Jan. 28: We have met the enemy - and he is us.

 Yeah, Yeah, Biden has created a new America.

Well - no. He hasn't.

The American constitution is not a symbol of democracy. It never has been.George Washington was not a democrat. He believed in decision making by the rich.He had no patience for those who weren't rich. And the mass murder of native peoples that he launched was scarcely an act of love. Like just about all rulers of his time, his faith was in the rich, Indeed, fairly large numbers of the very poor were NOT allowed to vote in early, American elections.

From the start, the rich flocked to Washington looking for favors and offering bribes. And that has been true of every government since then. The same has been true of Canada.

Does Biden represent any part of this interference wiith government? Oh, yes. He was, an still is, the friend of the rich. The reality is that the rich buy every government they can. That's why an Irving has no trouble getting permission to poison the  land and forests of New Brunswick. That's why the Irvings have no trouble plundering the provincial budget. That's why a missionary from the Irving home town can be murdered by American capitalists, then be forgotten and buried in the Irving home town.

What we call democracy doesn't really exist. And most of the voters have voted for the people who clearly don't give a damn for them. The CCF party was an honest one which gave us medicare which is perhaps the best health care system in the world. (Of course you have the option of American health care which has plunged American patients into poverty, misery, and hopelessness.)

Canada's lack of knowledge is really the product of news media which, like those in the U.S. , exist only to lie. Think about that. Think about the the New Brunswick missionary who was murdered by American mercenaries in Guatemala - and who was buried in the home town of the Irvings. And his burial not even noticed by any Canadian press.

Not a single Canadian news medium carried that story. And the Irving papers led the way in ignorance though the Irving family chapel was just a short walk away from it. That chapel nust keep a steady supply of wimpy clergymen. 

The reality is that we have very little in the way of a free press. And we have churches that have turned a blind eye to evil for almost 2000 years. 

Will Canada's Liberals and Conservatives stand up to defend Canada? Not likely. Canada,  was once a colooy of the British Empire and which killed to please British billionairs - as in the Boer War  -  fought British wars is now a colony of the American empire. - and has been since 1945. (Don't tell the Canadian Legion. It thinks we fight wars to defend out country. We don't. The Korean war had nothing to do with defending Canada. Ditto for the Afghanistan war where Canadians died to make American billionaires rich. Ditto for Canadians who destroyed democracy in Haiti to please more American billionairs - and for Canadians who have troops in the middle east to please their American masters, and who very well might soon be killing Chinese to please our American masters. 

The language of patriotism sounds good. But think hard. The British 'fought for their country ' in the 1800s, British billionaires killed hundreds of millions of people all over the world to make themselves richer. And the British soldiers and sailors?

They were dumped in the streets to die there. They weren't serving their country. They were serving their billionaires.

And that's what a war with China would mean for Canada.

Anyone with a grain of sense should see that war as it is now will destroy all of us - and probably very quickly. That should have been made obvious at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should have been obvious in 1945 that we had to break the war habit.

But the billionaires don't want to break it. And hiring the rest of us to kill for them is what they call fighting for our country.

(As I write this,tens  of millions of Americans - young, old, men, women and children - are dying in the streets while billionaires are making the biggest fortunes in history. And this is creeping into Canada as well.

War is no longer an option. In fact, it never has been.

(My how nice it would be if our churches had anything intelligent and Christian to say about this. But they never have. Worst are the evangelicals who think they just have to believe, and then they will die happy happy and will  stand on clouds to sing praise to God 24 hours a day for millions of years to come. What does that have to do with the teaching of Jesus?

Donne-moi un break.

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You think things will get better? You're dreaming. I took a look at several examples of where we're going. These are all items in the news - though often not in our daily papers.

1. The world is now at the hottest it has been in 12,000 years. And no, that's not a good sign.

2.President Biden wants to get tough with China. Why? Because it has become the fastest growing economy in the world. And they're really not allowed to out sell the U.S. Only the U.S. is allowed to have unlimited growth. Biden is going to put China in it's place

3,And that means war. And war against 2 billion people means unlimited use of nuclear bombs and, certainly, intervention by Russia and other countries. Gotta put them Chinese in their place. Oh, and such a war Would also mean that countries like Canada must join in on the American side. Americans have been allowed to rule the world.......but. in fact, the American empire is now a loser.

4,The U.S. is far the biggest military spender in the world. That's why so many millions of Americans have to sleep in the streets.

Instead of learning to cooperate after World War Two, The U.S. has chosen unending war for the last 70 years. And we are very close to game over.

If we continue this world world of chaos and mass murder and unlimited greed, we will never see the end of this century. And, so far, American billionaires have no intention of giving up on mass murder and unlimited greed. And Canada, ever since 1945, has been America's champion wimp as Canadians have killed and died  in American wars.

It's more than time for members of the Canadian Legion to put down their beer, and decide which side they are on.

We needed to work out a world of cooperation and sharing in 1945. We didn't do it. And  drinking beer at the Legion hall isn't going to change that.The Canadian Legion should be serving it's members. Instead, it has routinely thrown Canadians into wars that had nothing to do with us. (And Canadian war historians haven't been much help.)

The U.S. has not dealt with it's wars of agression, wars designed not to protect anyone but to make billionaires richer. And we now have very little time.

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Jan. 17: Be Patient with us old farts....

 Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing.  And  my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can knock me out for  15 hours and more. I'm sorry. This has been a wretchedly drawn out several days for me.That's the trouble with us old folks. We get - you know - old.

 So let's pick up the pace to the modern day and our determination (some of us) to conquer the world.  A  useful starting point is the British Empire of the 1700s and more.

This was the empire of a Britain that was controlled by the British aristocracy, the wealthy. There was no place in there for common people. These were held in contempt by the  aristocracy. No. All the power (and it's profits) were held by a tiny aristocracy. The rest of the British lived in poverty and filth. Oh, they could serve in the army or the navy. But only at the lowest levels. and with the lowest pay.  (On naval ships, the women of the poor commonly served on the gun decks, and commonly produced children who would serve on them, too. Thus the expression 'Son of a gun.' And many a son of a gun would die down on the gun decks. 

Britain owed nothing to it's lower classes, If they served they then became less effective, They were simply dumped into the streets of the nearest port, there to die of  poverty and disease.

Winston Churchill was a typical product of that class contempt for the poor. Check his political records. You'll find he served only the rich. That's why the British voters turned against him near the end of World War Two.

But Churchill and his like served the wealthy in grand style. They murdered over 400 million people all over the world to steal their  resources, to force them into cheap labour, to starve them........ And, not suprisingly, British (and French settlers of the higher sort in the Americas, and Latin as Latin Americans followed their leaders - as their descendents still do.

In this they were following a system going back among humans for uncounted thousands of years. Unlike other animals. humans were created so that some were attuned to enslaving other humans. No other animal treats it's fellow animaals in that way. Others might fight other in quarrels. But these fights are usually short term. Not so among humans. Dominant humans permantently abuse and even kill their own kind.

Thus the brutality of the British arisitocracy and it's abuse of the English people. Thus the British request for Canada to join the British war against the Dutch colony of South Africa. And the reason for it?

The Dutch (Boers) had taken control of South Africa becuase it had massive gold  fields. The Dutch (almost all Christians) wanted to steal that gold. But, about  1900, the the British invaded to steal that gold. In short, The wealthy British wanted to steal that gold for wealthy British. And so a war happened to please wealthy Brish and displease wealthy Dutch.

Curiously, the British army felt it needed Canadian help.

Actually, it didn't. So why demand Canadian help? Well it really did need Canadian help for a future war.

That was to set a precedent so that in future Canada would be required to fight British wars in general. European corporations in Britain, France, Germany, were rapidly expanding to modernize for wars with each other. So the British wanted a precedent for Canada (and the rest of the empire) to fight British wars.

What did that war have to do with Canada? Nothing. In fact, the nearby U.S. wouldn't join in the war until very late in the game.

That was world war one in which Canadians fought and died so that Britain, France, Germany, etc. could fight wars that had nothing to do with Canada. But it was highly profitable for war industries on all sides.

At the end of that war all sides agreed not to blame anyone for the war - largely because they had all fought the war for the same reason - to protect their rising industries. But it took Britain and France a very short time to demand that Germany be punished Their purpose of course was to destroy German competition. So they imposed  conditions so severe that Germany fell into deep poverty. This, in the eyes of British and French would destroy German industrial competion leaving Germany a land of poverty - while British and French capitalists were free to run wild. And that is what opened to a door to a Germany led by a sort of Donald Trump racist who ralled Germans by hatred of Jews. (Just like Americans and sometimes Canadians) fight North Koreans and Afghanis and anybody in the middle East) - and will be called on  to fight Chinese and anybody else the U.S. tells them to fight.

And who has benefitted from all this?

In the U.S., American incomes seemed to remain steady in the post war years. In fact, they dropped steadily in purchasing power. At the same time, Americans got dramatically poorer, a poverty far worsened by a pandemic attack.  

 This was an attack that called for government help. But the only government help was to billionaires who used the money to fight even more wars and plunder even poorer countries.

Americans have suffered terribly. But American billionaires are doing well,  with the highest profits in history. Indeed, billionaires are the only people making profits in the U.S., most of them from making weapons and killing people of impoverished countries.

In fact, the super-rich have been making the biggest profits in history from our   wars - while millions of Americans sleep on the streets at night, and go hungry during the day. As American die of hunger and exposure, Billionaires, especially in the U.S., have been making huge profits.

And that, in a nutshell, is the history of the world. And if we don't control this in this century, we are dead meat. As our world mechanizes, the super rich need fewer and fewer of us. As it is, the U.S. with it's massive unemployment, can still produce the most weaponry in the world. Indeed, they need a smaller population, not a larger one.

So far as I know, there is no other animal that acts like this. Oh, some will flare up for a moment of anger. And they will kill each other to eat. But it is only humans which will organize wars against each other, which will mass murder, which will kill for power. Or, put in blunter terms, it is only humans who are evil, And, yes, our business leaders throughout history have been evil and ruthless and murderous. And we are within reach of the worst of their evil.

This is an evil which one finds in no other animal - and very rarely in male people. Jesus in no way represented such evil. And that, alas, may explain why His churches have, for two thousand years, rarely represented His values. (Check  history. The European wars of the twentieth century were wars of Christians against Christians - and had been for 2,000 years.)

I'm not trying to get religious with you. I am saying we either bring our super rich under control or they bring us into total destruction. And that is the reality about a Bill Gates or an Irving. 

Oh, for members of the Canadian Legion, explain to us why it has been necessary for Canadians to kill people in Korea, Afghanistan, Haiti, and more to come....?

Is it so the Irvings and Gates of this world will like you?

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Jan.9 Down, Down, Down, Down...

Forgive me. Writing this blog has been extremely painful for me. Yes. There are people on the other side who do evil things to us. But let's get serious. We probably out'evil anybody on the other side. 

In the current crisis, the term nuch used has been "American values". What American values?" The American government hired killers to murder hundreds of thousands of priests, nuns and missionairies in Guatemala. What American value does that reflect? One of the victims was a Canadian missionary. But the Canadian government said nothing and no Canadian news medium has ever carried the story.

So let's take a look at Canadian and American 'values'

Let's take a look Let's take a look at the values we claim to represent. Let's take a look at the evil we represent, and ask why we represent it.

I'll try to start that tomorrow (though I, in the feebleness and uselessness of age, have few values or uses.)

We might also ask why we sent Canadians (we called them heroes) to kll Afghans and to send troops to help out the U.S. in Syria, and to fight an American war in Korea.

Oh, and ever wonder why very early in the twentieth century we sent Canadians to kill dutch settlers in South Africa - and what that had to do with world wars one and two?

And ever wonder why we don't sent them to British wars any more? (Just American wars.)

Above all, let's get past the bullshit we call values.

Oh, another point. We should stop teaching history in our schools because what we teach are lies, anyway.

Jan.11 Why rich humans need poor ones

 

(I'm nor not sure wether the text below has already aappeared in my blog.)

This morning (December) I was checking through some of the usual, conventional papers that are worth reading only because I can get them free. Today, I was enraptured by the tone of a typical article these papers carry. It says that President Biden may feel it necessary to invade Cuba. It seems he is of the opinion that the government of Cuba is evil, and that it kills or tortures (or both) innocent Cubans.

Therefore, it might be necessary to use force against the evil, Cuban government.

Whoa baby. Where is all this American virtue coming from?

In fact, the U.S. has been murdering, torturing, plundering, enslaving Latin Americans for 120 years. Just in more recent times, the U.S. hired mercenaries to murder priests, nuns and missionaries in Guatemala. Funny how U.S. (and Canadian) governments and their news media never mentioned it though the slaughter was in the hundreds of thousands.

(Maybe they didn't want to bother us about those shy mercenaries.)

Back iin the early days of TV, a young (and cute) me   watched horrible stories about the U.S. torturing and murdering thousands of Cubans. It used hired thugs to torture and murder uncounted numbers. This use of thugs, dating back to the conquest and theft of Guantanamo dated back to the early I900s. Cubans were denied ownership of their own agricultural land as the former owners became very cheap labour.

Cuban children were, for the most part, denied education.

American gangsters soon became a common sight in Cuba, with, it seems, the full blessing of the American governments - including the saintly Franklin Denalo Roosevelt. As a final touch, the U.S. handed all government in Cuba over  to Cuban thugs. And, by 1945, those thugs were in full and murderous control.

Early TV nade no secret of all that. Sneering thugs happily sad for TV interviews.

And that  is what led to to the rise rise of very courageous and capable Cubans like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Life in Cuba was hugely improved - though the U.S. did all it could - and  often with terrible damage to Cuba that has somehow survived the interference and lies of American governments and their lying newspapers.

Now, as I read our current, privately owned newspapers, there is  no mention of this. In fact, the tone of their coverage is to give the impriession that Castro was the evil one.

Let's get real. Almost all of our commercial news coverage is made up of lies and propaganda. That happens because the ownership of almost all our commercial covorage is dishonest

And that's why I started a blog many years ago.

But let's get on to something even worse.

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As I write here in what can politely be called my senior years, I am finding numerous handicaps. One is that time is being stolen from me. For reasons over which I have no control, I'm now asleep for some 15 or 16 hours a day. I have no idea why.  I hope it's temporary but I really don't know. In the time I have left, it's hard to keep up on what's happening.

For example, the U.S. has become perhaps the worst country in the world for it's own people - epecially the poor ones. Right now, ten of millions - men, women, and childlren - are living in filth, poverty, hunger - and it's going to get much, much worse.

In contrast, the U.S. wealthy are floating in the biggest profits ever seen. An upper group of a few thousand have actually been making billions out of the American economy. 

No. Not billions. That's the official number. The real number is not billions. It's  TRILLIONS as Amerocam governments have yearly increased  the taxes they are allowed to hide and the grounds they can accept from government. Much the same is true of Canada.  

Americans and Canadians have been driven into poverty by their leading citizens - you know - the ones with names like Gates and Irving. So long as we allow that, we are going nowhere. They are the cause of poverty. You'd think we could catch on.

From the begining of humans many thousands of years ago, we have chosen certain people to be leaders while the rest of us became their slaves, victims. rulers. Over thousands of years we have allowed those 'leaders' to treat us with contempt.

You can see traces of it at ground level. In  the days of British empire, the British aristocracy used the common people to fight their wars, then dumped them in the streets to die. For most of British history, the common people had no chance for education. More ommonly they went to work in jobs that emphasized filth and poverty for life. To this day, Government is commonly for the rich of Britain who today at 1% of the population have amost a quarter of all U.K. wealth. Indeed, that attitude does much to explain class structure and  abhorrent treatment of the poor in the U.S. even today - expecially today.  

When I was a child, my friends were illiterate. They commonly 'dropped out' anywhere from grade 3 to grade 9 to find jobs. When I got to grade 10 my parents were concerned  that I was trying to rise above my station. And they were angry.

That relaxed only when I got a PhD. And that was only never to speak to me again.

But rich kids? Though no smarter than poor ones, they got private education that trained them to think they were superior.

Human history is a long record of privilege, class - and of the most dreadful abuse of the poor.

But there is an exception.  

China has won international praise for it's elimination of povery in the nation. No, I know you won't find this in your local paper. (I got it from Financial Times)  

Even as the U.S. dumps it's poor into the streets and into tent cities and worse, China has been putting it's poor into safe and secure homes. China, not  Canada or the U.S., is the nation that serves the needs of all it's people while the U.S. dumps it's people into hunger and disease. Meanwhile, the super rich, as in Canada and the U.S. and Britain do what they have always done - pile up the geatest fortunes in history.

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But let's get a look at this behaviour over the past 120 years,

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