https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jun/02/george-floyd-protests-violence-overnight-donald-trump-threat-army-live-updates
Well, I wouldn't stand up and cheer for Biden. He and his Democrats have been at least as racist as the Republicans throughout their existence.
And Trump standing outside 'his' church to make a speech? Well, the minister says Trump has never been to that church. (Of course not. Trump, the love child of the Evangelicals, has rarely been to any church - but the evangelicals will probably go on believing that he IS God.)
One thing to watch for in reports - don't confuse vandalism and looting with the general demonstrations. The two are not related. The demonstrators are trying to make a point. The looters are just the usual street thugs who are using the confusion to increase the looting they have always done.
As well, don't assume the demonstrators are reacting only to American racism.
That's how the news media see it. But I'm not at all sure that's what the anger is all about. And I'm not even sure the demonstrators themselves have a clear idea of what this is all about.
It may be that it's, in an unexpressed or not understood way, a fury at the power of capitalism with it's power over governments to plunder most of the people of Canada and the U.S. The big capitalists don't have to pay income tax; they're also allowed to hide their money from government; almost all wars of Canada and the U.S. are fought to benefit the super-rich but are paid for by us; Americans in particular are plundered by capitalists who deprive them of medical care by making it something that only the rich can afford, and who have also been converting public schools into agencies that, essentially, create profits for billionaires - and hopelessness for most children. In fact, in this time as millions of Canadians and Americans have no jobs at all and no income (well, slightly better in Canada) the super-rich are still making billions in profits.
The U.S., in particular, has always been a nation proud of it's democracy. The reality is it has always been owned and controlled by the super rich.
It may take a while for us to determine exactly what it is we are angry about. But it's about racism? Get real. Both Canada and the U.S. have long, long histories of racism. (And the same for Europe.) It's bit of a stretch to say that in just a week we have discovered virtue. I expect that neither we nor the U.S.yet understand exactly what it is we are demonstrating against. Let alone what the cure is.
Oh, meanwhile, China is emerging as the world's leading power. Western capitalism is dropping. If western capitalists want to stay in the game, they have to destroy China (and Russia). The western militaries can't do that. It would have to be done with nuclear weapons. That's why the U.S. has been spending feverishly to develop more powerful weapons.
Would Trump do such a thing?
YES,
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/china-withheld-data-coronavirus-world-health-organization-recordings-reveal
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/02/football-pitch-area-tropical-rainforest-lost-every-six-seconds
Not to worry. All those nice people who are destroying our tropical forests would tell us if there were any danger.
The worst destroyer has been Brazil. But Canada and the U.S. have always praised and defended the government of Brazil. So it must be okay.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassadors-ministers-israel-west-bank-netanyahu-trudeau-1.5594205
And what will Trudeau do?
Nothing.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-children-students-internet-access-1.5583321
Teaching requires a good deal of understanding how to teach. And teaching by computer is quite different from teaching live. And that takes us to a great problem.
Most teachers are not trained on how to teach by a computer. It gets worse in our universities as most (almost all) professors have no training at all in how to teach, whether live or by computer. Are we going to address this?
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/06/jason-kenneys-speech-equating-covid-19-flu-may-have-found
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tax-rich-california-ballot/
Canadian prime ministers, like American presidents, have always governed for the benefit of the rich. That's why we now have millions living in poverty and even in starvation.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rural-childhood-hunger/
Canadian and American billionaires don't have to line up for food.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hong-kong-china-national-security-law/
I loved the time I spent in Hong Kong. But we can't be of any help to Hong Kong as things stand (unless we nuke China - which would not be very healthy for Hong Kong.) We need to come to terms with China. We have to offer an international world of peace, the world we should have started creating in 1945.
There have been no solutions to anything in the world of constant war we began to create in 1945.
_________________________________________
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/gwynne-dyer-what-coronavirus-teaches-us-about-climate-change-455508/
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-white-guilt-fear-at-root-of-americas-racial-agonie
________________________________________________________________
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/opinion-story/9965880-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-every-country-gets-the-government-it-deserves/
I was born into a world dominated by the power of the British Empire. But that ended by 1941. It was ended by, of all things, the entry into World War 2 by a U.S. that hoped to take over some very prosperous parts of the British Empire - especially the Middle East and China. (It got the Middle East, but missed out on China when it lost the Korean War.)
And so the Britain of today is increasingly feeble and even irrelevant. Canada fought in World War 2 to benefit Britain. Every school and church had pictures of the King and Union Jacks. Every school day started with the singing of "God save our gracious king; Long live our noble King..."
Canada fought three wars for Britain from 1900 to 1945. Since then, Canadians die only for the U.S.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/02/extinction-political-choice-scientist-says-after-study-warns-threat-civilization
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/02/donald-trump-needs-go-and-no-we-cant-wait-until-november
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/01/even-now-our-leaders-are-still-putting-their-faith-rich
And it's also true for Canada.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/a-superpower-in-chaos/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/02/global-warming-is-nuclear-war/
We are destroying ourselves in the face of a threat we have known about for thirty years. The people who have created this threat are the super-rich who profit by it and who own our governments.
And we have done - nothing.
We cannot survive - and also maintain a destructive oil system - But that's what we have done under Trudeau and under Conservative leaders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/06/01/Troubled-Oilsands-Big-Banks/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hunger-america/5714797
________________________________________________________________
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/british-court-assanges-physical-deterioration/#more-24990
Well, Britain is now, like Canada, an American puppet.
____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55160.htm
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55164.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/news/climate-change-behind-increases-extreme-rain
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/news/trans-mountain-pipeline-construction-begins-bc
Why are we spending billions of (taxpayer's) money to build an oil pipeline when we know the damage it will cause? Exactly what is the Liberal policy on oil? Does it really have a policy?
_________________________________________________________________
Well, I wouldn't stand up and cheer for Biden. He and his Democrats have been at least as racist as the Republicans throughout their existence.
And Trump standing outside 'his' church to make a speech? Well, the minister says Trump has never been to that church. (Of course not. Trump, the love child of the Evangelicals, has rarely been to any church - but the evangelicals will probably go on believing that he IS God.)
One thing to watch for in reports - don't confuse vandalism and looting with the general demonstrations. The two are not related. The demonstrators are trying to make a point. The looters are just the usual street thugs who are using the confusion to increase the looting they have always done.
As well, don't assume the demonstrators are reacting only to American racism.
That's how the news media see it. But I'm not at all sure that's what the anger is all about. And I'm not even sure the demonstrators themselves have a clear idea of what this is all about.
It may be that it's, in an unexpressed or not understood way, a fury at the power of capitalism with it's power over governments to plunder most of the people of Canada and the U.S. The big capitalists don't have to pay income tax; they're also allowed to hide their money from government; almost all wars of Canada and the U.S. are fought to benefit the super-rich but are paid for by us; Americans in particular are plundered by capitalists who deprive them of medical care by making it something that only the rich can afford, and who have also been converting public schools into agencies that, essentially, create profits for billionaires - and hopelessness for most children. In fact, in this time as millions of Canadians and Americans have no jobs at all and no income (well, slightly better in Canada) the super-rich are still making billions in profits.
The U.S., in particular, has always been a nation proud of it's democracy. The reality is it has always been owned and controlled by the super rich.
It may take a while for us to determine exactly what it is we are angry about. But it's about racism? Get real. Both Canada and the U.S. have long, long histories of racism. (And the same for Europe.) It's bit of a stretch to say that in just a week we have discovered virtue. I expect that neither we nor the U.S.yet understand exactly what it is we are demonstrating against. Let alone what the cure is.
Oh, meanwhile, China is emerging as the world's leading power. Western capitalism is dropping. If western capitalists want to stay in the game, they have to destroy China (and Russia). The western militaries can't do that. It would have to be done with nuclear weapons. That's why the U.S. has been spending feverishly to develop more powerful weapons.
Would Trump do such a thing?
YES,
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/china-withheld-data-coronavirus-world-health-organization-recordings-reveal
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/02/football-pitch-area-tropical-rainforest-lost-every-six-seconds
Not to worry. All those nice people who are destroying our tropical forests would tell us if there were any danger.
The worst destroyer has been Brazil. But Canada and the U.S. have always praised and defended the government of Brazil. So it must be okay.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassadors-ministers-israel-west-bank-netanyahu-trudeau-1.5594205
And what will Trudeau do?
Nothing.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-children-students-internet-access-1.5583321
Teaching requires a good deal of understanding how to teach. And teaching by computer is quite different from teaching live. And that takes us to a great problem.
Most teachers are not trained on how to teach by a computer. It gets worse in our universities as most (almost all) professors have no training at all in how to teach, whether live or by computer. Are we going to address this?
_________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/06/jason-kenneys-speech-equating-covid-19-flu-may-have-found
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tax-rich-california-ballot/
Canadian prime ministers, like American presidents, have always governed for the benefit of the rich. That's why we now have millions living in poverty and even in starvation.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rural-childhood-hunger/
Canadian and American billionaires don't have to line up for food.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/hong-kong-china-national-security-law/
I loved the time I spent in Hong Kong. But we can't be of any help to Hong Kong as things stand (unless we nuke China - which would not be very healthy for Hong Kong.) We need to come to terms with China. We have to offer an international world of peace, the world we should have started creating in 1945.
There have been no solutions to anything in the world of constant war we began to create in 1945.
_________________________________________
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/regional-perspectives/gwynne-dyer-what-coronavirus-teaches-us-about-climate-change-455508/
________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-white-guilt-fear-at-root-of-americas-racial-agonie
________________________________________________________________
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/opinion-story/9965880-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-every-country-gets-the-government-it-deserves/
I was born into a world dominated by the power of the British Empire. But that ended by 1941. It was ended by, of all things, the entry into World War 2 by a U.S. that hoped to take over some very prosperous parts of the British Empire - especially the Middle East and China. (It got the Middle East, but missed out on China when it lost the Korean War.)
And so the Britain of today is increasingly feeble and even irrelevant. Canada fought in World War 2 to benefit Britain. Every school and church had pictures of the King and Union Jacks. Every school day started with the singing of "God save our gracious king; Long live our noble King..."
Canada fought three wars for Britain from 1900 to 1945. Since then, Canadians die only for the U.S.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/02/extinction-political-choice-scientist-says-after-study-warns-threat-civilization
________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/02/donald-trump-needs-go-and-no-we-cant-wait-until-november
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/01/even-now-our-leaders-are-still-putting-their-faith-rich
And it's also true for Canada.
________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/a-superpower-in-chaos/
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/02/global-warming-is-nuclear-war/
We are destroying ourselves in the face of a threat we have known about for thirty years. The people who have created this threat are the super-rich who profit by it and who own our governments.
And we have done - nothing.
We cannot survive - and also maintain a destructive oil system - But that's what we have done under Trudeau and under Conservative leaders.
_______________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/06/01/Troubled-Oilsands-Big-Banks/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hunger-america/5714797
________________________________________________________________
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/british-court-assanges-physical-deterioration/#more-24990
Well, Britain is now, like Canada, an American puppet.
____________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55160.htm
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55164.htm
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/news/climate-change-behind-increases-extreme-rain
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/06/02/news/trans-mountain-pipeline-construction-begins-bc
Why are we spending billions of (taxpayer's) money to build an oil pipeline when we know the damage it will cause? Exactly what is the Liberal policy on oil? Does it really have a policy?
_________________________________________________________________
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