We Have Very Little Time.

 A story on what I am about to write on this site has appeared in two web sites - The Nation and Common Dreams. And if you're living in a hard time, this will explain why you are.

In The Nation.com, March 2,a very reliable source, how billionaires manage to hide trillions of dollars. thereby avoiding taxes. The U.S. is now the global centre for money hiding and  illicit wealth.

Common Dreams has a similar story with a bit more information. In recent years, for example, billionaires have taken some 50 trillion dollars from bottom workers in the U.S. If they had been honest, those worker's salaries would have been twice as high.

This is why millions of Americans have to live on the streets, perhaps in tents. And among those millions who live in filth and hunger are millions of American children who will never escape poverty and hunger and lack of education..

Does this happen in Canada, too? Well, Canadians have very few (if any) honest news media. You won't find the story here. But it  does happen in Canada. The super rich exist in most western countries. The Irvings of New Brunswick go further in poisoning the land and the forests of New Brunswick. And the Irvings are not people to tell the world who they are bleeding.

This theft and hunger and early death is nothing new in human history. This trashing, abusing,, killing, plundering is as old as humanity. Indeed, we humans are the only creatures who  believe in the cruel and savage trreatment we practice.

Among the horrors have been, for example, the emperors of Rome who murdered common people for entertainment. The kings and aristocracy of Europe were the same. At the height of British Empire Britain looted the world, It's common people lived in poverty and filth. Meanwhile, the kings and queens and aristocracy, lived in unimaginable wealth and pleasure.

Are the rich smarter? No. Only greedier and more destructive. That is what American trillionaires and billionaires - and many Canadian ones - are doing. That's why Latin America is such a horror, and why the U.S. is murdering millions all over the world - and seriously looking at nuclear war in China. (You think the American army could defeat China? Get real. This is the army that couldn't defeat a tiny corner of Afghanistan in 20 years.)

Oh,and be prepared for Canadians to be sent into that China war. And Trudeau will say yes  though all we know about a China war is very little. We are busy playing the old game of reading news about how the other side is evil. If we are so eager to challenge evil, shouldn't we be killing Americans who are the most evil and murderous people in today's world?

We probably have very little time to get this world under control, to destroy the evil of our billionaires and trillionaires.

And so far, we haven't moved an inch.

Is China killing a whole nation of people in its country? It's not likely. For a start large numbers of those people have been freed and accepted into Chinese society. But our news media aren't telling us about that.

But - oooh - the U.S. knows China is evil. If anybody knows about evil, it is the U.S. with it's brutal treatement of all of Latin America, with it's deliberate starvation to death of the people, especially children, of Yemen, with it's mass murder in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Hey, Pierre Trudeau and the Canadian Legion, if you're going to send Canadian troops to kill Chinese for being murderous, wouldn't it make more sense to send troops to the most murderous nation of our time - the U.S.?

But don't expect your news media to get honest and tell the truth. The U.S. doesn't give a damn who China kills. The U.S. (and it's American and Canadian billionaires) want a war with China because  the Chinese economy is catching up to the American one.

And our  heros are going to be killing to make Canadian and American billionaires happy.

But don't tell the Canadian Legion. It has never stood in the way of Canadian and American billionaires in places like Latin America (where it supported the Canadian role in destroying democracy in Haiti and which has made a specialty of kissing the asses of the very greedy. And don't expect the Canadian and American news media to tell the truth. They have a long record of lying. ( Of course. Guess who owns most of them.)

For Christ's sake, Canada, wake up. 

And if that doesn't wake you up, the people who have been stealing our incomes since 1950 or so are not the Chinese. They are the Irvings and the Bill Gates.

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I have carelessly lost a story that I had found on the web. Russia actually has land  in what I had thought was the Canadian Arctic. Much of the Arctic is not Canadian or American. It's Russian, but Russia has never paid much attention to it because it was under tons of Arctic Ice.

But no more.

The ice has melted.  (You know, the change that the premier of Alberta says it's happning.)  And Russia is establishing a major base there with a capacity to fire nuclear missiles at Canada and the U.S.

Maybe it's time for all of us to grow up. 

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Damn! I have long been curious about why Canada sent troops  and Canadian police to Haiti from the late twentieth century. Today, I checked it out.

The official story as told by our Department of Defence and by most of the Canadian news media is that we were there to protect Haitian democracy.

And I discovered we were lied to by our Department of Defence and almost all of our news media. (As an aside, the Canadian Legion - which is supposed to look out for the interest of our military - instead played the liar game.)

The reality....?

Through most of Haiti's modern history has been one of government by thugs, murderers and liars. In the late 20th century, it managed to vote for an honest government led by Jean Bertrand Aristide. But that didn't last.

The Haitian army, always an  army of thugs, thieves and murderers, overthrew the the elected government and put it's thugs back in government. and the American government clapped hands. But it didn't want to be too obvious a player. So it called on Canada to send troops and police as 'peacekeepers'.

No problem. The prime minister of the time was the Conservative, Stephen Harper who, like most of Canada's Conservative prime ministers, was always eager to kiss American boots. So we sent troops and police to help the killers in the Haitian government. And the Canadian Legion wet it's pants to get on board.

So I checked Canada's privately owned newspapers. And they lied about how glorious all this was - even as Canadian soldiers and police helped the thugs who were the Haitian government. (Reading the papers, I got the impression our soldiers mostly kissed babies.)

The only news sources I could find that were honest were the sort that I use for my blog.

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Something for a later day.............

We are living in the most dangerous period in history. We have a history of thousands of years of being abused, murdered, plundered. That's what all the empires I have ever heard of were about. Perhaps the most brutal was the British Empire that starved and killed over 400 million people. (The British Empire beat Hitler by a wide margin.)

They've all been the same - wars led by rulers of all sorts - kings, emperors, billionaires who abused the rest of us.

But the next one may well be the last one. The U.S. is determined to rule the world. I doubt very much that they can do it. But weaponry has chnged a lot.

A knight on horseback might kill a few dozen, I suppose. Pilots in bombers could obliterate of couple of billion.

 You don't care?

Well, Russia may well have the world's biggest nuclear stockpile. And now, due to global warming, it has a nuclear air base in  the Arctic just above Canada and the U.S.

And we now go to war to bring people democracy and freedom?

No, we don't. We never  have. The most brutal of militaries is the U.S. with virtually all of Latin America a slave colony. Ditto for much of East Africa.

And why is the U.S. considering a war wiith China? Is it because China is mistreating a small tribal group?

Grow up.

The U.S. wants a war with China because China is starting to beat the U.S. in world industrial markets. And American capitalists, (the same ones who have been robbing Americans blind for years, who now have the biggest profits in history, who are the ones who have put millions of Americans into homeless filth and poverty and hopelessness, have no hope of beating the Chinese market.

So we have to kill lots of Chinese. And the Canadian Legion will insist that we join the killing.

To meet this crisis, Canada (and the U.S.) have something like  the weakest political leaders in History - And that suggests Canada and the U.S. have a hopelessly ignorant population. (And that comes at a time when we have lying leadership in the Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans and Democrats - watch for at least one Democrat war.)

In Canada, I can cry when I see an incompetent ass like Bennett of Ontario. Quebec's only vision of the future is making sure everybody speaks excellent French. Oh, and Alberta has Kenney - in all the history of Canada probably the most ignorant ass of any provincial premier in Canadian history.

But the Canadian people are so badly informed that they go on voting for incompetent asses  like these. Similarly, the people of New Brunswick have voted for the unspeakably destructive and greedy Irvings. Their chemical spraying of poison gas and their destruction of the forest will soon bring it's own, fatal price.

Sorry for the tone of all this. Alas! I'm telling the truth.