75 years ago, I was a child standing on a main street in downtown Montreal and spellbound by the hysteria of thousands of people. A huge crowd followed a leader with a wire wastebasket resting on his hand. I looked to my left - to a store window. A soldier leaned against the window. He had only one leg.
On the window was a sign...we've won the war. I was caught up in the hysteria - we've won the war..now, my father would be coming home.
Then I read "now we've got to win the peace". But I paid no attention to that. We won the war. And if we've won the war, of course we've won the peace.
In less than five years, we were in another war. We've now been in wars ever since. We've had troops in Korea, Afghanistan, the middle east..we've destroyed democracy in Haiti to please the world's leading aggressor, our neighbouring U.S. We have troops almost on the Russia border. Canada and Canadian capitalists routinely do favours for a plundering U.S. in Latin America.
Canada no longer has any interest in the Britain our soldiers died to defend in World War 2. No. Britain is out of style.. Now we serve American capitalists in the world they have made a hell out of, killing, starving, bombing (especially civilians and children and that's deliberate). We don't even declare war any more. We just kill. We, with the U.S., have become what the Naziis were.
And the worst is yet to come - a nuclear war against China and Russia. (Oh, you think they're evil? The U.S. is far, far more evil. That's why Europe is turning against the U.S. That's why nobody at the UN takes Canada seriously. But don't worry. Your newspaper won't tell you anything about this.)
That's why I so clearly remember that day in 1945. We have abandoned all that we said we were fighting for in world war 2. And it's is almost certain to get worse. The U.S. is fading as a world power. It's a mess as a world power. It is thoroughly disliked by most of the world. To make things worse, we are in the middle of a climate change. Don't kid youself about that. It's rapidly getting worse as California is showing. And it's getting more worse in places like Brazil with its forest fires that have destroyed the Amazon rain forest - which will encourage even more destruction all over Latin America and will kill almost all the wildlife - though that wildlife is important to our survival. This is happening now. And we're going to feel it very soon. Our vegetation and our animals are essential to our survival.
And our political leaders? The Liberals have done close to nothing. The Conservatives are worse, much worse. Conservative premiers in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan have been actively destructive of the environment. (The premier of Saskatchewan has been even worse. He has a long record of drunk and dangerous driving, a record that includes his killing of a woman. If you want to know more about that, don't waste your time looking at our commercial news media. Check out rabble.ca on your computer.)
Oh, my. I got carried away. This daily going through the news in one, horrible, experience
We've won the war. But the reality is we have to win the peace.
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Now, let's change the topic.
Donald Trump has far the worst record of any president of American history. His support is weakening; but it's still, at 40% or so, remarkably high. How can we understand that about this hopelessly incompetent leader?
Can you say evangelical? There's a branch of Christianity that's called evangelical.
While other Christian churches have been losing ground for some years, evangelicals have been growing. I've known a good many of them, including their clergy. The main thrust of their believes has nothing to do with the usual Christianity. They don't care about life on earth. They don't care about most of the usual Christian values. Their obsession is getting to heaven.
They don't care about social problems. The focus of their faith is on dying. They want to die. They want to go to heaven. And, there, they want to stand on the clouds and do nothing except to sing praises to God -not for just thousands of years but for eternity.
And God, they believe, will accept only them. All other Christians will go to hell with all the world's other Christians and, most certainly,along with all other religions. And they are now convinced that Donald Trump has been sent by God to create the rest of the world to - you know......
Yes. This is quite a perversion of Christianity. But it has a powerful hold on parts of the U.S. Now........
What will they do if Trump loses? There's a strong possibility that they will still have a large following in some states, large enough to break away from some states. Indeed, along with the tremendous emergence of armed 'militia' in some states, it is very possible that both groups will separate.
The U.S. is already deep into self destruction. We could see a much reduced and weaker U.S. And a reduced U.S. might well find itself looking for additional land and population --- in Canada. And Canadian capitalists might well support that.
I don't think that will happen - but it's a lot more possible than I would like it to be.
(The U.S. government had a plan to attack Canada as recently as the 1930s. Don't kid yourself about the possibilities.)
The U.S. also has another reason to need Canada.
Climate change has a powerful effect in the U.S. The whole state of California has become a basket case that can only get worse every year. Indeed, California wildfires with spread to other states and, almost certainly, to Canada. And the fires generate even worse conditions as they raise temperatures. Even a one degree rise would be disaster.
Scientists have warned us about this for some time. And we've done nothing. It takes only a tiny rise -and we are creating these tiny rises. Now, the fires have been moving inland. We're seeing the same thing in Latin America and in other parts of the world.
Despite what capitalists tell us as they pump ever more air into our atmosphere, and slaughter wild life, we're moving very quickly to destroy the possibility of life on this planet. So why do we go on destroying it? Why do we go on with this insane destruction?
That's because our super rich ignore the tremendous damage they are doing. They are obsessed with wealth. Wealth is all they understand. It's all they care about. Scientists all over the world have been warning them. They don't care. They are today the most murderous people in the world. We can kill millions. We are killing millions with a temperature rise of just a degree. And we are killing them.
We need our wild life. Our planet cannot survive if we destroy our wild life. All of nature works and has to work for us to live. But we are destroying wild life all over the world. That's happening with our destruction of the Arctic. It's happening with the fires and destruction of forests Latin America. They are destroying life from animals to insects - and that is killing us. We're destroying our oceans with our tremendous dumping of plastic in them for the last 75 years ago.
The reality is that we cannot survive in the horrible abuse we impose on all other forms of life.
And it may already be too late.
For thousands of years, we have been producing some people who understand only greed. And only their own greed. We have now placed ourselves in the grip of those who understand only greed. Indeed, as we suffer unemployment for millions as the super rich have increased their wealth in every one of those years right up to today. And they are letting millions starve. And they own our Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.
I despair of Canada when I see the people of New Brunsick vote for a Liberal party that, like the Conservatives, will always be a servant of the unspeakable Irvings who have been robbing the people of New Brunswick blind for almost a century. Then there's the people of Saskatchewan who support a Conservative leader who, in addition to his kissing rich asses, is a serial drunk driver who killed a woman and fled the scene but has never been charged. And here, in Ontario, we have a premier who causes enormous destruction of the envionment and adds to climate change.
It's reminicent of a British Empire that starved and abused most of the population of Britain. And the super rich of the timesigned up the British people (with almost no pay) to murder over 400 million people all over the world to make the super rich richer.
We are ruled not really by our governments but by the super rich------who are the most thorough and evil bastards this world has ever seen.
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By Tuesday, I should have this blog working under my original purpose - to provide important information from the best sources I can find so it's not just my opinion - but it's sources one can rely on - unlike most of our commercial news media..
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