https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/27/democrats-need-to-take-a-long-hard-look-at-bernie-sanders-before-taking-the-plunge
I like Sanders - though I think we exaggerate the extent of his socialism. But even if he should win the presidency, how would be accomplish anything? Some of the worst opposition he would face in his presidency would come from his own party - much of which is no different from the Republicans. From the start, way back in the American revolution, the U.S. has not been a democracy. Starting with George Washington, a very wealthy landowner, American politics have always been controlled by the wealthy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-anti-democracy-protests
Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, has a good deal of the Nazi about him. He doesn't even try to hide it. It's not a coincidence that U.S. governments admire him. It's no coincidence that the Canadian government and most of the Canadian news media never critcize him.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/24/haiti-police-soldiers-gun-battle-presidential-palace-carnival
Some years ago, Haiti had a democratically elected government. But the U.S. didn't like that. So it overthrew the president, replacing him with a dictator. Canada, in it's usual role as America's wimp, sent Canadian troops as "peacekeepers". So Haiti remains a brutal dictatorship - and a very poor one. And that's the poverty U.S. and Canadian investors like to see. Indeed, they inflice a good deal of such poverty on us.
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This opinion piece is more than a little kind to Canada's oil industry. But a basic truth is there. Canada's oil industry is doomed - and doomed for reasons that have to do with the oil industry itself.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-teck-frontier-future-oilsands-1.5475658
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/teck-frontier-cost-benefit-leach-olszynski-1.5460151
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https://rabble.ca/news/2020/02/teck-stands-down-cops-roust-tyendinaga-camp-turbulent-day
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/02/what-really-happened-teck-frontier-oilsands-mine-its-market
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/02/pipeline-actions-signal-need-true-reconciliation
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https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/wetsuweten-canada-pipeline-protests/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-michael-bloomberg-nevada/
_______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-whistle-blowers-like-julian-assange-should-be-praised-not-punished
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/oas-has-lot-answer-new-mit-study-disputes-key-claim-paved-way-right-wing-coup
The American Empire, just like the British Empire, the French Empire and all the empires this world has known, exists to use it's colonials as cheap labour - and even as slaves. That's what empires are for.
It's usually a system that does nothing for most of the folks back at home. But it's a gold mine for the wealthy. And that is pretty much the history of the world.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/ocasio-cortez-says-putting-pence-charge-coronavirus-effort-irresponsible-because-he
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/outrage-hhs-chief-azar-refuses-vow-coronavirus-vaccine-will-be-affordable-all-not
Hey! Be reasonable. The whole purpose of having drugs is to make big profits for the rich. After all, poor people are going to die anyway.
_________________________________________________________________
For those who want to know about ALL of the Julian Assange trial in London, I enclose a site with reporting on ALL of the trial so far.
https://consortiumnews.com/
________________________________________________________________
Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, friend of the U.S., and so, of course, a love buddy of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives.
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/defend-democracy-lula-calls-on-citizens
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/a-difficult-peace
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/toxic-agriculture-and-the-gates-foundation
Beware of billionaires bearing gifts.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/hindutva-myths-and-reality
There is no denying the preversity of the thinking of most people on religion.
Most religions are supposed to represent responsibilities to other people, and respect for them.
But they never have.
North American evangelical Christians support the outlawing of abortion as an unChristian process. But killing children by the millions by bombing them and starving them - well, that's okay. Killing is wrong - but the world has been at war non-stop for almost a century of killing uncountable millions - with Christians leading the way.
Many Christians hate Muslims - because of - well, because they aren't Christians.
That's why we've been killing so many of them for the last century or so. Western leaders like Britain and the U.S. knew of Hitler's mass murders of Jews and Gypsies. But they really didn't give a damn - and they refused to help even those Jews who escaped. So they were sent back to die - and we knew it.
Indeed, Evangelical Christians believe that only they will get to heaven. All others, including Catholics, Protestants and Jews and certainly Muslims will go to hell.
It could be worse. I'd hate to be stuck in a heaven populated by evangelicals.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/27/bloombergs-game/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-mexican-parents-can-t-sue-border-patrol-n1142486
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53042.htm
______________________________________________________________
Hitler was not an unusual ruler of our time. Britain, the U.S., France, Belgium had long been murderous before Hitler came along. Our news media just never saw our brutalities. They still don't.
My local paper, the Ottawa something-or-other, probably can't even spell Assange.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53040.htm
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/02/24/features/when-climate-change-drove-all-men-away
Yes. Climate change is happening.And it's happening all over the world.
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/how-can-the-us-confront-coronavirus-with-28-million-people-uninsured/
The world's largest economy has lots and lots of billion dollar gifts for it's wealhiest people. But it has nothing for all those who need help. This is the world we have all created since 1945 when promises were made "We've won the war. Now, we've got to win the peace."
But our wealthy never gave a damn about the peace - or about all the rest of us.
________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/25/trump-praises-modis-india-muslims-beaten-street-mosque-defiled/
Let's not kid ourselves. We are the Nazis of our time. Hitler, incidentally, went to war so the the German wealthy could plunder and enrich themselves. I used to wonder why the western powers, at the end of the war, did not prosecute wealthy Germans who had supported Hitler. I think now that I understand why they didn't.
________________________________________________________________
For more than 2,000 years of recorded history, we have allowed ourselves to be plundered, impoverished, sometimes enslaved by small groups of people who define themselves as superior to us. That's what all the empires have been about - plundering and abusing all who are not of the ruling class.
And we just take it. And we vote for the flunkies of Conservative, Liberal, Republican and Democrat parties.
Almost all of the major wars of centuries right up to today have been wars to statisfy the rich. That's really what World War 1, World War 2, Korea, Afghanistan and the uncounted American wars (officially 50 or so American ones just since 1945) have all been about.
It's not just climate change that threatens our survival. It's our wimpiness in electing the leaders we do.
How much time to we have?
Thirty years --- maybe. And maybe none. Hitler lost his war. But his Naziism is still with us. In fact, it has been with us for some thousands of years.
Really, though, the problem isn't caused by the billionaires. It's caused by our toleration of them.
I like Sanders - though I think we exaggerate the extent of his socialism. But even if he should win the presidency, how would be accomplish anything? Some of the worst opposition he would face in his presidency would come from his own party - much of which is no different from the Republicans. From the start, way back in the American revolution, the U.S. has not been a democracy. Starting with George Washington, a very wealthy landowner, American politics have always been controlled by the wealthy.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-anti-democracy-protests
Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, has a good deal of the Nazi about him. He doesn't even try to hide it. It's not a coincidence that U.S. governments admire him. It's no coincidence that the Canadian government and most of the Canadian news media never critcize him.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/24/haiti-police-soldiers-gun-battle-presidential-palace-carnival
Some years ago, Haiti had a democratically elected government. But the U.S. didn't like that. So it overthrew the president, replacing him with a dictator. Canada, in it's usual role as America's wimp, sent Canadian troops as "peacekeepers". So Haiti remains a brutal dictatorship - and a very poor one. And that's the poverty U.S. and Canadian investors like to see. Indeed, they inflice a good deal of such poverty on us.
_________________________________________________________________
This opinion piece is more than a little kind to Canada's oil industry. But a basic truth is there. Canada's oil industry is doomed - and doomed for reasons that have to do with the oil industry itself.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-teck-frontier-future-oilsands-1.5475658
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/teck-frontier-cost-benefit-leach-olszynski-1.5460151
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/02/teck-stands-down-cops-roust-tyendinaga-camp-turbulent-day
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/02/what-really-happened-teck-frontier-oilsands-mine-its-market
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/02/pipeline-actions-signal-need-true-reconciliation
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/wetsuweten-canada-pipeline-protests/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-michael-bloomberg-nevada/
_______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-whistle-blowers-like-julian-assange-should-be-praised-not-punished
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/oas-has-lot-answer-new-mit-study-disputes-key-claim-paved-way-right-wing-coup
The American Empire, just like the British Empire, the French Empire and all the empires this world has known, exists to use it's colonials as cheap labour - and even as slaves. That's what empires are for.
It's usually a system that does nothing for most of the folks back at home. But it's a gold mine for the wealthy. And that is pretty much the history of the world.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/ocasio-cortez-says-putting-pence-charge-coronavirus-effort-irresponsible-because-he
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/outrage-hhs-chief-azar-refuses-vow-coronavirus-vaccine-will-be-affordable-all-not
Hey! Be reasonable. The whole purpose of having drugs is to make big profits for the rich. After all, poor people are going to die anyway.
_________________________________________________________________
For those who want to know about ALL of the Julian Assange trial in London, I enclose a site with reporting on ALL of the trial so far.
https://consortiumnews.com/
________________________________________________________________
Bolsonaro, Brazil's president, friend of the U.S., and so, of course, a love buddy of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives.
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/defend-democracy-lula-calls-on-citizens
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/a-difficult-peace
_________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/toxic-agriculture-and-the-gates-foundation
Beware of billionaires bearing gifts.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/02/hindutva-myths-and-reality
There is no denying the preversity of the thinking of most people on religion.
Most religions are supposed to represent responsibilities to other people, and respect for them.
But they never have.
North American evangelical Christians support the outlawing of abortion as an unChristian process. But killing children by the millions by bombing them and starving them - well, that's okay. Killing is wrong - but the world has been at war non-stop for almost a century of killing uncountable millions - with Christians leading the way.
Many Christians hate Muslims - because of - well, because they aren't Christians.
That's why we've been killing so many of them for the last century or so. Western leaders like Britain and the U.S. knew of Hitler's mass murders of Jews and Gypsies. But they really didn't give a damn - and they refused to help even those Jews who escaped. So they were sent back to die - and we knew it.
Indeed, Evangelical Christians believe that only they will get to heaven. All others, including Catholics, Protestants and Jews and certainly Muslims will go to hell.
It could be worse. I'd hate to be stuck in a heaven populated by evangelicals.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/27/bloombergs-game/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-mexican-parents-can-t-sue-border-patrol-n1142486
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53042.htm
______________________________________________________________
Hitler was not an unusual ruler of our time. Britain, the U.S., France, Belgium had long been murderous before Hitler came along. Our news media just never saw our brutalities. They still don't.
My local paper, the Ottawa something-or-other, probably can't even spell Assange.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/53040.htm
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/02/24/features/when-climate-change-drove-all-men-away
Yes. Climate change is happening.And it's happening all over the world.
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/how-can-the-us-confront-coronavirus-with-28-million-people-uninsured/
The world's largest economy has lots and lots of billion dollar gifts for it's wealhiest people. But it has nothing for all those who need help. This is the world we have all created since 1945 when promises were made "We've won the war. Now, we've got to win the peace."
But our wealthy never gave a damn about the peace - or about all the rest of us.
________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/25/trump-praises-modis-india-muslims-beaten-street-mosque-defiled/
Let's not kid ourselves. We are the Nazis of our time. Hitler, incidentally, went to war so the the German wealthy could plunder and enrich themselves. I used to wonder why the western powers, at the end of the war, did not prosecute wealthy Germans who had supported Hitler. I think now that I understand why they didn't.
________________________________________________________________
For more than 2,000 years of recorded history, we have allowed ourselves to be plundered, impoverished, sometimes enslaved by small groups of people who define themselves as superior to us. That's what all the empires have been about - plundering and abusing all who are not of the ruling class.
And we just take it. And we vote for the flunkies of Conservative, Liberal, Republican and Democrat parties.
Almost all of the major wars of centuries right up to today have been wars to statisfy the rich. That's really what World War 1, World War 2, Korea, Afghanistan and the uncounted American wars (officially 50 or so American ones just since 1945) have all been about.
It's not just climate change that threatens our survival. It's our wimpiness in electing the leaders we do.
How much time to we have?
Thirty years --- maybe. And maybe none. Hitler lost his war. But his Naziism is still with us. In fact, it has been with us for some thousands of years.
Really, though, the problem isn't caused by the billionaires. It's caused by our toleration of them.
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