THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO FIND THE NEWS THAT MOST OF OUR COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA DON'T TELL US. THIS GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1870 WITH THE APPEARANCE OF THE CHEAP NEWSPAPER.
THEY WERE CHEAP FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT IT COST A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT OUT MASS CIRCULATION OF THE NEWS. THAT MEANT ONLY THE ALREADY WEALTHY COULD OPERATE A NEWS BUSINESS.
THE RESULT WAS NEWSPAPERS VERY FRIENDLY TO THE VERY WEALTHY, AND AT A TIME WHEN CAPITALISM HAD BECOME THE DARLING OF THE VERY WEALTHY. AN EARLY AND WEALTHY AMERICAN NEWSPAPER OWNER CREATED A FALSE WAR WITH CUBA IN 1900 SO THAT WEALTHY AMERICANS COULD PLUNDER THAT NATION FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. AND THAT SOON LED TO THE NON-STOP AMERICAN WARS THAT ARE STILL THE HORROR OF LIFE IN LATIN AMERICA. IT ALSO LED TO THE MASS SLAUGHTER OF PHILIPINOS - AND NEARLY TO A WAR WITH CANADA.
IT HAPPENED IN CANADA, TOO. AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES. THE PRESS BECAME THE PROPAGANDA AGENCY FOR ALMOST 150 YEARS OF MURDER AND PLUNDER. AND, OH, THERE ARE FEW, VERY FEW, HONEST COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA TODAY.
THAT'S WHY I CREATED THIS BLOG -TO BRING HONEST AND INTELLIGENT NEWS MEDIA TO AS MANY AS I CAN.
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I taught for some time at Shue Yan University in Hong Kong. Loved it. I loved the city. I loved the city and the people....oh - there was a downside. It was called poverty. At night one could see it stretching for miles in solid rows with families, including babies, sleeping on cardboard and under stairways. Parks might have wire cages each large enough to hold one person, with three or four cages stacked together.
Well, of course. When I was there, Hong Kong was still under the arrogant, brutal, murderous rule of the British who then had a stranglehold on Hong Kong, though kicked out of China in the early 1940s Over a period of well over a century, the British ruled with an open contempt for the Chinese, a contempt shared by lesser killers and plunderers of China - like Germany and the U.S. When I was working in Hong Kong, things were brightening as it became obvious the British were going to have to leave.
Now, the U.S. is showing a passionate regard for Hong Kong. Trump has come very, very close to announcing his love for Hong Kong and his desire to humble China. And if he follows that, the result would be the destruction of Hong Kong.
His motives really don't have a lot to do with Hong Kong. The U.S., after World War Two, was hyped up with a divine passion to rule the world. But now the U.S. is rapidly losing ground. China is becoming, perhaps has become, the world's leading power. And that has consequences for the U.S. armed forces.
Despite all their parades and cheers and wealth, the U.S. military has actually been pretty feeble on many occasions since World War Two. Think Vietnam. Think Afghanistan. The U.S. army could roll over today's China? Not bloody likely.
Using the excuse of China's treatment of Hong Kong, it is possible, very possible, that Trump or the Democrats in response to the demands of their billionaire owners will go to war with China (and with Hong Kong as the excuse). And, for the U.S., that would have to be a nuclear war which, incidentally, would probably include the destruction of Hong Kong.
(Oh, in addition to the thousands of nuclear weapons owned by the U.S., China, and Russia, we then would also see them turned loose by India, Pakistan, Britain, Israel against people they don't like. We are at one hell of a dangerous edge.) Oh,
in addition to thousands of nuclear bombs going off, that might create dreadful conditions even those parts of the world that don't get bombed. Like us.
What should be done to help Hong Kong is to do what we should have done in 1945. We should have agreed then to negotiate and en to all wars. But we didn't.
The result was a U.S. that ran wild in it's fever to rule the world.
Can we go back to 1945? Can we start again? I think we could. And in the process we could work out a livable solution for Hong Kong. But to do that, we in the western world would have to get rid of our current rule by billionaire capitalists, something that Donald Trump and Joe Biden would never dream of.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/us-funding-website-spreading-covid-19-disinformatio
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/28/studies-add-to-alarm-over-deforestation-in-brazil-under-bolsonaro-covid-19
Canada NEVER criticizes Bolsonaro. That's because Bolsonaro is a pet of people like Trump. Kiss. Kiss.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/we-know-whats-wrong-long-term-care-canada-we-need-politicians
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/05/pandemic-and-climate-crises-unmask-inequalities
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/alberta-energy-minister-sonya-savage-finds-bright-side-covid-19
Oh, joy, oh rapture unforeseen...... (Gilbert and Sullivan).
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/chevron-persecution-steven-donziger/
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/28/nation-focused-pandemic-trump-interior-dept-greenlight-killing-bear-cubs-and-wolf
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/27/us-death-toll-hits-100000-people-heres-simple-guide-12-things-trump-did-make-covid
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/protests-against-police-violence-spread-across-u-s/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/countering-the-judaization-of-the-rest-of-palestine/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-china-promoted-hawaiian-independence/5714160
You won't find this in your daily paper. But it's true. Hawaiians never voted to join the U.S. It simply took over.
For that matter, the U.S. stole from Mexico the state of Texas and most of the U.S. west coast.
While we're at it, Americans stole all of what is the U.S., and Canadians stole all that is Canada. China is not at all different from us.
_________________________________________________________________
Again, Information Clearing House continues not having any information. I had thought this was due to outside interference. But it seems that it is due to the illness of it's creator, Tom Feeley.
_________________________________________________________________
Premier Ford of Ontario has looked good with his daily, compassionate-looking TV appearances on the covid crisis. And Ontarians who are cheered by him must be the same ones who did not notice - and still don't notice - his terrible record on environment change.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/28/news/long-term-care-inspectors-refused-go-homes-hardest-hit-covid-19-ford
_________________________________________________________________
Here is Doug Ford wearing his compassionate and concerned face.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/news/ontario-takes-over-covid-ravaged-long-term-care-homes-after-gut-wrenching-report
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/opinion/stephen-harpers-power-dissolves
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/news/canadian-producers-boost-production-oil-prices-rise
Oh joy! (Actually, the producers of Alberta oil are Americans. That's important because the profits of Alberta oil do not go to Canada. They go to American billionaires.) And Trudeau, who is supposed to be controlling these billionaires has actually given them billions of dollars of our money to be tucked into their secret bank accounts in various parts of the world
________________________________________________________________
https://www.voltairenet.org/article209925.html
______________________________________________________________
Let's get real - and remember the range of problems that have hit us.
The Chinese treatment of Hong Kong is dreadful. No doubt about that.
The British, German, Chinese and American treatment of Hong Kong and all of China was worse, much worse, and it lasted over a century.France was as brutal in dealing with French Indo-China. At the end it was the U.S. that inflicted poverty and brutality on French Indo-China (as Vietnam). For hundreds of years, our God's British murdered, plundered, deliberately starved over 400 million people. For two thousand years and more, the west has been murdering, plundering, enslaving encountable millions. And western nations also murdered, starved. enslaved their own people. Both the U.S. and Britain have quite a record of that.
The U.S, by the way has, for a horrible 120 years, inflicted worse horror on Latin America than China is inflicting on Hong Kong.
As always - from the start thousands of years ago - we have also enslaved, starved, murdered our own people. Today, as Americans and Canadians are reduced to poverty (a standard feature of any human society I have ever heard of) American and Canadian billionaires are still making huge profits from billions of dollars of our money that our billionaires get from our political parties and governments. This is our money that we hand over to them. We give them billions for no reason and the amount that we give has been rising at a tremendous rate. This is happening even as we ordinary people are suffering. In just the last few months, the super rich of Canada and the U.S. have been given hundreds of billions of dollars - for ????
As a bonus they are also allowed to keep billions that should have been paid in income tax...oh, yes, and they also are allowed to hide more billions in their own private hiding places. Nobody (except them) knows how much money this is - but it is certainly so many billions that it would dramatically put an end to poverty in North America at least.
Since they also own both American parties as well as Canada's parties. They own us - and they have made it clear they don't give a damn about us or our children.
We, and many other nations, are millions upon millions of wimps. And we are allowing the super wealthy to destroy us as they always have destroyed wimps for thousands of years. Bill Gates a leading world billionaire, has now been given civic permission to redesign the public schools of New York. His expertise in this? None. His aim? To privatize the schools so they can be run for the profit of - Bill Gates. And the children? Who gives a damn?
I really don't understand humans. Maybe we are just naturally wimps to be tramped on by our masters.
Are the Chinese murderous exploiters? Yes. And so are our capitalists. ---probably even more so. And they will destroy us even as we stand there with our faces hanging out.
We have accepted a system that will destroy us - and sooner rather than later.
THEY WERE CHEAP FOR THE PUBLIC. BUT IT COST A LOT OF MONEY TO PUT OUT MASS CIRCULATION OF THE NEWS. THAT MEANT ONLY THE ALREADY WEALTHY COULD OPERATE A NEWS BUSINESS.
THE RESULT WAS NEWSPAPERS VERY FRIENDLY TO THE VERY WEALTHY, AND AT A TIME WHEN CAPITALISM HAD BECOME THE DARLING OF THE VERY WEALTHY. AN EARLY AND WEALTHY AMERICAN NEWSPAPER OWNER CREATED A FALSE WAR WITH CUBA IN 1900 SO THAT WEALTHY AMERICANS COULD PLUNDER THAT NATION FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. AND THAT SOON LED TO THE NON-STOP AMERICAN WARS THAT ARE STILL THE HORROR OF LIFE IN LATIN AMERICA. IT ALSO LED TO THE MASS SLAUGHTER OF PHILIPINOS - AND NEARLY TO A WAR WITH CANADA.
IT HAPPENED IN CANADA, TOO. AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES. THE PRESS BECAME THE PROPAGANDA AGENCY FOR ALMOST 150 YEARS OF MURDER AND PLUNDER. AND, OH, THERE ARE FEW, VERY FEW, HONEST COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA TODAY.
THAT'S WHY I CREATED THIS BLOG -TO BRING HONEST AND INTELLIGENT NEWS MEDIA TO AS MANY AS I CAN.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I taught for some time at Shue Yan University in Hong Kong. Loved it. I loved the city. I loved the city and the people....oh - there was a downside. It was called poverty. At night one could see it stretching for miles in solid rows with families, including babies, sleeping on cardboard and under stairways. Parks might have wire cages each large enough to hold one person, with three or four cages stacked together.
Well, of course. When I was there, Hong Kong was still under the arrogant, brutal, murderous rule of the British who then had a stranglehold on Hong Kong, though kicked out of China in the early 1940s Over a period of well over a century, the British ruled with an open contempt for the Chinese, a contempt shared by lesser killers and plunderers of China - like Germany and the U.S. When I was working in Hong Kong, things were brightening as it became obvious the British were going to have to leave.
Now, the U.S. is showing a passionate regard for Hong Kong. Trump has come very, very close to announcing his love for Hong Kong and his desire to humble China. And if he follows that, the result would be the destruction of Hong Kong.
His motives really don't have a lot to do with Hong Kong. The U.S., after World War Two, was hyped up with a divine passion to rule the world. But now the U.S. is rapidly losing ground. China is becoming, perhaps has become, the world's leading power. And that has consequences for the U.S. armed forces.
Despite all their parades and cheers and wealth, the U.S. military has actually been pretty feeble on many occasions since World War Two. Think Vietnam. Think Afghanistan. The U.S. army could roll over today's China? Not bloody likely.
Using the excuse of China's treatment of Hong Kong, it is possible, very possible, that Trump or the Democrats in response to the demands of their billionaire owners will go to war with China (and with Hong Kong as the excuse). And, for the U.S., that would have to be a nuclear war which, incidentally, would probably include the destruction of Hong Kong.
(Oh, in addition to the thousands of nuclear weapons owned by the U.S., China, and Russia, we then would also see them turned loose by India, Pakistan, Britain, Israel against people they don't like. We are at one hell of a dangerous edge.) Oh,
in addition to thousands of nuclear bombs going off, that might create dreadful conditions even those parts of the world that don't get bombed. Like us.
What should be done to help Hong Kong is to do what we should have done in 1945. We should have agreed then to negotiate and en to all wars. But we didn't.
The result was a U.S. that ran wild in it's fever to rule the world.
Can we go back to 1945? Can we start again? I think we could. And in the process we could work out a livable solution for Hong Kong. But to do that, we in the western world would have to get rid of our current rule by billionaire capitalists, something that Donald Trump and Joe Biden would never dream of.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/us-funding-website-spreading-covid-19-disinformatio
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/28/studies-add-to-alarm-over-deforestation-in-brazil-under-bolsonaro-covid-19
Canada NEVER criticizes Bolsonaro. That's because Bolsonaro is a pet of people like Trump. Kiss. Kiss.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/we-know-whats-wrong-long-term-care-canada-we-need-politicians
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/05/pandemic-and-climate-crises-unmask-inequalities
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/05/alberta-energy-minister-sonya-savage-finds-bright-side-covid-19
Oh, joy, oh rapture unforeseen...... (Gilbert and Sullivan).
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/chevron-persecution-steven-donziger/
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/28/nation-focused-pandemic-trump-interior-dept-greenlight-killing-bear-cubs-and-wolf
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/27/us-death-toll-hits-100000-people-heres-simple-guide-12-things-trump-did-make-covid
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/protests-against-police-violence-spread-across-u-s/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/countering-the-judaization-of-the-rest-of-palestine/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-china-promoted-hawaiian-independence/5714160
You won't find this in your daily paper. But it's true. Hawaiians never voted to join the U.S. It simply took over.
For that matter, the U.S. stole from Mexico the state of Texas and most of the U.S. west coast.
While we're at it, Americans stole all of what is the U.S., and Canadians stole all that is Canada. China is not at all different from us.
_________________________________________________________________
Again, Information Clearing House continues not having any information. I had thought this was due to outside interference. But it seems that it is due to the illness of it's creator, Tom Feeley.
_________________________________________________________________
Premier Ford of Ontario has looked good with his daily, compassionate-looking TV appearances on the covid crisis. And Ontarians who are cheered by him must be the same ones who did not notice - and still don't notice - his terrible record on environment change.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/28/news/long-term-care-inspectors-refused-go-homes-hardest-hit-covid-19-ford
_________________________________________________________________
Here is Doug Ford wearing his compassionate and concerned face.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/news/ontario-takes-over-covid-ravaged-long-term-care-homes-after-gut-wrenching-report
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/opinion/stephen-harpers-power-dissolves
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/27/news/canadian-producers-boost-production-oil-prices-rise
Oh joy! (Actually, the producers of Alberta oil are Americans. That's important because the profits of Alberta oil do not go to Canada. They go to American billionaires.) And Trudeau, who is supposed to be controlling these billionaires has actually given them billions of dollars of our money to be tucked into their secret bank accounts in various parts of the world
________________________________________________________________
https://www.voltairenet.org/article209925.html
______________________________________________________________
Let's get real - and remember the range of problems that have hit us.
The Chinese treatment of Hong Kong is dreadful. No doubt about that.
The British, German, Chinese and American treatment of Hong Kong and all of China was worse, much worse, and it lasted over a century.France was as brutal in dealing with French Indo-China. At the end it was the U.S. that inflicted poverty and brutality on French Indo-China (as Vietnam). For hundreds of years, our God's British murdered, plundered, deliberately starved over 400 million people. For two thousand years and more, the west has been murdering, plundering, enslaving encountable millions. And western nations also murdered, starved. enslaved their own people. Both the U.S. and Britain have quite a record of that.
The U.S, by the way has, for a horrible 120 years, inflicted worse horror on Latin America than China is inflicting on Hong Kong.
As always - from the start thousands of years ago - we have also enslaved, starved, murdered our own people. Today, as Americans and Canadians are reduced to poverty (a standard feature of any human society I have ever heard of) American and Canadian billionaires are still making huge profits from billions of dollars of our money that our billionaires get from our political parties and governments. This is our money that we hand over to them. We give them billions for no reason and the amount that we give has been rising at a tremendous rate. This is happening even as we ordinary people are suffering. In just the last few months, the super rich of Canada and the U.S. have been given hundreds of billions of dollars - for ????
As a bonus they are also allowed to keep billions that should have been paid in income tax...oh, yes, and they also are allowed to hide more billions in their own private hiding places. Nobody (except them) knows how much money this is - but it is certainly so many billions that it would dramatically put an end to poverty in North America at least.
Since they also own both American parties as well as Canada's parties. They own us - and they have made it clear they don't give a damn about us or our children.
We, and many other nations, are millions upon millions of wimps. And we are allowing the super wealthy to destroy us as they always have destroyed wimps for thousands of years. Bill Gates a leading world billionaire, has now been given civic permission to redesign the public schools of New York. His expertise in this? None. His aim? To privatize the schools so they can be run for the profit of - Bill Gates. And the children? Who gives a damn?
I really don't understand humans. Maybe we are just naturally wimps to be tramped on by our masters.
Are the Chinese murderous exploiters? Yes. And so are our capitalists. ---probably even more so. And they will destroy us even as we stand there with our faces hanging out.
We have accepted a system that will destroy us - and sooner rather than later.
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