Again, a reminder that we don't yet know much about coronavirus. It's not yet time to shoot elderly members of the family (like me) who develop a cough.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/what-is-coronavirus-symptoms-from-wuhan-china-and-how-worried-should-we-be-sars
_________________________________________________________________
Millions of people in Africa and Latin America are desperate to flee the hunger and violence that that was created, first, by Britain, and then by the U.S. (with Canadian help.) This is going to get worse, much worse. And our Christian response?....
Push them back to suffer more.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/greece-plans-to-build-sea-barrier-off-lesbos-to-deter-migrants
_________________________________________________________________
Yes. Many, many Canadians are racists. They always have been.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/now-that-climate-change-is-irrefutable-denialists-like-andrew-bolt-insist-it-will-be-good-for-us
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/donald-trump-israel-palestinians-middle-east
And what will Canada's Justin Trudeau think of all this? In the past he has been a pretty consistent supporter of American interference in other countries - like Venezuela and Bolivia. Will he fall into line with Trump's absurd interference in Palestine?
_________________________________________________________________
Alberta - government of the polluters, by the polluters, for the polluters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-taxes-oilpatch-1.5445116
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-chinese-communist-party-central-threat-1.5445631
Mr. Pompeo is too modest. The U.S. with the biggest war spending in the world and with it's constant invasions of other countries, it's deliberate starvation of who countries, it's economic exploitation, it's daily killings - specializing in mass murder of civilians and children - is far the greatest threat in the world.
Oh, and the American farce of a democracy which is really ruled by billionaires....
Even allowing for these errors, Mr. Pompeo is simply ignorant (or a liar). China is not communist. It hasn't been for some time. There are capitalists in China. There are a great many of them. In fact, I taught a student who became one of them. He was then in Hong Kong; but he settled into mainland China a long time ago.
As things are, China might be called a mixture of socialism and capitalism. But, of course, Mr. Pompeo wouldn't understand what socialism is, either.
Oh, how many countries has China invaded? How many has the U.S. invaded?
_________________________________________________________________
And this is what our political leaders should have been thinking of on D-Day in 1945.
https://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2020/01/new-book-fights-neoliberal-consensus-climate-change
"We've won the war. Now we've got to win the peace."
But we didn't. Instead, we opened up the world to massive war-mongering, killing tens of millions to benefit western capitalists.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/01/support-trans-mountain-expansion-drops-under-jason-kenneys
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/why-canada-still-deporting-roma-people-persecution
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/why-canada-still-deporting-roma-people-persecution
The romani are what we more commonly call gypsies. Canada had some, though very, very few. As a child of six or so, I saw a family with its colourful wagon pulled by two horses in a field by my home. The wagon was their home.
The Romani were victims of the holocaust but they, like some other groups, had no significant presence in the revelations of the holocaust.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/01/do-not-reduce-lessons-auschwitz-pious-clich%C3%A9s
In my school days, one of my friends was Jewish, the only Jew in the school. One day, he was missing. I asked the principal about it.
"Oh. I transferred him to a school that is all Jews and only Jews. He'll be happier with his own kind."
Until that moment, I had thought he WAS our kind.
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-netanyahu-trump-and-the-mideast-peace-deals-two-state-illusion
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/absolutely-horrific-trump-preparing-roll-back-restrictions-us-military-use-landmines
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/new-poll-shows-sanders-trumps-most-formidable-foe-so-called-red-state-texas
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/amnesty-international-demands-ngo-access-mexicos-migrant-detention-centers
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/venezuela-january-2020-hardship-and-resistance
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/an-open-letter-to-justin-trudeau-on-venezuela/
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/01/28/Jason-Kenney-Betrayed-Rural-Albertans-Turned-To-Stone/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-government-represents-lawless-billionaires/5702200
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52915.htm
Something is seriously wrong at information clearing house. It is now missing 2 full days of reporting. And, perhaps not coincidentally, these are two days that followed a severe attack on the site.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/28/analysis/americans-alarmed-about-climate-crisis-surges-good-reason
_________________________________________________________________
Here is a pretty good, if brief, summary of what has been happening in our world for several centuries as the British Empire committed mass murder and plunder all over the world. A characteristic of this evil is that only a small number of the British people got the benefit of all this mass murder and plundering. Most of the British got nothing but starvation, filth, poverty and early death from this. Oh, and they also got to die in the service of an aristocracy what would simply abandon them where their usefulness was over.
What is now the U.S. became what Britain was almost from the start as it murdered it's indigenous people to steal their land. Indeed, that was what the American revolution was all about.
By 1900, the U.S. had extended itself to mass murder and exploitation all over Latin America, Hawaii, and The Philippines. In World War Two, it entered the war in order to steal the British Empire. It did so in much of the world; but it missed what would have been it's greatest, murderous opportunity - the conquest of China. That's why, to this day, Americans are taught to see China as evil.
Americans probably cannot conquer the world as they hoped to in 1945. But American capitalists have succeeded in plundering the American people, especially over the last 40 or 50 years. One of their great successes has been the increasing theft of national wealth by encouraging war spending which all goes into the pockets of the very rich, which destroys essential needs like education, and health care, and basic living standards, and which makes a nuclear war increasingly likely. And we will all suffer a holocaust.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/01/29/how-washington-liberates-free-countries/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/20000-us-troops-have-surged-into-middle-east-since-last-spring-to-counter-iran/
Why are these troops necessary? Is it because these countries have threatened to attack the U.S.? Is it because the U.S. wants to stop them from illegal acts?
No. It's because U.S. capitalists want to keep plundering their old victims, and to add new ones like Iran. Will this mean some Americans will get killed in carrying out these attacks? Well, yeah. But who cares? Anyway, when their dirty work for billionaires has been done, some will get to go home to parade in American streets where the locals will clap hands for their courage. That's what happened in Canada when it's dead came back from a war in Afghanistan, a war that had nothing to do with Afghanistan, and where the U.S., too, had no right to be.
_________________________________________________________________
And, yes, the commercial news media lie.
https://theantimedia.com/20000-us-troops-have-surged-into-middle-east-since-last-spring-to-counter-iran/
________________________________________________________________
Capitalism has wildly corrupted democracy, especially over the western world.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/does-joe-biden-have-a-corruption-problem/
_________________________________________________________________
The last couple of blogs have been extremely depressing. Democracy in most countries, especially in the U.S. and Canada, simply does not exist. Thinking is controlled by commercial news media that are simply propaganda agencies for their wealthy owners. Political parties, for the most part, are creations of the billionaires who pay politicians to be dishonest. That's blindingly true of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives. It's even truer of the U.S. Republicans and Democrats.
That is the setting in which the very wealthy buy governments that will make them even more wealthy. That, not defence, is why the U.S. is spending wildly on weapons. That is simply stealing the nation's money, impoverishing the nation's people, adding to the masses of street outcasts, letting millions starve in much of Africa and Latin America, fight wars as in the days of knighthood- except that knights weren't nearly as greedy and as destructive as our very wealthy are.
We are well into this planet's greatest and most destructive period in history as, to the tens of millions murdered in wars of greed, we have to add the millions more killed by deliberate starvation and poverty.
That poverty will also come to us. Indeed, it has been spreading to us for at least forty years. The greedy want everything. They have no sense of limits, no sense of the rest of us.
This could well be the final chapter in the life of humanity.
In this final chapter, note the disorder almost everywhere in the world. In the U.S., it is quite possible, even likely, that the next election will be the beginning of internal violence. The difference between Republicans and Democrats will be a major factor. More accurately, the difference between some Democrats and all Republicans - and between Bernie Sanders Democrats and a large number of the old Democrats - could well mean serious violence. (The American people seem to be moving more quickly toward the idea of a livable world than their elected representatives are.)
There has been no reason for wars from the start. All wars throughout history have been triggered by the wealthy and greedy. The only difference today is that the wealthy and greedy control the weapons for the final war.
______________________________________________________________
Oh, in the meantime, it might be useful for most of our politicians and for us to find out what the words Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism mean. And then we could demand that most of our commercial news media be taught what they mean.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/what-is-coronavirus-symptoms-from-wuhan-china-and-how-worried-should-we-be-sars
_________________________________________________________________
Millions of people in Africa and Latin America are desperate to flee the hunger and violence that that was created, first, by Britain, and then by the U.S. (with Canadian help.) This is going to get worse, much worse. And our Christian response?....
Push them back to suffer more.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/greece-plans-to-build-sea-barrier-off-lesbos-to-deter-migrants
_________________________________________________________________
Yes. Many, many Canadians are racists. They always have been.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/now-that-climate-change-is-irrefutable-denialists-like-andrew-bolt-insist-it-will-be-good-for-us
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/30/donald-trump-israel-palestinians-middle-east
And what will Canada's Justin Trudeau think of all this? In the past he has been a pretty consistent supporter of American interference in other countries - like Venezuela and Bolivia. Will he fall into line with Trump's absurd interference in Palestine?
_________________________________________________________________
Alberta - government of the polluters, by the polluters, for the polluters.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-taxes-oilpatch-1.5445116
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-chinese-communist-party-central-threat-1.5445631
Mr. Pompeo is too modest. The U.S. with the biggest war spending in the world and with it's constant invasions of other countries, it's deliberate starvation of who countries, it's economic exploitation, it's daily killings - specializing in mass murder of civilians and children - is far the greatest threat in the world.
Oh, and the American farce of a democracy which is really ruled by billionaires....
Even allowing for these errors, Mr. Pompeo is simply ignorant (or a liar). China is not communist. It hasn't been for some time. There are capitalists in China. There are a great many of them. In fact, I taught a student who became one of them. He was then in Hong Kong; but he settled into mainland China a long time ago.
As things are, China might be called a mixture of socialism and capitalism. But, of course, Mr. Pompeo wouldn't understand what socialism is, either.
Oh, how many countries has China invaded? How many has the U.S. invaded?
_________________________________________________________________
And this is what our political leaders should have been thinking of on D-Day in 1945.
https://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2020/01/new-book-fights-neoliberal-consensus-climate-change
"We've won the war. Now we've got to win the peace."
But we didn't. Instead, we opened up the world to massive war-mongering, killing tens of millions to benefit western capitalists.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/01/support-trans-mountain-expansion-drops-under-jason-kenneys
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/why-canada-still-deporting-roma-people-persecution
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/01/why-canada-still-deporting-roma-people-persecution
The romani are what we more commonly call gypsies. Canada had some, though very, very few. As a child of six or so, I saw a family with its colourful wagon pulled by two horses in a field by my home. The wagon was their home.
The Romani were victims of the holocaust but they, like some other groups, had no significant presence in the revelations of the holocaust.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/01/do-not-reduce-lessons-auschwitz-pious-clich%C3%A9s
In my school days, one of my friends was Jewish, the only Jew in the school. One day, he was missing. I asked the principal about it.
"Oh. I transferred him to a school that is all Jews and only Jews. He'll be happier with his own kind."
Until that moment, I had thought he WAS our kind.
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-netanyahu-trump-and-the-mideast-peace-deals-two-state-illusion
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/absolutely-horrific-trump-preparing-roll-back-restrictions-us-military-use-landmines
______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/new-poll-shows-sanders-trumps-most-formidable-foe-so-called-red-state-texas
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/amnesty-international-demands-ngo-access-mexicos-migrant-detention-centers
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/venezuela-january-2020-hardship-and-resistance
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/28/an-open-letter-to-justin-trudeau-on-venezuela/
_________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/01/28/Jason-Kenney-Betrayed-Rural-Albertans-Turned-To-Stone/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-government-represents-lawless-billionaires/5702200
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52915.htm
Something is seriously wrong at information clearing house. It is now missing 2 full days of reporting. And, perhaps not coincidentally, these are two days that followed a severe attack on the site.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/01/28/analysis/americans-alarmed-about-climate-crisis-surges-good-reason
_________________________________________________________________
Here is a pretty good, if brief, summary of what has been happening in our world for several centuries as the British Empire committed mass murder and plunder all over the world. A characteristic of this evil is that only a small number of the British people got the benefit of all this mass murder and plundering. Most of the British got nothing but starvation, filth, poverty and early death from this. Oh, and they also got to die in the service of an aristocracy what would simply abandon them where their usefulness was over.
What is now the U.S. became what Britain was almost from the start as it murdered it's indigenous people to steal their land. Indeed, that was what the American revolution was all about.
By 1900, the U.S. had extended itself to mass murder and exploitation all over Latin America, Hawaii, and The Philippines. In World War Two, it entered the war in order to steal the British Empire. It did so in much of the world; but it missed what would have been it's greatest, murderous opportunity - the conquest of China. That's why, to this day, Americans are taught to see China as evil.
Americans probably cannot conquer the world as they hoped to in 1945. But American capitalists have succeeded in plundering the American people, especially over the last 40 or 50 years. One of their great successes has been the increasing theft of national wealth by encouraging war spending which all goes into the pockets of the very rich, which destroys essential needs like education, and health care, and basic living standards, and which makes a nuclear war increasingly likely. And we will all suffer a holocaust.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/01/29/how-washington-liberates-free-countries/
_________________________________________________________________
https://theantimedia.com/20000-us-troops-have-surged-into-middle-east-since-last-spring-to-counter-iran/
Why are these troops necessary? Is it because these countries have threatened to attack the U.S.? Is it because the U.S. wants to stop them from illegal acts?
No. It's because U.S. capitalists want to keep plundering their old victims, and to add new ones like Iran. Will this mean some Americans will get killed in carrying out these attacks? Well, yeah. But who cares? Anyway, when their dirty work for billionaires has been done, some will get to go home to parade in American streets where the locals will clap hands for their courage. That's what happened in Canada when it's dead came back from a war in Afghanistan, a war that had nothing to do with Afghanistan, and where the U.S., too, had no right to be.
_________________________________________________________________
And, yes, the commercial news media lie.
https://theantimedia.com/20000-us-troops-have-surged-into-middle-east-since-last-spring-to-counter-iran/
________________________________________________________________
Capitalism has wildly corrupted democracy, especially over the western world.
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/does-joe-biden-have-a-corruption-problem/
_________________________________________________________________
The last couple of blogs have been extremely depressing. Democracy in most countries, especially in the U.S. and Canada, simply does not exist. Thinking is controlled by commercial news media that are simply propaganda agencies for their wealthy owners. Political parties, for the most part, are creations of the billionaires who pay politicians to be dishonest. That's blindingly true of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives. It's even truer of the U.S. Republicans and Democrats.
That is the setting in which the very wealthy buy governments that will make them even more wealthy. That, not defence, is why the U.S. is spending wildly on weapons. That is simply stealing the nation's money, impoverishing the nation's people, adding to the masses of street outcasts, letting millions starve in much of Africa and Latin America, fight wars as in the days of knighthood- except that knights weren't nearly as greedy and as destructive as our very wealthy are.
We are well into this planet's greatest and most destructive period in history as, to the tens of millions murdered in wars of greed, we have to add the millions more killed by deliberate starvation and poverty.
That poverty will also come to us. Indeed, it has been spreading to us for at least forty years. The greedy want everything. They have no sense of limits, no sense of the rest of us.
This could well be the final chapter in the life of humanity.
In this final chapter, note the disorder almost everywhere in the world. In the U.S., it is quite possible, even likely, that the next election will be the beginning of internal violence. The difference between Republicans and Democrats will be a major factor. More accurately, the difference between some Democrats and all Republicans - and between Bernie Sanders Democrats and a large number of the old Democrats - could well mean serious violence. (The American people seem to be moving more quickly toward the idea of a livable world than their elected representatives are.)
There has been no reason for wars from the start. All wars throughout history have been triggered by the wealthy and greedy. The only difference today is that the wealthy and greedy control the weapons for the final war.
______________________________________________________________
Oh, in the meantime, it might be useful for most of our politicians and for us to find out what the words Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism mean. And then we could demand that most of our commercial news media be taught what they mean.
________________________________________________________________
