Oct. 13: The world downhill.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/usmca-canada-china-coalition-1.4855868

Get used to it. We are now America's bumboy just as over a hundred years ago, we were Britain's bumboy in fighting a British war that had nothing to do with us in the Boer War.  The Boer War was a plundering of South Africa to please wealthy English. Trump's face-off against China is an attempt to plunder China for the benefit of American billionaires.

Onward Christian soldiers.
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O Canada!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/canada-pension-fund-invests-in-us-immigration-detention-firms
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Western mining companies (including Canadian ones) and their stockholders have been bringing poverty, torture,  misery and death to the people of Congo for a century and a half.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/12/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/13/donald-trump-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-cbs-interview

For 70 years, the U.S. has been a good buddy to the rulers of Saudi Arabia - perhaps the most dictatorial and brutal rulers in the world. Will it now start getting tough? I doubt it. And certainly the oil industry will take the side of the world's cruelest dictatorship.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/10/nikki-haley-departure-chaos-trump-foreign-policy
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-englers-blog/2018/10/ottawas-mercenary-world-pro-military-lobbying
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2018/10/supreme-court-ruling-against-duty-consult-fails-indigenous
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http://www.taxfairness.ca/en/news/cameco-ruling-shows-need-outlaw-tax-haven-use

I wonder how much irving and friends cost New Bruswick tax payers every year. I wonder if the irving press will tell us. (Nah. I made up that last sentence.)
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The glyphosates that are sprayed in New Brunswick are good for us. If they weren't, we wouldn't be spraying them, would we? Read any reports about this from the two-fisted journalists of the irving press?

https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/from-gm-potatoes-to-glyphosate-regulatory-delinquency-and-toxic-agriculture/

Enjoy your fried potato at supper today.
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Another story we'll never see in the gutless irving press.

https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/unbridled-power/
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/wasting-food-in-a-hungry-world-world-food-day-16-october/
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And another one that won't make our major news media.

https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/we-need-cities-of-resistance-climate-adaptation-is-no-longer-an-option/
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https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/13/weather-and-white-house-turmoil-as-elections-loom/

Our commercial news media didn't notice it, but Tropical storm Michael came unpleasantly close to New Brunswick.
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Read this........

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/12/peak-carbon-emissions-by-2020-or-else/

.....then explain to us why the big issue in New Brunwick is whether we spend too much by having French/English translators on our  ambulances.

Then explain to us why the big issue in New Brunswick is whether we are overspending by having French/el translators on our ambulances.
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Global Research, like many social media, has just been banned from Facebook. Expect this to spread. Is it because they lie? I haven't seen any evidence of that. Indeed, I can find lots of lying and other misreporting in our commercial news media. We're taking a big step into state censorship. Because that's what this is.  If the government really had a case against anything in the social media, it could take it to the courts. But it's not doing that. (And if it really cared, it would take most commercial news media in North America to the courts. But it won't do that, either.) No. We're watching the sort of state censorship that we once thought only Naziis  would impose.)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/social-media-censorship-intensifies/5656828
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There is no connection between the principles of Judaism and the behaviour of Israel. German (and British and Canadian and American) persecution of Jews does not justify Israeli horrors inflicted on Palestine.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-is-destroying-both-israel-and-the-palestinians/5656785
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To even think of a world war today is insane.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-report-points-to-us-preparations-for-total-war/5656802

But we have lots of insane people.

And think hard about who it is that want's these wars - and why. These wars, as almost always, are for the benefit of billionaires who want to control world markets. That's why the U.S. has fought seventy wars since 1945. That's why it has killed millions of innocent civilians - especially women and children. That's why Trump brags of his love for his military. They murder those millions to make Trump and his friends fatter.
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Trump threatens to do-----nothing ------to the rulers of Saudi Arabia who seem to  have murdered a journalist. It could cost, he says, American jobs. Oh, well....in that case let the Saudi rulers kill as many as they like.

And Christians all over the U.S. clap hands.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50411.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50416.htm

And 2,000 years of Christianity have left not the slightest mark on our behaviour.
No. Not even at the irving chapel.
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https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/13/see-what-the-two-main-american-political-parties-have-become/

Why does this remind me of the politics of New Brunswick? And of Canada in general?
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Iraq was a war that achieved nothing. It is still a hopelessly divided country, and one that has never recovered from that war. What it has done, along with Afghanistan, is to trigger a series of wars to give American capitalists control of middle east resources. And that series is now leading us into a world, nuclear war.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/441107-iraq-war-syria-hell/

By the way, note the number of children killed in that war - some  500,000 at least. Jesus would be so pleased at the courage of the American and British armies that did that.
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After 500 years of mass murder, slavery, starvation, plunder most of the world has no reason to love the western powers - notably Britain, Spain, France and the U.S. Funny how our news media have not noticed that.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/441076-trump-china-india-rapprochement/
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Another victim as our masters tell us what we are allowed to read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zu_QS6hK4
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/40percent-of-american-middle-class-face-poverty-in-retirement-study-says.html
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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181011-israel-forces-detain-palestinian-kids-on-way-to-school/

Read the Old Testament carefully. You'll find nothing in it that justifies this.
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https://truthout.org/articles/do-we-really-have-the-time-and-the-tools-to-fix-climate-change/
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Hitler's naziis would have fit right into our foreign relations. Well, it's not just "would have".  They do fit right in.

https://truthout.org/articles/in-yemen-trump-is-taking-tolerance-for-war-crimes-to-a-new-level/
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/human-fingerprints-extreme-weather_us_5bc0fca7e4b05ca1d2e28b03

Let's wake up, shall we?
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Throughout history, nations have given rise to leaders whose positions become hereditary.. They called them caesars or kings or emperors - and, even if the first ones were intelligent, their successors frequently became less so - and even dangerous in their idiocy.

But no matter how idiotic and perverse they became, they still ruled by right of birth. In the period following the collapse of Rome, Europe added to these hereditary kings layers of hereditary dukes, duchesses, earls,   princes, princesses, sirs, counts..... And they commonly inherited the lands and the servants of their parents.

Today, most of these people do nothing useful. But they remain recipients of state wealth, of social status, of honours.... British lords (but not ladies) have the right to sit in government in the house of lords even if, as happens, some are gibbering idiots.

The Queen leads the crowd in Britain. And she is a decent person - but of no use  that couldn't be satisfied at a far, far cheaper price. Ditto her  husband. And her children. Prince Charles, who could barely handle high school has a household staff of - seriously - more than a hundred and fifty. Then there are his sons.... And we have another princess of no known function who just got married at monstrous cost.

Then there's the hugely expensive assortment of palaces and castles for the Queen with all their massive costs, and the mansions for the rest with their huge staffs of servants.... This all must cost taxpayers billions.

Of course, they all consider themselves worth this massive cost though most of them do nothing at all - though they all consider themselves superior to the rest of us.

The world of big business works in the same way. It's big wigs are commonly the sons of the the very rich of generations before them. They, too, see themselves as special people with a right to wealth and power. So it was that both Donald Trump and his son-in-law thought it quite correct for them - but not for us peasants - to skip paying taxes.

Generation after generation they produce increasingly retarded and useless offspring who will, nonetheless, leave school to walk into jobs that start at a million. And they learn to regard themselves as superior to us peasants.

The British royals are probably the champs at this. But the business world is catching up.