Tuesday, April 16, 2019

April 16: Our final days?

Trump and his village idiots (like John Bolton) are discussing - with his generals - a possible invasion of Venezuela.

Russia and China are both in Venezuela - by invitation. They have ever right to be there. The U.S. has no right to be there or to threaten it.

Russia, China and the U.S. are nuclear powers.

It is also very possible that any American attack would inspire uprisings by the puppet states where the U.S. has established dictators.

But don't worry. Americans are God's chosen people. Yes, they are.
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We humans have a wonderful power to lie to ourselves, and to believe our lies.

Christians, for example, will publicly mourn Hitler's murder of over 4 million Jews. And when they do that, they are lying to themselves. We knew, even before the war, of the brutality of the Nazi treatment of Jews. And our governments, at least, knew of the death camps during the war. That whole period was treated as evil by our news media. We knew what was going on.

But we didn't lift a finger to help the Jews. Starting well before the war, we refused to accept Jews who escaped. For several years after the war, we refused Jews who had survived. In effect, throughout the Holocaust we were,, for all our bluster and virtue, on the side of the Nazis when it came to dealing with Jews. And that's what produced a Netanyahu who has attitudes toward Palestinians remarkably similar to Nazi attitudes toward Jews. Hitler tried to destroy Jews. Netanyahu has gone a long way to destroying Judaism.

The British empire was remarkably racist. That's why it could slaughter millions of Chinese and Indians and Africans without a qualm. This was particularly true of a Winston Churchill. Indeed, Churchill was a racist as only a descendant of the British upper class could be. He absolutely refused to help the Jews of Europe.

And the U.S., does it have a history of racism and slaughter that compares to Hitler's Germany? You bet.

Savagery and death were inflicted on slaves in far, far greater numbers than Hitler's holocaust. Then there were the native peoples. From ten million at the start, their number fell to less than 3000 by 1910.  Yes, many died from disease. They also, men, women and children were killed by war and were killed for profit. The U.S. long paid white Americans money for scalps they cut from men, women, and children. The final touch, from 1865, was  to massacre them with gatling guns at 200 shots per mnute - men, women and children.

For five hundred years, we white folks of the western world have been happily slaughtering uncountable millions of people who aren't white. We have done it on a far, far greater scale than Hitler did. Like Hitler, we were racists.

Funny how our news media told us that Hitler was a racist murderer. But they never told us that we were (and still are) racist murderers. (The U.S. murder of 200,000 Maya men, women and children in Guatemala never even made our news.)

So now Donald Trump is gearing up to kill even more men, women and children. (It Makes America Great Again). And we, like Hitler's Nazis, will purse our lips to kill even more.

And, like the Nazis, it won't even occur to us that we are murderous bastards - just like the Nazis.
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Canada and the U.S. are flooded with "think-tanks" which are really propaganda agencies funded by billionaires. They lie constantly. Here's a gem from Canada's major one, The Fraser Institute. It argues that private schools are not subsidized with public money. In fact, and as the author admits, these schools for rich kids are heavily subsidized with government money. The author of this lie is just playing word games. In Canada, 370,000 children go to private schools which offer smaller classes, and social connections. And the rest of us pay half and more of their fees.

http://ftw.fraserinstitute.org/article/private-schools-are-not-subsidized
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience
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Notre Dame was  our world of almost 1,000 years ago. That's why it took over 150 years to build it. We were a world almost no mechanical devices, no electricity, no power drills to cut stone, no chain saws.....I don't know how many men it took to build it over all those years. But it's stunning to think of the thousands of manual labourers it must have taken to building it. It's stunning to think of all the brutal work of cutting, moving the stones, then raising them by hand in their tons.

Then there's the astonishing engineering of a building that could last for centuries. I can think of few (no) great buildings of our time that could last for so long. It was an unimaginably great triumph of will, faith, and sweat by ancestors so distant we can scarcely imagine them.

But we also need a sense of the vitality of a society that could do that. For that purpose, I ran a scene from the opening of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton. It's set in the early days of that church, with the mobs and soldiers and tower bells and beheading and lashing - and sanctuary - of the church.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/16/hypocrisy-without-borders-ivanka-trump-trip-africa-ethiopia-ivory-coast
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Can there be anybody who seriously believes that Trump pays any income tax? Well, yeah. Maybe those people in the Bible belt.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/16/seth-meyers-trump-jimmy-kimmel-taxes
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The critics are right. Sometimes the The Guardian is dishonest. Here's an example.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/24/the-guardian-view-on-venezuela-its-people-deserve-better

This is pure propaganda. The U.S. must be in the right in Venezuela because Canada supports the U.S.? Of course Canada supports the U.S. Canada is a U.S. bootlicker. It has been since 1945. 50 countries support the U.S. position? Of course. These are all countries that kiss the American bum.

Maduro has mismanaged the economy? Probably so. But the real hardship in Venezuela comes from the U.S. using force to destroy the economy. And the real ruler of Venezuelan politics is?????? Well, the U.S. says he[s a man - who was not even a candidate in the election. Come off it.

This story in The Guardian isn't news. This is propaganda.

The reality is that U.S. billionaires want to control Venezuela oil. And Venezuela would be kept poor by the U.S. because that's the U.S. pattern all over  Latin America - and the U.S. for that matter.

To The Guardian - "Liar, liar, pants on fire"
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/16/more-than-100-people-arrested-in-london-climate-change-protests-extinctio

Don't kid yourself. Fighting climate change is one hell of a battle. But people in the oil industry don't give a damn about climate change. The only thing they care about is their own profit. And if the planet is destroyed because of that - tough.

Canada is still nowhere close to the planning and the action that it needs. Billionaires kill. That's why the U.S. has attacked some 50 to 70 countries since 1945. The Donald Trumps and Doug Fords and all their kind may seem to be fools - and they are fools - but they are also very serious killers.
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-netanyahu-appeals-to-israeli-right-with-ultra-nationalist-stance
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2019/04/anatomy-heat-wave
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/15/attendees-secret-meeting-us-military-assault-venezuela-revealed

This may be the most dangerous move ever taken. Russia and China are, quite legally, in Venezuela.  Russia, China and the U.S. are all nuclear powers. And, yes, wars can go off by accident. The American government is being dangerous? No. The American government is being insane.
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/04/arctic-permafrost-no-longer-freezes-even-in-winter/
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51431.htm
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https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/war/

No. The U.S. can't afford health care, education, living salaries..... But it can spend billions to starve babies to death.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51430.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51428.htm
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http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/900-assange-arrest-part-1-so-now-he-s-our-property.html
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/04/15/reviews/humans-are-villain-netflixs-new-series-our-planet
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https://off-guardian.org/2019/04/14/ukraine-admitted-to-interfering-in-the-2016-us-election-on-clintons-side/
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Justin Trudeau is, as usual, a kisser for bent over U.S. presidents. He supported the US assault on Venezuela from the start. I have always feared he would get Canada wrapped up in a war on Venezuela - Canadians dying (and killing) to please American oil billionaires.

So far as the U.S. (and Canada's  Liberals and Conservatives are concerned) Canada must now be a colony to the U.S. as it once was to Britain. Now, Trudeau is taking us very, very close to sending Canadians to kill Venezuelans. And again, Canada can watch it's dead coming back along the "Highway of Heroes".

Stuff the Queen. It's time for us to sing God bless America. What a fraud patriotism can be!

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14431
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https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-new-proposal-cheats-8-million-working-people-of-overtime-pay/
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https://truthout.org/articles/trump-wants-to-end-regulation-that-cut-mercury-pollution-by-81-percent/

The amazing thing is that such large numbers of Americans will accept this plundering.
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https://truthout.org/articles/house-democrats-subpoena-deutsche-bank-as-part-of-trump-finance-probe/
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https://truthout.org/articles/who-really-got-a-tax-cut-this-year-corporations-and-the-wealthy/
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We are as murderous and greedy a society as the world has ever seen.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/15/saudi-weapons-yemen-us-france/
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https://thesaker.is/lesson-learned-russia-is-now-doing-in-venezuela-what-it-failed-to-do-in-yugoslavia-syria/

This may be one hell of an indicator of where the U.S. is taking us with Venezuela. And Justin Trudeau is wimpy enough to take Canada into the same path.
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article205987.html
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Get used to it most of our societies are controlled by the greediest and most immoral people in history -   who control the majority of our politicians. That's a theme that runs through the whole history of Canada and the U.S. - though our history books say very little about it.

Look at those people! The make more money in a year than most of us could  make in hundreds of lifetimes. These are the ones who starve our public schools. In the U.S., these are the ones who leave ordinary people ---to die.

Oh, I'm sure they work very hard for their money. Yes, yes. So do most of us.

Can we solve this without violence? I wish we could. But the very rich can hire the thugs to keep us poor.

And Venezuela could be an example of how murderous they can be.

Would the Liberals or the Conservatives support such a slaughter of innocent people? You get they would. They'd run after the American killers like dogs with their toungues hanging out.


















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