https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/greenland-southwest-ice-melt-accelerating-1.4986064
Hey. Don't worry about it. This is just some wacky scientist. For the real scoop, listen to real smart politicians like Donald Trump in the U.S., and Doug Ford in Ontario.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nevsun-resources-mining-eritrea-1.4980530
Gee! Canadian mining executives did that? There must be a misunderstanding.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/why-is-brexit-so-complicated-1.4987728
_________________________________________________________________
Canadian Tax Payers Federation is one of those 'think tanks' that our news media take very seriously. In fact, thinking is precisely what it does not do. It is really just another one of those propaganda houses financed by billionaires to spread their propaganda.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/01/canadian-taxpayers-federations-credibility-question-after
__________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/literally-what-jesus-told-people-do-arizona-possible-prison-time-leaving-food-and
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/wealth-of-9-richest-indians-equivalent-to-bottom-50-of-country-oxfam-study/
It's not happeniing just in North America. That's a huge problem created by capitalism. It exists only to reward those who are already rich. But it dumps all those millions who make it possible for the already rich to get even richer. And, in the end, that means a society in ruins.
And that end is quickly coming closer.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/creating-a-global-lost-generation/
______________________________________________________________
Martin Luther King - the Christian who exposed the farce that Christians have made of Christianity.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/king-damned-us-wars-was-vilified-in-media-shunned-by-friends-church-murdered-by-gov-agencies/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/martin-luther-king-day-and-the-unspeakable/
Do you have a clergyman like this in your church? I've never met one. The ones I've seen all do a really wimpy version of Jesus.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/cruelty-in-the-extreme/
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/james-w-douglass-talks-about-gandhi-and-the-unspeakable-his-final-experiment-with-truth/
Of course, this is idealistic. If we want peace in this world we have to go on starving Yemen children to death and stopping all those Latin Americans from defiling the goodness of America which, as we all know, is blessed by God.
____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2018/
_________________________________________________________________
For decades, the U.S. imposed dictators, torturers and thugs on Cuba. It was no secret. It was public knowledge that this was holiday land for American gangsters. It was public knowledge that the government was made up of Cuban thugs appointed by the U.S. It was understood that Cuba must not waste money on schools or hospitals - or salaries for any but the thugs who controlled Cuba.
It must not tax hard-working American billionaires who had appropriated most of the land and agriculture in Cuba. And, most certainly, it must support the murderous thugs who constituted the 'police' of Cuba.
It has never been fun to be a part of the American Empire in Latin America.
Castro changed that. And for that he has never been forgotten or forgiven.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/21/new-us-economic-attack-against-cuba-long-threatened-may-hit-soon/
And Canada will say.....nothing.
Well, it might send 'peacekeepers' like it did some years ago to Haiti - keep things quite for the thugs that the U.S. made the government of Haiti.
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50948.htm
The American position that they were in Texas, Arizona, California first always reminds me painfully of the separatist movement in Quebec. French separatists argued they had the exclusive right to run Quebec because they were the original settlers. Of course, they weren't, not by many, many thousands of years.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/21/news/obscene-gap-between-rich-and-poor-says-oxfam
Greed has no limits.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Why is Venezuela suffering? Read on.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/22/guardian-reports-more-good-news-kids-are-dying-in-venezuela/
______________________________________________________________
A story we haven't heard about Martin Luther King.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/21/watch-truth-at-last-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king/
_______________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/21/we-need-a-martin-luther-king-day-of-truth/
________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/yellow-vest-movement-gone-global/
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-celebrates-kings-nonviolence-but-not-his-antiwar-politics/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204804.html
Who has been arming and training all those dreadful terrorists in the middle east?
Uh, well, that would be the U.S. And you can expect much, much more.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://truthout.org/articles/us-taxpayers-have-been-funding-big-businesss-wars-for-233-years/
What a wonderful lead for a story fundamental to any understanding of our world.
Almost all wars throughout history have been fought to further enrich the very, very wealthy. That was true of ancient Egypt, of Rome, of all the British and other European empires. To that, the U.S. has added some touches.
In the older empires, the rich actually served in their wars. That was true up to the British whose wealthier aristocrats were prominent in the wars of empire. But that's not true of the U.S. When the U.S. went to war against Vietnam, for example, many of the children of the rich went missing. Oh, there was a military draft. But it had variations built in.
When it was the turn of George Bush jr. to servc, George Bush Sr. made it possible for him to serve part-time as a dashing pilot in ----Texas.
In Canada in World War Two, a wealthy bootlegger arranged for his sons to serve in the shot and shell of Washington.
And that's understandable - sort of. Wars are seldom fought for the reasons we are told.
The British fought the wars against Napoleon so that British capitalists could dominate in the race to conquer regions that French capitalists wanted. World War One, on both sides, was not in defence of evil people on the other side. It was fought to decide who get control of expanding markets. The same was true of World War Two. Well into the 1930s, British and French capitalists had no trouble with Hitler. Indeed, some, like Henry Ford, hugely admired him. They became hostile to Hitler only when his conquests began to threaten western markets. Later, the U.S. entered the war in hope of conquering profitable markets held by the British and French - like China and Vietnam. And it happily joined the European war, partly so it could kidnap British-controlled oil fields in the Middle East.
Yes. The other side was evil. But that's not why the war was fought. After all, when it came to evil and killing the British and Americans were already world leaders.
The Korean War was fought to establish a base for the conquest of China, a conquest that would have been magnificent for American profits. Vietnam was fought for the same reason.
The U.S. has fought well over 200 wars since 1776. To defend itself against??? Mexico? Canada? Guatemala? Chile? Cuba?
Well, none of those countries could even think of invading the U.S. Indeed, the only attack on U.S. territory in over 200 years was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - and that was half an ocean away from the U.S. itself. (Okay. There was the attack of 9/11. But that was hardly the prelude to an invasion. Nor was that the reason for the American invasion of Afghanistan.)
The most constant aggressors in the world since 1945 have been white young men from the streets of New York and Boston and Miami...... And its defence industries are so busy they arm even the terrorists they claim to be fighting. This is a madness of the very rich to conquer the world and all the world economies.
The U.S. will rule the world? No. This isn't a war for U.S. rule. Americans should have figured that out a long time ago. For decades, the US standard of living for most Americans has been dropping. These aren't wars for the American people. They're wars, like those of the British and French and Spanish empires, that are not for the common people. No. For all the artificial patriotism, these wars are to benefit only a tiny number of the super wealthy. And it gets even better.
The wealthiest Americans don't have to pay a cent for these wars. No.. Like wealthy Canadians and British (and manyother countries) the wealthy of the U.S. don't pay a cent in taxes. All the monstrous cost of these wars has to be paid by the Average family. Get that. The billionaires make monstrous fortunes out of these wars - and they don't have to pay a cent for them.
That's why so many American cannot even think of medical care. That's why the public schools are in trouble. That's why universities are beyond the reach of most. That's why so many of the elderly slide into the deepest poverty.
Martin Luther King's speeches were not just about what America was doing to the rest of the world. They were also about what the extremely wealthy are doing to all Americans. (Alas! For all the praise today of what Martin Luther King said, the meat of his talk, his major points, have been ignored. Martin Luther King did NOT just say we should be nicer. He was pretty specific about where and what the evil was. But our news media are pretty quiet on that.)
Where has this got us? To immense suffering and death all over the world. To growing poverty in the U.S.
So where does this take us? Let's get real.
This whole system is going to crash. Of course it is. For a start, the world's capacity to kill has reached such a point that no significant number could survive a world war. There's no point in talking about it. It cannot be done.
Greed rules. And, if we don't change, greed will destroy us all. Soon. Quite likely within the lifetimes of young adults today. And it could be a lot sooner.
When you read news stories about Martin Luther King, note what they way about his message. Almost all such reports in our news media are bland and brainless. But King had a very tough message. It was about evil, our evil. It was about the evil of an economic system that lavishes wealth on a very small and greedy group, and that leaves a trail of poverty and suffering and death behind it.
We have given ourselves over to evil.
But cheer up. it will destroy us.
Hey. Don't worry about it. This is just some wacky scientist. For the real scoop, listen to real smart politicians like Donald Trump in the U.S., and Doug Ford in Ontario.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nevsun-resources-mining-eritrea-1.4980530
Gee! Canadian mining executives did that? There must be a misunderstanding.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/why-is-brexit-so-complicated-1.4987728
_________________________________________________________________
Canadian Tax Payers Federation is one of those 'think tanks' that our news media take very seriously. In fact, thinking is precisely what it does not do. It is really just another one of those propaganda houses financed by billionaires to spread their propaganda.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/01/canadian-taxpayers-federations-credibility-question-after
__________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/fundamentally-inhuman-economy-26-billionaires-own-much-worlds-38-billion-poorest
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/21/literally-what-jesus-told-people-do-arizona-possible-prison-time-leaving-food-and
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/wealth-of-9-richest-indians-equivalent-to-bottom-50-of-country-oxfam-study/
It's not happeniing just in North America. That's a huge problem created by capitalism. It exists only to reward those who are already rich. But it dumps all those millions who make it possible for the already rich to get even richer. And, in the end, that means a society in ruins.
And that end is quickly coming closer.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/creating-a-global-lost-generation/
______________________________________________________________
Martin Luther King - the Christian who exposed the farce that Christians have made of Christianity.
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/king-damned-us-wars-was-vilified-in-media-shunned-by-friends-church-murdered-by-gov-agencies/
_______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/martin-luther-king-day-and-the-unspeakable/
Do you have a clergyman like this in your church? I've never met one. The ones I've seen all do a really wimpy version of Jesus.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/cruelty-in-the-extreme/
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/james-w-douglass-talks-about-gandhi-and-the-unspeakable-his-final-experiment-with-truth/
Of course, this is idealistic. If we want peace in this world we have to go on starving Yemen children to death and stopping all those Latin Americans from defiling the goodness of America which, as we all know, is blessed by God.
____________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/19/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2018/
_________________________________________________________________
For decades, the U.S. imposed dictators, torturers and thugs on Cuba. It was no secret. It was public knowledge that this was holiday land for American gangsters. It was public knowledge that the government was made up of Cuban thugs appointed by the U.S. It was understood that Cuba must not waste money on schools or hospitals - or salaries for any but the thugs who controlled Cuba.
It must not tax hard-working American billionaires who had appropriated most of the land and agriculture in Cuba. And, most certainly, it must support the murderous thugs who constituted the 'police' of Cuba.
It has never been fun to be a part of the American Empire in Latin America.
Castro changed that. And for that he has never been forgotten or forgiven.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/21/new-us-economic-attack-against-cuba-long-threatened-may-hit-soon/
And Canada will say.....nothing.
Well, it might send 'peacekeepers' like it did some years ago to Haiti - keep things quite for the thugs that the U.S. made the government of Haiti.
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50948.htm
The American position that they were in Texas, Arizona, California first always reminds me painfully of the separatist movement in Quebec. French separatists argued they had the exclusive right to run Quebec because they were the original settlers. Of course, they weren't, not by many, many thousands of years.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/21/news/obscene-gap-between-rich-and-poor-says-oxfam
Greed has no limits.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Why is Venezuela suffering? Read on.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/22/guardian-reports-more-good-news-kids-are-dying-in-venezuela/
______________________________________________________________
A story we haven't heard about Martin Luther King.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/21/watch-truth-at-last-the-assassination-of-martin-luther-king/
_______________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/21/we-need-a-martin-luther-king-day-of-truth/
________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/yellow-vest-movement-gone-global/
_______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-celebrates-kings-nonviolence-but-not-his-antiwar-politics/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204804.html
Who has been arming and training all those dreadful terrorists in the middle east?
Uh, well, that would be the U.S. And you can expect much, much more.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://truthout.org/articles/us-taxpayers-have-been-funding-big-businesss-wars-for-233-years/
What a wonderful lead for a story fundamental to any understanding of our world.
Almost all wars throughout history have been fought to further enrich the very, very wealthy. That was true of ancient Egypt, of Rome, of all the British and other European empires. To that, the U.S. has added some touches.
In the older empires, the rich actually served in their wars. That was true up to the British whose wealthier aristocrats were prominent in the wars of empire. But that's not true of the U.S. When the U.S. went to war against Vietnam, for example, many of the children of the rich went missing. Oh, there was a military draft. But it had variations built in.
When it was the turn of George Bush jr. to servc, George Bush Sr. made it possible for him to serve part-time as a dashing pilot in ----Texas.
In Canada in World War Two, a wealthy bootlegger arranged for his sons to serve in the shot and shell of Washington.
And that's understandable - sort of. Wars are seldom fought for the reasons we are told.
The British fought the wars against Napoleon so that British capitalists could dominate in the race to conquer regions that French capitalists wanted. World War One, on both sides, was not in defence of evil people on the other side. It was fought to decide who get control of expanding markets. The same was true of World War Two. Well into the 1930s, British and French capitalists had no trouble with Hitler. Indeed, some, like Henry Ford, hugely admired him. They became hostile to Hitler only when his conquests began to threaten western markets. Later, the U.S. entered the war in hope of conquering profitable markets held by the British and French - like China and Vietnam. And it happily joined the European war, partly so it could kidnap British-controlled oil fields in the Middle East.
Yes. The other side was evil. But that's not why the war was fought. After all, when it came to evil and killing the British and Americans were already world leaders.
The Korean War was fought to establish a base for the conquest of China, a conquest that would have been magnificent for American profits. Vietnam was fought for the same reason.
The U.S. has fought well over 200 wars since 1776. To defend itself against??? Mexico? Canada? Guatemala? Chile? Cuba?
Well, none of those countries could even think of invading the U.S. Indeed, the only attack on U.S. territory in over 200 years was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour - and that was half an ocean away from the U.S. itself. (Okay. There was the attack of 9/11. But that was hardly the prelude to an invasion. Nor was that the reason for the American invasion of Afghanistan.)
The most constant aggressors in the world since 1945 have been white young men from the streets of New York and Boston and Miami...... And its defence industries are so busy they arm even the terrorists they claim to be fighting. This is a madness of the very rich to conquer the world and all the world economies.
The U.S. will rule the world? No. This isn't a war for U.S. rule. Americans should have figured that out a long time ago. For decades, the US standard of living for most Americans has been dropping. These aren't wars for the American people. They're wars, like those of the British and French and Spanish empires, that are not for the common people. No. For all the artificial patriotism, these wars are to benefit only a tiny number of the super wealthy. And it gets even better.
The wealthiest Americans don't have to pay a cent for these wars. No.. Like wealthy Canadians and British (and manyother countries) the wealthy of the U.S. don't pay a cent in taxes. All the monstrous cost of these wars has to be paid by the Average family. Get that. The billionaires make monstrous fortunes out of these wars - and they don't have to pay a cent for them.
That's why so many American cannot even think of medical care. That's why the public schools are in trouble. That's why universities are beyond the reach of most. That's why so many of the elderly slide into the deepest poverty.
Martin Luther King's speeches were not just about what America was doing to the rest of the world. They were also about what the extremely wealthy are doing to all Americans. (Alas! For all the praise today of what Martin Luther King said, the meat of his talk, his major points, have been ignored. Martin Luther King did NOT just say we should be nicer. He was pretty specific about where and what the evil was. But our news media are pretty quiet on that.)
Where has this got us? To immense suffering and death all over the world. To growing poverty in the U.S.
So where does this take us? Let's get real.
This whole system is going to crash. Of course it is. For a start, the world's capacity to kill has reached such a point that no significant number could survive a world war. There's no point in talking about it. It cannot be done.
Greed rules. And, if we don't change, greed will destroy us all. Soon. Quite likely within the lifetimes of young adults today. And it could be a lot sooner.
When you read news stories about Martin Luther King, note what they way about his message. Almost all such reports in our news media are bland and brainless. But King had a very tough message. It was about evil, our evil. It was about the evil of an economic system that lavishes wealth on a very small and greedy group, and that leaves a trail of poverty and suffering and death behind it.
We have given ourselves over to evil.
But cheer up. it will destroy us.
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