https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-socialism-canada-1.5010033
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else
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Until recently, I lived in New Brunswick where all newspapers are lying, propaganda sheets in praise of their multi-billionaire owner. I now live in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, where I first thought the newspapers were just brainless. But, no, I've just learned that the major one is not just dumb. No. It's a progaganda sheet just like the irving press of New Brunswick. The Wednesday Feb. 28 edition of the Ottawa Citizen, between its stretches of boredom and trivia, has a piece of propaganda kissing up to the very wealthy. But it is presented as a piece of news from a prestigious research institute, the Frazer Institute..
Readers are schocked to learn that very large numbers of the poor don't pay any income tax. And - horrors - the poor often get financial help from the government as well - you know, help with child costs, food..... And the top 20 percent are paying 70 percent of all income taxes. And it's just dreadful how the very rich have to pay so much tax.
Obviously, The Frazer Institute has never heard of how the very, very rich pay NO income tax at all. None. Nada. Zilch.
Nor does the paper bother to tell us who The Frazer Institute is. It's a propaganda outfit financed by the very wealthiest people in Canada - the ones who pay no income tax at all. It poses as a serious research body. In short, it's a liar.
We are flooded by these 'research' institutes that like to call themselves 'think-tanks'. They are, in fact, hired pimps to serve big money - The Frazer Institute, The CDHowe, the Atlantic Institute of Market studies.... And all of them create propaganda for the billionaire owners of most of our news media.
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The American empire in Latin America - and it's Canadian pimps.......
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2019/02/indigenous-rights-defenders-guatemala-challenge-logging
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2019/02/human-rights-defenders-are-fighting-climate-justice
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I have no great love for any Canadian political party. I don't think the Liberals, for a start, are all that different from the Conservatives. But there is a growing difference between those two parties as the Conservatives move off into some very destructive positions.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/activist-toolkit-blog/2019/02/canadian-provinces-are-poised-lot-more-populism-%C3%A0-la
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/12/electric-cars-already-cheaper-own-run-study
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/12/not-so-veiled-threat-war-john-bolton-says-iran-may-not-have-many-more-anniversaries
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/12/we-have-entered-age-environmental-breakdown-report-details-world-edge-runaway
But there is not the slightest possibility that the very wealthy will do anything about it.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/11/global-poll-reveals-surging-fear-climate-crisis-and-us-power-under-trump
And Canada's Trudeau has humiliated this country by supporting Trump in Venezuela.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/11/scientists-warn-crashing-insect-population-puts-planets-ecosystems-and-survival
And what are we doing about it? We're kissing up to billionaires whose only interest is in making money. You can go to jail for going through a red light. But there's no penalty at all for destroying a world and billions of people.
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/12/u-s-poses-as-humanitarian-while-it-weaponizes-starvation-in-venezuela/
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51080.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51083.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/12/features/noam-chomsky-couple-generations-organized-human-society-may-not-survive-has-be
Tell me what capitalists are doing to deal with this.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/07/news/doug-fords-ontario-proposing-stop-tracking-carbon-pollution-fuel-sold-oil-and-gas
______________________________________________________________
I'm so happy to have this chance to help our oil billionaires.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/08/analysis/2-billion-oil-industry-subsidy-making-trans-mountain-files-toll-application
________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/10/10-reasons-the-gilets-jaunes-are-the-real-deal/
__________________________________________________________
Not long ago, Haiti was a functioning democracy. But the U.S. ended that with a return to rule by dictators. And Canada, kissing American rear ends, took part in the process by sending 'peace-keepers'.
https://greedmedia.com/thousands-of-haitians-protest-corruption-rising-living-costs/
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Here's an aspect of the Venezuela crisis that has not been reported in most of the western press.
https://thesaker.is/saker-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-venezuela-february-7-2019/
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article205147.html
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article205061.html
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Will our world last? No. Not as long as it is dominated by capitalism. I can't pretend to be an expert on these things. Capitalism might work - under controls. I don't know. But I do know it has no controls. I know that it has killed millions of people since 1945 - and obviously intends to kill many millions more.
And oil companies, defying the warnings of just about all the world's scientists that this will destroy the planet and all its living things, are determined to keep pumping it.
Is this because oil bosses are people of superior education and knowledge? I know of no evidence of that. Quite the contrary, very, very few have such advanced scientific training. (I think here of Irving, the oil baron of New Brunswick, who quit university while only half way through so he could take over one of daddy's companies. Half way through his first degree - that would qualify him - maybe - for a job as a door to door salesman. (But daddy owned an oil company. So he today, giving his 'expert' opinion, says it is perfectly safe to go on pumping oil.)
Think of a person like that who has the arrogance and power to make decisions that can kill all of us.
Do the people of his province get the chance to question his opinion? No! The only information they get appears in all the newspapers he owns. And that sort of thing is true over most of the world.
I can't pretend to understand these dangerous and vicious people. But the reality is that there power is enormous. These are the ones who decide to kill and to do it in millions. And it is possible, even likely, that they will kill all of us (and themselves) within the century. Nor will it be a quick death as climate changes kill us.
Climate change and our uncontrolled capitalism have already created millions of refugees, especially in the southern half of our planet. They try to escape the horror - and they're allowed to drown by our governments. The few who survive to get to, say, Europe, are shoved into hopeless and miserable camps. The ones who get to the U.S. are imprisoned with the children separated into cages. And this is just the beginning.
The climate and our capitalism and our greed are creating numbers of refugees that we can't simply stuff into camps. We are going to have to kill them. And we will, by the millions.
What we and our capitalism are like we can see in Latin America. With the powerful backing of the American government - and possibly with the wimpy help of Canada - capitalism has driven most of Latin America into despair. It has impoverished nations. It has murdered uncounted (and usually unreported) numbers of people. And its going to get worse. Much, much worse. The current attack on Venezuela is to ensure that not a penny of oil money of that country ever gets to the people of Venezuela. This is quite as brutal as the behaviour of the old British empire, of Columbus in South America, and Hitler's Germany.
The people of Latin America have, for the most part, been driven into severe poverty. The intention of capitalists is to do the same to Venezuela. They have already done it by cutting off Venezuelan trade. Now there will finish the job by sending in their butchers.
This is not an exaggeration. This is daily life for most of Latin America. It is not an exaggeration to call capitalism brutal. It has left a long trail of misery and suffering and death behind it in that region for over a century.
Is capitalism viable? Can it be controlled? I don't know. I do know that capitalism has been the cause of almost all wars for the last several centuries. (Yes. That includes World War Two. Indeed, many leaders in the U.S. and Britain were great admirers of Hitler. Henry Ford, the capitalist, admired Hitler. So, for a considerable time, did Churchill. In fact, Churchill turned against Hitler only when it was clear he was creating an empire that would threaten British capitalism.)
Capitalism did not give us medicare - and of course Americans of the richest country in the world still die from that lack of medical care that capitalism insists on.
Big capitalists refuse to pay taxes - not a cent. That places a heavy burden on everyone else because the big capitalists insist on big government spending - for them.
The myth of capitalism is that it creates wealth. And that's nonsense. Just look around. Wealthy Americans have been rolling in cash, especially since the 1950s. But most other Americans have remained relatively poor. And, related to that, countries like Venezuela and Haiti have been driven into poverty to further enrich wealthy Americans. That's what the Cuban revolution was all about. Cuba now is punished by the U.S. for its revolution - but even with that punishment, Cuba is a hell of a lot better off than when it was under the control of American capitalists.
As a result, we are heading for one hell of a big crash. We are also headed for the war to end all wars - and all of us - soon.
Can we head this off?
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else
________________________________________________________________
Until recently, I lived in New Brunswick where all newspapers are lying, propaganda sheets in praise of their multi-billionaire owner. I now live in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, where I first thought the newspapers were just brainless. But, no, I've just learned that the major one is not just dumb. No. It's a progaganda sheet just like the irving press of New Brunswick. The Wednesday Feb. 28 edition of the Ottawa Citizen, between its stretches of boredom and trivia, has a piece of propaganda kissing up to the very wealthy. But it is presented as a piece of news from a prestigious research institute, the Frazer Institute..
Readers are schocked to learn that very large numbers of the poor don't pay any income tax. And - horrors - the poor often get financial help from the government as well - you know, help with child costs, food..... And the top 20 percent are paying 70 percent of all income taxes. And it's just dreadful how the very rich have to pay so much tax.
Obviously, The Frazer Institute has never heard of how the very, very rich pay NO income tax at all. None. Nada. Zilch.
Nor does the paper bother to tell us who The Frazer Institute is. It's a propaganda outfit financed by the very wealthiest people in Canada - the ones who pay no income tax at all. It poses as a serious research body. In short, it's a liar.
We are flooded by these 'research' institutes that like to call themselves 'think-tanks'. They are, in fact, hired pimps to serve big money - The Frazer Institute, The CDHowe, the Atlantic Institute of Market studies.... And all of them create propaganda for the billionaire owners of most of our news media.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The American empire in Latin America - and it's Canadian pimps.......
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2019/02/indigenous-rights-defenders-guatemala-challenge-logging
_______________________________________________________________
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2019/02/human-rights-defenders-are-fighting-climate-justice
_____________________________________________________________
I have no great love for any Canadian political party. I don't think the Liberals, for a start, are all that different from the Conservatives. But there is a growing difference between those two parties as the Conservatives move off into some very destructive positions.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/activist-toolkit-blog/2019/02/canadian-provinces-are-poised-lot-more-populism-%C3%A0-la
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/12/electric-cars-already-cheaper-own-run-study
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/11/trump-offers-socialism-for-the-rich-capitalism-for-everyone-else
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/12/not-so-veiled-threat-war-john-bolton-says-iran-may-not-have-many-more-anniversaries
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/12/we-have-entered-age-environmental-breakdown-report-details-world-edge-runaway
But there is not the slightest possibility that the very wealthy will do anything about it.
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/11/global-poll-reveals-surging-fear-climate-crisis-and-us-power-under-trump
And Canada's Trudeau has humiliated this country by supporting Trump in Venezuela.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/11/scientists-warn-crashing-insect-population-puts-planets-ecosystems-and-survival
And what are we doing about it? We're kissing up to billionaires whose only interest is in making money. You can go to jail for going through a red light. But there's no penalty at all for destroying a world and billions of people.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/12/u-s-poses-as-humanitarian-while-it-weaponizes-starvation-in-venezuela/
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51080.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51083.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/12/features/noam-chomsky-couple-generations-organized-human-society-may-not-survive-has-be
Tell me what capitalists are doing to deal with this.
___________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/07/news/doug-fords-ontario-proposing-stop-tracking-carbon-pollution-fuel-sold-oil-and-gas
______________________________________________________________
I'm so happy to have this chance to help our oil billionaires.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/08/analysis/2-billion-oil-industry-subsidy-making-trans-mountain-files-toll-application
________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/10/10-reasons-the-gilets-jaunes-are-the-real-deal/
__________________________________________________________
Not long ago, Haiti was a functioning democracy. But the U.S. ended that with a return to rule by dictators. And Canada, kissing American rear ends, took part in the process by sending 'peace-keepers'.
https://greedmedia.com/thousands-of-haitians-protest-corruption-rising-living-costs/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's an aspect of the Venezuela crisis that has not been reported in most of the western press.
https://thesaker.is/saker-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-venezuela-february-7-2019/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205147.html
________________________________________________________________
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205061.html
_______________________________________________________________
Will our world last? No. Not as long as it is dominated by capitalism. I can't pretend to be an expert on these things. Capitalism might work - under controls. I don't know. But I do know it has no controls. I know that it has killed millions of people since 1945 - and obviously intends to kill many millions more.
And oil companies, defying the warnings of just about all the world's scientists that this will destroy the planet and all its living things, are determined to keep pumping it.
Is this because oil bosses are people of superior education and knowledge? I know of no evidence of that. Quite the contrary, very, very few have such advanced scientific training. (I think here of Irving, the oil baron of New Brunswick, who quit university while only half way through so he could take over one of daddy's companies. Half way through his first degree - that would qualify him - maybe - for a job as a door to door salesman. (But daddy owned an oil company. So he today, giving his 'expert' opinion, says it is perfectly safe to go on pumping oil.)
Think of a person like that who has the arrogance and power to make decisions that can kill all of us.
Do the people of his province get the chance to question his opinion? No! The only information they get appears in all the newspapers he owns. And that sort of thing is true over most of the world.
I can't pretend to understand these dangerous and vicious people. But the reality is that there power is enormous. These are the ones who decide to kill and to do it in millions. And it is possible, even likely, that they will kill all of us (and themselves) within the century. Nor will it be a quick death as climate changes kill us.
Climate change and our uncontrolled capitalism have already created millions of refugees, especially in the southern half of our planet. They try to escape the horror - and they're allowed to drown by our governments. The few who survive to get to, say, Europe, are shoved into hopeless and miserable camps. The ones who get to the U.S. are imprisoned with the children separated into cages. And this is just the beginning.
The climate and our capitalism and our greed are creating numbers of refugees that we can't simply stuff into camps. We are going to have to kill them. And we will, by the millions.
What we and our capitalism are like we can see in Latin America. With the powerful backing of the American government - and possibly with the wimpy help of Canada - capitalism has driven most of Latin America into despair. It has impoverished nations. It has murdered uncounted (and usually unreported) numbers of people. And its going to get worse. Much, much worse. The current attack on Venezuela is to ensure that not a penny of oil money of that country ever gets to the people of Venezuela. This is quite as brutal as the behaviour of the old British empire, of Columbus in South America, and Hitler's Germany.
The people of Latin America have, for the most part, been driven into severe poverty. The intention of capitalists is to do the same to Venezuela. They have already done it by cutting off Venezuelan trade. Now there will finish the job by sending in their butchers.
This is not an exaggeration. This is daily life for most of Latin America. It is not an exaggeration to call capitalism brutal. It has left a long trail of misery and suffering and death behind it in that region for over a century.
Is capitalism viable? Can it be controlled? I don't know. I do know that capitalism has been the cause of almost all wars for the last several centuries. (Yes. That includes World War Two. Indeed, many leaders in the U.S. and Britain were great admirers of Hitler. Henry Ford, the capitalist, admired Hitler. So, for a considerable time, did Churchill. In fact, Churchill turned against Hitler only when it was clear he was creating an empire that would threaten British capitalism.)
Capitalism did not give us medicare - and of course Americans of the richest country in the world still die from that lack of medical care that capitalism insists on.
Big capitalists refuse to pay taxes - not a cent. That places a heavy burden on everyone else because the big capitalists insist on big government spending - for them.
The myth of capitalism is that it creates wealth. And that's nonsense. Just look around. Wealthy Americans have been rolling in cash, especially since the 1950s. But most other Americans have remained relatively poor. And, related to that, countries like Venezuela and Haiti have been driven into poverty to further enrich wealthy Americans. That's what the Cuban revolution was all about. Cuba now is punished by the U.S. for its revolution - but even with that punishment, Cuba is a hell of a lot better off than when it was under the control of American capitalists.
As a result, we are heading for one hell of a big crash. We are also headed for the war to end all wars - and all of us - soon.
Can we head this off?
________________________________________________________________
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