I found today's news more than a little slim. That's been true for several days. Even CNN which has until recently been covering events closely is now settling for more talk show style. Most channels have no coverage at all of what's happening. All of this is strange given the seriousness of what's happening.
American is collapsing. From 1945, it's intention was to rule fhe world (for the benefit of the capitalist class.) But it has been withering ever since then - from Korea to Afghanistan to Vietnam. At the same time, China is becoming the world's leading power.
The U.S. has one chance, only one, to make itself the world power it's capitalists want it to be. That chance is a nuclear attack on China and Russia. But there is little chance that will do the trick with nuclear weapons by the thousands covering the world.
That little chance rests with Donald Trump who is quite possibly the only leader who would consider such a move - guided by his ego and his mental illness.
America is in a rage. But it has no significant leadership to deal with the chaos it has created. Both parties are capitalist. Capitalism is simply the glorification of greed -and that will get no one anywhere.
Meanwhile the Trump government and it's capitalist friends are bent on cooking the presidential election. One riding, for example, with many thousands of voters, will have only one polling booth to serve all of them. Translation. It will be impossible for that riding to handle anything but a miniature vote. Similar games are being played all over the U.S. Another variation actually places voting areas at great distance from their ridings.
Americans who don't like Trump can vote for Biden? Big deal. Biden, like Trunp, is owned by big business.
For all their demonstrations, whatever voters think, the big money is going to own all the voters. And whatever voters want, they aren't going to get it.
Yes, for all the protests, the American people who want change are not going to get anything. Capitalism rules. And capitalism doesn't give a damn about what Americans need or want.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-cuomo-bill-gates-reimagine-new-york-schools-coronavirus-2020-5
Bill Gates has no training in education. He has never taught. All he has ever done is to make money for himself. The New York schools have thousands of teachers who understand what education is about. It has many experts of advanced study on the subject of education.
The only contact Gates has had with education was taking over schools to redesign them. It was a dismal failure. So why did the governor of New York put him in charge of redisigning the state education system?
Well, of course. It's because he's rich. He won't give the schools money though, in reality, that would be a help. Better still, it would help if he were to pay income tax so the schools could afford to design their own changes.
But Gates, like most of his breed, is interested only in taking money - not giving it.
Actually, this is a problem that runs through most education systems in both the U.S. and Canada. School boards commonly have outsiders who sit on various boards. I well remember one of those from my high school teaching days. He was a clergyman, and the chairman of the school board. Stuck with him for an hour or so, I learned he was a man of colossal ignorance, a secretary pincher, and a drunk.
The same things happen with universities. Typically, they are made up of boards of the wealthy who advise the president (tell him what to do.) They know nothing of education. But they do know how to operate the university in such a way that it benefits big business. Luckily, universities don't know much about education either. So everybody is happy.
So it is that our children are taught by teachers who have no power to control what they teach. (That, as I learned early, is why public schools so often teach history that is, well, not true.)
The wealthy simply push real educators out of the way. So relax. New York's school children are not going to learn anything that the wealthy don't want them to learn. No. They won't learn a word about unions or the exploitation of immigrants or the conquest of Latin America to provide cheap labour for people like Bill Gates.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/tulsa-oklahoma-trump-wild-evening-unrest-coronavirus-fears
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/20/climate-crisis-threatens-future-of-global-sport-says-report
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-fair-deal-panel-jason-kenney-federal-government-1.5618258
Albertans live in their very own world, one in which oil emissions are good for you, and where nobody ever considers the reality that the oil industry is going to bail out of Alberta, leaving the province with the horribly expensive job of cleaning up the damage the oil industry has done to Alberta. That damage will take hundreds of years to repair at a cost of trillions of dollars.
And in the face of that damage, prime minister Trudeau has done nothing. Is it too late? I don't know. But it is possible.
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/how-racial-capitalism-prevails-during-pandemic
Canadian billionaires routinely get gifts of our tax money. Why? In this case it's a multi million dollar gift of refrigerators for Loblaw's. It really is breathtaking when one sees how much of our tax money we throw at billionaires (who don't, themselves, pay any taxes.) I've seen this up close in my New Brunswick days when, every year billions of dollars of our money were thrown every year into the pockets of the Irvinig family.
Canada, like the U.S, every year throws billions of our tax dollars into the pockets of people who already have billions of dollars. Meanwhile, we lack decent salaries for most workers; we leave families to live and die on the streets: we pay low wages to most employees.......
All other considerations aside we are setting ourselves up for one hell of a crash.
Our acceptance of capitalism is going to destroy us - and probably soon.
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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2020/06/cupe-says-white-privilege-must-be-confronted
Yes. Canada is crashingly racist. It always has been.
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/06/donald-trump-rally-stokes-racism-covid-19-cases-surge
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-empire-decline/
In 1945 it seemed obvious that with it's money and size and weaponry, the U.S. was a shoo-in to be the world's greatest power. But within five years, all that crashed (though nobody saw it) with the Korean War. The U.S. and it's allies were beaten off by China. They lost again to the much smaller and poorer Vietnam. Then there was Afghanistan.
The reality was that the U.S. military, the biggest, richest military in the world was no match even for very poor and small opponents.
It can, of course, turn loose it's nuclear arsenal. But that will scarcely make it more loved.
No. The American world conquest ended just five years after it started. Watch now for it's 'friends' to be backing away.
And what will Canada do? So far it hasn't done anything except to support U.S. aggressions. And that will probably continue.
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And don't tell this to friends and relatives in Alberta.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/heat-climate-mortality/
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Forget the polls. Forget the issues. The coming American election could be decided by dirty tricks.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/20/voting-rights-advocates-warn-impending-disaster-kentucky-officials-slash-number
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/18/out-ashes-covid-19-should-rise-our-unstoppable-medicare-all-movement
Events of recent weeks have proven the need for a government medicare programme in the U.S. But there is not the slightest chance that either the Democrats or the Republicans will ever consider it -not when billionaires are making big money out of privatized medical care.
The American system is designed to produce huge profits for privatized medical care. That makes it a certainty that millions of Americans will continue to die because they can't afford to be healed.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/more-u-s-deaths-in-covid-19-pandemic-than-in-world-war-i/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/from-1945-until-today-20-to-30-million-people-killed-by-the-usa/5660519
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55246.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55244.htm
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/u-s-leads-a-coalition-of-one-against-china/
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/if-life-was-normal-i-dont-want-go-back
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/if-life-was-normal-i-dont-want-go-back
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https://theintercept.com/2020/06/19/militia-vigilantes-police-brutality-protests/
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https://thesaker.is/75th-anniversary-of-the-great-victory-shared-responsibility-to-history-and-our-future/
Well, a very intelligent piece by Mr. Putin. Too bad we have few people like him on our side.
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https://thesaker.is/nasrallah-us-choking-lebanon-hezbollah-will-respond-iran-china-on-standby/
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