Sorry for my absences. I've had computer problems which - I hope - are solved.
In the break time, I thought I should write just this one blog edition, one with no look at the news, but with a look at the reality this world has never faced.
(And I'm afraid many readers will not like this.)
Our illusion? We are good. Other countries are evil. Think of all the wars you have read about. Have Britain or the U.S. ever been criticized in our news media? In fact, we should be reading about how Canadians are selling weapons to kill chldren and babies in Yemen. (Yes. They are.)
In every war I have ever read of, we were good in our news media. The enemy was always evil. Hitler, therefore, was evil.
We make our judgements based on the notion that we are good and our enemies are evil.
And that's why we are constantly misled by our news media. Yes. The Hitler of 1939 was evil. But even that was pretty tame stuff compared to our evil. Yes. We are the Naziis of our time - and we always have been. In fact, we have been worse than Hitler. But that's not the news we get.
The British Empire murdered over 400 million people. Hitler came nowhere close to that. The mass murder was for the benefit of the British upper class who murdered, tortured, starved, enslaved countries like India and China. It was a scale of slaughter that we forget. That's what the Boer War was about as Britain slaughtered Dutch settlers and Black Africans so that British billionaires could plunder the South Africa gold mines.
Britain invited Canada to join. Why? Canadians had nothing to gain in this. But, for that matter, most British had nothing to gain, either. But the British won us with babble about "serving the King".... And so Canadians died to fight a war that had nothing to do with Canada. Why did the British ask them?
That was because it knew World War One was coming. And Britain wanted Canadian volunteers to continue their "God bless the king" idiocy in that war.
There was nothing noble about it. That's how we set ourselves up to fight two wars that had nothing to do with us.
Does that behaviour tell you nothing about how much the British government of the period fooled Canadians into dying for a king? And the Canadian government and Canada's upper class knew what this was really about. But they
cheered for the King as they sent others to die.
In 1904, Canada asked Britain to help it with the U.S. threat to Canada. Britain told Canada to get lost. The wealthy exist only to better themselves.
Was the Hitler of the 1930s evil? You bet. But we kept up with his evil. Hitler was our buddy or, at least, the buddy of our wealthy. When Hitler began his mass murder of Jews, our government knew about it. And they didn't give a damn. Jews who escaped Hitler, even into the war years, were refused by Britain, the U.S. and Canada and sent back to certain death. That even included children.
Late in the war, when the death camps became news, our leaders got all indignant. And that was bullshit. They had known about this all the time.
As for the creation of Israel? That had nothing to do with sympathy for Jews. It was a way for Britain, the U.S., and Canada to get rid of them including many of their own Jews. And they didn't even think about the Gypsy death camps. Who cared?
Our behaviour in World War Two was little different from that of Hitler. (World War Two, by the way, was not fought by us because Hitler was evil. It was fought to please our English masters. The English went to war
because Germany was an economic threat to it. Hitler had rebuilt the German economy to challenge the British. That is what Churchill could not tolerate. A high level aristocrat, Churchill was a servant of high level aristocrats. He couldn't have cared less about the needs of the British people. And he had his own, long history of mass murder and plunder, especially in India where he happily killed millions and then millions more by starvation. Ditto in the middle east.
Churchill had spent his life as a killer for the very rich.
And we Canadians? We believed in the crap our news media told us, and thousands of Canadians died because of that.
No. World War Two was not because Hitler was evil. It was because people like Churchill were evil too. Indeed, the British people knew this. That's why, shortly before the end of the war, they kicked Churchill out in an election. They knew they would never get anything out of him. Medicare, for example, came AFTER dumping Churchill.
Oh! The U.S. Notice how long it took for it to enter the war. When it did enter, It was not because Hitler was evil - and it certainly was not because the U.S cared about Jews or Europeans. It was because it wanted to get control of the British oil fields in the middle east, and to get control of British holdings, like China, in the Far East.
But none of the above made it into our news media. It's important to understand this because it tells us, or should tell us, that most of our wars are fought to make billionaires richer. Forget all that bilge about democracy and good guys and bad guys.
It's important to know this because, for example, World Wars one and two were both fought to benefit the super wealthy. No other reason. And that's why almost all wars throughout history have been fought. That's why we Christians volunteer to commit murder.
Who are the Hitlers of our time? Well, the biggest (but fading) are American super wealthy. The rest of us? Well, like the Germans of the two world wars, we believe the nonsense we are told. In effect, we become Naziis.
You cannot learn anything if you simply believe the utter crap that most of our news media and our leading politicians spill. Then. we become the horrors that so many of our politicians and billionaires want us to be. We become the Naziis who cheered Hitler. Somehow, we have to learn to understand that our wealthy and their political friends are quite eager for us to believe their vicious lies.
A new wrinkle was added late in World War Two. The allied powers bombed the German city of Dresden. That was odd. Dresden was not a leading target in the war. Most of it's people were, by far, civilians - men, women, and children.
So why did we bomb them?
Because they were men, women and children. This added a powerful terror to the war. It also became a major weapon for the U.S. to the present day. The U.S. has made it a point to bomb civilians, men, women and children, in all it's wars - North Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Yemen - and Canadian business has joined in the fun. Poison chemicals are used freely, and there have been lots of pictures of children, screaming and covered in flames, pictures of babies blown to pieces, of civilians far outnumbering the military as targets. For the U.S., that's been common in Yemen, Venezuela, Iran. It's also been murdering Cubans of all ages for 70 years.
Onward, Christian soldiers?
Americans are the leaders in indiscrimate killing and/or starving millions of innocent people - babies, elderly, women, men all over the world. I'm not at all sure the world has ever seen anything as savage as this in history. And Canada takes part by kissing American asses. Latin America is many examples of this.
Then, as a final touch, we got nuclear bombs that obliterate men, women and children in whole cities. And Trump is openly threatening just such a war on China - a war that would almost certainly include Russia.
The United States of today is probably the most evil and destructive power in history. And we Canadians (and the British) have happily joined with the Americans.
So who is evil? We are. We are part of what looks like the destruction and evil of the whole world. We are the Hitler lovers of our time. We are the Naziis.
Until we realize that, we have no hope for survival. But until we understand our mistakes, we will continue to be just like those Germans who worshipped Hitler.
We are evil. We have to understand that. We have created a monied class that is as evil as anything Hitler designed.
We should have developed something to control this in 1945. But we didn't. Instead, our billionaires created a more evil and destructive world, one that runs out of control.
Until we understand all this, we will not understand how evil it all is. And time is very short.
Who is evil in the world? We are. And we are letting our leaders make us even more evil.
In the break time, I thought I should write just this one blog edition, one with no look at the news, but with a look at the reality this world has never faced.
(And I'm afraid many readers will not like this.)
Our illusion? We are good. Other countries are evil. Think of all the wars you have read about. Have Britain or the U.S. ever been criticized in our news media? In fact, we should be reading about how Canadians are selling weapons to kill chldren and babies in Yemen. (Yes. They are.)
In every war I have ever read of, we were good in our news media. The enemy was always evil. Hitler, therefore, was evil.
We make our judgements based on the notion that we are good and our enemies are evil.
And that's why we are constantly misled by our news media. Yes. The Hitler of 1939 was evil. But even that was pretty tame stuff compared to our evil. Yes. We are the Naziis of our time - and we always have been. In fact, we have been worse than Hitler. But that's not the news we get.
The British Empire murdered over 400 million people. Hitler came nowhere close to that. The mass murder was for the benefit of the British upper class who murdered, tortured, starved, enslaved countries like India and China. It was a scale of slaughter that we forget. That's what the Boer War was about as Britain slaughtered Dutch settlers and Black Africans so that British billionaires could plunder the South Africa gold mines.
Britain invited Canada to join. Why? Canadians had nothing to gain in this. But, for that matter, most British had nothing to gain, either. But the British won us with babble about "serving the King".... And so Canadians died to fight a war that had nothing to do with Canada. Why did the British ask them?
That was because it knew World War One was coming. And Britain wanted Canadian volunteers to continue their "God bless the king" idiocy in that war.
There was nothing noble about it. That's how we set ourselves up to fight two wars that had nothing to do with us.
Does that behaviour tell you nothing about how much the British government of the period fooled Canadians into dying for a king? And the Canadian government and Canada's upper class knew what this was really about. But they
cheered for the King as they sent others to die.
In 1904, Canada asked Britain to help it with the U.S. threat to Canada. Britain told Canada to get lost. The wealthy exist only to better themselves.
Was the Hitler of the 1930s evil? You bet. But we kept up with his evil. Hitler was our buddy or, at least, the buddy of our wealthy. When Hitler began his mass murder of Jews, our government knew about it. And they didn't give a damn. Jews who escaped Hitler, even into the war years, were refused by Britain, the U.S. and Canada and sent back to certain death. That even included children.
Late in the war, when the death camps became news, our leaders got all indignant. And that was bullshit. They had known about this all the time.
As for the creation of Israel? That had nothing to do with sympathy for Jews. It was a way for Britain, the U.S., and Canada to get rid of them including many of their own Jews. And they didn't even think about the Gypsy death camps. Who cared?
Our behaviour in World War Two was little different from that of Hitler. (World War Two, by the way, was not fought by us because Hitler was evil. It was fought to please our English masters. The English went to war
because Germany was an economic threat to it. Hitler had rebuilt the German economy to challenge the British. That is what Churchill could not tolerate. A high level aristocrat, Churchill was a servant of high level aristocrats. He couldn't have cared less about the needs of the British people. And he had his own, long history of mass murder and plunder, especially in India where he happily killed millions and then millions more by starvation. Ditto in the middle east.
Churchill had spent his life as a killer for the very rich.
And we Canadians? We believed in the crap our news media told us, and thousands of Canadians died because of that.
No. World War Two was not because Hitler was evil. It was because people like Churchill were evil too. Indeed, the British people knew this. That's why, shortly before the end of the war, they kicked Churchill out in an election. They knew they would never get anything out of him. Medicare, for example, came AFTER dumping Churchill.
Oh! The U.S. Notice how long it took for it to enter the war. When it did enter, It was not because Hitler was evil - and it certainly was not because the U.S cared about Jews or Europeans. It was because it wanted to get control of the British oil fields in the middle east, and to get control of British holdings, like China, in the Far East.
But none of the above made it into our news media. It's important to understand this because it tells us, or should tell us, that most of our wars are fought to make billionaires richer. Forget all that bilge about democracy and good guys and bad guys.
It's important to know this because, for example, World Wars one and two were both fought to benefit the super wealthy. No other reason. And that's why almost all wars throughout history have been fought. That's why we Christians volunteer to commit murder.
Who are the Hitlers of our time? Well, the biggest (but fading) are American super wealthy. The rest of us? Well, like the Germans of the two world wars, we believe the nonsense we are told. In effect, we become Naziis.
You cannot learn anything if you simply believe the utter crap that most of our news media and our leading politicians spill. Then. we become the horrors that so many of our politicians and billionaires want us to be. We become the Naziis who cheered Hitler. Somehow, we have to learn to understand that our wealthy and their political friends are quite eager for us to believe their vicious lies.
A new wrinkle was added late in World War Two. The allied powers bombed the German city of Dresden. That was odd. Dresden was not a leading target in the war. Most of it's people were, by far, civilians - men, women, and children.
So why did we bomb them?
Because they were men, women and children. This added a powerful terror to the war. It also became a major weapon for the U.S. to the present day. The U.S. has made it a point to bomb civilians, men, women and children, in all it's wars - North Korea, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Yemen - and Canadian business has joined in the fun. Poison chemicals are used freely, and there have been lots of pictures of children, screaming and covered in flames, pictures of babies blown to pieces, of civilians far outnumbering the military as targets. For the U.S., that's been common in Yemen, Venezuela, Iran. It's also been murdering Cubans of all ages for 70 years.
Onward, Christian soldiers?
Americans are the leaders in indiscrimate killing and/or starving millions of innocent people - babies, elderly, women, men all over the world. I'm not at all sure the world has ever seen anything as savage as this in history. And Canada takes part by kissing American asses. Latin America is many examples of this.
Then, as a final touch, we got nuclear bombs that obliterate men, women and children in whole cities. And Trump is openly threatening just such a war on China - a war that would almost certainly include Russia.
The United States of today is probably the most evil and destructive power in history. And we Canadians (and the British) have happily joined with the Americans.
So who is evil? We are. We are part of what looks like the destruction and evil of the whole world. We are the Hitler lovers of our time. We are the Naziis.
Until we realize that, we have no hope for survival. But until we understand our mistakes, we will continue to be just like those Germans who worshipped Hitler.
We are evil. We have to understand that. We have created a monied class that is as evil as anything Hitler designed.
We should have developed something to control this in 1945. But we didn't. Instead, our billionaires created a more evil and destructive world, one that runs out of control.
Until we understand all this, we will not understand how evil it all is. And time is very short.
Who is evil in the world? We are. And we are letting our leaders make us even more evil.
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