I missed a blog because I seriously overslept. That happens to us old folks. But coming back to write this blog, I just got angrier at the whole, damn thing.
I'm going to try a different format for this, one time. It needs more comment because without knowing it the world has been fighting wars without a break since 1945. This is going to break the record set by the Hundred Years War. (Indeed, the U.S. has been fighting wars for several hundreds of years already, going back to George Washington's American holocaust of native peoples. Yes, of course that was a holocaust. It was even Hitler's model for his holocaust. You can read about that in Mein Kampf.)
And one would have to be very kind not to mention Canada's holocaust of it's native peoples.
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The Trump and Biden show was even worse than it seemed.As well as the appalling behaviour of Trump, we had nothing of any value coming from the mouth of Joe Biden.
The reality is that, for all the U.S. babble about American values, it really doesn't have any. It has two parties. But neither has anything of merit to say. And both have deep pockets of hatreds, racism and indifference to the suffering of most American society.
I don't expect the Trump/Biden debate to make any great changes in American thinking.
The reality of both parties is that neither has any great values for anything except serving the super rich. Neither party gives a damn about the American people - and very few of the American people have any sense of what a political party might be.
Americans don't realize that at all. But it is very clearly realized in Europe. The debate may not have much impact in the U.S. But overseas, especially in Europe, it is a disaster for the U.S.
Britain will cling to the U.S. because Britain is an outsider to Europe and, though the US has created enormous damage to Britain since 1945,(like the theft of Britain's middle east oil fields) Britain has nobody else to kiss up to. Canada will cling to the U.S. because, well, it has a long and thin border with a U.S. that is not really a friend at all.
(What damage did the U.S. do to Britain? Well, for a start it stole the British oil fields in the middle east. Note - I never said the British were nice in the first place.) In fact. Britain of 1800s and later was far worse than Hitler's Germany in murdering a plundering hundreds of millions.
And far the greatest damage of the last 75 years of unbroken warfare, plundering and mass murder of those years, has been caused not be those evil Chinese or Russians. The most evil people in this world today are American capitalists through their dupes - the elected members of Republican Party and the Democrat party.
And the Canadians holding on to the belts of American capitalists?Those are Canadian capitalists?
As I write this, I suspect much of my mail has not been getting through. As soon as I finish this, I'm taking my computer to the repair shop to see whether I have attracted the attention of a hacker. In particular, I'm finding it impossible to attune my blogs to the web sites. I shall try for now to give the gist of the stories in my own words.
Meanwhile, enjoy the rest of our 100 years war. Oh, and make a list of American values....housing and feeding the poor? Providing medical care for the poor? Equal opportunities for the poor in education? (get real. American capitalists, like Canadian ones, don't give a damn about the poor. They are just cheap labour to be tossed aside. When I started teaching way back in the 1950s in Canada, the school board apologized for the class sizes, and said they were going to reduce them. And the reality is that in all these years,Candian and American class sizes haven't budged.
Is democracy an American value? Get real. Americans, like Canadians, are kept in ignorance of the real news, almost all of which is heavy on lies. And that's why Americans and Canadians vote Liberal, Conservative, Democrat and Republican.
That's why the people of New Brunswick vote only for the Liberals and Conservatives of the province. Of course. The Irvings own and control all the newspapers of the province. They are also big funders to Liberals and Conservatives for their puppet political campaigns. And that sort of thing is common across Canada.
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Right now, the U.S. is crashing as a nation. I doubt whether the great debate or Trump's illness will change that. (In fact, it's quite possible there isn't going to be an election. Trump is crazy. Biden is weak). Anyway, it doesn't matter who the president is. The real government of the U.S. is the super rich class. It always has been.
The U.S. (like most countries) is based on a myth that it has National (American) values. I have no idea what those values might be. It's wars are fought - and always have been fought - to make money for the super rich. Almost all of it's political leaders going back to George Washington have been the servants of the super rich. Another American value is starving it's own people, and plundering them to make the super rich even richer.
American democracy? That's bunk. The U.S. has always been a nation owned by the very rich. And it has been increasingly owned by them since 1950. Today, millions of the American poor live in tents or out in the open. And the super rich have been steadily getting much, much richer.
This is a country that does nothing for the average citizen. Medical care is the most expensive in the world, well beyond the reach of most Americans. The public schools are a disgrace. (But the super rich send their children to private schools supported heavily by government grants. And the universities? They are beyond the reach of the majority of Americans.)
American values? Well, it's biggest value has been war and killing. That began, really, with George Washington who set off a long history of mass murder of the native peoples in order to steal their land. (Canada did some of that, too.)
If you go through all the years of American government, you will find very few years of peace. There was the mass murder of native peoples - men, women and children and the theft of their land. For the last hundred and twenty years it has been stealing Latin American resources, reducing the people of Latin America to poverty, and sending even children into the mines. Oh - and killing and enslaving in the Phillipines.
Since 1945, American armies (that are not really armies for the benefit of the American people, but armies of the average person for the benefit of the super rich.)
And these armies are even more savage than most earlier wars with a concentration on mass murder of civilians, children, and starvation imposed all the way down to babies. American wars are so brutal and savage that large numbers of the soldiers suffer when they see what they have done - though more become threats of their own through their mass murder of civilians and children- perhaps within a few months - or less.
And we Canadians are next door. Are they likely to attack Canada? Very likely, especially to take over a province like Alberta.
And where will Canadian billionaires stand on this one? Right beside their American friends. Greed is all that the super-rich understand. The rise and the greed of capitalism is very close to the murderous behaviour we accused the communism of Russia in the 1940s of. (On balance, capitalism is worse.
And Canadians, like Americans, are pretty limp in their politics.The Irving family of New Brunswick has been robbing New Brunswick blind. Despite their ample profits, the Irvings has been demanding - and getting - billions of dollars from a province that is relatively poor. And the Irvings refuse to pay taxes - they just take, take, take....
The Irvings also own the province's nespapers. Guess who those wimpy newspapers don't ever criticize and always praise. (That sort of thing, of course, is common to most of our news media.) And so New Brunswickers have voted for the government that (Liberal or Conservative) has been lying and ripping off the people of New Brunswick for close to a hundred years.
There's an NDP in New Brunswick. But in New Brunswick, as in most of Canada, people prefer to elect thieves.
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We live in a world dominated by it's greediest citizens. And people - how can I put this? - are as always kissing the smelly toes of the greedy. who abuse and debase them.
Why do I think now of Conrad Black....?
Long, Long ago when the world and I were young, I was on CBC radio every week. With me in the waiting room to go air was a young Gwynne Dyer who I realized even then was a brilliant news analyst. And there was also a young Conrad Black.
When anyone spoke to Black, he would throw back his head and close his eyes to speak so he could listen to the glory of his own words. He didn't care about the rest of us. He just wanted to roll in the ecstasy of his own voice. Often, even usually, what he said had nothing to do with the question. Even then, he had an ego that I have never seen matched. And this became the ghastly story of his own career with some of the worst newspapers this world has seen.
And he was a thief - for which Donald Trump forgave him.
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wars. (unless there's a nuclear war to spoil it all.)
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It is likely, very likely, that Europe will be looking for new alliances. And for a major one of those, think Russia. This has been in the cards for some years. And now it is likely to happen.
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