https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/22/trump-provokes-global-anger-by-recognising-israels-claim-to-golan-heights
The U.S. rules the world. Yes, it does. That's why it can take land that doesn't belong to it and give to another country that it doesn't belong to. That's why it can steal Venezuela's oil fields. That's why it has a right to bomb people in various countries with it's drone bombers. That's why it has a right to take Latin America's resources while keeping Latin Americans in poverty as cheap labour. That's why it had a right to murder 200,000 of Guatemala's native people. That's why it has a right to control Cuban trade to this day.
The United States is an exact duplicate of the British Empire that withered after World War Two. And, like the British Empire, the purpose of the American one is to loot the resources of it's conquests - with all the profit going to its own business leaders.
News media lied about the British Empire, too. As it starved, murdered, plundered hundreds of millions of people, as it destroyed their economies, the empire was always reported as something glorious. And the British soldiers, the ones who did all the killing for pennies a day and who were dumped on the streets at the end of their service were praised as 'gallant lads' which, incidentally, is what Trump constantly does for America soldiers - and for the heroes who sit in non-flying aircraft in the U.S. in order, every day, to bomb civilians, men, women and children, from drone bombers.
The purpose of all this slaughter is to loot the countries of the people they kill. That's what empire are for - to blunder helpless nations for the benefit of imperial capitalists. Over the years, British and American troops have died - not to serve their countries. No. For all of the splendour of their marching with medals clanking, their only role is to kill innocent people for the benefit of billionaires.
Check all the wars that have ever been fought. Almost all have been fought to benefit the wealthy - who are usually careful enough not to do any fighting themselves. And the best part is that the very wealthy don't pay a cent for these wars. They are paid for by our taxes. The very wealthy don't pay taxes. So, among all the other people they plunder - they plunder us.
(You think we fight wars because the other side is evil? Forget it. Wars are certainly evil. But, commonly, both sides are evil. Hitler was evil? You bet. But the British empire was even more evil and murderous. And you think the U.S. went to war in 1941 because of its goodness? In fact, the U.S. used that war to swipe large parts of the British empire, especially in the middle east. It also had a lust to conquer China, but failed.)
All empires in history have crashed. The British Empire, which was centuries old, crashed in barely ten years. The American Empire will crash, too. Alas! Unlike the earlier empires, the U.S. will go down to the final wire with its thousands of nuclear weapons.
In 1939, we went to war, we thought, to make this a better world. Indeed, we talked constantly of a new world order But none of the major powers had any intention of any such thing. And the Christian churches, in keeping with their limpness of 2,000 years, did nothing. (Well, in fairness, an American cardinal intervened in the American bombing of Cuba. He blessed the bombs. And millions of American believe Trump is a man of God - if only because Americans in general are the favourites of God - just as the British once were. That's why it's okay for Trump to put thousands of Latin American children into wire caged concentration camps and out of touch with their parents.)
Oh, and all over the world, our news media tell us that the other side is evil. Yep. China is evil. Korea is evil. And if you live in China or Korea, Americans - and Canadians and French and British - are evil.
We failed to make this a better world. (We didn't even try much, really.) As in 1939, we still live in societies ruled by greed.
(Sorry. I strayed. But let's get real. Government by greed is going to crash.)
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/jair-bolsonaro-donald-trump-wall-immigration
The vast majority of migrants have bad intentions? And how on earth, even if this were true, would Bolsonaro know that? In fact, very large numbers of the migrants are children - even babies. Do all those have bad intentions?
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/canada-trudeau-scandal-snc-lavalin-jane-philpott
It looks as though Trudeau is in big trouble. I could happily watch the Liberals trot into the sunset. But the alternative is the Conservatives. Or that ultimate party of twits, the United Conservatives.
Indeed, despite knowing many Conservatives and Liberals, I never met one who understood what those words meant - nor am I much enlightened by those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'United' Conservatives.
In fact, Canada is in very, very deep trouble. We have political parties which exist only to get elected. And two of those have always been bought by 'interested' parties before the election.
The NDP? It's a party of some principal and honesty. But it's a much tamed party, much too tamed to deal with the crisis we face. The last party to have a solid and clear base of policy was the CCF which - alas - shaved much of it's principal to create the NDP.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/18/jair-bolsonaro-us-visit-alliance-trump
Sieg Heil! This is Trump's kinda guy as we drift into quite dreadful brutality in Latin America. And it's quite possible that Canada will be invited to join. Indeed, Trudeau may already have committed us by giving his blessing to Trump's behaviour in Venezuela.
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/storms-cyclones-and-floods-will-only-worsen-as-the-planet-warms
Not to worry. Our oil billionaires - some of whom we have learned bought their way into universities and bought their degrees - have announced there is no such thing as climate change. So who are you going to believe? Them? Or some goofy professors who aren't rich at all?
____________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-xinjiangs-muslims-abandoned-to-chinas-abuse-brain-washing
In frustration created by a world of uncertainty, people often don't deal with their real problems. Instead, politicians can plug into their uncertainty by taking it out with racist and religious hatreds.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/23/leaked-audio-exposes-oil-gas-execs-laughing-joy-over-cozy-access-trump-officials
Gee! Maybe he'll also hold special meetings with teachers, with the unemployed, the homeless......
_________________________________________________________________
Britain may be crashing. In 1939, when Britain was in terrible danger, Canadians flocked to to help. It's now facing a dangerous collapse that may be economic, social, and political.
So who gives a damn? We're now part of the U.S. empire.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/23/put-it-people-one-million-march-uk-demand-brexit-rethink
________________________________________________________________
Donald Trump does nothing for the American people. The defence budget that he claims is to create jobs in fact creates only huge profits for weapons billionaires. You won't see him creating jobs for, say, teachers. Of homes for the homeless.
His spending is designed to enrich the already wealthy - and to hell with the rest of the American people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-spending-is-a-poor-job-creator/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/23/french-army-receives-authorization-to-shoot-yellow-vest-protesters/
How to create a revolution.....
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/23/the-hand-of-god/
The failure of Christianity. (I say that with great regret. In fact, I was once very close to becoming a clergyman. But it has been true for 2000 years. And Christians have been hypocrites all the way.)
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/privileged-poor-navigating-elite-university-life/585100/
In Canada, the U.S., Britain, other countries, to be born into the bottom 60% or so of the economic ladder is to suffer a dreadful handicap in education. The reality is not that rich kids are smarter. The reality is that being born poor is an educational handicap.
I grew up in an environment of poverty. None of my childhood friends, including me, finished high school. Nor were we expected to. When I was kicked out in grade eleven, My parents took it in stride. After all, I was already best-educated kid in my end of town. Time to get a job.
Without finishing high school, I slipped into university night courses. I still have my BA diploma. Over half of my grades were F, Did Not Write....and almost all the rest were Ds. Hey! I was now the most sophisticated of all my childhood friends.
Then, somehow, I went on to get an MA with straight As, and a PhD from one of Canada's prestige universities.
What is this blank spot that so many of us run into?
The reality, and I sensed this when I became an elementary school teacher, is that low income MADE us retarded. So how do we overcome that?
Well, for the most part, we don't even try. Kids with low grades are left to get more low grades. And all our universities are too busy looking at themselves in mirrors to give a damn about 'retarded' students.. The U.S. has gone a step further. Instead of giving the schools better training to deal with this, it is firing teachers, and overloading classes in the public schools.
Hey. don't waste money on poor kids. No. Build pricey schools for rich kids. Problem solved. Canada does much the same. And both countries lose huge numbers of children who could become far more productive adults.
The article cited at the top of this is one that appeared in an interesting BC site called The Tyee.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/spectacular-violence-as-a-weapon-of-war-against-the-yellow-vests/
_______________________________________________________________
We are all being looted by the very, very, very rich. Their net worth has grown phenomenally in the last 40 years or so with much, much more to come. And so far, that is leading us into becoming fascist states.
And what will happen when the rest of us wake up to what is being done?
Nothing. They wealthy will find enemies to distract us.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51301.htm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/oil-and-gas-majors-have-spent-1-billion-undermining-climate-action-2015-report-says
Gee! Our Canadian oil billionaires, the Irvings, would never tell a lie. Unless it was absolutely necessary.
_______________________________________________________________
GREED.
https://truthout.org/audio/we-already-spend-more-than-medicare-for-all-would-cost-us/
Canada has had medicare for half a century. American who aren't rich are just left to die. Think GREED.
_________________________________________________________________
This must be the most depressing blog I have ever written. We are governed by the greedy and arrogant and shameless like Trump - or by the the blubbering weakness of a Justin Trudeau. The evil, the greedy, the arrogant rule - with the help of the brainless. These are very, very dangerous times.
_______________________________________________________________
The U.S. rules the world. Yes, it does. That's why it can take land that doesn't belong to it and give to another country that it doesn't belong to. That's why it can steal Venezuela's oil fields. That's why it has a right to bomb people in various countries with it's drone bombers. That's why it has a right to take Latin America's resources while keeping Latin Americans in poverty as cheap labour. That's why it had a right to murder 200,000 of Guatemala's native people. That's why it has a right to control Cuban trade to this day.
The United States is an exact duplicate of the British Empire that withered after World War Two. And, like the British Empire, the purpose of the American one is to loot the resources of it's conquests - with all the profit going to its own business leaders.
News media lied about the British Empire, too. As it starved, murdered, plundered hundreds of millions of people, as it destroyed their economies, the empire was always reported as something glorious. And the British soldiers, the ones who did all the killing for pennies a day and who were dumped on the streets at the end of their service were praised as 'gallant lads' which, incidentally, is what Trump constantly does for America soldiers - and for the heroes who sit in non-flying aircraft in the U.S. in order, every day, to bomb civilians, men, women and children, from drone bombers.
The purpose of all this slaughter is to loot the countries of the people they kill. That's what empire are for - to blunder helpless nations for the benefit of imperial capitalists. Over the years, British and American troops have died - not to serve their countries. No. For all of the splendour of their marching with medals clanking, their only role is to kill innocent people for the benefit of billionaires.
Check all the wars that have ever been fought. Almost all have been fought to benefit the wealthy - who are usually careful enough not to do any fighting themselves. And the best part is that the very wealthy don't pay a cent for these wars. They are paid for by our taxes. The very wealthy don't pay taxes. So, among all the other people they plunder - they plunder us.
(You think we fight wars because the other side is evil? Forget it. Wars are certainly evil. But, commonly, both sides are evil. Hitler was evil? You bet. But the British empire was even more evil and murderous. And you think the U.S. went to war in 1941 because of its goodness? In fact, the U.S. used that war to swipe large parts of the British empire, especially in the middle east. It also had a lust to conquer China, but failed.)
All empires in history have crashed. The British Empire, which was centuries old, crashed in barely ten years. The American Empire will crash, too. Alas! Unlike the earlier empires, the U.S. will go down to the final wire with its thousands of nuclear weapons.
In 1939, we went to war, we thought, to make this a better world. Indeed, we talked constantly of a new world order But none of the major powers had any intention of any such thing. And the Christian churches, in keeping with their limpness of 2,000 years, did nothing. (Well, in fairness, an American cardinal intervened in the American bombing of Cuba. He blessed the bombs. And millions of American believe Trump is a man of God - if only because Americans in general are the favourites of God - just as the British once were. That's why it's okay for Trump to put thousands of Latin American children into wire caged concentration camps and out of touch with their parents.)
Oh, and all over the world, our news media tell us that the other side is evil. Yep. China is evil. Korea is evil. And if you live in China or Korea, Americans - and Canadians and French and British - are evil.
We failed to make this a better world. (We didn't even try much, really.) As in 1939, we still live in societies ruled by greed.
(Sorry. I strayed. But let's get real. Government by greed is going to crash.)
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/jair-bolsonaro-donald-trump-wall-immigration
The vast majority of migrants have bad intentions? And how on earth, even if this were true, would Bolsonaro know that? In fact, very large numbers of the migrants are children - even babies. Do all those have bad intentions?
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/canada-trudeau-scandal-snc-lavalin-jane-philpott
It looks as though Trudeau is in big trouble. I could happily watch the Liberals trot into the sunset. But the alternative is the Conservatives. Or that ultimate party of twits, the United Conservatives.
Indeed, despite knowing many Conservatives and Liberals, I never met one who understood what those words meant - nor am I much enlightened by those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'United' Conservatives.
In fact, Canada is in very, very deep trouble. We have political parties which exist only to get elected. And two of those have always been bought by 'interested' parties before the election.
The NDP? It's a party of some principal and honesty. But it's a much tamed party, much too tamed to deal with the crisis we face. The last party to have a solid and clear base of policy was the CCF which - alas - shaved much of it's principal to create the NDP.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/18/jair-bolsonaro-us-visit-alliance-trump
Sieg Heil! This is Trump's kinda guy as we drift into quite dreadful brutality in Latin America. And it's quite possible that Canada will be invited to join. Indeed, Trudeau may already have committed us by giving his blessing to Trump's behaviour in Venezuela.
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/20/storms-cyclones-and-floods-will-only-worsen-as-the-planet-warms
Not to worry. Our oil billionaires - some of whom we have learned bought their way into universities and bought their degrees - have announced there is no such thing as climate change. So who are you going to believe? Them? Or some goofy professors who aren't rich at all?
____________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-xinjiangs-muslims-abandoned-to-chinas-abuse-brain-washing
In frustration created by a world of uncertainty, people often don't deal with their real problems. Instead, politicians can plug into their uncertainty by taking it out with racist and religious hatreds.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/23/leaked-audio-exposes-oil-gas-execs-laughing-joy-over-cozy-access-trump-officials
Gee! Maybe he'll also hold special meetings with teachers, with the unemployed, the homeless......
_________________________________________________________________
Britain may be crashing. In 1939, when Britain was in terrible danger, Canadians flocked to to help. It's now facing a dangerous collapse that may be economic, social, and political.
So who gives a damn? We're now part of the U.S. empire.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/23/put-it-people-one-million-march-uk-demand-brexit-rethink
________________________________________________________________
Donald Trump does nothing for the American people. The defence budget that he claims is to create jobs in fact creates only huge profits for weapons billionaires. You won't see him creating jobs for, say, teachers. Of homes for the homeless.
His spending is designed to enrich the already wealthy - and to hell with the rest of the American people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-spending-is-a-poor-job-creator/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/23/french-army-receives-authorization-to-shoot-yellow-vest-protesters/
How to create a revolution.....
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/03/23/the-hand-of-god/
The failure of Christianity. (I say that with great regret. In fact, I was once very close to becoming a clergyman. But it has been true for 2000 years. And Christians have been hypocrites all the way.)
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/privileged-poor-navigating-elite-university-life/585100/
In Canada, the U.S., Britain, other countries, to be born into the bottom 60% or so of the economic ladder is to suffer a dreadful handicap in education. The reality is not that rich kids are smarter. The reality is that being born poor is an educational handicap.
I grew up in an environment of poverty. None of my childhood friends, including me, finished high school. Nor were we expected to. When I was kicked out in grade eleven, My parents took it in stride. After all, I was already best-educated kid in my end of town. Time to get a job.
Without finishing high school, I slipped into university night courses. I still have my BA diploma. Over half of my grades were F, Did Not Write....and almost all the rest were Ds. Hey! I was now the most sophisticated of all my childhood friends.
Then, somehow, I went on to get an MA with straight As, and a PhD from one of Canada's prestige universities.
What is this blank spot that so many of us run into?
The reality, and I sensed this when I became an elementary school teacher, is that low income MADE us retarded. So how do we overcome that?
Well, for the most part, we don't even try. Kids with low grades are left to get more low grades. And all our universities are too busy looking at themselves in mirrors to give a damn about 'retarded' students.. The U.S. has gone a step further. Instead of giving the schools better training to deal with this, it is firing teachers, and overloading classes in the public schools.
Hey. don't waste money on poor kids. No. Build pricey schools for rich kids. Problem solved. Canada does much the same. And both countries lose huge numbers of children who could become far more productive adults.
The article cited at the top of this is one that appeared in an interesting BC site called The Tyee.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/spectacular-violence-as-a-weapon-of-war-against-the-yellow-vests/
_______________________________________________________________
We are all being looted by the very, very, very rich. Their net worth has grown phenomenally in the last 40 years or so with much, much more to come. And so far, that is leading us into becoming fascist states.
And what will happen when the rest of us wake up to what is being done?
Nothing. They wealthy will find enemies to distract us.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51301.htm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/21/news/oil-and-gas-majors-have-spent-1-billion-undermining-climate-action-2015-report-says
Gee! Our Canadian oil billionaires, the Irvings, would never tell a lie. Unless it was absolutely necessary.
_______________________________________________________________
GREED.
https://truthout.org/audio/we-already-spend-more-than-medicare-for-all-would-cost-us/
Canada has had medicare for half a century. American who aren't rich are just left to die. Think GREED.
_________________________________________________________________
This must be the most depressing blog I have ever written. We are governed by the greedy and arrogant and shameless like Trump - or by the the blubbering weakness of a Justin Trudeau. The evil, the greedy, the arrogant rule - with the help of the brainless. These are very, very dangerous times.
_______________________________________________________________
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