February.11: We have very little time

The paragraph be below is from a post to this site something over a week ago. I keep thinking of the follo post from a reader with sympathy for the reader's perception - and with sadness that It cannot be all true..

 So here it is...

I am sure (says the reader) how the Canadian Legion or churches could possibly head off a war with China. I also don't think any country, America, China or Canada really wants to go to war in the traditional sense with soldiers, bombs and guns. It is more likely that we are entering a period of economic warfare where we wound each others economies through extreme trade policies. War is basically a failure of our political leadership to do what is best for their people and 21st century warfare would likely wipe out the entire world and all thats in it since we have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the entire planet 40 times over. Climate change is definitely going to be a game changer for all countries and I am more afraid of having to deal with the economic and social collapse that will come with environmental collapse because the target for American dominance in a world short on resources like water and food, will be Canada not China.

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I don't disagree with the general spirit of this. But I don't agree with it's hopeful message. Here are a few points.

The Canadian Legion and the churches won't head off a war with China. That's true. But they could play a role in heading off such a war. Alas, they won't. In two thousand years of history it has been extremely rare for churches of any country to be critical of their country. (In World War Two, the British churches supported Britain. The German churches supported Hitler and Germany.)

The British churches thought it was just fine to support the empire when that empire, contrary to the message of Jesus, was murdering over 400 million. And where have the American  churches been for the last seventy years as American  armies murder children, babies and civilians in the millions..  .

Neither the Churches nor the Legion are anything but puppets..  

In the most recent development, the U.S. has said it will no longer supply Saudi Arabia with weapons to murder the children and babies of Yemen in it's years of mass murder of those children. But fear not.

British weapons supplies will take over the burden.in what is possibly the greatest mass murder of children and babies in history. 

And we are now in a period of getting away from that? Alas, there is not the slightest chace we will get away from that.

People as a united   whole do not exist. The destructive people - a very small  component of humanity are the vicious ones. These are the ones we call capitalists , or super rich. And they get away by much of the evil means that characterizes them. And they aren't like the rest of us.

  Virtually all of them are men. But they are a special breed going back thousands of years to the origins of humans. They are characterized by greed and by evil. Through the years, they became the the origins of kings, emperors, aristocracies..... And they manipulated all the resst of humanity into becoming their servants, warriors,  slaves and victims.

Unilke the rest of the animal world, these humans are evil and highly destructive of the rest of humanity. They haven't always been capitalists though. That's just their latest role of the last 200 years or so.

These people have nothing of what we would normally call human instincts. They are motivated purely by greed and self interest.. And it makes perfect sence to call them by  the quality that distinguishes them -greed.

 They're not necessarily intelligent. They are simply greedy and quite evil. And, after these thousands of years, they now have the power to destroy us all. They have nothing but contempt for the rest of us.

This is not imagination. This is thousands of years of evidence. These are the people who have made our religion values irrelevant. There are the people in the U.S. who have thrown tens of millions of Americans to suffer and die in the streets while their masters are racking up their biggest profits in history. 

This isn't genius. This is pure greed. And if we ever recover from this mess, this super rich will continue to get   richer - and the rest of us ....Well, we won't. I was a child in the 1930s. There was a pandemic in 1918-19, And then a terrible reession.    I was born in that. I remember that well. I remember my father shoveling snow for the city before he went to work.  When I was still young, our monthly income was well unider a hundred dollars  a  month, probably something like 50.. 

and I remember visiting the stunning mansion that my mother lived and worked in when she was 10, working there for 24 hours a day at a salary of pennys. 

Through the horror of those days I learned that the super rich were still the super rich.  And we're facing that period again.

In this time of hardship, the super rich are actually making their highest profits. Children are dying of hunger in the streets. But Mr. Irving, like all those others of his miserable breed, not only avoids taxes .  buts demands we pay taxes so the super rich can pick up billions gifts from our tax dollars

And they want power that goes even further.

In New York, Bill Gates has offered to take over change in the shools. His teacher training? None. And the governor of New York has accepted his offer.

What will New York's children get? They will get courses of praise for capitalism, for American mass murderers all over the world, for the worship of the greedy,. for hatred of those people all over the world who reject American dominance. Even now, before the Bill Gates takeover, the U.S. is overcome by hatreds that are destroying ----the U.S.

Capitalists have nothing but impatience for those who think, who question. The same is true of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives.

Go back through the world's history, and you will find the same pattern as, for example, in the European examples such as France, Belgium, Britain..... You will also  find in the ninetenth and twentieth century tjat the  commercial  news medio we rely on  for information lie to us. Of course. Of course. they are owned by the super rich. That's true for alll of them from the New York Times (which has never carried  the story of the American massacre of Catholics in Guatemala to the real stinkers like the newspapers of Ontario's National Post to all the Irving nwespapers of New Brunswick.

These newspapers and radio stations exist to lie to us. And, by their lies, they are meant to destroy us.

That's why I constanty try to warn us that we have among us a super wealthy  class, small in numbers and great in power. It's now called the the super rich but's just a variation of what it always has been for thusands of years of kings, conquerors.. And, as we approach the greatest wars in history, it will destroy us - unless we develop a greater sense of what human life should be about.

Always terrible, the    evil has been a characteristic of some humans for thousands of years. It's now capable of destorying us in thousands of days.

This is why I have written so much about the current crisis. It's because our news media have said nothing about those destructive people among us, the decendents, perhaps, of that small number who have controlled us for thousands of years. We fight and die in wars to enfrich them. And we pay for the wars with out tar money.and, often enough, our lives.

British soldiers and sailors got nothing for their fighting and dying in almost two centuries of war.When they were too spent to continue, they were simply dumped in the streets. (In Canada the Legion was rounded to ensure veterans got better treatment. Alas it soon became an organization to fight wars even when it was wrong to fight them. Think of the recent wars which were fought to benefit American billionaires - Korea, Afghanistan,Haiti,..Think of the troops we are going to send ti China. And remember the ones we sent to assist British brutality and thievery in South Africa.. I'm very  much afraid of where this will take up in the next fifty years.

Serving their country? For the most part, wars are not fought for our country. They are foutght for our billionaires in Canada and the U.S. They are fought to make them rich - and us poor. And that has marked all the thousands of wars over the past many thousands of years.

And the children of the streets that will mark them for years as they suffer and die so that  billionaires - who don't pay taxes - can get biillions more in free handouts from the Irvings of this world. That is the future of most of us - unless......we  break the super powers of the rich.

And don't expect the Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans and Democrats to do that.

And the time is very, very short.

                                                                                                                                                                     

Feb. 3: And a very disabreeable blog.

The first part of this blog may not seem to have a place in my usual topic. Actually, it does.

For an opener to stimulate thought, let's try to forget our image of China as a dictatorship and a threat. The reality is that we created a China that was a hell for those who lived in it. We murdered, enslaved, starved, drugged a whole nation to satisfy our greed. When the Chinese broke free of us in the late 1940s and began the  task of modernizing their country, we sent an army to block their way.  This was the Korean War.

(Curiously, we disguised this war as one on North Korea - and in defence of South Korea. Not surprisingly, the nation we pretended to be defending was a really vile one. It was South Korea, a nation governed by brutal dictators who had been supporters of the Japanese occupation in World War Two. And it would reign over a savaged people of South Korea until well after the Korean War. Yep. And our news media told us we were the good guys.)

In short, we killed (and died) to set up a China for destruction. China kicked us out. Ever since that, China has amazingly developed and has helped most of its people in ways the western powers never did.

Yes. I know China has been wrong, very wrong, in it's treatment of some groups. But in defiance of  more than 200 years of abuse and hatred  by us, China has made amazing progress. For example, China has just completed a massive improvement of housing the the poor. No country in the world can match it. (The God-fearing U.S., at the same time,  has been destroying it's own poor by throwing millions into the streets to sicken, starve and die. And Canada is moving that same way.)

A reader sent me a reply to this in my last blog. (It's somewhere here or in the previous blog - but I can't find it.) She criticized me for criticizing our churches and our Canadian Legion for our behaviour toward China. She says neither churches nor Legion can force China to drop some of it's backward ways.

Well, no, they can't. I never said they could. But churches surely have a responsibility to have a public position on this. (Alas! Throughout history our churches have almost always supported wars In fact, they have almost always supported wars even against other Christians - and the churches on the other side have supported their wars. Alas! Jesus never said we should always support the Christians soldiers on our side. In fact, through the 1950s and 60s. the U.S. hired mercenaries to murder over 200.000 Christians - priests, nuns, missionaries - in Guatemala. And the leader of this murderous job? It was the ardently Christian George Bush Sr.  Our newspapera practiced restraint, and never reported on this.)

And the Canadian Legion? It always does what government tells it to do. That's why Canadians died for no good reason in Korea. Others died in Afghanistan, a war that was a bad idea at the start, and had nothing to do with Canada. (A gathering of Canada's leading military historians announced our troops were sent to die in Afghanistan in order to bring democracy to that country. And that is pure bullshit. Nor was the U.S. there to bring democracy. It was there to get control over Afghanistan resources.)

But in the whole history of the Legion, I don't think it has ever questoned our wars. The Legion could and should be a place where veterans could ensure that we do not waste the lives of it's members. Instead, it's a cheerleading squad for billionaires who make money out of wars.

Forgive me for spending so much time on this. But one needs to give this some thought in face of the changes that are coming in the near future.

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In the recent year, American billionaires have made their biggest profits in their history. But how is that possible? In the past year Americans  have seen their people - in their millions - kicked out of work, out of their homes, and onto the streets with the lucky ones living with whole families in tents on sidewalks.

American billionaires have not had that problem. How is it possible the wealthy could make such huge profits at a time when millions have had their lives ruined, possibly forever. (Almost certainly forever.)

It was easy. For a start, American billionaires for some time had been moving much if their business to poor parts of the world - as in Latin America and the middle east. There,, labour was cheap - a very attractive situation for American capitalists. So let the dudes at home suffer with their loss of millions of jobs.

Canadian capitalists played the same game. And they still do.

American capitalists also insisted (ordered) that the U.S. government must pour its tax money into the pentagon which is the most expensive (and profitable) weapons maker in the world. The U.S. does not need such a hugely expensive "defence" industry.

But wealthy capitalists insisted on it because it is a hugely expensive defence industry with monster profits for the wealthy. So what the hell....let poor kids and the elderly die in the streets. It also supplies American capitalists with lots of products not only to profit the rich but to be used to attack the 75 or so nations the U.S. has attacked and plundered since 1945.

All of these factors are why American (and Canadian) super rich happily support the 'defence' industry. It makes a hell of a lot of money for the super rich, money that immediately pays for their wars - as in Afghanistan, the middle east, Latin America.

In addition,  the super rich make extra money for themselves without risking their own money. Instead, the wealthy use their political influence to protect the wealthy from paying taxes. So  the money that floats these wars comes from the taxes of us common slobs. Meanwhile, our governments permit the super rich not to pay taxes at all. (Nobody knows how much we lose in letting the  super rich off with unknown trillions of dollars. Certainly, though, we lose the huge sums that   could get our poor off the streets, establishing them in decent housing, feed them well, and hugely improve our educaton systems.

Instead, we face a future in which prosperity will NOT come back. We   are seeing a development that is very likely to mean extreme poverty - and even worse. We know that because we have seen it happen for thousands of years.

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Humans have been the victims of a relatively small group of other humans since humans appeared in our world. We humans are the only creatures whose greatest purpose in life is to manpulate others of their species This goes back thousands of years. In that time, small groups of humans manipulated, abused, murdered their own kind.

(I know I've said before it's important to understand this). The kings of Europe for centuries used their subjects to fight wars that benefited only the aristocracy. The English people were treated by their rulers as  scum while using them to make the aristocracy rich. Until recently (and sometimes still today) we were privileged  with the best education, with the highest commands in the military, with wealth ---while the rest lived in filth and hunger. The children of the poor rarely had a chance to go to school since most of them had to work 15 hour days from the age of five or six.

It's still true. British Prime Minister Johnson is an example of the worship of the rich. In Canada, I went to school with kids who started to drop out in grade 3. Most had dropped out by grade 9. When I was kicked out in grade 11, my parents were not at all upset. But when I went back to finish high school. my parents were very concerned. As they told friends,  I was trying to rise above my station. And when I got a PhD, they simply avoided discussion of anything with me.

Meanwhile, rich kids of low intelligence rose in the world without getting smart. They went to private schools. I had a cousin in that category who got ahead in the world not for having any brains   (because he didn't) but because he went to a private school.

All around the world, the rich abuse the poor - and the poor get no chance, (American troops commonly murder children, even babies. They do it, probably, by the millions - by starvation, by bombing... They plunder and impoverish whole nations - as in Latin America and the middle east.

Onward Christian soldiers. (Hell, our billionaires have long since accepted religion - just so long as our "Christians"   cooperate with them in killing people. And it works. Canada sent troops to Haiti to destroy Haitian democracy. And we sent missionaires to bless it all.)

Most  wild animals kill because they have to eat. TheYdon't normally organize themselves simply to abuse other animals of their kind. Only we humans do that. But so far as we know, humans kill to exploit other people. There is the origin of rich kings and lords and, in this present day, of capitalists.

Our GOP and Democrats and Liberals and Conservatives don't give a damn about the Canadian people. And in the western world, we serve the GOP, Democrats, Libeals and Conservatives by being good little girls and boys - and voting for them. We are now on the edge of a hell that we have worshipped from the beginning of human life.

The super wealthy are very close to the final capturing our societies - and us. Indeed, the super rich have long since taken over the governments of countries like Canada, the U.S., Britain. And the dumping of millions into the filth and hunger of the streets is one hell of a form of where we are heading.