Not a good blog today. I guess I'm out of sorts because of our Mickey Mouse provincial election here in New Brunswick.
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http://www.voltairenet.org/article202998.html
This is a much bigger story than it might seem. As China's exports move into the developing world, Chinese world influence grows. It far outclasses U.S. investment even in Brazil, on the U.S. doorstep.
What we're watching is a world that has a rapidly decreasing interest in U.S. trade, particularly as it is so often accompanied by American violence. Most of Latin America can tell you about that.
In short, we are watching a rapid decline in U.S. influence and power. And how will Canada play this? And how will the U.S. react to our choice?
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And there's this closely related story. It's more than a little misleading, though. Like all recent CBC reports on Venezuela, it has not mentioned that a) the Venezuelan government was elected in a vote certified by the UN as legitimate. b) Venezuela is suffering chaos because the U.S. (illegitimately) has been imposing severe trade sanctions on it.
What will the U.S. do next? There is every possibility it will invade Venezuela - and that it will in a show of unanimity call on countries like Canada to join it in the killing and plundering of the Venezuelan people. And I wouldn't be surprised if Trudeau were to call it a 'peacekeeping' mission - just like the time Canada helped the U.S. to overthrow the elected government of Haiti and impose a U.S. puppet government.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chinese-navy-medical-vessel-arrives-venezuela-1.4835206
Would Trudeau kiss up? Very likely. For a start, it might mean getting a NAFTA deal with the U.S.
And there's a much bigger meaning to this Venezuela crisis. China is now routinely intervening in the affairs of the American empire - just as the U.S. has been intervening in nations all over the world since 1945. But it now has a rival in China. Already, Brazil's major trading partner is China, not the U.S.
In short, we are watching the decline of the American empire. The U.S. can destroy the world. But it can't conquer it.
And don't worry about those poor American and Canadian oil billionaires. They don't have to worry about paying for all this killing because they don't pay any taxes in the first place.
So bless us for filling in for them.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-englers-blog/2018/09/does-canada-support-invasion-venezuela
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We are, increasingly, getting more vicious storms. Ontario now has had three tornados in just a few days - and the damage is very severe. It's more than time to think very seriously about our weather patterns.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/25/world-audibly-laughs-after-trump-claims-his-administration-among-most-accomplished
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It was ten years ago that (mostly) American bankers created a world crisis by their illegal crash of the U.S. economy. Nobody went to jail. None of them made up that loss. It was taxpayers who had to cover for them with trillions of dollars. And their board members, instead of jail, got multi-million dollar bonuses.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/24/ten-years-after-not-one-high-level-banker-sent-jail-tanking-global-economy-man-gets
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/25/understanding-1-5c-the-ipccs-forthcoming-special-report/
Don't worry about this. The important thing to remember is that the irving press of New Brunswick hasn't mentioned this. Nor have most of the politicians. So it must be perfectly safe.
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/25/this-is-a-global-problem/
Add to that the neat stunt that our billionaires don't have to pay a cent to fight their wars. They don't pay taxes. No. They take the cost of the wars out of our taxes - and then they get all the profits out of the war.
The outstanding feature of our age is the massive greed of a small group of people. Funny nobody mentioned that in the recent New Brunswick election.
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/24/a-world-on-borrowed-time/
Don't worry. If this were true, our oil billionaires would tell us.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-projections-a-world-on-borrowed-time/5655053
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A product of climate change is destruction to water sources for agriculture. It's happening in the U.S. midwest and in parts of California. Indeed, it's happening all over the world. That means starvation. It means mass migration beyond even the levels we're seeing for the middle east. But who cares? Right?
https://www.atimes.com/article/as-indias-ganga-runs-out-of-water-a-potential-food-shortage-looms
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The news seems slow today. Actually, it may be the most dangerous we have seen since World War 2. The U.S. threatens continued interventions in the middle east - especially Syria and Iran - and in Venezuela. In the cases of Syria and Iran, Russia has committed itself not to back off. And China is showing interest in Venezuela as well as parts of the middle east.
In a more general way, the U.S. acts as though it has the right to interfere in any country - to tell them what they are allowed to buy and sell, to threaten countries when those countries buy weapons to defend themselves; in short, as though the U.S. has the power to rule the world.
We are very, very close to wars that could go nuclear, wars that nobody could win. And while this happens, we are ignoring all the danger signs of climate change. This is not just acting tough on our part. This is insane. Follow the speeches of American figures like Pompeo and Bolton. They are living models of insanity.
And as this happens, the U.S. - whose military record since 1945 is not impressive - is in serious decline, largely because of its monstrous and corrupt defence industries, and its abuse of its own people. Serious disorder in the U.S. is a sure thing. Nor is it likely to take any intelligent stance.
And Canada is next door.
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Meanwhile, my home province of New Brunswick has had a provincial election of absurdities. The Conservative party, led by a former executive for the richest man in the province, had nothing that could be called a platform except a vague statement about permitting fracking. Just what we need. And it just happens that this would exactly meet the wishes of his former boss (who, like most of the super-wealthy of this world, doesn't pay income tax, and who expects the government to had him millions more every year.)
And the won a plurality of seats. I have no idea why.
The Liberal party lost by a hair but, with the support of another party, may be able to form a government. The Liberals didn't have much in the way of a platform. ( But the Conservatives had even less.)
So balance of power - whether for Conservatives or Liberals - will be in two parties which each scored 3 winning candidates.
The Greens party, which ran on almost nothing, cannot possibly support the Conservatives. Well, maybe. Any party that ran on nothing in the first place could, I guess, support anybody.
Then there's the People's Alliance Party. This is a painful one. I grew up and lived in a Quebec ridden with hatreds based on language Indeed, the hatreds became a variety of racism which led to an election that put the French racists into power so they could destroy the English community. (That's why I now live in New Brunswick instead of Quebec. I find even my occasional visits to Quebec very painful. The face of racism is always there.)
The People's Alliance Party of New Brunswick is the English equivalent of Quebec's racism. New Brunswick had worked out a dual official language policy which is working well. The PAP will destroy that. I loathed French racists in Quebec. English racists in New Brunswick are no more attractive,
My guess is that the PAP will find it easiest to join the Conservatives who, after all, have no principles at all.
Oh, yeah. The PAP also think it's terribly important to be nice to our billionaires, and make sure they don't have to pay any nasty taxes. (This is the line also followed by the New Brunswick newspapers who insist that making the rich richer will make us all rich. It hasn't worked for over 150 years but, what the hell,....)
No matter how this turns out, this has been a disastrous election for New Brunswick. It has no political party of any substance whatever. It has a population that votes like robots. It has dreadful news sources so it is hopelessly ignorant of what is going on. And its voters line up like sheep.
The good part? New Brunswick elections can't get worse.
The bad part? New Brunswick elections can't get better.
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Oh, yes. On this momentous day, our irving press has four commentaries. Three of them are from 'think-tanks', propaganda houses owned by billionaires.
Then it has a commentary on the election by Chris Morris who sees hope in the rise of two parties that elected three each. Come off it! The Greens had, at best, one point to offer. And PAP was our equivalent of Donald Trump.
The people of New Brunswick will never have a decent government until they learn to think for themselves.
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http://www.voltairenet.org/article202998.html
This is a much bigger story than it might seem. As China's exports move into the developing world, Chinese world influence grows. It far outclasses U.S. investment even in Brazil, on the U.S. doorstep.
What we're watching is a world that has a rapidly decreasing interest in U.S. trade, particularly as it is so often accompanied by American violence. Most of Latin America can tell you about that.
In short, we are watching a rapid decline in U.S. influence and power. And how will Canada play this? And how will the U.S. react to our choice?
_________________________________________________________________
And there's this closely related story. It's more than a little misleading, though. Like all recent CBC reports on Venezuela, it has not mentioned that a) the Venezuelan government was elected in a vote certified by the UN as legitimate. b) Venezuela is suffering chaos because the U.S. (illegitimately) has been imposing severe trade sanctions on it.
What will the U.S. do next? There is every possibility it will invade Venezuela - and that it will in a show of unanimity call on countries like Canada to join it in the killing and plundering of the Venezuelan people. And I wouldn't be surprised if Trudeau were to call it a 'peacekeeping' mission - just like the time Canada helped the U.S. to overthrow the elected government of Haiti and impose a U.S. puppet government.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chinese-navy-medical-vessel-arrives-venezuela-1.4835206
Would Trudeau kiss up? Very likely. For a start, it might mean getting a NAFTA deal with the U.S.
And there's a much bigger meaning to this Venezuela crisis. China is now routinely intervening in the affairs of the American empire - just as the U.S. has been intervening in nations all over the world since 1945. But it now has a rival in China. Already, Brazil's major trading partner is China, not the U.S.
In short, we are watching the decline of the American empire. The U.S. can destroy the world. But it can't conquer it.
And don't worry about those poor American and Canadian oil billionaires. They don't have to worry about paying for all this killing because they don't pay any taxes in the first place.
So bless us for filling in for them.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-englers-blog/2018/09/does-canada-support-invasion-venezuela
________________________________________________________________
We are, increasingly, getting more vicious storms. Ontario now has had three tornados in just a few days - and the damage is very severe. It's more than time to think very seriously about our weather patterns.
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/25/world-audibly-laughs-after-trump-claims-his-administration-among-most-accomplished
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It was ten years ago that (mostly) American bankers created a world crisis by their illegal crash of the U.S. economy. Nobody went to jail. None of them made up that loss. It was taxpayers who had to cover for them with trillions of dollars. And their board members, instead of jail, got multi-million dollar bonuses.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/24/ten-years-after-not-one-high-level-banker-sent-jail-tanking-global-economy-man-gets
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/25/understanding-1-5c-the-ipccs-forthcoming-special-report/
Don't worry about this. The important thing to remember is that the irving press of New Brunswick hasn't mentioned this. Nor have most of the politicians. So it must be perfectly safe.
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/25/this-is-a-global-problem/
Add to that the neat stunt that our billionaires don't have to pay a cent to fight their wars. They don't pay taxes. No. They take the cost of the wars out of our taxes - and then they get all the profits out of the war.
The outstanding feature of our age is the massive greed of a small group of people. Funny nobody mentioned that in the recent New Brunswick election.
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/24/a-world-on-borrowed-time/
Don't worry. If this were true, our oil billionaires would tell us.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-projections-a-world-on-borrowed-time/5655053
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A product of climate change is destruction to water sources for agriculture. It's happening in the U.S. midwest and in parts of California. Indeed, it's happening all over the world. That means starvation. It means mass migration beyond even the levels we're seeing for the middle east. But who cares? Right?
https://www.atimes.com/article/as-indias-ganga-runs-out-of-water-a-potential-food-shortage-looms
_____________________________________________________________
The news seems slow today. Actually, it may be the most dangerous we have seen since World War 2. The U.S. threatens continued interventions in the middle east - especially Syria and Iran - and in Venezuela. In the cases of Syria and Iran, Russia has committed itself not to back off. And China is showing interest in Venezuela as well as parts of the middle east.
In a more general way, the U.S. acts as though it has the right to interfere in any country - to tell them what they are allowed to buy and sell, to threaten countries when those countries buy weapons to defend themselves; in short, as though the U.S. has the power to rule the world.
We are very, very close to wars that could go nuclear, wars that nobody could win. And while this happens, we are ignoring all the danger signs of climate change. This is not just acting tough on our part. This is insane. Follow the speeches of American figures like Pompeo and Bolton. They are living models of insanity.
And as this happens, the U.S. - whose military record since 1945 is not impressive - is in serious decline, largely because of its monstrous and corrupt defence industries, and its abuse of its own people. Serious disorder in the U.S. is a sure thing. Nor is it likely to take any intelligent stance.
And Canada is next door.
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Meanwhile, my home province of New Brunswick has had a provincial election of absurdities. The Conservative party, led by a former executive for the richest man in the province, had nothing that could be called a platform except a vague statement about permitting fracking. Just what we need. And it just happens that this would exactly meet the wishes of his former boss (who, like most of the super-wealthy of this world, doesn't pay income tax, and who expects the government to had him millions more every year.)
And the won a plurality of seats. I have no idea why.
The Liberal party lost by a hair but, with the support of another party, may be able to form a government. The Liberals didn't have much in the way of a platform. ( But the Conservatives had even less.)
So balance of power - whether for Conservatives or Liberals - will be in two parties which each scored 3 winning candidates.
The Greens party, which ran on almost nothing, cannot possibly support the Conservatives. Well, maybe. Any party that ran on nothing in the first place could, I guess, support anybody.
Then there's the People's Alliance Party. This is a painful one. I grew up and lived in a Quebec ridden with hatreds based on language Indeed, the hatreds became a variety of racism which led to an election that put the French racists into power so they could destroy the English community. (That's why I now live in New Brunswick instead of Quebec. I find even my occasional visits to Quebec very painful. The face of racism is always there.)
The People's Alliance Party of New Brunswick is the English equivalent of Quebec's racism. New Brunswick had worked out a dual official language policy which is working well. The PAP will destroy that. I loathed French racists in Quebec. English racists in New Brunswick are no more attractive,
My guess is that the PAP will find it easiest to join the Conservatives who, after all, have no principles at all.
Oh, yeah. The PAP also think it's terribly important to be nice to our billionaires, and make sure they don't have to pay any nasty taxes. (This is the line also followed by the New Brunswick newspapers who insist that making the rich richer will make us all rich. It hasn't worked for over 150 years but, what the hell,....)
No matter how this turns out, this has been a disastrous election for New Brunswick. It has no political party of any substance whatever. It has a population that votes like robots. It has dreadful news sources so it is hopelessly ignorant of what is going on. And its voters line up like sheep.
The good part? New Brunswick elections can't get worse.
The bad part? New Brunswick elections can't get better.
_____________________________________________________________
Oh, yes. On this momentous day, our irving press has four commentaries. Three of them are from 'think-tanks', propaganda houses owned by billionaires.
Then it has a commentary on the election by Chris Morris who sees hope in the rise of two parties that elected three each. Come off it! The Greens had, at best, one point to offer. And PAP was our equivalent of Donald Trump.
The people of New Brunswick will never have a decent government until they learn to think for themselves.
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