Friday, April 3, 2020

April 3: little change in the news - and much repetition.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/03/jared-kushner-coronavirus-pandemic
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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/radiolabour/2020/04/ontarios-covid-19-plans-workers-need-much-more-work
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-pandemic-and-next-great-crisis
The same is happening to the Arctic.

Antarctica is warming at record speed. It could even be heading back many thousands of years to when the region was a vast swamp with tropical vegetation.And our governmeents are giving billions of dollars of our tax money to the oil and gas industry (one of the many industries whose owners don't pay any taxes.)
Are we crazy? Or are we just outstanding and brainless wimps?

We were warned 30 years ago of the dangers of this. We did virtually nothing. And we're still  doing virtually nothing.
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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/rabble-radio/2020/04/palestinian-woman-talks-about-dealing-covid-19-gaza
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And now, a comforting word from Donald Trump....

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/03/its-not-we-have-massive-recession-or-worse-says-trump-after-10-million-lost-their
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/nightmare-scenario-everyone-predicted-millions-struggle-meet-basic-needs-trump
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/nation-without-medicare-all-35-million-workers-may-have-lost-employer-provided
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/02/coronavirus-paradox-bidens-delegate-lead-increases-need-bernies-politics-adds

As many millions of ordinary people  in Canada, U.S., much of the world, our priority is giving billions to billionaires. And many Americans are scrambling to elect Joe Biden who has no policy on anything - except helping the super rich.
He has the lead with about half the voters. Donald Trump really stands for exactly the same 'values' as Biden.

There is really nothing to hope for in the coming U.S. election. And there is a great deal to fear. The U.S. could well be suffering severe violence on a national and random scale. That, quite likely, will be exploited by the very wealthy in the U.S. who will turn that anger into a world war against Russia and China. This will be the final war of the declining American super rich - and, quite likely, the last war for all of us.

The   biggest event of coming years - and not many of them - could, quite likely, be the desperation of the American super wealthy at the sharp decline of the U.S as an economic and military power. and the determination of the super wealthy  to use force while they still can.
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The item below is simply a list of events. But, without saying so, it explains why it is possible, even likely, that the American super rich may, in desperation, go for a world war as soon as possible.

https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-over-1-million-cases-worldwide-50000-dead
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/capitalisms-triple-crisis
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/u-s-sanctions-abort-delivery-of-covid-19-aid-from-alibaba-chief-to-cuba

The U.S. has no right to impose sanctions on anybody. This is not diplomacy of any sort. This is murder.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/hes-got-eight-numbers-just-like-everybody-else
The land of the free and of prison for the brave.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/04/trumps-racist-rant-against-china-causing-ripples-in-india-too
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For many years of my life, I spent much of my time with the Jews of Montreal. I was impressed by their values which were far more impressive than the Christian ones I had grown up with.

But, with the exception of the newspaper Haaretz. I see nothing Jewish about Israel. Indeed, it's depressingly Christian in its behaviour.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/gazas-new-conflict-covid-19/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/03/covid-19-could-be-catastrophic-for-us-notes-from-gaza/
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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/04/03/Oil-Sands-Workers-Deserve-Relief/
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55004.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55006.htm
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The mighty U.S., so far, has been the most incompetent nation in the world for it's handling of the current crisis. Even Canada hugely outclasses it. So where are all them there super rich leaders?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55012.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55007.htm
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2020/4/2/21204535/trudeau-supplies-for-canada-diverted-to-u-s-coronavirus-covid-19-ppe-medical-masks-gowns-gloves

Hey! If you can't steal from them, what are friends for?
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/490820-us-welcomes-russian-delivery-of-medical-supplies-to-new-york

In a quite different approach,, Canada's Financial Post, one of the world's worst newspapers, and a favouurite journalist for it, Diane Francis,wrote today that  Putin has declared war on Canada by reducing oil prices. This will hurt Canada, she says (and I am not making this up) because Alberta might soon want to leave Canada - and Russia's reduction of oil prices might handicap Alberta's departure.
(I have no idea where Financial Post finds these journalistic turkeys.).

So, she concludes, Canada must immediately give more billions of dollars to Alberta oil billionaires.

(In fairness, Financial Post is not the worst and most dishonest newspaper in Canada. That honour belongs to the Irving family which oswns all the newspapers in New Brunswick. And which daily sprays the province's forest with poisons.)
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55000.htm
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/03/news/3000-15000-people-ontario-could-die-covid-19-projections-show
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