https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/18/unaccompanied-children-tijuana-us-immigration
But who cares? _________________________________________________________________Will Trump fall? It might not matter. The views and values of a Trump government are much like those of almost every US government for the last 70 years an more.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-donald-trump-latest-live ________________________________________________________________
htps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-donald-trump-latest-live
70 years ago,it was the proudest boast of Canadians that they were loyal to Britain and its eimpire. But, long ago, the empire disappeared. The Britain of 70 years ago, included Ireland. But no more. It is very possible that Scotland will be next to go. And over all of them is the crush of Brexit. And to Canadians? Who cares? The patriotism of 70 years ago, like almost all patriotisms, was manufactured. ________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/canada-saudi-arms-deal-justin-trudeau
Good luck on this one. Trudeau will need it - and we should never have signed that deal in the first place. It had nothing to do with Canada, and everything to do with a greedy and immoral weapons industry.
______________________________________________________________
American billionaires are financing British right-wingers? Gee. I wonder if they are also funding Canadian politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation
______________________________________________________________
People do not make themselves refugees. The thousands who have tried to flee Central America were make refugees by the horror that American and Canadian billionaires have forced on them. They are dying of hunger. They are dying of abuse. They are dying of hopelessness. They are not fleeing to die. They're fleeing to survive.
A century ago the U.S. delighted to receive refugees. Of course. The words are on the Statue of Liberty. "Send me your poor, you tired, your huddled masses yearning to be free...."
Of course, they didn't mean it. These were an endless supply of cheap labour, nothing more. The U.S. still has that endless supply of cheap labour - in the descendents of those who came. But there's no need to import them any more. It's cheaper just to set a low minimum wage Indeed, the American supply of cheap labour is, unremarked, growing as American industry increasingly is served by robots.
So America is no longer much interested in the poor and the hungry.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/17/181-nations-just-voted-help-refugees-only-far-right-united-states-and-hungary-voted_
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/18/trouncing-biden-and-beto-b
Well, I include this story because I like the sound of it. But I'm not at all convinced that Sanders would do all that well. Nor am I convinced I see the money for a winning campaign.
______________________________________________________________
For sixty years and more. the U.S. has been killing the Maya people of Guatemala. It's been a mass slaughter - but one that is rarely mentioned in the American (or Canadian) news media. It has been a torturing and killing of men, women and children to feed the hunger of American and Canadian capitalists who find the native Maya in their way. And so a seven year old girl died.
Of course, if she had been the seven year old daughter of an American or a Canadian billionaire, the press would have been all over it. But she was just poor, and a Maya.
So who gives a damn in this racist world ruled by the greedy?
https://www.thenation.com/article/guatemala-refugee-crisis-jakelin-caal-maquin/
________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2018/12/its-depressing-compare-canada-1979-us-201
While it was legal for Canada to hand over a Chinese women to American authorities, the fact is that legality does not make it right. What concerns the U.S. is that she was doing trade with a middle east country the US doesn't like. Whatever possessed Canada to make a deal with such an American law?
And this one is likely to cost us heavily.
_______________________________________________________________
When I was a child, to be a Canadian patriot meant to serve the interests of Britain. Now it means to serve the interests of the U.S.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/canada-serves-the-empire-again-and-again/
(Yes, I know our agreement with the U.S. requires us to arrest whoever the U.S. wants us to arrest; So why did we sign it?
____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/israel-ethnic-cleansing-land-theft-apartheid-and-jim-crow/
_________________________________________________________________
We commonly refer to Muslim warriors as 'terrorists'. Heck, if you want real terrorism, you have to go to the Christian world. This is the world in which American soldiers march down the street, and Trump calls them heroes for helping to kill children in Iran. It's an old custom in the Christian world.
The British soldiers who murdered for British billionaires were praised by the wealthy British as "splendid chaps"
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/
______________________________________________________________
An economic crash - soon - is very possible. It's built into capitalism - and no-one has ever found a way to get it out. Part of the reason for this is that capitalism insists on - and gets - maximum abstinence in dealing with supervision and responsibilities. In this case, for example, the wealthy have declined to pay taxes like the rest of us. The result has been monster profit for the very wealthy, profits made even greater by the easing of costs for the wealthy with very low minimum wages. The result of this is money has been bulldozed from most of use to feed the greed of our wealthy. But now, that drop in the circulation of world's wealth for most of our population and shoveling of most of the profits to the already wealthy necessarily means a drop in wealth for most people - a drop that can be reflected in losses for the wealthy, too.
And if that is what is happening, we're all in trouble. The wealthy always like to spread the myth that they create jobs. The reality is they don't. Wealth is created by the work of all of us. And when all of us suffer the drop in earnings, the rich and the poor are losers.
Generaly, big busineess does not create wealthy. On the contrary, it's wealthy creates poverty, recession and depression. If you want your and your family to survive, don't waste your hopes on the rich. When the wealthy survive depression, it's no big deal because they have some much of the world's wealth the begin with. It's the rest of us who have to suffer from their greed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50790.htm
____________________________________________________________
Canada has the drabbest set of politicians it has ever had to suffer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50784.htm
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50783.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50785.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/889-veneration-of-power-leading-to-climate-catastrophe.html
In the U.S., there is a strong feeling that Americans are God's chosen people. That's not unusual. A similar feeling was very strong in the old, British Empire And in these, as in most empires, there is (was) a belief that God wanted them to rule the world and and, therefore, God saluted their mass murder and plundering.
It all become blendedsinto their national-self image as divinely appointed rulers of the world, an image further strengthened that these favoured ones are acting not just in obedience to God, but in obedience to that old work-dog of killers and plunderers, patriotism.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/14/opinion/oh-canada-dont-be-smug-fake-news-real-and-pr
____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/12/analysis/co2-vs-cops
_____________________________________________________________
This is the final issue for the world. This is what the U.S. Congress thinks we should plan for. This is pure idiocy. But this is what our lieaders think is necessary.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/12/17/bipartisan-panel-us-must-prepare-for-horrendous-devastating-war-with-russia-and-china/
These are real plans.
_____________________________________________________________
Something we should not forget.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/12/15/the-us-wants-to-bring-back-the-shah-of-iran/
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/181-nations-voted-to-help-refugees-only-hungary-and-us-voted-no/
________________________________________________________
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204400.html
______________________________________________________________
This has been the most depressing blog I have ever written. A pattern is clear. The winners in 1945 were, largely, people who gave no thought whatever to the lessons of World War 2. Our leaders, guided by major capitalists, simply put the whole world into a war that no-one could ever win. That is obvious most clearly in the U.S. which has been in constant aggression and war against dozens of nations.
World War Two was fought to benefit capitalism. This was true of both sides. It emerged from the war stronger than ever. And it doesn't work. After centuries of trial, it has not benefited any but a handful of the greediest and most intolerant in our society. They are so determined to continue in power that they destroy any attempt to deal with climate change. For thirty years and more, they have refused to permit any progress that, without progress very soon, will destroy all of us.
The world has never before seen such a burden of weapons and death covering the whole planet. Nor have we ever seen such deference to greed in the face ot destruction.
The term nation can now be applied to only those few nations that have massive powerfs of destruction. There is no sense of human values, no sense of the human bonds we need to survive, no sense of an informed population. No examination of the projects of government we need to examine, no sense of international cooperation and help, no idea, indeed, of the meaning of humanity.
We have, perhaps, a dozen or so years to deal with our issues. At our present rate, we won't do it in a thousand years. There is no sense of a glue that hold us humans together.
Capitalism is outdated. It has been proving that for many years. The nation state is almost certainly outdated. Patriotism? What's become simply a device to make young warriors kill innocent people. It's easy to do this with nations saturated with false patriotism. We don't learn from each other. We've given no thought whatever to intelligent and honest news agencies.And that may explain why, in Canada for example, we don't have a single party worth taking seriously. (Canada is typical in, after these many years, it still has not even a fundamental sense of what has to be done.It is
At this stage, it is not possible to believe that humans will survive. Indeed, it is quite possible that we will beat nature by destroying all of us before climate change does it.
_______________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
But who cares? _________________________________________________________________Will Trump fall? It might not matter. The views and values of a Trump government are much like those of almost every US government for the last 70 years an more.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-donald-trump-latest-live ________________________________________________________________
htps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/dec/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-donald-trump-latest-live
70 years ago,it was the proudest boast of Canadians that they were loyal to Britain and its eimpire. But, long ago, the empire disappeared. The Britain of 70 years ago, included Ireland. But no more. It is very possible that Scotland will be next to go. And over all of them is the crush of Brexit. And to Canadians? Who cares? The patriotism of 70 years ago, like almost all patriotisms, was manufactured. ________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/canada-saudi-arms-deal-justin-trudeau
Good luck on this one. Trudeau will need it - and we should never have signed that deal in the first place. It had nothing to do with Canada, and everything to do with a greedy and immoral weapons industry.
______________________________________________________________
American billionaires are financing British right-wingers? Gee. I wonder if they are also funding Canadian politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation
______________________________________________________________
People do not make themselves refugees. The thousands who have tried to flee Central America were make refugees by the horror that American and Canadian billionaires have forced on them. They are dying of hunger. They are dying of abuse. They are dying of hopelessness. They are not fleeing to die. They're fleeing to survive.
A century ago the U.S. delighted to receive refugees. Of course. The words are on the Statue of Liberty. "Send me your poor, you tired, your huddled masses yearning to be free...."
Of course, they didn't mean it. These were an endless supply of cheap labour, nothing more. The U.S. still has that endless supply of cheap labour - in the descendents of those who came. But there's no need to import them any more. It's cheaper just to set a low minimum wage Indeed, the American supply of cheap labour is, unremarked, growing as American industry increasingly is served by robots.
So America is no longer much interested in the poor and the hungry.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/17/181-nations-just-voted-help-refugees-only-far-right-united-states-and-hungary-voted_
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/18/trouncing-biden-and-beto-b
Well, I include this story because I like the sound of it. But I'm not at all convinced that Sanders would do all that well. Nor am I convinced I see the money for a winning campaign.
______________________________________________________________
For sixty years and more. the U.S. has been killing the Maya people of Guatemala. It's been a mass slaughter - but one that is rarely mentioned in the American (or Canadian) news media. It has been a torturing and killing of men, women and children to feed the hunger of American and Canadian capitalists who find the native Maya in their way. And so a seven year old girl died.
Of course, if she had been the seven year old daughter of an American or a Canadian billionaire, the press would have been all over it. But she was just poor, and a Maya.
So who gives a damn in this racist world ruled by the greedy?
https://www.thenation.com/article/guatemala-refugee-crisis-jakelin-caal-maquin/
________________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2018/12/its-depressing-compare-canada-1979-us-201
While it was legal for Canada to hand over a Chinese women to American authorities, the fact is that legality does not make it right. What concerns the U.S. is that she was doing trade with a middle east country the US doesn't like. Whatever possessed Canada to make a deal with such an American law?
And this one is likely to cost us heavily.
_______________________________________________________________
When I was a child, to be a Canadian patriot meant to serve the interests of Britain. Now it means to serve the interests of the U.S.
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/canada-serves-the-empire-again-and-again/
(Yes, I know our agreement with the U.S. requires us to arrest whoever the U.S. wants us to arrest; So why did we sign it?
____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/israel-ethnic-cleansing-land-theft-apartheid-and-jim-crow/
_________________________________________________________________
We commonly refer to Muslim warriors as 'terrorists'. Heck, if you want real terrorism, you have to go to the Christian world. This is the world in which American soldiers march down the street, and Trump calls them heroes for helping to kill children in Iran. It's an old custom in the Christian world.
The British soldiers who murdered for British billionaires were praised by the wealthy British as "splendid chaps"
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/18/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/
______________________________________________________________
An economic crash - soon - is very possible. It's built into capitalism - and no-one has ever found a way to get it out. Part of the reason for this is that capitalism insists on - and gets - maximum abstinence in dealing with supervision and responsibilities. In this case, for example, the wealthy have declined to pay taxes like the rest of us. The result has been monster profit for the very wealthy, profits made even greater by the easing of costs for the wealthy with very low minimum wages. The result of this is money has been bulldozed from most of use to feed the greed of our wealthy. But now, that drop in the circulation of world's wealth for most of our population and shoveling of most of the profits to the already wealthy necessarily means a drop in wealth for most people - a drop that can be reflected in losses for the wealthy, too.
And if that is what is happening, we're all in trouble. The wealthy always like to spread the myth that they create jobs. The reality is they don't. Wealth is created by the work of all of us. And when all of us suffer the drop in earnings, the rich and the poor are losers.
Generaly, big busineess does not create wealthy. On the contrary, it's wealthy creates poverty, recession and depression. If you want your and your family to survive, don't waste your hopes on the rich. When the wealthy survive depression, it's no big deal because they have some much of the world's wealth the begin with. It's the rest of us who have to suffer from their greed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50790.htm
____________________________________________________________
Canada has the drabbest set of politicians it has ever had to suffer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50784.htm
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50783.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50785.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/889-veneration-of-power-leading-to-climate-catastrophe.html
In the U.S., there is a strong feeling that Americans are God's chosen people. That's not unusual. A similar feeling was very strong in the old, British Empire And in these, as in most empires, there is (was) a belief that God wanted them to rule the world and and, therefore, God saluted their mass murder and plundering.
It all become blendedsinto their national-self image as divinely appointed rulers of the world, an image further strengthened that these favoured ones are acting not just in obedience to God, but in obedience to that old work-dog of killers and plunderers, patriotism.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/14/opinion/oh-canada-dont-be-smug-fake-news-real-and-pr
____________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/12/12/analysis/co2-vs-cops
_____________________________________________________________
This is the final issue for the world. This is what the U.S. Congress thinks we should plan for. This is pure idiocy. But this is what our lieaders think is necessary.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/12/17/bipartisan-panel-us-must-prepare-for-horrendous-devastating-war-with-russia-and-china/
These are real plans.
_____________________________________________________________
Something we should not forget.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/12/15/the-us-wants-to-bring-back-the-shah-of-iran/
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/181-nations-voted-to-help-refugees-only-hungary-and-us-voted-no/
________________________________________________________
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204400.html
______________________________________________________________
This has been the most depressing blog I have ever written. A pattern is clear. The winners in 1945 were, largely, people who gave no thought whatever to the lessons of World War 2. Our leaders, guided by major capitalists, simply put the whole world into a war that no-one could ever win. That is obvious most clearly in the U.S. which has been in constant aggression and war against dozens of nations.
World War Two was fought to benefit capitalism. This was true of both sides. It emerged from the war stronger than ever. And it doesn't work. After centuries of trial, it has not benefited any but a handful of the greediest and most intolerant in our society. They are so determined to continue in power that they destroy any attempt to deal with climate change. For thirty years and more, they have refused to permit any progress that, without progress very soon, will destroy all of us.
The world has never before seen such a burden of weapons and death covering the whole planet. Nor have we ever seen such deference to greed in the face ot destruction.
The term nation can now be applied to only those few nations that have massive powerfs of destruction. There is no sense of human values, no sense of the human bonds we need to survive, no sense of an informed population. No examination of the projects of government we need to examine, no sense of international cooperation and help, no idea, indeed, of the meaning of humanity.
We have, perhaps, a dozen or so years to deal with our issues. At our present rate, we won't do it in a thousand years. There is no sense of a glue that hold us humans together.
Capitalism is outdated. It has been proving that for many years. The nation state is almost certainly outdated. Patriotism? What's become simply a device to make young warriors kill innocent people. It's easy to do this with nations saturated with false patriotism. We don't learn from each other. We've given no thought whatever to intelligent and honest news agencies.And that may explain why, in Canada for example, we don't have a single party worth taking seriously. (Canada is typical in, after these many years, it still has not even a fundamental sense of what has to be done.It is
At this stage, it is not possible to believe that humans will survive. Indeed, it is quite possible that we will beat nature by destroying all of us before climate change does it.
_______________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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