https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/14/paul-manafort-trumps-ex-campaign-chair-strikes-plea-deal-with-special-counse
This could be dangerous for all of us.
Yes. Trump is blustering liar, an international bully with both friends and foes, an egomaniac...and the list goes on. In consequence, his popularity rating is sinking - fast. But he had begun three projects that were sensible. One was getting out of Syria. Two was paving the way to peace with North Korea. Three was doing the same with Russia.
Now, all three are back on the table - and two of them have the potential to take us into the horror of a world war - Syria and Russia, and both of those threats are being led by Trump. Why?
It's probably happening because his popularity is in free fall as his government falls into collapse in approaching mid-term elections. And the question is who it will fall to. Yes, it will most likely fall to Democrats. But many, many Democrats are as dangerous as Trump. Obama has a nice image, but his enthusiasm for war and mass murder has been as strong as any Republican's.
The bizarre reality is that weakening Trump may make things even worse.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/ng-interactive/2018/sep/11/atlantic-hurricanes-are-storms-getting-worse
Yes. Climate change is happening. But climate change is not an issue in the New Brunswick election. That tells us something about New Brunswick.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/15/europe-meat-dairy-production-2050-expert-warns
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/venezuela-trump-nicolas-maduro-military-option
Venezuela may be the richest oil country in the world. But it's economy is wildly out of control due to sanctions imposed on it by the U.S. government. Notice that the news report didn't mention that? That's a form of what's called fake news.
My paper didn't mention that Venezuela is in meetings with China - almost certainly economic ones. If so, this would be the second Latin American country to attack itself to China. (The other is Brazil). The U.S. empire is not healthy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/15/china-pitiless-war-on-muslim-uighurs-poses-dilemma-for-the-west
China's behaviour in this is indefensible. But note the tone of this story. Us western democracies, it says, find this reprehensible. Oh? Just how democratic is a country like the U.S. in which governments are bought by the wealthy? And are we concerned at the mass killing of Muslims in China? How come nobody notices our mass killing of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria...?
Yes. It is terrible what China is doing. It is acting just like us. And that is not what the revolution was supposed to be about.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2018/09/fuck-antisemitism-lets-be-clear-criticism-israel-not
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Canadian mining companies are as ruthless as anybody in the business.
https://miningwatch.ca/blog/2018/8/15/guatemalan-communities-deliver-message-resistance-new-ceo-tahoe-resources
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https://consortiumnews.com/2018/09/14/freedom-flotilla-missions-will-continue-until-palestine-is-free/
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/15/our-planet-is-angry/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-the-century-of-lost-wars/5653844
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50260.htm
____________________________________________________________
There's a great deal of feeling that Obama was a better president than Trump, and that he represented a return to moderation. Alas! It's not true. The evils that afflict the U.S. have been characteristic of almost all US governments since 1945 at least. And Obama is right up there with the worst.
And a Democrat victory, by itself, will mean nothing at all.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50263.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Long - but an excellent survey of the great, American myth that God has chosen America to rule.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50257.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Britain has accused to Russians as having been agents to carry out chemical murders in Britain. Critics claim that the British government is lying. I have no idea what the truth is. I include the next piece not because I think it's true but because it's a version of the story we aren't getting from our news media. (Whether it's true I have no idea.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50264.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Trump has no right, legal or moral, to get involved in the war in Syria. Indeed, he was recently close to pulling out. But, suddenly, he seems to be changing his mind. Why? It could be because he has lately suffered large drops in popularity, drops so great that it puts him in trouble for the mid-term election of congress. It also has turned off key members of his own party - and American economic imperialists - who want a greater war in Syria.
And that war has every possibility of being the greatest - and last - war in history. With no winner.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50250.htm
___________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/14/conspiracies-are-not-all-theoretical/
Again, I have no idea whether these charges are true. But, most certainly, 9/11 became the excuse for American wars against Afghanistan and Iraq - with a spillover for Syria. So why has there not been a more believable study of it?
___________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/15/p-is-for-phosphorus-and-for-projection/
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https://www.rt.com/news/438420-austria-schools-german-language/
I don't find this alarming. I attended an elementary school in which a large proportion of the students were Syrian, Italian, Polish - and so on. They spoke those languages at home. Why not? These were the ones they were accustomed to. But they all spoke English at school and, later in life, at home.
This reminds me of Canada's new political party founded by Maxime Bernier, once a contender for the Conservative leadership and easily far enough to the far, far right to attract the support of the National Post is concerned about a related 'problem'. He feels all immigrants should be required to share Canadian values.
Oh? And what are Canadian values? Christianity? Actually, it's on the decline. Conservatism? That's not what the polls are showing. Education for all? Then why do we make it impossible for most children to go to university? Language tolerance? That's hardly been a feature of Canadian life. Caring for the homeless? Hell, no. The greatest value of caring in Canada is making sure that billionaires don't have to pay taxes.
American values? Well, yes. I guess that might include the value of starving babies to death the Yemen - the murder of half a million children in Iraq...yeah! Let's hear it for American and Canadian values.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-economy-is-on-a-path-to-a-bust/
The movement of money from all the rest of us to the 1% is far advanced. 99% of us are getting poorer. That, by itself, means we are heading for disaster. But there's more.
The robot worker period is rapidly taking over. Thousands are being fired from their jobs to be replaced by robots. It will soon be hundreds of thousands. And the worst of it will fall on minimum wage workers. But don't be smug if you're a medium wage person.
The loss of hundreds of thousands of low wage workers means a huge loss in tax revenues and in spending - billions of dollars lost for all of us - except for the very wealthy who pocket all that lost wealth as a product of their greed. We are heading into an economic and social disaster. (I'll return to this at the end.)
_____________________________________________________________
In 1945, we had the chance to put an end to war - and to greed and to exploitation. We formed the United Nations to create a new world. Then we allowed the super-wealthy and their cohorts to ruin it. We remember, on Nov. 11, those who served and died. But we forget everything we promised they had died for.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article202751.html
No. I will not be standing at attention on Nov. 11 with my hand on my heart and saluting the flag. I have more respect for those who served than that.
_______________________________________________________________
The New Brunswick election drones on, dreary and dismal. Most candidates offer trivial ideas - as if an election were something like tidying up a room.
It's not like that at all. It's not about twitching some programme and improving it a bit. It's about going to the people with a clear statement of basic principles essential to the operation of a democracy. It's not about touching things up, rather like repainting scratches. It's about the basic values of what a candidate stands for - and then where that takes us in what has to be done.
I have seen no sign of that in any party.
This is a province being robbed blind by its wealthy. Hear any speeches about that? This is a province that some are planning to bring back fracking in defiance of all the danger this poses. Hear anything about that?
We live in a world that faces the biggest survival crisis ever known. (Experts tell us that. But we believe the wealthy whose intelligence ranks a great deal lower than their greed.)
We face an economic crash, soon, as a result of that greed, But I have heard of no plan to prevent that.
Listening to the speeches, I have no idea what the various parties stand for beyond tidying up our hospitals. I have no idea what their social values, if any, might be.
The Greens and the NDP seem to have some, vague idea about the problems facing us. But they don't want to upset the voters by mentioning them.
This is a socially and intellectually flaccid province with political parties to match. We live in a world that is crashing. And they want to fix it up with a dust cloth.
This could be dangerous for all of us.
Yes. Trump is blustering liar, an international bully with both friends and foes, an egomaniac...and the list goes on. In consequence, his popularity rating is sinking - fast. But he had begun three projects that were sensible. One was getting out of Syria. Two was paving the way to peace with North Korea. Three was doing the same with Russia.
Now, all three are back on the table - and two of them have the potential to take us into the horror of a world war - Syria and Russia, and both of those threats are being led by Trump. Why?
It's probably happening because his popularity is in free fall as his government falls into collapse in approaching mid-term elections. And the question is who it will fall to. Yes, it will most likely fall to Democrats. But many, many Democrats are as dangerous as Trump. Obama has a nice image, but his enthusiasm for war and mass murder has been as strong as any Republican's.
The bizarre reality is that weakening Trump may make things even worse.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/ng-interactive/2018/sep/11/atlantic-hurricanes-are-storms-getting-worse
Yes. Climate change is happening. But climate change is not an issue in the New Brunswick election. That tells us something about New Brunswick.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/15/europe-meat-dairy-production-2050-expert-warns
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/12/venezuela-trump-nicolas-maduro-military-option
Venezuela may be the richest oil country in the world. But it's economy is wildly out of control due to sanctions imposed on it by the U.S. government. Notice that the news report didn't mention that? That's a form of what's called fake news.
My paper didn't mention that Venezuela is in meetings with China - almost certainly economic ones. If so, this would be the second Latin American country to attack itself to China. (The other is Brazil). The U.S. empire is not healthy.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/15/china-pitiless-war-on-muslim-uighurs-poses-dilemma-for-the-west
China's behaviour in this is indefensible. But note the tone of this story. Us western democracies, it says, find this reprehensible. Oh? Just how democratic is a country like the U.S. in which governments are bought by the wealthy? And are we concerned at the mass killing of Muslims in China? How come nobody notices our mass killing of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria...?
Yes. It is terrible what China is doing. It is acting just like us. And that is not what the revolution was supposed to be about.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2018/09/fuck-antisemitism-lets-be-clear-criticism-israel-not
_________________________________________________________________
Canadian mining companies are as ruthless as anybody in the business.
https://miningwatch.ca/blog/2018/8/15/guatemalan-communities-deliver-message-resistance-new-ceo-tahoe-resources
______________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/09/14/freedom-flotilla-missions-will-continue-until-palestine-is-free/
____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/15/our-planet-is-angry/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-the-century-of-lost-wars/5653844
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50260.htm
____________________________________________________________
There's a great deal of feeling that Obama was a better president than Trump, and that he represented a return to moderation. Alas! It's not true. The evils that afflict the U.S. have been characteristic of almost all US governments since 1945 at least. And Obama is right up there with the worst.
And a Democrat victory, by itself, will mean nothing at all.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50263.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Long - but an excellent survey of the great, American myth that God has chosen America to rule.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50257.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Britain has accused to Russians as having been agents to carry out chemical murders in Britain. Critics claim that the British government is lying. I have no idea what the truth is. I include the next piece not because I think it's true but because it's a version of the story we aren't getting from our news media. (Whether it's true I have no idea.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50264.htm
_________________________________________________________________
Trump has no right, legal or moral, to get involved in the war in Syria. Indeed, he was recently close to pulling out. But, suddenly, he seems to be changing his mind. Why? It could be because he has lately suffered large drops in popularity, drops so great that it puts him in trouble for the mid-term election of congress. It also has turned off key members of his own party - and American economic imperialists - who want a greater war in Syria.
And that war has every possibility of being the greatest - and last - war in history. With no winner.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50250.htm
___________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/14/conspiracies-are-not-all-theoretical/
Again, I have no idea whether these charges are true. But, most certainly, 9/11 became the excuse for American wars against Afghanistan and Iraq - with a spillover for Syria. So why has there not been a more believable study of it?
___________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/15/p-is-for-phosphorus-and-for-projection/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.rt.com/news/438420-austria-schools-german-language/
I don't find this alarming. I attended an elementary school in which a large proportion of the students were Syrian, Italian, Polish - and so on. They spoke those languages at home. Why not? These were the ones they were accustomed to. But they all spoke English at school and, later in life, at home.
This reminds me of Canada's new political party founded by Maxime Bernier, once a contender for the Conservative leadership and easily far enough to the far, far right to attract the support of the National Post is concerned about a related 'problem'. He feels all immigrants should be required to share Canadian values.
Oh? And what are Canadian values? Christianity? Actually, it's on the decline. Conservatism? That's not what the polls are showing. Education for all? Then why do we make it impossible for most children to go to university? Language tolerance? That's hardly been a feature of Canadian life. Caring for the homeless? Hell, no. The greatest value of caring in Canada is making sure that billionaires don't have to pay taxes.
American values? Well, yes. I guess that might include the value of starving babies to death the Yemen - the murder of half a million children in Iraq...yeah! Let's hear it for American and Canadian values.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-economy-is-on-a-path-to-a-bust/
The movement of money from all the rest of us to the 1% is far advanced. 99% of us are getting poorer. That, by itself, means we are heading for disaster. But there's more.
The robot worker period is rapidly taking over. Thousands are being fired from their jobs to be replaced by robots. It will soon be hundreds of thousands. And the worst of it will fall on minimum wage workers. But don't be smug if you're a medium wage person.
The loss of hundreds of thousands of low wage workers means a huge loss in tax revenues and in spending - billions of dollars lost for all of us - except for the very wealthy who pocket all that lost wealth as a product of their greed. We are heading into an economic and social disaster. (I'll return to this at the end.)
_____________________________________________________________
In 1945, we had the chance to put an end to war - and to greed and to exploitation. We formed the United Nations to create a new world. Then we allowed the super-wealthy and their cohorts to ruin it. We remember, on Nov. 11, those who served and died. But we forget everything we promised they had died for.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article202751.html
No. I will not be standing at attention on Nov. 11 with my hand on my heart and saluting the flag. I have more respect for those who served than that.
_______________________________________________________________
The New Brunswick election drones on, dreary and dismal. Most candidates offer trivial ideas - as if an election were something like tidying up a room.
It's not like that at all. It's not about twitching some programme and improving it a bit. It's about going to the people with a clear statement of basic principles essential to the operation of a democracy. It's not about touching things up, rather like repainting scratches. It's about the basic values of what a candidate stands for - and then where that takes us in what has to be done.
I have seen no sign of that in any party.
This is a province being robbed blind by its wealthy. Hear any speeches about that? This is a province that some are planning to bring back fracking in defiance of all the danger this poses. Hear anything about that?
We live in a world that faces the biggest survival crisis ever known. (Experts tell us that. But we believe the wealthy whose intelligence ranks a great deal lower than their greed.)
We face an economic crash, soon, as a result of that greed, But I have heard of no plan to prevent that.
Listening to the speeches, I have no idea what the various parties stand for beyond tidying up our hospitals. I have no idea what their social values, if any, might be.
The Greens and the NDP seem to have some, vague idea about the problems facing us. But they don't want to upset the voters by mentioning them.
This is a socially and intellectually flaccid province with political parties to match. We live in a world that is crashing. And they want to fix it up with a dust cloth.
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