An interesting development is the way so many world leaders are dumping on China, blaming it for the slowness in dealing with the spread of coronavirus.
I really don't know whether China did a good job or a bad one - but I do know that most of the major powers have done lousy jobs, despite having known about
the Chinese crisis from the start - and doing nothing whatever about it. Trump and Britain's prime minister know all about it from the start - and did nothing. In fact, even as Americans began to die, Trump insisted nothing was happening. He's still sitting on the fence - pretending it could be over any minute.
One of the worst offenders is Bolsanaro of Brazil who seems to be deliberately leading his people into the worst disaster in the world. (He insists the whole crisis is a fake.) And, in everything, Bolsonaro has had the complete support of Canada and the U.S.
Also remarkable is a series of Trump press conferences on youtube. Unlike traditional presidential press conferences, these are daily; they are commonly extremely long (up to three or four hours so that one wonders when Trump can find the time to be president.) And they are presidential hate speeches on the part of Trump who constantly attacks the reporters as being fake news journalists and liars. He also uses the time to blame everybody except himself for the clumsy handling of coronavirus. And the greatest blame always goes to those he can make American hate - countries like China that he actually threatens with war.
In effect, these are election campaign speeches - of the sort that appeal to American hatreds.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/world-health-organization-why-has-trump-suspended-funding
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-americans-protest-stay-at-home#maincontent
Some people are not very bright.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/us-aid-palestinians-coronavirus-trump-cut
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https://environmentaldefence.ca/report/the-elephant-in-the-room-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
I found surprisingly little news at the site for the CBC. In particular, I was astonished at the lack of mention of a gift of 2.7 billion dollars for Canada's oil industry. Why is there such a gift? It's because Canada's oil industry is dying. A result of this is the pollution of large areas of oil fields that have to be cleaned up to 'unpoison' the land. But wait.......
Why are us tax payers being hit with the bill? It's the oil companies that caused that damage. So why to we have to pay for it?
And, since we do have to pay for it, why are we handing over our money to oil companies? And how much of that money, our money, is going to end up in the pockets of oil bosses?
In fact, we have been throwing money at the oil bosses for decades. Why? The reality is that this gift of 1.7 billion is just spare change as some estimates are that cleaning up the oil fields is going to cost many years - indeed, some estimates count it in hundreds of years.
We have also promised the oil bosses many , many billions so they can have a new pipeline. Aren't corporations supposed to build their own facilities? And this is an industry which has a very short term future - so much of the cost of a new pipeline is simply a waste of billions - of OUR billions. Why are making a gift of this to oil billionaires?
And why is CBC not telling us about this?
Get used to it. Canada's Liberals and Conservatives are corrupt - and always have been.
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/04/ucp-and-tzeporah-berman-both-praise-justin-trudeaus-oilpatch
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pulpit-and-politics/2020/04/covid-19-exposes-gaps-profit-driven-long-term-care
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/04/canada-pension-plan-making-killing-war-production
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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/04/we-shouldnt-have-endure-covid-19-plus-trumps-ravings
Get a look at those Trump press conferences on Youtube. This is a very, very sick man.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-argentina-humane-response-to-covid-19-look-like/
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-testing-and-tracking-abilities-will-be-keys-to-reopening-economies
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/19/warren-says-backing-protests-trump-trying-turn-health-crisis-political-rally-himself
Too true.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/17/us-knew-report-says-american-intel-threat-coronavirus-was-shared-israel-and-nato
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/17/billionaire-backed-human-rights-watch-lobbies-for-lethal-us-sanctions-on-leftist-govts-as-covid-rages/
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This next item can be a little confusing. Roughly, researchers at Stanford university say that the death rate of coronovirus in the U.S. is not nearly so great as one might think from looking at the official figures because those figures greatly underestimate the total number of those who have contracted the illness.
The theme is an attack on researchers at MIT who are really puppets for wealthy Americans. I think the general statement that researchers at Stanford are more honest than thost at MIT is true.
But I'm not sure what difference this makes.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mit-tech-review-smears-study-proving-covid-19-overhyped/5710088
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-bashing-bipartisan-us-obsession/5710076
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/intensifying-sanctions-iran-venezuela-trump-weaponizing-coronavirus/5709831
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-the-unspoken-truth-the-most-serious-global-crisis-in-modern-history/5709304
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We have allowed the super wealthy to gain so much power that they become our governments. Actually, this goes back quite a while. It was very true of Britain in it's imperial days - which is why most British of the time lived in squalor and poverty while the super rich ran the country.
And we're watching this sort of thing in the U.S today when the super rich have more power than American governments do.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55075.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55071.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55074.htm
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And ----not entirely true but true enough.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55073.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55060.htm
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page//.premium-worst-megadrought-in-centuries-emerging-in-u-s-scientists-warn-1.8770656
Haaretz is an Israeli paper always worth reading.
Will our governments take action to deal with this threat? Not likely. They haven't dealt with any of the others.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55061.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55059.htm
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Democrats and Republicans, like Canada's Liberals and Conservatives, just love giving enormous stacks of our money to the very wealthy.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/43k-us-millionaires-will-get-stimulus-averaging-1-6m-each/
Bastards.
________________________________________________________________n
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/17/news/trudeau-pumps-17-billion-cleaning-orphan-and-inactive-wells
Yep. You and me and our children for thousands of years to come will be paying the cost of cleaning (and danger) of cleaning up Canada's oil fields.
Well, we don't want to bother the oil billionaires to clean up their mess.
_________________________________________________________________
This is the most depressing blog I have ever written. The power and arrogance and greed, the indifference to the suffering they cause are - well they aren't new. This has been a feature of all our world's recorded history. With Democrats and Reupblicans in the U.S., and Liberals and Conservatives in Canada we have have allowed ourselves and and elected politicians to be bought with no regard for human dignity or needs. We murder and plunder people all over the world - as in Latin America and and the middle east, and including, in large numbers, children.
The old British Empire was just like that, too, murdering, starving, enslaving hundreds of millions Funny how much of that never makes our history books. And so the lives of all of us ordinary people are, as always, abused by the super rich and greedy. Capitalism is only the latest device for this. In principal, we, by the billions, have always been slaves going back to the Kings of Europe, the Roman Empire, and earlier.
But this one looks like the final act as we fall in line to murder for our super rich - and to die for them.
I really don't know whether China did a good job or a bad one - but I do know that most of the major powers have done lousy jobs, despite having known about
the Chinese crisis from the start - and doing nothing whatever about it. Trump and Britain's prime minister know all about it from the start - and did nothing. In fact, even as Americans began to die, Trump insisted nothing was happening. He's still sitting on the fence - pretending it could be over any minute.
One of the worst offenders is Bolsanaro of Brazil who seems to be deliberately leading his people into the worst disaster in the world. (He insists the whole crisis is a fake.) And, in everything, Bolsonaro has had the complete support of Canada and the U.S.
Also remarkable is a series of Trump press conferences on youtube. Unlike traditional presidential press conferences, these are daily; they are commonly extremely long (up to three or four hours so that one wonders when Trump can find the time to be president.) And they are presidential hate speeches on the part of Trump who constantly attacks the reporters as being fake news journalists and liars. He also uses the time to blame everybody except himself for the clumsy handling of coronavirus. And the greatest blame always goes to those he can make American hate - countries like China that he actually threatens with war.
In effect, these are election campaign speeches - of the sort that appeal to American hatreds.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/world-health-organization-why-has-trump-suspended-funding
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-americans-protest-stay-at-home#maincontent
Some people are not very bright.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/us-aid-palestinians-coronavirus-trump-cut
_________________________________________________________________
https://environmentaldefence.ca/report/the-elephant-in-the-room-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/
I found surprisingly little news at the site for the CBC. In particular, I was astonished at the lack of mention of a gift of 2.7 billion dollars for Canada's oil industry. Why is there such a gift? It's because Canada's oil industry is dying. A result of this is the pollution of large areas of oil fields that have to be cleaned up to 'unpoison' the land. But wait.......
Why are us tax payers being hit with the bill? It's the oil companies that caused that damage. So why to we have to pay for it?
And, since we do have to pay for it, why are we handing over our money to oil companies? And how much of that money, our money, is going to end up in the pockets of oil bosses?
In fact, we have been throwing money at the oil bosses for decades. Why? The reality is that this gift of 1.7 billion is just spare change as some estimates are that cleaning up the oil fields is going to cost many years - indeed, some estimates count it in hundreds of years.
We have also promised the oil bosses many , many billions so they can have a new pipeline. Aren't corporations supposed to build their own facilities? And this is an industry which has a very short term future - so much of the cost of a new pipeline is simply a waste of billions - of OUR billions. Why are making a gift of this to oil billionaires?
And why is CBC not telling us about this?
Get used to it. Canada's Liberals and Conservatives are corrupt - and always have been.
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/04/ucp-and-tzeporah-berman-both-praise-justin-trudeaus-oilpatch
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pulpit-and-politics/2020/04/covid-19-exposes-gaps-profit-driven-long-term-care
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/04/canada-pension-plan-making-killing-war-production
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/04/we-shouldnt-have-endure-covid-19-plus-trumps-ravings
Get a look at those Trump press conferences on Youtube. This is a very, very sick man.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-argentina-humane-response-to-covid-19-look-like/
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-testing-and-tracking-abilities-will-be-keys-to-reopening-economies
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/19/warren-says-backing-protests-trump-trying-turn-health-crisis-political-rally-himself
Too true.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/17/us-knew-report-says-american-intel-threat-coronavirus-was-shared-israel-and-nato
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/04/17/billionaire-backed-human-rights-watch-lobbies-for-lethal-us-sanctions-on-leftist-govts-as-covid-rages/
_________________________________________________________________
This next item can be a little confusing. Roughly, researchers at Stanford university say that the death rate of coronovirus in the U.S. is not nearly so great as one might think from looking at the official figures because those figures greatly underestimate the total number of those who have contracted the illness.
The theme is an attack on researchers at MIT who are really puppets for wealthy Americans. I think the general statement that researchers at Stanford are more honest than thost at MIT is true.
But I'm not sure what difference this makes.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mit-tech-review-smears-study-proving-covid-19-overhyped/5710088
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-bashing-bipartisan-us-obsession/5710076
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/intensifying-sanctions-iran-venezuela-trump-weaponizing-coronavirus/5709831
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-the-unspoken-truth-the-most-serious-global-crisis-in-modern-history/5709304
_________________________________________________________________
We have allowed the super wealthy to gain so much power that they become our governments. Actually, this goes back quite a while. It was very true of Britain in it's imperial days - which is why most British of the time lived in squalor and poverty while the super rich ran the country.
And we're watching this sort of thing in the U.S today when the super rich have more power than American governments do.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55075.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55071.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55074.htm
_________________________________________________________________
And ----not entirely true but true enough.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55073.htm
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55060.htm
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page//.premium-worst-megadrought-in-centuries-emerging-in-u-s-scientists-warn-1.8770656
Haaretz is an Israeli paper always worth reading.
Will our governments take action to deal with this threat? Not likely. They haven't dealt with any of the others.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55061.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55059.htm
________________________________________________________________
Democrats and Republicans, like Canada's Liberals and Conservatives, just love giving enormous stacks of our money to the very wealthy.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/43k-us-millionaires-will-get-stimulus-averaging-1-6m-each/
Bastards.
________________________________________________________________n
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/17/news/trudeau-pumps-17-billion-cleaning-orphan-and-inactive-wells
Yep. You and me and our children for thousands of years to come will be paying the cost of cleaning (and danger) of cleaning up Canada's oil fields.
Well, we don't want to bother the oil billionaires to clean up their mess.
_________________________________________________________________
This is the most depressing blog I have ever written. The power and arrogance and greed, the indifference to the suffering they cause are - well they aren't new. This has been a feature of all our world's recorded history. With Democrats and Reupblicans in the U.S., and Liberals and Conservatives in Canada we have have allowed ourselves and and elected politicians to be bought with no regard for human dignity or needs. We murder and plunder people all over the world - as in Latin America and and the middle east, and including, in large numbers, children.
The old British Empire was just like that, too, murdering, starving, enslaving hundreds of millions Funny how much of that never makes our history books. And so the lives of all of us ordinary people are, as always, abused by the super rich and greedy. Capitalism is only the latest device for this. In principal, we, by the billions, have always been slaves going back to the Kings of Europe, the Roman Empire, and earlier.
But this one looks like the final act as we fall in line to murder for our super rich - and to die for them.
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