https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/khashoggi-column-1.4863809
I know what he means. The U.S. is today's Nazi Germany. It is a nation charmed by a Hitler who murders for exactly the same reason Hitler murdered - to plunder their countries for the benefit of capitalists. And Canada and Britain are the partners to the American Naziis.
And, just as in Nazi Germany, we are encouraged to idolize our militaries, spewing nonsense that they are killing out of patriotism. Yes, those masses of paraders that Trump applauds as heroes are, out of sheer patriotism, now murdering civilians and children at a rate not seen since the heyday of the British Empire and, like the British Empire and Nazi Germany, the murder is really being done to satisfy the greed of our super billionaires.
We have fallen a long, long way from our promises of 1945 for the better world we thought we would create. November 11 should be a day thanks - and of apology- for those who served. But it won't be. It'll be the usual three cheers for glory and 'patriotism".
One might hope our Christian clergy will be something more than cheerleaders for this armistice day. But they won't be. They wouldn't want to criticize our billionaire 'warriors' who send others to fight their wars for them.
Let's see now. Is there anyone in Canada who might gain from an American/Canadian invasion of Venezuela?
Oh yeah, I can think of one. Right here in New Brunswick.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/17/why-is-saudi-arabia-under-fire-over-jamal-khashoggi-but-not-yemen
_____________________________________________________________
Pay no attention to this story from an academic journal. If this were true, Mr. Irving would tell us. And he was two years as a student at Acadia University. So he'd know.
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/?fbclid=IwAR1NIItXiBx_nXFFPucoTEYhT1i1BAn72TzsqizH-qt2KenUGxsIXCMXJkM
_______________________________________________________________
Why are Latin Americans fleeing their countries in such numbers and trying to enter the U.S.? It's because for over a hundred years American corporations assisted by American governments have made their countries into living hells.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/republicans-immigration-attack-ads-trump
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/oct/18/as-trump-cozies-up-to-saudi-arabia-the-rule-of-law-collapses-further
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/17/heart-global-woes-157-worlds-200-richest-entities-are-now-corporations-not
This province of New Brunswick is a prime example of ownership by the super wealthy of corporations. Blaine Higgs, leader of the Conservative party, is a prime example of who licks whose boots. If New Brunswickers care so little, why do they bother having elections?
Now, the local news media (owned by Mr. Irving) are pimping for a government that would be a coalition of all the parties. Well, why not? It would just be a continuation of this province's rule by Mr. Irving.
New Brunswick ceased to be a democracy a long time ago. It has a population that is too poorly informed to make useful choices. And it is also, alas, lacking in the courage to question its master.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/18/are-you-kidding-me-outrage-democrats-push-incremental-steps-over-bold-agenda-needed
There's no need for surprise. For many, many years, the Democrats have been as corrupt and as servile to the billionaires as the Republicans have been. The U.S. is not likely to go anywhere but further down.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2018/10/will-world-act-climate-change-its-too-late
But what does Suzuki know? He never spent two years at Acadia University like Mr. Irving did.
_______________________________________________________________
This story will not appear in New Brunswick's irving press.
http://rabble.ca/news/2018/10/may-and-ndp-mps-show-anger-debate-climate-change
__________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/18/embassy-disappearances-jamal-khashoggi-and-the-foreign-policy-web/
What's the fuss? The U.S. has special troops and drones who kill people every day. And the U.S. military have been torturing thousands since 1900 at least. Why all this display of virtue?
___________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/17/pro-coal-australia-trump-america-reject-dire-ipcc-report-declare-war-on-terra/
________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/18/lockheed-and-loaded-how-the-maker-of-junk-fighters-like-the-f-22-and-f-35-came-to-have-full-spectrum-dominance-over-the-defense-industry/
__________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/statistics-1300-days-of-saudi-crimes-in-yemen/5657346
Oh, it's terribly, terribly wrong to abort babies. But it's okay to bomb, starve and poison innocent people if they're foreigners. Ask your local evangelical to explain it.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-escalates-its-hypocritical-attack-on-venezuela/5657246
And the Canadian news media have made it easy for Trudeau by not telling us why Venezuela is in crisis. The U.S. has caused the crisis. Bend over, Mr. Trump so our prime minister Trudeau can kiss you where you like it. And maybe we'll send troops and give them medals, and thank them on November 11.
______________________________________________________________
Here is a story that will never appear in the irving press.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50455.htm
_________________________________________________________
Here's a thought for Christian clergy all over the world. Have you ever considered that Jesus might be critical of our political leaders who exist only to serve the rich? And of our rich who exist only to serve themselves?
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/18/the-milagro-of-oscar-romeros-sainthood/
This could make an interesting sermon for the irving chapel.
________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/khashoggi-murder-suspect-dies-car-accident/
____________________________________________________________
The film below is of what Christopher Columbus was really all about in his 'new world'. He was a plunderer who used trained dogs to chase down and kill native peoples. But that was nothing unusual. Just about every empire that ever there was has mass murdered, plundered, starved, raped.....That's what the Spanish and French and British and Dutch empires were about. That's what the American empire is all about. And in all cases, even the citizens of the imperial power who supplied the troops to die for the empire got nothing out of it. All the plunder and profit went a small number of the already wealthy. And that is still exactly what is happening.
https://theantimedia.com/facebook-censors-christopher-columbus-video/
Any thoughts on this all you reverends?
_______________________________________________________________
This is only a very small example of our treatment of migrants. We have been destroying their countries. Then, if they try to flee the horror we have created, we treat them like criminals - as though it's all their own fault.. That is what is happening at European borders and the the Mexico/U.S. border. And it is going to get much, much, much worse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-17/international-disgrace-france-busted-dumping-migrants-across-italian-border
_____________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-post-midterm-plans-cut-medicare-social-security-medicaid/
Hey. We gotta feed our hungry rich.
There's a very serious edge to this. U.S. life expectancy is very low for a developed country - 78 years at the present rate - and that's expect to drop steadily for the next 20 years at least. Canadian life expectancy is 82. Why the difference?
Americans have very, very little government medicare to rely on. It's heavily private enterprise which exists not to save lives but to make money. And now, it's going to get worse in order to make even more money for the very rich.
The private medical system in the U.S. is murdering Americans. Not the rich ones, though. They can afford private medicare.
American Christian churches, where the hell are you while your people are being murdered to stuff the wallets of billionaires?
Mind you, Canadian billionaires would love to see us dying earlier, too. And New Brunswickers who vote Liberal or Conservative are limp enough to let them do it.
________________________________________________________________
The U.S. has ruled Haiti for the best part of a century. In that time, it has known massively corrupt and very, very murderous governments. Haiti did try to break free with an honest election. But the U.S. intervened with an invasion to dump the elected president, and restore the old thugs. (Canada 'nobly' sent 'peacekeepers' to make it look good.)
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/haiti-anti-corruption-protest-turns-violent-181018090818118.html
____________________________________________________________
In Montreal, I knew quite a few Israelis. Most of them were quite decent people. But one was a man who bragged about how he and friends crossed into Palestinean land, killed the owner of a house there and moved in, kicking out the owner's family. He thought it was an amusing story. This has been a constant feature of Israeli behaviour for 60 years.
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/jerusalem-2016-home-demolitions/index.html
_________________________________________________________
We hear the term 'Willileaks' often. But our news media never tells what it is that gets leaked. So here's a sample.
https://wikileaks.org/-Leaks-.html
____________________________________________________________
The big thrill in the Brunswick News is that all parties in their province's indecisive election should come together and unite to form a coalition.
That's proof, if proof were needed, that the Brunswick news journalists have no idea what political parties are about - or should be about.
Their attitude is that political parties are supposed to come up with neat ideas. It's like running an office. You just get everybody together to fully cooperate with each other as a sort of office team. And that tells us that the journalists of the irving press have not the faintest idea what parties are supposed to be.
Each party is supposed to represent a basic philosophy on the nature of a society and how it should be governed. It's supposed to be campaigning and planning based on it's philosophy.
Would you seriously suggest that all the German political parties should have united with Hitler? Would you seriously suggest all Democrats should join in happy cooperation with the Republican Trumpists?
In New Brunswick, the Greens represent a need to deal with climate change. Should they abandon that to support the Conservatives in introducing fracking?
People's Alliance has been strong on putting an end to spraying our forests and us with glyphosate poison. Should they drop that to support the Conservatives and Liberals who make Mr. Irving happy by maintaining that poison?
Admittedly, the Conservatives and Liberals abandoned anything that could be called a philosophy of government or of social principals long ago. Both parties exist today only to get elected - and they do it by kissing up to the wealthy. Does that mean everybody should?
No. Government is NOT like running an office. It is about principles and values.
And for the Greens and the People's Alliance to join a coalition with the Liberals and Conservatives would mean an abandonment of all principles and values.
Instead of folding up and going back to sleep for several more years, I would suggest both Greens and People's Alliance - and NDP - spend the coming years campaigning hard. And that they take much tougher and broader stances than they have.
What they are (or should be) fighting for is not the servility of the Liberals and Conservatives. It's the dominance that the Irvings and their friends exercise over this whole province. That's the enemy. And until we recognize that and deal with it, this province ain't going nowhere. So do some hard thinking about what that means.
I wish I could report something on the news in our irving press. But for the last two days it has had nothing but story after story saying the same thing. People in New Brunswick are lining up to buy cannabis. That's it.
Oh! World news had a story. But just one. It was the story that Saudis promise to punish the wrongdoers (if any) in the killing of a reporter. The story fills a whole page but, for all practical purposes, says nothing. Nothing else happened in the whole world.
No wonder New Brunswickers don't have a clue on election days. Hints for things they might look at?
Well, New Brunswick faces a crisis in higher education. It's becoming more necessary for students and for the general good. But it's prohibitively expensive because of its fees. It's easy for irvings to go - some for as long as two years - and then slide into big pay. But it doesn't work for us peasantry.
We need the universities to become extensions of public education. (We also need the professors to learn how to teach). Our education system limited to grades K to 11 or 12 made sense in 1940. But that was a long time ago.
What we're getting instead is a big foofara over reorganizing our existing public schools to meet the demands of a university (just one) in Ontario (and just one department in that university) who downgrade New Brunswick grades. Get real, folks.
Very, very few students from New Brunswick apply to that programme in that one department of that university. And we're going to reorganize our public education system for that reason?
I taught university for many years. And for some years as chairman of the department I had to look at the marking of exams in my department. Most professors didn't have a clue how to mark an exam. Indeed, most had no idea of how to prepare a useful exam in the first place. And we are going to revamp our public education system to meet the standards of university professors who have no idea what standards are????
______________________________________________________________
And in the bigger picture? We had better not pin our destiny to that of the U.S. It is a destructive empire. And it is a dying one. And that death will happen whether it is governed by Democrats or Republicans. Both parties have long histories of corruption, international murder, and cruel neglect of their own people. Americans are so deeply saturated in myths about who they are and what they are and what their history is that they see little of this.
Remember that the idiocies of Trump follow the idiocies of Bush Jr. and Obama who threw the middle east into a crisis that is now a world crisis. And that follows many years of profound corruption and mass murder. The U.S. is going down. And it almost certainly is not coming back.
Ideally, Canada should be looking for a new 'friend'. But that's tough to do when you're all by yourself on the northern half of a continent, and when you have your own problems of corruption by an economic elite who are deeply attached to their American brethren.
I know what he means. The U.S. is today's Nazi Germany. It is a nation charmed by a Hitler who murders for exactly the same reason Hitler murdered - to plunder their countries for the benefit of capitalists. And Canada and Britain are the partners to the American Naziis.
And, just as in Nazi Germany, we are encouraged to idolize our militaries, spewing nonsense that they are killing out of patriotism. Yes, those masses of paraders that Trump applauds as heroes are, out of sheer patriotism, now murdering civilians and children at a rate not seen since the heyday of the British Empire and, like the British Empire and Nazi Germany, the murder is really being done to satisfy the greed of our super billionaires.
We have fallen a long, long way from our promises of 1945 for the better world we thought we would create. November 11 should be a day thanks - and of apology- for those who served. But it won't be. It'll be the usual three cheers for glory and 'patriotism".
One might hope our Christian clergy will be something more than cheerleaders for this armistice day. But they won't be. They wouldn't want to criticize our billionaire 'warriors' who send others to fight their wars for them.
Let's see now. Is there anyone in Canada who might gain from an American/Canadian invasion of Venezuela?
Oh yeah, I can think of one. Right here in New Brunswick.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/17/why-is-saudi-arabia-under-fire-over-jamal-khashoggi-but-not-yemen
_____________________________________________________________
Pay no attention to this story from an academic journal. If this were true, Mr. Irving would tell us. And he was two years as a student at Acadia University. So he'd know.
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/?fbclid=IwAR1NIItXiBx_nXFFPucoTEYhT1i1BAn72TzsqizH-qt2KenUGxsIXCMXJkM
_______________________________________________________________
Why are Latin Americans fleeing their countries in such numbers and trying to enter the U.S.? It's because for over a hundred years American corporations assisted by American governments have made their countries into living hells.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/republicans-immigration-attack-ads-trump
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/oct/18/as-trump-cozies-up-to-saudi-arabia-the-rule-of-law-collapses-further
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/17/heart-global-woes-157-worlds-200-richest-entities-are-now-corporations-not
This province of New Brunswick is a prime example of ownership by the super wealthy of corporations. Blaine Higgs, leader of the Conservative party, is a prime example of who licks whose boots. If New Brunswickers care so little, why do they bother having elections?
Now, the local news media (owned by Mr. Irving) are pimping for a government that would be a coalition of all the parties. Well, why not? It would just be a continuation of this province's rule by Mr. Irving.
New Brunswick ceased to be a democracy a long time ago. It has a population that is too poorly informed to make useful choices. And it is also, alas, lacking in the courage to question its master.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/18/are-you-kidding-me-outrage-democrats-push-incremental-steps-over-bold-agenda-needed
There's no need for surprise. For many, many years, the Democrats have been as corrupt and as servile to the billionaires as the Republicans have been. The U.S. is not likely to go anywhere but further down.
______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2018/10/will-world-act-climate-change-its-too-late
But what does Suzuki know? He never spent two years at Acadia University like Mr. Irving did.
_______________________________________________________________
This story will not appear in New Brunswick's irving press.
http://rabble.ca/news/2018/10/may-and-ndp-mps-show-anger-debate-climate-change
__________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/18/embassy-disappearances-jamal-khashoggi-and-the-foreign-policy-web/
What's the fuss? The U.S. has special troops and drones who kill people every day. And the U.S. military have been torturing thousands since 1900 at least. Why all this display of virtue?
___________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/17/pro-coal-australia-trump-america-reject-dire-ipcc-report-declare-war-on-terra/
________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/18/lockheed-and-loaded-how-the-maker-of-junk-fighters-like-the-f-22-and-f-35-came-to-have-full-spectrum-dominance-over-the-defense-industry/
__________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/statistics-1300-days-of-saudi-crimes-in-yemen/5657346
Oh, it's terribly, terribly wrong to abort babies. But it's okay to bomb, starve and poison innocent people if they're foreigners. Ask your local evangelical to explain it.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-escalates-its-hypocritical-attack-on-venezuela/5657246
And the Canadian news media have made it easy for Trudeau by not telling us why Venezuela is in crisis. The U.S. has caused the crisis. Bend over, Mr. Trump so our prime minister Trudeau can kiss you where you like it. And maybe we'll send troops and give them medals, and thank them on November 11.
______________________________________________________________
Here is a story that will never appear in the irving press.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50455.htm
_________________________________________________________
Here's a thought for Christian clergy all over the world. Have you ever considered that Jesus might be critical of our political leaders who exist only to serve the rich? And of our rich who exist only to serve themselves?
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/18/the-milagro-of-oscar-romeros-sainthood/
This could make an interesting sermon for the irving chapel.
________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/khashoggi-murder-suspect-dies-car-accident/
____________________________________________________________
The film below is of what Christopher Columbus was really all about in his 'new world'. He was a plunderer who used trained dogs to chase down and kill native peoples. But that was nothing unusual. Just about every empire that ever there was has mass murdered, plundered, starved, raped.....That's what the Spanish and French and British and Dutch empires were about. That's what the American empire is all about. And in all cases, even the citizens of the imperial power who supplied the troops to die for the empire got nothing out of it. All the plunder and profit went a small number of the already wealthy. And that is still exactly what is happening.
https://theantimedia.com/facebook-censors-christopher-columbus-video/
Any thoughts on this all you reverends?
_______________________________________________________________
This is only a very small example of our treatment of migrants. We have been destroying their countries. Then, if they try to flee the horror we have created, we treat them like criminals - as though it's all their own fault.. That is what is happening at European borders and the the Mexico/U.S. border. And it is going to get much, much, much worse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-17/international-disgrace-france-busted-dumping-migrants-across-italian-border
_____________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-post-midterm-plans-cut-medicare-social-security-medicaid/
Hey. We gotta feed our hungry rich.
There's a very serious edge to this. U.S. life expectancy is very low for a developed country - 78 years at the present rate - and that's expect to drop steadily for the next 20 years at least. Canadian life expectancy is 82. Why the difference?
Americans have very, very little government medicare to rely on. It's heavily private enterprise which exists not to save lives but to make money. And now, it's going to get worse in order to make even more money for the very rich.
The private medical system in the U.S. is murdering Americans. Not the rich ones, though. They can afford private medicare.
American Christian churches, where the hell are you while your people are being murdered to stuff the wallets of billionaires?
Mind you, Canadian billionaires would love to see us dying earlier, too. And New Brunswickers who vote Liberal or Conservative are limp enough to let them do it.
________________________________________________________________
The U.S. has ruled Haiti for the best part of a century. In that time, it has known massively corrupt and very, very murderous governments. Haiti did try to break free with an honest election. But the U.S. intervened with an invasion to dump the elected president, and restore the old thugs. (Canada 'nobly' sent 'peacekeepers' to make it look good.)
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/haiti-anti-corruption-protest-turns-violent-181018090818118.html
____________________________________________________________
In Montreal, I knew quite a few Israelis. Most of them were quite decent people. But one was a man who bragged about how he and friends crossed into Palestinean land, killed the owner of a house there and moved in, kicking out the owner's family. He thought it was an amusing story. This has been a constant feature of Israeli behaviour for 60 years.
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/jerusalem-2016-home-demolitions/index.html
_________________________________________________________
We hear the term 'Willileaks' often. But our news media never tells what it is that gets leaked. So here's a sample.
https://wikileaks.org/-Leaks-.html
____________________________________________________________
The big thrill in the Brunswick News is that all parties in their province's indecisive election should come together and unite to form a coalition.
That's proof, if proof were needed, that the Brunswick news journalists have no idea what political parties are about - or should be about.
Their attitude is that political parties are supposed to come up with neat ideas. It's like running an office. You just get everybody together to fully cooperate with each other as a sort of office team. And that tells us that the journalists of the irving press have not the faintest idea what parties are supposed to be.
Each party is supposed to represent a basic philosophy on the nature of a society and how it should be governed. It's supposed to be campaigning and planning based on it's philosophy.
Would you seriously suggest that all the German political parties should have united with Hitler? Would you seriously suggest all Democrats should join in happy cooperation with the Republican Trumpists?
In New Brunswick, the Greens represent a need to deal with climate change. Should they abandon that to support the Conservatives in introducing fracking?
People's Alliance has been strong on putting an end to spraying our forests and us with glyphosate poison. Should they drop that to support the Conservatives and Liberals who make Mr. Irving happy by maintaining that poison?
Admittedly, the Conservatives and Liberals abandoned anything that could be called a philosophy of government or of social principals long ago. Both parties exist today only to get elected - and they do it by kissing up to the wealthy. Does that mean everybody should?
No. Government is NOT like running an office. It is about principles and values.
And for the Greens and the People's Alliance to join a coalition with the Liberals and Conservatives would mean an abandonment of all principles and values.
Instead of folding up and going back to sleep for several more years, I would suggest both Greens and People's Alliance - and NDP - spend the coming years campaigning hard. And that they take much tougher and broader stances than they have.
What they are (or should be) fighting for is not the servility of the Liberals and Conservatives. It's the dominance that the Irvings and their friends exercise over this whole province. That's the enemy. And until we recognize that and deal with it, this province ain't going nowhere. So do some hard thinking about what that means.
I wish I could report something on the news in our irving press. But for the last two days it has had nothing but story after story saying the same thing. People in New Brunswick are lining up to buy cannabis. That's it.
Oh! World news had a story. But just one. It was the story that Saudis promise to punish the wrongdoers (if any) in the killing of a reporter. The story fills a whole page but, for all practical purposes, says nothing. Nothing else happened in the whole world.
No wonder New Brunswickers don't have a clue on election days. Hints for things they might look at?
Well, New Brunswick faces a crisis in higher education. It's becoming more necessary for students and for the general good. But it's prohibitively expensive because of its fees. It's easy for irvings to go - some for as long as two years - and then slide into big pay. But it doesn't work for us peasantry.
We need the universities to become extensions of public education. (We also need the professors to learn how to teach). Our education system limited to grades K to 11 or 12 made sense in 1940. But that was a long time ago.
What we're getting instead is a big foofara over reorganizing our existing public schools to meet the demands of a university (just one) in Ontario (and just one department in that university) who downgrade New Brunswick grades. Get real, folks.
Very, very few students from New Brunswick apply to that programme in that one department of that university. And we're going to reorganize our public education system for that reason?
I taught university for many years. And for some years as chairman of the department I had to look at the marking of exams in my department. Most professors didn't have a clue how to mark an exam. Indeed, most had no idea of how to prepare a useful exam in the first place. And we are going to revamp our public education system to meet the standards of university professors who have no idea what standards are????
______________________________________________________________
And in the bigger picture? We had better not pin our destiny to that of the U.S. It is a destructive empire. And it is a dying one. And that death will happen whether it is governed by Democrats or Republicans. Both parties have long histories of corruption, international murder, and cruel neglect of their own people. Americans are so deeply saturated in myths about who they are and what they are and what their history is that they see little of this.
Remember that the idiocies of Trump follow the idiocies of Bush Jr. and Obama who threw the middle east into a crisis that is now a world crisis. And that follows many years of profound corruption and mass murder. The U.S. is going down. And it almost certainly is not coming back.
Ideally, Canada should be looking for a new 'friend'. But that's tough to do when you're all by yourself on the northern half of a continent, and when you have your own problems of corruption by an economic elite who are deeply attached to their American brethren.
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