https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boris-johnson-win-brexit-uk-ireland-scotland-1.5395001
The Conservative Party of Britain, in all its years of existence, has never given a damn for the needs of the British people. It has always been the party of the upper classes. Scotland and Northern Ireland have been ready for some time now to pull out of Britain. The empire that ruled the waves is gone (much of it, as in the middle east, stolen by Britain's 'friend' , the U.S. which also tried to snap up much of the old British Empire , notably by recapturing China, at which both the U.S. and Britain failed).
So we are very likely to see the end of "Great Britain" itself in the near future. Ah, I regret the wasted years of my elementary schooling when I learned every day to point to a Union Jack and say, "I pledge allegiance to this flag, and to the
empire for which it stands."
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-neil-macdonald-1.5381324
Justin Trudeau is a master of talking big - and doing nothing.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-smarter-stronger-justice-act-legal-aid-1.5393810
How could the people of Ontario have voted for this billionaire-loving dolt?
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/13/billionaires-taxes-inequality-one-percent
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/14/afghanistan-papers-detail-us-dysfunction-we-did-not-know-what-we-were-doing
And the people of Canada happily sent Canadians to die in Afghanistan. And the Canadian Legion didn't offer a word of caution.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/13/richer-nations-accused-of-stalling-progress-on-climate-crisis
This is particularly dangerous with the stance of China and it's huge population refusing to cooperate.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/14/western-australia-bushfire-out-of-control-as-temperatures-expected-to-surge-above-40c
This can't be true. As the premier of Ontario has told us - there is no climate change happening.
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/12/racism-and-mental-health-neglect-magnify-suffering-canadas-prison-system
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-foundation-settlement/
"Bring me you poor, you huddled masses yearning to be free...."
American school children are trained to believe in this lie. That's why they grow up believing all sorts of nonsense about America's virtues.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/teachers-strike-chicago-taxes/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/michael-bloomberg-media/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/quebec-secularism-hijab-bill/
Take a good look at the teacher in this photo. Except for the colours of her clothing, she looks like one the nuns who taught in Quebec schools for centuries.
And it was quite acceptable. In fact, the nuns went even further in wearing a religious symbol, a Christian cross, hanging from their necks.
Quebec's laws on forbidding religious symbols have nothing to do with stamping out objectionable appearances. They have everything to do with racism.
_________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-english-turkeys-vote-for-christmas-with-brexit-election
Dyer is, quite possibly, the best political analyst in the world. I knew him, very slightly, many years ago when we were both on the air at CBC in Montreal. And even in those days when we were both young, he was obviously well above the rest of us.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/14/ilhan-omar-joins-sanders-drawing-1300-people-largest-new-hampshire-rally-2020
Bernie Sanders has attracted enormous support in a U.S. that has, from the start, kissed the boots of the very wealthy. Can he win an election? I don't know. The super-wealthy will be spending perhaps the biggest political pay-offs in history and, probably, not all of them legally. And the main purpose of that spending will be to defeat Sanders. And, of course, their news media will not be supporting Sanders.
And that will mean a profound split among Americans of a sort not seen since the civil war.
Note the sub-head - Every year, a half-million Americans go bankrupt because of the scandalous costs of private medical care. American medical corporation are now trying to get control of Britain's health care system - for their own profit. The premier of Alberta is showing interest in it, too. And I can easily picture other Canadian premiers. like Ontario's leading twit, Doug Ford, following suit.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/outrage-after-south-carolina-gets-trump-ok-attack-medicaid-work-requirement-policy
Let's get real. Our billionaires don't give a damn about the health of people, or their needs, or their protection from a nuclear war that is becoming very possible. Their only interest is in their own greed. And they own Canada's Liberals and Conservatives, the American Republicans, and a good many of the Democrats.
Indeed, the only major American politician since 1775 to actually campaign on the needs of the American people rather than just the super-wealthy, has been Bernie Sanders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/sick-my-stomach-explosive-report-details-ice-negligence-medical-care-detained
Again - here's the old God bless America indifference to slaughter.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/arms-expert-warns-reckless-and-unnecessary-escalation-after-pentagon-tests-missile
This is the same U.S. that killed thousands of people just in testing it's bombs at Bikini. This is the same U.S. which says it would be evil for Iran to have even one bomb - while itself having thousands.
And the U.S. bombs are far, far more powerful than those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
_________________________________________________________________
The real world.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/13/someone-interfered-in-the-uk-election-it-wasnt-russia/
Sadly, the BBC sold out long ago. In Canada, the CBC journalists are commonly under pressure to "toe the line" in order to please somebody with power.
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/julian-assange-denied-access-to-lawyers-and-vital-evidence-in-us-extradition-case
Who are the Hitlers in this case? They're Britain and the U.S. They're doing the torture and the killing of an honest journalist - because he's honest.
And who are the Mussolini's that stand by quietly approving this?
Canadians spring to mind.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/to-redress-debacle-due-to-neoliberal-policies-argentina-to-declare-economic-health-and-social-emergencies
_________________________________________________________________
For our super wealthy, geed wins every time over any moral or intellectual thought.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/earth-in-extremis-while-trump-plays-ostrich
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/indigenous-bolivia-ready-to-go-to-war-against-fascism
And kiss-up Canada, supporting it's good friend the U.S., is taking the side of the fascists.
Canada glorious and free? I don't think so.
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/12/12/Harper-Comeback/
And any Canadian who has ever voted for Harper or Doug Ford or Cheney or Conservatives or Liberals in general , is dumb enough to vote for Harper again. And, again, expect him to serve only the oil billionaires and the very, very rich.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/award-winning-journalist-vanessa-beeley-faces-deplatforming-at-six-canadian-venues/5697546
No surprise. Canadians have an aversion to hearing the truth.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arms-race-in-outer-space-preserving-arms-control-treaties-un-general-assembly-adopts-five-resolutions-sponsored-by-russia/5697635
Those evil Russians.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-fbi-another-worry-in-the-national-security-state/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/mortality-rising-trump-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream/
Don't worry about it. The death rate among the very rich is still relatively low.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52707.htm
The truth we are rarely told is that the U.S. is a brutal, vicious, greedy exploiter of almost all of Latin America. Cuba is the only one that has broken free - and it's suffering for it's impudence.
Do the ordinary people of the U.S. gain anything from this? No. that all goes to the billionaires - mostly American and Canadian - who have plundered Latin America for much more than a lifetime.
And when Haiti had the nerve to elect a government, the U.S. sent in an army to destroy it - with wimpy Canada sending 'peacekeepers' to ensure that democracy would not return.
_________________________________________________________________
https://outline.com/ccy35d
The U.S. is crushing Syria, essentially so it's oil barons can plunder the whole middle east. American tax payers pay for the killing and plundering. The oil barons get all the profit - and give none of it back to the American taxpayers.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52708.htm
Too true.
The U.S. is almost certainly headed for domestic violence as this goes on.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/congress-defense-bill-forces-pentagon-finally-count-afghanistan-civilian-deaths-ncna1101141
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52699.htm
In more than seventy years of wars that most of us never even heard of, the super wealthy of the western world are driving us all into unending war and unending mass poverty.
Where will that take us? Ever notice that the American lust for world conquest is a carbon copy of the brutality and greed of the British Empire?
If we're lucky it will take us, all of us, into the final, grand war of planetary destruction that will soon end us all. If we aren't lucky, we'll die more slowly in our own violence as our society collapses under the weight of the greed of our super wealthy.
And our Christian churches? They haven't been Christian since the crusaders invaded Palestine - and even before that. They ultimate triumph of 'Christian' values is the rise of the evangelical protestants who support Trump. To them, the whole meaning of Christianity is to get themselves into heaven while the rest of us go to hell. There are no ten commandments. There is no charity, no compassion.
_________________________________________________________________
As I write this, I'm suffering computer grief. It is refusing to let me past the sites above that I have just posted. So I now have to skip to the close of this post.
Greed and lying have always been features of our history. The crusader knights went to Palestine to free the land of Jesus? Like hell they did. They went there just to plunder as they had done from the start in their European countries.
And all they way they did that, the Christian churches prayed for their success in plunder.
And the European aristocracies and the churches, supported the constant plundering and abuse of the wretched ordinary people in Europe. From there, the western world conquered the Americas, mass murdering the native peoples as they went in a slaughter even more barbarous than those in the "Holy Land" slaughters.
None of this really did the folks back home much help. Just as the wealthy Europeans plundered and abused the foreign world, they also horribly abused their own lower classes. They still do, as wealthy Americans and Canadians now do to their own (and growing) lower classes.
We can deal with this - if only we could get more news media to tell the truth.
But we don't have much time to deal with it.
The Conservative Party of Britain, in all its years of existence, has never given a damn for the needs of the British people. It has always been the party of the upper classes. Scotland and Northern Ireland have been ready for some time now to pull out of Britain. The empire that ruled the waves is gone (much of it, as in the middle east, stolen by Britain's 'friend' , the U.S. which also tried to snap up much of the old British Empire , notably by recapturing China, at which both the U.S. and Britain failed).
So we are very likely to see the end of "Great Britain" itself in the near future. Ah, I regret the wasted years of my elementary schooling when I learned every day to point to a Union Jack and say, "I pledge allegiance to this flag, and to the
empire for which it stands."
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-neil-macdonald-1.5381324
Justin Trudeau is a master of talking big - and doing nothing.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-smarter-stronger-justice-act-legal-aid-1.5393810
How could the people of Ontario have voted for this billionaire-loving dolt?
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/13/billionaires-taxes-inequality-one-percent
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/14/afghanistan-papers-detail-us-dysfunction-we-did-not-know-what-we-were-doing
And the people of Canada happily sent Canadians to die in Afghanistan. And the Canadian Legion didn't offer a word of caution.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/13/richer-nations-accused-of-stalling-progress-on-climate-crisis
This is particularly dangerous with the stance of China and it's huge population refusing to cooperate.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/14/western-australia-bushfire-out-of-control-as-temperatures-expected-to-surge-above-40c
This can't be true. As the premier of Ontario has told us - there is no climate change happening.
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/12/racism-and-mental-health-neglect-magnify-suffering-canadas-prison-system
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-foundation-settlement/
"Bring me you poor, you huddled masses yearning to be free...."
American school children are trained to believe in this lie. That's why they grow up believing all sorts of nonsense about America's virtues.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/teachers-strike-chicago-taxes/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/michael-bloomberg-media/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/quebec-secularism-hijab-bill/
Take a good look at the teacher in this photo. Except for the colours of her clothing, she looks like one the nuns who taught in Quebec schools for centuries.
And it was quite acceptable. In fact, the nuns went even further in wearing a religious symbol, a Christian cross, hanging from their necks.
Quebec's laws on forbidding religious symbols have nothing to do with stamping out objectionable appearances. They have everything to do with racism.
_________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-english-turkeys-vote-for-christmas-with-brexit-election
Dyer is, quite possibly, the best political analyst in the world. I knew him, very slightly, many years ago when we were both on the air at CBC in Montreal. And even in those days when we were both young, he was obviously well above the rest of us.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/14/ilhan-omar-joins-sanders-drawing-1300-people-largest-new-hampshire-rally-2020
Bernie Sanders has attracted enormous support in a U.S. that has, from the start, kissed the boots of the very wealthy. Can he win an election? I don't know. The super-wealthy will be spending perhaps the biggest political pay-offs in history and, probably, not all of them legally. And the main purpose of that spending will be to defeat Sanders. And, of course, their news media will not be supporting Sanders.
And that will mean a profound split among Americans of a sort not seen since the civil war.
Note the sub-head - Every year, a half-million Americans go bankrupt because of the scandalous costs of private medical care. American medical corporation are now trying to get control of Britain's health care system - for their own profit. The premier of Alberta is showing interest in it, too. And I can easily picture other Canadian premiers. like Ontario's leading twit, Doug Ford, following suit.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/outrage-after-south-carolina-gets-trump-ok-attack-medicaid-work-requirement-policy
Let's get real. Our billionaires don't give a damn about the health of people, or their needs, or their protection from a nuclear war that is becoming very possible. Their only interest is in their own greed. And they own Canada's Liberals and Conservatives, the American Republicans, and a good many of the Democrats.
Indeed, the only major American politician since 1775 to actually campaign on the needs of the American people rather than just the super-wealthy, has been Bernie Sanders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/sick-my-stomach-explosive-report-details-ice-negligence-medical-care-detained
Again - here's the old God bless America indifference to slaughter.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/13/arms-expert-warns-reckless-and-unnecessary-escalation-after-pentagon-tests-missile
This is the same U.S. that killed thousands of people just in testing it's bombs at Bikini. This is the same U.S. which says it would be evil for Iran to have even one bomb - while itself having thousands.
And the U.S. bombs are far, far more powerful than those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
_________________________________________________________________
The real world.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/13/someone-interfered-in-the-uk-election-it-wasnt-russia/
Sadly, the BBC sold out long ago. In Canada, the CBC journalists are commonly under pressure to "toe the line" in order to please somebody with power.
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/julian-assange-denied-access-to-lawyers-and-vital-evidence-in-us-extradition-case
Who are the Hitlers in this case? They're Britain and the U.S. They're doing the torture and the killing of an honest journalist - because he's honest.
And who are the Mussolini's that stand by quietly approving this?
Canadians spring to mind.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/to-redress-debacle-due-to-neoliberal-policies-argentina-to-declare-economic-health-and-social-emergencies
_________________________________________________________________
For our super wealthy, geed wins every time over any moral or intellectual thought.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/earth-in-extremis-while-trump-plays-ostrich
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/indigenous-bolivia-ready-to-go-to-war-against-fascism
And kiss-up Canada, supporting it's good friend the U.S., is taking the side of the fascists.
Canada glorious and free? I don't think so.
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/12/12/Harper-Comeback/
And any Canadian who has ever voted for Harper or Doug Ford or Cheney or Conservatives or Liberals in general , is dumb enough to vote for Harper again. And, again, expect him to serve only the oil billionaires and the very, very rich.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/award-winning-journalist-vanessa-beeley-faces-deplatforming-at-six-canadian-venues/5697546
No surprise. Canadians have an aversion to hearing the truth.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arms-race-in-outer-space-preserving-arms-control-treaties-un-general-assembly-adopts-five-resolutions-sponsored-by-russia/5697635
Those evil Russians.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-fbi-another-worry-in-the-national-security-state/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/mortality-rising-trump-and-the-death-of-the-american-dream/
Don't worry about it. The death rate among the very rich is still relatively low.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52707.htm
The truth we are rarely told is that the U.S. is a brutal, vicious, greedy exploiter of almost all of Latin America. Cuba is the only one that has broken free - and it's suffering for it's impudence.
Do the ordinary people of the U.S. gain anything from this? No. that all goes to the billionaires - mostly American and Canadian - who have plundered Latin America for much more than a lifetime.
And when Haiti had the nerve to elect a government, the U.S. sent in an army to destroy it - with wimpy Canada sending 'peacekeepers' to ensure that democracy would not return.
_________________________________________________________________
https://outline.com/ccy35d
The U.S. is crushing Syria, essentially so it's oil barons can plunder the whole middle east. American tax payers pay for the killing and plundering. The oil barons get all the profit - and give none of it back to the American taxpayers.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52708.htm
Too true.
The U.S. is almost certainly headed for domestic violence as this goes on.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/congress-defense-bill-forces-pentagon-finally-count-afghanistan-civilian-deaths-ncna1101141
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52699.htm
In more than seventy years of wars that most of us never even heard of, the super wealthy of the western world are driving us all into unending war and unending mass poverty.
Where will that take us? Ever notice that the American lust for world conquest is a carbon copy of the brutality and greed of the British Empire?
If we're lucky it will take us, all of us, into the final, grand war of planetary destruction that will soon end us all. If we aren't lucky, we'll die more slowly in our own violence as our society collapses under the weight of the greed of our super wealthy.
And our Christian churches? They haven't been Christian since the crusaders invaded Palestine - and even before that. They ultimate triumph of 'Christian' values is the rise of the evangelical protestants who support Trump. To them, the whole meaning of Christianity is to get themselves into heaven while the rest of us go to hell. There are no ten commandments. There is no charity, no compassion.
_________________________________________________________________
As I write this, I'm suffering computer grief. It is refusing to let me past the sites above that I have just posted. So I now have to skip to the close of this post.
Greed and lying have always been features of our history. The crusader knights went to Palestine to free the land of Jesus? Like hell they did. They went there just to plunder as they had done from the start in their European countries.
And all they way they did that, the Christian churches prayed for their success in plunder.
And the European aristocracies and the churches, supported the constant plundering and abuse of the wretched ordinary people in Europe. From there, the western world conquered the Americas, mass murdering the native peoples as they went in a slaughter even more barbarous than those in the "Holy Land" slaughters.
None of this really did the folks back home much help. Just as the wealthy Europeans plundered and abused the foreign world, they also horribly abused their own lower classes. They still do, as wealthy Americans and Canadians now do to their own (and growing) lower classes.
We can deal with this - if only we could get more news media to tell the truth.
But we don't have much time to deal with it.
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