https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths
https://www.worldvision.ca/about-us/media-centre/canadas-child-labour-problem
And no, it's not just China that does it. It's done by our most highly respected capitalists in the western world with U.S.capitalists currently the leaders. One of the most brutal of such countries was Britain until well into the twentieth century. The British Empire of course exploited hundreds of millions of children as colonial labour at starvation wages and death by accidents - and did it until is was kicked out in World War 2.
We did the same to young workers in Britain, the U.S. and Canada into the twentieth century, . British children were sent down chimneys to clean them. In Ontario in the late nineteenth century, a boy working on a dangerous piece of machinery lost an arm when the machinery went wrong. He was fired instantly, and put out of the factory to get home, somehow, on his own.
Most of our news media rarely bothered with reporting all this. Of course not. The owners of all our major news media have been of the same social class - and frequently have been the same people - as the employers of the poor.
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https://www.alternet.org/2016/06/there-huge-education-gap-between-poor-students-and-their-wealthier-peers-what-needs-be-done/
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Haaretz (Israel) is one of this world's better newspapers. And it's far more critical of Israeli leadership than most papers in the western world. Here's a sampling.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMVzxJmBlZWNtvbvRGndSJvc
Unlike most Christians, and unlike many North American Jews, Haaretz actually knows what Judaism is about.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/trump-us-latest-coronavirus-reporters
The U.S. has a president who practices racism and and sexism. He practices hatred as if that were really a policy. He has the support of very large numbers of Christians who have a bizarre notion of what Christianity is about. He has an opposition party which, like his own, is really a servant of the very rich. Politically, there is no hope for the U.S.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/12/uk-takes-a-pasting-from-worlds-press-over-coronavirus
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/12/us-fossil-fuel-companies-coronavirus-bailout-oil-coal-fracking-giants-bond-scheme
Growing numbers of Americans are sleeping in the streets and/or going hungry.
But fossil fuel billionaires get enormous gifts so they can go on killing.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/12/trump-taxes-supreme-court-hearing-absolute-power
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/05/pandemic-restrictions-ease-canada-should-replace-its
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/coronavirus-has-us-physicians-eyeing-politics-will-covid-19-and
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/andrew-scheers-party-and-ugliest-amendment-ever-moved
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Canada - The puppet of U.S. billionaires.... (and Canadian ones.)
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/ignoring-plea-un-justin-trudeau-refuses-lift-sanctions-poor-nations-during
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/ignoring-plea-un-justin-trudeau-refuses-lift-sanctions-poor-nations-during
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/pandemic-rattles-global-food-system-report-deems-mass-malnutrition-worlds-top-killer
We've been starving people to death for centuries - and that's especially true of the years starting with Columbus and then the British Empire and now it's love-child, the U.S.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/pandemic-rattles-global-food-system-report-deems-mass-malnutrition-worlds-top-killer
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/disaster-capitalism-its-worst-report-details-big-oils-efforts-cash-coronavirus
And Trudeau, too, is kissing Canada's oil bums.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/end-us-empire-covid-19-exposes-once-great-superpower-epic-failure
The U.S. has been in relative decline for almost thirty years. Today, it cannot fight a conventional war against, say, Russia and China. Any war, as a desperate last throw would now have to nuclear.
Such a war would kill hundreds of millions, possibly a billion or more. And, by the nature of such a war the heaviest casualties by far would be civilians and children. (But that's okay. For many years now - in fact, going all the way back to George Washington and the Indian wars, American soldiers have been getting medals for killing civilians and children.. That's not sarcasm. That's reality.)
And voting for Democrats won't help. Democrats, like Republicans, are owned by the same billionaires, and have the same policies.
________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/12/get-ready-for-next-game-changer-the-digital-yuan/
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/the-betrayal-of-the-american-soldier
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic-americas-billionaires-thrive-and-prosper/
And it's not much different for Canada's billionaires. Of course, they too own two political parties - the Liberals and the Conservatives.
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/11/The-Oil-Sands-Are-Done/
_________________________________________________________________
When I was fifteen, I read Winston Churchill's history of Britain. It was a magnificent read. He was a great writer.
But, as I would later discover, he was not a great man.
He was born into the British aristocracy and it's values. That meant he had utter contempt for the rest of the world, including the mass of the British people. Everything he did was to benefit the upper class. And in war? He was a very happy killer and abuser of civilians all over the British Empire.
But, to this day, he maintains a high standing in the minds of most people.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/winston-churchill-fought-his-class-never-ours/5712482
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/reinventing-history-us-specialty/5712459
_________________________________________________________________
Betcha didn't learn this next bit in your school history courses.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/victory-europe-day-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/5712411
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-fight-against-covid-19/5712594
Think this would have happened if the U.S. had killed Castro and kept control of Cuba?
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I'm ending this blot for teocay because I'm running late as a result of computer problems. But there are a couple of more points we should be thinking about.
One concerns a news story in a paper called Financial Post. It's one of Canada's leading dailies.And it recently had a story headed "Industry Welcomes Aid for Hard- Hit Large Firms."
The Canadian government has been giving them billions of dollars - gifts from all of us to corporations (including oil) owned by billionaires who haven't paid income tax - or most other taxes - for years. In addition to the legal savings they get, they also, almost certainly illegally, hide billions of dollars in secret bank accounts. Meanwhile, many, many millions of Canadians, Americans, British...face years of poverty and hunger.
Common sense should tell us we cannot survive this form of capitalism.
But The Financial Post doesn't mention any of that. Oh, those 'hard-hit large firms"...that's the whole story. Bless their little hearts. And that's a typical reaction to express how happy we all feel that billionaires will get more help from----the rest of us.
And that's typical of our news media. The billionaires who walk off with our money don't get criticized by most of our news media. Of course not. The billionaires own most of our news media.
And that sort of propaganda is typical of their idea of news. Most of us don't get news - just propaganda.
And the millions of children who are going hungry? Who gives a damn?
And there's an important footnote to this. These same billionaires also own the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S., and the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada. That's why Prime Minister Trudeau is so concerned about their welfare. That's why the Conservative government slobbers all over the super rich.
The governments of the U.S., Canada, Britain and others have for years been the servants of the rich.
And the future?
Unless we get a real democracy, there is no future.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
knows what Judaism is about.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths
https://www.worldvision.ca/about-us/media-centre/canadas-child-labour-problem
And no, it's not just China that does it. It's done by our most highly respected capitalists in the western world with U.S.capitalists currently the leaders. One of the most brutal of such countries was Britain until well into the twentieth century. The British Empire of course exploited hundreds of millions of children as colonial labour at starvation wages and death by accidents - and did it until is was kicked out in World War 2.
We did the same to young workers in Britain, the U.S. and Canada into the twentieth century, . British children were sent down chimneys to clean them. In Ontario in the late nineteenth century, a boy working on a dangerous piece of machinery lost an arm when the machinery went wrong. He was fired instantly, and put out of the factory to get home, somehow, on his own.
Most of our news media rarely bothered with reporting all this. Of course not. The owners of all our major news media have been of the same social class - and frequently have been the same people - as the employers of the poor.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.alternet.org/2016/06/there-huge-education-gap-between-poor-students-and-their-wealthier-peers-what-needs-be-done/
________________________________________________________________
Haaretz (Israel) is one of this world's better newspapers. And it's far more critical of Israeli leadership than most papers in the western world. Here's a sampling.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMVzxJmBlZWNtvbvRGndSJvc
Unlike most Christians, and unlike many North American Jews, Haaretz actually knows what Judaism is about.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/trump-us-latest-coronavirus-reporters
The U.S. has a president who practices racism and and sexism. He practices hatred as if that were really a policy. He has the support of very large numbers of Christians who have a bizarre notion of what Christianity is about. He has an opposition party which, like his own, is really a servant of the very rich. Politically, there is no hope for the U.S.
____________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/12/uk-takes-a-pasting-from-worlds-press-over-coronavirus
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/12/us-fossil-fuel-companies-coronavirus-bailout-oil-coal-fracking-giants-bond-scheme
Growing numbers of Americans are sleeping in the streets and/or going hungry.
But fossil fuel billionaires get enormous gifts so they can go on killing.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/12/trump-taxes-supreme-court-hearing-absolute-power
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/05/pandemic-restrictions-ease-canada-should-replace-its
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/coronavirus-has-us-physicians-eyeing-politics-will-covid-19-and
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/andrew-scheers-party-and-ugliest-amendment-ever-moved
________________________________________________________________
Canada - The puppet of U.S. billionaires.... (and Canadian ones.)
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/ignoring-plea-un-justin-trudeau-refuses-lift-sanctions-poor-nations-during
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/05/ignoring-plea-un-justin-trudeau-refuses-lift-sanctions-poor-nations-during
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/pandemic-rattles-global-food-system-report-deems-mass-malnutrition-worlds-top-killer
We've been starving people to death for centuries - and that's especially true of the years starting with Columbus and then the British Empire and now it's love-child, the U.S.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/pandemic-rattles-global-food-system-report-deems-mass-malnutrition-worlds-top-killer
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/12/disaster-capitalism-its-worst-report-details-big-oils-efforts-cash-coronavirus
And Trudeau, too, is kissing Canada's oil bums.
______________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/05/11/end-us-empire-covid-19-exposes-once-great-superpower-epic-failure
The U.S. has been in relative decline for almost thirty years. Today, it cannot fight a conventional war against, say, Russia and China. Any war, as a desperate last throw would now have to nuclear.
Such a war would kill hundreds of millions, possibly a billion or more. And, by the nature of such a war the heaviest casualties by far would be civilians and children. (But that's okay. For many years now - in fact, going all the way back to George Washington and the Indian wars, American soldiers have been getting medals for killing civilians and children.. That's not sarcasm. That's reality.)
And voting for Democrats won't help. Democrats, like Republicans, are owned by the same billionaires, and have the same policies.
________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/12/get-ready-for-next-game-changer-the-digital-yuan/
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/the-betrayal-of-the-american-soldier
________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/11/amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic-americas-billionaires-thrive-and-prosper/
And it's not much different for Canada's billionaires. Of course, they too own two political parties - the Liberals and the Conservatives.
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/05/11/The-Oil-Sands-Are-Done/
_________________________________________________________________
When I was fifteen, I read Winston Churchill's history of Britain. It was a magnificent read. He was a great writer.
But, as I would later discover, he was not a great man.
He was born into the British aristocracy and it's values. That meant he had utter contempt for the rest of the world, including the mass of the British people. Everything he did was to benefit the upper class. And in war? He was a very happy killer and abuser of civilians all over the British Empire.
But, to this day, he maintains a high standing in the minds of most people.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/winston-churchill-fought-his-class-never-ours/5712482
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/reinventing-history-us-specialty/5712459
_________________________________________________________________
Betcha didn't learn this next bit in your school history courses.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/victory-europe-day-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/5712411
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-fight-against-covid-19/5712594
Think this would have happened if the U.S. had killed Castro and kept control of Cuba?
_________________________________________________________________
I'm ending this blot for teocay because I'm running late as a result of computer problems. But there are a couple of more points we should be thinking about.
One concerns a news story in a paper called Financial Post. It's one of Canada's leading dailies.And it recently had a story headed "Industry Welcomes Aid for Hard- Hit Large Firms."
The Canadian government has been giving them billions of dollars - gifts from all of us to corporations (including oil) owned by billionaires who haven't paid income tax - or most other taxes - for years. In addition to the legal savings they get, they also, almost certainly illegally, hide billions of dollars in secret bank accounts. Meanwhile, many, many millions of Canadians, Americans, British...face years of poverty and hunger.
Common sense should tell us we cannot survive this form of capitalism.
But The Financial Post doesn't mention any of that. Oh, those 'hard-hit large firms"...that's the whole story. Bless their little hearts. And that's a typical reaction to express how happy we all feel that billionaires will get more help from----the rest of us.
And that's typical of our news media. The billionaires who walk off with our money don't get criticized by most of our news media. Of course not. The billionaires own most of our news media.
And that sort of propaganda is typical of their idea of news. Most of us don't get news - just propaganda.
And the millions of children who are going hungry? Who gives a damn?
And there's an important footnote to this. These same billionaires also own the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S., and the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada. That's why Prime Minister Trudeau is so concerned about their welfare. That's why the Conservative government slobbers all over the super rich.
The governments of the U.S., Canada, Britain and others have for years been the servants of the rich.
And the future?
Unless we get a real democracy, there is no future.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
knows what Judaism is about.
________________________________________________________________
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