Long, long ago, when I was a darling child (You'll have to accept my word on that) my favourite comic book story was one based on truth. It was called Murder, Inc.
At the time, thee was such an organization based largely in the U.S. The mobs of the time frequently needed to kill people who were interfering with business. (This was just after American prohibition.) The problem was that the police were well aware of what was going on in the various mobs - so the risk of getting caught in such an awkward was unpleasantly high.
Enter a low profile mob calling itself Murder Inc. which specialized in assassinations.. amid relatively unknown to the police. It was, in my comics at least, a profitable operation.
I thought of that as i read up on the Venezuela crisis.
It's the same process.
American oil billionaires want to own the Venezuela oilfields. But all those billionaires tumbling into Venezuela and shooting the place up would be a little too obvious. So, they turn to their Murder Inc. And this Murder Inc is even better than the old one because nobody can arrest it.
The Murder Incs of our time are governments. In just about every war the U.S. has fought since 1950 was fought to satisfy American billionaires And that has meant over 80 wars.
And what's really great about this is that our smart billionaires are a step up on Murder Inc. They don't have to pay a cent for all that killing, No. Our government pays for it with our tax money. How's that for a double whammy?
This is nothing new. The governments of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands have, for some hundreds of years been the Murder Incs for their wealthy. And it works - usually. It didn't work for Hitler. But the world rose in righteous indignation about Hitler because he cheated. He openly crashed in on the activities of all the other Murder Incs.
No. No. There must be honour among thieves.
Oh - a problem with Venezuela. Russia is sending food to Venezuela. Does that mean we risk having two Murder Incs operating in the same country?
And note that Canada is playing a prominent role in the U.S. Murder Inc. We may now find it difficult to get out of this.
And both the U.S. and Russia are re-activating their nuclear threats.
It worked better in the comics.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-polls-snclavalin-1.5026798
Sometimes I have to give up on Canada.
Canadians are turning against Trudeau for his dealings with a private corporation. And they're going to vote Conservative?
How the hell does he think the Conservatives get big money to win elections?
The cuddle up to big corporations, that's how. Vote Liberal or Conservative. It doesn't matter. Whichever one we elect, big money will be the real winner of the election.
Liberals? Conservatives? It doesn't matter. That's the way it is. And that's the way it's always been.
Wake up, Canada!
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Just what we need! A war with Russia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-russia-aid-wars-humanitarian-1.5026963
And this was foreseeable. However, U.S. oil billionaires and their president decided not to see it. And this raises an interesting question for Canada. If this continues, it's quite possible that Canada will be asked (told) to send troops. (Thank you, Justin, for tying us to a very foolish and greedy American venture.
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2019/02/capitalism-worst-possible-economic-system-planet-ravaged
Multi- billionaires are not nice people. Get used to it.
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2019/02/curtailing-corporate-impunity-would-defend-human-rights
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/02/you-may-not-insects-you-need-them
Our future is not about climate change. It's also about many, many crises attached to that.
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http://rabble.ca/babble/national-news/trudeau-betrays-trudeau-canada%E2%80%99s-big-mistake-venezuela
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I had a piece to include here, but I've lost it. However, it's simple enough. A poll asked Canadians how they felt about Muslim immigrants. A disturbingly large number expressed anger at the 'hordes' of Muslim terrorists on our streets.
What hordes? This is like the American horror at swarms of Latin migrants at the U.S. border. (In fact, the number of migrants seeking to cross the border has been down dramatically in recent years. And most of them are there because U.S. capitalists have destroyed the economies of their home countries.)
And swarms of Muslim terrorists in Canada? Gee! I missed that.
Oh, and our news media commonly call them terrorists. Funny thing, though.
American soldiers who kill people by the millions, who make it a practice to bomb civilians and children (Yes. More of those than all the killing by Muslims.) And, of course, the U.S. has made a practice of starving children to death.
So why don't our news media call American soldiers terrorists?
The fact is that the streets of Canada are not flooded with Muslim terrorists. The U.S. may be - a very, very little bit - but , at worst, their kill score is far less than that of bad drivers in the U.S.
But our news media use loaded language - terrorists, evil..... In fact, the Muslim world is a great deal less terrorist than our side is. And in the Muslim world, the worst killers are the Saudis - to who we sell weapons.
But a Trump has the knack for seeing evil that isn't there (except on his part). That's what got him elected. That's why so many Americans are inflicting horror on thousands of desperate people at their border. And Canadians, too, are victims of this.
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This story is stunning. And, best of all, it does not appear to be coming from big time capitalists. I never though he'd be able to do this. And, oh, I'm glad i was wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/20/bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-campaign-fundraising
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-trump-may-satisfy-base-with-partial-border-wall
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/21/who-refusing-back-green-new-deal-follow-fossil-fuel-money
Quelle surprise!
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/21/the-international-rogue-nation-america/
Sieg Heil!
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The U.S., land of the free, has long been a close buddy of the world's most ruthless of all the anti-democratic nations. And it (Saudi Arabia) wants a nuclear bomb.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/20/when-saudi-arabia-gets-the-bomb/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/21/the-bill-and-melinda-gates-fair-taxation-scaremongering-tour/
Gates and his wife remind me of Richard Hatfield, the New Brunswick politician who is, at least, honest - remarkably selfish and greedy. He's the one who advocates that the wealthy should take over all government. And, as an attack on democracy, this one really stands out.
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We are very, very close, closer than even before, to a nuclear war. And for no good reason.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51130.htm
This would probably mean the launching of over 15,000 bombs. But I'm sure that we - or some of us - would win.
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Reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51135.htm
Oh. All t hose countries are so evil.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-russia-aid-wars-humanitarian-1.5026963
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/19/news/canadian-regulator-wont-consider-climate-impacts-trans-mountain
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https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/food-crises-climate-change-care-international/
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https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/20/the-year-of-the-pig-is-here-literally/
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And no, the following is not an exaggeration.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/21/goebbels-is-alive-and-well-in-amerika/
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https://theantimedia.com/saudis-khashoggi-body/
Oh, well, if Saudi Arabia doesn't know who killed the reporter, we can safely give them their very own nuclear bombs.
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https://truthout.org/articles/oakland-teachers-strike-joining-redfored-movement-on-picket-lines/
I grew up in a district that was, to say the least, poor. It was a district of people who had been poor for generations - perhaps forever. Most of the guys I played with couldn't read. All of them dropped out of school in grade 9. I was kicked out in grade 11. But it didn't cause any stir. Nobody, including my parents, expected kids to finish school in that district.
There have been millions of us in Canadian history. We were permanently poor. And we were raised to be permanently poor. But in the end, I had one thing that would save me. My father read books. And every Saturday he would buy me a book from a used book store. And, oh, I read constantly. My friends called me the walking dictionary. In the end, after lots of delays, after four years in a dead end job, I got the chance for the worthwhile life of teaching.
Education is the key to getting out of poverty - and dreadful jobs. But often it doesn't. I started my teaching in hopelessly oversized classes. (Two of the boys I taught there died in shootouts with police just a few years after they dropped out.)
Education requires small classes. It requires programmes that bring out the potential in children. (And, yes, even the poor ones have potential.) It requires a staff with a wide range of skills, with lots of support.. And it usually doesn't have that. It doesn't have it because the wealthy people who sit on school boards don't give much of a damn about the students. They send their own children to private (and expensive) schools. The hell with the rest.
This has taken a vicious form in the U.S. which now offers a large number of private ('Charter") schools. And they're expensive, too expensive for most kids.
So these private schools suck up the resources that should go to the public schools. Public school resources are cut every year. And that means more generations every year of the poor being tramped down.
Charter schools are not just schools for the greedy rich. They are also destructive for millions of children who have to stay poor for generation after generation. U.S. capitalism, running on pure greed, is destroying children.
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https://theintercept.com/2019/02/21/why-wont-the-media-discuss-trumps-mental-instability/
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