November 29: A better world under Joe Biden?

 Get real.

For a start, He and his wife had a good income, but not a sensational one right up to 2017. And that was the year he did well with an income of 11 million. Wasn't that nice? It isn't clear how he earned that. But it was nice.

2018 was slower at 4 million. But it was nice enough to make him feel easy about buying a 2.7 million dollar vacation home. And,  in fairness, we should note that he, unlike Trump, paid taxes.

Since then he seems to have earned less, though it's hard to find figures.  However, Biden was the contact for billionaires who wanted favours from the federal government.

And his views on war? He's a big fan of it, partly because wars make profits for large corporations. And that makes him a  booster for this 75 years war in which we've been killing millions to make billionaires happy. that's why, in fact, the U.S. military places a special emphasis on killing civilians, chilren, and even babies.

No. The election of a Biden will make no change of direction from mass murder and theft. It is also likely that Biden will have far more interest in a China war than Trump ever did. And there may be some very surprising elements in that case.

American business leaders are still obsessed with a determination to conquer (and plunder) the world - all of it.       

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Meanwhile, 50 million Americans from babies to the elderly are homeless. A high proportion of those are without food. (Canada is much better - but still fairly inactive in dealing with poverty. It has 35,000 on a typical night. though it can be much higher if one also counts those who spend a smaller number of nights in any period of less than a year.

Children growing up in this situation are unlikely to do well in school, and commonly don't finish even elementary. I notice that because I was a child of a similar period - the great depression. Few, very very few of us finished school. Nor did our teachers and schools expect us to. Some were leaving in grade four. Growing up in that atmosphere, I flunked grade 10, repeated, and was expelled in grade twelve.

Mind you, it was just us Christian kids who performed badly. Jewish kids did better than us. Their parents had a great respect for education. Unlike our Christian parents, they expected and encouraged excellent performance.

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The American press has paid very little attention to Biden's record. And I've noticed  little attention to it even in a columnist I would normally praise like Gwynne Dyer. Generally, Biden seems to be regarded as a real sweetheart.

Taint so.Elections are won by money, not morality. Biden's background is that he was the errand boy to get money from very rich people to win elections. And I expect he will repay that pepping up of wars that have slacked off a bit, and he he'll repay it by handing out profitable defence contracts. That's the way the game works.

Canada's Liberals and Conservatives do the same, though in a more secretive way.

Canadian politicians get away with it because Canadians have always been polite and quiet, and because our press never even mentions this to us. Unlike Americans, most Canadians have very little sense of the corruption and and evil of our capitalists. There are few Canadians who can even name more than one or two of our capitalists. The exception,  the one who is widely known, is Irving of New Brunswick. But that's because he owns the press of his province, and points exactly where they are to kiss him.

Capitalism is simply a variant of a corrupt and immoral development that goes back to our earliest ancestors. Our mentalities produce unlimited people who obey, and a tiny group that uses and abuses the rest of us.

It's been like that for uncounted thousands of years. Thus we have rather few kings but lots and lots of peasants. The peasants die, often while doing service to the king - and sometimes, as in ancient Rome, simply lived in filth, poverty, and early death.

It is not surprising that tens of millions of Americans live in filth, hunger and poverty - and early death. Nor is it suprising that the rich of North America have been increasing their wealth at a record pace even as I write this column.

Yes. A Joe Biden is an errand boy for the super rich. And yes, Canadians make the Irvings happy by throwing money at them.

Most Canadians don't have the faintest idea who these people are. But they are the ones who plunder and abuse the rest of us. And it can pile up in 70 rears. In Canada and the U.S. it's not millions of dollars - and not billions. The real number for the last seventy years of pillage is somewhere way up in the trillions. The super rich are allowed to pile this up - enough money to feed and house billions of people over much of the world.

That's a pattern of greed and plunder and misery and early death for the greater part of humanity. The basis of the latest outburst of all this is that in these very tough times, the super rich have reached their grandest lead in wealth that ever there was. And, in North America, they are keeping every penny for themselves.

And on the international scene? They are starving hundreds of millions all over the world. They've been on this rampage for 70 years and more.

And now they can destroy all of us. In addition to all the above, they have drooled over the most powerful weapons in history. It was about 30 years ago we learned we had to get those weapons under control and we had to get the distribution of   wealth under control. And, thirty years later, we have almost nothing under control.

And Canada? We help Americans by killing Latin Americans to keep them in line.

And we've actually murdered Haitians and Afghanis and Koreans for reasons that have nothing to do with us. And much of this happens because our news media so often lie to us. Of course; almost all our news media lie to us. That's because they are  owned by billionaire newspaper owners. Sorry. Trillionaire newspaper owners

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Sorry. I lost track on this blog. But I had to say all the above. We in Canada, in the U.S., in much of Europe, have allowed ourselves to be trapped in a system of lies and world power. And we have decisions which our leaders refuse to look at and which can well destroy all of us - soon.

We live in a world largely governed by evil. And it always has been. The name of the system changes - Kings, emperors, aristocracy --all in known history have been created by cruel and evil people, almost always of the higher classes. So it was in the British Empire even as most of the English people suffered and died under terrible living conditions. So it was as the U.S. recruited armies from all over the world to help them plunder and destroy China - and they lost. So the U.S. now murders (yes. these are prime targets) men, women and children all over the world.

Our world has always been evil.But the evil has never before been as powerful as it is now. 50 million Americans live in the streets or in tents with little money for food. Millions more are in jeopardy. Uncontrolled climate change is  destroying basic food production all over the world. The super rich don't care. They're making their greatest profits in history.

Do we have the time left to deal with our needs? I don't know. And the very rich don't give a damn.

Our ruling classes produce irreponsible and greedy leaders like - Donald Trump. And like  Joe Biden. Like, say, the Irvings of New Brunswick, the Doug Fords of Ontario, and most of the population of Alberta. Funny how most of this doesn't make our news media.........

But as I began today's blog, I realized I had to mention the enormous evil of those who have power over us. And who understand only evil.

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Politically, I'm not at all with the Republicans or Democrats or Conservatives or Liberals. Politically, I'm with the NDP, though I don't see much future for it in the world we have created.

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Nov. 24 Just Thinkin'....

The text below is the third copy of the blog I prepared. Three of those copies immediately appeared on the screen - then disappeared, seemingly to cancel my account of Britain, the U.S., and narcotics in China. So I'm trying it all again.______________________________________________________

I know I said I would break off for a bit. But as I follow the U.S. election campaign, I realize there are things we need to learn about our current elections and the American one. For openers, the U.S. is not a democracy, and never has been. (ditto for Canada.)

George Washington was not a believer in democracy. He was an upper-class man of English descent. With that background, he was,of course, a man who respected only the rich. That's why many Americans in the first election were denied the right to vote - because they were poor.  That's why most of the winners in the first were  rich. So it is  today with both American parties in the Senate and Congress dominated by a high proportion of millionaires.

Yes. The first American president was at heart a typical Englishman of the aristocracy  who had nothing but contempt for anybody who wasn't rich.

The contempt for 'lesser' people also surfaced in the form of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the U.S. army, George Armstrong Custer. He and his regiment were sent west after the North-South war. His assignment was to destroy native tribes in a region the government had decided to take over. Actually, it was not American territory - but noobody in government cared about that.

Almost certainly, his assignment was also to massacre all men, women and chidren, maintaining the George Washington principals of destruction of native peoples. For some reason, Custer left over half his force at a position way back of the Little Big Horn where he intended to meet the enemy. That's why the troops who followed him all died. So it was that Custer became a (dead) hero.

So the U.S. sent a larger force, killing most of the native peoples, including children. God Bless America. Funny how the world's  Christian churches have never noticed this behaviour of it's parisioner.

Some twenty years later, the U.S. would turn it's attention to murdering and plundering the people of Latin America. Then after 1945, it would turn it's murdering and plundering to activities in Africa and, scarcely noticed, to China.

This really began in the late nineteenth century when the British controlled China. The British wealthy, always eager to make money out of China hit on the idea of opening up the market to narcotics. There were lots of them in other British colonies in the region and cheap to get and, oh, very profitable. So it was that British capitalists opened up a huge trade in narcotics. (And I notice the British churches paid no attention to that.)

It became hugely profitable in China with  drug houses becoming homes for addicts. (And, as readers of Sherlock Holmes will have noticed, they did well in Britain, too.)

When the western powers chose Chiang Kai Shek as their ruler of China, he became far the wealthiest drug dealer in the world. Chiang was the man who, during World War Two and for a short time after ruled China. and who became the western agent for plundering China.

But he lost that all when Mao Tse Tung chased him off into the tiny state of Taiwan. But the drug trade into China went on with American help. And that, right up to now, is something Chinese governments don't want. The trade in narcotics, though illegal in China, still has a substantial market with the help of American and British capitalists. And to the Chinese government, this is a huge step backwards into the horrible days of British rule.n no way at all have the British or Americans helped China. In some 150 years of colonial rule Britain enslaved, starved and murdered the people of China. And when the U.S. immediately tried to take over (the Korean war) the U.S. did and still does all it can to cripple China.

Ever wonder why China hates the British and Americans?

No. Our side is not the good guys. We never have been. Throughout some 3,000 years we know of - and probably more - we humans have been ruled by a tiny group of greedy and ruthless men (almost all men).Today, most of them are called Billionaires, And we are their servants. In Canada, they own our Liberal and Conservatives parties. In the U.S. they own the Republicans and Democrats. They create the wars that the rest of us die for. And they're all the same - whether they decide to murder hundreds of millions as the British empire did, Or whether they decide to murder millions for now as the U.S. is doing - and as it is preparing to do  for  the greatest and most bloody war in history -the war on China.

(Oh, a great many of them are not billionaires. They are trillionaires. But they hide most of their money, and leave the rest of us to starve. The last 70 year have been very good for the American and Canadian ones as their wealth has grown steadily, while most of us have been experiencing a constant drop in the value of our salaries while the super rich, even now, are making their biggest profits in history.)

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The story of narcotics in China.

In the eighteenth century, Britain enslaved Chinese labour, murdered anyone who got in the way and generally made a feast of the corpse that was China. But British capitalists wanted even more. Their  even more was to harvest the narcotics from their other colonies (very cheap) and force them into the Chinese market at a higher price. And, oh, it was successful.

To that, they added  narcotics boarding houses - which consisted mostly of bunk beds with rows if druggies in stupors. And, oh, it made money. China was, after all, the world's biggest market by far. The system even opened up, though to a much lesser degree, in Britain itself as any reader of the Sherlock Holmes stories will know.

In the nineteeth century, the British hired Chinese to operate the system. That led to their favourite pick, a pro-British  drug dealer and ruler named Chiang Kai Shek.With British help, he soon became, perhaps, the biggest drug dealer in the world. But the rise of communism had Chinese leaders interested in a more sober population.   After all, a nation stoned is not likely to accomplish much.

By the 1950s the British had become a minor factor in hitting at the Chinese market.  So we are left with a China that still suffers heavily from narcotics addiction encouraged, this time encouraged by the U.S. Not as bad as it was. But bad.     

Does this give any hint of why China rather dislikes Britain and the U.S.?                                                                                     

Nov.20: sinning and repenting.

 When I began this blog many years ago - and until recently - it had a huge audience over much of the world. Canadians were small potatoes. But that audience became quite different just a couple of months ago. I ceased to be international, and even as a Canadian site,it is read only by a small number of Canadians.

Until a short time ago, it featured world news, including the  pictures and columns that appeared with it. Then that, somehow, disappeared. Makes a guy think, sort of...

....but it took quite a while to make me think.

So for a start,   I've contacted a computer repair place to find out how to get these pictures and stories back on to my blog to make it more colourful and more interesting.

I'll also be paying more attention to the concepts of capitalism and communism. I'm not pushing eiither of them - but looking forward to being more realistic about them.

When I  was teaching in Hong Kong, I was astonished at the poverty and misery of much of the population. I got to know the governor's right hand man (we were related by marriage) who had nothing but contempt for the people. At night, I looked down miles of streets lined with cardboard that whole families slept on. These were home. I saw elderly men sleeping in parks in wire cages, each cage just high enough to roll into. Looking out hotel window, I could see children playing on an unfenced roof tops

. They lived in dreadful and unsanitary shanties built on the roof top. (no toilets, no nothing.) That was capitalism at work.

When I was up in communist Biejing, I saw scenes much like that. More recently, the pictures of Beijing show stunning progress.Housing, good housing, is universally available at low prices in communist China. Chinese schools and universities are world class.

We are raised to a belief that capitalism is good; communism is bad. Well, there are no people sleeping in the streets in communist Beijing. But in capitalist U.S. and Canada, millions sleep in the streets. I'd like to find some time learning about things I  find curious. Why do we think capitalism is good and communism evil?

Capitalism has been the major cause of both world wars. Capitalism has murdered and enslaved all over Latin America and Africa. British capitalists for over a hundred and fifty years murdered and plundered China.  In fact, almost all wars since 1800 have been capitalist. (Don't bother asking Canadians or Americans about this. Very few have any idea what the word means.)

Oh, I know. Capitalism is good. That's why we kill people who aren't capitalists.

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To sum up, I'm now arranging to get help from pros on how to make my site more satisfying and attractive, to open myself up to a wider understanding. And hoping to get that done soon.

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Nov. 18: Human Villainy and Computer ---damn computers...

This computer is driving me crazy. All sorts of functions just won't work. In the pararaphs below, for example,there is a huge gap - and then some more  paragraphs will show up. And nothing I can do will bring those two paragraphs together. And I constantly get other oddities in my computer behaviour.

So I am sending this as it is, and taking my computer into a repair shop with a list of the problems I'm encountering.

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 Much of the western world,  including Canada and the U.S. is attracted by a  movement to make anti-semitism illegal. To bad they don't know what it means.

Oh, Jews are semites- meaning semitism is the Jewish language. But there's a catch. Semitism is not just a Jewish language. It's also, among others, the language of arabs.

And right now, Israeli Jewish are the ones who are attacking the semites of the arab world. They have stolen Arab lands,murdered arabs, made any sort of economy impossible, bombed factories, schools all over Palestine, stolen their homes and their.

There was a time, not long ago, when Jews and Arabs lived together in peace and even friendship. Of course. They had a long friendship in the land they shared. Then the other Jews of the west came in. Western countries like Canada, the U.S., and Britain didn't want them in 1945. (They probably still don't want them.) So we shipped them off to Palestine- and loosed theit rage on the Palestinians , to steal their lands and homes, to abuse those who stayed in what is now Israel. to now kill Arabs almost on a daily basis.

The Palestinian arabs have been suffering their own holocaust. And we (self) righteous ones are about to make it worse.

Yes, we do need to attack anti semitism.But we should first take the trouble to find out who semites are.

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It is dreadfully frustrating to follow American politics while retaining hope for anything we have seen from Democrats and Republicans.

For a start, the cost of the election so far has been at least 3 billion dollars. Almost all those'contnributions come from  very small number of very wealthy capitalists. All those capitalists give money to be into close terms with the parties, and to get legislation they want. In other words, the very rich buy off the governments - and nobody gives a thought to what the voters think or need.  In fact, buying American governments has long since been an industry in the U.S. (as is buying governments in Canada.)

As democracy, this is pure farce. Elections are not about what Americans need or want. It's about what billionaires want. And they want just about everything. One area they want to control is war so they can expect the American people to fight,  kill for and die  - with the American people paying the price in the costs of war, and getting no rewards from it. (No - billionaires don't usually pick up the tab for their wars. That comes from ordinary people (and often Canadians) to pick up the tab. That's why the U.S. has no money to spare for the homeless. That's why American incomes have been dropping in relation to market incomes since 1950 or so. And that's why the super rich have been gettiing richer while millions lie in the streets.

We should have known about this many years ago. But almost all our news media are owned by the super rich. (It's the same in Canada with the Liberals and Conservatives.) The NDP and the Greens are  honest.  That's why they can't get honesty from the wealthy.

We are prisoners and victims in our own countries. Have you noticed how little our governments have done about climate change? It has been a serious issue since 1990 - and we have scarcely done a damn thing. Oil has become something bloody dangerous to encourage.But nothing happens because the oil companies and their puppets like Ontario's Doug Ford, make sure nobody does anything.

Schools are understaffed and, despite promises from years ago when I was a grade school teacher. govrnments have never lifted a finger to make improvements. Billionaires get more billions in government gifts. Schools get nothng.

That's why we have to live with climate change which, among other things, is killing people all over the world as it has.

Now, slide down, way down for the rest of this.

  That's why our tropical storms and forest fires are going out of control all over the world. And that's just an early stage. In the next three years, climate change will rise to its second and third change stages. The third change will kill millions all over the world.

Wild life has been in decline? Wait till you see what it will  be like in just 2 more years. And our oil billionaires will do nothing even as the human death rate soars.

That's when we'll see more of something that has already begun, The super rich will move down to gentler climates in huge and elaborate underground palaces. In fact, it's already begun.

The super rich are the greediest and most evil of all human types. They have abused the rest of us for thousands of years. And the rest of us just sit there with our faces hanging out. This is the greediest and cruelest stage of human history.   And, in parties like the Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans and Democrats.we face an arrogance and greed. And we do nothing.

That has already killed millions, especially killing children and babies in Latin America and the middle east. (And our self righteous news media routinely denounce China as evil.) In the near future, the greed we have created in the middle east,  combined with climate change,  will be killing uncountable millions of men, women and children. Some estimates run over a hundred million.

We are evil.

Oh! You're critical of China?  It certainly has it's faults. But it, for the first time in centuries, is properly housing and feeding it's people. That's a hell of a lot better than the British did in their long plundering of China. It's a lot better than the U.S. would have done if it had conquered China in the 1950s. It's a lot better than the U.S., Canada, Britain and the "Christian" world have done in tossing their homeless adults and children out in the streets to starve in misery.

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Nov.13: Save the cheers.

 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/15/25-trillion-theft-study-shows-richest-1-americans-have-taken-50-trillion-bottom-90

Forgive me for this very incomplete report. I  am having a terrible time in figuring how to use my new computer - including such things as giving a full report instead of the scrawny statement above.

The story is that the richest 1 percent of Americans in the last 35 years or so have taken 50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90 percent of Americans. Well, it's actually worse than that as salaries have been dropping ever since World War Two. That is why American salaries have been plunging  ever since that war. That's why worker salaries are less than half what they would have been if the salary scale of 1945 had been maintained.

And it's been made a lot worse as American capitalists have crushed school  budgets. (Ditto in Canada. In 1957, I became a school teacher. My classes were an oversized 30 plus. The school board assured us that this would be changed as we increased the budgets and reduced class sizes. But in all these years later, virtually nothing has been done.)

But life for billionaires has been much better. They can live almost tax-free. Indeed, they are even allowed to hide their money in secret banks. They easily get government money every year in the billions which they can use as they like. In the US today, where common people live in poverty and, even worse, on the streets, they get now help. Meanwhile, the super rich - in both Canada and U.S., are having great years

Why are governments so generous to billionaires? That's because most governments are owned by the rich. Elections cost money. Big money. And that comes to our Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans from the super-rich. Canadian parties like the NDP don't get that money - except in the form of donations from ordinary people like you and me who can't afford big donations.

That's why a family like the Irvings of New Brunswick can buy and own governments. That's why Biden can beat Trump. And that's why Biden won't be doing much as President. He was bought and paid for from the start.

And, while we sit around with our faces hanging out,we are destroying ourselves.

Common sense should tell us this. We are heading for one hell of a crash.

And the American and Canadian people? You would think they would know they're being ripped off of trillions of dollars. But no. They've been dozy for centuries and show no sign of waking up.

And where does this take us? The greed and evil of a very small number of people, the corruption of most of our politicians, have been destroying us for thousands of years. We are now on the edge of the final crash of the evil we have worshipped for all the evil years of emperors, kings. czars, for a world we have allowed the richest and most evil among us to run. And that could come as early as the final war on China and Russia. (Watch for a possible big move from Trump on China in his remaining time.)

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Last night I watched the demonstration of a million people in the area of the White House. They were not angry at Trump. No. They were there to cheer him. Consider, too, that many more millions who might have joined them couldn't afford the time or the money. We're watching a breakdown of American democracy - a democracy that was never all that democratic in the first place.

Remember, too, that large numbers of democrats have always been  of much the same values as Republicans.

Oh, and remember the many millions of weapons, even including machine guns, even artillery (I visited many gun stores in the U.S.) sold to  Americans, In huge numbers, they are on Trump's side.

No, the election isn't over. Not by a long shot.

And remember - the Democrats have never been much different from the Republicans. Both parties have always been the errand boys for the super rich. And I would rather not think of what that bodes for Canada. (Oh, fear not for the Canadian super -rich. They are the same breed as the American ones. And that takes us quickly to the final war against China and Russia).

All that Canadians died for in World War Two has been thrown away as our super rich thought it more profitable to fight more wars. Too bad the Canadian Legion has never understood that. Instead, it has clapped hands as even more Canadians have been killed.  But, like the Legion, like many Canadians, there are war historians who believe that war is glorious.

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Meanwhile, God Bless America remains what it is possibly the most warlike nation in the world. That began in 1620 with the arrival of the pilgrim fathers from Britain. Since then American wars have been non stop - first against the native peoples who greeted them, and a gradual spread of killing across the continent.  Then it warred against the Britain that put them here,  and made several attacks on Canada. Then Mexico was plundered in the form of Texas, California, Nevada, Then  civil war followed by conquest, destruction, plundering all across Latin America - with another hit at Canada after the U.S. civil war. And then it murdered it's way across The Phillipines.  I guess that's what Trump is talking about when he says Make America Great Again.

In our time, it's been busy murdering and plundering Latin America of course (with Canada called in to murder Koreans, Haitians, Afghanis, Libya and to make itself  useful in the middle east oil field wars. And that's good because it gives Canadian capitalists. a share in plundering Latin American resources at cheap, cheap prices for the children of Latin America, right down to the 6 year olds who work and die for pennies in the mines. Yes. It makes us proud to be Canadians.

The U.S. is governed by the greed of it's capitalists. That's true of both parties. And while capitalists feed on both American parties, the also feed on Canada's Liberals and Conservatives. The Conservatives of Canada are really a branch association of U.S. most backward, ignorant and vicious Republicans. (Check out Conservative Ontario's "housing" for the homeless in Toronto. It's, well, cheap. And it's vile. It consists of small cages made of glass. It's not much bigger than a tent - and so small it's impossible to imgine a family in one of them.

Think of those class cages when you see well fed Doug Ford, (Ontario's Trump) on TV looking ernest with a battery of flunkies and behind them a row of flags disgraced by him.

The super rich are making the greatest piles of money in history. It reminds me of the British aristocracy who made vast fortunes out of the poverty they foisted on the rest of the population. (that, incidentally, is what most of the career of Winston Churchill was about.) In the rest of the world, hundreds of millions starve.

Oh Canada? Yeah. 0-0-0-0H

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 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/09/many-workers-will-suffer-days-after-election-trump-quietly-freezes-wages-farm

But who cares? Right?

Well, you better care because this is just a hint of what is coming - and what has already come. Our millionaires and billionaires have been on a binge for the last 70 years, plundering the working class and the middle class.

You won't find this story in our commercial newspapers. But there are lots of sites on the web showing how our wealthy are stealing on a  grand scale from all the rest of us and have been stealing for many years.

Oh, this story has made the New York Times - but most of our commercial news media have not mentioned it and won't. Canadians and Americans have been suffering horrible declines in income for fifty years or so. And the money has been pouring into the pockets of the super rich who pay astonishingly low taxes - if any at all.

Check out a site called Common Dreams (adding the words 'decline of U.S. incomes'.)

The rest of us pay high taxes - not to feed and house the poor, not to improve our schools or to make our universities free - but to feed the rich and greedy.

We also pay to cover the horrible cost of the wars of the super rich. We, not the super rich, pay for the brutality of North American capitalism in Latin America. We pay for thousands of missiles to murder billions of people - soon. We pay for the wars in East Africa that have killed millions, wars that benefit only our super rich. We pay billions to ensure that babies and childred die all over the world. (There's a huge burst of this coming to at least 30 million children in Africa. Aren't you proud as Canadian and Americans to be helping our billionares?)

Ever notice that we pay virtually nothing to feed the hungry and homeless of our own countries? Ever notice that we pay billions to make our billionaires happy?

Sorry - that's not accurate. That money we happily hand out to billionaires actually - and very seriously - amounts to trillions. Those trillions that could do wonders of good for all of us are instead stuffed into the pockets of the super greedy.

 And so we begin to die.

There is not the slightest chance that the super rich will ever agree to share this wealth. In particular, there is not the slightest chance that Pierre Trudeau or Biden will ever permit it to be shared. (No. And even less chance that Canada's Conservatives or America's Republicans would lift a finger.)

This is a path our world has followed, perhaps since the origins of human life and through uncounted of thousands of years.Thus our almost unbreakable strings of wars through those wars. (Notice that we haven't had organized wars of lions or sharks, just of humans and, oh, we've had uncountable wars.)

We - or at least some of us - have been evil and greedy throughout history. And so we now are approaching the final days when unspeakable greed joins unspeakable destructive power.  (The Christian churches, incidentally, have been tools of the evil and greedy from the start. Most of the greedy wealthy are avid church goers. Most of them avoid going into their wars - they leave that to the common people. Thus we have a George Bush Family, that happily sends others to war but stays home and attends  church. Maybe this, with November 11 upon us,, is a good time to think about our churches at war. And that takes us to a magnificently written poem - but scarcely Christian in its message.)

"Take up our quarrel with the foe. To you from failing hands we throw the torch. Be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep - though poppies grow in Flanders Fields."

This is Flander's Fields, a poem in praise of murder in World War One. And the reality is that the enemy was no worse that we were. They, just like our side, were fighting a war to enrich their wealthy class.

And on Sunday, our churches will, as always, celebrate our murderous ways - just as they celebrate all our wars as we prepare for more "Christian" wars in the middle east and then the big and final one - China.

We are the animal descendants of evil. And we are now at the final stages of this evil.

The U.S. has solved nothing.

 For all the cheers in our news media, the victory of Biden almost certainly does nothing for the election crisis. The U.S. is divided into two almost equal parts. And those still have the power to destroy the nation.

And Canada is right in the line of fire.

Yes, of course Trump is a brainless idiot. Of course many of his followers are so ignorant they actually believe that God wants them to behave as they do. Indeed, there seems scarcely to be any intelligence on either side. This is a nation horribly abused by its super-wealthy and, so far, neither side is showing any interest in dealing with that. Both sides believe in the justice of American democracy that, in  fact, does not exist and never has existed. The U.S. has, from it's start, suffered from the greed of the wealthy. And that covers George Washington and earlier. This has been a non stop, mass murdering nation from the start. In that respect, Britain and the U.S. have a lot in common.

(And Canada's not much better.)

In the U.S., for example, health care is a private business for the profit of the very rich. You can't afford it? (And most people can't.) Tough. Let them die in the filth of the streets.

Canadians can all get whatever medicare they need. No. That wasn't done by the Liberals or the Conservatives. It was done by the CCF, a socialist party.

Americans (and some Candians) are going the American way in education. They get private schools, usually partly financed by our taxes for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the very rich.

It's becoming understood that public schools should be run as cheaply as possible. I grew up in that. It's an atmosphere that encourages failure and drop outs. I went to schools like that as a kid. My friends were dropping out starting from Grade 4. Only one student in my first school year ever finished high school. I was kicked out in grade 11.

That was no problem. We lived in a society in which the poor were expected to be failures, and, oh we met their expectation. Two years after I was kicked out I discovered a school that offered school completion for kids like me. So I signed in. And I (sort of) completed high school. My parents were very upset. As my mother sadly told friends, I was trying to rise above my station. (Later, the Ph.D. would be shattering for them.)

In both Canada and the U.S., the common people are treated like trash. And that's part of the history of both countries. And a great many employers like that because they can cut salaries and benefits for employees. (But billionaires like Trump make their fortunes out of cheap salaries and few benefits. That's why millions live in filth and disease in the streets - and die in the streets.)

That's a pattern we've lived with for thousands of years with Britain, France, Belgium, Rome..... That's the fundamental evil of those humans who are our masters. That's why, even now, millions of Candians and Americans suffer terrible hardship while billionaires are still making huge profits.

And,  in all of this greed and slobbering, both Trump and Biden are servants of the very rich. There is really no difference them - just as there is no difference between Canada's Liberals and Conservatives. (Well, in fairness, both parties are much the same - but Conservatives seem to have an edge on stupidity and irresponsiibility. However, Doug Ford of Ontario makes up in stupidity and ignorance for much of that.} This is the man who, the centre or our crisis wants to destroy new levels of environmental and climate destruction.

For thirty years, we  have known about climate change. We have known about the disasters that are the Arctic and the Antarctic. We have known about the steady rise of heat in a world  that cannot afford even an extra degree. We have known about the massive wildfires all over the world. We have known that even a California can face levels of destruction we are now learning for the first time. We know the whole world is suffering this. We know large parts of our countries are disappearing into the seas.

Agriculture is suffering terribly from this. That's why we have been warned that at least thirty million young children will  soon die of starvation in just one part of Africa.

Oh, and we now have plans to nuke China,  perhaps killing people in the billions. (Of course, Canaadians will be there. Yes, helping our American friends. Technically, it's called ass kissing, somehing good we've been practicing for American and Canadian corporations. And we also helped the U.S., murdering Haitian men,  women, and children for it.)

We know  what has been happening, dammit. But we still kiss the asses of unwashed billionaires.

The whole planet is being destroyed. And we, quite likely, are killing our own children.

We Canadians support a U.S. war effort all over the world that has been non-stop since 1949. That has meant something over 50 American wars, wars that have made a fetish of the mass murder of civilians - and of children and babies. Wars?

No. These are mass murder pure and simple. Our invasion of Afghanistan was illegitimate. So was Haiti. So was our bombing of Libya. Yes. That means we kill children and  babies just like Americans do. (And do we rape women on a massive scale? Of course. All armies do that. When the Americans captured Japan in 1945, they raped just about everything that moved.)

The West has been raping China for some 200 years. And, contrary to much opinion, it probably would be an easy matter to come to a peaceful settlement with China. We - not they  - are the ones who have been plundering and abusing China for centuries. But what we are doing now is on track to kill billions, the most savage slaughter in history.

(Oh, is China evil because it's communist? No. That's pure myth. There's nothing evil about communism. On the contrary, it has done wonders in recovering China from our abuse of it. If there any such evil in this world, you'll find it in western capitalism which has murdered hundreds of millions in Latin America,  Africa, Europe, Asia. Forget these lying stories you hear. It all depends on humans. Russia's early communism did wonders for that country. It was Stalin who destroyed that. But communist China has created quite marvelous growth - that's why it's so important to set an example by nuking China. And all our Christian soldiers will enjoy that.)

Well, there's a lot more to be said. But this is only a blog. Here's the main points. WE are evil. Both Trump and Biden have been making the evil worse. We have little time, very little, to save ourselves and the rest of the world. And the Trumps and  the Bidens and the Fords and the Trudeaus (and all those government twits in Alberta) have poisoned our world - oh, and every damn capitalist there ever was - are destroying us.

 

November 5: There is no good news. Capitalism has won. Greed has won.

 I feel ill about writing what I now have to write. I said a long time ago that we humans are, above all animals, unique in our evil and greed. No other creature acts in this way. We are the victims of evil and we are evil itself.

The American elections should be seen in this context.

I wrote earlier that the American elections are evil itself. But that is scarcely unusual. The British Empire, the Roman Empire, the French Empire, the Belgian Empire all built empires of evil. And this lust for conquest and abuse goes far, far back into history. And it's purely a human characteristic. We are the most savage and brutal of all living creatures.

British capitalists wanted to make money out of China as early as the late 1700s. But Britain lacked the wealth to  control the Chinese market. So it turned to India to plunder it's vast store of opium; and it used that to buy control of China. It was stilll pushing opium in China (in what must have been been the greatest drug trade in history) in 1940. By then, it's biggest pusher was Chiang Kai Sheck until he was overthrown by the communists who banned the trade because it was such a destructive business. (Chiang then fled to found Taiwan, the piece of China that we helped the Christian Chiang to save.)

(The much admired Winston Churchill was a brutal player in the game of empire, happily starving millions to death.)

And George Washington? He's the one who murdered millions of America's native peoples - right down to babies - to steal their land. And the US to this day is the most murderous nation in the world.

When I, an anglo, was living in Quebec, the French, bursting with  virtue, began abusing and expelling us because this was French soil. In fact, it was not and is not French soil. The French stole it by stealing the land that had been the land of the Mohawks and other native peoples.

But, oh, we love our plundering and killing. Thus the American display of their political virtue as revealed in elections.

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For about half of the election turnout, the issue is making American great again - which is the short way of saying America should be killing more foreigners in order to steal their land and resources. Thus the need for uncounted wars all over the world. Their must be few countries left that have not felt the sting of American mass murder, of starvation,torture and bombing of all targets from babies to the elderly. It's reminiscent, really, of the human slaughter of American native peoples by George Washington. We really haven't seen a break in this since about 1949.

And Canada has joined the killing since 1945. Britain and the British empire weren't worth fighting for any more, so Canadians kissed up to their American masters - as in Latin America, Korea, Syria, Afghanistan...if the U.S. tells us to kill people - men, women, children...we salute and do it. Many Canadians are proud of that - especially the Canadian Legion and more than a few Canadian war historians. We serve American killers just as we once served the king.

And no. I'm not proud to be  Canadian.

With the appearance of Covid, we toss Canadians - men, women and children - into the streets, there to sicken and die. But our billionaires, by serving the U.S., are actually prospering. So it is that while children die of hunger, While schools are hopelessly underfunded, while the rich can send their children to private schools billionaires like New Brunswick's Irvings can demand and get billions of dollars of our money to keep them happy.

No. I'm not proud to be Canadian.

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That brings us to the Democrat  party in the U.S. as the party of a glorious future.

Donne -moi un break.

The Democrat party, like the Republicans has been evil from the start. So when and Obama becomes president, he murders people from all over the world, just like Republicans. His Obamacare is largely farce. Under his leadership and under Biden's, the purpose of the Democrat party is to  serve the rich, slam most of the population, lower incomes....(American incomes have been going  down for forty years and more. Yes. The paychegues get a little bigger - but the cost of living keeps rising much higher. So Americans are poorer today than they have been for at least forty years.)

Much the same has been happening in Canada. But cheer up. The wealthiesst Canadian is, David Thomson who owns Reuters Press. That is quite an example. of why most Canadian news media never tell the truth. The same is true in the U.S. Almost all newspapers, radio stations, TV stations are staffed by liars.

Oh, and don't go to church. Churches almost all avoid discussing our media and our politics. And they almost never criticize or even mention our murderous and anti-Christian behaviour. That's been true for most of 2,000 years. When George Bush Sr. hired a mass of thugs to murder some 400,000 quite innocent Christians in Guatemala,, our news media never mentioned it. And wiping off the blood, Bush returned to his regular attendance at his church.

In World War Two in Europe, all the major powers who murdered each other were Christians. In some 2,000 years of Christianity, it is almost unheard of for Christians of any country to oppose a war. The use of atomic bombs was pretty vile. But I have never heard of it being criticized by any clergy. As the U.S. kills millions with it's bombing of civilians, no clergy question it. They all praise God and bless our side.

The teaching of Jesus has been ignored almost all the time since Jesus came down from the cross. (Ever wonder how,  in a Christian nation, children and the poor can be left to die in the streets while billionaires get bigger mansions?

What will happen if the Democrats win the election? They will do exactly what the Republicans did - ignore the poor and the homeless, make big profits for the rich,and murder more men, women and children all over the world.

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In the U.S. and Canada and Britain and others, war has won. Christianity has been trashed. (So has Judaism). Evil has won. And we have made it the winner. We are murderers in a tradition of murderers that goes back uncounted years.

Who will win the American election? We have created a world in which only the most savage and vile are respected.

Democrats? Republicans?

It doesn't matter. Evil has won. And we---have just watched it with our faces hanging out.

No. I really didn't want to write this.

Oct. 31: No. Damn it. No!

 Just minutes ago, I watched CNN on TV. And this is the same garbage I've seen on every channel. Like virtually all commercial news media it ignores the central problem of almost all of our news media. It gets nowhere near the meanings of the issues it discusses.And we lose the real meaning of what is happening.

Trump has a long record of erratic behaviour. Biden - do a little research - has built his career on being an errand boy for the very rich. It's no secret. Biden's Democrats are doing well because the super wealthy are pouring money into the Democrat campaign.

This campaign is not between two ideologies. Historically, both U.S. parties have always had the same ideology. This is not a struggle against good and evil.  (They are both crashingly immoral and evil.)

Canada is much the same, though with some greater idiocy in it's political philosophies from Liberals to Conservatives. (Canadian Conservatives believe in a province governed by a fat premier who spends much time every day standing in front of a TV camera with a long row of flags behind him, and between him and the flags a half dozen or so polical flunkies who, blessedly, don't say anything. How will that help us? Get real. It won't.

Our news media treat this whole affair as if it were, perhaps, a traffic accident. And that's the traditional way western news media treat all news. In particular, they pay almost no attention to the realities of what this is all about.

In 1945, we beat Hitler and Hirohito. The 'great' war was over. So this kid thought as he stood watching the crowds in 1945. The reality was quite different. Within just four years the U.S. began a series of wars - nobody knows how many - wars that murdered civilians, children, babies in the millions. To this day, millions of women and chldren are, quite seriously, murdered. And nobody knows how many. Africa is a place of such suffering and death that millions of families flee to survive. And we of the Christian West sink their boats and drown them.

Canadian soldiers have been in on the killing - though most of that never makes our news. So it was that Canada played a major role in the murder of untold numbers of civilians in Haiti. So it was that Candian pilots joined our American friends to bomb civilian targets in places like Libya. to train others to kill for them in Syria.  Our news media were silent when George Bush Sr. murdered Guatemalan priests, missionaries and nuns.

Oh, going back - ever wonder why our news media never told us, before WW2,  about the reason for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? In our news media, it was because Japanese were ugly and looked funny. But there was another reality.

The U.S. wanted a Japanese attack to give the excuse for an American war on Japan. (They had no idea the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbour.) Western news media  have always treated this as a Japanese provocation. Not so. The Americans wanted that war so its could take over China (stealing the Jewel of the British Empire.) But our news media never told us that, either.

Meanwhile, the Japanese were plundering China. So the U.S. moved for the Korean war to take over the job of plundering China. Their boy in that effort was Chiang Kai Shek. who happily murdered millions of Chinese so that with U.S. help (and tons of illegal drugs) he could be rich. But he lost - and so his few followers went with him to Taiwan. And these are the ones the U.S.is about to help.

And that takes us to modern China. My sympathies in the Far East lie with Hong Kong. But a reality is that we - Britain, the U.S. - murdered and plundered China into dreadful poverty and early deaths for more than a hundred and fifty years. (I wonder what the hell the Christian missionaries were doing.)

When China, after WW2 got some control over itself, the U.S. murdered it at every step. Of course, it's hostile to the West. What else could it be?

Western capitalism may well be the most evil and destructive force this world has ever seen. (Hell, if you want to get some idea of that, you should read the story of Americans, British, Canadians and others over the horrors inflicted on common people until very recently. And you might want to think now about the millions of Candians and Americans  today who live in tents and even under just the sky.

And think hard. How many billionaires are suffering these days? (In fact, the super rich are the richest they ever have been. They are actually making greater profits now. Betcha didn't read that in the news media they own.)

No. The image our nedia project is of a stage of truth tellers And the reality?

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1. The U.S. wealthy (liked many other wealthy including Canadian wealthy do NOT act to help us. They act to take - only to take, to plunder, to abuse....

In this, they have the full support of their Christian churches.

Thou shalt not kill? In two thousand years Christians have wallowed in killing - killing heathens, killing other Christians. Today, the U.S. routinely murders children and babies. No. These are not the side effects of war. These are the 'glory' of it. So it was with the British Empire and every empire there ever was. For two thousand years, Christians have killed not only heathens - but other Christians. We now live in a world where some leaders want a war to murder Chinese by the millions - in fact, by a billion or more. (When was the last time that China invaded us? And did you know that American warships are in the China Sea - on the grounds that these are American waters? Gee. I wonder if Lake Superior is a Chinese possession.)

Iran has oil. So the British plundered it. In the end the Iranians kicked the British out. Since then, American billionaires have wanted to plunder it. They want to own (steal) Iran's oil. And, in American eyes, that makes Iran evil. And this is exactly what is also happening between the U.S. and Venezuela.

Ever wonder why the U.S. went to war with Afghanistan? (No. Afghanistan did not attack New York on 9/11.) The U.S. has been there for twenty years in hope of plundering the mineral resources of that country and make American billionaires happy. That's why American heroes have been bombing women, children in Afghanistan. That's why Canada sent troops to Afghanistan - to kiss American asses.

That's why Canada's war veterans sit around their beer tables at the Legion and clap hands for war. Look. The legion should exist to help whose fought for Canada. They  deserve the help of all of us. They didn't create the wars. And I have known many who suffered terribly from them.

Being cheerleaders for wars that mass murder women and children and babies set up by greedy billionaires doesn't help our veterans. I wish our Legionnaires would think about that. I  wish their greatest admirers (like Canada's leading military historian, the one who set up Ottawa's war museum) would think about that.  I wish he'd think as a general practice.

We live in what is shaping up as the most brutal and greedy wars this world has ever known. Much of Africa, perhaps 30 million,  are almost certain to suffer death by starvation within the new year. Many, many thousands of Latin Americans are starving because of Americans who steal their food and mineral resources - and deliberately starve them. That's why they flee to the American border. It's not for the joy of being God bless Americans. But the U.S. separates the children, and tosses them, like their parents into vile prisons.

As Africans flee the horror of starvation in their countries, they try to escape to Europe. Some are accepted, sort of, to suffer and eventually to die in vile campgrounds. Others are sunk by patrol boats, and go down into the sea. We haven't seen the worst. But there is every possibility we will and soon as 30,000 or more nuclear bombs embrace our planet.

Meanwhile, Canadians, Americans, others are suffering from a financial crisis that is going to last for some time. The super rich aren't suffering. They've steadily been getting richer since 1960 at least. And they are still getting richer even as millions now live under tents or, often, just under the sky.

Children can starve here - and many do - just as children in Africa and Latin America do. And what are we doing about this? Nothing. In fact, murdering and starving children has been a major factor in every war since World War 2.

- So - what are Trump and Biden and Trudeau and Conservative leaders like the chubby premier of Ontario doing about all this?

Well, nothing actually. They are really offstage. The people who really count are a relatively small group of whom we commonly know their names - and not much more. Near the bottom of this pile are New Brunswick's Irvings, and at the top, America's Bill Gates.

Ever since the emergence of humans, we have been plagued the most vicious and greedy creatures of this planet. The wealthy. They have been the dominant force in these thousands of years of kings, aristocrats......(and forget the Christian churches. They have been wimps and cheerleaders for the rich and powerful from the start - and commonly on both sides. In World War Two, German Christians supported Hitler. Canadian and American Christians supported our side.)

News media? Get real. These have been the puppets for the super rich from their first appearances. I have known, and I have worked with a great many of them over the years. They are not necessarily dishonest (though many are). They just know when to shut up.

Politicians? Almost all Liberals and Conservatives are puppets for the super rich. For Americans, the Democrats and Republicans have all been puppets. Canada's CCF, NDP and Greens have been honest. That's why they never have the money to win elections while the Liberals and Conservatives get piles of it from our billionaires. And that's why the news media (most of them owned by the super rich) would never dream of supporting those parties.

In the years after 1945, the power and wealth of the super rich has increased. The rest of us have been going downhill. A depression won't change that.  And that is the eternal history of humanity. We are, with few exceptions ruled by the greediest.

Don't even think about the American election. It doesn't matter. Don't waste your time on political leaders like Doug Ford. He's so brainless and irresponsible it's not even necessary to buy him.

Forget about Trump and Biden. Both are bought and paid for. There is nobody to vote for in the U.S. There never has been. Forget about Liberals and Conservatives in Canada. Either will do whatever Americans tell them to do. (Feeling like taking that one on. Canadian Legion? Does it make you feel proud to help Americans kill civilians and babies?)

Forget what most of your news media tell you. They're liars and puppets - and most of them have always been liars and puppets.

The U.S. has never been a democracy. I see no sign it ever will become one. Indeed, the great danger facing Canada is that our Liberals and Conservatives will roll over to be tickled by an American president who will be tickling Canada so American billionaires can speed up the climate destruction of our north.

Canada has in effect, four parties. Two of them are exactly the same as the American ones. And we don't have much time to get over that - if only to slow down our record in the mass murder of civilians and children and babies.

Canada is running out of time. The U.S.? It's time has already passed.

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 suffered dearly.

But they're being cheerleaders for war benefits nobody.