...that's why this one will be brief.
I had spent many hours writing it, and was into the home stretch.
And then it all disappeared. This has heppened before though, blessedly, at long intervals. On the three occasions, it seems to have happened when my fingers accidentally touched a key in the upper left hand of my keyboard.
I'll try again on Friday. Meanwhile, here are some key feature of today's (Thursdays) items.
The U.S. has become the leading disaster area in coronavirus management in the whole world. Despite having all the time of warming as China went through it's crisis, American leaders made no preparation whatever. And when it did begin to notice, the American leadership seemed indifferent.
As a result, and despite all the warning signs, the U.S. is way out of control with far more cases than any other country in the world. In fact, China is now recovering dramatically. But the U.S. is showing no recovery at all.
Indeed, it is far, far the most severely suffering country in the world, with many times the severity of China's suffering - though the Chinese population is many times greater than that of the U.S. And, despite the long, advance warning, it had no preparation, none whatever for the disaster. For all of Trump's accusation, the government of China has been far, far more effective than the U.S. (Similarly, Britain is a severe disaster - and for the same lazy, inactive preparations.)
When I say the U.S. (and Britain) never made the preparations they should have (and though Trump has constantly blamed this disaster on China, The U.S. and Britain never made the slighest preparation. The result is that both Britain and the the U.S.now depend on Russia and China for supplies of medical equipment.)
Nor is the problem just Trump. Despite his rise in the polls, Democrat Joe Biden has been no better than Trump in taking any lead. Both of them are concerned only with serving the super rich who supply them with money. Indeed, a major activity of both Republicans and Democrats is accepting millions in bribes to shovel more money in the pockets of the super rich.
Result - the U.S. is not a democracy, and there seems it never will be.
Canada, alas, is not so different. Both Liberals and Conservatives have concentrated on giving huge sums to the super rich. Canada might have a slight advantage oever the the U.S. in this because for all it's slobbering to the greed of the super rich, the Liberals were a little quicker in seeing the danger here.. Even he premier of Ontario is showing signs of life.
However, there is a bigger surprise waiting for Canada. As Canadian oil becomes
less marketable and, in any case, less desirable, Canada and Alberta are both punmping money into the pockets of the super rich.
That is our tax money that they are handing over to people who are not suffering and who never pay that tax money that we desperately need to keep our society livable.
So what will happen? We will never see that money again. The oil industry in Canada will fold. The billionaires will scamper off with our money,
The oil fields? Cleaning them up will cost many, many billions. But none of that money will come from the oil billionaires. Nor will they pay for any of the cleanup of those oil fields. Will that be a problem for the rest of us?
You can bet it will. Estimates for the length and cost of the cleanup? Estimates run as high as 2700 years. And the cost is greater than anyone can count. (or that anyone is likely able to pay.)
When China experienced all this, it acted quickly. And it acted on behalf of all the people of China.
The U.S. has not begun to act. Canada is not much better. As for the American people, the U.S. has simply abandoned them. And, again, Canada is not much better.
Oh, and Canada and the U.S. have far the longest border in the world. Even the Canadian and American armed forces would have a little chance of controlling the flight of Americans to Canada. But don't worry about that. A bigger danger is more likely.
China is rising very quickly to be the world's economic leader. American capitalists have to counter that.- and a few years could be a few too late.
The temptation of American capitalists will be to go for a nuclear war while they still have an edge.
That really won't be a salvation for anybody. Such a war would be one of massive destruction on all sides. But the temptation of American capitalists could well be to go for it while they still can.
And that's only a small part of the world changes we have to get ready for.
And so I'l try witing again tomorrow.
even
I had spent many hours writing it, and was into the home stretch.
And then it all disappeared. This has heppened before though, blessedly, at long intervals. On the three occasions, it seems to have happened when my fingers accidentally touched a key in the upper left hand of my keyboard.
I'll try again on Friday. Meanwhile, here are some key feature of today's (Thursdays) items.
The U.S. has become the leading disaster area in coronavirus management in the whole world. Despite having all the time of warming as China went through it's crisis, American leaders made no preparation whatever. And when it did begin to notice, the American leadership seemed indifferent.
As a result, and despite all the warning signs, the U.S. is way out of control with far more cases than any other country in the world. In fact, China is now recovering dramatically. But the U.S. is showing no recovery at all.
Indeed, it is far, far the most severely suffering country in the world, with many times the severity of China's suffering - though the Chinese population is many times greater than that of the U.S. And, despite the long, advance warning, it had no preparation, none whatever for the disaster. For all of Trump's accusation, the government of China has been far, far more effective than the U.S. (Similarly, Britain is a severe disaster - and for the same lazy, inactive preparations.)
When I say the U.S. (and Britain) never made the preparations they should have (and though Trump has constantly blamed this disaster on China, The U.S. and Britain never made the slighest preparation. The result is that both Britain and the the U.S.now depend on Russia and China for supplies of medical equipment.)
Nor is the problem just Trump. Despite his rise in the polls, Democrat Joe Biden has been no better than Trump in taking any lead. Both of them are concerned only with serving the super rich who supply them with money. Indeed, a major activity of both Republicans and Democrats is accepting millions in bribes to shovel more money in the pockets of the super rich.
Result - the U.S. is not a democracy, and there seems it never will be.
Canada, alas, is not so different. Both Liberals and Conservatives have concentrated on giving huge sums to the super rich. Canada might have a slight advantage oever the the U.S. in this because for all it's slobbering to the greed of the super rich, the Liberals were a little quicker in seeing the danger here.. Even he premier of Ontario is showing signs of life.
However, there is a bigger surprise waiting for Canada. As Canadian oil becomes
less marketable and, in any case, less desirable, Canada and Alberta are both punmping money into the pockets of the super rich.
That is our tax money that they are handing over to people who are not suffering and who never pay that tax money that we desperately need to keep our society livable.
So what will happen? We will never see that money again. The oil industry in Canada will fold. The billionaires will scamper off with our money,
The oil fields? Cleaning them up will cost many, many billions. But none of that money will come from the oil billionaires. Nor will they pay for any of the cleanup of those oil fields. Will that be a problem for the rest of us?
You can bet it will. Estimates for the length and cost of the cleanup? Estimates run as high as 2700 years. And the cost is greater than anyone can count. (or that anyone is likely able to pay.)
When China experienced all this, it acted quickly. And it acted on behalf of all the people of China.
The U.S. has not begun to act. Canada is not much better. As for the American people, the U.S. has simply abandoned them. And, again, Canada is not much better.
Oh, and Canada and the U.S. have far the longest border in the world. Even the Canadian and American armed forces would have a little chance of controlling the flight of Americans to Canada. But don't worry about that. A bigger danger is more likely.
China is rising very quickly to be the world's economic leader. American capitalists have to counter that.- and a few years could be a few too late.
The temptation of American capitalists will be to go for a nuclear war while they still have an edge.
That really won't be a salvation for anybody. Such a war would be one of massive destruction on all sides. But the temptation of American capitalists could well be to go for it while they still can.
And that's only a small part of the world changes we have to get ready for.
And so I'l try witing again tomorrow.
even
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