats.
Our capitalists are not just evil. They are remarkably stupid - more along the lines of neanderthals. And our time is very, very short.
___________________________________________________________
Canada has a Donald Trump.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/16/news/scientist-who-resisted-censorship-climate-report-lost-her-job
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