https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hong-kong-protests-thursday-peaceful-1.5173320
For a couple of centuries, Hong Kong has been more a nation than being a part of a nation. For a very long time, it was forced to be a British nation despite the arrogance and obnoxiousness of the British. Then -
- I remember walking down a street at a time when China had kicked out the British, and took over control. I noticed lots of activity as we passed a large building. I turned to one of my students who was walking with me, and asked, "Why is that place so busy?"
He frowned in disgust. "These", he said, "are our new masters."
Yes, even as Hong Kong thought it was rid of its British parasites. It, briefly, was a nation, and one with a distinct character But now that's gone - and I greatly fear the consequences.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tankers-gulf-oman-hormuz-1.5173404
And here is what is called fake news. A couple of tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. The implications of the report are pretty clear if not absolute. The dirty deed came from Iran. That implication and no other runs through this whole story. This is a repeat of a similar report on an attack on tankers in Emirate waters. The implication of all news reports I saw was that Iran did the dirty deed.
In fact, there is no evidence it did so - and the nature of the attack suggested to me that it has nothing to do with Iran. It was a setup.
And now this case? Again - speculation, but no evidence.
So far, all the reporting I'm seen suggests Iran is evil. (And there is, of course, no mention of U.S. interference with Iran shipping.)
It reminds me of the time - many years ago now - an American navy communications ship in the Mediterranean was attack by Israel aircraft. The attack was quite deliberate. The ship was bombed in many attacks. crew members escaping in lifeboats were machine gunned for a high death toll. There is no doubt the attack was ordered by Israel, and no doubt it knew this was an American ship. Why the attack?
Nobody knows - possibly a paranoid fear that this ship was feeding information to Palestinians - though that's pretty wild even by Israeli standards.
Funny thing, though. The western press almost entirely ignored the story. And to this day the incident has never been explained.
Fake news - it's been around for a long time. And our news media have been prominent in using it. Yes, even the CBC.
Here's the story.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/08/a-uss-libertys-heros-passing/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/old-news-shared-as-if-its-new-disinformation-1.5172449
Yes. There is fake news. But the biggest sources of fake news are our commercial news media. (In my spare time, I am writing a blog on use of fake news by our most respected news media dealing with world wars one and two.)
_______________________________________________________________
Here's a better report from The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/13/oil-tanker-attacks-will-inflame-conflict-between-the-us-its-allies-and-iran
Incidentally, it's rare to find any report accusing the U.S. of interfering with shipping. But it has done so for decades, threatening and forbidding the shipping of countries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, leaving millions to starve and die.
How many stories have you seen about that?
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/mini-trump-across-the-channel-european-media-on-boris-johnson-as-british-pm
In 1939, the British Empire - the largest in history - began its rapid collapse. Within a decade it was all over.
________________________________________________________________
As I said at the start of this blog, the Hong Kong riots are not the usual sort. Hong Kongers are not just dissatisfied street demonstrators. They have become, over centuries, a nation, a people...We could be watching a dreadful tragedy. I fear we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/mass-street-protests-are-an-expression-of-hong-kongs-identity
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/10/saudi-teenager-could-face-execution-protests-child-murtaja-qureiris
The Saudis are good guys. That's why we're so happy to sell them weapons to kill the children of Yemen, and to hunt down their own women who try to flee the country.
Meanwhile, we gotta kill more of them Syrians and Palestinians.
_________________________________________________________________
In 1945, we were going to move beyond a world of squabbling nations. We were going to move toward some form of world government- a world of equality and sharing. The UN was supposed to be a step in that direction.
We didn't do it. In fact, the first major step of the UN was to let itself be used for an American war in Korea. The American decision post-war was to rule the world for the benefit of its very wealthy. But that, like the old British empire,
has failed.
Can we still do what we said, in 1945, we would do? Can we still do what we told those all over the world that we would do?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/pragmatism-and-ideology-drive-kremlins-interest-in-africa
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/columnists/the----people---s-republic-of-amnesia---.html
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/sick-horror-trump-administration-plans-detain-migrant-children-former-japanese
_______________________________________________________________
In New Brunswick, thank you Mr. Irving for all those years you sprayed weed killer all over the province. Now, little babies won't have weeks growing in the tummies.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/new-testing-revealed-popular-kids-cereals-contaminated-weedkiller-roundup
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/news/2019/06/canadas-top-military-general-needs-resign
Rabble has some old hands who go back to the days when CBC was allowed to be really good.
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/babble/indigenous-issues-and-culture/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-final-report
Lots of reports. Not much action. Can you imagine the turmoil there would be if the wives of rich men disappeared?
________________________________________________________________
The world of 1939 hasn't worked since (or before) 1939. We have to forget a world that isn't practical any more.
https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-refugees-open-borders/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-socialism-capitalism-2020/
Nothing short of that will do the U.S. any good.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/13/warnings-effort-maneuver-us-war-trump-officials-rush-blame-iran-attacks-gulf-tankers
Yes. Trump officials are rushing to blame Iran for the tanker attacks. And most of the news media - including the CBC - are helping them.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/adding-planetary-alarm-bells-top-us-finance-official-warns-climate-crisis-recipe
Hey. Common sense. If there were any crisis here Donald Trump would tell us. (Like, he used to be on TV.)
_____________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/13/un-palestinian-refugee-agency-looking-for-support/
Hey. Not to worry. Jared Kushner just made 60 million dollars in his spare time in the middle east while working for the American taxpayers. Lots of money there.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/u-s-military-worlds-single-largest-producer-of-ghg-says-study
________________________________________________________________
Forget your glorious past, Britain. It was never glorious. And you need the time for full attention to your ass-kissing present.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/british-home-secretary-signs-extradition-order-to-send-julian-assange-to-usa
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/climate-crisis-and-the-2020-us-elections
Take a good look at those U.S. election numbers - all three of them.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/sanctions-are-genocidal-and-they-are-the-uss-favorite-weapon
_______________________________________________________________
Judaism has a long record of caring and encouraging. Never confuse Judaism with the governments of Israel.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/no-way-to-treat-a-child/
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51763.htm
We live in a world that George Orwell foresaw some 75 years ago.
And Julian Assange is going to die for telling the truth.
We are not the Naziis of our time. We are worse.
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/906-mirthless-laugh-the-persecution-and-torture-of-julian-assange.html
Oh, and did I mention a gutless Canadian population?
The most vicious nations in the world today are the U.S. and China - and then there's the snarling, sharp-toothed rats like Saudi Arabia and Britain.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/13/news/michael-e-mann-took-climate-change-deniers-court-they-apologized
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/13/opinion/keeping-wary-eye-transnational-extreme-right-during-election-2019
Yes, we have people just like this in Canada - mostly in the Conservative Party but also support from Liberals.
______________________________________________________________
Canadians - does Doug Ford make you proud to be a Canadian?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/07/news/heres-everything-doug-ford-government-cut-its-first-year-office
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/residents-vacating-drought-hit-villages-in-india/
We've seen a lot of this. We're going to see much, much more. Climate change, war, brutality, exploitation have created millions of homeless and countryless people. And it's going to create many times more of these. Many, many, millions of starving, wretched people are fleeing unlivable conditions And what are we doing?
Virtually nothing. Those who make it to Europe are crammed into primitive conditions. Those who flee to the U.S. experience broken families and brutal treatment and, often enough, death.
Climate change, soil destruction, starvation are destroying a world we knew. And so we are doing - nothing.
The old world of nation states should have been changed many decades ago. And the only alternative to denationalizing the world is to massacre all of those who are poor or 'different'. Trump's wall, the refugee camps of Europe are only a mild taste of what's to come.
We need government by saints. We're getting government by brainless and murderous louts.
_______________________________________________________________
Oh! I wish I'd been there.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/valedictorian-thanks-alcoholic-teacher-and-negligent-counselor-teaching-fend
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-enable-industry-war-against-medicare-for-all/
______________________________________________________________
Donald Hitler Trump and his Naziis.
https://truthout.org/video/dhs-watchdog-confirms-horrific-conditions-at-immigrant-jails/
Betcha haven't seen this post in most of Canada's corporate press.
________________________________________________________________
Here's a sketch of the Bilderberg group I had not known about.
___________________________________________________________
There will be no blog this Saturday. However, I am toying with the idea of a special issue of this blog with some truths about World War 1 and World War 2 - and who the bad guys were. It wasn't just Hitler.
____________________________________________________________
For a couple of centuries, Hong Kong has been more a nation than being a part of a nation. For a very long time, it was forced to be a British nation despite the arrogance and obnoxiousness of the British. Then -
- I remember walking down a street at a time when China had kicked out the British, and took over control. I noticed lots of activity as we passed a large building. I turned to one of my students who was walking with me, and asked, "Why is that place so busy?"
He frowned in disgust. "These", he said, "are our new masters."
Yes, even as Hong Kong thought it was rid of its British parasites. It, briefly, was a nation, and one with a distinct character But now that's gone - and I greatly fear the consequences.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tankers-gulf-oman-hormuz-1.5173404
And here is what is called fake news. A couple of tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. The implications of the report are pretty clear if not absolute. The dirty deed came from Iran. That implication and no other runs through this whole story. This is a repeat of a similar report on an attack on tankers in Emirate waters. The implication of all news reports I saw was that Iran did the dirty deed.
In fact, there is no evidence it did so - and the nature of the attack suggested to me that it has nothing to do with Iran. It was a setup.
And now this case? Again - speculation, but no evidence.
So far, all the reporting I'm seen suggests Iran is evil. (And there is, of course, no mention of U.S. interference with Iran shipping.)
It reminds me of the time - many years ago now - an American navy communications ship in the Mediterranean was attack by Israel aircraft. The attack was quite deliberate. The ship was bombed in many attacks. crew members escaping in lifeboats were machine gunned for a high death toll. There is no doubt the attack was ordered by Israel, and no doubt it knew this was an American ship. Why the attack?
Nobody knows - possibly a paranoid fear that this ship was feeding information to Palestinians - though that's pretty wild even by Israeli standards.
Funny thing, though. The western press almost entirely ignored the story. And to this day the incident has never been explained.
Fake news - it's been around for a long time. And our news media have been prominent in using it. Yes, even the CBC.
Here's the story.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/08/a-uss-libertys-heros-passing/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/old-news-shared-as-if-its-new-disinformation-1.5172449
Yes. There is fake news. But the biggest sources of fake news are our commercial news media. (In my spare time, I am writing a blog on use of fake news by our most respected news media dealing with world wars one and two.)
_______________________________________________________________
Here's a better report from The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/13/oil-tanker-attacks-will-inflame-conflict-between-the-us-its-allies-and-iran
Incidentally, it's rare to find any report accusing the U.S. of interfering with shipping. But it has done so for decades, threatening and forbidding the shipping of countries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, leaving millions to starve and die.
How many stories have you seen about that?
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/mini-trump-across-the-channel-european-media-on-boris-johnson-as-british-pm
In 1939, the British Empire - the largest in history - began its rapid collapse. Within a decade it was all over.
________________________________________________________________
As I said at the start of this blog, the Hong Kong riots are not the usual sort. Hong Kongers are not just dissatisfied street demonstrators. They have become, over centuries, a nation, a people...We could be watching a dreadful tragedy. I fear we are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/mass-street-protests-are-an-expression-of-hong-kongs-identity
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/10/saudi-teenager-could-face-execution-protests-child-murtaja-qureiris
The Saudis are good guys. That's why we're so happy to sell them weapons to kill the children of Yemen, and to hunt down their own women who try to flee the country.
Meanwhile, we gotta kill more of them Syrians and Palestinians.
_________________________________________________________________
In 1945, we were going to move beyond a world of squabbling nations. We were going to move toward some form of world government- a world of equality and sharing. The UN was supposed to be a step in that direction.
We didn't do it. In fact, the first major step of the UN was to let itself be used for an American war in Korea. The American decision post-war was to rule the world for the benefit of its very wealthy. But that, like the old British empire,
has failed.
Can we still do what we said, in 1945, we would do? Can we still do what we told those all over the world that we would do?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/11/pragmatism-and-ideology-drive-kremlins-interest-in-africa
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/columnists/the----people---s-republic-of-amnesia---.html
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/sick-horror-trump-administration-plans-detain-migrant-children-former-japanese
_______________________________________________________________
In New Brunswick, thank you Mr. Irving for all those years you sprayed weed killer all over the province. Now, little babies won't have weeks growing in the tummies.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/new-testing-revealed-popular-kids-cereals-contaminated-weedkiller-roundup
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/news/2019/06/canadas-top-military-general-needs-resign
Rabble has some old hands who go back to the days when CBC was allowed to be really good.
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/babble/indigenous-issues-and-culture/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-final-report
Lots of reports. Not much action. Can you imagine the turmoil there would be if the wives of rich men disappeared?
________________________________________________________________
The world of 1939 hasn't worked since (or before) 1939. We have to forget a world that isn't practical any more.
https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-refugees-open-borders/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-socialism-capitalism-2020/
Nothing short of that will do the U.S. any good.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/13/warnings-effort-maneuver-us-war-trump-officials-rush-blame-iran-attacks-gulf-tankers
Yes. Trump officials are rushing to blame Iran for the tanker attacks. And most of the news media - including the CBC - are helping them.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/adding-planetary-alarm-bells-top-us-finance-official-warns-climate-crisis-recipe
Hey. Common sense. If there were any crisis here Donald Trump would tell us. (Like, he used to be on TV.)
_____________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/13/un-palestinian-refugee-agency-looking-for-support/
Hey. Not to worry. Jared Kushner just made 60 million dollars in his spare time in the middle east while working for the American taxpayers. Lots of money there.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/u-s-military-worlds-single-largest-producer-of-ghg-says-study
________________________________________________________________
Forget your glorious past, Britain. It was never glorious. And you need the time for full attention to your ass-kissing present.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/british-home-secretary-signs-extradition-order-to-send-julian-assange-to-usa
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/climate-crisis-and-the-2020-us-elections
Take a good look at those U.S. election numbers - all three of them.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/06/sanctions-are-genocidal-and-they-are-the-uss-favorite-weapon
_______________________________________________________________
Judaism has a long record of caring and encouraging. Never confuse Judaism with the governments of Israel.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/no-way-to-treat-a-child/
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51763.htm
We live in a world that George Orwell foresaw some 75 years ago.
And Julian Assange is going to die for telling the truth.
We are not the Naziis of our time. We are worse.
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/906-mirthless-laugh-the-persecution-and-torture-of-julian-assange.html
Oh, and did I mention a gutless Canadian population?
The most vicious nations in the world today are the U.S. and China - and then there's the snarling, sharp-toothed rats like Saudi Arabia and Britain.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/13/news/michael-e-mann-took-climate-change-deniers-court-they-apologized
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/13/opinion/keeping-wary-eye-transnational-extreme-right-during-election-2019
Yes, we have people just like this in Canada - mostly in the Conservative Party but also support from Liberals.
______________________________________________________________
Canadians - does Doug Ford make you proud to be a Canadian?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/07/news/heres-everything-doug-ford-government-cut-its-first-year-office
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/residents-vacating-drought-hit-villages-in-india/
We've seen a lot of this. We're going to see much, much more. Climate change, war, brutality, exploitation have created millions of homeless and countryless people. And it's going to create many times more of these. Many, many, millions of starving, wretched people are fleeing unlivable conditions And what are we doing?
Virtually nothing. Those who make it to Europe are crammed into primitive conditions. Those who flee to the U.S. experience broken families and brutal treatment and, often enough, death.
Climate change, soil destruction, starvation are destroying a world we knew. And so we are doing - nothing.
The old world of nation states should have been changed many decades ago. And the only alternative to denationalizing the world is to massacre all of those who are poor or 'different'. Trump's wall, the refugee camps of Europe are only a mild taste of what's to come.
We need government by saints. We're getting government by brainless and murderous louts.
_______________________________________________________________
Oh! I wish I'd been there.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/valedictorian-thanks-alcoholic-teacher-and-negligent-counselor-teaching-fend
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-enable-industry-war-against-medicare-for-all/
______________________________________________________________
Donald Hitler Trump and his Naziis.
https://truthout.org/video/dhs-watchdog-confirms-horrific-conditions-at-immigrant-jails/
Betcha haven't seen this post in most of Canada's corporate press.
________________________________________________________________
Here's a sketch of the Bilderberg group I had not known about.
___________________________________________________________
There will be no blog this Saturday. However, I am toying with the idea of a special issue of this blog with some truths about World War 1 and World War 2 - and who the bad guys were. It wasn't just Hitler.
____________________________________________________________
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