Donald Trump is the most recent of thousands of years of emperors and kings who salute their soldiers. Splendid chaps. Yes. Proud of them. They serve their nations and or monarchs and to emphasize this their soldiers, sailors, and airmen are laden down with medals. Crowds cheer. Roads are renamed to 'highways of heros'. Beginning centuries ago as soldiers of the king they are now called soldiers of the nation. And to that we need to add only two words.
Bull and shit.
When I was a kid in Montreal, I saw the older boys signing up for Korea. To fight for Canada? I don't think so. (I don't even know what the term fighting for Canada means.) What on earth did fighting for Canada have to do with killing Koreans who never attacked Canada (or the U.S.)in the first place?
This was a war to kill Koreans so American billionaires could have a base to send more 'heros' to conquer and plunder China.
They died for Canada? Get real.
Just over a hundred years earlier, Canadians went to the Boer War to kill for the King. (Though we were never told precisely why the King needed us to kill the Boers.) Anyway, we sang God Save the King - and killed the Dutch settlers to make the king happy.
However, since the king was living pretty high at the time, the king was always sure of a decent meal. I see no reason why we had to kill for him.
The British had been murdering people all over the world for centuries. And it's true that the English people often lived in filth and disease and starved. But the kings and queens and aristocrats were never short of hot dogs and pepsis.
And all those soldiers and sailors who survived the deaths their comrades suffered? As they got older, they were simply dumped into the filth and hunger of city streets - there to die.
Such was the reward for serving the king and Queen and the nation.
Oh, and the ordinary British people? Most were left in filth and hunger with their children from the age of 5 or so working as chimney sweeps or in factories The hours were extremely long and the pay almost non-existent. So much for 'king and country'.
This also happened in Canada and the U.S. The leaders of most countries never gave a damn for 'the nation'.
When I was a little older, Canada sent Canadians to die for their nation or maybe the American nation in Afghanistan. It was, you know, the usual king and country spiel, though now light on the monarchy.
Soldiers were assured they were fighting for their country. And that was rubbish.
Afghanistan had just fought off years of invasion by Russia. Americans lied, saying it was an aggressor. Hell, it had defended itself. And it clearly had no intention of looking for more wars. (and no, Aghanistan had no connection whatever with 9/11. That was entirely an operation by our good friends in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden lived in Afghanistan and supported 9/11. But he had no involvement with it and no ssignificant support in Afghanistan.)
But American capitalists wanted a war in Afghanistan so they, just like the Russians, could steal it's natural resources.
And we lied to the Americans and Canadians we sent to get killed. We lied and told them they were dying for their countries.
This dying for one's country crap - or one's queen, whatever - is the lie we are fed on.
Alas, the Canadian Legion which is supposed to protect its veteran members has instead betrayed them and lied to them from the start.
I had an older friend who was terribly wounded in Korea. The rest of his life was short and miserable. And he died early from the drunkeness that he developed in Korea. He was the kind of person the Canadian Legion should have helped. But instead, the legion helps only billionaires who want victims.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/18/dame-vera-lynn-dies-aged-103
Even I, as a very young child, was enraptured by the singing of Vera Lynn in World War Two. To this day, as a very old child, I am enraptured by her recordings. She really was a major factor in saving our side, especially in those desperate, early years of the war.
"We'll meet again, don't know where don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Keep shining through just like you used to do
Till the grey skies turn again to skies of blue...."
To this day I remember the words - and I can hear her voice.....and I can see the hope in the eyes of the soldiers, sailors and airmen who watched her and heard her.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia
The premiers of Ontario and Alberta and other wise men such as oil barons tell us there's nothing to worry about. So relax. (and die in peace as we head into the hottest year in history.) And prepare for more in coming years. Prepare for mass starvation all over the world. Remember, the important thing is to keep pumping oil to make those nice oil barons happy.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/pandemics-destruction-nature-un-who-legislation-trade-green-recovery
Yes, climate is changing. And yes, if we allow this to go on we will pay one hell of a price.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/climate-change-air-pollution-investigation-study
But who cares? Right?
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert
Hey! Lotsa time. Lotsa time. Ask Ontario's premier. Ask Alberta's premier. These are men who know what they're talking about. (And Ontario and Alberta voters are dumb enough to vote for them.)
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/17/john-bolton-book-trump-china-dictators-saudi-arabia
When a dangerously ignorant former cabinet minister attacks a dangerously ignorant president.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/hundreds-armed-counter-protesters-confront-black-lives-matter-event-bethel-ohio
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/canada-systemic-racism-history
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blanchet-bloc-quebecois-singh-racist-accusation-1.5617265
Canadian politics - in every province - have been smothered in racism from the start. Quebec has always had that racism with an added 'racism' based on language. I know it well. I grew up in it.
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/06/jagmeet-singh-gets-angry-bloc-mp-alain-therrien-blocking-motion-racism-rcmp
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-icc-united-states-afghanistan-investigation-1.5615688
Will Canada stand up against U.S. bullying? Not bloody likely.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/journalism-doctor/2020/06/hard-work-curing-systemic-racism-media-organizations-and
_________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-china-india-border-clash-a-repeat-of-1962-with-same-result
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/orgy-wealth-continues-us-billionaires-grew-584-billion-richer-over-last-3-months
If this planet is going to survive, it needs to get rid of capitalism. And the time is very, very short.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/unimaginable-double-emergency-record-high-nearly-80-million-people-forcibly
The united world we said we were going to create in 1945 could have dealt with this. But we decided to go the old way which is why we have had 75 years of chaos.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/critics-say-canada-should-seize-failure-win-un-security-council-seat-catalyst
For forty-five years, Canadians died fighting British wars. (Yes, I know Hitler was evil. -----but so was Britain.) Canadians now die fighting American wars - for an America that is striving to be the evil successor to Britain's evil empire.
Of course the U.N. voted against giving Canada a seat in the security council.
Canadians might not know what Canada is - but the U.N. does know. And it's right.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/17/skull-fractured-police-and-lied-about-trump-75-year-old-peace-activist-martin-gugino
_________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/18/lee-camp-the-secret-reason-billionaires-love-a-pandemic/
_________________________________________________________________
And now some big surprises....
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/17/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/
For centuries, brains have not been a notable feature of the British royal family.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot-to-kill-martin-luther-king-survived-shooting-was-murdered-in-hospital-an-interview-with-william-pepper/5544005
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-reset-unplugged/5716178
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-horrible-truth-about-winston-churchill/5626729
When I was 15 or so, I was given Churchill's History of the English Speaking peoples. I loved it. He was a superb writer. It was several years before I realized what a murderous bastard he was.
Not only was he a mass murderer of innoocent people. He had nothing but contempt for the most the British people. No. Born into aristocratic wealth at a magnificant level, he respected only the aristocracy and the wealthy. That's why the British people voted him out of office shortly before the war ended. They knew they would never get things like health care from him.
He pioneered the mass murder of civilians in 1920 when he ordered the RAF to bomb only completely civilian and undefended towns in a part of the Middle East. On two occasions, he let millions in India starve to death, even though food was available.
Who did he mostly resemble? That might well have been Adolphe Hitler.
Did he save Britain in World War 2? No. All that saved Britain was Hitler's invasion of Russia. It was Russia - not the British empire and not even American intervention and not Britain that defeated Hitler. It was Russia.
The truth is that Churchill was one of the most evil (and arrogant) men in history.
Oh, his greatest defeats were suffered at the hands of the U.S. billionaires. They were the ones who stole most of the middle east oil fields from the British. They were also the ones who blocked Britain taking back control of its Chinese empire in 1945. The U.S. made him back off - so they could plunder China as the British had.
Alas for the Americans. They invaded Korea in 1950 so they could get a base from which to invade China. But the China of 1950 was not the China of the old, imperial days. It struck back at the western invaders - and sent them home. The US would later suffer a similar defeat from Vietnam (French Indo-China) as the Far East, having had quite enough of western capitalist greed, kicked out the French, and then the Americans.
Oh, what effect did Churchill's aristocratice parents have on him?
None, really. He was usually alone as a child, at home with a few servants in the most magnificent home I have ever seen.
His father was an aristocrat who was away with prostitutes most of the time.
His mother was the daughter of an extremely wealthy American family. And she spent all of her time with an endless series of male members of the British aristocracy.
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45345.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55239.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55240.htm
Yes. There are people high in government and high in financial life who want a more 'obedient' nation. And the American government is moving in their direction. (This is also true of most Democrats.)
The destruction of American democracy (if it ever was really a democracy) is very close.
_________________________________________________________________
I don't know quite what to think about this next one. But it's certainly possible.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55236.htm
Could this happen in Canada? Yes, it could under a Conservative government - and quite possibly under a Liberal one.
_________________________________________________________________
Well, I really can't agree with this next one. Yes. Our treatment of China for most of the years of our interference with it has been terrible. But it seems to me that a China which is destroying democracy in Hong Kong cannot be described in the gushy terms of this item.
Yes, China has been rising out of the horror of lifetimes of savagery, murder and plunder by western nations.
But a nation with high respect for others? I don't think so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55238.htm
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55241.htm
Billion of dollars every year of our tax money are given as gifts to oil billionaires. And, oh, we must be kind and let them go free of taxes. It always makes me feel good at tax time as I know so much of my money is going into the pockets of billionaires.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-possesses-90-nuclear-warheads-sipri
Gee. And this happens to a people descended of Adam and Eve who got hell from God just for biting into an apple.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/18/news/alberta-environmental-monitoring-remains-suspended-state-emergency-ends
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-extremist-groups-arent-lone-wolves-they-were-galvanized-by-the-gop/
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/the-stock-market-is-recovering-we-are-not-congress-is-to-blame/
_______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/18/john-bolton-memoir-trump/
________________________________________________________________
Final thought - we and many others are a failed nation that our billionaires plunder, and make into a growing (and very large) number of poor. Given a little more time - and not much more - they will destroy us all. At that point, the super rich will be destroying themselves, too. But their destruction will be of no help to the rest of us.
________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Bull and shit.
When I was a kid in Montreal, I saw the older boys signing up for Korea. To fight for Canada? I don't think so. (I don't even know what the term fighting for Canada means.) What on earth did fighting for Canada have to do with killing Koreans who never attacked Canada (or the U.S.)in the first place?
This was a war to kill Koreans so American billionaires could have a base to send more 'heros' to conquer and plunder China.
They died for Canada? Get real.
Just over a hundred years earlier, Canadians went to the Boer War to kill for the King. (Though we were never told precisely why the King needed us to kill the Boers.) Anyway, we sang God Save the King - and killed the Dutch settlers to make the king happy.
However, since the king was living pretty high at the time, the king was always sure of a decent meal. I see no reason why we had to kill for him.
The British had been murdering people all over the world for centuries. And it's true that the English people often lived in filth and disease and starved. But the kings and queens and aristocrats were never short of hot dogs and pepsis.
And all those soldiers and sailors who survived the deaths their comrades suffered? As they got older, they were simply dumped into the filth and hunger of city streets - there to die.
Such was the reward for serving the king and Queen and the nation.
Oh, and the ordinary British people? Most were left in filth and hunger with their children from the age of 5 or so working as chimney sweeps or in factories The hours were extremely long and the pay almost non-existent. So much for 'king and country'.
This also happened in Canada and the U.S. The leaders of most countries never gave a damn for 'the nation'.
When I was a little older, Canada sent Canadians to die for their nation or maybe the American nation in Afghanistan. It was, you know, the usual king and country spiel, though now light on the monarchy.
Soldiers were assured they were fighting for their country. And that was rubbish.
Afghanistan had just fought off years of invasion by Russia. Americans lied, saying it was an aggressor. Hell, it had defended itself. And it clearly had no intention of looking for more wars. (and no, Aghanistan had no connection whatever with 9/11. That was entirely an operation by our good friends in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden lived in Afghanistan and supported 9/11. But he had no involvement with it and no ssignificant support in Afghanistan.)
But American capitalists wanted a war in Afghanistan so they, just like the Russians, could steal it's natural resources.
And we lied to the Americans and Canadians we sent to get killed. We lied and told them they were dying for their countries.
This dying for one's country crap - or one's queen, whatever - is the lie we are fed on.
Alas, the Canadian Legion which is supposed to protect its veteran members has instead betrayed them and lied to them from the start.
I had an older friend who was terribly wounded in Korea. The rest of his life was short and miserable. And he died early from the drunkeness that he developed in Korea. He was the kind of person the Canadian Legion should have helped. But instead, the legion helps only billionaires who want victims.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/18/dame-vera-lynn-dies-aged-103
Even I, as a very young child, was enraptured by the singing of Vera Lynn in World War Two. To this day, as a very old child, I am enraptured by her recordings. She really was a major factor in saving our side, especially in those desperate, early years of the war.
"We'll meet again, don't know where don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Keep shining through just like you used to do
Till the grey skies turn again to skies of blue...."
To this day I remember the words - and I can hear her voice.....and I can see the hope in the eyes of the soldiers, sailors and airmen who watched her and heard her.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia
The premiers of Ontario and Alberta and other wise men such as oil barons tell us there's nothing to worry about. So relax. (and die in peace as we head into the hottest year in history.) And prepare for more in coming years. Prepare for mass starvation all over the world. Remember, the important thing is to keep pumping oil to make those nice oil barons happy.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/pandemics-destruction-nature-un-who-legislation-trade-green-recovery
Yes, climate is changing. And yes, if we allow this to go on we will pay one hell of a price.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/climate-change-air-pollution-investigation-study
But who cares? Right?
______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert
Hey! Lotsa time. Lotsa time. Ask Ontario's premier. Ask Alberta's premier. These are men who know what they're talking about. (And Ontario and Alberta voters are dumb enough to vote for them.)
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/17/john-bolton-book-trump-china-dictators-saudi-arabia
When a dangerously ignorant former cabinet minister attacks a dangerously ignorant president.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/18/hundreds-armed-counter-protesters-confront-black-lives-matter-event-bethel-ohio
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/canada-systemic-racism-history
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blanchet-bloc-quebecois-singh-racist-accusation-1.5617265
Canadian politics - in every province - have been smothered in racism from the start. Quebec has always had that racism with an added 'racism' based on language. I know it well. I grew up in it.
_______________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/06/jagmeet-singh-gets-angry-bloc-mp-alain-therrien-blocking-motion-racism-rcmp
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-icc-united-states-afghanistan-investigation-1.5615688
Will Canada stand up against U.S. bullying? Not bloody likely.
________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/journalism-doctor/2020/06/hard-work-curing-systemic-racism-media-organizations-and
_________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-china-india-border-clash-a-repeat-of-1962-with-same-result
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/orgy-wealth-continues-us-billionaires-grew-584-billion-richer-over-last-3-months
If this planet is going to survive, it needs to get rid of capitalism. And the time is very, very short.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/unimaginable-double-emergency-record-high-nearly-80-million-people-forcibly
The united world we said we were going to create in 1945 could have dealt with this. But we decided to go the old way which is why we have had 75 years of chaos.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/critics-say-canada-should-seize-failure-win-un-security-council-seat-catalyst
For forty-five years, Canadians died fighting British wars. (Yes, I know Hitler was evil. -----but so was Britain.) Canadians now die fighting American wars - for an America that is striving to be the evil successor to Britain's evil empire.
Of course the U.N. voted against giving Canada a seat in the security council.
Canadians might not know what Canada is - but the U.N. does know. And it's right.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/17/skull-fractured-police-and-lied-about-trump-75-year-old-peace-activist-martin-gugino
_________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/18/lee-camp-the-secret-reason-billionaires-love-a-pandemic/
_________________________________________________________________
And now some big surprises....
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/17/epstein-case-documentaries-wont-touch-tales-of-intel-ties/
For centuries, brains have not been a notable feature of the British royal family.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot-to-kill-martin-luther-king-survived-shooting-was-murdered-in-hospital-an-interview-with-william-pepper/5544005
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-reset-unplugged/5716178
________________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-horrible-truth-about-winston-churchill/5626729
When I was 15 or so, I was given Churchill's History of the English Speaking peoples. I loved it. He was a superb writer. It was several years before I realized what a murderous bastard he was.
Not only was he a mass murderer of innoocent people. He had nothing but contempt for the most the British people. No. Born into aristocratic wealth at a magnificant level, he respected only the aristocracy and the wealthy. That's why the British people voted him out of office shortly before the war ended. They knew they would never get things like health care from him.
He pioneered the mass murder of civilians in 1920 when he ordered the RAF to bomb only completely civilian and undefended towns in a part of the Middle East. On two occasions, he let millions in India starve to death, even though food was available.
Who did he mostly resemble? That might well have been Adolphe Hitler.
Did he save Britain in World War 2? No. All that saved Britain was Hitler's invasion of Russia. It was Russia - not the British empire and not even American intervention and not Britain that defeated Hitler. It was Russia.
The truth is that Churchill was one of the most evil (and arrogant) men in history.
Oh, his greatest defeats were suffered at the hands of the U.S. billionaires. They were the ones who stole most of the middle east oil fields from the British. They were also the ones who blocked Britain taking back control of its Chinese empire in 1945. The U.S. made him back off - so they could plunder China as the British had.
Alas for the Americans. They invaded Korea in 1950 so they could get a base from which to invade China. But the China of 1950 was not the China of the old, imperial days. It struck back at the western invaders - and sent them home. The US would later suffer a similar defeat from Vietnam (French Indo-China) as the Far East, having had quite enough of western capitalist greed, kicked out the French, and then the Americans.
Oh, what effect did Churchill's aristocratice parents have on him?
None, really. He was usually alone as a child, at home with a few servants in the most magnificent home I have ever seen.
His father was an aristocrat who was away with prostitutes most of the time.
His mother was the daughter of an extremely wealthy American family. And she spent all of her time with an endless series of male members of the British aristocracy.
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45345.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55239.htm
________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55240.htm
Yes. There are people high in government and high in financial life who want a more 'obedient' nation. And the American government is moving in their direction. (This is also true of most Democrats.)
The destruction of American democracy (if it ever was really a democracy) is very close.
_________________________________________________________________
I don't know quite what to think about this next one. But it's certainly possible.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55236.htm
Could this happen in Canada? Yes, it could under a Conservative government - and quite possibly under a Liberal one.
_________________________________________________________________
Well, I really can't agree with this next one. Yes. Our treatment of China for most of the years of our interference with it has been terrible. But it seems to me that a China which is destroying democracy in Hong Kong cannot be described in the gushy terms of this item.
Yes, China has been rising out of the horror of lifetimes of savagery, murder and plunder by western nations.
But a nation with high respect for others? I don't think so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55238.htm
_______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55241.htm
Billion of dollars every year of our tax money are given as gifts to oil billionaires. And, oh, we must be kind and let them go free of taxes. It always makes me feel good at tax time as I know so much of my money is going into the pockets of billionaires.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-possesses-90-nuclear-warheads-sipri
Gee. And this happens to a people descended of Adam and Eve who got hell from God just for biting into an apple.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/18/news/alberta-environmental-monitoring-remains-suspended-state-emergency-ends
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/armed-extremist-groups-arent-lone-wolves-they-were-galvanized-by-the-gop/
________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/the-stock-market-is-recovering-we-are-not-congress-is-to-blame/
_______________________________________________________________
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/18/john-bolton-memoir-trump/
________________________________________________________________
Final thought - we and many others are a failed nation that our billionaires plunder, and make into a growing (and very large) number of poor. Given a little more time - and not much more - they will destroy us all. At that point, the super rich will be destroying themselves, too. But their destruction will be of no help to the rest of us.
________________________________________________________________
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