https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenhouse-gases-1.5371968
And we have thrown away thirty years of the little time we have until it's too late.
Of course, real smart people like Ontario premier Doug Ford say all the world's scientists are wrong. And he should know. He has a high school leaving certificate.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/forest-fires-glyphosate-1.5366185
It's also very harmful to people. But I don't know of any big business forestry programme that doesn't use it. And I don't know of any government that protects it's people by dealing with this.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-uighurs-camps-secret-documents-1.5368925
This is terrible. Europe, for example, gets large numbers of Africans desperate to escape what British, European and American capitalists have done to their countries. And Europe, for a time, sent them to vile, primitive fields, often in tents through the winter. But that's over.
Now Europe just kicks them back to drown in the sea.
Similarly, the U.S. has been plundering the resources of Latin America, enforcing poverty and hopelessness. But as the people fled, the U.S. set up prison camps, some for adults and some for thousands of children taken from their parents. How thoughtful.
And, in Canada, Quebec has made it clear it will accept Muslims from lands we have torn to pieces. They just have to speak French all the time, and get rid of all their silly clothes like hi jabs.
Oh - and as long as they don't look Muslim.
So what should we do about Muslims in China? Well, Europe and the U.S. and Canada could accept them. But there's not a chance that we we 'Christians' will do any such thing..
Will we save these Chinese victims by force? No. The U.S. and Europe and Canada don't want them. Should we go to war with China over this? Get real. Any war between nuclear powers would become a nuclear war that no side would win.
Oh, and if we could attack China without going nuclear? Get real again, The U.S. is the country that can't, in twenty years, defeat even the small part of Afghanistan that is in rebellion. That small part, by the way, is also the one that beat off the Russians.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers
I wish I could be cheered by this. But I'm not. China, like all great powers in history, (Britain and the U.S. spring to mind), is not likely to make any concessions here - just as Britain made no concessions to the victims of it's empire, and the U.S. has made no concessions to Latin America or to the middle east. We need a world -wide response to ALL of this world's bullies.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/24/leonard-cohen-adam-thanks-for-the-dance-interview
I saw Leonard Cohen only once. He was sitting on the steps of the YMCA in downtown Montreal. He liked people. And he wanted them to talk to him. And, yes, I was impressed by him.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/25/wexit-alberta-canada-independence-separatism
Yes. Jobs in Alberta are being lost at a terrible pace. But that's because their oil industry is failing. And, as this article points out, Alberta still has the highest incomes in Canada. But, oh, all those Canadians are always picking on poor Albertans.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html
This was typical of the British empire in India, China, Africa..... it murdered, starved at least 400 million people - and it touched it all off with it's brutal treatment of most of the people of English, Scotland, and Ireland.
Now, tell me how, in two world wars, the British were good guys and Germans were evil. And while you're checking out good guys and bad guys, take a look at the U.S. in Latin America and the middle east. Oh, and take a look at our Canada for what it is doing in supporting a gang of murderous puppets in Bolivia. We are doing it, of course, to kiss up to U.S. billionaires - which is making all Canadians into criminals.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ice-free-arctic-this-century-1.5370504
Don't worry about it. The Conservative Party will.........whatever.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pro-democracy-opposition-wins-landslide-hong-kong-elections-1.5371889
Unless China makes major concessions - which it almost certainly will not do - Hong Kong is a lost cause. I can only wonder about the excellent students I had there - and grieve for them.
China won't make major concessions. We should understand that. The U.S. will not make concessions in Latin America, where it murdered at least 200,000 innocent people in Guatemala, and is now imposing a brutal dictatorship on Bolivia. There are no good guys. We are all evil. And 2,000 years of Christianity have not made so much as a dent in this.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/un-emissions-report-1.5373154
We have done nothing in 35 years. We haven't even come to grips with the millions of migrants who have to flee changing weather conditions in their countries. At the Mexican border, the U.S. simply puts adults into prison camps, and puts their children into cages. In Canada, the Conservatives have done nothing at all - in fact, they have made it worse. The Liberals? Conditions have worsened under them, too.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-canada-foreign-policy-latin-america-1.5369302
Canada won't change it's kiss-up behaviour. We used to murder Dutch settlers in South Africa to please British capitalists. We now kill to please American (and Canadian) capitalists.
_________________________________________________________________
New Brunswick is a Canadian province ruled by the billionaire Irving family who own just about everything - including all the provinces newspapers. Many years ago, when the chief medical officer warned about the dangers of glyphosate spray, she was simply pushed out of her job.
Alas! This is a province that obeys it's masters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/glyphosate-new-brunswick-roundup-1.5365249
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/26/santa-barbara-fire-california-los-padres
Not to worry. It can't be climate change because that's not allowed.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/26/billionaires-us-elections-2020-president
It doesn't change anything. Most American presidents have been paid off by billionaires, anyway.
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-true-democracy-a-pipe-dream-in-hong-kong-despite-election-results
I'm afraid Dyer is right. And that's something to think about because China is quite likely to be the world's next super-power. And we can expect it to be as evil as the fading U.S. super-power.
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/11/what-media-misses-about-national-rail-strike-cn-train-crews-and
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/news/2019/11/trudeau-drives-stake-through-heart-any-hope-electoral-reform
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2019/11/parents-fighting-cuts-public-education-ontario
Well, this sort of thing is common all over the world. They need the money to subsidize private schools for rich kids (seriously) and to reduce taxes for the rich.
As a rule, the real purpose of public schools is to keep the poor--um--poor. That's not an exaggeration. That was my experience when I was a kid living in a poor district. My class mates weren't stupid. But the silent message was that we should realize our low expectations. And most of our society still thinks that way.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/bloombergs-billionaire-democratic-plutocrat/
_________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/25/the-prosecution-of-julian-assange-calls-for-public-defense-of-free-speech/
His crime? Telling us the truth about U.S. murders and torture. And for that, he is being tortured to death. And the British and American people seem to think this is a good idea. China is brutal? So it is. Now, try to remember that for centuries, Britain was the world's most brutal nation, as today, the U.S. is.
But neither Brits nor Americans will recognize that. They prefer to stand around with their faces hanging out.
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/is-netanyahu-ready-to-inflame-war-to-escape-his-legal-troubles
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/26/climate-change-is-a-war-crime/
Will the military around the world stop pouring poisonour fumes into the air? Dream on.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/25/most-people-pay-a-higher-wealth-tax-than-the-wealthy/
________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/11/22/Enviros-Tools-Russians/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-real-crimes/5695967
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-real-crimes/5695967
Wake up, Americans and Canadians. There is going to be one hell of a price massive thievery by the very wealthy. And, probably, soon.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52617.htm
Hitler lost world war 2? On the contrary, we are living in Hitlerian world.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52613.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52611.htm
Americans used to believe (and most still believe) that the U.S. was chosen by God to rule the world. But it looks as though that is rapidly changing.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-and-us-forces-ran-secret-prisons-iraq-after-2003-invasion
Sieg Heil.
Oh, a footnote - we all learn how the Statue of Liberty says "Send me your poor, etc. yearning to be free" and all that. Well, actually, the American government changed that almost a hundred and twenty years ago when it severely tightened immigration rules. (No. That didn't begin just with Trump.) But children still learn to recite it as if it were real.
_____________________________________________________________
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/24/skeletal-baby-yemeni-hospital-lays-bare-heartbreaking-cost-conflict-11209773/
Well, look on the good side. It's been a gold mine for Christian Canadian and American weapons makers.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/06/13/investigations/turmoil-irving-oil
https://off-guardian.org/2019/11/25/hunger-games-food-abundance-and-twisted-truths/
_________________________________________________________________
Of course. Obama was always the servant of the very wealthy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/26/obama-privately-considered-leading-stop-bernie-campaign-combat-sanders-2020-surge
_________________________________________________________________
Not all Christians just stand around with the faces hanging out.
https://truthout.org/video/pope-francis-calls-nuclear-weapons-immoral-as-catholic-activists-face-jail/
________________________________________________________________
And here is a large dose of what climate disruption means.
https://truthout.org/series/climate-disruption-dispatches/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/iraq-children-birth-defects-military/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/michael-bloombergs-right-wing-views-on-foreign-policy-make-him-a-perfect-candidate-for-the-republican-nomination/
_________________________________________________________________
When analyzing current events, get real.
Almost all wars ever fought have been for the benefit of the very wealthy. We tart it up with blather about how our side is good, and the other evil. But that's the reality only when the we're the big guys killing the small ones.
The British Empire was as evil as they come. And when it come to racist leadership, Brits likeWinston Churchill took a back seat to nobody, not even Hitler. Churchill starved millions of helpless people in India. He also happily bombed Kurd civilians - deliberately aiming at civilians. Churchill's great hope was to recapture China during World War Two so the British wealthy could go back to the glory days of plundering that country, starving millions, impoverishing all..... If you wonder at China's brutality, wonder no more. That brutality is the reaction against all the years of Britain's brutality.
And the American Empire? It's been right up there with Churchill and Hitler. That goes for the massacre of U.S. native peoples, several invasions of Canada, the slaughter for oil fields, the impoverishing of Latin America to satisfy the unsatisfiable greed of American billionaires - and the wars against some twenty plus countries around the world - and who know hows many CIA murders. (By the way, did you know that a very large part of the U.S., including Texas, Arizona, the whole West Coast was taken by the U.S. by killing the Mexicans and native peoples who owned them.)
It's been the same with much of North Africa, like the horror of the Belgian Congo,the Dutch century of profound brutality towards the native people of South Africa, French murder and torture in Vietnam (French Indo-China), British and American killing and plundering for oil.
And when capitalist countries get together against each other - that's when you get world wars. Despite what our news media told us and what school history books say, World War One had nothing to do with good guys and bad guys. Almost all of the countries were going through enormous industrial development - and looking scared at neighbours who were becoming serious competition.
Capitalists in those countries all planned for a war against each other. France was no angel. It's capitalists wanted a war to reduce competition. Almost all of the countries in that war were in for that reason. That's why, in the peace treaty, when everyone knew that no one country was guilty for the war, Britain and France insisted on a clause that made Germany pay them huge amounts, so huge it's economy was destroyed. And that, incidentally, is what caused the rise of Hitler.
World War Two? It was the second act of World War One. Britain and the U.S. at first, saw this as great. Hitler would be the foe of Russia, saving British and American billionaires from the cost of doing it.
That's why Britain took a long time about declaring war, and why the U.S. took years. American capitalists were great admirers of Hitler - Rockefeller supplied Hitler with almost all his oil right up to 1945.
The U.S. entered the war late - and only because it thought it could steal China from the British, and plunder it as the British had. It fought in the European/African war to plunder the British billionaires - notably to get control of the Middle East oil fields, a task it's still killing for.
Meanwhile, millions are trying to flee from countries being destroyed by climate change. Europe won't help them. The U.S. puts them in cages. Canada is, to put it kindly, unwelcoming - expecially Quebec.
Oh, I know. I'm criticizing our soldiers who risked their lives in two world wars and Korea.
No. I'm not. Even as a kid I was impressed by them.
I remember them coming to our house to say goodbye. I remember those who died. I realize now they had no idea what WW1, WW2, Korea, Afghanistan and others were about. And our news media and our politicians and, yes, our billionaires have never told them. And they never will.
Right now, the very wealthy are flirting with the idea of World War 3. (You know, for honour). And very few of us will survive that.
Hitler is still alive. He's in Europe and the Americas and Africa and Asia. And he's saying Heil to both sides.
And we have thrown away thirty years of the little time we have until it's too late.
Of course, real smart people like Ontario premier Doug Ford say all the world's scientists are wrong. And he should know. He has a high school leaving certificate.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/forest-fires-glyphosate-1.5366185
It's also very harmful to people. But I don't know of any big business forestry programme that doesn't use it. And I don't know of any government that protects it's people by dealing with this.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-uighurs-camps-secret-documents-1.5368925
This is terrible. Europe, for example, gets large numbers of Africans desperate to escape what British, European and American capitalists have done to their countries. And Europe, for a time, sent them to vile, primitive fields, often in tents through the winter. But that's over.
Now Europe just kicks them back to drown in the sea.
Similarly, the U.S. has been plundering the resources of Latin America, enforcing poverty and hopelessness. But as the people fled, the U.S. set up prison camps, some for adults and some for thousands of children taken from their parents. How thoughtful.
And, in Canada, Quebec has made it clear it will accept Muslims from lands we have torn to pieces. They just have to speak French all the time, and get rid of all their silly clothes like hi jabs.
Oh - and as long as they don't look Muslim.
So what should we do about Muslims in China? Well, Europe and the U.S. and Canada could accept them. But there's not a chance that we we 'Christians' will do any such thing..
Will we save these Chinese victims by force? No. The U.S. and Europe and Canada don't want them. Should we go to war with China over this? Get real. Any war between nuclear powers would become a nuclear war that no side would win.
Oh, and if we could attack China without going nuclear? Get real again, The U.S. is the country that can't, in twenty years, defeat even the small part of Afghanistan that is in rebellion. That small part, by the way, is also the one that beat off the Russians.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers
I wish I could be cheered by this. But I'm not. China, like all great powers in history, (Britain and the U.S. spring to mind), is not likely to make any concessions here - just as Britain made no concessions to the victims of it's empire, and the U.S. has made no concessions to Latin America or to the middle east. We need a world -wide response to ALL of this world's bullies.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/24/leonard-cohen-adam-thanks-for-the-dance-interview
I saw Leonard Cohen only once. He was sitting on the steps of the YMCA in downtown Montreal. He liked people. And he wanted them to talk to him. And, yes, I was impressed by him.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/25/wexit-alberta-canada-independence-separatism
Yes. Jobs in Alberta are being lost at a terrible pace. But that's because their oil industry is failing. And, as this article points out, Alberta still has the highest incomes in Canada. But, oh, all those Canadians are always picking on poor Albertans.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-truth-our-empire-killed-millions-404631.html
This was typical of the British empire in India, China, Africa..... it murdered, starved at least 400 million people - and it touched it all off with it's brutal treatment of most of the people of English, Scotland, and Ireland.
Now, tell me how, in two world wars, the British were good guys and Germans were evil. And while you're checking out good guys and bad guys, take a look at the U.S. in Latin America and the middle east. Oh, and take a look at our Canada for what it is doing in supporting a gang of murderous puppets in Bolivia. We are doing it, of course, to kiss up to U.S. billionaires - which is making all Canadians into criminals.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ice-free-arctic-this-century-1.5370504
Don't worry about it. The Conservative Party will.........whatever.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pro-democracy-opposition-wins-landslide-hong-kong-elections-1.5371889
Unless China makes major concessions - which it almost certainly will not do - Hong Kong is a lost cause. I can only wonder about the excellent students I had there - and grieve for them.
China won't make major concessions. We should understand that. The U.S. will not make concessions in Latin America, where it murdered at least 200,000 innocent people in Guatemala, and is now imposing a brutal dictatorship on Bolivia. There are no good guys. We are all evil. And 2,000 years of Christianity have not made so much as a dent in this.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/un-emissions-report-1.5373154
We have done nothing in 35 years. We haven't even come to grips with the millions of migrants who have to flee changing weather conditions in their countries. At the Mexican border, the U.S. simply puts adults into prison camps, and puts their children into cages. In Canada, the Conservatives have done nothing at all - in fact, they have made it worse. The Liberals? Conditions have worsened under them, too.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-canada-foreign-policy-latin-america-1.5369302
Canada won't change it's kiss-up behaviour. We used to murder Dutch settlers in South Africa to please British capitalists. We now kill to please American (and Canadian) capitalists.
_________________________________________________________________
New Brunswick is a Canadian province ruled by the billionaire Irving family who own just about everything - including all the provinces newspapers. Many years ago, when the chief medical officer warned about the dangers of glyphosate spray, she was simply pushed out of her job.
Alas! This is a province that obeys it's masters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/glyphosate-new-brunswick-roundup-1.5365249
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/26/santa-barbara-fire-california-los-padres
Not to worry. It can't be climate change because that's not allowed.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/26/billionaires-us-elections-2020-president
It doesn't change anything. Most American presidents have been paid off by billionaires, anyway.
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-true-democracy-a-pipe-dream-in-hong-kong-despite-election-results
I'm afraid Dyer is right. And that's something to think about because China is quite likely to be the world's next super-power. And we can expect it to be as evil as the fading U.S. super-power.
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/11/what-media-misses-about-national-rail-strike-cn-train-crews-and
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/news/2019/11/trudeau-drives-stake-through-heart-any-hope-electoral-reform
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2019/11/parents-fighting-cuts-public-education-ontario
Well, this sort of thing is common all over the world. They need the money to subsidize private schools for rich kids (seriously) and to reduce taxes for the rich.
As a rule, the real purpose of public schools is to keep the poor--um--poor. That's not an exaggeration. That was my experience when I was a kid living in a poor district. My class mates weren't stupid. But the silent message was that we should realize our low expectations. And most of our society still thinks that way.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/bloombergs-billionaire-democratic-plutocrat/
_________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/25/the-prosecution-of-julian-assange-calls-for-public-defense-of-free-speech/
His crime? Telling us the truth about U.S. murders and torture. And for that, he is being tortured to death. And the British and American people seem to think this is a good idea. China is brutal? So it is. Now, try to remember that for centuries, Britain was the world's most brutal nation, as today, the U.S. is.
But neither Brits nor Americans will recognize that. They prefer to stand around with their faces hanging out.
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/is-netanyahu-ready-to-inflame-war-to-escape-his-legal-troubles
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/26/climate-change-is-a-war-crime/
Will the military around the world stop pouring poisonour fumes into the air? Dream on.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/25/most-people-pay-a-higher-wealth-tax-than-the-wealthy/
________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/11/22/Enviros-Tools-Russians/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-real-crimes/5695967
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-real-crimes/5695967
Wake up, Americans and Canadians. There is going to be one hell of a price massive thievery by the very wealthy. And, probably, soon.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52617.htm
Hitler lost world war 2? On the contrary, we are living in Hitlerian world.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52613.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52611.htm
Americans used to believe (and most still believe) that the U.S. was chosen by God to rule the world. But it looks as though that is rapidly changing.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-and-us-forces-ran-secret-prisons-iraq-after-2003-invasion
Sieg Heil.
Oh, a footnote - we all learn how the Statue of Liberty says "Send me your poor, etc. yearning to be free" and all that. Well, actually, the American government changed that almost a hundred and twenty years ago when it severely tightened immigration rules. (No. That didn't begin just with Trump.) But children still learn to recite it as if it were real.
_____________________________________________________________
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/24/skeletal-baby-yemeni-hospital-lays-bare-heartbreaking-cost-conflict-11209773/
Well, look on the good side. It's been a gold mine for Christian Canadian and American weapons makers.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/06/13/investigations/turmoil-irving-oil
One of my favourite sub-humans. I almost met him and his brother when I was a student at Acadia University. (They had both just dropped out after two years, figuring you don't have to be educated to inherited big bucks, and you don't need any brains to get even richer. And they were right.)
_________________________________________________________________https://off-guardian.org/2019/11/25/hunger-games-food-abundance-and-twisted-truths/
_________________________________________________________________
Of course. Obama was always the servant of the very wealthy.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/26/obama-privately-considered-leading-stop-bernie-campaign-combat-sanders-2020-surge
_________________________________________________________________
Not all Christians just stand around with the faces hanging out.
https://truthout.org/video/pope-francis-calls-nuclear-weapons-immoral-as-catholic-activists-face-jail/
________________________________________________________________
And here is a large dose of what climate disruption means.
https://truthout.org/series/climate-disruption-dispatches/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/iraq-children-birth-defects-military/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/michael-bloombergs-right-wing-views-on-foreign-policy-make-him-a-perfect-candidate-for-the-republican-nomination/
_________________________________________________________________
When analyzing current events, get real.
Almost all wars ever fought have been for the benefit of the very wealthy. We tart it up with blather about how our side is good, and the other evil. But that's the reality only when the we're the big guys killing the small ones.
The British Empire was as evil as they come. And when it come to racist leadership, Brits likeWinston Churchill took a back seat to nobody, not even Hitler. Churchill starved millions of helpless people in India. He also happily bombed Kurd civilians - deliberately aiming at civilians. Churchill's great hope was to recapture China during World War Two so the British wealthy could go back to the glory days of plundering that country, starving millions, impoverishing all..... If you wonder at China's brutality, wonder no more. That brutality is the reaction against all the years of Britain's brutality.
And the American Empire? It's been right up there with Churchill and Hitler. That goes for the massacre of U.S. native peoples, several invasions of Canada, the slaughter for oil fields, the impoverishing of Latin America to satisfy the unsatisfiable greed of American billionaires - and the wars against some twenty plus countries around the world - and who know hows many CIA murders. (By the way, did you know that a very large part of the U.S., including Texas, Arizona, the whole West Coast was taken by the U.S. by killing the Mexicans and native peoples who owned them.)
It's been the same with much of North Africa, like the horror of the Belgian Congo,the Dutch century of profound brutality towards the native people of South Africa, French murder and torture in Vietnam (French Indo-China), British and American killing and plundering for oil.
And when capitalist countries get together against each other - that's when you get world wars. Despite what our news media told us and what school history books say, World War One had nothing to do with good guys and bad guys. Almost all of the countries were going through enormous industrial development - and looking scared at neighbours who were becoming serious competition.
Capitalists in those countries all planned for a war against each other. France was no angel. It's capitalists wanted a war to reduce competition. Almost all of the countries in that war were in for that reason. That's why, in the peace treaty, when everyone knew that no one country was guilty for the war, Britain and France insisted on a clause that made Germany pay them huge amounts, so huge it's economy was destroyed. And that, incidentally, is what caused the rise of Hitler.
World War Two? It was the second act of World War One. Britain and the U.S. at first, saw this as great. Hitler would be the foe of Russia, saving British and American billionaires from the cost of doing it.
That's why Britain took a long time about declaring war, and why the U.S. took years. American capitalists were great admirers of Hitler - Rockefeller supplied Hitler with almost all his oil right up to 1945.
The U.S. entered the war late - and only because it thought it could steal China from the British, and plunder it as the British had. It fought in the European/African war to plunder the British billionaires - notably to get control of the Middle East oil fields, a task it's still killing for.
Meanwhile, millions are trying to flee from countries being destroyed by climate change. Europe won't help them. The U.S. puts them in cages. Canada is, to put it kindly, unwelcoming - expecially Quebec.
Oh, I know. I'm criticizing our soldiers who risked their lives in two world wars and Korea.
No. I'm not. Even as a kid I was impressed by them.
I remember them coming to our house to say goodbye. I remember those who died. I realize now they had no idea what WW1, WW2, Korea, Afghanistan and others were about. And our news media and our politicians and, yes, our billionaires have never told them. And they never will.
Right now, the very wealthy are flirting with the idea of World War 3. (You know, for honour). And very few of us will survive that.
Hitler is still alive. He's in Europe and the Americas and Africa and Asia. And he's saying Heil to both sides.
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