August 20: A world out of control. (error. A world controlled by.......

A note on the leaders in our business world.. (This article immediately below is not by me. This is from a note that was sent on to me.)

"In January 2019, I received the horrible, unreal news that I had a tumor growing not only in my scalp, but also through my skull and inside my skull, around my brain and some pretty big damage was caused. On February 4th, I went into surgery, and a biopsy done while my scalp was open and peeled back, indicated I had a lymphoma. A week later, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota confirmed diffuse large B-cell Non-hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I have said this before: The known candidates and causes for this cancer include being a man, being over 60, having AIDS/HIV and glyphosate. Only one of these has not been tested or proven in my case so far. I am not a man. I am not over 60. I do not have AIDS/HIV. Testing for glyphosate is coming up.

I have been engaged in the call for an end to spraying in Nova Scotia for years. Former Minister of Environment, Margaret Miller blocked me a few years back, because I wouldn't leave her alone after she approved multiple permits around the province. It kills our wildlife, it poisons their food, destroys their habitat. It ends up in the water. It is destroying the filters that clean our air. It is in our food. It has been linked to NHL for years. It has been proven that Monsanto has lied about its impacts and influenced reporting on it.

This spraying of carcinogens on our food and forests is for profits. Profits for large corporations. Our lives are worth more than the wealth of a few.

It has to stop."

(The killer, in the Maritimes, is the Irving Family of New Brunswick. which happily sprays no matter how many sicken and die.)

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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/does-canada-have-a-moral-obligation-to-hong-kong-1.5250098/foreign-affairs-parliamentary-secretary-says-plans-are-in-place-to-assist-canadian-citizens-in-hong-kong-1.5251689

How inspirational!  Yes, Canada helping a people beaten down by their government. Yes. For that matter, they might have helped Hong Kongers for the very long period they were abused and humiliated by the British. And we could have stepped in. Yeah. Or we could have stepped in when the British  were starving and killing the people of India and China by the millions. Oh! - and all of the those Africans the British killed  - some with Canadian help. Or we could offer to help the people of Venezuela (and Cuba and Guatemala and others) who are being abused right now by the U.S.

For that matter, it might help it Canada were to begin honest treatment of it's native peoples..... Yeah! Lots of information there.

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Russia Times is, of course, biased. So it does not report stories unfavourable to Russia. That makes it very unwise to take RT as a sole source of information. However, while it is deliberately designed to be critical of the U.S. while at the same time ignoring Russia and the rest of the world, what it does report is usually reliable. It would be a big mistake to take RT as a general source of information. But it would be a bigger mistake to think it just prints propaganda.

https://www.rt.com/news/466829-us-missile-test-banned/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/19/why-does-donald-trump-want-to-buy-greenland

This is not a joke. And forget the stories your going to be told about how Americans will benefit from this.

If the U.S. buys Greenland, it will be for the mineral wealth of that region. Who would pay for this purchase? The American tax payer. the ordinary man and woman in the street. Who will get the benefit of it? The billionaires - who don't have to pay anything because they don't pay taxes in the first place.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/20/donald-trump-uk-trade-brexit-chaos-boris-johnson-us-eu
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https://www.thenation.com/article/iran-media-war/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/central-america-migrant-crisis-foreign-policy-trump/

Trump is, of course, an ass. But he did not create the viciousness and greed of American foreign policy. That goes all  the way back to George Washington.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/iran-media-war/

In war, the news media always blame the other side. In World War 1,  the British media blamed the Germans. The Germans blamed the British. Same in World War 2.

Since World War 2, the U.S. has bombed, starved, invaded over 50 countries. Think of one, just one, of these assaults and mass murders the U.S. has criticized.  (In fact, try to think of how many or few we have never even been told about - like the mass murder of civilians and clergy in Guatemala.)
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http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/08/canadas-troubling-policy-honduras
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/08/ucp-slaps-alberta-teachers-association-%E2%80%A6-probably-not-last-time___________________________________

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/08/ucp-purges-ndp-appointees-albertas-boards-agencies-and
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2019/08/kenney-conservatives-create-policy-panel-push-working-poor-back
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http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/greening-news/2019/08/resistance-trans-mountain-pipeline-growing-all-fronts
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/prayforamazonia-goes-viral-twitter-users-call-attention-international-emergency
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/israel-pushing-palestinians-to-leave-gaza

Israel - the deathbed of Judaic principles.
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https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/the-quest-for-an-ideal-teacher

This includes university teaching. And I would urge university teachers to take this seriously.
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https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2019/08/20/SNC-Lavalin-Scandal-Sideshow-Corporate-Control/

Too true. The SNC  Lavalin scandal is not just about the Liberals. Indeed, it even may be  more about the Conservatives. And that's been true of just about every political scandal in the history of Canada.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/media-cant-even-tell-the-truth-about-canadas-foreign-policy-history/5686502

Didn't you learn all about this in your high school history courses?
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52123.htm

Predictably, the people of Hong Kong have been forced to choose between two evils - China and us.
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I'm really not sure what to make of this one.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52123.htm
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/20/coverups-and-lies-systemic-cancer-world-oilpatch-health-and-safety-breaches-say
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/20/bolsonaro-greenlights-new-pesticides-even-advocates-mourn-half-billion-dead-bees

With Bolsonaro on our side, who needs enemies?
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https://truthout.org/articles/we-could-eliminate-extreme-global-poverty-if-multinationals-paid-their-taxes/

But we won't make multinationals pay their taxes. The problem is US!
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https://theintercept.com/2019/08/20/trump-jews-disloyalty-democratic-anti-semitism/

Trump is disgusting. At least 42% of Americans support him.
Canada sits on a border next to the U.S., the world's leading killer since 1945. Canada has sent it's military to kill in order to please American mass murderers in Korea, Afghanistan, Libya, and others. Trudeau will roll over and kill for Trump in Venezuela. Count on it. Canada's Conservatives are, if anything, much worse.

Wealthy Americans are determined to control and loot  the whole world. They spread poverty and death wherever they go. Just take a good look at what has happened to almost all of Latin America. And Canadian capitalists have happily joined them.

The role played by Canada in the world has been as a bumboy to the U.S.

It's embarassing, worse than embarassing, to see the role Canada has played. Though it's good, of course, for Canadian billionaires who get to share in the plunder of regions like Latin America.

I remember the joy of Victory in  Europe day. I remember the wonderful things that were going to happen. But what did happen was that Canadian billionaires were just as greedy as American ones. And so we now live in a nation that let's the super-rich to live tax free while millions live in poverty.

If the Canada Legion would bother to look, it might notice that we have betrayed everything we said Canadians fought for in World War Two. We certainly did not fight World War Two so we     could help the U.S. to defend a brutal and corrupt regime in Korea. (Yes. That means South Korea - it was a regime as vicious as they come.) And Canadians died to defend it. If the Legion cared about it's members, it hasn't said so about that or about our troops in Afghanistan.

The U.S. and Canada today cannot be called democracies. Both are nations controlled by the very, very wealthy. (And Canada's Liberals and Conservatives lick their feet.) Trudeau is a lap dog for Trump. And if the Conservatives come to power, they will be much worse. (Alas! The NDP and the Greens have not taken up the slack.)

The winner of the coming federal election can only be either Liberal or Conservative. But neither of them can be anything but what they already are - puppets for the very wealthy. And that has been the history of Canada for most of the years since 1945.

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And now, a quiet moment.

Last night I was watching a British movie on TV.  It was about the dreadful retreat to Dieppe. The horror of it still  holds power for this seven year old boy. With the collapse of most of western Europe and France in the face of a well planned German assault, the remnant of a British army had to flee to the French coast and line up on the sands of Dieppe hoping Britain could evacuate them. This was crucial. If the Germans could reach Britain's only major army,  thousands would die - and the war would be over.

But the British did, for the most part, escape. And Hitler would lose. As I watched it, I thought of all the Boy Scouts from my father's  troops who were coming to see us and say goodbye. And I was enraptured by the voice of Vera Lynne and her rendition of "There'll be Blue Birds Over

                    The White Cliffs of Dover..."

There was courage in terrible, terrible danger. There was a determination to 'carry on'. There was a magnificence in all of this. But how did it start? If you read the newsmedia of the time  (or if you look at you high school history books),, Hitler was the evil one. And evil he certainly was.....but....

In reporting war news, our side is always good, and the other side is always evil. But --well ---

In  World War One, nobody had really started it. What happened there was that the nations of Europe were faced with the new situation -  the covering of Europe with rails and steam power. Most nations felt this meant that the next war would be the one that most quickly  used trains to move their troops to decisive battlefields.

That was when a student murdered the archduke of Austria. Nothing suggested that any country organized this. But every country  packed its troops into trains and set them out in ways that could not be changed. That is how World War One began. Nobody started it. Or everybody did. But this had no effect on the news media. All of them reported their own side as being good, and other sides as bad.

However, at the signing of the peace treaty, reality was recognized. Really, nobody had started that war (Or everybody had.) So at the treaty signing, there were no crushing financial penalties. Until....

Britain demanded heavy financial penalties to impoverish Germany.. Why? Germany didn't start the war. No ------

---but, much to the annoyance of British capitalists, Germany had been rapidly developing as a financial power - and British capitalists were not amused by this challenge to their power. Thus the British decision to place savage terms on the peace treaty, terms that made Germany a pauper. Germans were, of course, infuriated. All of this came to the ears of a  young      veteran of World War One who had been trying, without success, to rouse Germans to anger and conquest in reaction to their defeat in the war.

Adolph Hitler was, at the time, writing his thoughts for the future of HIS Germany. It was called Mein Kampf. British treatment of Germany had been an insult, one that Hitler could use. At the same time, he created his myth of evil Jews. Did he believe it? Almost certainly not. But, like Donald Trump's later treatment of Latins, it proved useful.

So who set the world up for World War Two? The single biggest villain probably was Britain.

And before you angrily erase all this, check  your history. The Britain of several centuries up to1939 might well still have been the most murderous nation in the world. It was driven by the greed of it's capitalists.

Similarly, the American war with Japan was a set up. U.S. capitalists wanted that war to provoke an attack on the U..S. by the Japanese. At the time, with the British hopelessly tied down in Europe, China was wide open to domination by the U.S. capitalists. But the U.S. needed  Japan to make the first move. So it cut off almost all of Japan's fuel supplies.

American leaders were expecting a Japanese response. And they got it. But they weren't expecting Pearl Harbour. 

Shortly after, the U.S. would enter the war in Europe - but not because they gave a damn about Europe or about Britain. Their real interest was in grabbing control of British oil in the middle east. So it was they stole Saudi Arabia from the British. It also stole Iran - but lost it again.

And so I think of this British soldiers lined up on the shore at Dieppe.  They were brave. But it does not follow that their leaders were either brave or wise.

Canadian soldiers have fought bravely. It does not follow that their political leadership thought wisely or honestly in, say, the Boer War, Korea, or Afghanistan. If The Canadian Legion really wants to serve is members - shouldn't it be addressing that? And if we really value the service of our military, shouldn't we be more critical of how they are used?

A final thought.
Our world cannot possibly survive being taken to where we are taking it.