https://nationalpost.com/opinion/stephen-ledrew-canada-should-enforce-the-law-with-wetsuweten-anti-pipeline-protests
https://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-rail-blockades-could-turn-into-a-full-blown-secession-crisis-and-trudeaus-government-is-to--first-nations-pipeline-protests-that-are-shutting-down-the-railways
The National Post and the Financial Post are both sections of an Ottawa daily newspaper. Both were profoundly influenced by Conrad Black, a man I shared radio studio space each week at CBC in Montreal. He was arrogant, pig-headed, contemptuous of anybody who wasn't rich. He went to prison in the U.S. for illegal newspaper methods. (But he wrote a book about what a great guy Donald Trump is - and so got a pardon for his crime.)
Black always favoured the rich - and his newspapers have always reflected that. That's why we get raving newspaper items like the ones above.
Reading this, the impression is that the indigenous leaders are evil and corrupt. And, of course, oil is good for us. Yes. The oil barons will lead us all to joy and prosperity.
Diane Francis and Stephen Ledrew completely ignore the thousands of scientists
who have warned us about the dangers of oil. No. The important thing is that oil makes money for rich people - and rich people are all that count in the Conrad Black world.
And while they attack those indigenous leaders in B.C. for blocking the building of an oil pipeline, they ignore that fact and Indigenous people across Canada oppose the pipeline. So do a great many other Canadians who are not indigenous. A pipeline will encourage the deadly effects of oil, including spillage. It will encourage the use of a product that could well destroy us all - and soon.
And why are Canadians footing the 15 or so billion dollar price of this pipeline?
Why do we have to build a pipeline for the billionaires who own the oil industry - and who don't pay income tax to anybody.
And this will bring prosperity to Canada? Like hell it will. For a start, it is stealing 15 billion dollars from the rest us.
The Financial Post and the National Post are and always have been kiss-ups for the very rich. These are not newspapers in any real sense. They, like most of our commercial news media, are servants of their wealthy owners.
For a saner view......
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/14/wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-allies
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/11/trump-puts-cuban-doctors-in-firing-line-as-heat-turned-up-on-island-economy
God bless America. Or whatever.
If Americans are so keen on democracy, shouldn't they try it out on their own country?
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/worst-case-scenario-2050-climate-crisis-future-we-choose-christiana-figueres-tom-rivett-carnac
I did not find this story (or any story) in our Ottawa newspapers. And you, almost certainly, won't find it in yours.
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/15/venezuela-schools-collapse-amid-economic-crisis
Public education began 200 years ago. For the first time in history, all children got a chance for education. It was slow to develop, though, and the rich still sent their precious ones to expensive private schools. (These private schools are not necessarily better, but they do give students a greater sense of arrogance that poses as superiority.)
Starting about 50 years ago, public schools began a dramatic improvement in the benefits of education for their children. But the wealthy wouldn't stand for that.
So the U.S. led the way in increasing privately owned education, often destroying public schools in the process. Governments in both Canada and the U.S. are encouraging this development of education for all. So if the poor are kept poor by inferior education.....tough.
This is very evident in the province of Ontario where I live. Why are they doing this? To reduce taxes for the very rich - most of whom pay no taxes at all.
Our public schools must have the resources to give all children a chance for advancement. But as it is, our politicians are impoverishing the schools to keep the poor poor.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-indigenous-first-nations-pipeline-rail-protests-1.5463827
ALL Canadians should be demonstrating in support of indigenous peoples. We, all of us, are paying some 15 billion dollars of our taxes to lay a pipeline as a gift to billionaires. As well, we are insisting it be laid over land that is not ours. Would you support a dangerous pipeline to run through your back yard?
Anyway, it's not just indigenous people who are complaining. A great many Canadians who are not indigenous are equally angry. at this giving away of our taxes to billionaires (who don't pay taxes) so they can perpetuate an industry that is likely to destroy all of us.
We have, maybe, thirty years to make serious progress on this danger. And we're being told that we have to pay billions of our money - which money now cannot be used for schools or medical services or housing for the poor -to people who will happily destroy us for their own profits.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/coronavirus-china-canada-meng-wanzhou-1.5465011
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/teck-frontier-cost-benefit-leach-olszynski-1.5460151
Compare this to the half-wit lying and hysteria of Ottawa's National Post that this blog issue began with.
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For all of this blog's American readers.
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/02/us-commentators-should-learn-about-canadian-health-care-dissing-it
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/02/rail-blockades-are-proving-be-effective-non-violent-response
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/02/justin-trudeau-lectures-others-about-human-rights-while-forgetting-issues-home
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/amazon-onslaught
And Bolsonaro has the full support of American and Canadian governments.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/traditional-indigenous-and-white-mans-conflicting-rules-of-law-a-coming-to-terms-that-hasnt-been-resolved-since-first-contact
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/14/u-s-lies-and-deaths-in-afghanistan/
Almost all wars are NOT fought for the reasons given to us. World War One was not caused by evil Germans. It was fought to satisfy the greed of capitalists on both sides who wanted to dominate markets. And that was true of France, Britain, Germany, just about all of them.
World War Two was NOT fought because Hitler was evil (though he was evil - but so were most of the others.) Western capitalists liked Hitler (and hated Jews, just as he did. Yes, we were all guilty of anti-semitism.) They liked Hitler because he was going to hold back communism in Europe. Henry Ford thought Hitler an admirable man. The American oil baron Rockefeller supplied all of the oil that German forces used in all of world war two. Britain and France turned against Hitler only because it became clear he was going to attack them - and because he was becoming a powerful force in the competition of German capitalism.
The U.S. joined world war two only because it hoped to capture control of the British Empire so American capitalists could plunder it as the British capitalists had. They particularly wanted China and they wanted middle east oil.
Forget the sloganeering about 'fighting for the King' or 'serving one's country'.
Soon after 1945, the U.S. began it's attempt, still going, to conquer the world so it could be plundered by American capitalists. (That's what 'Make America Great' really means.
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https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/02/14/Desmond-Cole-Skin-Were-In-Book-Black-Canadians/
Yes. Canada is and always has been racist. Just check it's treatment of Blacks, indigenous people, Chinese, Muslims. Japanese - and, in Quebec, of English-speaking people.
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Another story that will not appear in Ottawa's National Post.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/02/14/RCMP-Accused-Crisis-Press-Freedom/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/un-special-rapporteur-torture-demolishes-fake-claims-targeting-julian-assange/5703710
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52983.ht
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52979.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52981.htm
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I was into my teens before I knew more than a couple of Jews in Montreal. I soon became impressed by the Jewish community, it's commitment to it's children, it's passion for learning, it's devotion to causes for the betterment of society. It was quite different from the gentile world that I had known. I soon realized that Jews were far more serious and active in 'causes', and for many years they were my favourite audiences in the 60 or so talks I gave every year. I admired there caring for their children, their devotion to needed causes....
Like them, I celebrated the development of Israel - for a time. But I soon realized that Israeli Jews were nothing like the ones I knew in Montreal.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-peace-plan-redraw-borders-exclude-arab-citizens-of-israel/264812/
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/02/14/news/scheer-blasted-racist-and-absurd-telling-wetsuweten-supporters-check-their-privilege
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/02/12/opinion/elizabeth-may-asks-what-cost-canada
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https://theantimedia.com/iraq-and-russia-prepare-to-boost-military-ties-as-us-threatens-sanctions/
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We don't have much time to take back control of our own countries and our own lives. In Canada, the Conservatives and the Liberals are a dead loss. The NDP and the Greens are both better. But both of those parties have yet to realize the depth of the crisis we face.
And the U.S.? The Democrats and the Republicans are largely the same. Even the rise of Bernie Sanders has changed enough of that. If Sanders wins the leadership of the Democrats, he will be bogged down with many Democrats who are interchangeable with Republicans.
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