The end of the American empire

I'm sorry to be late on this one. I suspect I'm closer to heaven or hell than I was just a few days ago. The latest U.S. polls show Trump slightly ahead of Biden in voter support. What can I say? There has been nothing wonderful about Biden. But the rise of Trump suggests there is also nothing wonderful about the American people. The U.S. (our nearest neighbour) has murdered uncounted millions all over the world. It claims the U.S. is fighting terrorism. In fact, since 1949 the US is the world's leading terrorist. In Afghanistan, guess the U.S. average days for air strikes. But don't waste your time checking for news reports because those news reports have NEVER appeared. The average has been some 46 airstrikes a day against a country with almost no air defences. And the victims of those air strikes? Mostly civilians - including children. We also know the U.S. operates torture camps all over the world and, yes, those kill people. There's one at Guantanamo, a fortress stolen over a hundred years ago from Cuba. Can you imagine the U.S. news media going crazy about world wide torture camps in, oh, just about any country? But, no, they have never said a word about them. The war in Afghanistan was monstrously expensive at something well over a trillion dollars, way beyond any reasonable cost. This is because war gave an excuse for massive spending by American war industries. And the greatest part of that money never got close to the war. It simply went to war industries owned by extremely wealthy Americans. When some Democrats advocated cutting back on wasteful war spending, other Democrats insisted on continuing this wasteful spending. And those warhappy Democrats got four times more donations from the weapons makers. In short, the U.S. was and still is awash in corruption. More recently, the U.S. has taken a tougher line with a nation it once destroyed - Haiti - (which it destroyed with Canadian help). The U.S. and Canada made it a crude and brutal dictatorship. Recently, Haitians suffered a savage earthquake - and the U.S (and Canada) wouldn't lift a finger. Over ten thousand fled their country from the horror it had become. They fled from the danger of even trying to survive in Haiti. But when they reached the U.S. border, they were met with guards on horses and swinging whips. President Biden said all this was terrible. But he wouldn't do a thing to help them. And now a glance at Canada. Conservative leader O'Toole, perhaps the dimmest political leader in Canadian history, criticizes China 31 times and Chinese in general 10 times in his election platform. In fact, his criticisms would be far more truthful if he had directed them at the U.S. Or he could have made a stronger criticism of Saudi Arabia and Israel for violence and murder (with weapons supplied to them by the U.S.). I have a lot of respect for Judaism (much more than I have for Christianity.) But Israel is violence against everything Judaism stands for. Sadly, Canada is a moral mess. The Roman Catholic Bishops have apologized to indigenous Canadians who were mutilated and killed in residential schools here in Canada. Many were as young as three when killed. 215 bodies have been found on the grounds of just one school. (No. These weren't even graves. They were pits to hide what the priests had done.) These were children stolen from their parents and never again permitted to see them. This happened all across Canada - so the real total is probably into the thousands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And the priests and nuns did this to them with the happy consent of Canadian governments. They all knew about it. So the so the church has said it's sorry. Hey! How about doing something for the survivors of those schools? (I've known some of them and, oh, they are bitter.) How about the Canadian government do something more than Trudeau standing around with his face hanging out? And surely the RC clergy should do more than say "oops". (No. They won't say more. I know of no groups less Christian than our Protestants, Catholics and Jesus Jumpers - you know, Evangelicals.) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you know of Julian Assange? He's an Australian journalist, and a very good one. His reporting and analysis were honest, well-informed - and perfectly legal. But oh, that's bad in our world. His most successful venture was Wikkileeks which was an outstanding news venture - honest and well informed. So, of course, he had to be killed. And that was planned by the CIA in cooperation with the American government. But they were too late. Assange had been moving his operations to Britain and (I think) Sweden. So he had to seek shelter. He did that for many very difficult years. Then Britain put him to live in isolation (never to leave) for some years in a government room. But the British government wanted to please it's American masters, so it put him in prison though he hadn't done anything wrong. There he has been in solitary ever since. And yes, all those years in isolation had a destructive effect on him as his body and his mind decayed. Eventually, the U.S. will get him, and in a mock trial it will kill him - for telling the truth with Wikkileeks. As it is, his mind is already in terrible shape. Could this happen to a Canadian journalist? No. There are no honest and intelligent journalists in any Canadian or American newspaper. Enjoy Canada's (and the US) papers. We've had nothing but stinkers from the earliest days of journalism. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And the U.S.? The top 1% of the U.S. have taken up 50 trillion dollars for the last several decades. American workers were, once, paid well.American workers would be getting paycheques today twice as high as they really are if they had been allowed to keep pace. But they weren't. And the U.S. has made it worse with the 70 or so million unpaid and unsheltered people to live and die in the streets. (I'd love to get the Canadian figures - But Canadian governments and their puppet newspapers never discuss it.) What's obvious in the U.S. is that this is a nation that gives it's trillionaires whatever they want - and with virtually no taxes. Ordinary people, including children, millions of them, live in filth and hunger in the streets. We are back Two Thousand years ago to the streets of Rome where almost all of the people lived in hunger and filth, and whose bodies were simply dumped into a huge pit with thousands of other bodies. Canada's a little better off. But that won't last. This is the curse that our most ancient ancestors laid on us when they developed the concept - quite unnoticed, I think, - some people have a right to rule others. So far as I know, this is a concept found only in humans.And it worked in Ancient Rome where people of no particular brain power could become Caesars. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And I have much more to say about all this. But I'll save it (and with a more Canadian slant) for my next blog.

As I watched the election results, I gave up hope. Where were Canadian brains? Just months ago, Trudeau was on the BC border, assuring American politicans and people that Canada would keep BC (and other provinces) open for American oil transportation. That's, among other things, a BC that is burning up with wild fires. Run oil pipelines through that? Oh, yeah. In fact, he said ALL provinces would always welcome U.S. oil. And remember,- quite apart from B.C. oil fields is a reminder that oil companies unleash poisonous gasses into the clouds that fall back and poison us. Alberta was in complete agreement this poisonous attack. The Liberal Party and the Conservatives cheered. Well, of course, the Liberals and Conservatives are both owned by the very rich. That's why the Liberals and Conservatives get huge payments at election time. In that respect, they are both models of the horribly corrupt American political system. And, like the Americans, our Liberals and Conservatives are corrupt and, in their circles, corrupting. So the Liberals and Conservatives have opened Canadians to poisons and death. But, what the hell, it's not the first time. And the 'good' part is we are enriching those people who don't give a damn whether we live or die. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Look,the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada do not represent political parties. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties represent only the power and wealth of those extremely wealthy people who pay all the bills for those two 'Parties'. And they give the money for the politicians to spend. And it's the same in almost all of the "free" world. The Liberals and Conservatives are the servants of the very wealthy. And they don't give a damn about you and me. It has always been that way with you and me since the founding of our "democracy". The U.S. is even worse with it's 'democracy'. That's why it's been easy for the U.S. since 1944 to murder people all over the world. That's why Americans die because they can't afford thousands of dollars for medical bills. (It was once like that in Canada, too. But a real political party of left-wingers (CCF) opened free hospitalization to all Canadians. And we still benefit from what the CCF did back about 1969. In Canada, even the poorest get medical care. American billionaires prefer to murder their poor and sick. However, I'm quite sure that Canada's billionaires who own the Liberals and Conservatives will someday soon kill the poor just like Americans do.) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We have millions of Canadians who are voting us down to hell. I remember talking (listening) to a woman in my senior's residence who was adamant on voting for the Conservatives. Now, that's dumb by any standard I can think of. The leader of the Conservatives, in addition to his corruption, is a moron. (Which is a state slightly higher for Trudeau.) And that takes us to bigger problem. As we grow in population, our leadership has grown more destructive and irresponsible. We humans are the only animals, so far as I know, to steal leadership in the pack. And that leadership has always been destructive, brutal and savage - (Rome, the whole history of Europe, the nonstop wars of our time, the cruelty of the British Empire, of the American Empire, the horror that is soon to drop in China....). It's quite possibly a trait we have no control over. And, given the pace of war and killing we insist on, we will not survive this century. Perhaps that's something our churches could control- though, alas, it's significant that our churches have always come down on our side even when our side has been murderously wrong. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And now I'll take a break to think about all the above.

The real world.

For something like 150 years, Canadians have been fighting other people's wars. Recently,(since 1949) Canadians have been fighting American wars. (The worst bout was 12 years killing Afghans to make Americans happy. The war really had nothing to do with Canada. That sort of thing is why I am often critical of the Canadian Legion for it's eagerness to send Canadian wars that have nothing to do with us.) Anyway, this really began back in the 1890s. At that time, the British were busy killing South Africans so that the British wealthy could steal South African gold mines. This was a war that had nothing to do with Canadians - this was pure and simple murder on the British side. The only reason Canadians came under British pressure to join in the war only to set up Canadians for a bigger war that had nothing to do with them. In the 1890s, Britain was rather like the Americans of our time. It's capitalists were a world power due to Britain's development of industrial growth. (Mind you, the average Englishman got nothing out of this British capitalists were bleeding their own people into their own unspeakably cheap, even starvation, salaries.In this, it was very much like the U.S. capitalists of our time - and very much like Canadian capitalists today. Check out New Brunswick for an example. But others were copying British big business to develop their own economies.That was desperately true of Germany. And the British capitalists were not amused. That is why the British asked for Canadian troops in the South African war. It was a setup for a British war against Germany to destroy it's industrial growth. And it worked. Canadians got all excited and felt honoured. And they died in dreadful numbers. But British billionaires were pleased. They had dragged in much of the empire to murder Germans for them. British billionaires went a step further at the end of the war. In the peace treaty after the war everybody had agreed that no country was responsible for the war. But the British broke that agreement and sent British troops into Germany. Their purpose was to destroy Germany so it would never again compete with British capitalists. German money became worthless. All of Germany was drawn into a savage poverty. Drawn into this was a German war veteran, Adolph Hitler. But he was still a nobody, just fresh out of jail, and with no following. But that would change soon. After a couple of years, Hitler would take advantage of the German mood. Crowds began to listen to him, and the WWI private speedily rose to be the fuehrer. The finishing touch was his steering hatred toward the Jews. By the early 1920s, Hitler was the master of Germany. None of all that needed to happen. It was British capitalists and their greed (along with a hatred of all Jews) that made the rise of Hitler possible. And that hatred was not limited to Naziis. Almost every country in the world hated Jews. (That includes Canada and Britain and the U.S.) That's why Jews coudn't escape before the war - or, for some time, after the war. That's why Jews were given their own country of Israel - to get rid of them. It might have been possible for the allies to save some of the Jews in the death camps. We didn't know about them, but our leaders did. And they didn't give a damn. That was one reason why Americans didn't care about the Jews. They didn't care about Hitler, either. What they cared about was China. China had been a horribly plundered country by the British; now it was under attack by Japan. The U.S. didn't give a damn about the people of China - except that it wanted it to be plundered by American capitalists as it had been plundered by British capitalists. That's why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour - to cripple U.S. billionaires in their desire to plunder China. Japan wanted to plunder China. The U.S. didn't enter World War 2 in the west until a little later. It was not because Britain was suffering. It was because American capitalists saw the chance to plunder British conquests, especially in Africa. That still goes on today with former British conquests such as middle east oil fields. At the end of WW2, U.S. capitalists had stolen most of Britain conquests - Helped by the people of India who had been robbed blind by the British. When the war ended, I was in grade six in our classrooms with British flags. But those days were gone forever. And it soon was that we had a Canadian flag. Alas! we were (and are still) a colony, but not a colony that fights wars for our British ancestors. No. We're American puppets now. (We, and our Canadian Legion, now fight and murder for American capitalist in .) That's why Canadians killed in Korea in 1949. We did even more for our capitalists who really rubbed the asses of Canadian and American billionaires with our twelve years of our failed war in Afghanistan. Canadians, as a whole, were dumb enough to hail what we did in that. We praised the dead for dying. Hell....there's nothing courageous about dying. We sent them to kiss American asses. And the Canadian Legion got all proud - because we were throwing our dead to make Canadian and American billionaires happy. Canada is now a partner with Canadian and American billionaires - in locations all over the world - Eastern Europe on the Russia border, Syria, and other places American and Canadian billionaires like to send them. Don't kid yourself. The Canadian Legion approves the sending of troops to please billionaires. There is nothing good about that. And don't expect any information from your newspapers. Our newspapers are, and always have been, liars. So is our TV. I was on radio and tv every day for thirty years. I always tried to tell the truth - but there were times it was cut. (That even happened with CBC once.) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ became

game over

Too late. This was probably our last chance. The election may well have been our last chance. And we blew it. Our elections have been fake from the start with the appearance of news media in the late 19th century. From the start, the owners of newspapers used their papers to lie. One of the pioneers of news lying was an American publisher called Kane. (There's an excellent movie about him and his lying. The movie is Citizen Kane.) Our newspapers, all of them, have always lied. Yes. Every damn one.The same is true of most radio and TV stations. So it was that it was impossible for Canadians to vote with any intelligence at all in the recent election. and, oh, we are going to pay one hell of a price for that. Worse - it is very likely that we are not going to reach 2200 at all. The same is true in the U.S. Maybe even worse there. Any money that should get to the people goes straight into the pockets of the super rich. That's why the super rich in Canada and the U.S. have piles of money while millions starve. The U.S. is especially bad in this. But Canadian billionaires are catching up. Think. How can a nation as big and powerful as the U.S.have so many people on the streets and soon to die? Our world is in for collapse to meet the greed of the super rich. We've really fallen back to the world of a thousand or so years ago. And while millions starve, the American super rich spend government money to create expensive jobs to murder millions of people all over the world. (The war on China is almost certainly the biggest war in history providing juicy contracts for American killers. And I'm quite sure Canada will join the greatest slaughter ever, mostly of quite innocent people. - the Canadian legion will lead the way.) And then we will go on to do even worse. I really don't think we are going to end this century. I think it - and we - will all be over long before that. Oh, and New Brunswick? With the Irvings in charge, New Brunswick is a dead fish. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Living in the Past

I find the print of my web is often terrible. Luckily, my blog also appears on a website called The Decarie Report. and that is much more pleasantly readable. Some ten thousand Haitians are gathered at the Texas border to escape the damage of an earthquake which has done terrible damage and death. The U.S. (and Canada) have done nothing to help Haiti. So let's take a step back at the troubles of Haiti. Haiti made an attempt some years ago to become a democracy. The U.S. moved in to destroy it. Then, for reasons that are unclear from many angles, the U.S. handed the dirty work of killing Haitians and destroying their elected power over to Cananda. And I cannot remember the Canadian news media ever mentioning it. So I checked it on the web. It took quite a bit of checking. But I found it. In 2004, and on the command of our American masters, Canada sent troops and police to murder Haitians who had the nerve to try to create a democracy. And our brave troops obeyed the order of their American masters. Very little (almost none of this) was informed to us by our news media. The Canadian Legion, predictably, claimed Candian troops were there to bring peace to Haiti. In fact, it was there for precisely the opposite reason - to murder Haitians who wanted to develop democracy. Canadian news media pretty much ignored the whole issue. In the end, Canadian troops destroyed any hope of democracy in Haiti. Today, Haiti is suffering terribly from an earthquake. The U.S. and Canada refuse to notice it. In desperation, some ten thousand Haitians have fled to the U.S. border. And the U.S. is simply sending them back. And the Canadian news media? For the most part they haven't noticed anything. Haiti, by the way, was the first Latin American nation to end slavery over 200 years ago. Naughty, naughty. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The U.N. has warned that we will hit a world temperature of 2.7 degrees centigrade higher than it is now. But don't worry about it. Our Liberals and the Conservatives are busy kissing up to billionaires like oil company capitalists. And very few of us will live to see the horror that we have created. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In Canada, the Conservative programme involves cutting back on children's programmes to give money to billionaires who, in fact, already don't pay much in the way of taxes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oh, dammit. Let's face reality. We are neighbours to the most evil and murderous nation in the world for the last seventy years. Yes, that's the U.S. Our governments accept this, and we have even joined in this murder. For a dozen years we helped to murder the people (and children and babies as the U.S. has made children and babies targets for their evil) of Afghanistan. We shall, almost certainly, be sucked into a war with China - and our leaders will kiss ass as they always have. These American wars have nothing to do with us. They are all wars designed to make the U.S. the ruler of the whole world. But Canadians die in them. Why? The U.S. is evil. And we tag along. And the Canadian Legion jumps to cheer for a murderous U.S. Why? (In fact, the 'Canadian' Legion has become a tool for American murderers.) Yes. The U.S. is evil. Early in the game it had attacked almost a hundred countries (which our newspapers never told us about.) It also pioneered the mass murder of children and babies in many countries. Forget the Chinese. The U.S. is far more evil and muderous. The U.S. is just as evil within it's own boundaries. American capitalists have determined that they don't give a damn about the American people. That's why 60,000,000 or more people live on the streets with no hope. This is capitalism in it's most advanced form. Meanwhile, the U.S. can spend trillions of dollars to enrich Super Rich capitalists who produce war materials. The result is that the super rich make fortunes out of war industries while the super rich pay almost no taxes, and millions of the poor are dying in the streets. The period of American world conquest is even worse than the British period of it was. But the U.S. now has a very serious problem. Climate Change has made large areas in the U.S. uninhabitable. What to do; what to do? Well, it can create many states in Canada. And it will. Soon. And a great many of us will become Americans. (I suspect that Canadian organizations like the Canadian Legion will leap on board.) Actually, there's a precedent for a U.S. takover. Very early in the twentieth century, the U.S.stole much of Canada's west coast in order to control our only river passage to the Canadian Yukon. Take a look at that long strip along the BC coast. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The super rich have taken us back to the world of Rome. In the U.S. the super rich are the world of the super rich in the shape of emperors and aristocrats who were not very bright but held all the heaps of gold on their own. The bulk of the population lived in filth and hunger. The whole point of the Collosseum was to entertain that bulk of the population in case they should get rowdy. That was the common system almost to the present. Britain was completely enslaved by the rich almost to World War 2. The U.S. to this day tosses the poor aside as trash. When I was a child in Montreal, NONE of the kids in my district ever got much of an education. My friends left school as early as grade 3. I was kicked out in grade 11. By the standards of my parents, I was a success, who would now find work (at very low pay) in a factory. I shall never forget the evening I went to a movie - and just ahead of me were kids who were obviously rich. They even dressed in a manner I had never before seen. They were a world I had never seen before. I just stared at these, my superiors who would gaduate from university while I floundered in a factory. And the U.S. is now operating on that basis. Little or no education for the poor. Natural degrees for the rich. Tens of millions of the poor live on the streets with no hope of anything. They are exactly like the Roman mob. Meanwhile, America's super rich are the descendants of the Roman emperors. They are the earls and dukes and lords and emperors whose wealth goes out of sight into the billions. And, like most of the super rich of Rome, they are not highly intelligent. And this, probably, is going to crash WITHIN this century. in politicst

Bad, Bad News.

I hope this text does not get messed up as my last one did. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Long, long ago us humans appeared on earth. But we were very different from most other animals. from the start a small number of us saw themselves as superior to all other humans. You may find examples of a few other species like that; but not many. The humans who saw themselves as superior wasted no time in ruling the others. They still do. Thousands of years later, we could see this in the Roman Empire. Most of the emperors and their families, most of the aristocracy of Rome, were drawn from these "superior" types. Over the years, they became emperors, earls, Dukes, kings. In Britain, they ruled the country for centuries - until well into the twentieth century. And while they ruled, the bulk of the British were effectively enslaved and humiliated. Winston Churchill was a product of this sense of social class.He came from a family of the super rich, a family with nothing but contempt for the average person. I grew up in a Montreal district where such a class didn't exist. We were poor, very poor, just like our neighbours. Finishing school was almost unheard of. Almost all of my friends got kicked out of school somewhere between grades 3 and 9. I was kicked out in 11. My parents were delighted. Now I could get a job in a really filthy factory. Meanwhile, another social class of us (that I never saw until my teens) was the rich kids who lived in the circles of the wealthy - and none of them would ever work in the filth that I knew. Today, that monied class still exists. You'll find it in the ranks of our billionaires. And they exploit the rest of us. Their device to maintain power is to be found in their control of politics. An early example of this was George Washington who had nothing but contempt for people who weren't rich. And so he leaned to the super rich in his money policies. That's why he gave out huge contracts to the very rich. But did nothing to help the poor. That's why he had almost no thought for the masses of poor. That's why the U.S. election system, like Canada's, is largely a gift to the rich. You hadn't noticed? Elections in much of the western world are financed by the super rich. In Canada, for example, the rich supply money for elections. The super rich supply billions to Canada's Liberals and Conservatives. So they have tons of money. But that means that Liberals and Conservatives are servants of the rich who give them that money. Other parties are left for scratching. In other words, American and Canadian elections are frauds. And that makes it almost impossible for an honest donor to win an American or Canadian election. The Liberals and Conservatives of Canada, for example, have already agreed with the U.S. to deploy extremely dangerous and poisonous oil in a BC already in a dangerous setting. And Biden has already given almost suicidal permission for the U.S. to continue destroying California and the rest of the U.S. What are our chances of surviving to the end of this century? None. Almost all of us rely on news from our local news media. But they are simply lies. They always have been. (Most of our news papers come from papers owned by billionaires. And they aren't news. They are, and always have been, propaganda sheets.) And so Canada is going to elect a Liberal or a Conservative party. Yes, that's what we've always elected. And it has always meant that we are being handed over to a small group of liars and scoundrels. Many thousands of years ago, a small number of our ancestors invented leadership for all the rest. And it's been one hell of an experience ever since.

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Our Ugly World

The U.S. went to war in 1941 because it was determined to conquer the whole world. That's why it went to war with Korea. It was to be the entree to an invasion of a China which the British had ruled and plundered until 1939. But it didn't work. All American wars since then have been aimed at world conquest.

The Americans also dragged in Canadians for their war. (After all, the British had long dragged in the Canadians for their wars starting with South Africa.) So it was that the U.S. became an American world aggressor and it dumped Britain and kissed up to the Canadians

The U.S. has now been fighting those wars - some of them quite successfully, some not so - for years. Over the years since 1949, the U.S. has rampaged and murdered in a hundred and more countries. It has also murdered nobody knows how many children and even babies as their enemies. And it has routinely, using  radio guided aircraft,  bombed men, women and children who were countries not at war.

The Canadian Legion might well wonder how many children and babies Canadians killed. (The Canadians were in Afghanistan for 12 years. But nobody has any record of the killings. I guess our heroes were too shy to tell us about it.)

Ask a member of the Legion why Canadians did the killing. They'll tell you they did it for their country - a remarkable piece of stupidity. How attacking and murdering other nations can be good for our country is a brainless babble.

(My father was a navy veteran of WW2. He went to the Legion only once. But he was a non-drinker and drinking seemed to be the only skill that Legion members had. I am puzzled why such an organization should have the power to approve of wars is something I don't understand.)

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Last night, I worked late until a little after midnight. Then I opened a window to let the fresh air in, and snuggled myself after that.

Then I was stunned by the loudest thunder I have ever had. There was a stunningly heavy rain, more thunder. There was the noise of something on my balcony. I  guess is was those giant, frozen ice balls.

Get used to it. We are going to see more and worse of this. These are storms caused by our utter failure to deal with this planet we have abused so badly. These are related to the even worse and more dangerous horrors of the failure of much of the U.S., B.C. Alberta to remind of our failure to deal with climate control.

We're going to get more of this. And much worse of it.

Among other things, the failure of our kiss up to American oil  billionaires, a kissup organized by the Liberals and Conservatives, is going to haunt us terribly. This happened just months ago when Liberal Trudeau and Conservative O'Toole met on the B.C. border with the US to assure American oil companies and politicians that  oil sands were perfectly safe. This was said even  as BC was suffering huge fires fed by oil sands. ________________________________

As I  write this, I think of another very ugly  feature of our lives. In the U.S.over 70 million people now live and sleep on the streets. Years ago, I saw the same sort of thing on the streets of Hong Kong after dark. But those were only thousands. In the U.S. In the US it's far, far worse.

And the U.S. does nothing for their street people. No. In the U.S. the money is spent on trillions of dollars for what it by far the most expensive military in the world - FAR the most.

Recently, huge numbers of the poor who lived in cheap housing were kicked out into the streets.

You get sick in the states? Tough. Hospitals in the U.S. are designed just to make money for billionaires. Many common treatments that cost nothing in Canada cost tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S. And that means a great many Americans have to stay out - and die. Neither Liberals nor Conservatives in Canada introduced our medical system. The old NDP forced it on them.

The U.S. has impoverished a huge part of its population to please the rich. And, for the money of the wealthy they have multiplied into the billions and even the trillions as the super rich send their wealth up like rockets.

Those super, super rich are the ones calling for (and getting) a war in China. with thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides, this will be the bloodiest war in history.

Why does the U.S. want a war with China? It is because China has at last thrown out the horror of it's British control, and is now a rival to American corporations.

No! No! mustn't do that. (Yes. China does mistreat some of its people. But the Chinese scale of  brutality is far less than that of the U.S. The U.S. is by far the       most brutal and murderous nation of our time.)

And the war? It could kill well over a billion people - men, women, and children. It's also possible some of China's nuclear bombs could reach Canada and the U.S. But don't worry. I'm sure the super rich will be tucked away in safe havens.

This is the worst time in the history of planet earth. And we are really governed by billionaires who are damn fools.

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Actually, we have fallen into an old pattern. In the days of British Empire, the country was really ruled by super rich. They're the ones who put crews on ships at almost no salaries, and then tossed them into the streets when they were no longer useful.

A recent sample of this ruling class was Winston Churchill who was not the nice guy he seemed to be in World War 2. In fact, as a member of the British upper class he never gave a damn about the common people. Before the war, when he was a power in the far East, he deliberately allowed millions of people in India to die as he cut off their food supplies. (Well- they were just common people.)

Check his record. You'll never find a piece of legislation to help the poor in all his political life. (Britain now has a premier from the upper class who has no interest in the needs of the people.) And Trudeau and O'Toole are both cut from the same cloth.

I knew Pierre Trudeau quite well. (He wanted me to be a Liberal candidate.) Even he had to pay close attention to the wishes of the super rich. I preferred not to spend my life kissing rich asses.) __________________________________________________________________

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Canada's Future?

It's late. And I'm tired. And I'm disgusted.

I'm disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians. I'm disgusted with a hell of a lot of Canadians as they make a farce out of the horror they are bringing down on all of us.

You must know what flames can do. We've surely seen enough to know what millions of acres of flames can do. We've all see the massive flames of California, flames that reach all the way to New York. We're seeing that in B.C.

We're going to see a lot worse. Really a lot worse. It's a part of our wild horror that is also destroying other necessities. In Greenland, for example, it has, for the first time  rained on that country's giant glacier. What that means, for the world, is dangerously higher oceans - one of the factors that will sink Nova Scotia into the sea - (and New York perhaps close to the time when Nova Scotia goes down.)

We know what's causing this. The major factor is the poison we send into the air from the murderous gasses released by cars, gasses that float back to earth and create the horror that is California. The human forces that drive this are the leaders of the oil and gas industries. And that's a very lucrative industry for those people.

Accordingly, they invited political leaders from Canada and the U.S. to meet near the U.S. border in BC. I think Biden was there. And Trudeau. And the leading Conservatives.

And they welcomed the oil and gas bosses of the U.S. and promised to keep Canada involved. Yes, a BC to increase the poisoning in it's atmosphere was good. Some BCrs had already died. By there were lots more. Anything to make American oil barons happy.

This situation is going to get worse every year. It's going to smother where you live. And it's doing it all over the world. We haven't begun to see the horror that is spreading over us. And it's all to please the smirking oil barons.

Indeed, it's quite possible, even likely, that most, maybe all, of our children will never see the next century or even get close to it.

During our 70 years of war, the U.S. has been the world's most murderous nation. It has not made the U.S. military particularly effective. But it made lots money in contracts for the rich. In fact, no country in the world comes close to the U.S. in war spending. And if you check all those wars, you'll find a hell of a lot of losses.

Now, it's readying for another war with China, a war  certain to be the bloodiest war in history. As usual, American news media will act as though this is a dangerous war necessary (and with Canada invited to join.) The excuse given is that China is evil. In fact, the most evil country in the world is the U.S. And it has been for seventy years.

Many years ago, I read an article on the US vision of itself a leader for good. In fact, Even those many years ago, the U.S. was murderous and plundering. It murdered and plundered it's way through Latin America in the 19th century, robbing the people blind and sending even the children down into mines.

In 1941, the US entered the war NOT because of the attack on Pearl Harbour. That certainly gave them the excuse. But the purpose, long before Pearl Harbour, was to steal much of the British Empire - starting with China. World  conquest is still the main interest of the U.S. And the conquest of Canada is a part of that world conquest dream. (Actually, it hasn't been as much of a conqueror as it  hoped it would be.)

As you read our papers, you can get the impression that the U.S. was nice to Afghanistan. Like hell it was. For the most part it was the most murderous, cheating, lying country in the world. (But that part of the world could be quite varied. That's why one city was pro-American.)

And Canada's Liberals and  Conservatives have been ass kissers for seventy years.

Don't trust Canadian newspapers. They lie. Don't trust the Canadian Legion.

And remember Canada's Liberals and Conservatives, as always, have abandoned Canadians at this time. The U.S. is not our friend. and oh, the Liberals and Conservatives are not our friends.

Think about that at this election time.

 already been killed. 

Let's Get Real

 The world we know today began in 1920. That's when Britain and France began invasions of the Muslim countries of the middle east. A major force in that was the British airforce which happily murdered Muslims because they were, you know, Muslims.

But that ended in 1939.

In 1949, the U.S. slowly adopted the old, British moves. American news media spread lies and hatred about the Muslim nations. That led the way to American invasions which were aimed at Muslims - but not yet in a very public way. It took a little while for western hatred to reveal itself.

Then the  hatred took flight. The U.S. bombed Muslim countries - with an emphasis on hitting civilians and children. Hatred of Muslims became a major theme of American life. Radio talk shows took up the theme.

This was a major theme of American hatred. (The U.S., incidentally, is a country that was awash in hatred throughout it's history. They took it out on just about every group it enountered   - it's native peoples, on Canada --- yes, the U.S. hated Canada and invaded it many times. It nearly invaded as late as 1904 over the issue of who owned our river to the Yukon. But Canada backed off when Britain refused to help it. It was rare, very rare, for the U.S. not to be at war with somebody. (It still is.)

Canada treated it's native peoples badly. The U.S. was much worse, and there were very few survivors. George Washington, incidentally, had nothing but contempt for those who were not rich. And he never permitted democracy to exist.

In Canada, like the US, the daily newspaper appeared about a hundred and 70 years ago. From the start,  the daily paper was dishonest - as it is to this day. (I get the National Post which is as lying as they come.) Newspapers exist to serve the very rich.

Almost as early as the end of world war two, Canadian capitalists dumped Britain as our leader and kissed up to the U.S. That's why Canadians now die in American wars instead of British ones. That's why there is nothing Canadian about the Canadian Legion.

The U.S., meanwhile, is determined to rule the world. That's why Canadians died in obedience to American command in Afghanistan. The U.S. (and us), were brutally savage in Afghanistan. Children, even babies, were special targets. 

Damn it. Get real. We are mass murderers.

The twin towers attack in New York was carried out by Muslims. So? The US, Britain and us have been killing Muslims like that for a hundred years. Let's get real. We are evil.

(Actually, the twin towers attack was pretty tame stuff compared to American slaughter.)

Oh, and if you think the twin towers was terrible, it was carried out by people who have suffered such attack for years, murdering their families, destroying their homes.

Was Osama bin Laden evil? He was far less evil than the Americans who stabbed him to death.

Do you have any religious values? Forget it. You don't. This Christian world hasn't had any religious values for a thousand years and more.

Most of our heroes, alas, have been pretty damned evil. Winston Churchill, for all the praise heaped on him, was a murderous bastard. His whole life was spent fighting wars to please the super rich of Britain. During the war, he was asked to send food and water to millions of starving civilians in India. He refused. And they died. The British voted against him as the war ended. They knew they would never get anything  from him.

Many, perhaps most, of the heroes we applaud  have been callous bastards.

We now face the most destructive forces this world has ever seen. And our greed gets in the way of facing them. What's going to happen to us in Canada?

Simple. The US is going to demand that it be given Canadian territory as a response to climate change.

And our Liberals and Conservatives will kiss American asses.

Oh, ever notice we never hear anything about our soldiers and their fighting in Afghanistan?  Hundreds died. Many, an unknown number, have been severely damaged for life thanks to the half witted organization we call The Canadian Legion - an organization that routinely sends Canadians to die. How come it never tells us what we are doing to help a great many Canadians who are suffering terribly from their war experience? (We aren't doing anything. We only do things to help our billionaires who never go to war.)

China was terribly robbed, starved, murdered by our ancestors. It's taken a long time, but China is now a nation rebuilt. It's now a major player on the world market.

 So we gotta destroy it.

We don't need mass murders. We need to care. And we don't. And oh, this is going to cost us terribly. And soon. And it could well be before the end of this century.

If you have tears.....

...think a little bit...

It was some twenty years ago that agents from Afghanistan crashed passenger aircraft into the twin towers in New York. That is what caused the U.S. to attack Afghanistan in what the U.S. called "the war on  terrorism".

Sort of....

In fact, the European powers, notably France and Britain, had been attacking and murdering Muslim countries since 1920. After World War Two, the Americans took over the slaughter. The reason?

It was the reason for most wars -to plunder those countries. Yes, the reality is that western capitalists were the terrorists.

But western newspapers never told that story. Of course not. The western capitalists, after all, were the same people who owned those newspapers. So the official word was Muslims were terrorists - and we were launched into the war on terrorism. Canada went to war while the Canadian Legion wet it's pants for joy as it sent Canadians to die.

And the US even had a catchword ready - the war on terror. In fact, it was the British and the French and then the U.S. and Britain and Canada who were the terrorists.

As I watch TV news, I see that it's the other side who are bad guys. In fact,  it's us. It always has been. And no western newspaper I have ever heard of has told the truth on this. And as I watch U.S. news (CNN) I see it lying constantly - and CNN is probably the best of the U.S. news services. (Canadian news services, even CBC, are often no better. (Check out a web site called rabble.ca on your computer.  That's an honest site featuring honest reporters. It was founded by a CBC reporter who was determined to get some honesty in the news.)

Get used to it. Your news media are liars. Reporters who are honest get fired.

The dishonesty goes way back to a man who became a movie - Citizen Kane. He was a journalist who used his papers to support American wars in Latin America   - Which is why American billionaires have been able to plunder Latin America for over a century.

In the case of current wars, the only "profitable" one is the U.S. in Afghanistan. It has massive funding making it the largest war money pot in the whole world. Indeed, the U.S. is the biggest war spender in the world - by far. (and it still can't win.) But oh, big money in the U.S. just loves all the contracts it gets.

And, in the not too distant future the U.S. is going to need more territory because of the enormous damage caused by climate change in the U.S. And guess which country it will take for itself. (No. Not Mexico.)

By the way, why didn't Canada, after 6 years or so in Afghanistan, pull out? Isn't it odd to act like that in a war? Was that a   decision of the Canadian Legion? (I doubt it.) Why were we never given any reason? Pulling out of a war is usually an admission of defeat. Why didn't the Legion give a reason?

We are in dangerous times. Both Liberals and Conservatives have committed themselves to ignore all the warnings about oil fields, and to plunge into cooperation with the U.S. in this product that murders.

Oh, you're an admirer of the U.S.? This is the country that has driven many, many millions of it's people into the streets without a place to sleep, without money, without food, where children and the elderly die in huge numbers. It's also the country whose super rich can ignore most of their taxes. Meanwhile, the super rich are making their biggest profits in history.

At my age, I'll surely die fairly soon. But, oh, I'm ill at the thought of the world my children are inheriting.

Time to get bitter

As I write this, I am in one hell of a bad mood. The coming election is going to be a disaster.

It might help to mention I was born into the deep poverty of the depression of the 1930s. The district was one of the most violent and poorest in Montreal, and with a huge French majority  who had been raised to hate English kids.

Like all the kids I grew up with, I was raised NOT to finish school.  I made it to grade 11 - much more than most of my friends - then was kicked out. No problem. I was never expected to finish. And I got a job in a filthy and drunken factory. My parents were very pleased.

But I ruined their hopes. I went to school at night to finish high school, and then got a BA. It was a cheap and dirty one. But it was a BA. Then, with teacher training I became an elementary school teacher. (my parents were very disappointed with me. I was trying to rise above my station.)

Then I decided to go to a distant university. There, this dolt got an MA which took me to a grad school to get a PhD and to teach in a university. And that brought CBC to ask me to speak regularly on CBC.

I was two years on the morning show at CBC. Then I was fired. I was fired under pressure from the French branch of CBC. The French, who were separatists who were determined to  destroy Canada, wanted me out because I was on the executive of the group determined to keep Canada united among both French and English. 

But I immediately got picked up by Montreal's most popular English station to appear every week day to talk on radio. And that led to more than thirty years of radio, then to TV, and a daily discussion on the day's news.

That also led me to speak for some 70 or eighty talks a year to various groups.

As well, I got interested enough to write thousands of articles for newpapers and groups. for TV, for radio.....

Yes, thousands... As I write this, in the room next to me are large boxes of many thousands of these writings - and they are only the minority of the writings that I did.

We are now facing an election and an advanced poll for seniors at my residence was held yesterday. I was shocked by it.

Everybody in the building except me voted either Liberal or Conservative.

Let's get real.

The Liberals and Conservatives both are in favour of developing oil fields. This is insane. Climate change is one hell of an issue we have to deal with. Both Liberals and Conservatives support the oil claims - because both kiss the asses of the wealthy.

And it has been proven that those oil fields are destroying our environment, destroying huge land masses, spreading massive fires - oh - and killing all of us.

But when I said this, a woman there was extremely angry with me. (As well, almost all our newspapers have played this lightly - if at all.)

The woman said I should study these things. (I'm pretty sure I've studied this a hell of a lot more than she has.) Oh, and a member of the Canadian legion was there. Like all members of the legion he believed we had brought peace and joy to Afghanistan.He's one of those members of the Legion who think it's work is good. In fact, The Legion is a puppet organization. You can be sure it always does what billionaires tell it to do.

As a matter of fact, we murdered Afghans on a huge scale - making a special effort to murder uncounted numbers of children and babies. The U.S. and Canada did NOT go to afghanistan to help the poor and helpless. They went to get control of what they expected to be highly profitable natural resources. (I noted today's news carried stories about the good things the US tried to do for Afghanistan. Like hell it did. Billionaires don't do good things to anybody but themselves. And we should not be so silly, in the light of children's and baby's bodies, not to know this.

By the way, the Canadian army was pulled back from Afghanistan after some 12 years. One doesn't usually walk out of a war. I wonder what that walk was about. Oh, well, we also sent some of the returning Canadian soldiers to destroy democracy in Haiti - though that story never made it into our papers

More serious was the war on Guatemala. This was an invasion by mercenaries in the 1950s and 60s. The leader of it was George Bush Sr. His target?

Guatemala was proufoundly Catholic.. The purpose of the invasion was to murder all Catholics, especially priests, nuns, and missionaries.

Funny how that never got into our news. I learned about it only in the 80s. But our newspapers wouldn't touch it. One of the victims was a missionary from New Brunswick. In fact, his early life had been spent in a town dominated by the super wealthy Irving family.

He was brought back to New Brunswick to be buried just outside the Irving town. But that story has never made the papers. Of course not. Irving owns the papers.

Get used to it. Your newspapers lie all the time. Indeed, many honest reporters have been dumped for many years now. In all of Canada   (and the U.S.), I don't know of a single, honest newspaper -and I've seen almost all of them.

Oh, I also watch U.S. TV. For a long time, I've thought CNN was sort of decent. But I looked over their coverage of Afghanistan. Terrible. (No. I'm not saying the Taliban are good.)

And for the lady in my building who disapproves of what I have to say - Get stuffed, lady. Unlike you, I  know what I'm talking about. Ditto for the Legionaire. _________________________________________________________________

Wake Up.

 It's late to start a blog. But I'm trying to catch up on missing several of them. That happens to us old folks. We get tired and sort of lost. Let's start with a topic that should be obvious - but isn't. And, perhaps because it is so obvious, it is, well, not obvious.

The Liberal Party and the Conservative party are the same party.

 No. I didn't now make that up. 

They are both the same party and always have been. And most 'democracies' are like that. And it's been that way from the start.

The Liberals and the Conservatives are both controlled by the very wealthiest people in Canada. (It's the same in the U.S.) Both parties are controlled by the same super rich people. And they don't own them to create national unity. The Super Rich control both parties. They always have controlled them. The super rich pay for all their advertising, for all the campaigning...In return, the Liberals and Conservatives are good boys who do what the super rich tell them to do. 

The same is true in the U.S. going back to a George Washington who always believed only in government by the super rich.

In return those parties got buckets of money from the super rich. It's so obvious, one would think everyone would realize that. And so the super rich have become richer with every government. And the super rich have long ago - from the start - controlled both the Liberals and Conservatives.

And need I add that all of the newspapers (also owned by the super rich) play that game. Never trust any commercial newspaper. And never trust Liberals and never trust Conservatives.

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The U.S. has the most expensive military in the world.

So how come it couldn't beat Afghanistan?

Well, for a start, the money for that expensive military comes from big-time military suppliers who are more interested in making money for themselves than in defending the U.S. (or in making it a serious military power.) For example, one of their joys is their air fleet of unmanned bombers who are controlled by "pilots" sitting in unmovable model aircraft in or near washington airports. These people control unmanned bombers on the other side of the world and over countries the U.S. is not at war with.

The "pilots" can control them at that distance, usually to bomb civilians - whole families, children, babies. God bless America. The families they bomb are almost always in countries the U.S. is not at war with.

Canada, with the support of the Canadian Legion, is now considering to do this mass murder of innocent civilians. You know, to be patriotic like Americans. You know, like, we have to deal with terrorism.

The U.S., since 1949, has been amazingly brutal, with a great interest in killing "terrorists" when, in fact, it is the biggest terrorist in the world,specializing in children and babies.

How is it different from the Naziis? And if Canadian manufacturers and the Legion play a role in this, how are we different from Naziis?

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As I write this, 35 million unemployed Americans have lost their  unemployment benefits. They are now being dumped into the streets of the U.S. with the millions of unemployed already there.

When I was in Hong Kong, I saw thousands of unemployed for miles sleeping on sidewalks - whole families - parents, children, babies. Today's move in the U.S. is thousands of times worse. The super wealthy of the U.S. are living in splendour - largely free even of income tax: the children of the poor are dying in the streets in their millions. (And we're seeing this even now.)

The U.S. (like Canada) treats the super rich with splendour. And the children of the streets? I was a child in Montreal in the dirty thirties. I remember well the filth and hunger of it. I remember we had no expectation of living decently. Nothing was expected of us. All my friends dropped out of school, one as early as grade 3. Of course. Nobody expected anything of us. I was kicked out in grade 11. My parents were so proud. Now, I could get a job in a very dirty and low-paying factory.

We have created one hell of a world. And worse, much worse, is on the way. (I remember a woman infuriated by my defence of China. Well, China is a society that houses ALL of its people - even the competely penniless.) The U.S. is a country ruled by the brutal, and with many, many millions in horrible conditions. Canada is sliding down, too. As in worship of all of those Liberals and Conservatives we are going to be foolish enough to elect.

I'm glad that in the end I chose to be a cranky professor.

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Wake up.

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Canada and the U.S. - A Marriage Made in Hell.

 

Sorry to be late with this. I've had a bout of something or other. It was a heavy duty sickness brought on, perhaps, by secret agents  of the Canadian Legion whispering about me on my 88th birthday. Actually, the Legion is, almost certainly, supporting an attempt to buy pilotless Bomber aircraft. This could be an inspiration to all of us.

The U.S. has been using these for many years. In general, their purpose is to bomb people who are not enemies but helpless men, women and children who are down below - and not in a war zone. So the U.S. has been killing them for some years with pilotless bombers. Your dollars at work.

 The U.S. is also setting up 7.5 million Americans.  These are the Americans who don't have jobs but have had jobless benefits. Well, enough of this lollygagging. They are due to lose those jobless benefits, and get kicked out into  the streets. And that will happen in just one day as they join the millions of Americans who are already living in the streets.

And that's okay. The U.S. will now be able to give that money to billionaires who continue to bomb civilians who aren't actually in any war.

Meanwhile, Canada's bill for our time in Afghanistan comes to a jolly two trillion dollars. (I'm so proud to read that.)

But even more important are the salaries for American war production manfacturers  up 1322 percent.

But they haven't forgotten their workers. No. The workers got 18 percent. Wow? at the same time. 

This seventy years of war has been wonderful for billionaires. At the same time, salaries have been plunging for their employees. Children and  employees in the U.S. are starving while super rich billionaires wallow in money (That they will pay little or no tax on.)

The U.S. has become an unspeakably greedy and murderous leadership that rules many millions of the poor and the hungry.

(This reminds me of some Candians I have run into who are critical of China). In fact, the Chinese are far more caring than American (and Canadian) billionaires are.

Will the U.S. recover from what it's billionaires  have become?  I   doubt it very much. In a confused and not very intelligent way, the U.S. will fall (is falling) in a disastrous way. It is very likely to push Canada into a merger with it - which the Liberals and Conservatives will buy into.  (Liberals, Conservatives, GOP, and Democrats are all cut from the same cloth. Many Canadians are already turning to the Conservatives. Damned if I know why.) __________________________________________________________________

I shall take a day or two to get over the deep disgust I feel for where we are heading.

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The Evil that is us.

 I've been bothered for a long time by  the behaviour of the west. And bothered that we don't recognize how evil we are. And, yes, evil means the U.S., Britain and Canada.

Historically, we've usually cheered for the evil ones.

China, for example was under British control for a hundred years. In that time the British plundered and abused  and impoverished the Chinese. The British loved their years of murdering, enslaving the people of China.

And when people speak of  the filth and poverty of China, they are speaking of the damage that They (the British) have done, of the horrible housing, of the slums. (That brings us to a woman who wrote to me that I was ignorant of China's dreadful housing today. In fact, China has done a marvelous job, perhaps the best of any country in the world. In China, you won't see millions living in filth and hunger as in the U.S. And you will now see a world class education system.)

Of  course that's not the way our news media see it. In their view, it's a backward and poverty stricken country. And that's commonly the report we get from British, American and Canadian political visitors (snobs). One of them   (from New Brunswick) wrote a vicious letter to me about how terrible conditions are. That's a common  opinion of arrogant westerners.  I came to know the type well among the British in Hong Kong. (And a foul sample of the type in New Brunswick who wrote an angry letter to me about how evil the Chinese are.)

In reality, China has made tremendous progress,especially since 1975. And the U.S. has not. Yes, China has done things I don't like. But it's nothing even close to western standard of murder and greed and lies.

I don't know what Chinese news media are like. But I know what American and Canadian and western news media are. They are lying propaganda.

One day, late in the 1990s, I learned that U.S. special forces (hired thugs) in Latin America and led by George Bush sr. had been murdering Latin American Christian clergy - priests, nuns and missionairies back in the 70s. It had never made the news in Canada and the U.S.

One of their victims was a missionary born in the same New Brunswick town as the Irvings.

No American or Canadian newspaper has ever carried that story. And, that includes, of course, the Irving newspapers.

We are lied to every day in our commercial news media. They have been lying to us every day since at least the 1870s. And, Yes, that's a stain that goes all  the way up to the New York Times.

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No. Even as I write this, I'm thinking of a brutal and savage world we live in, and that we don't talk about openly - though we are are in danger of the greed of those who have power over us. It's not new. But it has reached a terrifying peak that began in World War Two.

Democracy has completely collapsed in the U.S. And it's not as healthy as it should be in Canada.This is very ugly stuff. But we have to recognize that it's happening.

I really don't like to talk about this because almost all of us are victims.

But we have to deal with reality.

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