https://www.cbc.ca/news/theinvestigators/the-investigators-trump-taxes-1.4850942
Now, how about an expose on taxes not paid by New Brunswick's wealthy? No. The irving press is too busy criticizing the government for spending too much.
________________________________________________________________
Another story that didn't (and won't) make the irving press.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water
_____________________________________________________________
This story may seem overdone. I don't think it is. Comic books do project values - of some sort - on children. And Walt Disney was an ardent admirer of Hitler. And since his death, his comics have continued to project American 'values' and racism.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/05/ariel-dorfman-how-we-roasted-donald-duck-disney-agent-of-imperialism-chile-coup
This story comes from Chile, a country whose government was overthrown by a U.S. planned and financed revolution. I had a Irish film maker friend who was working in Chile at the time. He was the kind of film maker whose work would not be appreciated by the new, fascist government. So he got out of Chile just ahead of the soldiers who were looking for him.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/heavy-price-paid-for-war-in-afghanistan
The U.S never had a legitimate reason to invade Afghanistan. Contrary to popular American myth, Afghanistan did NOT carry out the 911 attack. Nor did it shelter anybody who did. Indeed, it had volunteered to send any Afghanistan person the U.S. charged with being part of plot to face an international court.
The invasion of Afghanistan was to get control of its considerable natural resources for American billionaires. It is also strategically useful for American military aggression.
That means Canada had no business being there, either. We might remember that on Nov. 11. (But we won't.)
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/child-among-three-palestinians-shot-dead-by-israeli-army
But who gives a damn? Right? Certainly the irving press couldn't care less.
______________________________________________________________
I'm not convinced by this article on using free public transit to cut down on the use of private cars. For a start, many cities - like the one I live in - are huge stretches of urban sprawl, a system that cries for transportation by private cars.
But it's good to see that some people are thinking about how we are going to deal
with our urban sprawl because climate change is moving in on us, and moving in quickly. And we may have to learn that acres of of single family bungalows might not be good idea.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-englers-blog/2018/10/free-public-transit-could-challenge-reliance-cars
_______________________________________________________________
The world war we are flirting with. Make no mistake. We are very, very close to a nuclear war which will, necessarily, be a nuclear one. And the idea that such a war could be won is a very dangerous idea.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/06/syrias-no-fly-zone/
_________________________________________________________
This next column was written by a man whose credentials will turn off most readers. However, whatever his political beliefs might be, this is a sound column. American police, for many, many years, have been killing far more Americans - over a thousand a year - than terrorists do - a point that Trump and the U.S. news media have not noticed.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/06/one-killer-cop-convicted-get-with-the-revolution-and-get-rid-of-this-whole-system-that-needs-killer-cops/
_______________________________________________________________
Yes. Climate change is happening. And it's happening very, very quickly. But our provincial Conservative leader, Mr. Blaine Higgs, thinks it's more important to develop fracking.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/drought-laden-rainforests/
Mr. Higgs can make cavemen seem like intellectuals.
________________________________________________________________
The U.S. is far the world's biggest spender on weapons. And it puts pressure on all its allies to spend heavily on weapons. And this has little to do with defence. It has to do with giving massive profits to the billionaires who own American defence industries.
Because of that, spending has to be cut on unnecessary things in the U.S. - like public education, health care, relieving poverty......
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-political-power-of-weapons/5656172
That is why we are, every day, living under the threat of global devastation.
_________________________________________________________________
We've had bits of news about China brutally putting Uyghurs (Chinese Muslims) into concentration camps - holding at least a million of them. That may not be the whole story. In fact, it may not be the story at all.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-uyghur-problem-the-recruitment-of-uyghur-muslims-to-join-al-qaeda/5656293
______________________________________________________________
Those American military heroes we see on TV news on parade have quite a record of killing children.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/illegal-sanctions-pompeo-arranges-mass-starvation-of-iranian-people/5656154
Where the hell are our Christian churches in this? (I guess they're in the same place as Germany' s Christian churches were with Hitler.) Maybe the Irving Chapel will discuss this in its closing service for the year. And maybe hell will freeze over first.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50380.htm
Oh, I know. It's all settled. But just think. The U.S. supreme court now has a majority of justices who are highly partisan, who have long records of serving the very, very rich and favouring them in their decisions. - though none of the others have Kavanaugh's long history of lying. The U.S. is destroying itself.
_______________________________________________________________
American dollars at work - to starve children....
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50381.htm
_________________________________________________________________
The United States now has the largest empire in world history. Think of that on Nov. 11. Is that what Canadian died for in two world wars?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50382.htm
_______________________________________________________________
And here is a frightening possibility for the start of World War 3, one that has Canadian troops nearby when it happens.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/06/us-switching-to-ukraine-as-location-to-start-world-war-iii/
I was not surprised to read that Canadians of Ukrainian descent have been contributing money to nazi elements in Ukraine. Those Ukrainians who came to Canada before World War One were attracted by democracy. But those coming later have tended to be, to put it kindly, far right wing. And, to put it more accurately, nazi.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-change-is-a-major-midterm-issue-corporate-media-are-ignoring-it/
It's not just American news media who are ignoring climate change. Our very own Brunswick News is notably silent on the issue - as is Blaine Higgs, leader of the Conservative party, who could well be our next premier.
________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/05/dear-susan-collins-the-opposition-to-brett-kavanaugh-includes-churches-law-professors-and-conservatives-even-his-own-friends/
Note that the critics of the U.S. government include the churches - institutions notable in Canada for their failure to say much about anything.
_____________________________________________________________
Short summary? The western world is under the thumb of billionaires who couldn't care less about climate change, and who want a war in the middle east that would almost certainly become a world, nuclear war. That war is now so close, it could happen at any time because these billionaires own most western governments and most news media.
Democracy has become debased by political leaders who win power not by any vision for the future and its needs but by capitalizing on our disillusion with political change by tapping into anger at the perceived threats of immigrants - based on religion, language, skin colour. Instead of dealing with real issues, these politicians get people to vote for them based not so much on what they stand for as to distract them from their many dissatisfactions. Thus Donald Trump in the U.S., the far right in Germany, Doug Ford in Toronto, the People's Alliance Party in New Brunswick.......and, of course, Hitler in the Germany of the 1930s.
On Nov. 11, think. Think first of those who served us in two world wars. Then think of how we have forgotten all that we said they fought for, and have turned to fighting wars to make billionaires richer.
______________________________________________________________
Ah, the New Brunswick News.
Banner headline. Page one. The Moncton Times and Transcript. "Get stoned drivers off the roads: Higgs" Blaine Higgs, of course, is the leader of the Conservatives, and probably the future premier of New Brunswick. And he says, fearlessly, that such driving is not being stopped. (In fact, as the police say and the paper mentions, the controls he is demanding ARE in place.)
But no matter. In a province in which the wealthy pay no taxes and suck deeply off ours, in a world facing destruction of its whole planet, the fearless Blaine Higgs puts his finger on the real issue - stoned drivers. And the irving press thinks this drivel is worth reporting. And it's really the high point of the whole first section.
The editorial page has the political cartoonist's only, and repeated, theme - the Liberals are bad.
Norbert Cunningham has quite a reasonable column on the U.S. treatment of our trade with it. His point, a very reasonable one. is that the U.S. exploits us. Indeed, the reality is that we are subjects of the American empire - just like Venezuela or Haiti. And if we step out of line, we will get it just like Venezuela will. Indeed, we may well get it even while standing in line as climate change makes Canada an attractive target for a suffering U.S.
A less useful column is by Brian Stephenson who decries the province's debt but who, as all irving press reporters, never mentions that we have that debt because the wealthy don't pay taxes. (In fact, I don't think that any party in the recent election mentioned that.)
And he thinks we have to improve education? I'm not at all sure the education system is the problem. New Brunswick is not anything that could be called a province of intellectually active people. Political debate, in any real sense, scarcely exists. Intellectually interesting activities - theater, music - are almost unheard of. In fact, this is a province that rather looks down on any activity that involves thought. At the new, hundred million dollar events centre, one is more likely to hear somebody with a guitar singing through his nose than to hear a symphony orchestra.
The problem may not be the schools. It may be a much deeper social problem. I am not an admirer of any political party I have seen in this province - though I like some more than others. But it is surely a sign when the winning Conservatives had what was far the most ignorant and possibly damaging policies. That's comparable to the singer with a banjo who sings through his nose.
If relatively new political parties like the Greens and NDP want to have any impact on this province, they are going to have to work hard all year every year, educating the voters.
Then there are two pages that are restful reading on world and Canadian news. Apparently, nothing much has happened in any of these. No wars happening and no wars threatening. No children being deliberately murdered or starved to death. No American and Chinese fleets confronting each other. Nothing happening in Venezuela..... This is a great section for insomniacs.
_____________________________________
Oh, for those who think I went too far in criticizing the People's Alliance party for its criticism of French rights in New Brunswick, check out the Moncton Times and Transcript of Oct. 5 for a quotation from a village mayor who accuses the French of "hatred, bigotry and a sense of entitlement".
I've lived through enough bigotry and racism to know it when I see it.
___________________________________________________________
Now, how about an expose on taxes not paid by New Brunswick's wealthy? No. The irving press is too busy criticizing the government for spending too much.
________________________________________________________________
Another story that didn't (and won't) make the irving press.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water
_____________________________________________________________
This story may seem overdone. I don't think it is. Comic books do project values - of some sort - on children. And Walt Disney was an ardent admirer of Hitler. And since his death, his comics have continued to project American 'values' and racism.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/05/ariel-dorfman-how-we-roasted-donald-duck-disney-agent-of-imperialism-chile-coup
This story comes from Chile, a country whose government was overthrown by a U.S. planned and financed revolution. I had a Irish film maker friend who was working in Chile at the time. He was the kind of film maker whose work would not be appreciated by the new, fascist government. So he got out of Chile just ahead of the soldiers who were looking for him.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/heavy-price-paid-for-war-in-afghanistan
The U.S never had a legitimate reason to invade Afghanistan. Contrary to popular American myth, Afghanistan did NOT carry out the 911 attack. Nor did it shelter anybody who did. Indeed, it had volunteered to send any Afghanistan person the U.S. charged with being part of plot to face an international court.
The invasion of Afghanistan was to get control of its considerable natural resources for American billionaires. It is also strategically useful for American military aggression.
That means Canada had no business being there, either. We might remember that on Nov. 11. (But we won't.)
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/05/child-among-three-palestinians-shot-dead-by-israeli-army
But who gives a damn? Right? Certainly the irving press couldn't care less.
______________________________________________________________
I'm not convinced by this article on using free public transit to cut down on the use of private cars. For a start, many cities - like the one I live in - are huge stretches of urban sprawl, a system that cries for transportation by private cars.
But it's good to see that some people are thinking about how we are going to deal
with our urban sprawl because climate change is moving in on us, and moving in quickly. And we may have to learn that acres of of single family bungalows might not be good idea.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-englers-blog/2018/10/free-public-transit-could-challenge-reliance-cars
_______________________________________________________________
The world war we are flirting with. Make no mistake. We are very, very close to a nuclear war which will, necessarily, be a nuclear one. And the idea that such a war could be won is a very dangerous idea.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/06/syrias-no-fly-zone/
_________________________________________________________
This next column was written by a man whose credentials will turn off most readers. However, whatever his political beliefs might be, this is a sound column. American police, for many, many years, have been killing far more Americans - over a thousand a year - than terrorists do - a point that Trump and the U.S. news media have not noticed.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/06/one-killer-cop-convicted-get-with-the-revolution-and-get-rid-of-this-whole-system-that-needs-killer-cops/
_______________________________________________________________
Yes. Climate change is happening. And it's happening very, very quickly. But our provincial Conservative leader, Mr. Blaine Higgs, thinks it's more important to develop fracking.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/05/drought-laden-rainforests/
Mr. Higgs can make cavemen seem like intellectuals.
________________________________________________________________
The U.S. is far the world's biggest spender on weapons. And it puts pressure on all its allies to spend heavily on weapons. And this has little to do with defence. It has to do with giving massive profits to the billionaires who own American defence industries.
Because of that, spending has to be cut on unnecessary things in the U.S. - like public education, health care, relieving poverty......
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-the-political-power-of-weapons/5656172
That is why we are, every day, living under the threat of global devastation.
_________________________________________________________________
We've had bits of news about China brutally putting Uyghurs (Chinese Muslims) into concentration camps - holding at least a million of them. That may not be the whole story. In fact, it may not be the story at all.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-uyghur-problem-the-recruitment-of-uyghur-muslims-to-join-al-qaeda/5656293
______________________________________________________________
Those American military heroes we see on TV news on parade have quite a record of killing children.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/illegal-sanctions-pompeo-arranges-mass-starvation-of-iranian-people/5656154
Where the hell are our Christian churches in this? (I guess they're in the same place as Germany' s Christian churches were with Hitler.) Maybe the Irving Chapel will discuss this in its closing service for the year. And maybe hell will freeze over first.
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50380.htm
Oh, I know. It's all settled. But just think. The U.S. supreme court now has a majority of justices who are highly partisan, who have long records of serving the very, very rich and favouring them in their decisions. - though none of the others have Kavanaugh's long history of lying. The U.S. is destroying itself.
_______________________________________________________________
American dollars at work - to starve children....
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50381.htm
_________________________________________________________________
The United States now has the largest empire in world history. Think of that on Nov. 11. Is that what Canadian died for in two world wars?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50382.htm
_______________________________________________________________
And here is a frightening possibility for the start of World War 3, one that has Canadian troops nearby when it happens.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/06/us-switching-to-ukraine-as-location-to-start-world-war-iii/
I was not surprised to read that Canadians of Ukrainian descent have been contributing money to nazi elements in Ukraine. Those Ukrainians who came to Canada before World War One were attracted by democracy. But those coming later have tended to be, to put it kindly, far right wing. And, to put it more accurately, nazi.
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/climate-change-is-a-major-midterm-issue-corporate-media-are-ignoring-it/
It's not just American news media who are ignoring climate change. Our very own Brunswick News is notably silent on the issue - as is Blaine Higgs, leader of the Conservative party, who could well be our next premier.
________________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/05/dear-susan-collins-the-opposition-to-brett-kavanaugh-includes-churches-law-professors-and-conservatives-even-his-own-friends/
Note that the critics of the U.S. government include the churches - institutions notable in Canada for their failure to say much about anything.
_____________________________________________________________
Short summary? The western world is under the thumb of billionaires who couldn't care less about climate change, and who want a war in the middle east that would almost certainly become a world, nuclear war. That war is now so close, it could happen at any time because these billionaires own most western governments and most news media.
Democracy has become debased by political leaders who win power not by any vision for the future and its needs but by capitalizing on our disillusion with political change by tapping into anger at the perceived threats of immigrants - based on religion, language, skin colour. Instead of dealing with real issues, these politicians get people to vote for them based not so much on what they stand for as to distract them from their many dissatisfactions. Thus Donald Trump in the U.S., the far right in Germany, Doug Ford in Toronto, the People's Alliance Party in New Brunswick.......and, of course, Hitler in the Germany of the 1930s.
On Nov. 11, think. Think first of those who served us in two world wars. Then think of how we have forgotten all that we said they fought for, and have turned to fighting wars to make billionaires richer.
______________________________________________________________
Ah, the New Brunswick News.
Banner headline. Page one. The Moncton Times and Transcript. "Get stoned drivers off the roads: Higgs" Blaine Higgs, of course, is the leader of the Conservatives, and probably the future premier of New Brunswick. And he says, fearlessly, that such driving is not being stopped. (In fact, as the police say and the paper mentions, the controls he is demanding ARE in place.)
But no matter. In a province in which the wealthy pay no taxes and suck deeply off ours, in a world facing destruction of its whole planet, the fearless Blaine Higgs puts his finger on the real issue - stoned drivers. And the irving press thinks this drivel is worth reporting. And it's really the high point of the whole first section.
The editorial page has the political cartoonist's only, and repeated, theme - the Liberals are bad.
Norbert Cunningham has quite a reasonable column on the U.S. treatment of our trade with it. His point, a very reasonable one. is that the U.S. exploits us. Indeed, the reality is that we are subjects of the American empire - just like Venezuela or Haiti. And if we step out of line, we will get it just like Venezuela will. Indeed, we may well get it even while standing in line as climate change makes Canada an attractive target for a suffering U.S.
A less useful column is by Brian Stephenson who decries the province's debt but who, as all irving press reporters, never mentions that we have that debt because the wealthy don't pay taxes. (In fact, I don't think that any party in the recent election mentioned that.)
And he thinks we have to improve education? I'm not at all sure the education system is the problem. New Brunswick is not anything that could be called a province of intellectually active people. Political debate, in any real sense, scarcely exists. Intellectually interesting activities - theater, music - are almost unheard of. In fact, this is a province that rather looks down on any activity that involves thought. At the new, hundred million dollar events centre, one is more likely to hear somebody with a guitar singing through his nose than to hear a symphony orchestra.
The problem may not be the schools. It may be a much deeper social problem. I am not an admirer of any political party I have seen in this province - though I like some more than others. But it is surely a sign when the winning Conservatives had what was far the most ignorant and possibly damaging policies. That's comparable to the singer with a banjo who sings through his nose.
If relatively new political parties like the Greens and NDP want to have any impact on this province, they are going to have to work hard all year every year, educating the voters.
Then there are two pages that are restful reading on world and Canadian news. Apparently, nothing much has happened in any of these. No wars happening and no wars threatening. No children being deliberately murdered or starved to death. No American and Chinese fleets confronting each other. Nothing happening in Venezuela..... This is a great section for insomniacs.
_____________________________________
Oh, for those who think I went too far in criticizing the People's Alliance party for its criticism of French rights in New Brunswick, check out the Moncton Times and Transcript of Oct. 5 for a quotation from a village mayor who accuses the French of "hatred, bigotry and a sense of entitlement".
I've lived through enough bigotry and racism to know it when I see it.
___________________________________________________________
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