This site had a terrible crash over a week or so ago. But by means I don't understand it is suddenly alive again. And this is a good time to explain what I never did explain - what this site is all about.
My starting point is that almost all of the commercial news media lie. And there's a reason for it.
The modern, commercial news media date back to 1850 or so. With large staffs, they were expensive to operate, and became increasingly expensive by the late 19th century. Only rhe very wealthy could afford to own them.
One result, a comic one, showed up when a British Army officer commanding a force in the Boer War, got himself bottled up in a town called Mafeking. And that became the leading story in the British press for months. When a British force broke through to relieve him, the British papers went wild, sparking national jubilation so wild that for years afterward any wild public outbreak was called "Mafeking."
The British military command wasn't so happy. The officer who became famous was Baden Powell -and he was not supposed to be defending Mafeking. Nor was he supposed to be in it. The British army command was furious. But it had to accept Baden Powell and promote him to general. But it would never again allow him to have a command.
So Baden Powell went off to lead the Boy Scouts.
In 1914, he offered to serve in World War One. But the army said no - his work with the Boy Scouts was too important to take him away.
However, this whole affair was a lesson to the newspapers. They could shape events.
About the same time that Baden Powell was making a mess of Mafeking, an American newspaper owner in the U.S. was using his newspaper to start a war with Cuba. An American ship blew up and sank in a Cuban port. An American newspaper owner, William Randolph Hearst, wanted a war with Cuba. He wanted to kick out Spain from Cuba, and take over ownership of Guantanamo Bay. This was a first step in the American takeover of Latin America, a takeover designed in the long run to take over all of Latin America, and plunder all of Latin America and it's people.
There was never any evidence that hostile forces blew up the Maine. Indeed, the only evidence was that the ship was very badly maintained by it's captain and crew. No matter. The rich friends of Hearst now began the plundering that still goes on in Latin America.
Almost all commercial newspapers to this day are propaganda sheets for the wealthy. Many years ago, I had to share radio time at CBC with newspaper owner Conrad Black. He was a ranter for the rich, and an egoist of massive proportions When he went to jail in the U.S. for his corruption he wrote a book in praise of Donald Trump.And so Trump pardoned him.
I know of only two English language newspapers that tell the truth. One is Britain's "Manchester Guardian". That's why I always include it's stories. The other one is Israel's "Harretz" though. alas, Haaretz deals mostly with Israel only.
Luckily, there are quite a few free news sites on the web, most of them operated by disillusioned journalists. With care I select some of them. (This needs care because there are also news sites on the web that cannot be trusted.)
For Canada, the best commercial news source is CBC - But even that suffers from constant interference by the management. BBC, once a decent source, no longer is decent.
The reality is that most, almost all, of our commercial press is heavy on propaganda. And that can include virtually all the commercial press including - yes - the New York Times. The purpose of my blog is to tell the truth.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/15/apple-does-not-need-to-pay-13bn-irish-tax-bill-court-rules
To see the original story.in each part of the blog, click on the web site -like the one just above which is in blue.)
We rarely get a look at how corporations rip us all off by avoiding taxes. Noboody knows how many billions (or trillions) we lose by this every year. The people of Canada and, indeed, the whole western world hand out enormous sums to billionaires while, even in Canada and the U.S., children starve and even live in the streets.
We allow the super rich to be become our real governments as they toss money under the table to Canada's Libeals and Conservatives - and to the U.S.Democrats and Republicans. We are ruled by that small group that constitutes the super rich. And they are destroying us.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/justin-trudeau-faces-calls-for-criminal-investigation-into-familys-charity-links
Well, yes, Justin is on the take. But it's a big mistake to focus just on him - because when we do that, we ignore the far, far greater problem. The wealthy have been buying off both Liberals and Conservatives for - well - forever. They pay for the political elections to make sure only Liberal and
Conservative politicians get elected.
That's how corporations like the Irvings of New Brunswick get lush contracts without even bothering to bid for them. And other wealthy people like the Irvings own the news media that that lie for them.
The hand outs to Trudeau are piddling stuff. For big money and big favours, check out the governments of Alberta and Ontario. - and others.
Yes, Trudeau was wrong and he did accept bribes. But to concentrate on him is to lose sight of a much, much bigger picture.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/trump-targets-china-with-executive-order-ending-hong-kongs-special-status
1945 was supposed to be the war to end wars. The reality is that the U.S. saw 1945 as the yea to begin American economic domination of the whole world. It would be world rule by American billionaires. The first targe for that as China. And that is the real reason the U.S. (and Canada and others) attacked China's neighbour, Korea, as a base for the conquest of China.
And it failed.
China's action was quite understandable. With a century and a half of British plundering and brutality, it had no intention of allowing an American takeover. So the peace of 1945 turned into 75 years of war. The U.S. knocked the British out of the picture pretty quickly so I had to settle for becoming servants of the U.S. The same happened to Canada which has to support American brutality and murder in Latin America (as in Afghanistan,, Libya, eastern Europe, Syria, Haiti) so that Canadian billionaires can get a share of the action.
And that was all worse than wrong.
We now face a world of nuclear weapons,thousands of them that would kill billions of people. (Yes. Most of those billions live in relatively poor countries. But who gives damn? In 1945, we should have planned for a world of peace But we didn't.
We now face a world dominated by the very, very wealthy whose only nterest is in becoming more wealthy.--and who have made it clear they don't give a damn about the rest of us. And we all face horrors of climate and other changes to our earth but, alas, the very rich don't seem to care about that.
We should have dealt with these issues in 1945. But the only interest the U.S. had then was to make it's billionaires richer - and that set off dozens of wars for the convenience of the rich.
We should have come to terms with China. We didn't. Now, the U.S. has to work soon against China because the U.S. may be beoming the shortest empire in history. And the consequences of such a war are impossible to guess.
________________________________________________________________________________
For twenty years in which I sat on the board of Alliance Quebec to defend Englsih rights which were under attack from French racists, I watched with pain as my community was largely destroyed.
I feel the same pain now as I watch the attack on French schools in Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-needs-millions-to-ensure-safe-return-to-school-in-september-1.5650231
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/07/human-rights-lens-needed-prevent-environmental-racism
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2020/07/farmers-fighting-climate-chang
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/change-gonna-come/2020/07/we-need-guaranteed-livable-income
_____________________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/coronavirus-pandemic-homelessness/
______________________________________________________________________________
An item I would have been just as happy not to read.
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-disease-not-genocide-ravaged-new-world-in-1500s-and-its-still-a-threat
And our constant wars - with the threats of nuclear ones - make the odds worse. We really have to get control of ourselves.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-russians-priorities-arent-always-about-the-rest-of-the-world
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/us-considers-travel-ban-on-millions-of-china-communist-party-members-report
This story is not quite as clear as one might hope. For many, many centuries this world has operated with nations at each other's throats. International cooperation was rare. Instead, nations were at each other's throats with mass murder and plundering. We were supposed to end that in 1945. But we didn't. The leader in this descent into hell was the U.S. with heady ambitions to rule the whole world, American capitalists set themselves to return us to the 'good ol' days of mass murder and plunder.
It's major target was China. So, instead of a new world of cooperation and peace, we recreated the old one of mass murder and plunder. Thus the UN invasion of North Korea as a stepping stone to the conquest of China. And a major justification of this was that China was evil because it was communist.
Of course, most people on our side really had no idea of what communism was. But it was evil. So we had to kill Chinese. Not one person in a thousand actually knew what communism was.
I don't know whether it was evil. I do know that capitalism is a system as cruel and murderous as they come. Capitalism was the engine of the British Empire that murdered and plundered over 400 million people.Hitler's Germany was capitalist. American capitalism had been responsible for mass killing of native peoples and for the killing and plundering of Latin America - not to mention The Phillipines which the U.S. murdered so that American capitalists could steal the resources of The Phillipines.
For China, the reality was that British capitalists had murdered and plundered China for well over 150 years. Communism, whatever that meant, created a China of growth. And in 1945, (and still today) American capitalists went to war against a communism that did far more good for China than capitalism ever did.
After World War Two, we should have treated China with cooperation. We didn't. And any continuation of this behaviour will mean a nuclear war.
As I have often said, I don't really understand what communism is. But I do know what capitalism is, and I've seen it's addiction to mass murder and plundering.
We had a chance in 1945 to make this a better world, a world of cooperation and peace. Instead, we chose for a world of plundering and greed. I don't know whether we can overcome that. I do know that if we don't overcome it, there is no future.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-14-coronavirus-epidemiology-greenland-glaciers-melt-and-more-1.5495007/how-the-greenland-ice-sheet-is-melting-from-the-bottom-up-1.5495011
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/15/assange-extradition-one-outrage-after-another-says-a-former-british-ambassador/
______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/16/another-dead-night-ruling-us-supreme-courts-right-wing-majority-approves-execution
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/15/2020/
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/tax-day-analysis-shows-billionaire-wealth-growth-start-pandemic-exceeds-total-budget
The super rich are really cashing in through this time when everyone else is suffering. Think about that. Think about who are the evil forces in our world.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/we-will-sue-vow-green-groups-after-trump-guts-nations-key-environmental-law
Trump is doing this to enrich the already super rich. And it's a very serious threat to all of us.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues/
We've known about the dangers of climate change for at least 30 years. And we haven't lifted a finger. Indeed, politicians like Trump, Trudeau, Ontario's Ford and Alberta's idiots have actually worsened climate change - and all to make the super rich happy.
You want an enemy? Don't waste your time and energy on communists or Iranians. Get cracking on our super-rich and the politicians they own.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/the-ravages-of-lithium-extraction-in-chile/_____________________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/07/16/Thirty-Years-After-Oka/_____________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arctic-burns-trump-bailouts-fossil-fuel-industry-billions/5718366
_________________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55342.htm
________________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55344.htm
____________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/09/humanity-track-soon-hit-15oc-paris-accord-limit-atmospheric-co2-nears-level-not-seen
_______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55333.htm
______________________________________________________________________________
This next item is very long and very wordy - but deserving of patience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55324.htm
Alas! It also introduces us to a Bill Gates influence in The Manchester Guardian - the paper that is usually above that sort of thing.
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55315.htm
_______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55322.htm
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thYBWf_AIM
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/16/opinion/global-fossil-burning-breaks-record-2019-canadians-top-1
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/10/opinion/cronyism-patronage-and-destruction-democratic-rights-mark-kenneys-rule-decree
______________________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-afraid-to-attend-their-convention-but-want-your-kids-in-school/
Incidentally, Brazil's president and good friend of Canada and the U.S., has refused to permit any medical care for aboriginals, even those suffering from the virus.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/the-future-for-china/
____________________________________________________________________________
This is the most depressing news day I have ever seen. A war with China is possible - and likely.
Whatever it's faults may be, China is not a threat to the U.S., and never has been. We have never seen Chinese warships patrolling off the American coast and threatening to attack. The U.S.has been agressively active in waters off China.
If the U.S. attacks China, Canada will be 'invited' to take part. (And Canada's leading military historian will clap hands.)
China's nuclear stock pile is relatively small. The U.S. one is the second biggest in the world. The biggest is Russia. And Russia might very well feel it has to intervene on the side of China.
China is a threat to the west? Nope. The big threat to the west is the U.S. in Latin America and Asia here it has almost constantly been at war and murdering millions for seventy years since the end of World War Two.
Would the U.S. attack Canada? That is quite possible as it begins to suffer the loss of land due to climate change. It is also possible the U.S.will find itself in a civil war over its very large population of racists and over the substantial support for Trump's racism. Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans are selling out democracy and handing over power to the very small number of the super rich who who are behind wars all over the world, and who are happily inpoverishing the American people.
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My starting point is that almost all of the commercial news media lie. And there's a reason for it.
The modern, commercial news media date back to 1850 or so. With large staffs, they were expensive to operate, and became increasingly expensive by the late 19th century. Only rhe very wealthy could afford to own them.
One result, a comic one, showed up when a British Army officer commanding a force in the Boer War, got himself bottled up in a town called Mafeking. And that became the leading story in the British press for months. When a British force broke through to relieve him, the British papers went wild, sparking national jubilation so wild that for years afterward any wild public outbreak was called "Mafeking."
The British military command wasn't so happy. The officer who became famous was Baden Powell -and he was not supposed to be defending Mafeking. Nor was he supposed to be in it. The British army command was furious. But it had to accept Baden Powell and promote him to general. But it would never again allow him to have a command.
So Baden Powell went off to lead the Boy Scouts.
In 1914, he offered to serve in World War One. But the army said no - his work with the Boy Scouts was too important to take him away.
However, this whole affair was a lesson to the newspapers. They could shape events.
About the same time that Baden Powell was making a mess of Mafeking, an American newspaper owner in the U.S. was using his newspaper to start a war with Cuba. An American ship blew up and sank in a Cuban port. An American newspaper owner, William Randolph Hearst, wanted a war with Cuba. He wanted to kick out Spain from Cuba, and take over ownership of Guantanamo Bay. This was a first step in the American takeover of Latin America, a takeover designed in the long run to take over all of Latin America, and plunder all of Latin America and it's people.
There was never any evidence that hostile forces blew up the Maine. Indeed, the only evidence was that the ship was very badly maintained by it's captain and crew. No matter. The rich friends of Hearst now began the plundering that still goes on in Latin America.
Almost all commercial newspapers to this day are propaganda sheets for the wealthy. Many years ago, I had to share radio time at CBC with newspaper owner Conrad Black. He was a ranter for the rich, and an egoist of massive proportions When he went to jail in the U.S. for his corruption he wrote a book in praise of Donald Trump.And so Trump pardoned him.
I know of only two English language newspapers that tell the truth. One is Britain's "Manchester Guardian". That's why I always include it's stories. The other one is Israel's "Harretz" though. alas, Haaretz deals mostly with Israel only.
Luckily, there are quite a few free news sites on the web, most of them operated by disillusioned journalists. With care I select some of them. (This needs care because there are also news sites on the web that cannot be trusted.)
For Canada, the best commercial news source is CBC - But even that suffers from constant interference by the management. BBC, once a decent source, no longer is decent.
The reality is that most, almost all, of our commercial press is heavy on propaganda. And that can include virtually all the commercial press including - yes - the New York Times. The purpose of my blog is to tell the truth.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/15/apple-does-not-need-to-pay-13bn-irish-tax-bill-court-rules
To see the original story.in each part of the blog, click on the web site -like the one just above which is in blue.)
We rarely get a look at how corporations rip us all off by avoiding taxes. Noboody knows how many billions (or trillions) we lose by this every year. The people of Canada and, indeed, the whole western world hand out enormous sums to billionaires while, even in Canada and the U.S., children starve and even live in the streets.
We allow the super rich to be become our real governments as they toss money under the table to Canada's Libeals and Conservatives - and to the U.S.Democrats and Republicans. We are ruled by that small group that constitutes the super rich. And they are destroying us.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/10/justin-trudeau-faces-calls-for-criminal-investigation-into-familys-charity-links
Well, yes, Justin is on the take. But it's a big mistake to focus just on him - because when we do that, we ignore the far, far greater problem. The wealthy have been buying off both Liberals and Conservatives for - well - forever. They pay for the political elections to make sure only Liberal and
Conservative politicians get elected.
That's how corporations like the Irvings of New Brunswick get lush contracts without even bothering to bid for them. And other wealthy people like the Irvings own the news media that that lie for them.
The hand outs to Trudeau are piddling stuff. For big money and big favours, check out the governments of Alberta and Ontario. - and others.
Yes, Trudeau was wrong and he did accept bribes. But to concentrate on him is to lose sight of a much, much bigger picture.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/trump-targets-china-with-executive-order-ending-hong-kongs-special-status
1945 was supposed to be the war to end wars. The reality is that the U.S. saw 1945 as the yea to begin American economic domination of the whole world. It would be world rule by American billionaires. The first targe for that as China. And that is the real reason the U.S. (and Canada and others) attacked China's neighbour, Korea, as a base for the conquest of China.
And it failed.
China's action was quite understandable. With a century and a half of British plundering and brutality, it had no intention of allowing an American takeover. So the peace of 1945 turned into 75 years of war. The U.S. knocked the British out of the picture pretty quickly so I had to settle for becoming servants of the U.S. The same happened to Canada which has to support American brutality and murder in Latin America (as in Afghanistan,, Libya, eastern Europe, Syria, Haiti) so that Canadian billionaires can get a share of the action.
And that was all worse than wrong.
We now face a world of nuclear weapons,thousands of them that would kill billions of people. (Yes. Most of those billions live in relatively poor countries. But who gives damn? In 1945, we should have planned for a world of peace But we didn't.
We now face a world dominated by the very, very wealthy whose only nterest is in becoming more wealthy.--and who have made it clear they don't give a damn about the rest of us. And we all face horrors of climate and other changes to our earth but, alas, the very rich don't seem to care about that.
We should have dealt with these issues in 1945. But the only interest the U.S. had then was to make it's billionaires richer - and that set off dozens of wars for the convenience of the rich.
We should have come to terms with China. We didn't. Now, the U.S. has to work soon against China because the U.S. may be beoming the shortest empire in history. And the consequences of such a war are impossible to guess.
________________________________________________________________________________
For twenty years in which I sat on the board of Alliance Quebec to defend Englsih rights which were under attack from French racists, I watched with pain as my community was largely destroyed.
I feel the same pain now as I watch the attack on French schools in Toronto.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-needs-millions-to-ensure-safe-return-to-school-in-september-1.5650231
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/07/human-rights-lens-needed-prevent-environmental-racism
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2020/07/farmers-fighting-climate-chang
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/change-gonna-come/2020/07/we-need-guaranteed-livable-income
_____________________________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/coronavirus-pandemic-homelessness/
______________________________________________________________________________
An item I would have been just as happy not to read.
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-disease-not-genocide-ravaged-new-world-in-1500s-and-its-still-a-threat
And our constant wars - with the threats of nuclear ones - make the odds worse. We really have to get control of ourselves.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-russians-priorities-arent-always-about-the-rest-of-the-world
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/16/us-considers-travel-ban-on-millions-of-china-communist-party-members-report
This story is not quite as clear as one might hope. For many, many centuries this world has operated with nations at each other's throats. International cooperation was rare. Instead, nations were at each other's throats with mass murder and plundering. We were supposed to end that in 1945. But we didn't. The leader in this descent into hell was the U.S. with heady ambitions to rule the whole world, American capitalists set themselves to return us to the 'good ol' days of mass murder and plunder.
It's major target was China. So, instead of a new world of cooperation and peace, we recreated the old one of mass murder and plunder. Thus the UN invasion of North Korea as a stepping stone to the conquest of China. And a major justification of this was that China was evil because it was communist.
Of course, most people on our side really had no idea of what communism was. But it was evil. So we had to kill Chinese. Not one person in a thousand actually knew what communism was.
I don't know whether it was evil. I do know that capitalism is a system as cruel and murderous as they come. Capitalism was the engine of the British Empire that murdered and plundered over 400 million people.Hitler's Germany was capitalist. American capitalism had been responsible for mass killing of native peoples and for the killing and plundering of Latin America - not to mention The Phillipines which the U.S. murdered so that American capitalists could steal the resources of The Phillipines.
For China, the reality was that British capitalists had murdered and plundered China for well over 150 years. Communism, whatever that meant, created a China of growth. And in 1945, (and still today) American capitalists went to war against a communism that did far more good for China than capitalism ever did.
After World War Two, we should have treated China with cooperation. We didn't. And any continuation of this behaviour will mean a nuclear war.
As I have often said, I don't really understand what communism is. But I do know what capitalism is, and I've seen it's addiction to mass murder and plundering.
We had a chance in 1945 to make this a better world, a world of cooperation and peace. Instead, we chose for a world of plundering and greed. I don't know whether we can overcome that. I do know that if we don't overcome it, there is no future.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-14-coronavirus-epidemiology-greenland-glaciers-melt-and-more-1.5495007/how-the-greenland-ice-sheet-is-melting-from-the-bottom-up-1.5495011
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/15/assange-extradition-one-outrage-after-another-says-a-former-british-ambassador/
______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/16/another-dead-night-ruling-us-supreme-courts-right-wing-majority-approves-execution
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/15/2020/
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/tax-day-analysis-shows-billionaire-wealth-growth-start-pandemic-exceeds-total-budget
The super rich are really cashing in through this time when everyone else is suffering. Think about that. Think about who are the evil forces in our world.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/15/we-will-sue-vow-green-groups-after-trump-guts-nations-key-environmental-law
Trump is doing this to enrich the already super rich. And it's a very serious threat to all of us.
________________________________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/arctic-heat-overwhelms-green-infighting-issues/
We've known about the dangers of climate change for at least 30 years. And we haven't lifted a finger. Indeed, politicians like Trump, Trudeau, Ontario's Ford and Alberta's idiots have actually worsened climate change - and all to make the super rich happy.
You want an enemy? Don't waste your time and energy on communists or Iranians. Get cracking on our super-rich and the politicians they own.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/the-ravages-of-lithium-extraction-in-chile/_____________________________________________________________________________
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/07/16/Thirty-Years-After-Oka/_____________________________
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arctic-burns-trump-bailouts-fossil-fuel-industry-billions/5718366
_________________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55342.htm
________________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55344.htm
____________________________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/09/humanity-track-soon-hit-15oc-paris-accord-limit-atmospheric-co2-nears-level-not-seen
_______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55333.htm
______________________________________________________________________________
This next item is very long and very wordy - but deserving of patience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55324.htm
Alas! It also introduces us to a Bill Gates influence in The Manchester Guardian - the paper that is usually above that sort of thing.
______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55315.htm
_______________________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55322.htm
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thYBWf_AIM
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/16/opinion/global-fossil-burning-breaks-record-2019-canadians-top-1
_______________________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/10/opinion/cronyism-patronage-and-destruction-democratic-rights-mark-kenneys-rule-decree
______________________________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-afraid-to-attend-their-convention-but-want-your-kids-in-school/
Incidentally, Brazil's president and good friend of Canada and the U.S., has refused to permit any medical care for aboriginals, even those suffering from the virus.
_________________________________________________________________________________
https://thesaker.is/the-future-for-china/
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This is the most depressing news day I have ever seen. A war with China is possible - and likely.
Whatever it's faults may be, China is not a threat to the U.S., and never has been. We have never seen Chinese warships patrolling off the American coast and threatening to attack. The U.S.has been agressively active in waters off China.
If the U.S. attacks China, Canada will be 'invited' to take part. (And Canada's leading military historian will clap hands.)
China's nuclear stock pile is relatively small. The U.S. one is the second biggest in the world. The biggest is Russia. And Russia might very well feel it has to intervene on the side of China.
China is a threat to the west? Nope. The big threat to the west is the U.S. in Latin America and Asia here it has almost constantly been at war and murdering millions for seventy years since the end of World War Two.
Would the U.S. attack Canada? That is quite possible as it begins to suffer the loss of land due to climate change. It is also possible the U.S.will find itself in a civil war over its very large population of racists and over the substantial support for Trump's racism. Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans are selling out democracy and handing over power to the very small number of the super rich who who are behind wars all over the world, and who are happily inpoverishing the American people.
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