let's get real.

 I don't know whether my previous e mail of two days ago got through. My computer has been going crazy on me, and seems not to be getting through. Indeed, recent e mails seem to be completely disappearing.

So this is an experimental email. Please let me know if it is working clearly or at all.

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Biden is strange. He is actually following the same course that Trump did in  supporting  the oil industry. Indeed, so is Canada's Trudeau. Both are putting up cash for the oil industry to build pipelines. Please. It is just days ago, after the IICP (a very competent body) warned that more oil would cause terrible spillage of carbon producing poison on all of us.

And Canada's minister of the environment promptly approved the use of this horror - on us!  We are actually going to pay for poisonous  carbons to be dropped on us.

No - not ARE going to - They've been doing that to us for a hundred years.  And more.

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As you may already know, American multi-trillionaires have, in recent months, tucked away colossal wealth as millions of Americans live in tents or on the streets. And there they starve. The western world has recreated much of the poverty we once thought was going.

(I have strong feelings about that because I was born into the great depression of the dirty 30s. We (me and my friends) were trained from birth to stand back and strive for nothing - and to drop out of school long before finishing. Most of my friends dropped out around grades eight and nine. My best friend was a big kid who dropped out in grade 3  when he was 11. He would be killed in World War 2.

He joined the army (using an older brother's draft summons) while he was still under age. He had no idea what a war was until his first day of action when he jumped in terror as a machine gun cut him in half.

Later, I would go to a high school where I mixed with boys who grew up to be doctors and lawyers. But I was kicked out in grade 12.

No matter, like the kids I grew up with, nobody expected anything good for me. My father happily got me a job at one hell of a miserable factory where he had to work. 

I quit to get away from that hell. On a night years later as I walked down the stairs, I told him I was going to study for a PhD. He was furious and tried to throw me down the stairs.

Just as happens today, the district I grew up in trained us to be failures, and it did its best to make us failures. When I finished the PhD, my father never talked to me again.

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So it is that president Biden lavishes tax free trillions on the super rich. But he lets the millions of homeless sleep on the streets.

A one-time tax on billionaires, by the way, just a brief one, could innoculate every adult on earth and still leave the trillionaires up in their economic clouds.

But there is not the slightest chance of that happening. On the contrary, the super rich are not giving a cent to the poor. And the poor countries - often made poor by the U.S. in Africa, Latin America and other countries? tough.

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Oh, I notice our news media commonly refer to the Taliban in Afghanistan as terrorists.

But they never refer to the American/British and other armies in Afghanistan as terrorists.

Let's get real.

The biggest killers (terrorists) in Afghanistan have been the  American attackers. They have killed millions. And they're also killing in the millions in much of the middle east where there is a special emphasis on killing children, even babies. And of course, there are those remote drones bombing and killing children, parents in  countries where the U.S. is not at war at all.

But Americans and British and even Canadians are never called that. No. Western news media always show the other side as being terrorists. But we never are. That's because our commercial news media are liars and propagandists. And WE are, too.

Nazi Germany, too, was like that. In that, as in many other ways, we are the naziis of our time.

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Then there's the story of Julian Assange. He's an Australian journalist with one, terrible fault. He tells the truth. Back about 2010 he founded an excellent journal dealing with world news. It was called wikkileaks. And it told the truth.

Big mistake. The American government doesn't like people who tell the truth.

Assange had to flee to a British government flat where, for years, he was confined. But the U.S. wanted him. So the next step for the British was to put him in solitary for years in a British prison where he visibly sank into profound depression. But the Americans wanted him. And there's no doubt they want him in a solitary confinement, almost certainly with torture.

American governments hate journalists who tell the truth. Pick any American (or Canadian) prison to see that. But the British said that was no reason to confine him or to deport him. 

So - the U.S. is trying again, this time almost certain to get Assange. Once they have  him, the result will certainly be solitary confinent, and, quite possibly,  torture, quite possibly complete breakdown, certainly an early death.

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Canada and the U.S. have political parties owned by the super wealthy. Those parties are, in Canada, the Liberals and the Conservatives. In the U.S. they are the GOP and the Democrats. Forget your elections. Both Canada and the U.S. are NOT democracies. They are bought and paid for by those 4 parties. Those parties, not the politicians, are what pay for elections.

The only party in either country that does not run on money handed to it by billionaires is the NDP.

Alas! Canadians, like Americans, are slow to wake up to this. But even a depression kid like me could figure that out.

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If you get this, let me know if my befuddled computer is getting through.

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