The following column is about universities in England - but it applies with at least equal force in North America. In addition to what is listed below, university professors are the only teachers in any education system that have no training whatever in how to teach. And, oh, it shows in the classrooms.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/20/university-factory-failed-tony-blair-social-mobility-jobs
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http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/rabble-radio/2018/09/domino-effect-and-climate-change
We have very little time. And the Conservative party of New Brunswick thinks we need to encourage climate change with fracking. (He softens it by saying he would allow it only on property owned by people who agree to it. Cute. But it doesn't affect just those people. It affects all of us. Leader Blaine Higgs must think we're all pretty dumb. And if we vote for him, that will prove he's right.)
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/indigenous-nationhood/2018/09/its-indigenous-and-environmental-groups-protect-public
But Blaine Higgs is the servant of another god.
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For a century, Canadian and American mining companies have been making life hell for the people of Latin America. But our news media never report on that. In the 1970s, the American-imposed government of Guatemala with the cooperation of George Bush sr. murdered some 200, 000 men, women and children native people in that country.
But it never made most of the news media, not even here in New Brunswick where one of the murdered was a lay missionary from this province. Luckily, the CBC has been better than most of our news media.
https://miningwatch.ca/blog/2018/8/15/guatemalan-communities-deliver-message-resistance-new-ceo-tah
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I include this book review not because I know it to be true but because it is plausible in a story that otherwise is not.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/11/the-fakest-fake-news-the-u-s-governments-9-11-conspiracy-theory/
The U.S., almost immediately, used the 9/11 attack as an excuse for the war on Afghanistan - though that excuse is not believable. There is not, and never has been, any evidence that the government of Afghanistan had anything to do with 9/11. Indeed, it had offered to hand over bin Laden and others to the international court at The Hague. Why didn't the U.S. accept that?
Because it had already planned its invasion as the start of a series of invasions that would include Iraq.
Most of the 9/11 attackers had no connection with Afghanistan - but with Saudi Arabia.
And when U.S. undercover agents captured bin Laden, why did they kill him? This was the man, we were told, who had planned the whole thing. What a source of information he would have been! What a trophy! What was the point of killing him?
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/21/palestine-the-testbed-for-trumps-plan-to-tear-up-the-rules-based-international-order/
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Are Moslems bigots, oppressors and murderers? Well, some of them are. And in that respect, so are most Christians. But us Christians only see evil and abuse of the scriptures when it's practiced by non-Christians. That's why we can feel free to starve children to death in Yemen.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/21/the-myth-of-an-intolerant-islam/
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Yes. This next source is prejudiced. Think of it as a counter to the massive prejudice of the regular news media.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hurricane-flooding-exposes-mass-poverty-class-oppression-in-america/5654710
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50308.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50302.htm
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George Orwell was a man of generations ago. But he's still way ahead of our news media.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/22/why-i-join-the-ilp/
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-22/china-threatens-us-consequences-if-it-does-not-immediately-revoke-sanctions-over
The U.S. can't win a war against Afghanistan peasantry - or against starving children in Yemen. So it might want to pause before considering one with China.
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http://www.voltairenet.org/article202998.html
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The news has been a little slow today. But the general situation has not changed.
We are deep into warlike postures with the U.S. leading the way. It is far the most aggressive nation in the world. And it's Russia, in particular, which has been trying to ease the tensions.
Big money has taken over the western world - and parts of the rest of the world. At a time when we desperately need food for the starving, shelter for the displaced, action on climate change....we are producing greater tragedies every day. The craze for killing and conquest at the expense of all other issues is what rules our world. And, yes, all the shots are called by those people we call our leading capitalists. The own us. They own our politicians. They own our news sources. Their greed has no limits. Their intelligence, alas, does have limits. And that puts the whole world in danger of an economic crash if we don't first wipe out our civilization with nuclear war.
As it is, Americans are weathering declining living standards so they can divert spending from education and health into the pockets of the rich in the form of, say, billions of dollars spent to pay the arms industry to supply the weapons to murder children and starve them to death - and to produce handsome profits for weapons capitalists who then hide their profits from taxation.
The is all quite insane.
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Nor is the New Brunswick election likely to bring any sanity back.
Worse is the Conservative Party which seems to have no social values whatever. Blaine Higgs, the leader of the party, summed up his campaign with assurances that we should vote for him - and you know how he will reward us?
He actually said this. If we elect him, he will answer the phone and politely answer any questions we have. This must be the most moronic political party in Canadian history. And it is quite possible that it might win.
Abandon hope all ye who vote Conservative.
The Liberals have clearer policies. But most of their suggestions do not deal with the real issues of our time. They have what they probably call neat ideas - rather like a barber who snips here and there but, having no clue what a haircut looks like, simply snips in weird patterns.
The Greens and the NDP have a few decent ideas, here and there. But there is no sense in either of them of a general social philosophy. Nor does either of them have anything to say about the power of the wealthy families of this province to steal fortunes from us by hiding their wealth from taxation - and by routinely plundering the provincial treasury for handouts. There's no sense of an anger that should be there, and no sense of a general policy. We are being poisoned by chemical sprays these people use on our forest - and us. That gets, maybe, a mention.
Then there's the People's Action Party.... donne moi un break.
New Brunswickers are sheep led to the slaughter. There is no tradition of open, political debate in this province. There's no tradition of an anger that should be there. The only (fairly) honest news medium is CBC. But I notice it rarely tackles the big issues in New Brunswick.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/20/university-factory-failed-tony-blair-social-mobility-jobs
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/rabble-radio/2018/09/domino-effect-and-climate-change
We have very little time. And the Conservative party of New Brunswick thinks we need to encourage climate change with fracking. (He softens it by saying he would allow it only on property owned by people who agree to it. Cute. But it doesn't affect just those people. It affects all of us. Leader Blaine Higgs must think we're all pretty dumb. And if we vote for him, that will prove he's right.)
________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/indigenous-nationhood/2018/09/its-indigenous-and-environmental-groups-protect-public
But Blaine Higgs is the servant of another god.
_________________________________________________________________
For a century, Canadian and American mining companies have been making life hell for the people of Latin America. But our news media never report on that. In the 1970s, the American-imposed government of Guatemala with the cooperation of George Bush sr. murdered some 200, 000 men, women and children native people in that country.
But it never made most of the news media, not even here in New Brunswick where one of the murdered was a lay missionary from this province. Luckily, the CBC has been better than most of our news media.
https://miningwatch.ca/blog/2018/8/15/guatemalan-communities-deliver-message-resistance-new-ceo-tah
_____________________________________________________________
I include this book review not because I know it to be true but because it is plausible in a story that otherwise is not.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/11/the-fakest-fake-news-the-u-s-governments-9-11-conspiracy-theory/
The U.S., almost immediately, used the 9/11 attack as an excuse for the war on Afghanistan - though that excuse is not believable. There is not, and never has been, any evidence that the government of Afghanistan had anything to do with 9/11. Indeed, it had offered to hand over bin Laden and others to the international court at The Hague. Why didn't the U.S. accept that?
Because it had already planned its invasion as the start of a series of invasions that would include Iraq.
Most of the 9/11 attackers had no connection with Afghanistan - but with Saudi Arabia.
And when U.S. undercover agents captured bin Laden, why did they kill him? This was the man, we were told, who had planned the whole thing. What a source of information he would have been! What a trophy! What was the point of killing him?
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/21/palestine-the-testbed-for-trumps-plan-to-tear-up-the-rules-based-international-order/
____________________________________________________________
Are Moslems bigots, oppressors and murderers? Well, some of them are. And in that respect, so are most Christians. But us Christians only see evil and abuse of the scriptures when it's practiced by non-Christians. That's why we can feel free to starve children to death in Yemen.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/21/the-myth-of-an-intolerant-islam/
_______________________________________________________________
Yes. This next source is prejudiced. Think of it as a counter to the massive prejudice of the regular news media.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hurricane-flooding-exposes-mass-poverty-class-oppression-in-america/5654710
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50308.htm
_________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50302.htm
_________________________________________________________________
George Orwell was a man of generations ago. But he's still way ahead of our news media.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/22/why-i-join-the-ilp/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-22/china-threatens-us-consequences-if-it-does-not-immediately-revoke-sanctions-over
The U.S. can't win a war against Afghanistan peasantry - or against starving children in Yemen. So it might want to pause before considering one with China.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.voltairenet.org/article202998.html
________________________________________________________________
The news has been a little slow today. But the general situation has not changed.
We are deep into warlike postures with the U.S. leading the way. It is far the most aggressive nation in the world. And it's Russia, in particular, which has been trying to ease the tensions.
Big money has taken over the western world - and parts of the rest of the world. At a time when we desperately need food for the starving, shelter for the displaced, action on climate change....we are producing greater tragedies every day. The craze for killing and conquest at the expense of all other issues is what rules our world. And, yes, all the shots are called by those people we call our leading capitalists. The own us. They own our politicians. They own our news sources. Their greed has no limits. Their intelligence, alas, does have limits. And that puts the whole world in danger of an economic crash if we don't first wipe out our civilization with nuclear war.
As it is, Americans are weathering declining living standards so they can divert spending from education and health into the pockets of the rich in the form of, say, billions of dollars spent to pay the arms industry to supply the weapons to murder children and starve them to death - and to produce handsome profits for weapons capitalists who then hide their profits from taxation.
The is all quite insane.
_______________________________________________________________
Nor is the New Brunswick election likely to bring any sanity back.
Worse is the Conservative Party which seems to have no social values whatever. Blaine Higgs, the leader of the party, summed up his campaign with assurances that we should vote for him - and you know how he will reward us?
He actually said this. If we elect him, he will answer the phone and politely answer any questions we have. This must be the most moronic political party in Canadian history. And it is quite possible that it might win.
Abandon hope all ye who vote Conservative.
The Liberals have clearer policies. But most of their suggestions do not deal with the real issues of our time. They have what they probably call neat ideas - rather like a barber who snips here and there but, having no clue what a haircut looks like, simply snips in weird patterns.
The Greens and the NDP have a few decent ideas, here and there. But there is no sense in either of them of a general social philosophy. Nor does either of them have anything to say about the power of the wealthy families of this province to steal fortunes from us by hiding their wealth from taxation - and by routinely plundering the provincial treasury for handouts. There's no sense of an anger that should be there, and no sense of a general policy. We are being poisoned by chemical sprays these people use on our forest - and us. That gets, maybe, a mention.
Then there's the People's Action Party.... donne moi un break.
New Brunswickers are sheep led to the slaughter. There is no tradition of open, political debate in this province. There's no tradition of an anger that should be there. The only (fairly) honest news medium is CBC. But I notice it rarely tackles the big issues in New Brunswick.
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