It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
(Forgive me. I gave brief start to this post, but soon drifted off into the evil of our very wealthy.And they are very evil, indeed. I really should put in a section on these people, on the power they have inflicted on us in the past - and the horror that now is very close.)
The Canadian government gave Irving of New Brunswick a shipbuilding contract for the Canadian navy. The value was about 10 billion dollars. But the Irvings never settle for a lousy 10 billion. The cost to us taxpayers is now close to 80 billion. And watch for it to grow. New Brunswick has no money for it's homeless and starving. But, like, you know, New Brunswickers will die to make the Irvings happy.
Strangely, Canadian seldom hear about our leading capitalists. (Partly, that's because they own newspapers like The Globe and Mail and all the newspapers in New Brunswick, so naturally, they're shy,)
Top dogs are David Johnson, Joseph Tsai, Galen Westen, James Irving - and so it goes. And they're all to shy to appear in the news (which many of them either own or control. That's why honest reporters have gone off to write for the sort of news media I look through. But, while the rest of us are heading out to sleep in fields, Our billionaires, like the American ones, are making the biggest money they have ever made. They also own the best known journalists in Canada, (the ones who are the most gutless journalists in Canada.)>
.....which makes me think. We need to show more respect for our billionaires. And I've thought of a great national anthem to make us more respectful of our masters.
"You made me what I am today.
I hope you're satisfied.
You dragged and dragged me down until
The soul within me died.
You shattered every hope and dream
You fooled me from the start.
And though you're not true
May God bless you.
That's the curse of an aching heart."
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Information Clearing House is, perhaps, the best news source on the web. Check out it's story on Israeli treatment of Palestinian children. In violation of all law and decency, Israel has held many, many thousands of Palestinian children in solitary confinement for interrogation that can last for two weeks and more. In that time they are permitted no lawyer - and the interrogation procedures can be severe.
Israel is doing what Hitler could not manage - destroying all the values and principles of Judaism. The final touch will be American supplied weapons to utterly destroy Palestine for a 'greater' Israel.
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In Consortium News, millions of Americans caught in this crisis are being kicked out of their homes and into the streets. No. They aren't the rich ones. No, the American and Canadian super rich have been making their biggest profits in history. It's the rest of us who are getting kicked out. If Mr. Irving want billion or so, he simply has to ask. To hell with everybody else.
The world has probably never seen a festival of poverty and greed to match this. Children, the elderly, the sick - who gives a damn? And it's going to get worse, much worse.
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Mind you, there's lots of money for weapons. Children may starve. But warehouses are packed with weapons. In the U.S. in particular, we have never seen so much money being spent for weapons.
Of course. Weapons mean military power. And the American wealthy very much want wars to make themselves richer. In particular, they want war with China. No. It's not because China is a threat. It's because China has actually passed the U.S. in it's world trade.
The American super rich can't allow that. But the super rich have no intention of paying for a war. They never have. They have always expected the general public to put up their money to fight the wars of the rich. It's the general public who pay for the weapons, who put up their tax money. And it's the super rich who bleed their countries dry to fight their wars. Indeed, the rich and the children of the rich are seldom to be found in combat. They use the rest of us to do that, too.
We pay taxes so the super rich can kill at our expense while all the profit of war goes to them.
American children are starving and homeless in their millions? Tough.
What's that? China is evil? That's because the British and Americans have been making it evil for almost 250 years. China did not make itself evil. We did that. In 1945, we could have helped China to rebuild itself, and to welcome it to the world.
But we didn't do it.
Instead, we attempted to conquer China just four years after World War Two. That's what the Korean war was all about. It was meant to be a duplicate of all the Chinese had suffered from under the horrors of British conquest.
For 70 years American capitalists have been eager to conquer and plunder China. And that, incidentally, is what Canadians died for in Korea. Too bad the Canadian legion has never figured that out.
The wars have been going on for thousands of years.They are the wars of the greedy and ruthless who have been drawing the rest of us in for all those thousands of years. Almost all wars are like that. You think the U.S. joined World War Two because it thought Hitler the Japanese were evil?
Get real
Today, the super rich need our money again - not to feed the hungry, not to educate the children - no. We need it so the super rich can murder a billion or so Chinese and convert the survivors into cheap labour for our capitalist bosses. That's why the American super rich entered the war in Asia. It was to grab the British empire in Asia. And they entered the war in Europe to save the Jews? Come off it. Americans didn't give a damn about the Jews. What they wanted, among other things, was the oil rich British empire in the Middle East. And they got it, happily murdering millions among the peoples of that region.
That's the world we created - you know - when we brought peace and joy and goodness to the world in 1945. And we haven't stopped killing since.
We now live in a world of greed and murder. It's a world in which the super rich have stuffed the wealth into their own pockets even as the victims in their own countries suffer homelessness and massive starvation. It's a world in which we have abandoned everything we said we fought for in World War Two.
And, oh, what delusions we dream up.
Remember Canada's Highways of Heroes? These are the roads which carried the Canadian dead from Afghanistan. I don't criticize the soldiers for this idiocy. I do criticize the rest of us.
There was no reason for Canadians to be sent to Afghanistan. For that matter, there was no reason to send Americans, either. The people of Afghanistan had just fought a brilliant war against Russia - and won. So why did the U.S. jump in along with Canada to attack the Afghanis?
That, unreported in our news, was because American capitalists wanted certain minerals that existed in Afghanistan. This was, pure and simple, a war for American capitalists to steal the resources of Afghanistan. Why did Canada take part?That's because Canada commonly fights American wars since 1945. Indeed, Canadians have been used more widely than we ever hear about.
There was nothing glorious about our parades of the Canadian war dead. We had signed on for a useless war which had nothing to do with Canada. The dead were heroes? I'll give them that. But not so the rest of us who sent them off in a war that had nothing to do with us.
For thousands of years, the kings and emperors and politicians and capitalists have used the rest of us to fight wars that benefit only them. Now, we live in a world choked by their wars. Now, we're on the edge of their most terrible wars -against, for example, China and Russia. (We have already made the most terrible horror of Latin America, Africa...in the coming years, perhaps weeks, we will hear of dreadful starvation rates in Africa and we will continue to do almost nothing about it.)
The super rich have risen to an astounding level. And they have shown no interest, none whatever, in the survival of the rest of us. And we have very little time to wake up.
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_I must also sometime soon, write a piece on the Christian churches which have had no impact whatever on anything. They have always supported their own political leaders - as the Christian churches of Germany supported Hitler, as the American churches of today do nothing to criticize the evils of the U.S., as American and Canadian churches have never taken a position to support native peoples. What a collection of wimps!
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