Sorry to be late with this. I have just learned the hard way that the old computer protection is not enough. We also need protection against something called malware which makes it easy to hack into our computers.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-joins-effort-sanction-venezuela-1.4838359
Sounds reasonable? That's because, like all bad reporting, it does not tell the whole story.
Is Venezuela a dictatorship? I don't know. But, certainly, Canadians are scarcely the ones to criticize dictatorships. Canada happily supported the US when it (twice) overthrew Guatemalan governments to install dictators. Then Canada supported the U.S. when it overthrew the elected government of Haiti, and reinstalled a dictatorship. We even sent what we called peacekeepers to help the new dictatorship. We had no complaints when the U.S. ruled Cuba with decades of dictatorship. We were silent when an American-backed general destroyed the democratic government of Chile. In the Korean war, we supported the brutal dictatorship (of that time) of South Korea.
But Trump now says the government of Venezuela is truly evil. It's socialist.
Hey, Donald, baby, a country is allowed to have whatever kind of economy it chooses. And remember, it was capitalists, not socialists, who murdered way over a million people, mostly children and civilians, in Iraq, who have invaded, murdered and plundered over seventy nations and killed tens of millions of people, mostly civilians since 1945. And whatever evil the government of Venezuela may be doing, it is not the country deliberately starving millions, mainly children, to death in Yemen. Nor is it Venezuela that has been torturing hundreds of thousands all over the world. So, if Venezuela should face the International Criminal Court, why isn't the U.S. facing it?
Well, that's awkward because the U.S. doesn't recognize the ICC. Why not?
If you had murdered and tortured and napalmed and agent oranged and concentrated on the bombing and starvation of civilians all over the world killing tens of millions, you might not want to recognize the ICC, either. And that's not even mentioning over 70 illegal U.S. wars in the last 70 years.
No. The U.S. which, in fact, is what created the chaos and poverty and panic in Venezuela through it's illegal sanctions. No way it wants to recognize the ICC. No. It needs a bum boy for that. Enter Justin Trudeau.
And will the virtuous Justin ask the ICC to investigate the American mass starvation of Yemen children? No. Justin is loyal to only one bum.
And just wait for act two. Will Canada commit troops to Venezuela for the U.S? Is there a deal, in that case, for the U.S. to welcome Canada in NAFTA?
Note that none of the recent newspaper reports on Venezuela have mentioned that it is the U.S., not the Venezuela government, which has created the economic crisis in Venezuela by (illegally) forbidding trade.
Note - I am not particularly arguing this in favour of the government of Venezuela. I am pointing out the absurdity of pointing fingers at Venezuela when the U.S. is the world leader in mass murder and plundering. In that context, Trudeau's offer is cringing and gutless - and an embarrassment to all of us.
A search of the web is even worse. It's flooded with hate-Venezuela articles. And very, very little mention of years of U.S. efforts to destroy the Venezuela economy.
Oh, and the ICC is no collection of legal angels. It has long been the court of choice for western capitalists who want to attack poor nations.
Amazingly, the irving press seems not to have covered this story at all. I don't think they have anybody who knows how to spell Venezuela.
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-attack-in-ahvaz-prelude-to-coming-war-with-iran
Count on it. A war with Iran is pretty much a sure thing. And the cause of it is not Iran. It's American oil bosses and Saudi Arabia who are both looking for plunder.
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Capitalism has always been exploitive and destructive. But, since 1970 or so, we've watched it run out of control. No Canadian or American political party has addressed that in some fifty years. Capitalists are people. Like all people, they cannot be allowed to run free. But that's what they're doing. And, our faces hanging out, we are letting it happen. That greed we allow to run wild will, in the short run, make us increasingly poor. And, probably in the short run, will destroy economies all over the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/26/fight-climate-threat-and-greed-good-capitalism-corbyn-offers-radical-plan-rebuild
Trump is not a one-shot wonder. He is a product of the natural greed of capitalism.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/26/one-global-finances-biggest-doctors-warns-world-economy-about-get-very-sick
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http://rabble.ca/news/2018/09/doug-ford-rolls-back-climate-policies-while-unprecedented-tornadoes-ravage-his-province
The world has quite a run of irresponsible politicians who serve the greed of the wealthy. Think Ford of Ontario, Trump of the U.S., Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick....
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New Brunswick is heavily forested. New Brunswick has suffered from global warming, exposing us to forest fires. The cities and towns and villages of New Brunswick are wooden.
Connect the dots.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2018/09/climate-change-and-corporate-greed-combine-destroy-forests
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/27/criminals-on-the-international-criminal-court/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/27/illegal-us-nuclear-weapons-handouts/
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A demoralizing but accurate look at Canada's NDP and it's left in general.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/26/a-wake-up-call-to-the-canadian-left/
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This is one reason why we don't have have much time. And why even New Brunswick can't just go on to be dozy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/26/an-unforeseen-climate-beast-awakens/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-linked-to-bee-deaths/5655254
Hey. If glyophosates were a problem, Mr. irving would have told us. I mean, he loves us. Doesn't he?
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50319.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50315.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50322.htm
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https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
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Capitalism, despite the hack columnists of the irving press, has never eased poverty. And it never will.
https://truthout.org/articles/census-39-7-million-americans-are-poor/
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Just a quick reading of the news is not alarming. Lots of countries, lots of people are doing things they shouldn't be doing. But that's always been true.
So it's no big deal. Right? Wrong.
We are in the greatest danger we have ever known.
The U.S. is a fading power. It's happening quite suddenly. For all its boasting, the U.S. mililtary performance since 1945 has been abysmal. U.S. power is dying. As it dies, enthusiasm turns to using what power it has before it's too late. And before it's too late now means very, very soon. In fact, it could be any day now.
Will that save it? No. At the present state of weapons development, no country on this earth would survive a world war. And that means the drift to using that weaponry is insane. (Insane is not an exaggeration. It is a reality we have to deal with in a world controlled by people who actually believe that a world war makes sense and who are actively encouraging it.)
It is an insanity combined with greed. One sign of that is the willingness to combine wars against civilians and children with world climate destruction. Very few powers - none of the major ones - have made any attempt to deal with climate threat. It is not possible that the billionaires of this world are unaware of climate change and what it means. It is not possible they could be unaware - and if it is not possible, then it can only be that their greed has driven them insane, and beyond giving a damn for this planet and those who live on it.
(The recent election in New Brunswick shows that the insanity spreads down through all social levels. No party made any significant attempt to raise the crucial issues.)
And the young are encouraged to sign up for the military as a mark of their patriotism. What the hell is patriotic about murdering and starving millions of children to death? Indeed, what is this word 'patriotism' that we use so glibly?
If patriotism is, by definition, good, then all those who signed up to fight for Hitler's Germany - and Italy and Japan - were patriots to be highly admired. So shouldn't we have praised them? The Spaniards who murdered and looted their way through Latin America were patriots. So were the British who killed several hundred million to build their empire. Bless them. They killed out of love for their kings and queens. So did the Canadians who killed aboriginal people in Canada, and Dutch farmers in South Africa. Then there were all those heroes who almost wiped out the native peoples, men, women and children, of the U.S.
I really wonder how the Spanish and British and Canadians and Americans could be patriotic and, at the same time, Christians.
Trump is now loudmouthing his people to show their patriotism by murdering Syrians and Venezuelans and Afghanis and Yemenis and Russians and Chinese to please American billionaires. And Justin Trudeau is showing his patriotism by offering to help Trump and his billionaires.
We are in the darkening stages of the worst crisis in known history. We need to save the planet, to save ourselves, to make life worthwhile for all of us in all countries....and we're preparing for a world war which, like all wars, will be one to benefit the very, very rich - nobody else.
No. I'm not a patriot. I don't think it's noble to kill people to make billionaires richer.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-joins-effort-sanction-venezuela-1.4838359
Sounds reasonable? That's because, like all bad reporting, it does not tell the whole story.
Is Venezuela a dictatorship? I don't know. But, certainly, Canadians are scarcely the ones to criticize dictatorships. Canada happily supported the US when it (twice) overthrew Guatemalan governments to install dictators. Then Canada supported the U.S. when it overthrew the elected government of Haiti, and reinstalled a dictatorship. We even sent what we called peacekeepers to help the new dictatorship. We had no complaints when the U.S. ruled Cuba with decades of dictatorship. We were silent when an American-backed general destroyed the democratic government of Chile. In the Korean war, we supported the brutal dictatorship (of that time) of South Korea.
But Trump now says the government of Venezuela is truly evil. It's socialist.
Hey, Donald, baby, a country is allowed to have whatever kind of economy it chooses. And remember, it was capitalists, not socialists, who murdered way over a million people, mostly children and civilians, in Iraq, who have invaded, murdered and plundered over seventy nations and killed tens of millions of people, mostly civilians since 1945. And whatever evil the government of Venezuela may be doing, it is not the country deliberately starving millions, mainly children, to death in Yemen. Nor is it Venezuela that has been torturing hundreds of thousands all over the world. So, if Venezuela should face the International Criminal Court, why isn't the U.S. facing it?
Well, that's awkward because the U.S. doesn't recognize the ICC. Why not?
If you had murdered and tortured and napalmed and agent oranged and concentrated on the bombing and starvation of civilians all over the world killing tens of millions, you might not want to recognize the ICC, either. And that's not even mentioning over 70 illegal U.S. wars in the last 70 years.
No. The U.S. which, in fact, is what created the chaos and poverty and panic in Venezuela through it's illegal sanctions. No way it wants to recognize the ICC. No. It needs a bum boy for that. Enter Justin Trudeau.
And will the virtuous Justin ask the ICC to investigate the American mass starvation of Yemen children? No. Justin is loyal to only one bum.
And just wait for act two. Will Canada commit troops to Venezuela for the U.S? Is there a deal, in that case, for the U.S. to welcome Canada in NAFTA?
Note that none of the recent newspaper reports on Venezuela have mentioned that it is the U.S., not the Venezuela government, which has created the economic crisis in Venezuela by (illegally) forbidding trade.
Note - I am not particularly arguing this in favour of the government of Venezuela. I am pointing out the absurdity of pointing fingers at Venezuela when the U.S. is the world leader in mass murder and plundering. In that context, Trudeau's offer is cringing and gutless - and an embarrassment to all of us.
A search of the web is even worse. It's flooded with hate-Venezuela articles. And very, very little mention of years of U.S. efforts to destroy the Venezuela economy.
Oh, and the ICC is no collection of legal angels. It has long been the court of choice for western capitalists who want to attack poor nations.
Amazingly, the irving press seems not to have covered this story at all. I don't think they have anybody who knows how to spell Venezuela.
_______________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-attack-in-ahvaz-prelude-to-coming-war-with-iran
Count on it. A war with Iran is pretty much a sure thing. And the cause of it is not Iran. It's American oil bosses and Saudi Arabia who are both looking for plunder.
________________________________________________________________
Capitalism has always been exploitive and destructive. But, since 1970 or so, we've watched it run out of control. No Canadian or American political party has addressed that in some fifty years. Capitalists are people. Like all people, they cannot be allowed to run free. But that's what they're doing. And, our faces hanging out, we are letting it happen. That greed we allow to run wild will, in the short run, make us increasingly poor. And, probably in the short run, will destroy economies all over the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/26/fight-climate-threat-and-greed-good-capitalism-corbyn-offers-radical-plan-rebuild
Trump is not a one-shot wonder. He is a product of the natural greed of capitalism.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/09/26/one-global-finances-biggest-doctors-warns-world-economy-about-get-very-sick
_________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/news/2018/09/doug-ford-rolls-back-climate-policies-while-unprecedented-tornadoes-ravage-his-province
The world has quite a run of irresponsible politicians who serve the greed of the wealthy. Think Ford of Ontario, Trump of the U.S., Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick....
_________________________________________________________________
New Brunswick is heavily forested. New Brunswick has suffered from global warming, exposing us to forest fires. The cities and towns and villages of New Brunswick are wooden.
Connect the dots.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2018/09/climate-change-and-corporate-greed-combine-destroy-forests
_____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/27/criminals-on-the-international-criminal-court/
__________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/27/illegal-us-nuclear-weapons-handouts/
________________________________________________________________
A demoralizing but accurate look at Canada's NDP and it's left in general.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/26/a-wake-up-call-to-the-canadian-left/
________________________________________________________________
This is one reason why we don't have have much time. And why even New Brunswick can't just go on to be dozy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/26/an-unforeseen-climate-beast-awakens/
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/glyphosate-linked-to-bee-deaths/5655254
Hey. If glyophosates were a problem, Mr. irving would have told us. I mean, he loves us. Doesn't he?
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50319.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50315.htm
_____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50322.htm
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/
____________________________________________________________
Capitalism, despite the hack columnists of the irving press, has never eased poverty. And it never will.
https://truthout.org/articles/census-39-7-million-americans-are-poor/
_________________________________________________________________
Just a quick reading of the news is not alarming. Lots of countries, lots of people are doing things they shouldn't be doing. But that's always been true.
So it's no big deal. Right? Wrong.
We are in the greatest danger we have ever known.
The U.S. is a fading power. It's happening quite suddenly. For all its boasting, the U.S. mililtary performance since 1945 has been abysmal. U.S. power is dying. As it dies, enthusiasm turns to using what power it has before it's too late. And before it's too late now means very, very soon. In fact, it could be any day now.
Will that save it? No. At the present state of weapons development, no country on this earth would survive a world war. And that means the drift to using that weaponry is insane. (Insane is not an exaggeration. It is a reality we have to deal with in a world controlled by people who actually believe that a world war makes sense and who are actively encouraging it.)
It is an insanity combined with greed. One sign of that is the willingness to combine wars against civilians and children with world climate destruction. Very few powers - none of the major ones - have made any attempt to deal with climate threat. It is not possible that the billionaires of this world are unaware of climate change and what it means. It is not possible they could be unaware - and if it is not possible, then it can only be that their greed has driven them insane, and beyond giving a damn for this planet and those who live on it.
(The recent election in New Brunswick shows that the insanity spreads down through all social levels. No party made any significant attempt to raise the crucial issues.)
And the young are encouraged to sign up for the military as a mark of their patriotism. What the hell is patriotic about murdering and starving millions of children to death? Indeed, what is this word 'patriotism' that we use so glibly?
If patriotism is, by definition, good, then all those who signed up to fight for Hitler's Germany - and Italy and Japan - were patriots to be highly admired. So shouldn't we have praised them? The Spaniards who murdered and looted their way through Latin America were patriots. So were the British who killed several hundred million to build their empire. Bless them. They killed out of love for their kings and queens. So did the Canadians who killed aboriginal people in Canada, and Dutch farmers in South Africa. Then there were all those heroes who almost wiped out the native peoples, men, women and children, of the U.S.
I really wonder how the Spanish and British and Canadians and Americans could be patriotic and, at the same time, Christians.
Trump is now loudmouthing his people to show their patriotism by murdering Syrians and Venezuelans and Afghanis and Yemenis and Russians and Chinese to please American billionaires. And Justin Trudeau is showing his patriotism by offering to help Trump and his billionaires.
We are in the darkening stages of the worst crisis in known history. We need to save the planet, to save ourselves, to make life worthwhile for all of us in all countries....and we're preparing for a world war which, like all wars, will be one to benefit the very, very rich - nobody else.
No. I'm not a patriot. I don't think it's noble to kill people to make billionaires richer.
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