https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/project-cactus-maxime-bernier-1.5327555
The ugliest event in a very ugly election.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/confronting-carbon2/
Climate change could destroy this planet in a lifetime? Hey - Lotsa time. Lotsa time.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/election-test-1.5325206
I am not a religious person. But I do not feel offended or threatened by Christians who wear crosses or by Jews who wear the Star of David.. Or by Muslim women who wear shawls. I lived most of my life in Montreal. I was not offended or threatened by the crucifixes in government offices. I wasn't even offended by the bloody massive, steel crucifix that overlooks the city and can be seen for miles - and was paid for by Catholics, Protestants and Jews with their taxes.
So why did Quebec pass a law making it illegal to wear religious symbols while working in the civil service?
Simple.
Quebec, like much of the rest of Canada, is profoundly racist. So the growth of its Muslim population in recent years has been very threatening.
But to attack Muslims would obviously be racist. Luckily, the Catholic church in Quebec crashed into the toilet decades ago. So - put the squeeze on the Muslims, but do it while including Catholics and all other religions. Then Quebec isn't racist at all.
Sort of.
_________________________________________________________________
And here is a selection from the Guardian. It's full of speculation, shy on conclusions - but, unlike so many confident columns, that uncertainty is reality.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/19/global-battle-power-putin-trump-syria
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2019/oct/19/rebel-amendment-defeat-is-yet-another-painful-bellyflop-for-boris-johnson
When I was born, Britain was seen as the greatest military power in the world. But World War Two ended that. And it's just as well it did, for as all empires do it murdered and plundered with astonishing brutality - and not only to the 'heathen' but to millions of the British people. In that respect, it is very similar to the American empire.
Britannia that ruled the waves may soon be three or even four third-rate powers - England, Ireland, Scotland, maybe Wales.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/18/justin-trudeau-fake-progressive-canada-election
This is a look at Canadian politics that is more intelligent than any Canadian analysis I have seen. It certainly beats anything I have seen by the illiterates (and liars) of the Irvng press or The Last Post.
_________________________________________________________________
Criminal gangs in Mexico have become so powerful, they can actually make war against the government.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/mexico-police-officers-killed-cartel-ambush-michoacan
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/an-appeal-to-europe-stop-the-massacre-of-kurds
In 1945, we were told we were creating a better world for all. In reality, the years since 1945 have been an extension of World War 2.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/columnists/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.html
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/indigenous-nationhood/2019/10/indigenous-issues-largely-absent-2019-election
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while
Yeah. But the Pentagon budget produces huge profits for billionaires.
______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/18/us-has-backed-21-of-the-28-crazy-militias-leading-turkeys-brutal-invasion-of-northern-syria/
Militias - hired thugs of all nationalities who will kill anybody for a price.
_______________________________________________________________
The brutalities of empires stay with us for many years after they collapse.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/17/legacy-of-british-empire-lurks-behind-todays-headlines/
_________________________________________________________________
The U.S. Supreme Court has been packed with judges who share Trump's views. This is going to be one hell of a tough year for U.S. rights and freedoms.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/16/civil-rights-on-high-court-chopping-block-in-new-term/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/climate-change-a-people-centered-approach
The oil industry has been very successful in holding back any serious attempts to deal with climate change. In the current Canadian election, that means only the Green party promises to do this on a serious level.
People amaze me. Virtually all the world's leading scientists are in agreement. We are heading for soaring death rates and then for extinction. All of us. And our response has been, to say the least, casual. Since the warning began, we have done virtually nothing.
How much time do we really have? Nobody knows. It almost certainly won't be to the year 2001. By then the game will have been long over. Before that, we have a period of increasing damage.
But our oil billionaires see no problem. They and the politicians they buy don't even think about what is going to happen. None of them have an advanced scientific training. So they understand what's going on?
I suspect their politicians don't have a clue. It's hard to imagine a Trump or a Doug Ford or a Cheney having a clue about anything. But the monied people do.
And they are quite prepared to risk the lives of all of us on the planet. They must know the risks - and their strategy must be simply to make as much money out of this as possible before it become obvious that we are all in trouble.
Would leading business people do such a thing? Would they put us all at risk.
Read some history. Behind the politicians and national leaders of the last 2,000 years, the people behind the empires of Egypt and Rome up to Britain and the U.S., the ones who encouraged and gained through their thousands of years of slaughter have been the very rich.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/eminent-buddhist-leader-urges-halt-to-nuclear-weapons-and-killer-robots
No country's military, based on conventional weapons, and fight a major war without enormous loss on both sides. The U.S., since 1945, has fought only small enemies.And the record is not great. For twenty years, the large and wealthy and heavily equipped U.S. has been fighting against the friendless people of a small part of Afghanistan. And the U.S., for its numbers and it expensive weaponry, has not been impressive.
It is probably not possible for any two major powers to be victorious in a conventional war against each other. That means they would need nuclear weapons. But the supply of them is so great it would destroy a very large part of the planet. It would almost certainly mean a world war - in a planet that has thousands of nuclear weapons. To that we are adding killer robots, such as drones, at a tremendous pace.
In short, we are spending billions for a nuclear war that nobody would win.
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/modi-government-of-the-corporate-by-the-corporate-for-the-corporate
Gee! Would western capitalists ever do this to us?
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/18/capitalism-and-the-violence-of-environmental-decline/
__________________________________________________________
Important for election day.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/10/19/Scheer-Falsehoods/
In short, Scheer is a constant liar with no discernable values or beliefs.
_________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/10/07/What-Truth-And-Reconciliation/
________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/10/15/Andrew-Scheer-Wont-Be-Prime-Minister-No-Partners/
Of course.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/death-bloodshed-misery-yemen/5692401
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52416.htm
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52414.htm
__________________________________________________________
Well, well, well.........what?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/18/news/why-are-conservatives-hanging-out-fringe-muslim-cleric-dubious-credentials
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/16/video/climate-change-disinformation-and-canada
_________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/19/features/little-known-colossus-behind-conservatives-anti-climate-agenda
What a sweetheart!
_______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/19/bill-mckibben-falter-book-human-game/
_______________________________________________________________
The ugliest event in a very ugly election.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/confronting-carbon2/
Climate change could destroy this planet in a lifetime? Hey - Lotsa time. Lotsa time.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/election-test-1.5325206
I am not a religious person. But I do not feel offended or threatened by Christians who wear crosses or by Jews who wear the Star of David.. Or by Muslim women who wear shawls. I lived most of my life in Montreal. I was not offended or threatened by the crucifixes in government offices. I wasn't even offended by the bloody massive, steel crucifix that overlooks the city and can be seen for miles - and was paid for by Catholics, Protestants and Jews with their taxes.
So why did Quebec pass a law making it illegal to wear religious symbols while working in the civil service?
Simple.
Quebec, like much of the rest of Canada, is profoundly racist. So the growth of its Muslim population in recent years has been very threatening.
But to attack Muslims would obviously be racist. Luckily, the Catholic church in Quebec crashed into the toilet decades ago. So - put the squeeze on the Muslims, but do it while including Catholics and all other religions. Then Quebec isn't racist at all.
Sort of.
_________________________________________________________________
And here is a selection from the Guardian. It's full of speculation, shy on conclusions - but, unlike so many confident columns, that uncertainty is reality.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/19/global-battle-power-putin-trump-syria
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2019/oct/19/rebel-amendment-defeat-is-yet-another-painful-bellyflop-for-boris-johnson
When I was born, Britain was seen as the greatest military power in the world. But World War Two ended that. And it's just as well it did, for as all empires do it murdered and plundered with astonishing brutality - and not only to the 'heathen' but to millions of the British people. In that respect, it is very similar to the American empire.
Britannia that ruled the waves may soon be three or even four third-rate powers - England, Ireland, Scotland, maybe Wales.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/18/justin-trudeau-fake-progressive-canada-election
This is a look at Canadian politics that is more intelligent than any Canadian analysis I have seen. It certainly beats anything I have seen by the illiterates (and liars) of the Irvng press or The Last Post.
_________________________________________________________________
Criminal gangs in Mexico have become so powerful, they can actually make war against the government.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/15/mexico-police-officers-killed-cartel-ambush-michoacan
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/an-appeal-to-europe-stop-the-massacre-of-kurds
In 1945, we were told we were creating a better world for all. In reality, the years since 1945 have been an extension of World War 2.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/columnists/more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye.html
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/indigenous-nationhood/2019/10/indigenous-issues-largely-absent-2019-election
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while
Yeah. But the Pentagon budget produces huge profits for billionaires.
______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/18/us-has-backed-21-of-the-28-crazy-militias-leading-turkeys-brutal-invasion-of-northern-syria/
Militias - hired thugs of all nationalities who will kill anybody for a price.
_______________________________________________________________
The brutalities of empires stay with us for many years after they collapse.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/17/legacy-of-british-empire-lurks-behind-todays-headlines/
_________________________________________________________________
The U.S. Supreme Court has been packed with judges who share Trump's views. This is going to be one hell of a tough year for U.S. rights and freedoms.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/16/civil-rights-on-high-court-chopping-block-in-new-term/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/climate-change-a-people-centered-approach
The oil industry has been very successful in holding back any serious attempts to deal with climate change. In the current Canadian election, that means only the Green party promises to do this on a serious level.
People amaze me. Virtually all the world's leading scientists are in agreement. We are heading for soaring death rates and then for extinction. All of us. And our response has been, to say the least, casual. Since the warning began, we have done virtually nothing.
How much time do we really have? Nobody knows. It almost certainly won't be to the year 2001. By then the game will have been long over. Before that, we have a period of increasing damage.
But our oil billionaires see no problem. They and the politicians they buy don't even think about what is going to happen. None of them have an advanced scientific training. So they understand what's going on?
I suspect their politicians don't have a clue. It's hard to imagine a Trump or a Doug Ford or a Cheney having a clue about anything. But the monied people do.
And they are quite prepared to risk the lives of all of us on the planet. They must know the risks - and their strategy must be simply to make as much money out of this as possible before it become obvious that we are all in trouble.
Would leading business people do such a thing? Would they put us all at risk.
Read some history. Behind the politicians and national leaders of the last 2,000 years, the people behind the empires of Egypt and Rome up to Britain and the U.S., the ones who encouraged and gained through their thousands of years of slaughter have been the very rich.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/eminent-buddhist-leader-urges-halt-to-nuclear-weapons-and-killer-robots
No country's military, based on conventional weapons, and fight a major war without enormous loss on both sides. The U.S., since 1945, has fought only small enemies.And the record is not great. For twenty years, the large and wealthy and heavily equipped U.S. has been fighting against the friendless people of a small part of Afghanistan. And the U.S., for its numbers and it expensive weaponry, has not been impressive.
It is probably not possible for any two major powers to be victorious in a conventional war against each other. That means they would need nuclear weapons. But the supply of them is so great it would destroy a very large part of the planet. It would almost certainly mean a world war - in a planet that has thousands of nuclear weapons. To that we are adding killer robots, such as drones, at a tremendous pace.
In short, we are spending billions for a nuclear war that nobody would win.
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/modi-government-of-the-corporate-by-the-corporate-for-the-corporate
Gee! Would western capitalists ever do this to us?
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/18/capitalism-and-the-violence-of-environmental-decline/
__________________________________________________________
Important for election day.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/10/19/Scheer-Falsehoods/
In short, Scheer is a constant liar with no discernable values or beliefs.
_________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/10/07/What-Truth-And-Reconciliation/
________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/10/15/Andrew-Scheer-Wont-Be-Prime-Minister-No-Partners/
Of course.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/death-bloodshed-misery-yemen/5692401
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52416.htm
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52414.htm
__________________________________________________________
Well, well, well.........what?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/18/news/why-are-conservatives-hanging-out-fringe-muslim-cleric-dubious-credentials
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/16/video/climate-change-disinformation-and-canada
_________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/10/19/features/little-known-colossus-behind-conservatives-anti-climate-agenda
What a sweetheart!
_______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/10/19/bill-mckibben-falter-book-human-game/
_______________________________________________________________
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