Before Canadians get all virtuous about their virtue, they might want to look at their own history of racism.
The early French settlers of Canada kidnapped native peoples to be slaves. However, it was too easy for them to escape into the wilderness they came from.
So the French settlers imported Black slaves - under brutal conditions. In Montreal, a Black woman slave who annoyed her owner was tied to horses who tore her death. Her body lies under a busy street in Montreal, unkown to most Montrealers.
The English settlers followed the French example well into the nineteenth century when Britain banned slavery. But what followed was years of forcing Blacks to live in undesirable districts, of making it impossible for Black women to get anything but the lowest paid domestic labour, Universities, like McGill, commonly made it something from difficult to impossible for Blacks to gain entry. (That was still the case in my childhood days.)
And Black men got none but the lowest paid jobs. Nor was (or is) the racism restricted to Blacks. In World War Two, Japanese Canadians in BC were forced out of their homes on very short notice, and allowed to take only as much of their possessions as they could carry. (Neighbours then stole furniture, fishing boats...)
To this day in Montreal and (I expect) in other cities homes for rent commonly include the term "Select clientele only". That usually means no Blacks, no Jews,
no orientals......
In Nova Scotia I attended a Baptist university where a Black was accepted for the first time in the university's history. Also in Nova Scotia, Blacks were forced to live in dreadful ghettos. Halifax's blacks had to live in a vile district called Africville that was directly under garbage spill from a large hospital.
For twenty years, I was involved in the turmoil of what was called Quebec separatism. French Quebec leaders saw English Quebeckers as an undesirable race. These were years of threats, violence, murder - usually blessed by
French politicians. Indeed, that sort of violence was common in the largely French district I grew up in. When our church windows were smashed by a mob of French Catholic kids, a nearby Catholic church priest looked at it and said, "Well, it's only an English church." (Yes. Really. I was there. And the police station across the street just didn't care.)
Canada has a long and vile history of racism.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/rightwing-vigilante-armed-antifa-protests
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/george-floyd-protests-reporters-press-teargas-arrested
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/donald-trump-religious-right-george-floyd-racism
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Then there's Bolonaro, the national leader or Brazil who has utter contempt for democracy, who has destroyed much of the Amazon forest, killing native peoples to take their land, has allowed the covid virus to run wild in Brazil, who openly has utter contempt for democracy - and about whom no Canadian or American government has ever uttered a word of criticism and of whom our governments have only spoken in admiration and affection.
But, oh, we gotta kill them Venezuelan leaders who want to control their own oil fields instead of handing them over to American billionaires. And Canada kisses up to Trump and Bolsonaro because Trump tells Canada to kiss.
I'm so proud to be ------ well---what's there to be proud of?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/brazil-coronavirus-covid-19-virus-doctor
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Oh - have you noticed that almost all of the rioting in the U.S. takes place either in major shopping areas or in poor districts? I don't think I' ve yet seen demonstrators parading the districts of the rich. And, no concidence, very few Black families live in rich districts.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/no-european-leader-is-safe-as-public-lose-faith-in-coronavirus-responses
The glory days of the British Empire, the greatest empire in history, are now only memories in the bleakness of British life. Part of the reason is that the British upper class is still powerful and still dominates British life.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/china-crush-dissent-in-hong-kong-tiananmen-square
The reality is that we have created a world in which a Hong Kong cannot exist.
We are constantly on the edge of war with China. And that is a monstrous cost to bear year after year for both sides. This is the kind of problem, and the cause of most wars, that cannot be settled by war.
To solve it, was have to do what we were supposed to do in 1945, to end war. That would save this world trillions of dollars, It would also make it possible to negotiate a peace between Hong Kong and China.
But that's no going to happen because our leaders (more correctly, our financial lords) want war.
You think China is evil? It is. But what the hell do you think the U.S. is all over the world?
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A great many of this world's Jews are seriously Judaic in their principles. And that makes them quite different from most Israelis. Hitler didn't just murder Jews. He murdered a large part of Judaism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/israel-west-bank-annexation-plans-condemned-leading-british-jews
Ever wonder why Britain and the U.S. wanted to create an Israel in the first place? Seriously....it was to get rid of their own Jews. Canada was sending Jews to destruction from the 1930s to the end of the war. Canada, Britain and the U.S. knew that all that time. That's why we sent escaping Jews back to the death camps.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/performative-brands-and-property-taxes-we-go-from-social-media-to-societal-costs-1.5598056/canadian-municipalities-could-face-20b-budget-shortfall-from-3-months-of-covid-related-closures-1.5598079
This is too bad, of course. But we have to accept it. After all, our billionaires need the billions we give them when we allow them not to pay taxes, and to hide their profits in secret banks.
________________________________________________________________
Rabble.ca is a web site that seems to have been created by, among others, former CBC reporters, many of them not impressed by a CBC known to back off on some issues. A superb one of these is Karl Nerenberg.
And it's better than CBC.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/06/albertas-bill-1-bad-law-bad-theatre-and-unconstitutional-0
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/dont-listen-stephen-harper-now-worst-time-austerity
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/united-conservative-partys-newly-announced-firearms-panel
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/yes-canada-has-racism-crisis-and-its-killing-black-and
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/canada-does-not-deserve-caribbean-countries-support-its-bid
______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-food-insecurity/
Hey. Get real. We can't afford to feed the poor. We need that money to make the super-rich happy.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/06/condemning-police-conduct-disgusting-federal-judge-bars-denver-cops-using-chemical
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/06/quietly-putting-hundreds-species-risk-trump-opens-5000-square-miles-atlantic-ocean
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/co2-levels-build-trash-landfill-earth-has-hottest-may-record
Thousands of leading scientists warn us of disaster facing us as our climate changing.
Dozens of billionaires with no significant scientific training tell us it's all okay - without offering any evidence for their opinion. Many of our politicians in the Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals pay attention only to the super rich because they pay for those parties.
That's why Canada's Trudeau has done nothing. That's why Trump has done less than nothing.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/as-42-6-million-americans-file-for-unemployment-billionaires-add-half-a-trillion-dollars-to-their-cumulative-wealth/
Yes., while millions barely survive (and often don't survive) in Canada and the U.S., our billionaires get richer every day.
Aren't we crazy to allow our politicians to do this?
It even gets worse. We don't know how much of our money the super-rich are stealing because much of it is the part the we allow them to hide in secret bank accounts.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55179.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55181.htm
________________________________________________________________
I could wish I hadn't read this next one. But I'm not at all sure he's right. I think what happens is that we get horribly misled by our news media (which makes it easy for our politicians to mislead us. And it's even easier for those Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans who are owned by the super-rich.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55187.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55177.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55186.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/the-systemic-collapse-of-the-us-society-has-begun/
_________________________________________________________________
As I wrote all the above, I finally realized how wrong it is that most of us are reacting as we have. What is happening is far more dangerous and more evil than we have realized. The U.S. and Canada both face a disastrous future - and it has already begun. It's worse in the U.S. than in Canada, but Canada will suffer as badly.
In both countries as the suffering grows our governments our both lavishing billions on our capitalists so that even as our economies tank, our capitalists having been making great profits - few of which come back to us.
And our capitalists are making sure they don't come back to us. We are victims of a war to make sure nothing comes back to us.
Our two world wars (I'm sorry to say) were because Hitler was evil? Uh. yeah But why should we have cared? Both Britain and the U.S. spent and still spend years inflicting evil in the form of their empires. Both of them, going back for centuries have out-murdered Hitler by a wide margin. Yes, both world wars were fought to enrich the capitalists - on each side. And both were paid for and died for by the rest of us. And that's still true of all our wars.
Now, our capitalists have declared war on us. It's not hard. They own our Democratic, Republican, Liberal and Conservative parties. They always have and they always have plundered us.
The U.S. has been worst off in this respect. For the last 20 years and more, the U.S. have been obeying its capitalists. Every society needs certain services like education and health care. American capitalists have destroyed universal services like those. Health care in the U.S. is now designed not to serve the people but to enrich the super rich - which means that the poor can't have it at all, and even the middle class can be impoverished by it.
The same thing is happening in the U.S. to one of the greatest advances in human history, the public school which is open and available to all. Billionaires have destroyed that, creating thousands of private schools that become mandatory for any child hoping to go to university. By crushing public schools while switching resources to private ones, billionaires make huge profits. As I write this, Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has forced himself on the New York school board, to design private schools for all of New York city. (Bill Gates has no training in education. What he is doing is designing a system that will be expensive, too expensive, for a large part of the population - but very profitable to Bill Gates.)
Canada is quietly heading for the same path, with Canadian capitalists beating the drum. That's why Canadian schools are suffering from lack of attention and from inadequate financing from our governments and respect for our teachers.
Canadians should watch out for an American-style conversion of its medicare system.
Canadians have been dying in American wars since Korea. That, too, is likely to increase. American billionaires have a very serious challenge from China in it's rise as a military power and financial power. They want a war with China, and that would be the greatest and most destructive war in human history - and perhaps the last one.
The American military budget is a happy hunting ground for America's billionaires. It is the largest and most profitable military industry in the world. Oh, it's not that the workers are are superbly paid. But billionaire owners are very, very happy. That's so much more important than feeding and housing America's poor and starving, so much more important than cleaning huge slum districts all over the U.S.
Canadian and American capitalists are determined to impoverish Canadians and Americans to benefit themselves. That's why we have expensive 'defence' budgets. That's why the U.S. must destroy China and Russia - soon. That's why our capitalists insist we must destroy the Chinese attack on Hong Kong. They don't give a damn for the people of Hong Kong. Indeed, any war on China now would be nuclear, and horribly damaging for Hong Kong. But American capitalists have to act now because China is even now leading the U.S. in military power and in wealth. And that lead gets bigger every day.
(Canadians, of course, will be asked to follow the U.S. lead. And Canada, as it has done since 1945, will get killed to please American and Canadian capitalists.)
The conflict that has arisen in Canada and the U.S. may not be what I first thought it to be. It may be the end of whatever democracy we have left. It may be rule by our capitalists, a prolonged decline in poverty levels -- and much, much worse.
________________________________________________________________
The early French settlers of Canada kidnapped native peoples to be slaves. However, it was too easy for them to escape into the wilderness they came from.
So the French settlers imported Black slaves - under brutal conditions. In Montreal, a Black woman slave who annoyed her owner was tied to horses who tore her death. Her body lies under a busy street in Montreal, unkown to most Montrealers.
The English settlers followed the French example well into the nineteenth century when Britain banned slavery. But what followed was years of forcing Blacks to live in undesirable districts, of making it impossible for Black women to get anything but the lowest paid domestic labour, Universities, like McGill, commonly made it something from difficult to impossible for Blacks to gain entry. (That was still the case in my childhood days.)
And Black men got none but the lowest paid jobs. Nor was (or is) the racism restricted to Blacks. In World War Two, Japanese Canadians in BC were forced out of their homes on very short notice, and allowed to take only as much of their possessions as they could carry. (Neighbours then stole furniture, fishing boats...)
To this day in Montreal and (I expect) in other cities homes for rent commonly include the term "Select clientele only". That usually means no Blacks, no Jews,
no orientals......
In Nova Scotia I attended a Baptist university where a Black was accepted for the first time in the university's history. Also in Nova Scotia, Blacks were forced to live in dreadful ghettos. Halifax's blacks had to live in a vile district called Africville that was directly under garbage spill from a large hospital.
For twenty years, I was involved in the turmoil of what was called Quebec separatism. French Quebec leaders saw English Quebeckers as an undesirable race. These were years of threats, violence, murder - usually blessed by
French politicians. Indeed, that sort of violence was common in the largely French district I grew up in. When our church windows were smashed by a mob of French Catholic kids, a nearby Catholic church priest looked at it and said, "Well, it's only an English church." (Yes. Really. I was there. And the police station across the street just didn't care.)
Canada has a long and vile history of racism.
_________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/rightwing-vigilante-armed-antifa-protests
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/george-floyd-protests-reporters-press-teargas-arrested
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/donald-trump-religious-right-george-floyd-racism
________________________________________________________________
Then there's Bolonaro, the national leader or Brazil who has utter contempt for democracy, who has destroyed much of the Amazon forest, killing native peoples to take their land, has allowed the covid virus to run wild in Brazil, who openly has utter contempt for democracy - and about whom no Canadian or American government has ever uttered a word of criticism and of whom our governments have only spoken in admiration and affection.
But, oh, we gotta kill them Venezuelan leaders who want to control their own oil fields instead of handing them over to American billionaires. And Canada kisses up to Trump and Bolsonaro because Trump tells Canada to kiss.
I'm so proud to be ------ well---what's there to be proud of?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/brazil-coronavirus-covid-19-virus-doctor
_________________________________________________________________
Oh - have you noticed that almost all of the rioting in the U.S. takes place either in major shopping areas or in poor districts? I don't think I' ve yet seen demonstrators parading the districts of the rich. And, no concidence, very few Black families live in rich districts.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/no-european-leader-is-safe-as-public-lose-faith-in-coronavirus-responses
The glory days of the British Empire, the greatest empire in history, are now only memories in the bleakness of British life. Part of the reason is that the British upper class is still powerful and still dominates British life.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/china-crush-dissent-in-hong-kong-tiananmen-square
The reality is that we have created a world in which a Hong Kong cannot exist.
We are constantly on the edge of war with China. And that is a monstrous cost to bear year after year for both sides. This is the kind of problem, and the cause of most wars, that cannot be settled by war.
To solve it, was have to do what we were supposed to do in 1945, to end war. That would save this world trillions of dollars, It would also make it possible to negotiate a peace between Hong Kong and China.
But that's no going to happen because our leaders (more correctly, our financial lords) want war.
You think China is evil? It is. But what the hell do you think the U.S. is all over the world?
_________________________________________________________________
A great many of this world's Jews are seriously Judaic in their principles. And that makes them quite different from most Israelis. Hitler didn't just murder Jews. He murdered a large part of Judaism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/israel-west-bank-annexation-plans-condemned-leading-british-jews
Ever wonder why Britain and the U.S. wanted to create an Israel in the first place? Seriously....it was to get rid of their own Jews. Canada was sending Jews to destruction from the 1930s to the end of the war. Canada, Britain and the U.S. knew that all that time. That's why we sent escaping Jews back to the death camps.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/performative-brands-and-property-taxes-we-go-from-social-media-to-societal-costs-1.5598056/canadian-municipalities-could-face-20b-budget-shortfall-from-3-months-of-covid-related-closures-1.5598079
This is too bad, of course. But we have to accept it. After all, our billionaires need the billions we give them when we allow them not to pay taxes, and to hide their profits in secret banks.
________________________________________________________________
Rabble.ca is a web site that seems to have been created by, among others, former CBC reporters, many of them not impressed by a CBC known to back off on some issues. A superb one of these is Karl Nerenberg.
And it's better than CBC.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/06/albertas-bill-1-bad-law-bad-theatre-and-unconstitutional-0
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/dont-listen-stephen-harper-now-worst-time-austerity
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/united-conservative-partys-newly-announced-firearms-panel
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/yes-canada-has-racism-crisis-and-its-killing-black-and
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/06/canada-does-not-deserve-caribbean-countries-support-its-bid
______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-food-insecurity/
Hey. Get real. We can't afford to feed the poor. We need that money to make the super-rich happy.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/06/condemning-police-conduct-disgusting-federal-judge-bars-denver-cops-using-chemical
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/06/quietly-putting-hundreds-species-risk-trump-opens-5000-square-miles-atlantic-ocean
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/co2-levels-build-trash-landfill-earth-has-hottest-may-record
Thousands of leading scientists warn us of disaster facing us as our climate changing.
Dozens of billionaires with no significant scientific training tell us it's all okay - without offering any evidence for their opinion. Many of our politicians in the Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals pay attention only to the super rich because they pay for those parties.
That's why Canada's Trudeau has done nothing. That's why Trump has done less than nothing.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/05/as-42-6-million-americans-file-for-unemployment-billionaires-add-half-a-trillion-dollars-to-their-cumulative-wealth/
Yes., while millions barely survive (and often don't survive) in Canada and the U.S., our billionaires get richer every day.
Aren't we crazy to allow our politicians to do this?
It even gets worse. We don't know how much of our money the super-rich are stealing because much of it is the part the we allow them to hide in secret bank accounts.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55179.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55181.htm
________________________________________________________________
I could wish I hadn't read this next one. But I'm not at all sure he's right. I think what happens is that we get horribly misled by our news media (which makes it easy for our politicians to mislead us. And it's even easier for those Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans who are owned by the super-rich.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55187.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55177.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55186.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/the-systemic-collapse-of-the-us-society-has-begun/
_________________________________________________________________
As I wrote all the above, I finally realized how wrong it is that most of us are reacting as we have. What is happening is far more dangerous and more evil than we have realized. The U.S. and Canada both face a disastrous future - and it has already begun. It's worse in the U.S. than in Canada, but Canada will suffer as badly.
In both countries as the suffering grows our governments our both lavishing billions on our capitalists so that even as our economies tank, our capitalists having been making great profits - few of which come back to us.
And our capitalists are making sure they don't come back to us. We are victims of a war to make sure nothing comes back to us.
Our two world wars (I'm sorry to say) were because Hitler was evil? Uh. yeah But why should we have cared? Both Britain and the U.S. spent and still spend years inflicting evil in the form of their empires. Both of them, going back for centuries have out-murdered Hitler by a wide margin. Yes, both world wars were fought to enrich the capitalists - on each side. And both were paid for and died for by the rest of us. And that's still true of all our wars.
Now, our capitalists have declared war on us. It's not hard. They own our Democratic, Republican, Liberal and Conservative parties. They always have and they always have plundered us.
The U.S. has been worst off in this respect. For the last 20 years and more, the U.S. have been obeying its capitalists. Every society needs certain services like education and health care. American capitalists have destroyed universal services like those. Health care in the U.S. is now designed not to serve the people but to enrich the super rich - which means that the poor can't have it at all, and even the middle class can be impoverished by it.
The same thing is happening in the U.S. to one of the greatest advances in human history, the public school which is open and available to all. Billionaires have destroyed that, creating thousands of private schools that become mandatory for any child hoping to go to university. By crushing public schools while switching resources to private ones, billionaires make huge profits. As I write this, Bill Gates, the world's richest man, has forced himself on the New York school board, to design private schools for all of New York city. (Bill Gates has no training in education. What he is doing is designing a system that will be expensive, too expensive, for a large part of the population - but very profitable to Bill Gates.)
Canada is quietly heading for the same path, with Canadian capitalists beating the drum. That's why Canadian schools are suffering from lack of attention and from inadequate financing from our governments and respect for our teachers.
Canadians should watch out for an American-style conversion of its medicare system.
Canadians have been dying in American wars since Korea. That, too, is likely to increase. American billionaires have a very serious challenge from China in it's rise as a military power and financial power. They want a war with China, and that would be the greatest and most destructive war in human history - and perhaps the last one.
The American military budget is a happy hunting ground for America's billionaires. It is the largest and most profitable military industry in the world. Oh, it's not that the workers are are superbly paid. But billionaire owners are very, very happy. That's so much more important than feeding and housing America's poor and starving, so much more important than cleaning huge slum districts all over the U.S.
Canadian and American capitalists are determined to impoverish Canadians and Americans to benefit themselves. That's why we have expensive 'defence' budgets. That's why the U.S. must destroy China and Russia - soon. That's why our capitalists insist we must destroy the Chinese attack on Hong Kong. They don't give a damn for the people of Hong Kong. Indeed, any war on China now would be nuclear, and horribly damaging for Hong Kong. But American capitalists have to act now because China is even now leading the U.S. in military power and in wealth. And that lead gets bigger every day.
(Canadians, of course, will be asked to follow the U.S. lead. And Canada, as it has done since 1945, will get killed to please American and Canadian capitalists.)
The conflict that has arisen in Canada and the U.S. may not be what I first thought it to be. It may be the end of whatever democracy we have left. It may be rule by our capitalists, a prolonged decline in poverty levels -- and much, much worse.
________________________________________________________________
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