https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refugees-un-1.5182621
Get this. Canada led the world in accepting refugees while the U.S. at many, many times the size of Canada came second. - which makes one wonder about the bigotry and racism of the rest of the world.
And you know what? Despite the warnings of Donald Trump these refugees are not running through our streets raping and murdering and pushing drugs.
This world now has over 70 million migrants fleeing war, climate change and racism. And it's going to get worse, much, much worse. Europe is actually penalizing people for trying to save refugees from drowning. Let's get real.
We are all of us people who have to live on this planet. We have to get over our bigotry and racism. You don't want Africans or Latins? I'd accept them a lot faster than Americans who set records for shooting each other.
I went to school as as a kid whose family goes back to 1650 in Canada. My friends were kids born in Poland, Syria, Italy....in university I taught Palestinians, Chinese, Dutch and, as an adult, most of my friends were Jewish. I survived, and it was great.
Add to that the reality that the whole world is being madly shaken by climate change and war. We can either help the victims - or we can kill them as the Donald Trumps of this world are doing.
Get real. Centuries of migrants are what created Canada.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/irg-shoots-down-us-drone-1.5182581
Why is the U.S. threatening Iran? Has Iran threatened to attack the U.S.? No. Has it in any way interfered with U.S. oil supplies? No. Has it flown spy planes over the U.S.? No.
All of this fuss and danger is because American billionaires want to own the oil that belongs to Iran. (The billionaires won't pay for the war, of course. They don't pay taxes.) The American tax payer will pay for it - the price being even greater damage to the American public education system. And of course, the poor will pay for it by not getting the help they should be getting from their own country.
This is greed and murder. Nothing else. And it's strongest supporters are American Christians.
And Jesus wept.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-climate-change-carbon-emissions-1.5181744
CBC has lately make a point of offering criticism of parties - notably Conservative - that are not taking climate change seriously. This is a serious and important direction. And you will find very little of this sort of questioning in most of our news media. And you won't find it at all in that Gawdawful Toronto Post or New Brunswick's Irving press.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/a-jerusalem-hospital-where-palestinian-babies-die-alone
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/quebec-law-hijab-ban-religious-symbols-public-employees
I grew up in a Quebec in which we had religious symbols shoved down our throats. The biggest one, a monstrous cross still stands to dominate the whole city skyline. But the horror of seeing muslim women wearing hoods changed all that.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalayan-glacier-melting-doubled-since-2000-scientists-reveal
When that glacier melting ends, 1 billion people will lose one of this world's greatest agricultural regions. Then what?
________________________________________________________________
It's hard to know who is calling the shots in Iran. The person who started the problem is, certainly, John Bolton with the support of Pompeo. Both should have been fired on the spot. But Trump has been gentle. He seems certain to get rid of Bolton - but in a gentle way. And, meanwhile, he has been remarkably slow to take charge. He's drifting - and that's not good.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/20/trump-dangerous-brinkmanship-on-iran
_____________________________________________________________
lose....lose....
Saudi Arabia has not been impressive as a military power - and notably not so in Yemen. But the U.S. supports it against even American principles - it's use of children soldiers, its starvation of at least tens of thousands of Yemen children,, it's supply of weapons to the Saudis at a time when much of the world is backing off, it's proven role in murdering a Saudi journalist....
And they're on our side...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/18/mike-pompeo-saudi-arabia-yemen-sudan-child-soldiers
__________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2019/06/instead-squabbling-over-scarce-jobs-and-incomes-we-should
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/06/avoiding-climate-chaos-means-zeroing-emissions
______________________________________________________________
Canada is NOT different.
/countercurrents.org/2019/06/towards-understanding-terrorism-in-canada-perceptions-and-realities
_______________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/06/18/Opponents-Slam-Approval-Trans-Mountain-Expansion-Catastrophic/
____________________________________________________________
Let's get real. Canadian leaders don't care about what happened and what is happening to indigenous women. No. Not just Canadian leaders - the Canadian people.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/06/17/RCMP-Army-Protect-Pipeline/
________________________________________________________________
Most of our news media have been ignoring this. But the reality is that the U.S. has been negotiating a way out of Afghanistan for some time now. Given its wealth and massive spending on weapons, the U.S. has not been militarily a dazzler since 1945 - Korea, Vietnam spring to mind.
Twenty years of war that should never have been fought in the first place. And all those dead who died fighting for their country....like hell they were fighting for their country. That's one of those brainless terms that some people love.
Fighting for one's country might mean something if one were fighting off an invasion..... But murdering thousands of people who had done nothing to harm the U.S.? The only ones who might have made money out of this were land and mineral companies. Those soldiers weren't fighting for their country. They were fighting for a handful of greedy billionaires. And the same can be said of the Canadians we sent there.
Wake up Canadian Legion. Represent your members who were sent into a war that had nothing to do with us and should never have been fought. Wake up. As it is you spend most of time kissing up to the billionaires and their political hacks who were responsible for the deaths of your comrades.
The did not die fighting for their country - and if you think they did, tell me what "our country" was supposed to get out of this.
On armistice day, we remember our veterans - as we should. We - and the Legion, should also be giving serious thought to whether, in wars like Korea and Afghanistan we were throwing our soldiers to die in somebody else's war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51792.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51794.htm
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51796.htm
Oh, our billionaires are so good to us. They create jobs and everything.
________________________________________________________________
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/908-the-shaving-kit-manufacturing-the-julian-assange-witch-hunt.html
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/20/opinion/scheers-climate-plan-was-it-worth-wait
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/19/news/trans-mountain-gets-shovels-ready-pipeline-first-nations-vow-protect-territory
______________________________________________________________
It has become obvious that Trump is not the one in charge of decision-making about Iran. Who is? I don't know. it may be Bolton and Pompeo. It may go much deeper into the American military command.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/06/20/gulf-of-oman-international-context/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/court-judgment-blow-uk-government-over-arms-sales-saudi
As a child, I read the story of Lawrence of Arabia, the British soldier of World War 1 who became the darling of the British Empire by organizing the Saudis into a nation, and establishing them and their oil with British companies.
Well, I was only 12. I had no idea that Lawrence was simply working for British oil, and no idea that the rulers of Saudi Arabia were and are the most brutal bastards on the face of this earth.
Today, Saudi Arabia record of brutality is so vicious that many countries refuse to deal with it. Even the British courts denounce Saudi Arabia and have blocked its attempts to get more weapons and kill more people - including it own. But the U.S. just loves the Saudis. That's why it sells weapons for it to kill children in Yemen. That's why it protects the Saudis against charges it uses child soldiers.
And Israel, in defiance of Jewish religious values, buddies up to help Israel steal Palestinian and Syrian land. That's why it supports Israel's murder of Yemenis.
Yep. Britain, U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia - these are the murderers on our side. And they are all unspeakably vicious and murderous.
_________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/un-finds-credible-evidence-mbs-ordered-khashoggi-murder/
Our best buddies.
_______________________________________________________________
This has been my most unpleasant day at the computer since I started this blog.
There is nothing here but greed, viciousness. arrogance - stupidity.
Who's in charge in the U.S.? I don't know. The decisions seem to come from every direction. and Trump seems to be running just to give the impression he's leading.
The western world, at least, has a leadership of vicious capitalists supported by political hacks who take orders from the capitalists. Even Trump is in no sense in charge of what is happening. And Canadians, Americans and Europeans,at least, show no sense of what is happening. It's as though they have hypnotized themselves into stupidity.
Enough. I can't write anything sensible about what we have become.
Get this. Canada led the world in accepting refugees while the U.S. at many, many times the size of Canada came second. - which makes one wonder about the bigotry and racism of the rest of the world.
And you know what? Despite the warnings of Donald Trump these refugees are not running through our streets raping and murdering and pushing drugs.
This world now has over 70 million migrants fleeing war, climate change and racism. And it's going to get worse, much, much worse. Europe is actually penalizing people for trying to save refugees from drowning. Let's get real.
We are all of us people who have to live on this planet. We have to get over our bigotry and racism. You don't want Africans or Latins? I'd accept them a lot faster than Americans who set records for shooting each other.
I went to school as as a kid whose family goes back to 1650 in Canada. My friends were kids born in Poland, Syria, Italy....in university I taught Palestinians, Chinese, Dutch and, as an adult, most of my friends were Jewish. I survived, and it was great.
Add to that the reality that the whole world is being madly shaken by climate change and war. We can either help the victims - or we can kill them as the Donald Trumps of this world are doing.
Get real. Centuries of migrants are what created Canada.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/irg-shoots-down-us-drone-1.5182581
Why is the U.S. threatening Iran? Has Iran threatened to attack the U.S.? No. Has it in any way interfered with U.S. oil supplies? No. Has it flown spy planes over the U.S.? No.
All of this fuss and danger is because American billionaires want to own the oil that belongs to Iran. (The billionaires won't pay for the war, of course. They don't pay taxes.) The American tax payer will pay for it - the price being even greater damage to the American public education system. And of course, the poor will pay for it by not getting the help they should be getting from their own country.
This is greed and murder. Nothing else. And it's strongest supporters are American Christians.
And Jesus wept.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/andrew-scheer-climate-change-carbon-emissions-1.5181744
CBC has lately make a point of offering criticism of parties - notably Conservative - that are not taking climate change seriously. This is a serious and important direction. And you will find very little of this sort of questioning in most of our news media. And you won't find it at all in that Gawdawful Toronto Post or New Brunswick's Irving press.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/a-jerusalem-hospital-where-palestinian-babies-die-alone
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/quebec-law-hijab-ban-religious-symbols-public-employees
I grew up in a Quebec in which we had religious symbols shoved down our throats. The biggest one, a monstrous cross still stands to dominate the whole city skyline. But the horror of seeing muslim women wearing hoods changed all that.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalayan-glacier-melting-doubled-since-2000-scientists-reveal
When that glacier melting ends, 1 billion people will lose one of this world's greatest agricultural regions. Then what?
________________________________________________________________
It's hard to know who is calling the shots in Iran. The person who started the problem is, certainly, John Bolton with the support of Pompeo. Both should have been fired on the spot. But Trump has been gentle. He seems certain to get rid of Bolton - but in a gentle way. And, meanwhile, he has been remarkably slow to take charge. He's drifting - and that's not good.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/20/trump-dangerous-brinkmanship-on-iran
_____________________________________________________________
lose....lose....
Saudi Arabia has not been impressive as a military power - and notably not so in Yemen. But the U.S. supports it against even American principles - it's use of children soldiers, its starvation of at least tens of thousands of Yemen children,, it's supply of weapons to the Saudis at a time when much of the world is backing off, it's proven role in murdering a Saudi journalist....
And they're on our side...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/18/mike-pompeo-saudi-arabia-yemen-sudan-child-soldiers
__________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2019/06/instead-squabbling-over-scarce-jobs-and-incomes-we-should
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/06/avoiding-climate-chaos-means-zeroing-emissions
______________________________________________________________
Canada is NOT different.
/countercurrents.org/2019/06/towards-understanding-terrorism-in-canada-perceptions-and-realities
_______________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/06/18/Opponents-Slam-Approval-Trans-Mountain-Expansion-Catastrophic/
____________________________________________________________
Let's get real. Canadian leaders don't care about what happened and what is happening to indigenous women. No. Not just Canadian leaders - the Canadian people.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/06/17/RCMP-Army-Protect-Pipeline/
________________________________________________________________
Most of our news media have been ignoring this. But the reality is that the U.S. has been negotiating a way out of Afghanistan for some time now. Given its wealth and massive spending on weapons, the U.S. has not been militarily a dazzler since 1945 - Korea, Vietnam spring to mind.
Twenty years of war that should never have been fought in the first place. And all those dead who died fighting for their country....like hell they were fighting for their country. That's one of those brainless terms that some people love.
Fighting for one's country might mean something if one were fighting off an invasion..... But murdering thousands of people who had done nothing to harm the U.S.? The only ones who might have made money out of this were land and mineral companies. Those soldiers weren't fighting for their country. They were fighting for a handful of greedy billionaires. And the same can be said of the Canadians we sent there.
Wake up Canadian Legion. Represent your members who were sent into a war that had nothing to do with us and should never have been fought. Wake up. As it is you spend most of time kissing up to the billionaires and their political hacks who were responsible for the deaths of your comrades.
The did not die fighting for their country - and if you think they did, tell me what "our country" was supposed to get out of this.
On armistice day, we remember our veterans - as we should. We - and the Legion, should also be giving serious thought to whether, in wars like Korea and Afghanistan we were throwing our soldiers to die in somebody else's war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51792.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51794.htm
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51796.htm
Oh, our billionaires are so good to us. They create jobs and everything.
________________________________________________________________
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/908-the-shaving-kit-manufacturing-the-julian-assange-witch-hunt.html
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/20/opinion/scheers-climate-plan-was-it-worth-wait
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/19/news/trans-mountain-gets-shovels-ready-pipeline-first-nations-vow-protect-territory
______________________________________________________________
It has become obvious that Trump is not the one in charge of decision-making about Iran. Who is? I don't know. it may be Bolton and Pompeo. It may go much deeper into the American military command.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/06/20/gulf-of-oman-international-context/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/court-judgment-blow-uk-government-over-arms-sales-saudi
As a child, I read the story of Lawrence of Arabia, the British soldier of World War 1 who became the darling of the British Empire by organizing the Saudis into a nation, and establishing them and their oil with British companies.
Well, I was only 12. I had no idea that Lawrence was simply working for British oil, and no idea that the rulers of Saudi Arabia were and are the most brutal bastards on the face of this earth.
Today, Saudi Arabia record of brutality is so vicious that many countries refuse to deal with it. Even the British courts denounce Saudi Arabia and have blocked its attempts to get more weapons and kill more people - including it own. But the U.S. just loves the Saudis. That's why it sells weapons for it to kill children in Yemen. That's why it protects the Saudis against charges it uses child soldiers.
And Israel, in defiance of Jewish religious values, buddies up to help Israel steal Palestinian and Syrian land. That's why it supports Israel's murder of Yemenis.
Yep. Britain, U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia - these are the murderers on our side. And they are all unspeakably vicious and murderous.
_________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/un-finds-credible-evidence-mbs-ordered-khashoggi-murder/
Our best buddies.
_______________________________________________________________
This has been my most unpleasant day at the computer since I started this blog.
There is nothing here but greed, viciousness. arrogance - stupidity.
Who's in charge in the U.S.? I don't know. The decisions seem to come from every direction. and Trump seems to be running just to give the impression he's leading.
The western world, at least, has a leadership of vicious capitalists supported by political hacks who take orders from the capitalists. Even Trump is in no sense in charge of what is happening. And Canadians, Americans and Europeans,at least, show no sense of what is happening. It's as though they have hypnotized themselves into stupidity.
Enough. I can't write anything sensible about what we have become.
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