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.
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