Thursday, August 1, 2019

August 1: bad, bad, bad - a depressing day for this blog

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/august/1566136800/jo-lle-gergis/terrible-truth-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR3sc6L4dIXzScxKJVKpQWLyxdwQs-Bt-S-D68tJo7dE_PdxLal_T1nZY54

This is a new one, all the way from Australia. And you won't find it in most (any) Canadian commercial news media.
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Mind you - not all Canadians are brain dead Liberals and Conservatives.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/07/its-our-choice-turn-down-heat-or-cook-planet

Notice that almost all the leading climate change deniers are people who make their money out of oil or demolishing forests. but they rarely speak out. They leave that to their flunkies like Doug Ford, the Conservative Party, too much of the Liberal party - and all of these are people who have none of the scientific training to make the statements they do. (Doug Ford is a high school graduate - clap, clap, clap. Then  you have New Brunswick's oil family, the irvings, whose leader is a man with some 16 months of mickey mouse university courses - none of which qualify to say anything - and, anyway, he dropped out halfway through.)

And I am stunned that so much of our population has been gullible enough in such a crisis to believe the people  who have no qualifications whatever - while ignoring the world's leading scientists.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/01/hong-kong-protests-china-military-breaks-silence-to-warn-unrest-will-not-be-tolerated

This, I'm afraid, is inevitable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5l_0bm6ko

Gwynne Dyer is almost as smart as Doug Ford,   New Brunswick's Irving family, the whole Canadian Conservative and Liberal parties, and even Donald Trump.
Wake up, Canada.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/01/latest-proof-trump-unwilling-and-incapable-engaging-peace-talks

I really have no idea what Trump's policy toward Iran is. The original crisis was created by John Bolton. Trump seemed to oppose it - and very wise that would be.  Iran is a democracy (which it also was the last time the US attacked it and set up a  dictatorship). It has done nothing to threaten the U.S. The only motive for this war is that American oil companies want control of Iran's oil.

Has Trump decided that backing away now would make him look weak in front of his murder-loving, praise Jesus, evangelical admirers?
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One of the most terrible acts of Hitler is that he created Israeli Jews who are as brutal as he was.

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/08/01/the-ongoing-dread-in-gaza-so-many-names-so-many-lives/
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http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/08/alberta-targets-foreign-special-interests-omits-big-oil
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https://consortiumnews.com/2019/08/01/the-ongoing-dread-in-gaza-so-many-names-so-many-lives/
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/us-federal-court-exposes-democratic-party-conspiracy-against-assange-and-wikileaks
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/germany-wont-take-part-in-u-s-strait-of-hormuz-initiative
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The CIA is a US army - sort of. It's made up of thugs from all over the world who kill because - well - because that's what they get paid for. And they like killing. The useful thing about it is that it gets ignored by news media. That's why it's murder of 200,000 Guatemalans and an unknown number of missionaries, priests, and nuns never made the news.

https://countercurrents.org/2019/07/a-brief-history-of-the-cias-dirty-war-in-south-sudan
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And this one will bring a tear to your eye.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/07/31/Scheer-Worry-Bills/
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Most of our commercial news media is made up of liars. Most of it is owned by wealthy individuals or groups  - and it lies. It lies to please it's owners. We had quite a spell of that when Conrad Black set up the last post (which has now expanded to other papers across Canada). The last post is bad, very bad.  But the Irving press in New Brunswick is worse. Oh, and then there's Fox News.

It's also been true that news media - at least for 150 years and more have been propaganda agencies for their owners.

https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2019/07/29/Media-Denying-Climate-Crisis-Symbol-Malpractice/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/01/the-us-sanctions-are-affecting-all-aspects-of-human-life-in-iran/
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52005.htm

Poor Britain. It's now a servant for a murderous U.S. Just like poor Canada.
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And this is long - but too true.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52014.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52003.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52012.htm
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/07/31/opinion/fossil-fuel-burning-leaps-new-record-crushing-clean-energy-and-climate-efforts
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And - a badly needed break in the dreadful and even insane tone of this day's blog.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/01/news/canada-creates-vast-conservation-zone-arctic
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/07/31/opinion/canada-faces-reckoning-guns

Not surprisingly, it was a Conservative government  that most recently made gun ownership much, much easier. Hey. We have to make Americans respect us.
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Israelis are close friends with a Saudi Arabia that is one of the most brutal and savage nations on this earth.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190801-saudi-arabias-normalisation-with-israel/
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https://truthout.org/articles/united-warren-and-sanders-show-what-a-left-wing-democratic-party-looks-like/

Of course, they won't win.
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Embarassing - and digusting. Canada is going to join the U.S. in its illegal campaign against Venezuela - in the process helping to kill more children for American oil billionaires.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/powerandpolitics/canada-us-talks-eu-sanctions-maduro-1.5233774
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/july-hottest-month-1.5233368

Don't worry about it. The Conservatives (and the Liberals) won't do a damn thing.
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This, I think, must be the most depressing blog I have ever written. It's not just our leaders - as  corrupt and irresponsible as they are.

It's us.

Canadian and American voters don't have a clue about what's going on. They never have had. At best, they believe our lying news media. That's how a handful of some of the greediest and irresponsible billionaires have risen to power.

Over 40% of American voters support Trump - a liar, a fool. And the Democrats are going for Joe Biden for president, a man who ideas were old and corrupt centuries ago.

And large numbers of Canadians are drifting to the Conservatives - a party bathed in corruption - and the Liberals who do a better job of disguising their corruption.

The world that was going to be changed in 1945 never happened. Instead, we have had 70 years of corruption - and, since 1950 - continual plundering of the Canadian and American people.

So what will happen after the elections? Non-stop wars,  continuing abuse of the American and Canadian people and, very possibly, one hell of a world, economic crash.

Americans and Canadians have to learn how to think - and develop the guts to act.
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